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The story of Europe’s economic decline is everywhere. But it is wrong. Gabriel Zucman dismantles three myths behind the idea that the US is ‘soaring’ while Europe stagnates.
eastangliabylines.co.uk/business/eco...
eastangliabylines.co.uk/business/eco...
Decline, what decline? The myth of dying Europe
There is a widespread view that, by comparison with the USA, Europe is in economic and social decline. But, Zucman argues, it's not true
eastangliabylines.co.uk
January 2, 2026 at 11:00 AM
The story of Europe’s economic decline is everywhere. But it is wrong. Gabriel Zucman dismantles three myths behind the idea that the US is ‘soaring’ while Europe stagnates.
eastangliabylines.co.uk/business/eco...
eastangliabylines.co.uk/business/eco...
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Very much all of this.
The many Brits bashing the capital are very useful idiots for overseas efforts to undermine the country imho.
As I've said before, it's time to push back at the nonsense
The many Brits bashing the capital are very useful idiots for overseas efforts to undermine the country imho.
As I've said before, it's time to push back at the nonsense
What the war against London really is about. V good by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social #Giftlink
And on a different note: A v Happy New Year to everyone!
And on a different note: A v Happy New Year to everyone!
The plot against London
Distorted attacks by the populist right are really about demography
giftarticle.ft.com
January 1, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Very much all of this.
The many Brits bashing the capital are very useful idiots for overseas efforts to undermine the country imho.
As I've said before, it's time to push back at the nonsense
The many Brits bashing the capital are very useful idiots for overseas efforts to undermine the country imho.
As I've said before, it's time to push back at the nonsense
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The takeaway is not that journalists make absurd predictions. This was a blunt, but reasonable headline in 1996. It's that outcomes that seem highly unlikely/wildly optimistic do happen occasionally due to agency. Bulgarians and Europeans took forks in the road over the yrs that made today reality.
An article from December 1996 warns that Bulgaria has no chance of joining Europe and the euro would replace the lev only after the second coming of Christ. Brace yourselves, the euro replaces the lev tonight at midnight! 🤣(and, of course, Bulgaria did join the EU in 2007).
December 31, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The takeaway is not that journalists make absurd predictions. This was a blunt, but reasonable headline in 1996. It's that outcomes that seem highly unlikely/wildly optimistic do happen occasionally due to agency. Bulgarians and Europeans took forks in the road over the yrs that made today reality.
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OBrien nails Rusamerica. And this American carnage - from the 670,000 people who starved to death in 2025 under 🇺🇸 aid cuts to every victim of Russia's genocide war in Ukraine - falls on shoulders of every 🇺🇸 voter who failed to vote for only candidate who could have stopped it. Unforgivable. 🎯 👇
December 31, 2025 at 10:10 AM
OBrien nails Rusamerica. And this American carnage - from the 670,000 people who starved to death in 2025 under 🇺🇸 aid cuts to every victim of Russia's genocide war in Ukraine - falls on shoulders of every 🇺🇸 voter who failed to vote for only candidate who could have stopped it. Unforgivable. 🎯 👇
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By this day in 2002 all Russian soldiers in Moldova and Georgia were promised to be removed.
They were not. But please believe us when we negotiate now about our soldiers in Ukraine.
They were not. But please believe us when we negotiate now about our soldiers in Ukraine.
December 31, 2025 at 10:42 AM
By this day in 2002 all Russian soldiers in Moldova and Georgia were promised to be removed.
They were not. But please believe us when we negotiate now about our soldiers in Ukraine.
They were not. But please believe us when we negotiate now about our soldiers in Ukraine.
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We need the 🇬🇧 to say it as loud as the 🇪🇺.
#DSA
#DSA
US Tech giants and Trump trying to impose their absolutist interpretation of the First Amendment on free speech on us lethal as them trying to impose their crazy Second Amendment gun laws on us. Europeans won’t accept it
December 30, 2025 at 6:38 AM
We need the 🇬🇧 to say it as loud as the 🇪🇺.
#DSA
#DSA
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The bargain of the century': An economist's vision for expanding clean energy access in Africa
We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change!
Find out more: news.mongabay.com/2025/12/t...
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The bargain of the century': An economist's vision for expanding clean energy access in Africa
We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change!
Find out more: news.mongabay.com/2025/12/t...
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‘The bargain of the century’: An economist’s vision for expanding clean energy access in Africa
Many observers see industrialization as the key to boosting clean electricity access for people living in Africa and across the Global South. They argue that building up economies with industry will bring about the investments needed to upgrade the p
news.mongabay.com
December 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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The bargain of the century': An economist's vision for expanding clean energy access in Africa
We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change!
Find out more: news.mongabay.com/2025/12/t...
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The bargain of the century': An economist's vision for expanding clean energy access in Africa
We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change!
Find out more: news.mongabay.com/2025/12/t...
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Some thoughts to prepare Scientists for future headwinds in 2026...Mentions my friend Katharine Hayhoe
Read at:
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
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Read at:
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
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December 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Some thoughts to prepare Scientists for future headwinds in 2026...Mentions my friend Katharine Hayhoe
Read at:
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
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Read at:
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
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Gen Leonid Ivashin, a legend in the Russian military, rebuts Putin's year's end talk: “Before the start of the ‘special military operation,’ I issued a warning. And the past four years have proven the correctness and seriousness of those assessments. We have achieved no success at the tactical-
Генерал Ивашов | Путин: итоги года или прощание с Россией?
YouTube video by Генерал Ивашов
youtu.be
December 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Gen Leonid Ivashin, a legend in the Russian military, rebuts Putin's year's end talk: “Before the start of the ‘special military operation,’ I issued a warning. And the past four years have proven the correctness and seriousness of those assessments. We have achieved no success at the tactical-
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Italy and Spain are not very into solidarity or defense of democracy and freedom.
December 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Italy and Spain are not very into solidarity or defense of democracy and freedom.
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This example – reflecting on the mistakes you have made as an analyst over the past year – is worth emulating.
Hi All, Its the annual column of ritual humiliation, where I dissect, with quotes, the biggest mistakes I made in the past year. There are some great ones where I was wrong. This year, to make the column more helpful, I have even included a lessons learned analysis. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Annual Review 2025: What I Got Wrong
Complete with quotes!
open.substack.com
December 26, 2025 at 9:53 AM
This example – reflecting on the mistakes you have made as an analyst over the past year – is worth emulating.
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Ukrainian defenders conducted a successful strike with Storm Shadow missiles on the Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery in Rostov region on the territory of the Russian fascist invaders. Numerous explosions were recorded. The target was hit.
–General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
–General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
December 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Ukrainian defenders conducted a successful strike with Storm Shadow missiles on the Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery in Rostov region on the territory of the Russian fascist invaders. Numerous explosions were recorded. The target was hit.
–General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
–General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
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can't they even give this woke nonsense a rest at Christmas? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Pope Leo calls for kindness to strangers and the poor in Christmas message
Refusing to help those in need is tantamount to rejecting God himself, says pontiff during Christmas Eve mass
www.theguardian.com
December 25, 2025 at 8:32 AM
can't they even give this woke nonsense a rest at Christmas? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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When research in #Sustainability partners with gaming, an award winning video game is born. Pecking Orders earned an innovation award from Playing for the Planet.
Computer game developed in partnership with Smith School and Oxford Saïd researchers wins UNEP award
A video game designed to help players make more sustainable food choices earned an innovation award from the Playing for the Planet alliance. The award was received by Sony Interactive Entertainment in recognition of the collaborative work carried out with Oxford Smith School and Said Business School researchers on the game Pecking Orders.
www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk
December 23, 2025 at 11:31 AM
When research in #Sustainability partners with gaming, an award winning video game is born. Pecking Orders earned an innovation award from Playing for the Planet.
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13 ways to save the Earth from Climate Change
1. used goods are good
5 season your fruit
7. eat vegetables
9 walk it out
bit.ly/13climateactions
#ClimateAction 🌎🌍🌏
13 ways to save the Earth from Climate Change
1. used goods are good
5 season your fruit
7. eat vegetables
9 walk it out
bit.ly/13climateactions
#ClimateAction 🌎🌍🌏
13 ways to save the Earth from climate change
Easy ways to help
kids.nationalgeographic.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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13 ways to save the Earth from Climate Change
1. used goods are good
5 season your fruit
7. eat vegetables
9 walk it out
bit.ly/13climateactions
#ClimateAction 🌎🌍🌏
13 ways to save the Earth from Climate Change
1. used goods are good
5 season your fruit
7. eat vegetables
9 walk it out
bit.ly/13climateactions
#ClimateAction 🌎🌍🌏
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The UK is suffering from economic gloom and stagflation at once
This morning has brought more disappointing news for the UK economy. UK real gross domestic product (GDP) is estimated to have increased by an unrevised 0.1% in Quarter 3 (July to Sept), compared with growth of 0.2% in Quarter 2 (Apr…
This morning has brought more disappointing news for the UK economy. UK real gross domestic product (GDP) is estimated to have increased by an unrevised 0.1% in Quarter 3 (July to Sept), compared with growth of 0.2% in Quarter 2 (Apr…
The UK is suffering from economic gloom and stagflation at once
This morning has brought more disappointing news for the UK economy. UK real gross domestic product (GDP) is estimated to have increased by an unrevised 0.1% in Quarter 3 (July to Sept), compared with growth of 0.2% in Quarter 2 (Apr to June) 2025. At first there is some relief that the third quarter was not revised lower. But then one spots that the second quarter of 2025 was.
notayesmanseconomics.wordpress.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
The UK is suffering from economic gloom and stagflation at once
This morning has brought more disappointing news for the UK economy. UK real gross domestic product (GDP) is estimated to have increased by an unrevised 0.1% in Quarter 3 (July to Sept), compared with growth of 0.2% in Quarter 2 (Apr…
This morning has brought more disappointing news for the UK economy. UK real gross domestic product (GDP) is estimated to have increased by an unrevised 0.1% in Quarter 3 (July to Sept), compared with growth of 0.2% in Quarter 2 (Apr…
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The single most important scientific advancement for the future of our species and planet. #ClimateCrisis
Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
December 19, 2025 at 8:13 AM
The single most important scientific advancement for the future of our species and planet. #ClimateCrisis
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"The US is the new frontier for the AI debate, but its ramifications - as demonstrated by the proposed US-funded data centre in Blyth - flow far deeper" | Jay Robinson
Brave New World: AI, oligarchy, and the opportunity of resistance
"The US is the new frontier for the AI debate, but its ramifications - as demonstrated by the proposed US-funded data centre in Blyth - flow far deeper"
northeastbylines.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 10:42 AM
"The US is the new frontier for the AI debate, but its ramifications - as demonstrated by the proposed US-funded data centre in Blyth - flow far deeper" | Jay Robinson
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As some EU leaders lose sight of the big picture in Russia’s war of aggression, reminder of 2 of my pieces: this on consequences if Ukraine loses: www.cer.eu/publications... ; & this on what Europe must do to ensure it doesn't: www.cer.eu/publications.... Only change: funding UA is now more urgent.
Does it matter if Ukraine loses?
Ukraine is retreating and Russia is advancing, militarily and politically. Western leaders seem to underestimate both the impact of Ukraine’s defeat and the West’s ability to prevent it.
www.cer.eu
December 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
As some EU leaders lose sight of the big picture in Russia’s war of aggression, reminder of 2 of my pieces: this on consequences if Ukraine loses: www.cer.eu/publications... ; & this on what Europe must do to ensure it doesn't: www.cer.eu/publications.... Only change: funding UA is now more urgent.
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Apparently there are new government comms directors, huge teams of press officers, and scores of comms Spads for ministers.
So what are they doing? How can they apparently have issued virtually nothing about the value of Erasmus?
Or are there those in Number 10 who don't want more EU reset?
So what are they doing? How can they apparently have issued virtually nothing about the value of Erasmus?
Or are there those in Number 10 who don't want more EU reset?
On which note (UK government effort) - pretty dismal in terms of pushback against costs of Erasmus plus. Potentially forgotten if other negotiations deliver in a year's time. But a reminder that far better government comms over EU ties are needed in both London and Brussels.
December 18, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Apparently there are new government comms directors, huge teams of press officers, and scores of comms Spads for ministers.
So what are they doing? How can they apparently have issued virtually nothing about the value of Erasmus?
Or are there those in Number 10 who don't want more EU reset?
So what are they doing? How can they apparently have issued virtually nothing about the value of Erasmus?
Or are there those in Number 10 who don't want more EU reset?
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“The Winner is Not the One Who Invented the Technology, But the One Who Scales and Applies It in the Long Run”. A good piece from @militarnyi about developments in UGVs and land operations.
militarnyi.com/en/articles/...
militarnyi.com/en/articles/...
“The Winner is Not the One Who Invented the Technology, But the One Who Scales and Applies It in the Long Run” - Interview with the Commander of the 3rd Assault Brigade's Strike UGV Company - Militarn...
The battlefield is increasingly saturated with ground robotic systems, and over the past year they have actively taken over the logistics of the front line. But these are not all their possible niches...
militarnyi.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:32 PM
“The Winner is Not the One Who Invented the Technology, But the One Who Scales and Applies It in the Long Run”. A good piece from @militarnyi about developments in UGVs and land operations.
militarnyi.com/en/articles/...
militarnyi.com/en/articles/...
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A secret weapon for fighting climate change comes surging back
seagrasses store 10% of the world’s oceans carbon
We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change!
Read on: ktvz.com/stacker-science/20...
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A secret weapon for fighting climate change comes surging back
seagrasses store 10% of the world’s oceans carbon
We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change!
Read on: ktvz.com/stacker-science/20...
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A secret weapon for fighting climate change comes surging back
Reasons to be Cheerful reports that eelgrass, a vital carbon-storing seagrass, is declining globally, yet restoration efforts show promise.
ktvz.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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A secret weapon for fighting climate change comes surging back
seagrasses store 10% of the world’s oceans carbon
We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change!
Read on: ktvz.com/stacker-science/20...
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A secret weapon for fighting climate change comes surging back
seagrasses store 10% of the world’s oceans carbon
We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change!
Read on: ktvz.com/stacker-science/20...
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Do read this thread in full if you care at all about migration. 👇🏻
Few thoughts on the "Polish exodus" from the UK.
1. It's not an 'exodus', it's a slow drip. We're fine, thanks.
2. Migration is really complicated.
3. The absolute cheek of the very same media attacking Poles for years lamenting their departure.
4. What you can do?
THREAD 🧵
1. It's not an 'exodus', it's a slow drip. We're fine, thanks.
2. Migration is really complicated.
3. The absolute cheek of the very same media attacking Poles for years lamenting their departure.
4. What you can do?
THREAD 🧵
December 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Do read this thread in full if you care at all about migration. 👇🏻