Prof of Environmental Economics, Uni of Birmingham. Interests in environment, trade, politics, migration. Hate Brexit. Views my own.

Birmingham/Leicestershire
Joined July 2018
Oh.: "Short-form posting platform Bluesky crossed the 15 million user mark today amid a recent surge of user signups in the wake of the US presidential election." bsky.app/profile/timobrien.b… theverge.com/2024/11/13/2429…
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If you can’t see that the recent attacks on leaders of the new gov, with regards their relatively minor misdemeanours compared to the avalanche of corruption indulged in by the previous one, isn’t a concerted effort by the MSM to discredit them, then you’re as biased as they are.
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Labour + LDP + Greens 55% Tory + Reform 38% This is actually The Will Of The People, but good luck hearing that this morning
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Ooops.
🤖 So #ChatGPT wrote the first sentence of this @ElsevierConnect article. Any other parts of the article too? How come none of the coauthors, Editor-in-Chief, reviewers, typesetters noticed? How can this happen with regular peer-review? pubpeer.com/publications/CAA…
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Latest work by Matthew A. Cole @ProfMattCole , Liza Jabbour @Liza_Jabbour , Ceren Ozgen, Hiromi Yumoto on Refugees' Economic Integration and Firms, analysing an active labour market integration policy in the Netherlands is now available: iza.org/publications/dp/1682…
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A genuine Tweet from my MP. It's difficult to believe how bad things have got in this country...
The UN, WHO and WEF are all working to the same goals and I don’t like them and I don’t think my constituents will either, which is probably why they are not getting much publicity in the legacy media.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This document is fake and not from UN: eu.usatoday.com/story/news/fac… The actual goals of the UN are published here: sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/docume…
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This is so insane. And so so true. – at South East, England
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And the award for the most idiotic headline of the day goes to…
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Idea for Labour election poster. No slogan needed.
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Vallance's testimony at the COVID inquiry confirms my worst fears. How can it be that anyone (Johnson and no doubt others) can get through an Oxbridge education and be unable to understand simple statistical concepts like exponential growth and doubling times?
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thought for the day :)
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📞"How can I have an opinion without seeing what people I agree with have said first!? I might say the wrong thing!😡" Colin from Portsmouth is forced to have his say on a breaking news story before everyone else.
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The Official List Of Woke Things. As told by Colin from Portsmouth.
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The latest Telegraph headline stack is like found poetry. Truly you couldn't have dreamed up a better juxtaposition if you tried. Doom, gloom, and hollow Brexit cheerleading. The perfect trifecta. Magnificent.
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a good example of why basic numerical/economic literacy is so important...sigh.
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meanwhile, in the least surprising news ever... bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-6…
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a perfect summary of where we are 👇
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Rishi is so close to understanding one of the key problems facing the UK economy. So close.
‘Northern Ireland will have access to the UK market and to the European single market, and that’s an incredibly attractive proposition for investors’. Rishi Sunak just now.
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