Geoff Goodhew

A Kiwi living in Oxford. @[email protected]

[Azamat Junisbai 🇰🇿🇺🇦 @azamatistan]

The undeniably broad domestic support for Russia’s brutal attack against Ukraine has baffled and horrified people around the world. How could so many ordinary Russian people fall for Kremlin’s crude and outlandish anti-Ukrainian propaganda? A long 🧵

[Geoff Goodhew @geoff332]

@bellingcat Beyond setting up an account, Bellingcat is the sort of organisation that should seriously consider creating/hosting a Mastodon instance. It'd enhance the work you do and add to the Mastiodoin community.

[Geoff Goodhew @geoff332]

@Herring1967 Those moonbows are actually caused by Brexit unicorns. This proves how the Government has singularly failed to capture a Brexit unicorn so they could sacrifice it on the altar of sovereignty (which can be found in the cellar of Gourmet Court) and deliver the Brexit benefits.

[Matt Pearce 🦅🇺🇸 @mattdpearce]

Okay imagine all this, except you’re on Mars and there’s a limited amount of oxygen.

[Geoff Goodhew @geoff332]

@EmmaKennedy I've always suspected the first thing to know the Titanic was in big trouble was the iceberg. I'm not sure who exactly the iceberg is in this hazy analogy but the captain and the passengers were a long way behind.

The warning signs were there in April (if not well before).

[Geoff Goodhew @geoff332]

@DavidHenigUK Not sure if he'll run, I suspect he's mostly interested in the fundraising. He has to pay for his legal defense somehow. So I expect him to keep teasing the idea but delay the decision as long as possible.

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

History of Europe 1500-2022 in country balls

https://t.co/J4WcbNl2zB

[Geoff Goodhew @geoff332]

@DavidHenigUK To an extent, I think EU membership (and other policies) helped paper over the cracks caused by declining productivity and increasing inequality. The problems they cause were always going to hit the UK. But now they've hit faster and harder.

[Posseidon @pitt11_tim]

Easy to dismiss Trussonomics as an aberration, but was just latest iteration of Conservatism having become unmoored from its econ foundations

I've published a report for @ukonward today setting out a proposed updated framework for Conservative econ🧵 1/

https://t.co/76rsOUhD05

[Geoff Goodhew @geoff332]

@DmitryOpines I'm not so convinced. Twitter's always bumbled along, doing well enough to get by, but not making a profit. Now they've got a billion a year to service the acquisition loans. It's hard to predict how that will play out. But "no Twitter" is very possible.

[Geoff Goodhew @geoff332]

@astroehlein It's the thing a lot of people don't seem to understand. There are no such thing as absolute rights in a society. Rights will always clash with others' rights. That's the hard part of making them work.

[Geoff Goodhew @geoff332]

@ScottNover I read somewhere that this was partially because the SEC were looking at this as his third 'joke' that materially affected share prices. So buying Twitter was better than facing the SEC.

Not sure how credible this is - but it's an interesting take.

[Esheru @Eshprojet1]

Taken by a friend who lives over in Kilburn NW London, earlier today. It speaks for itself really….

[Geoff Goodhew @geoff332]

@DmitryOpines I wonder how many businesses have be McKinsied* to failure?

* Other consultancies are available. Results probably won't vary.

[Geoff Goodhew @geoff332]

@Kevin_Maguire I think it's less about her specifically and more about the Tories. He needs the ERG to govern and she's part of the price for their cooperation. But he's equally pressured from other wings of the party.

Rather than governing, his real job is to hide this as long as possible.

[Geoff Goodhew @geoff332]

@IanDunt You could say the ERG forced the biggest error on him.

[Geoff Goodhew @geoff332]

@DavidHenigUK I suspect that, instinctively, when many people hear "trade" they think "goods". Things like education, tourism, and other services don't fit with that instinctive idea.

[Geoff Goodhew @geoff332]

@JulianBaggini * brought to mind...

[Geoff Goodhew @geoff332]

@JulianBaggini This bright to mind one of the more interesting ideas in management theory is Karl Weick's sensemaking. He argues our actions are motivated more to interpret past actions than (as we normally assume) to enact the future.

[Geoff Goodhew @geoff332]

@alexvtunzelmann Given much of the value of Twitter is the content generated by its active users, charging them to create that value seems a little strange.