Ranil Dissanayake
@scepticalranil
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I think you'll find it's a little more complicated than that. "Office-talking monster" - my 3 year old. Snr Fellow @CGDev, DPhil @BlavatnikSchool. Views my own.
Joined February 2020
I'm on the other thing now, @scepticalranil and so on and so forth, find me there if you're on. I'll share invite codes whenever I have them. I'll still stay here till the death spiral completes, as well.
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RT @PickardJE: director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies @PJTheEconomist tells Times Radio: "I’m afraid I have absolutely no sympathy w…
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@MoazzamTMalik @savechildrenuk @save_children Congratulations, Moazzam! Very happy for you (and save!)
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I love Messi, but Diego was the greatest player I've ever seen. I still remember watching him play for Napoli in the late '80s, when I was 7 or so years old. Even at that age I knew he was something out of the ordinary.
On Diego Maradona’s birthday, a reminder of his genius. Whatever the weather conditions…
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@MelindaBohannon @CGDev @adnanqk @NickDyerFCDO @SaraPantuliano Thanks Melinda! I hope it proves useful, and will happily come to talk about all of this if helpful!
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RT @CGDev: Donors have embraced the idea of #localization, but implementation has proven to be trickier. @scepticalranil sets out why this…
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@Samfr yes, this is exactly what our politics has been missing: the explicit heuristic "what would Enoch Powell do"?
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@lorrainemking @jdportes My wife works on windrush issues. Genuinely one of the most shameful (ongoing) episodes in modern British history. Labour have inherited the mess, true, but they will be implicated in it unless they take actual effective action, and soon.
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RT @liz_sugg: Black Box Diaries is now showing in UK cinemas - a brave and powerful film from @photograshiori that challenges us to improve…
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RT @bronwenmaddox: Ahead of the Budget, @patrickwintour, @scepticalranil, @davidlubin and @LivJOSullivan join me to discuss the high debt l…
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I don’t want to exaggerate but JJ Redick becoming a coach may be the greatest career change since Einstein quit his clerical job at the patent office.
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RT @ChathamHouse: Podcast🎙️| Will debt constrain Western foreign policy? @patrickwintour and @scepticalranil join @bronwenmaddox, @davidlu…
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RT @Samfr: Here's the 3 year chart for 10 year gilt yeilds. See if you can see the difference between what happened with the Truss budget a…
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This was a lot of fun. @patrickwintour describes how the UK has “shot itself in both feet and then the head” on development; and I question whether the meagre saving is worth the human cost of the Chancellor’s decision not to backstop the aid budget against rising refugee costs.
Podcast🎙️| Will debt constrain Western foreign policy? @patrickwintour and @scepticalranil join @bronwenmaddox, @davidlubin and @LivJOSullivan to discuss the risks facing G7 economies. 🟣 🟢
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@bijurao @stasavage Reading the Idea of Justice at the moment, and it very much reinforces your point. The extent to which Ashoka and Kautilya feature is striking, as is the quality of their ideas.
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This man is ridiculous.
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@JustinSandefur @CGDev Very nice! Do you find that correcting beliefs changes the priority they accord it? Asking as I can’t see the link to the paper!
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@charlesjkenny I'm just as worried about how this implies IFI lending as a bad, exploitative thing. I mean, I know this is just IDA, so the best of the best, but:
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