Dear Frank (@FrankRGardner) We love your cat I'm afraid we forgot to listen to what you were saying because your cat was eating your houseplants It wasn't a full-on Robert Kelly moment, but please tell us about your cat

My Twitter last month: "Economics is useless, doesn't tell us anything" My Twitter this month: "Health and education prices have risen much faster than TVs - this a conspiracy, smart TVs steal our data, evil capitalsts" Me: Very big sigh, copy-pasted replies till I got bored

I've spent years struggling to prove that the sunk-cost fallacy isn't actually a fallacy. No sense in giving up now, though.

Seem lots of people are quoting John Maynard Keynes: "Anything we can actually do we can afford." without realising that it logically entails: "If we can't afford it, we can't actually do it"

The Guardian says The Good Law Project (@GoodLawProject) is a charity which will concern the Charity Commission (@ChtyCommission) You will make sure that the correction that is required gets equivalent prominence lest people donate under false pretences? https://t.co/X5i53i6VOs

UK Budget Forecasts: The IFS had such credibilty, government wanted one on the inside But once it was official, getting sign-off mattered more to Whitehall than getting it right. Gaming the process becomes the thing Sucked into the game, the OBS is compromised or destroyed...

The OBR, regulatory arbitrage and why government turns things to shit 2008 Financial crisis: root cause - turning bond credit ratings from commercial evaluations into regulatory tick-boxes Result: regulatory arbitrage. Getting the tick has value, whatever games you have to play

I'm ambivalent on Trump and was very disturbed by Jan 6. But no smoking gun I remember the Panorama clip because that was the nearest thing to one I'd seen. So it being spliced makes me sad and angry Turns out they were pointing the gun at themselves Biased. Complacent. Stupid

@Baron_Douro @mmjukic Yeah... but they probably don't strictly mean IQ here but rather cognitive capacities.

"The goal is to bring the people of Israel closer to the people of Venezuela while advancing, together, the Western values to which both parties subscribe: freedom, liberty, and a market economy. Both parties pledge to maintain contact and actively cooperate July 21st 2020"😍🇻🇪🇮🇱

María Corina "We trust in the capacity to build. There is nothing more ennobling than presenting ourselves to our children with the fruits of our labor." I'm liking her already (It wil be fun to how the usual suspects handle it. The left call her "far right")

María Corina: "There is no freedom possible if we do not understand that the power of transformation lies within each one of us. Popular Capitalism is based on trust in each person, believes in efficiency, in encouraging entrepreneurship, but with a moral dimension"

The new UN commission report accusing Israel of "genocide" is impressive. It is an impressive collection of Hamas or distorted data points while leaving out any data that contradicts the false accusations. The report is wild. It contains no mention of: - Hamas disposition,

@phl43 But we have a 'price chaining' problem We live better than Kings. People would pay a literal King's ransome for antibiotics or a car in 1750 prices Today landowners barely keept the roof on the big house, let alone keep 100s of staff What even is comparable GDP pre/post IR?

Keir Today. Gone Tomorrow?

Microsoft? Seriously? Who decided the WPF user interface property indicating that a control has received a mouse click should be called "IsHit"

"Grow the gangs. Smash the economy." Oops. Starmer and Reeves got the slogans muddled up. @RachelReevesMP

Big issues with capital punishment But should people on life-long prison sentences be at least be eligible for Assisted Dying?

So, Volt Europe : do you endorse or condemn your member Mariska den Eelgen's imperialist fantasy that "the EU is not complete" without Greenland and Iceland" (let alone claiming Norway, UK or Switzerland already are) regardless of their people's democratic choices?

Funny how people who are sure Russian propaganda is what got Trump into the Whitehouse never seem to consider that their opinions might be shaped by Iranian Russianm and Palestinian propaganda