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Former academic, now works in a bank. Research Fellow at IZA. All tweets in a personal capacity.

Joined September 2013
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I just read this by @quadroyal. It's good and you should read it too.
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People’s behaviour at music gigs is getting worse. I have three rules to solve that | Simon Price theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Full @EVENSurvey dataset on racism & ethnic/religious inequalities in Britain now available to all researchers and policymakers via @UKDataService #OpenAccess 2/6 beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/dat…
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New paper by me and Steve Drinkwater just published in International Small Business Journal @I_S_B_J
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Well of course it would say that.
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Inflation as a distributional conflict – a thread 🧵 using UK data, with @JoshMartin_econ. Inspired by @ojblanchard1, @paulkrugman, @david_glasner, @delong and others, here is some arithmetic (with apologies for some equations!) #EconTwitter 1/13
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Generative AI is progressing furiously—and educators need to catch up fast, @StephenMarche writes. theatlantic.com/technology/a…
The #STRB 32nd report has now been published and the report can be found here: gov.uk/government/publicatio…
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I expect to be made redundant at Christmas, as part of the Civil Service 2025 plans to reduce headcount by 91,000. If you might have a use for me, please get in touch. DMs open, and please RT. Thank you. 4/4
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This, from the Economist, is a good summary of the UK’s fundamental economic problem. People from all political persuasions should read it tl:dr the nation is complacent and not serious about growth economist.com/leaders/2022/0…
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And all the economists are poor?
astounds me that on Twitter, comedians are the most humorless people, journalists care the least about facts, historians seem the most susceptible to passing fads, and philosophers have some of the weakest arguments
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A Kardashian snub, Harry’s return and Andrew gone awol. How’s your jubilee weekend? | Marina Hyde theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Good thread on immigration patterns and attitudes.
NEW: for this week’s column I dug into the curious case of British attitudes to immigration Before the EU ref, concern about immigration tracked levels of arrivals. Since then, immigration has kept rising but concerns have evaporated What’s going on? ft.com/content/f2d72f42-af5f…
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