Gavin Jackson
@gavinjackson.bsky.social
Mumbai correspondent at the Economist
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James Lasdun · American Berserk: Serial Killers in Seattle
For a period beginning in the 1960s and ending around the turn of this century, the preferred form of the homicidally...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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My last word on the matter
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
My last word on the matter
I see Janan Ganesh manages to name a woman this week www.ft.com/content/5752...
The tragedy of specialisation
A lack of intrepid amateurs might explain stagnant societies
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November 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I see Janan Ganesh manages to name a woman this week www.ft.com/content/5752...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
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The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
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November 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
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This is not suggestive of ‘build, build, build’.
UK construction employment was 2.05 million in 2025 Q3; 1.3% lower than in Q2 & 4.1% lower than in Q1, before the house building slowdown & employers’ National Insurance Contributions rise, & lower thresholds, in April, according to the ONS. (1/n)
#ukhousing #ukconstruction
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November 11, 2025 at 10:23 AM
This is not suggestive of ‘build, build, build’.
I was thinking today that I find the way Americans talk about the "middle class" baffling. They talk about the hollowing out of the middle class or the need to rebuild the middle class but they seem to be a mostly middle class society.
Could someone explain to me what is meant when a British person refers to "the middle class" ? Like, in the US, as I hear it, it basically just means a person who makes a certain amount of money, not too far below and not wildly above the median. Seems like a complex concept when UK writers use it?
November 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I was thinking today that I find the way Americans talk about the "middle class" baffling. They talk about the hollowing out of the middle class or the need to rebuild the middle class but they seem to be a mostly middle class society.
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BREAKING: At least eight people were killed in an explosion near the landmark Red Fort in a densely populated district of the Indian capital New Delhi, city police said reut.rs/3X7uSSp
November 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
BREAKING: At least eight people were killed in an explosion near the landmark Red Fort in a densely populated district of the Indian capital New Delhi, city police said reut.rs/3X7uSSp
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COP30 boss: "Rich countries have lost enthusiasm for tackling climate crisis" and praises China.
Chinese renewables are great, but you have to be disconnected from reality to miss the wrenching change EU in particular has signed up to & China's CO2 trajectory.
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Chinese renewables are great, but you have to be disconnected from reality to miss the wrenching change EU in particular has signed up to & China's CO2 trajectory.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
COP30 boss: "Rich countries have lost enthusiasm for tackling climate crisis" and praises China.
Chinese renewables are great, but you have to be disconnected from reality to miss the wrenching change EU in particular has signed up to & China's CO2 trajectory.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Chinese renewables are great, but you have to be disconnected from reality to miss the wrenching change EU in particular has signed up to & China's CO2 trajectory.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
South Asia’s water wars
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South Asia’s water wars
Climate change and rising energy demand could worsen conflict over rivers
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November 8, 2025 at 9:26 AM
South Asia’s water wars
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Non-Brits still think Britain is Great. Brits not so much.
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Brand Britain has bounced back
Despite all the gloom at home, the country’s reputation is surprisingly bright
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November 8, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Non-Brits still think Britain is Great. Brits not so much.
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Good argument here for not reducing childcare ratios.
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Universal child care can hurt children
Its growing popularity in America is a concern
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November 8, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Good argument here for not reducing childcare ratios.
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How should you play The Traitors? I had a stab at the Game Theory behind the game here:
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“The Traitors”, a reality TV show, offers a useful economics lesson
It is a finite, sequential, incomplete information game
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November 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM
How should you play The Traitors? I had a stab at the Game Theory behind the game here:
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I’m on this week’s Money Talks podcast with a package on the economics of deforestation in the Amazon
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Money Talks: Trailer
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November 7, 2025 at 10:51 AM
I’m on this week’s Money Talks podcast with a package on the economics of deforestation in the Amazon
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Across South Asia governments are being toppled by gen Z protestors and negotiating bailouts with the IMF.
But not India. What gives?
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But not India. What gives?
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What explains India’s peculiar stability?
In a tricky neighbourhood the country remains calm
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November 6, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Across South Asia governments are being toppled by gen Z protestors and negotiating bailouts with the IMF.
But not India. What gives?
economist.com/finance-and-...
But not India. What gives?
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Their victory is a welcome boost for women’s sport—and for Indian women in general www.economist.com/asia/2025/11...
India’s women win the cricket World Cup
Their victory is a welcome boost for women’s sport—and for Indian women in general
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November 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Their victory is a welcome boost for women’s sport—and for Indian women in general www.economist.com/asia/2025/11...
Also think that whenever people say tax billionaires that you should mentally replace billionaires with Mike Ashley, Tim Martin and Denise Coates. Jim Ratcliffe doesn’t live here. James Dyson doesn’t live here. Michael Platt doesn’t live here.
Tax policy on the British left is pure "anti-bedtime left". Bizarre idea that you can have a big social democratic welfare state without everyone contributing properly www.economist.com/britain/2025...
November 6, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Also think that whenever people say tax billionaires that you should mentally replace billionaires with Mike Ashley, Tim Martin and Denise Coates. Jim Ratcliffe doesn’t live here. James Dyson doesn’t live here. Michael Platt doesn’t live here.
The important thing is to make sure the road pricing is indexed to inflation from the very start.
November 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The important thing is to make sure the road pricing is indexed to inflation from the very start.
Across South Asia governments are being toppled by gen Z protestors and negotiating bailouts with the IMF.
But not India. What gives?
economist.com/finance-and-...
But not India. What gives?
economist.com/finance-and-...
What explains India’s peculiar stability?
In a tricky neighbourhood the country remains calm
economist.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Across South Asia governments are being toppled by gen Z protestors and negotiating bailouts with the IMF.
But not India. What gives?
economist.com/finance-and-...
But not India. What gives?
economist.com/finance-and-...
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Tax policy on the British left is pure "anti-bedtime left". Bizarre idea that you can have a big social democratic welfare state without everyone contributing properly www.economist.com/britain/2025...
November 6, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Tax policy on the British left is pure "anti-bedtime left". Bizarre idea that you can have a big social democratic welfare state without everyone contributing properly www.economist.com/britain/2025...
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Germany backs Brazil's idea for forest fund, say sources reut.rs/3LrQ4Qg
Germany backs Brazil's idea for forest fund, say sources
Germany fundamentally supports a fund proposed by Brazil aimed at protecting rainforests but has not yet decided how much to contribute, government sources in Berlin said on Thursday.
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November 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Germany backs Brazil's idea for forest fund, say sources reut.rs/3LrQ4Qg
Here's something I've been mulling: all wealth is ultimately a claim on future income, apart from maybe cryptocurrency and gold. So if you raise income taxes you are essentially taxing wealth.
November 5, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Here's something I've been mulling: all wealth is ultimately a claim on future income, apart from maybe cryptocurrency and gold. So if you raise income taxes you are essentially taxing wealth.
Turkey’s president is moving to eviscerate democracy
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Turkey’s president is moving to eviscerate democracy
President Erdogan uses the courts to go after the last big opposition party
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November 5, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Turkey’s president is moving to eviscerate democracy
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For the first time, climate models show the 1.5°C goal is dead
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November 5, 2025 at 9:44 AM
For the first time, climate models show the 1.5°C goal is dead
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