Columnists! People who make videos of their own heads! Do you know nothing about autism & its complexity? Never read a word about it, but seen something about SEND reform and what Badenoch/Tice said the other day? Top tip: Just sound off about "overdiagnosis" and get another week's beer money

Basically another version of DiCaprio's "GIVE ME THE OSCAR" stare to camera at the end of The Revenant.

Oh, look. A load of coverage about a new government inquiry into "overdiagnosis" that completely blurs autism & mental illness, and ends up leaning into all those tropes about people making it all up.

There was maybe a 45 minute window where you could get coverage of what was actually in the budget and it was, crucially, the period when it was leaked by the OBR but before it was announced.

when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes

It's completely ridiculous. Pre-budget everyone thought the headroom gap was £20-30bn including policy changes (e.g. on welfare). It was in fact £16bn. It's hardly a massive difference.

Watching Reeves being interviewed on Laura Kuenssberg and they’ve spent 10 minutes on (i) whether Reeves lied, and (ii) whether she broke the manifesto commitments. Utterly futile.

We'll do anything to increase tax revenues but we won't Do That (broadbased tax rises that might actually plug the gap)

Good Budget Eve reading from @jomichell.bsky.social

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Continue to be confused by this strand of Labour MPs that appear not to want to raise any taxes at all.

Had my first "hey, where did the sound go?" moment on live tv today. Thankfully, I think I styled it out and definitely didn't end up looking like a giant head in a tank babbling silently to themselves.

Anyway the basic gist is that this government have decided businesses, universities and immigrants should pay the taxes that the median voter doesn’t want to pay. I’m sure that will have no worrying incidence effects or counteract ‘the singleminded focus on growth’.

Very good adaptation of Train Dreams on Netflix. Captures the mood of the book perfectly. Pretty much perfectly cast including having Will Patton narrate. His audiobook reading is one of the all time greats.

And autism was never something to be so terrified of that you avoid vaccines for preventable childhood diseases that could disable or kill you and others The inherent ableism of this strain of anti-vaccinationism has always been acute

lol every other year since 2019, a prominent male economist has been revealed as the absolute worst person ever. Like clockwork.

Very senior economist speaks out against Summers and against the discipline continuing to bestow privileges and honors on him; calls out sexism in economics. You'd think this site should be flooded with similar threads...

Scumbag

Pretty hard not to despair most days.

Yes, I think this is what the “it’s smart not to do income tax” stuff is missing. If you remove salary sacrifice on someone’s pension contributions you are increasing their income tax! If you freeze thresholds you are increasing their income tax!

To be honest I think “I’m going to give a press conference to tell the whole nation over their breakfasts about the absolute need for something big on tax, then just drop the idea 10 days later” may actually be more stupid than anything Truss and Kwarteng did.

Oh boy.

Genuinely a bit flabbergasted.

Did the weird Tuesday morning speech that I forced my kids to listen to on the school run mean nothing to them?

The first rule of Monthly GDP Figures Club is “You don’t talk about Monthly GDP figures.” Unless… Popped onto BBC News Channel to discuss some of the broader implications for the budget and beyond. youtu.be/iDigvkUqcXI?... @ljmuofficial.bsky.social @ljmuimpact.bsky.social @ljmu-ris.bsky.social

Telling everyone I work in AI now.

This is the most abysmal, pathetic thing. The BBC head resigning because the corporation is not supine *enough* to the far-right.

This from @lewisgoodall.com

Hot take: More sociologists and economists need to work together.

I think Peston should apologise for this outrageous framing. Not a serious show that any of us should be going on until this kind of nonsense stops.

Sweet Jesus

"Ronald Reagan was a mercantilist" is one of the most "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." I can think of.

Note how, when the government’s condemnation is timely, the rest of the Westminster ecosystem does in fact, react differently!

Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?

The first thing she can do is not take office immediately after someone who cut 20bn off national insurance.

"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral." I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.

Britain is in a really, really dark place. It also shows that once you start deporting people, you very quickly get to this place

If migrants agree to a hysterectomy or vasectomy, or otherwise agree not to procreate (or, if they already have, if they convince their children not to procreate), will they be a lesser affront/threat to 'cultural' [sic] coherence, and so not subject to deportation?

At this rate this semester’s immigration policy lecture will just be me shaking my head and muttering “shame” for fifty minutes.

The Conservative Party cannot be considered a responsible party of government again until and unless Ms Lam is forced to drop her Idi Amin migration proposal and apologise to those it threatens, or has the whip removed. It is as simple as that.

Indeed. Government's proposed ILR changes are wrong morally & politically - that is the main point. But from purely *economic* perspective, they're likely to be self-defeating - the migrants most likely to be deterred from coming/staying are high-skilled/high-paid, because they have other options!

Nice juxtaposition @financialtimes.com

Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.

I know we're not supposed to talk about Woody Allen, but ANNIE HALL is one of the supreme American movies & Diane Keaton's wild charisma is 90% of the reason why. And btw her performance of "Seems Like Old Times" is pure magic—up there with the greatest musical scenes in cinema, zero doubt

Damn www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvW9...

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down