Mike Haynes - a Jobbing Leftie Historian
@JobbingLeftieH
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Eclectic radical modern economic and social historian. Author of studies of Russia including demographic history. Latest book Productivity (Agenda) 2020.
United Kingdom
Joined July 2013
@DOK430 Possibly but I would quite like to be able to say that I worked at the Bank of England for a day let alone 5 years. But I have gone by it on the bus a lot. As for Linked in I am only on it to see the 'stories' people invent about themselves. š¤£š¤£
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Creative destruction at work - the end of the road. DVDs in UK many UK charity shops have been several for a Ā£1 for some time. Now this one is giving them away and people are not taking them.
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I have walked the walk - the Liverpool-Everton one - not the Brooklyn bridge. [But I didn't swim across the lake] š @PeterDw91056464
One of the last times we can remind you just how close Liverpool and Everton's home grounds are š„¹ Walking the Brooklyn Bridge will take you almost twice as long as getting from Anfield to Goodison š¤Æ
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RT @AdamJSchwarz: Badenoch: The govt is recruiting a new chief inspector of borders who lives in Finland and wants to work from home. Why sā¦
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Fascinating blog breaking down how components of UK public spending have been changing and what this tells us about why certain areas continue to be squeezed
New post: Quantifying the continuing UK public spending squeeze To properly assess current levels of public provision you cannot do what so many do and just look at the ratio of total government spending to GDP.
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RT @OborneTweets: Here is a recent article by Mahmoud Muna, bookseller, for the London Review of Books. His shops have been raided by Israeā¦
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Ah yes some of us remember it well.
Reading in Janine Wedel's book "Shadow Elite" how Harvard Institute for International Devt stole millions from US AID and probably billions from Russia is at times unintentionally hilarious. One of the main vehicles was the Institute for Law-Based Economy, set up by the World Bank, US AID, and run by Andrei Shleifer, Jonathan Hay and their wives.
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RT @DalrympleWill: What sort of democracy ransacks bookshops? The Israeli police just pillaged my brilliant friend Mahmoud Muna's wonderfulā¦
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The charity shop trickle down effect in action - brand new cast offs šš¤£ New Tyrwhitt jump [label still inside] for bargain price. Not sure that quality is better than Primark but at least it doesn't have Ralph Lauren label on it. @DOK430
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Nice example of the partisanship of UK press and Daily Mail aka the friend of homeowners and those with mortgages Hidden away on page 7 in the copy I saw. I wonder how it would have reported this if under Sunak or the last lot.
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Worth a read by Simon Wren Lewis - Labour in government has not shifted enough from being an opposition party and is losing out big time
ICYMI: A government of small change Labour have put a great deal of effort into defining and redefining their goals, but they donāt appear to have done the basic groundwork on what policies and actions they need to take to achieve those goals.
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RT @BladeoftheS: In 1968 Finland banned for profit education, the few private schools that exist in Finland have to reinvest any profit theā¦
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Probably well known to some people here but in a 70 kg human there are 30 trillion human cells. There are also an estimated 38 trillion bacteria. (And economists like to think they can deal in big numbers.)
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This links to a 13 minute interview with Peter GĆøtzsche on Kennedy, the FDA, and the corruption by Big Pharma in the US. Worth a listen.
We need "free scientific debate, and let all the idiots say their idiotic things. We should not censor them." - Dr. @PGtzsche1
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Before the age of antibiotics there was only a small amount that doctors could do to deal with disease.
Nearly two-thirds of antibiotics were introduced during the āgolden age of antibioticsāā The āgolden age of antibioticsā lasted from the early 1940s to the late 1960s. It was a period of rapid innovation that transformed medicine. As highlighted in this chart, nearly two-thirds of all antibiotic drug classes were introduced during this period. Scientists explored natural sources ā such as fungi and bacteria ā and synthetic sources. This led to breakthroughs in antibiotics derived from soil-dwelling bacteria, such as streptomycin, tetracyclines, and macrolides, and the mass production of penicillin, which Alexander Fleming discovered in 1928. However, progress slowed after the 1970s as pharmaceutical companies shifted their focus to chronic diseases. Today, there is a renewed need for innovation to tackle antibiotic resistance. (This Daily Data Insight was written by @salonium.)
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@meadwaj These appear to be a Waitrose/ Lidl style offer. Lidl's loyalty card gives general loyalty card offers and specific [ostensibly] customer ones. Waitrose too offers some general loyalty discounts and specific ones.
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The idea that capitalism brings us choice is rubbish - if it did we would still have a choice of cheese triangle flavours.
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I am loving the battle between J D Vance and Rory Stewart on Christianity. š¤£š
Just google āordo amoris.ā Aside from that, the idea that there isnāt a hierarchy of obligations violates basic common sense. Does Rory really think his moral duties to his own children are the same as his duties to a stranger who lives thousands of miles away? Does anyone?
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