Forgotten History: Houdini on Trial
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Geoffrey Boycott on His Regrets, Political Correctness and Brexit | Good Morning Britain
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President Reagan Gives Gorbachev a Tour of Washington D.C. – SNL
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Sunnyboys – Alone With You – Countdown 20 September 1981
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Life was still pretty short 100 years ago
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The Bodies used as Landmarks on Mt. Everest
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If you squint real hard you can see the present future of solar and wind
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Demonetarised by @YouTube: Sex Research, Asian Discrimination, and #MeToo @DrDebraSoh interview
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Stakeholders, The Treasury, and economic failure
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The Treasury runs a survey of external stakeholders every couple of years, and usually publishes the results on their website quite quickly. Last year, the results weren’t very good, so they delayed publishing them. In fact, it was only a few days ago, in response to an OIA request from Eric Crampton at the New Zealand Initiative, that they finally released them.
As Eric notes the results aren’t all bad, but
Among those people interacting with Treasury about its core business of economics, macroeconomics, and fiscal projection, satisfaction dropped from 70% in 2015 to 47% in 2017. The proportion of stakeholders viewing Treasury staff as well-informed dropped significantly, as did overall confidence that staff do a good job, that Treasury challenges thinking on critical issues, and that Treasury can offer insights.
Eric has been concerned for some time about The Treasury’s de-emphasis on core economics and finance skills in…
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Legal Weed: The Great Social Experiment @_chloeswarbrick a master class in legislative drafting @cjsbishop
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There were big improvements in maternal medicine even from the 1920s to the 1960s
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Lukianoff and Haidt on the dangers of human tribalism – THE CODDLING OF THE AMERICAN MIND @glukianoff @JonHaidt
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in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of media and culture, gender, law and economics, liberalism, politics - USA Tags: political correctness, regressive left
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