Matt Cole

Prof of Environmental Economics, Uni of Birmingham. Interests in environment, trade, politics, migration. Hate Brexit. Views my own.

[Matt Cole @ProfMattCole]

@MalvernianKarl Pretty sure you were the one that posted the OBR figure to illustrate Zarah’s alleged lack of numeracy. Challenged with your own misinterpretation of the OBR figure you claim the data (that you posted) is wrong…

[Matt Cole @ProfMattCole]

@MalvernianKarl and the net contribution of the average migrant is greater than that of the representative UK resident

[Matt Cole @ProfMattCole]

@MalvernianKarl You may want to check your own numeracy here Karl.

The OBR report states that the yellow line corresponds to the bottom 25% of migrant wage earners and the blue line is the top 25%.

So, all working age migrants other than the poorest 25% contribute more than they receive.

[Tim O'Brien @TimOBrien]

Oh.: "Short-form posting platform Bluesky crossed the 15 million user mark today amid a recent surge of user signups in the wake of the US presidential election." https://t.co/aE8jdY0jRB
https://t.co/Ps7cUwncjd

[Matt Cole @ProfMattCole]

@JolyonMaugham Curious as to what else you expect the UK Foreign Secretary to say?

[Matt Cole @ProfMattCole]

@kamalahmednews are you serious? How is the Chief of Staff resigning worse than *the actual prime minister* resigning in the case of Truss?

Please try to be vaguely objective.

[Matt Cole @ProfMattCole]

@WritesBright it's surely a gaffe for a politician to go on camera to say they never have gaffes

[Reece Dinsdale @reece_dinsdale]

If you can’t see that the recent attacks on leaders of the new gov, with regards their relatively minor misdemeanours compared to the avalanche of corruption indulged in by the previous one, isn’t a concerted effort by the MSM to discredit them, then you’re as biased as they are.

[Matt Cole @ProfMattCole]

@EssexPR nice pretend outrage. Where was it over the last 14 years?

[Matt Cole @ProfMattCole]

@PolitlcsUK @BBCRadio4 except he didn't take £20k in donations did he? There was no £20k. His son stayed at someone's house. That's it.

[Michael Carlson @Carlsonsports]

Labour + LDP + Greens 55%
Tory + Reform 38%
This is actually The Will Of The People, but good luck hearing that this morning

[Matt Cole @ProfMattCole]

@RobDotHutton Within a week "Why the Conservatives are the real winners of this election". Guaranteed.

[Matt Cole @ProfMattCole]

@henrymance True. But you can already hear Farage's response..."Well, hang on....establishment, Bank of England, blah blah..."

[Matt Cole @ProfMattCole]

@mikegalsworthy Is the Labour Party in charge of Sunak's PR? I can't think of any other explanation...

[Matt Cole @ProfMattCole]

@theAliceRoberts @Channel4 I've always struggled with these channels being called +1 rather than -1. You're watching TV from an hour earlier, hence the -1. Glad I'm not the only one :)

[Matt Cole @ProfMattCole]

@KemiBadenoch Quite unbelievably the trade data in your paper is all in current prices i.e. not adjusted for inflation. This is Econ 101 stuff.

[Matt Cole @ProfMattCole]

@carolvorders

[Matt Cole @ProfMattCole]

Ooops.

[Guillaume Cabanac ⟨here and elsewhere⟩ @gcabanac]

🤖 So #ChatGPT wrote the first sentence of this @ElsevierConnect article. Any other parts of the article too? How come none of the coauthors, Editor-in-Chief, reviewers, typesetters noticed? How can this happen with regular peer-review? https://t.co/C4vX317zYV

[Bham Economics @econ_ub]

Latest work by Matthew A. Cole @ProfMattCole , Liza Jabbour @Liza_Jabbour , Ceren Ozgen, Hiromi Yumoto on

Refugees' Economic Integration and Firms,

analysing an active labour market integration policy in the Netherlands is now available:

https://t.co/9m2TJK4CPj

[Matt Cole @ProfMattCole]

A genuine Tweet from my MP. It's difficult to believe how bad things have got in this country...

[Andrew Bridgen @ABridgen]

The UN, WHO and WEF are all working to the same goals and I don’t like them and I don’t think my constituents will either, which is probably why they are not getting much publicity in the legacy media.