In other words, the research literature suggests a much better basis for modern policy:

1. Labor wealth is a scarce, strategic asset
2. Skilled emigration an *investment* in a global network
3. Aid should help manage, not stop, migration
4. Migration is at the heart of successful development

The clue’s in the name, right?

I think the ‘we can’t build things’ criticism is fair (but hardly original) but the bit I’m choosing to be most annoyed about is where he distinguishes dynamism from innovation then proceeds to define dynamism as EXACTLY WHAT ‘INNOVATION’ ACTUALLY MEANS.

No but someone is

Nowadays of course, if your partner doesn’t hear you yelling to them from elsewhere in the house, you can just call their mobile.

Then someone turned up with a machine that looked like it was typing, and some of the finest MBA minds in the world were like, crumbs, it must be thinking

Never had call to write my own but Python frameworks for things like web APIs do like to use decorators.

This #internationalmigrantsday it's essential to remember pro-immigration policies benefit everyone, anti-immigration policies benefit no-one. It's essential we all work for those, and we don't allow migrants to be thrown under the bus in a hope of combatting the far right, who want just that. 10/10

collaboration tools! Immunotherapies are transforming survival rates for many cancers! You can share a photo of your cat with literally a billion people!

PERSON FROM 1995: Wow! Cool! Awesome!

And Microsoft Excel can have two workbooks open at once with the same name, right?

images and videos on command! Handheld phones can bring you ultra-high-quality video and the entire world’s catalogue of recorded music anywhere over ubiquitous super-fast mobile networks! People do their jobs from the comfort of home via awesome digital (2/3)

At some point you have to accept that Labour isn't "combatting Reform" they are actively enabling Reform's growth by embedding Reform's narrative in the public consciousness, and setting the precedent for a potential Reform government to go even further.

Hey, I used to know her too! Can’t remember anything she ever said though. Not a single quote.

And literally not letting *your* imagination run riot, but handing over most of the rioting to the machine.

This is the Trump administration we’re talking about, so by ‘makes a lot of sense’ I do mean ‘is the sort of thing Trump might be persuaded to do by grifting CEOs’ rather than ‘is a well thought out strategic development’.

In the episode where Homer adopts a pet lobster it is called Mr Pinchy. In the European French version of The Simpsons, Mr Pinchy is instead called Homard Simpson (homard means lobster in French)

I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Litter bins on fire on the Ordsall bypass. I watched blue lights glitter in the dark round the back of Deansgate.

And yet, I’ve heard multiple stories of people with dead-on-arrival items of musical electronics being told to send a video of it not working before the vendor would issue a return authorisation

Sometimes, the cats are in prison for cat crimes. But on their side of the fence there is a cat, and on our side, there is none. Who is truly imprisoned, and who is the jailer?