Immunopolitics
@immunopolitics.bsky.social
UK-Based Immunology academic interested in Anti-vaccine movements, pseudoscience, misinformation and their impacts on politics and economics.
Well not cost of capital so much as making the conditions for business investment in capital easier, alongside public sector capital investment which has been increased. Already early signs of productivity boost, task now is getting the labour capacity into new roles. www.ft.com/content/734f...
UK records rare burst of productivity growth, think-tank says
Resolution Foundation estimates output per hour worked rose 1.6% over past year
www.ft.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Well not cost of capital so much as making the conditions for business investment in capital easier, alongside public sector capital investment which has been increased. Already early signs of productivity boost, task now is getting the labour capacity into new roles. www.ft.com/content/734f...
I think this was somewhat anticipated within government though, as John Van Reenen had spoke about raising the cost of employment but loosening the cost of capital as a productivity boost. See this from Jan 2025 www.theguardian.com/business/202...
December 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I think this was somewhat anticipated within government though, as John Van Reenen had spoke about raising the cost of employment but loosening the cost of capital as a productivity boost. See this from Jan 2025 www.theguardian.com/business/202...
On a one man mission to do this for my bioscience students. I get students to model average returns of index funds vs cash savings rates over many years as part of their microbial growth curves seminars to learn exponentials and R. A not so subtle hint is given towards S+S ISAs 😁
November 29, 2025 at 4:09 AM
On a one man mission to do this for my bioscience students. I get students to model average returns of index funds vs cash savings rates over many years as part of their microbial growth curves seminars to learn exponentials and R. A not so subtle hint is given towards S+S ISAs 😁
It's a nation where the landed gentry were the upper class, and property ownership is seen as the way to financial success. Thatchers right to buy scheme, financial deregulation and low housebuilding rates cemented this as gospel truth in our largest and most politically powerful generation
November 29, 2025 at 4:04 AM
It's a nation where the landed gentry were the upper class, and property ownership is seen as the way to financial success. Thatchers right to buy scheme, financial deregulation and low housebuilding rates cemented this as gospel truth in our largest and most politically powerful generation
Hi James, some interesting pre-budget polling from More In Common today. The public view the Winter Fuel Allownace being means tested as a worse scandal than Partygate and the Mini Budget. The majority of people also believe we're in a recession and that the Cost of Living crisis is permanent.
November 25, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Hi James, some interesting pre-budget polling from More In Common today. The public view the Winter Fuel Allownace being means tested as a worse scandal than Partygate and the Mini Budget. The majority of people also believe we're in a recession and that the Cost of Living crisis is permanent.
Thr public view Winter Fuel Allowance being means tested as a worse political scandal than Partygate and the Mini-Budget.
November 25, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Thr public view Winter Fuel Allowance being means tested as a worse political scandal than Partygate and the Mini-Budget.
Yeah, that and the infrastructure spending uplift are so worth it for me. It's the single biggest growth policy introduced in decades.
November 12, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Yeah, that and the infrastructure spending uplift are so worth it for me. It's the single biggest growth policy introduced in decades.
It's the electorate that votes that is pretty bigoted tbh. More of the electorate think illegal immigration is higher than legal immigration.
November 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM
It's the electorate that votes that is pretty bigoted tbh. More of the electorate think illegal immigration is higher than legal immigration.
But they cut the muscle, in the form of infrastructure spending, education etc., whilst increasing the fat of pension spending and healthcare which is increasingly an economic blackhole of spending resources keeping non-working people alive to spend even more resources keeping them alive later.
October 13, 2025 at 10:15 AM
But they cut the muscle, in the form of infrastructure spending, education etc., whilst increasing the fat of pension spending and healthcare which is increasingly an economic blackhole of spending resources keeping non-working people alive to spend even more resources keeping them alive later.
Where she complains about immigration into Britain from muslim countries as she chose to live under Sharia Law 😂
October 12, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Where she complains about immigration into Britain from muslim countries as she chose to live under Sharia Law 😂
What do you mean by democratic values? There's plenty policy overlap between Lib Dem and Labour where they can work together. Lib Dems would be much closer to Labour than the Greens in policy.
October 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
What do you mean by democratic values? There's plenty policy overlap between Lib Dem and Labour where they can work together. Lib Dems would be much closer to Labour than the Greens in policy.
Why? They're a liberal party that believes in a smaller state. If anything they're closer to Labour than the Greens, and sit between Labour and the Tories.
October 5, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Why? They're a liberal party that believes in a smaller state. If anything they're closer to Labour than the Greens, and sit between Labour and the Tories.
Ignored the demand and curtailment prevention argument completely.
It is a superb tool for intermittent demand and balancing the grid.
It is a superb tool for intermittent demand and balancing the grid.
September 20, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Ignored the demand and curtailment prevention argument completely.
It is a superb tool for intermittent demand and balancing the grid.
It is a superb tool for intermittent demand and balancing the grid.
Not really, carbon capture is CapEx that was included in revised fiscal rules and provides jobs as companies can offset carbon directly via funding capture.
It's biggest use is as an intermittent demand tool to prevent curtailment of renewables and economically capture power surges.
It's biggest use is as an intermittent demand tool to prevent curtailment of renewables and economically capture power surges.
September 20, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Not really, carbon capture is CapEx that was included in revised fiscal rules and provides jobs as companies can offset carbon directly via funding capture.
It's biggest use is as an intermittent demand tool to prevent curtailment of renewables and economically capture power surges.
It's biggest use is as an intermittent demand tool to prevent curtailment of renewables and economically capture power surges.
Budapest memorandum 2.0. Will be adhered to as much as the last one.
August 20, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Budapest memorandum 2.0. Will be adhered to as much as the last one.
I think that during the Corbyn years, neither faction had to deal with policy failure, just political failures. The centre right has been tarnished as completely failed after 14 years, so the hard right wins out much more easily.
July 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
I think that during the Corbyn years, neither faction had to deal with policy failure, just political failures. The centre right has been tarnished as completely failed after 14 years, so the hard right wins out much more easily.
It is increasingly impossible for good things to happen for people who are very online, as social media works on feeding misery and anger to drive engagement. These people, on the left and the right, want to have their anxiety and misery validated, so good things cause visceral reactions and pessism
July 7, 2025 at 1:23 AM
It is increasingly impossible for good things to happen for people who are very online, as social media works on feeding misery and anger to drive engagement. These people, on the left and the right, want to have their anxiety and misery validated, so good things cause visceral reactions and pessism
Yes mate, there's a really easy "join EU" lever that immediately fixes things they won't pull because they are actually evil and deliberately want to harm us for all the support Labour currently get from right wing newspapers.
July 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Yes mate, there's a really easy "join EU" lever that immediately fixes things they won't pull because they are actually evil and deliberately want to harm us for all the support Labour currently get from right wing newspapers.
How to destroy the rental market with this one SIMPLE trick LANDLORDs (and economists, the treasury and tenants who will be evicted en masse) HATE.
June 4, 2025 at 11:20 AM
How to destroy the rental market with this one SIMPLE trick LANDLORDs (and economists, the treasury and tenants who will be evicted en masse) HATE.
To stupid demands.
May 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
To stupid demands.
An American lecturing others on healthcare 😭😭 Go back to raising money on your GoFundMe for your treatments. Your daddy Trump just gutted MedicAid 😂😂
May 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
An American lecturing others on healthcare 😭😭 Go back to raising money on your GoFundMe for your treatments. Your daddy Trump just gutted MedicAid 😂😂
We currently invest far, far more of our economic output into healthcare spending and investment than when Atlee was overseeing ethnic detention camps in colonies and created the NHS. We literally spend well over double the % of GDP on healthcare 😂😂🤣 Such a giga brained economist you are.
May 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
We currently invest far, far more of our economic output into healthcare spending and investment than when Atlee was overseeing ethnic detention camps in colonies and created the NHS. We literally spend well over double the % of GDP on healthcare 😂😂🤣 Such a giga brained economist you are.
10th percentile is the lowest earners, 90th the highest.
May 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
10th percentile is the lowest earners, 90th the highest.