Someone told me that if you close your eyes, Rishi sounds like Will from The Inbetweeners and now I can't unhear it.
Ryan Bourne
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Ryan Bourne
@MrRBourne
- There's a European upper middle-class cope which basically says "yes, America might look richer, but there's no work-life balance, culture, or accessible healthcare." What I've learnt moving here is that, no, for genuinely comparable professionals, America is just much richer.
- Adolescence is now reaching knee bending & Captain Tom worship levels of social and political contagion in the UK.
- I disagree with @AOC on most major policy issues, but she takes her Committee duties incredibly seriously, always asks relevant and intelligent questions, and according to my colleague @CatoEdwards puts the time in on staying in attendance for long sessions too.After asking Powell why the Fed has so consistently gotten the natural rate of unemployment wrong in the same direction, @AOC follows-up by discussing the breakdown of the Phillips Curve, and the idea that unemployment could be much lower without inflationary worries.
00:00 - Socialism is misery dressed up as fairnessNeo-liberalism is insecurity dressed up as freedom
- How do you feel about happy hour?How do you feel about dynamic pricing? Mostly positive: 10% Mostly negative: 74% yougov.co.uk/topics/economyโฆ
- I keep thinking about this paragraph. Extraordinary writing.
- If the Merkel read out is true, then it shows the backstop was always a sham intended to keep the whole UK in a customs union forever. The Brexiteers who held their nerve were right, and those who folded wrong.
- Boris Johnson was a deeply flawed individual, but never forget he saved the country from this cretin.The unfolding events in Israel and Palestine are deeply alarming. We need an immediate ceasefire and urgent de-escalation. And we need a route out of this tragic cycle of violence: ending the occupation is the only means of achieving a just and lasting peace.
- There's literally a children's board game that demonstrates how easy it is to do surgery.
Thereโs literally a childrenโs board game that demonstrates that โfree-market capitalismโ always leads to one person controlling everything. - Having demanded a lockdown for a week, UK journalists will tomorrow pivot seamlessly to finding anyone with an inconvenience, however minor, asking: what will govt do for them? And: have the govt thought this through?
- Gary Lineker on BBC Sports Personality of the Year: โyour vote will decide who wins.โ Good of him to clarify given his referendum views!
- Replying to @MrRBourne"Yes youโll earn twice as much over there, but will you have access to 18 month healthcare waiting lists?"
- The number of โnamesโ testing positive suggests to me that we are vastly undercounting how many people are out there with this virus already.BREAKING: Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has tested positive for Coronavirus.
