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Chris Hopkins
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Interim Policy Director @GECoalition.bsky.social, @IIED.bsky.social 💚 Personal views & 🌭🐶 content only.

Econ, env. policy, geopolitics, football 🤓 stuff. He/Him. Occasionally ChrisHopkins99.
The Guardian sportsdesk caption team has the right idea.
December 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I don't remember this being a successful pitch-meeting scene, but hey I guess that's why the Prezzo folks make (made?) the big bucks? 💷👨‍🍳
December 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Only poasters and (non)terminally online people have the antibodies to trigger the immune response to the specific far-right stuff being put out there.

Normal, sensible people are just walking through, breathing deeply, metastasizing... Conventional media all at sea etc.
December 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
It's a rubicon that British regulated media has stronger anti-bodies and norms against crossing - and why it was always shocking that the US media did cross it with Trump (partly due to even greater partisan siloing).
December 5, 2025 at 10:20 AM
If you're a normal, not politically engaged person (sry all of us 🦋) then the elite-cues you get from BBC etc when you are forced to pay attention have been sane-washing mass deportation as the kind of 'emergency' response serious people are thinking about, but you will not get that for the P-word.
December 5, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Confusing stuff going on here, but if the 2nd image is RCP8.5 then the problem is that it's being talked about as credible scenario (rather than as calibration device).
60% or 20% by 2100 is neither here nor there, because it's *by 2100* that's driving the conclusion, not 'are we fucked' (yes)
December 3, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Subscribed! 🙏🙌📜
December 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This is a true low point of pettiness for the entire male gender.

Withdrawal to quiet solitude in order etc etc.

The star chamber will meet and we'll let you know the outcome 🙏
December 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
'goof', what ever they claim.
December 3, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Lawful Evil answer: Exclude them both.
a man in a suit says let them fight in front of a group of soldiers
ALT: a man in a suit says let them fight in front of a group of soldiers
media.tenor.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:45 AM
If there's commitment and openness-to-outside dynamics at work with Brexit economics, then its sadly true that this kind of confidence arrives on foot and leaves on horseback, as the saying goes.

Trust smooths a multitude of sins.
December 3, 2025 at 9:28 AM
A sad analogy might be made to Ballymena in the context of the anti-migrant & xenophobic riots which pushed different communities to leave the town

The direct economic effects you can measure, and even describe how to reverse. The indirect effects of being a place that 'does that' are incalculable.
December 3, 2025 at 9:28 AM
They have their roles, but were/are way too dominant.

I enjoyed Tooze's digression on one aspect of this year's Nobel being that the technology pathway and path dependency aspects of societal resource misallocation comes to the fore (over externalities), which is key for understanding green China.
December 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Can you chuck people out too?
True power is surely to define negatively.
December 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Sighs. There are a bunch of different ways to answer this question - even limiting yourself to some green signalling by picking ecological or environmental economists, before going mainstream.

Going the influencer and policy entrepreneur route is not really encouraging, though I guess it is honest?
December 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
It massively undercuts one of the main reasons for FPTP vs more proportional systems too, right?
Not really much strong gov dividend if no one can be re-elected, while you carry all the penalty of unrepresentativness.
December 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM