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Interesting difference of focus between the likes of Clive Lewis, for whom the primary issue is winning the next election, and the likes of Jess Phillips for whom the primary issue is getting stuff done between now and then. Not unrelated of course, but definite difference of focus.

From now on, I'm going to write papers where I take an arbitrary performance metric, restrict the sample to top performers on that metric, and then hunt for negative correlations with everything else in the truncated sample. I'm at a business school, so this should be extremely lucrative.

Fifty years since David Munrow sadly took his own life aged 33. Nice piece in the Graun.

Oh my word! There's an Andrew Davies night on Wednesday 20th May on BBC4. He adapted novels into classic television like Pride & Prejudice, House Of Cards & Mother Love. But the best thing he ever did was his own creation. A Very Peculiar Practice. And it's getting a repeat! 🥳

UNDER HOUSES Composite photo looking down on the tracks near Bayswater London Underground station. I love the colourful houses!

Remembering Lee Brilleaux on his birthday. Here are Dr Feelgood terrorising the French town of Pithiviers in 1976. The full clip is at youtu.be/8_QibKon2G4

This is just the Dutch Foreign Minister which is great because his vibes are, entirely without any shade, "Dutch Foreign Minister".

📷 Military Academy Students Taking an Exam in the Garden, Istanbul, 1890s

A "chain-link" column on the south portal of the western facade of the church of Saint-Lazare D'Avallon, in north-central #France. c.1160. #architecture #art #History #medieval

@privateeyenews.bsky.social on Farage, Rerform and JCB 🚜🚁

This striking oil painting is titled "Tango-Jazz" and was created in 2017 by the Russian artist Georgy Kurasov. Kurasov is known for his unique, contemporary style that blends elements of Cubism and Art Deco, distorting human figures into sharp, geometric planes with mathematical precision.

Pioneer of modern chemistry, Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, French scientist, recognised & named oxygen and hydrogen; guillotined #OTD 1794 (“La république n’a pas besoin de savants, ni de chimistes…”). Double portrait with wife, chemist Marie-Anne Paulze, by Jacques-Louis David in 1788, Met Museum

“Where men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken...” David Hume, Scottish empiricist philosopher, whose work influenced cognitive science & economic theory, born #OTD 1711. Portrait by Allan Ramsay 1754, National Galleries of Scotland

📍Loci: All Saints', Brixworth - one of the few surviving C7th buildings in the country. www.digest.andymarsh...

Layers of time in the honeyed oolitic at Tewkesbury Abbey - "It is in that golden stain of time, that we are to look for the real light, and colour, and preciousness of architecture.." John Ruskin

This is my favorite shot from Artemis II so far—Absolutely Stunning!

We’re heading to the UK/Europe! Artist Presale starts tomorrow* Sign up and be the first to get access: laylo.com/rhiannongiddens/m/T7p3Nh It means a lot to return and share this music - can’t wait to see old and new friends along the way. Grab your tickets now and we’ll see you there.

Photograph by Dave Glass. Jones Street, Russian Hill, San Francisco, 1991.

Clamping down on legitimate protest is not helping to protect Jews, if anything, the opposite. Attacking British Jews is not helping Palestinians, if anything, the opposite.

“There is still the Country - Underground”, by Dora M Batty, 1926.

Back to Norman era York. The Norman doorway at Ingram House on Bootham, York, is a late 12th-century (1170–1200) Romanesque archway reset as the centrepiece of a 17th-century almshouse. Salvaged from the ruined Holy Trinity Priory in Micklegate, it features distinct

great trousers with pockets and great RBF

Interesting to see the large number of cars on view here. July 1934, as it happens, saw Hore-Belisha’s landmark Road Traffic Act, introducing compulsory driving tests and 3rd party insurance, 30mph limit in urban areas, and pedestrian crossings (with Belisha beacons).

At last some good news.

Warrington, photo by John Bulmer.

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: an absolutely stunning #Roman flask made of colourless glass with a 'snake-thread' decoration in several colours. From Nijmegen. Dating 2nd/3rd century AD. 📷 me, taken in 2022 in Museum Het Valkhof

'Sun, Sea and Sky: a Summer Phantasy,' (1892) is unique in John Atkinson Grimshaw’s body of work. It's remarkable in its minute Boudin-like detail with each grouping of figures given characterisation and individuality, location: Scarborough in Yorkshire.

Clara Peeters, mistress of the cheeseboard... one of several dozen women artists from the Low Countries now being honoured at the MSK in Ghent: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/04/gone.... This is Still Life with Cheeses and Crayfish, c. 1612-21, Private collection.

Had him down more as a coupé kind of guy.

#OTD in 1945. The Express cartoonist Giles sketching as Cromwell tank crewmen work on their vehicles. #WW2 #HISTORY

🛤️ Happy 150th Anniversary to the Settle-Carlisle 🚆 150 years of historic journeys, breathtaking landscapes, and unforgettable adventures. 🎥 Wendy McDonnell | Friends of Settle-Carlisle Line | #YorkshireDales

The Queen of #May, 1900, (detail) by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh of the Glasgow School, who pushed the boundaries of Art Nouveau #WomensArt #May1st #FridayFeeling

paul noth does it again

Love the confident gaze of this woman in Gustave Klimt’s charcoal drawing from 1891, done in his early ‘realistic’ style

Helmsley, north Yorkshire, photo by landscape photographer Paula Beaumont.

The Rye Marshes, East Sussex https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-nash/the-rye-marshes-east-sussex-1932

Martinkerk Church. Groningen, Netherlands

Get them to read Bleak House

As @paolocrosetto.bsky.social pointed out here yesterday, this is mostly (very) old news for experimental economists. #EconSky

Communion jug 1639, Hungarian "Noble lord Andreas Zakany, deputy-lieutenant of the renowned Borsod County, & his wife, noble lady Helena Poki, had this made for the Evangelical church of Szendrő on 19 April 1639, in honor of the Most Holy Blood of Jesus Christ, Son of God." (Met)

Today’s @mortenmorland.bsky.social

Seated Man Painting or Writing First half of the 17th century Iran (Met Museum)

Oh, Experimental Economists on #EconSky look! Looks like at Nature they discovered the Public Good Game decay of contributions -- complete with heterogeneity and restart effects. We do know a couple of things about it since, what, 1991? But good to see it at play in the wild with new data!

This kind of arithmetic seems to be catching on. Greg Jackson (CEO Octopus Energy) has just told #R4Today that EVs are currently “7 or 8 times cheaper per mile than a petrol car”.

I am going to be talking about something other than this Tuesday at Oxford: A master technician of neoclassical economics spent his last decades explaining why his own framework misled us. From IS‑LM to Kaldor‑Hicks to ‘temporary equilibrium,’ Hicks ended his career trying to undo much of what... 1/

Known as the “Hospitium Bridge” this small medieval stone bridge crosses the River Skell at Fountains Abbey. It stands close to the ruins of the abbey’s 12th-century guest houses, or hospitium, where important visitors were lodged apart from the monks.

Rochdale v York, showdown last match 25 April. All season they’ve been slugging it out, way ahead of the others, at the top of the National League. Rochdale now need a win to take title. York need a draw. Deep into added time …

insane finish to the showdown final match in the National League. Rochdale needed to beat York to take the title and sole promotion place. York needed a draw for the same. Rochdale went 1-0 up deep into added time. York equalised eight minutes later, with barely a minute remaining. Crazy.

(4) we can be more certain that the real economic outcomes will be extremely painful than we can be about the price reactions because central bank reaction functions are very uncertain in the truly bad outcomes. Krugman was good on this: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-harm-f...