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niche opinions, strongly held

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Just posted latest blog about why economics grads should consider the civil service

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@animalologist Only going to get worse too, people have so much money and events aren’t increasing capacity enough to compensate

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@notanastronomer @LeRoyDesCimes depressingly that's pretty good going for this weather

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jobs shouldn't be seen as a plus for delivery of public services

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@PradyuPrasad why do you wish terrible things upon my country

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maybe they're baiting us and the regulation for growth bill is getting rid of all the bad ones

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

When I reported on Zahawi I got a handful of abusive messages. When he apologised & it turned out I was right, they all stopped.

But Polanski? Wild levels of abuse, which just ramped up when Polanski apologised & it turned out I was right.

Does the Green Party have a problem?

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@AndyMasley i can't remember the exact statistics but diesel is so much worse than petrol and because the US had stricter rules (through california), US urban air pollution is much lower than Europe

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@christineist quite rarely - had a lot of gut feelings i ignored and ended up worse off than if i'd listened

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@catehall yup had this one for years - absolutely incredible value

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

Until someone bites the bullet, slashes spending, and does the difficult pro-growth reforms this country desperately needs, we will continue to have a ridiculous carousel of Prime Minsters.

The truth is the Prime Minister could have survived the Mandelson scandal if people felt better off in their pockets.

While there’s no growth, there’s no longevity of political tenure.

Blair survived plenty of scandal, and plenty of Mandelson, ultimately because everything in life’s wider context didn’t feel so desperately shit.

Until we have a political class brave enough to end the overspending, liberalise the labour market, and *actually* overhaul the planning system - we’re going to be stuck in this same psychodrama of doom.

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@JeremiahDJohns This is the big struggle I have with degrowth/leftist thought on these things. It's an incredible arrogance to decide where the line of wealth/progress/etc. should be drawn.

[Jack @tracewoodgrains]

As a young person who would like to own a home one day, I don't blame a company that created value by making it easier for me to visit cities. I blame politicians like AOC who extract value with destructive regulations that make it harder to build, sell, and rent homes.

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@PradyuPrasad The best thing about europe (I'm including UK) is not needing AC for most of the year. Loved Singapore but I could never live there - the humidity is so bad. If we could import the cheap food and 24 hour supermarkets it'd be gg

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@obzmen @tracewoodgrains i suspect this is fourth wing, but she also made the main character have a literal disability, making a lot of it quite silly

[Robert Colvile @rcolvile]

This is the point I keep making. Natural England are legally mandated to only care about the fish, not Putin, power cuts, bankrupt businesses etc. We have eliminated any concept of ‘trade-offs’, at vast expense.

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@StatisticUrban @BarneyFlames Yeah Uni of Manchester is not a bad one. We're not as deep as the US but the range of UK unis that provide a great education is pretty high.

[Malcolm Offord MSP @Malcolm_Offord]

Never.

I’m sick of ambitious young Scots having to leave Scotland to make a success of themselves.

I don’t want them to have to go to London to make their money, like I did, or be drawn to Dubai.

I’ll not be going anywhere until Scotland works for those who work.

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@aliceisplaying America the outlier on that one I’m afraid

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

I will never understand this sneering resentment towards people who have made something of themselves.

It's not the Britain I've known. It's not the country I want to live in. If your attitude is to sneer at rather than celebrate success, you're living a miserable little life.

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@Discoplomacy @BenRamanauskas I guess tourism doesn't show up through the export chart - tough one