Prof of Environmental Economics, Uni of Birmingham. Interests in environment, trade, politics, migration. Hate Brexit. Views my own.
Birmingham/Leicestershire
Joined July 2018
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Oh.: "Short-form posting platform Bluesky crossed the 15 million user mark today amid a recent surge of user signups in the wake of the US presidential election." bsky.app/profile/timobrien.b…
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If you can’t see that the recent attacks on leaders of the new gov, with regards their relatively minor misdemeanours compared to the avalanche of corruption indulged in by the previous one, isn’t a concerted effort by the MSM to discredit them, then you’re as biased as they are.
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Labour + LDP + Greens 55%
Tory + Reform 38%
This is actually The Will Of The People, but good luck hearing that this morning
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Latest work by Matthew A. Cole @ProfMattCole , Liza Jabbour @Liza_Jabbour , Ceren Ozgen, Hiromi Yumoto on
Refugees' Economic Integration and Firms,
analysing an active labour market integration policy in the Netherlands is now available:
iza.org/publications/dp/1682…
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Vallance's testimony at the COVID inquiry confirms my worst fears. How can it be that anyone (Johnson and no doubt others) can get through an Oxbridge education and be unable to understand simple statistical concepts like exponential growth and doubling times?
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📞"How can I have an opinion without seeing what people I agree with have said first!? I might say the wrong thing!😡"
Colin from Portsmouth is forced to have his say on a breaking news story before everyone else.
Matt Cole retweeted
The latest Telegraph headline stack is like found poetry.
Truly you couldn't have dreamed up a better juxtaposition if you tried.
Doom, gloom, and hollow Brexit cheerleading. The perfect trifecta.
Magnificent.
Matt Cole retweeted
This thread… Once the envy of the world, now defunded, dismantled, suffering the loss of so many incredible workers through Brexit. Now it’s claimed it’s a broken system that can only be fixed through privatisation. We have to make lying wrong again.
#SaveOurNHS #NursesStrike
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Dear @elonmusk, thank you for allowing people to see that there is something even more badly run than the UK. xx
#RIPTwitter #Twittershutdown
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This is really not right. The VAST majority of spending cuts required to have debt on a falling trajectory are the result of huge tax cuts being announced, either:
- directly (ie they cost £43bn)
- indirectly (ie they scared markets who are charging us more to borrow)
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Ranting about an imaginary ‘anti growth coalition’ is just an attempt to obscure the hard reality that the biggest brake on UK growth is Brexit - and that’s on the Tories.
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- Johnson is asked at liaison committee if he's worried that Brexit will cost 4% of GDP (official forecast) but the Australia trade deal will only add 0.08% to GDP
- the prime minister replies that Britain had a very successful vaccine programme