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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 1h

This is a question I keep asking. There is a disconnect between economic and management academic studies.
Economists are now at panic levels over productivity but it’s not something you hear discussed in businesses. A lot of organisations don’t even measure it according to its economic definition.

George Kean Proudfoot @pojmasta.bsky.social · 3d

Given the productivity puzzle has now been a thing for decades, is anyone doing deep empirical work on it - e.g. ID'ing cohorts of high/low productivity firms in the UK and then digging into differences and drivers in their operations, ways of working, strategies etc. via proper observation?

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 1d

Seems @Nigel_Farage is trying damage limitation on the Reform Russian Bribes scandal.

He’s known Nathan Gill for 20 years, and claims he knew nothing.

No one believes you, Nigel.

Keep the story moving. Questions must be answered.

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mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 32m

Journalism will never recover until someone redefines what the word means. When Max Hastings and Sarah Vine can both call themselves journalists, then the profession is royally fucked.
And if the NUJ had any balls they would lead the fight for standards. Not everyone with a byline is a journalist.

mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 44m

Harry Evans? Bill Deedes? Nick Scott?

I think you'll find the rot set in when Murdoch came to this country. When The Sun is the country's biggest selling paper maybe we get the journalism we deserve.

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mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 49m

See my pinned post.

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mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 53m

And don't get me wrong. I've been to the US about 10 times. I've travelled in 37 states. I've had great times and met some great people.
The problem is that, on an individual level, people are lovely but when they get together they suffer the insanity of crowds.

mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 1h

I guess we're saying the same thing. It's just that you're looking at the inputs and I'm seeing the outputs.
When you've spent 200 years worshipping money, guns, Dirty Harry and a perverse God that's all about form rather than substance, you see what you get.
To see yourselves as others see you!

mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 16h

By definition a truce is just a temporary cessation. Re your examples, N Ireland is just a temporary state. UK is desperate to get out & it will eventually happen.
As for Bosnia, I don't see it as asymmetric as there is no dominant power. When there was an asymmetric situation, the Turks went home.

mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 17h

History has one lesson. In asymmetric wars there are only 2 possible outcomes:
1. The big country gives up and goes home. (Vietnam, India, Algeria, Kenya, etc)
2. Genocide or subjugation of the minnows. (USA, Australia, Argentina etc)

Everything else is just kicking the can down the road.

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mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 18h

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Coincidence.

mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 22h

Has the concept of Limited Liability had its day. Far too easy for dodgy business owners to go into liquidation and give everyone the 🖕.
Time for a rethink, particularly when HMRC are often the biggest losers.

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mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 18h

@davidmcwecon.bsky.social

mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 22h

Has the concept of Limited Liability had its day. Far too easy for dodgy business owners to go into liquidation and give everyone the 🖕.
Time for a rethink, particularly when HMRC are often the biggest losers.

mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 19h

I was being ironic. Thousands wouldn't pay for his lunch.

mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 19h

He may not have taken actual cash, but his extravagant lifestyle funded by the organisation was worth more than a few thousand euros.

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mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 19h

I don't think Blatter ignored FIFA's corruption. He was at the hub of it.

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mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 19h

Reform are getting traction because people keep spreading these bloody pictures, and it's the visibility of the boats that helps Farage.
Fucking stop it! You of all people should know better.

Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 20h

Reform UK intends to withdraw our human rights

They want us to join Russia and Belarus as the only European states not signed up to the ECHR

@janiceheppenstall.bsky.social @sussexbylines.co.uk

Reform UK intends to withdraw our human rights

They want us to join Russia and Belarus as the only European states not signed up to the ECHR

sussexbylines.co.uk

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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 1d

Why does this tax exile 'foreigner' think our government should discuss policy with him? He should feck off back to Monaco. Made his choice based on his own interest, to avoid tax. Anything he has to say will be only in his own interests, again.

buff.ly/6XvNGfT

Miliband refused to discuss North Sea with me, says Ratcliffe

Ineos owner urges policymakers to reform net zero taxes or risk ‘irreversible decline’

www.telegraph.co.uk

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mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 21h

And watching Joe Buck wandering awestruck around Manhattan to Everybody's Talking, a month before my first ever flight to NY, set me ablaze with anticipation.

Almost as much as Born To Be Wild in Easy Rider about the same time.

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mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 21h

He wouldn't be bothered because he assumes everything bends to his will.

mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 22h

Has the concept of Limited Liability had its day. Far too easy for dodgy business owners to go into liquidation and give everyone the 🖕.
Time for a rethink, particularly when HMRC are often the biggest losers.

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mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 22h

Fulsome praise, though you'll have to suffer a chat about QPR on the way. 🤪

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mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 22h

This may be true, but not the full story. The problem with steel is oversupply and reducing demand. Both due to China.
Exacerbated by Brexit but not the root cause.
And they're closing an oil refinery in Grimsby. Reduced demand due to...electric vehicles?
Bigger pic than just Brexit.

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Lady Anytimenow working with Sir Nearlythere @lady-anytimenow.bsky.social · 1d

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mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 1d

@Ogsy_SFC
Some good chat in this about Boro's amazing start. You might be interested.
open.spotify.com/episode/2GG0...

Is ‘fancy’ football finished in the EFL?

open.spotify.com

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mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 1d

Of course not. All we're doing is inviting takeovers on the cheap, asset stripping and closure. Or a begging bowl to save a few jobs.
See also cars, steel.

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mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 1d

And would i be too cynical to note the timing...just before the Nobel award.

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