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A laser-like focus on growth you say?
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One big risk to the OBR forecasts has already materialised -migration is falling more quickly than their projections and that will hit growth and tax revenue.
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UK net migration drops sharply to 204,000 in year to June - live updates
Net migration fell by around two-thirds - from 649,000 in the year to June 2024 to 204,000 in the year to June 2025.
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November 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
A laser-like focus on growth you say?
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“Benefit fraud is tiny in relation to the absolute spend; back office paper pushers are actually absolutely necessary to free up user-facing staff; most decisions governments make are generally a trade off”
November 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
“Benefit fraud is tiny in relation to the absolute spend; back office paper pushers are actually absolutely necessary to free up user-facing staff; most decisions governments make are generally a trade off”
Like, just less buying anything = lower GDP, hours unchanged
November 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Like, just less buying anything = lower GDP, hours unchanged
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Today @rutgerbregman.com posted a transcript of his Reith Lecture showing that the version that BBC aired removed the line about Trump's world-historical corruption.
BBC emailed me: "we made the decision to remove one sentence from the lecture on legal advice.”
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
BBC emailed me: "we made the decision to remove one sentence from the lecture on legal advice.”
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Today @rutgerbregman.com posted a transcript of his Reith Lecture showing that the version that BBC aired removed the line about Trump's world-historical corruption.
BBC emailed me: "we made the decision to remove one sentence from the lecture on legal advice.”
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
BBC emailed me: "we made the decision to remove one sentence from the lecture on legal advice.”
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
I had the same thought and presumed it's "productivity" in the GDP divide (total labour hours) economy sense not in the "old phone slows down you working" sense
November 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I had the same thought and presumed it's "productivity" in the GDP divide (total labour hours) economy sense not in the "old phone slows down you working" sense