Steve Nolan
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Economist, Senior Lecturer in Economics at Liverpool Business School
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John Harris
14 days ago
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
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Basically another version of DiCaprio's "GIVE ME THE OSCAR" stare to camera at the end of The Revenant.
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John Harris
21 days ago
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.
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Tom Roberts
23 days ago
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.
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Abe Goldfarb
24 days ago
when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
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Sam Freedman
24 days ago
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.
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Dom White
24 days ago
Watching Reeves being interviewed on Laura Kuenssberg and theyāve spent 10 minutes on (i) whether Reeves lied, and (ii) whether she broke the manifesto commitments. Utterly futile.
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Chris Terry-Enescu
29 days ago
We'll do anything to increase tax revenues but we won't Do That (broadbased tax rises that might actually plug the gap)
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Good Budget Eve reading from
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29 days ago
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Katie Martin
30 days ago
Please clap
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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.
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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.
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about 1 month ago
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Ben Ansell
about 1 month ago
Anyway the basic gist is that this government have decided businesses, universities and immigrants should pay the taxes that the median voter doesnāt want to pay. Iām sure that will have no worrying incidence effects or counteract āthe singleminded focus on growthā.
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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.
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Aparna Nair
about 1 month ago
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
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about 1 month ago
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Anna Gifty
about 1 month ago
lol every other year since 2019, a prominent male economist has been revealed as the absolute worst person ever. Like clockwork.
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Benjamin Braun
about 1 month ago
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...
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Scumbag
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about 1 month ago
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Pretty hard not to despair most days.
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about 1 month ago
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Stephen Bush
about 1 month ago
Yes, I think this is what the āitās smart not to do income taxā stuff is missing. If you remove salary sacrifice on someoneās pension contributions you are increasing their income tax! If you freeze thresholds you are increasing their income tax!
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Rob Ford
about 1 month ago
To be honest I think āIām 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 laterā may actually be more stupid than anything Truss and Kwarteng did.
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Oh boy.
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about 1 month ago
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Genuinely a bit flabbergasted.
about 1 month ago
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Did the weird Tuesday morning speech that I forced my kids to listen to on the school run mean nothing to them?
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The first rule of Monthly GDP Figures Club is āYou donāt talk about Monthly GDP figures.ā Unless⦠Popped onto BBC News Channel to discuss some of the broader implications for the budget and beyond.
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Talking about the lack of UK growth on the BBC News Channel - 13th November 2025
YouTube video by Steve Nolan
https://youtu.be/iDigvkUqcXI?si=AqsOgRd570Lhdmtb
about 1 month ago
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Telling everyone I work in AI now.
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about 1 month ago
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Ian Dunt
about 2 months ago
This is the most abysmal, pathetic thing. The BBC head resigning because the corporation is not supine *enough* to the far-right.
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Roland Smith
about 2 months ago
This from
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Anna Gifty
about 2 months ago
Hot take: More sociologists and economists need to work together.
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Ben Ansell
about 2 months ago
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.
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Sweet Jesus
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about 2 months ago
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John Oxley
2 months ago
"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.
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Stephen Bush
about 2 months ago
Note how, when the governmentās condemnation is timely, the rest of the Westminster ecosystem does in fact, react differently!
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Tim Bale
about 2 months ago
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?
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Reformās Sarah Pochin forced to apologise after claiming adverts 'full of black people' drive her 'madā | LBC
The Runcorn and Helsby MP was responding to a viewer live on air who complained about the demographics of advertising.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/reform-sarah-pochin-apologise-adverts-black-5HjdFsm_2/
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Jo Michell
2 months ago
The first thing she can do is not take office immediately after someone who cut 20bn off national insurance.
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2 months ago
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Jonn Elledge
2 months ago
"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.
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Itās racist, itās extremist and itās immoral
The right is still calling for deportations, and the government is still being cowardly about it. Also: Londonās first green belt; some notes on a shark; and some news, on my next book.
https://jonn.substack.com/p/its-racist-its-extremist-and-its
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Peter Geoghegan
2 months ago
Britain is in a really, really dark place. It also shows that once you start deporting people, you very quickly get to this place
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Omar Khan
2 months ago
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?
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At this rate this semesterās immigration policy lecture will just be me shaking my head and muttering āshameā for fifty minutes.
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Rob Ford
2 months ago
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.
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Jonathan Portes
2 months ago
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!
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Nice juxtaposition
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2 months ago
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Ben Ansell
2 months ago
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.
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Jody Rosen
2 months ago
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 magicāup there with the greatest musical scenes in cinema, zero doubt
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Damn
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Diane Keaton: "You'd be so nice nice to come to"
YouTube video by Ricardo Leitner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvW9nB8uEHc
2 months ago
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Alex Hanna
3 months ago
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
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