Nico Brennan 🇵🇸

I've a Substack on Mediterranean affairs and economics:

[Jesús Fernández-Villaverde @JesusFerna7026]

This is a photograph I took yesterday when I visited Tilton House, Keynes’s final home and place of death. The house is in a sad state of disrepair.

Tilton sits at the foot of Firle Beacon, in the South Downs. It began as a Sussex farmhouse and was given a Georgian face in the eighteenth century. It has always been a lease from the Gage Estate.

In August 1925, after Maynard Keynes married Lydia Lopokova, he took the lease on Tilton. From then on, Keynes divided his life: London in the week, Cambridge for working weekends, and Tilton for the rest.

The Treatise on Money (1930) and, above all, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936) took shape here.

Keynes was moderately wealthy and gave the house electric light, central heating, and French paintings. He added substantial acreage and farmed it through a manager, playing the “gentleman farmer” à la Clarkson.

He loved the place enough to take its name. Raised to the peerage in 1942, he became Baron Keynes of Tilton. He died here in April 1946, and his ashes were scattered on the Downs above. Lydia stayed on, increasingly alone, until her own death in 1981.

Robert Skidelsky, Keynes’s great biographer, took the lease in 1986 and wrote at Keynes’s own desk. When he was ennobled in 1991, he took the name of Baron Skidelsky of Tilton.

More recently, Tilton became a yoga-and-writing retreat, but the business moved to a different location some time ago.

Standing in front of Tilton yesterday, I thought how odd it is that we let this happen at all. The National Trust already keeps Monk’s House, where the Woolfs lived. The Charleston Trust keeps Charleston, a few minutes down the same lane. Tilton is the missing corner of that triangle.

Surely someone, the National Trust or a smaller foundation, could take Tilton on and open it. It would not take much, and it is worth doing.

[HkBk @SHkBk_GRX]

Endrick: "Quiero participar de un proyecto político revolucionario, comprometido, de base y coherente"

Ancelotti:

[Nico Brennan 🇵🇸 @NNico4500]

@JesusFerna7026 Si, solo quería añadir un pequeño matiz que me parecia interesante, disculpas si sonaba un reproche, muy fan de tu análisis

[Crispas @Crispas]

RAJOY HA VUELTO ❤️

[gam @mbafraaude]

You killed the man But not the idea

[Alex_politics @comuflauta]

Pues esto para los nuevos estudiantes que vengan a Madrid es una absoluta putada, si antes daba igual estar algo lejos de tu universidad ahora va a ser casi indispensable.

[Nico Brennan 🇵🇸 @NNico4500]

@JJ_McCullough In all fariness, for liberals, Biden is too recent, Carter too distant and both too disappointing to have as a favourite, Bill Clinton has a complicated legacy and is in the Epstein files plus fields credible SA allegations. That leaves Obama as the default answer.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🔵 As expected, Manchester City sent new bid for Elliot Anderson for £106m guaranteed fee plus £15m add-ons.

Nottingham Forest want £120m+ fixed to sell the midfielder as also aware of Man United interest.

#MCFC pushing to get in done + Sandro Tonali also on shortlist. 👀

[Nico Brennan 🇵🇸 @NNico4500]

@souljagoyteller Not trying to be in bad faith, in an unlikely hypothetical scenario where Molotov Ribbentrop last 10 years, is the final solution still not the logical end point for German antisemitism?

[Nico Brennan 🇵🇸 @NNico4500]

@JesusFerna7026 Currently visiting Bangkok for a trade show and was struck by that same question. Seems a birth rate far beyond the point of no return. Might be able to coast by from rural immigration to cities and immigration from neighboring countries for a while, but for how long?

[Nico Brennan 🇵🇸 @NNico4500]

@souljagoyteller Remember reading fear and loathing in the campaign trail when I was 19, finding out that Midwestern poles were an important demographic target like.

[Nico Brennan 🇵🇸 @NNico4500]

@BrendyBoyle One very unpopular note that will never be brought up by Spanish policy-makers is that we have far too many self employed people and are a drag on the economy since SMEs will always struggle to provide the productivity gains that power higher salaries

[Daily Bugle Janitorial @abysmaldogwater]

unfortunately the catholic church declaring holy war on AI is raw af

[Lara🌙🔮 @laralsRM]

Ahora Rajoy redacta tweets.

[Rodrix @ruinacircular_]

Españita is a spectrum

[Jake Hanrahan @Jake_Hanrahan]

Exceptional.

[Peeeeeeep @EnPepitoGrillo]

MIREU MIREU ELS PLATANERS TOT JUST PLANTATS AAAAAAAA FILLS DE LA GRAN PUTAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[Donald Tusk @donaldtusk]

Unia Europejska jest niedoskonała, irytująca, nudna, ale niczego lepszego w naszej historii nie wymyśliliśmy. Czas pokoju, dobrobytu, wolności, demokracji i solidarności między narodami przez wieki walczącymi ze sobą to cud. Niech trwa jak najdłużej.