If the UK is to grow faster, it will need real “Manchesterism”— not the version Andy Burnham supporters appear to think he represents.
My latest column for @financialtimes.com: Manchester's revival is a triumph of private enterprise: as.ft.com/r/1d35fa4c-7...
Rather extraordinary that the govt appears to be able to do this without primary legislation.
A full legislative process is one of the ways we have a public debate on complex or unfamiliar issues.
25 years of #warsawpride / Parada Równości 🏳️🌈🇵🇱
Great to be part of this crowd, the fight for equality in #Poland continues.
FYI: the electoral promises of the Tusk government have not yet been delivered, neither on women's rights, nor on LGBTQ+ issues.
🇬🇧🇵🇱 Poland needs to have a conversation about all those working class immigrants coming over to steal our jobs and smear their barbaric "culture" all over our pristine medieval old towns (obviously not Warsaw, you can't make that place worse than it is).
Garvan Walshe
Maria Skóra
Choosing to give the speech in French on a visit to Ireland - quite the flex for a former governor of the Bank of England and citizen of…Ireland
On the weakness of genetic influence on education
Why? Among other things, twin studies vastly overestimate heritability of everything.
And if you know a thing or two about how genes feed into biological development this is not surprising
theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/no-heritab...
They’re planting trial balloons in the press to test reaction of course
Or: Variance components are not a substitute for mechanisms