Ben Southwood
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Founder & editor, https://t.co/AdNuyGyLll @stripe. Fellow, @createstreets.
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Fantastic design on this new Australian magazine: absolutely love it. Also love their mission as described by their about page. I will be subscribing and following them!.
šØWeāre launching the FIRST issue of Inflection Points šØ.- Michael Brennan & Dan Andrews.- Katie Roberts-Hull.- Jonathan OāBrien.- Andrew Leigh
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RT @SCP_Hughes: 'Adaptive reuse' at Arlington Cathedral in Virginia. The community wanted to change the style of their church building, butā¦.
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RT @chalmermagne: new from me: the Alan Turing Institute has been instructed by government to undergo radical reform ā I tell the story ofā¦.
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RT @johnrmyers: Missionādriven government needs more than ambition: āÆwe must rewrite the rules of the game. Today forāÆ@britishprogress,āÆ@pā¦.
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RT @BritainRemade: 36 degrees indoors! Have a look at the temperatures our supporters recorded at home with no air con (post a pic in the rā¦.
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I never fail to enjoy reading Saloni and Niko update me on news in drug trials, global health, and biological science.
New post! Our summer edition of What's new in biology:. The first gonorrhea vaccination program, contact lenses that see infrared light, the protein behind sweet tastes, baby cured with gene therapy, gene-editing breakthroughs & new cholesterol drugs.
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Is there an accepted reason as to why New Zealand seems to have such high āstate capacityā (scare quotes because Iām not certain that itās capacity per se but it seems to make very civilised decisions). Like with VAT.
Honestly such a joke that the UK (with 13x more people) can't even pass zonal pricing when we've had locational marginal pricing from ~200 nodes since the late 90s
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Many are saying that chats with Samuel about cities are fun to listen to!.
One of the must-listens of the year for urbanists + people working to shape better communities. @WorksInProgMag @SCP_Hughes @bswud @s8mb here's to more excellent conversations!.
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This is exactly the right idea. The government's 'green light' to Heathrow earlier this year meant almost literally nothing. It was even less than when they gave an advisory vote in 2018 to update some policy statements. This would make the intention real.
Today, I've written the foreword to a new @LabourTogether & @BritishProgress report asking the question - how can we get Heathrow expansion off the ground rapidly & democratically?. The answer: pass a public bill through Parliament within a year. We can do this!
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This is a brilliant newsletter, which I recommend to everyone interested in following energy issues worldwide (and everything related). I click about a dozen of the links every time
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Iām sure that all my followers already read Anton religiously, as I do. This post is both mystery and economic history. Antonās stories are the best exposition of the laws of economics I know.
My latest post! In researching the history of coal, I stumbled across a puzzle that has baffled people for over four hundred years: why the coal briquette never became widely adopted in England. Now, finally, there is an answer!.
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RT @HenryEOliver: Ignore the pessimists ā we are living through a literary golden age.Literature is booming. Literary culture needs to catcā¦.
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It bears repeating that France is equally rich to the UK despite light corruption, not speaking English, and disastrous taxes and labour market regulation. They can afford all that stuff because of a historically liberal development system.
Every year for the last 40 years, France has built more homes per person than England. If England built at French levels, it would have almost 3 million more homes. French homes are, on average, a fifth bigger that English homes.
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If I was a government who wanted to raise taxes without touching the rates on VAT, income tax, or NICs I might start to look at this.
This is my shadow measure of state capacity. The higher, the better your political culture and institutions.
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RT @lugaricano: The most life saving taxi-ride in the history of the world? How a USAid official learned traditional cars without cathalitiā¦.
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RT @lugaricano: I had no idea that inflation targeting, now used by every major central bank, was born out of a New Zeland policy maker's (ā¦.
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