Daniel
@deargodwhatnow.bsky.social
I'm just this guy yknow. All opinions entirely my own, and probably wrong
Yglesias will Never Log Off
I started blogging when I was a junior in college, and I've been covering various Larry Summers Controversies for even longer than that ... 3,000 words coming tomorrow.
November 24, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Yglesias will Never Log Off
Relatedly, the slow death of the supermarket cafe makes me sad. Might be a good thing for The Economy, but it's a bad one for me, a man who likes to sit down
November 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Relatedly, the slow death of the supermarket cafe makes me sad. Might be a good thing for The Economy, but it's a bad one for me, a man who likes to sit down
Food prices really are *the* most visible sign of inflation for many people, and really breeds discontent. The government should be trying everything to lower prices
Not since the Corn Laws have we had a government this committed to keeping food prices high.
UK supermarkets set to be hit by higher business rates after Treasury U-turn
Chancellor expected to use Budget to include large retail premises in the top band of the property-based levy
www.ft.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Food prices really are *the* most visible sign of inflation for many people, and really breeds discontent. The government should be trying everything to lower prices
Is the aim to improve health or increase tax revenue? Because those are different objectives
*pinches bridge of nose, rubs temples, lays head down slowly on desk*
November 24, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Is the aim to improve health or increase tax revenue? Because those are different objectives
Reposted by Daniel
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November 24, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Wow it turns out that the explosion in barbers is linked to crime? Who would have thought??
November 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Wow it turns out that the explosion in barbers is linked to crime? Who would have thought??
Ok I'm calling it. Its too cold. Had enough now, bring on Spring
November 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Ok I'm calling it. Its too cold. Had enough now, bring on Spring
We need to teach the Americans about the Meal Deal
the average American cannot imagine the luxury of a Tesco Express.
November 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
We need to teach the Americans about the Meal Deal
This is how aiui Florida's spanking new rail line works. Because it's Florida so everything is land speculation (also the train kills people sometimes)
Essentially the best way to run a railway is for it to be owned by a development corporation, and then frankly whether that corporation is state owned or privately owned is sort of a much of a muchness:
The missing piece in Labour’s rail renationalisation scheme
Whether trains are public or private is not the deal-breaker for a well-functioning service — it is about a better delivery model
www.ft.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
This is how aiui Florida's spanking new rail line works. Because it's Florida so everything is land speculation (also the train kills people sometimes)
Excellent thread. There's also another part of this where people blame 'capitalism' for what may well instead be 'clinical depression'
November 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Excellent thread. There's also another part of this where people blame 'capitalism' for what may well instead be 'clinical depression'
Glassman wrote an excellent three part series on his family history, and his travels to the Ukrainian village his grandfather fled from. I'd like to read more about that
There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.
November 23, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Glassman wrote an excellent three part series on his family history, and his travels to the Ukrainian village his grandfather fled from. I'd like to read more about that
Just interesting to think how insanely different the pre Internet advertising world was
You want to reach your customers? Uhh I guess you put an ad in the paper or put up a billboard. Maybe a radio ad. Television if you're Coca Cola
You want to reach your customers? Uhh I guess you put an ad in the paper or put up a billboard. Maybe a radio ad. Television if you're Coca Cola
I'm in a vintage store with a bunch of old Playboy magazines from the '80s.
A vision of the beauty of long-gone ages.
That is, the damn things are an inch thick, packed with full-page ads. Journalism was so lucrative
A vision of the beauty of long-gone ages.
That is, the damn things are an inch thick, packed with full-page ads. Journalism was so lucrative
November 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Just interesting to think how insanely different the pre Internet advertising world was
You want to reach your customers? Uhh I guess you put an ad in the paper or put up a billboard. Maybe a radio ad. Television if you're Coca Cola
You want to reach your customers? Uhh I guess you put an ad in the paper or put up a billboard. Maybe a radio ad. Television if you're Coca Cola
Aiui this is a regional thing too. Give people in London cheaper rent and they can spend more money on Warhammer made in Nottingham, and also on divorce lawyers
UK’s problem is that we don’t have enough disposable income, which you can fix by things getting cheaper or by people earning more money, and also either one of those things makes the other easier.
November 23, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Aiui this is a regional thing too. Give people in London cheaper rent and they can spend more money on Warhammer made in Nottingham, and also on divorce lawyers
Thinking of during the pandemic when I bought and ate an industrial size bucket of crisps for £2
November 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Thinking of during the pandemic when I bought and ate an industrial size bucket of crisps for £2
A quarter of the Cuban population fleeing the country in five years is nuts. Just astonishing numbers
November 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
A quarter of the Cuban population fleeing the country in five years is nuts. Just astonishing numbers
That industry scene where she treats herself to a night in a Luxury hotel, except I'm just taking off my jumper and cranking up the heating
November 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM
That industry scene where she treats herself to a night in a Luxury hotel, except I'm just taking off my jumper and cranking up the heating
This is the world's stupidest cope. He's a 60 year old man who cares about what he said when he was 13
Twenty people allege he has a racist past. He denies it. Who’s telling the truth about Farage’s schooldays?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Twenty people allege he has a racist past. He denies it. Who’s telling the truth about Farage’s schooldays?
Reform UK’s leader refuses to answer questions about his abusive behaviour, claiming there’s ‘no evidence’. We talk to victims and witnesses
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:44 AM
This is the world's stupidest cope. He's a 60 year old man who cares about what he said when he was 13
But I was told we can't possibly raise taxes on betting firms because of how much tax they provide thr exchequer
In case you missed it: our investigation into how Sky Bet relocated to Malta to avoid £55m of tax/year This kind of thing is often reported as "perfectly proper, and there's no suggestion that any laws were broken".
But here it looks improper. Laws may have been broken.
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But here it looks improper. Laws may have been broken.
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November 23, 2025 at 9:35 AM
But I was told we can't possibly raise taxes on betting firms because of how much tax they provide thr exchequer
Love the idea of claiming something is 'uninhabitable ' because it's been empty two years.. not how it works lads
These "property gurus" charge people a fortune for terrible advice. Here's Samuel Leeds selling a series of tax ideas that don't work. Clueless.
And here's an actual tax adviser explaining why they fail: buff.ly/2hyertH
And here's an actual tax adviser explaining why they fail: buff.ly/2hyertH
November 22, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Love the idea of claiming something is 'uninhabitable ' because it's been empty two years.. not how it works lads
Literally a 70s Callaghan approach and probably as successful
Apart from cars, these numbers are chicken feed when you spot that a) you're getting a few percent of them and b) there is no breakdown in the numbers for fashion and beauty of how much is "luxury" (have fun defining that!) and how much is just ordinary people buying clothes and makeup. Joke policy
November 22, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Literally a 70s Callaghan approach and probably as successful
Liar gonna lie, but it is amusing that Abagnale just bought a surplus pilots uniform and drove around defrauding small banks, and mythologised it as being invited to fly planes etc
For instance, Frank Abagnale's claims to be a master con-artist who had posed as a doctor/pilot, rather than a petty scammer who targeted families who trusted him, were exposed repeatedly - in the Louisiana Advocate in 1980, the San Francisco Chronicle in 1978, the Daily Oklahoman in 1978.
November 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Liar gonna lie, but it is amusing that Abagnale just bought a surplus pilots uniform and drove around defrauding small banks, and mythologised it as being invited to fly planes etc
I like the idea that this is specifically a surcharge on a small but significant segment of the liberal intelligentsia
What next, a tax surcharge on National Theatre productions
What next, a tax surcharge on National Theatre productions
I sometimes feel like I am going mad.
Owning a £1.5m home is not normal in London or the South East of England.
Owning a £1.5m home is not normal in London or the South East of England.
November 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I like the idea that this is specifically a surcharge on a small but significant segment of the liberal intelligentsia
What next, a tax surcharge on National Theatre productions
What next, a tax surcharge on National Theatre productions
It shouldn't be forgotten that the Establishment and Expert view in February 2020 was 'lol lmao you're scared of a virus? What are you a redneck racist'
November 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
It shouldn't be forgotten that the Establishment and Expert view in February 2020 was 'lol lmao you're scared of a virus? What are you a redneck racist'
Seems fine, if the whole point of the scheme is to sustain high skilled migration (and NHS workers are unaffected by the proposed changes)
High earners to be eligible for UK settlement within 3 years of arrival on.ft.com/44n8xnA
High earners to be eligible for UK settlement within 3 years of arrival
Home secretary says ‘brightest and best’ will be fast-tracked while others will have to wait up to 30 years
on.ft.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Seems fine, if the whole point of the scheme is to sustain high skilled migration (and NHS workers are unaffected by the proposed changes)
A lot of skeezy but legal behaviour provided the smokescreen for illegal wrong behaviour
I think the key things here are that it wasn't a secret, and that the tolerated norm of powerful men trading access to 18-24 year old women very easily slid into them trading access to children.
to me the truly disturbing thing about all the epstein shit is not so much who it comes out was part of it. it's that it is essentially something that shouldn't, conventional (among progressives too!) wisdom suggested, have been possible: an actual secret paedophile ring of the rich and powerful
November 19, 2025 at 10:56 PM
A lot of skeezy but legal behaviour provided the smokescreen for illegal wrong behaviour