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Jack Serle @jackserle.bsky.social · 14h

A rounding error, as one pharma-specialising economist described it to me once.

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 1d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 18h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Jack Serle @jackserle.bsky.social · 18h

Coming from someone who _only_ thinks in culture war terms, based on what she reads on X, this is a bit rich.

Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 18h

"While Britain was redefining what a woman is, China was building five nuclear reactors," says Kemi Badenoch.

I cannot be the only person curious about how these two things are related

Jack Serle @jackserle.bsky.social · 18h

What are these "potatoes" of which you speak?

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Jack Serle @jackserle.bsky.social · 18h

These are very bright and jazzy. Mine like everyone else responding here had wooden ones. Would love to know who made them. Imagining their catalogue: just one page with The Apparatus in black across the top then a set of prices and a phone number.

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Jack Serle @jackserle.bsky.social · 19h

Ooh spicey!

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Jack Serle @jackserle.bsky.social · 19h

“There is a fixed budget and these are all trade-offs.” Evergreen statement on policy formulation.

This time from Lord Vallance on medicines pricing row between DHSC and HMT.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Billions more to be spent on medicine as Keir Starmer rips up rules

NHS chiefs and Treasury at loggerheads over who will pay pharmaceutical companies more money for the most up-to-date and effective medicines

www.thetimes.com

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Jack Serle @jackserle.bsky.social · 1d

While undoubtedly a hoot, I can't sake the feeling that this was just a way to do a Logan's Run-style cull of older residents to free up rental space.

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Jack Serle @jackserle.bsky.social · 1d

Why is every interview worse than the next? Surely there should be a floor to this?

LBC @lbc.co.uk · 1d

"So you're laying waste to people's jobs, but you don't know how many?"

Kemi Badenoch plans to get rid of 'quite a lot' of civil servants.

She doesn't have the exact figure, but she assures Nick that she's 'looked at it'.

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Jack Serle @jackserle.bsky.social · 2d

Interestingly seems to be leaning on NICE QALY threshold rather than VPAG, though not entirely clear from reporting. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

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Jack Serle @jackserle.bsky.social · 2d

No but why is it clear? Why is it glue?

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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 2d

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

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Richard Long @rclongauthor.bsky.social · 5d

I know the BBC are taking the Reformation as a starting point, but the first Archbishop of Canterbury was St Augustine in 597 so “almost 500 years” is an odd way of counting.

Text from BBC website reading “Dame Sarah Mullally is named as the first woman Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England's almost 500-year history”

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Jack Serle @jackserle.bsky.social · 5d

Curses! Unfortunately, I have not yet had a chance to go down to the microfiche to check the back issues of the Poor Law Officers' Journal.

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Jack Serle @jackserle.bsky.social · 5d

It is harder to do this than not do this.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 5d

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Sky News @news.sky.com · 5d

Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.

news.sky.com

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Jack Serle @jackserle.bsky.social · 5d

So far as I can tell, to-date she is the only HSJ contributor to be made Archbishop of Canterbury.

Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 5d

there's a "fact" about the new Archbishop of Canterbury on her Wikipedia page that'll be an interesting test of which media organisations do their jobs...

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 5d

Interesting thread.

Kaj Leers @kajleers.bsky.social · 5d

And of course, another tactic all right-wing populist pols put to good use: they know only two modes, Attack Mode and Victim Mode.

It helps, because They are attacking 'Our Man'.

Farage is now in Victim Mode and again, it's sooo reminiscent of how successful populists here in NL operate.

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Jack Serle @jackserle.bsky.social · 6d

Always felt they were a kid’s drawing brought to life. Like, they’d drawn a jet plane then put a big radar dish on top of it “for satellite”.

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Jack Serle @jackserle.bsky.social · 6d

"Mr Pope, if indeed that's you're real name..."

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 7d

Vance's most monumental achievement to date has been being told off by two popes in one year.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 7d

Pope Leo, "Someone who says I'm against abortion but I'm in agreement with the inhumane treatment of immigrants, they're not pro life"

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 6d

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

A printed poem which reads:

I hav for breakfast Weetabix

I hav for lunch some meat

I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat

Peter Hazel, 5

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Jack Serle @jackserle.bsky.social · 7d

Maybe they've seen sense and got rid of them? It was a few years ago now. But boggled the mind at the time.

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