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I wrote this piece on the impact of AI on the economy and growth 100 days before chatGPT dropped. Still think this holds.
Jeegar Kakkad
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Jeegar Kakkad
@jeegarkakkad
Economics, politics, boxing. Deep generalist. @ Stonehaven & Public First. ex-TBI, ADS, JLR, MakeUK, SMF, Brookings. Views my own.
Joined August 2010
- Replying to @el_budget and @derayAngel, Flau'Jae and the whole team need to be celebrated. Anyone attacking Angel or the team after a tough loss is speaking volumes about their own character.
- My first act as a British Citizen was to stand in a queue. ❤️🇬🇧
- Female colleague asked if my wife could bake a cake for #wearitpink. I protested the #everydaysexism and baked this:
- I don't see the recent riots as an issue of immigration, I see it as an issue of opportunity. Responding to the riots and the concerns underpinning them by making the case for immigration (as suggested in today's FT & Economist) would be a mistkae. Here's why...🧵
- Replying to @nytimes@Arron_banks once used Russian money to steal my daughter’s future from her.
- It's the Brexit trilemma: UK cannot fully deliver frictionless Irish border, immigration controls & 3rd party trade deals.Brexiters' cognitive dissonance. "We want a customs union agreement that allows us to act as if we are not in a customs union".
- Not sure that the UK has quite got the hang of social distancing.
- Pension funds appear intent on challenging NIMBYs as leaders of the Anti-Growth Coalition.Replying to @HarryYorke1During that period, Treasury & Number 10 have faced an intensive lobbying campaign. Pension funds invested in freeholds claimed that £15-40bn would be wiped out from reforms. Housing campaigners say this is massively exaggerated But it has succeeded in spooking HMT/No10 4/8
- 100% this. Even if parties were more open, Westminster ecosystem wouldn't reward them. Lab already being hounded on every tax; any give on council tax & journos/other parties would have smelled blood in the water. Change only becomes possible when the political narrative shifts.It speaks to just how hard it’s going to be to reform our deeply broken economic model that our politics is so narrow that Labour, with a 20 point poll lead, feels it won’t have the political space to reform the worst, most regressive tax in Britain.
- Replying to @SathnamYou should pitch Keep Calm & Curry On, where every week British chefs have to make meals from the different regions of India, and you’re one of the judges (obvs). Every week should have a ‘Samosa Challenge’.
- A couple of quick thoughts on the @ukonward piece on manufacturing & levelling-up. Full disclosure: I spent 15 years as a wonk/lobbyist for manufacturing, working @MakeUK, @ JLR & @ADSgroupUK. I love UK manufacturing, especially the people: their passion is 🔥🔥🔥.
- It might not be all men, but it is men that are the problem. And as such, it’s on all men to talk to each other, to call out bad behaviour and to listen when someone talks to us. Whether it’s mates, colleagues or strangers, we men have to do better.We aren’t safe walking mins from our home (Sabina Nessa) We aren’t safe at work (Cathy Marlow) We aren’t safe even when together (Nicole Smallman, Bibaa Henry) We aren’t safe online (Alice Ruggles) We aren’t safe with our own family (Banaz Mahmod)
