Tony Yates

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Economist. Ex Prof / central banker. Macro, politics, money, finance, Brexit, covid, AI, climbing. No podcast yet, despite being a male of a certain age.

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if stealing classified docs and lying about it while no longer in office is an "official act", we are well and truly cooked

NEW: Judge Cannon pauses some deadlines in the classified-docs case to allow for further briefing on effects of SCOTUS immunity ruling

@salimotxo.bsky.social have you read any Tommy Orange? Read this in NYRB but wanted the stamp of approval before proceeding. www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...

In a Good Way | Francine Prosewww.nybooks.com “The contemporary novel is not only alive and well but healthier than ever: as brave, as accomplished, certainly more diverse.”

The first skeet of a Labour government.

Also remember the ID does not have to be current. eg an expired passport works.

Ridiculously, you now need ID to vote in the UK, because Boris Johnson tried to rig elections in his party’s favour. I’ll be putting mine in my bag tonight so I don’t forget it, or have a panic trying to find it, in the morning. And then I’m going to goddamn well VOTE.

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Captain Tom’s daughter and her husband banned from being charity trustees

Captain Tom’s daughter and her husband banned from being charity trusteeswww.theguardian.com Hannah and Colin Ingram-Moore disqualified by Charity Commission, family says

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@t0nyyates.bsky.social @chanret.bsky.social Sorry have to repost this here as it is too hilarious to miss

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"The Conservative party’s time is up. There surely can be no other conclusion." Britain needs a fresh start - on.ft.com/4eE497v

Britain needs a fresh starton.ft.com [FREE TO READ] The Conservatives have run out of road. Labour must be given a chance to govern

And yet, the polls are where they are and it's not looking great.

I think a lot of this discourse is downstream from the notion that Trump is some mastermind with a finger on the pulse of the public, rather than a very beatable, unpopular extremist who won over a flawed opponent in 2016

Gotta laugh

I keep on thinking about how John Roberts messed up nitrogen oxide with nitrous oxide in a ruling on how the courts were better suited to provide expertise than experts.

Several misread the invitation, so to clarify, although it's pre-election drinks it's TUESDAY not Thursday.

Fancy pre-election drinks in North London, Tues night, 7pm? If I follow you, you're invited. DM me for the venue.

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It’s called the Stupid Party for a reason.

Fancy pre-election drinks in North London, Tues night, 7pm? If I follow you, you're invited. DM me for the venue.

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This place may have a future after all. Prickly people, micro agressions, threats of excommunication from the in-group. People cherry picking articles to suit previously reached conclusions then getting pissy when called out. Should get @t0nyyates.bsky.social back here at once.

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Silly wabbits, originalism is whatever the 6 ultra-conservative bloc of Supreme Court justices say it is, historical evidence and accuracy be damned.

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Truly fantastic news for people watching the results on election day.

@columnist.bsky.social sent you a DM

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is nothing sacred? www.ft.com/content/0d0d...

Britons avoid the pub as cost of living weighs on leisure spendingwww.ft.com Deloitte survey shows people opting to spend less money on social drinking than at any time since lockdown

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Lack of places for women to pee unsurprising in a country that once introduced plastic bags as an alternative to toilets on trains www.stylist.co.uk/people/dutch...

When I first arrived in Tokyo, I peed in a urinal (not easy) in the mistaken belief that it was a kind of traditional Japanese toilet I hadn't encountered before. I remember thinking "Wow, this really IS a patriarchal society." www.theguardian.com/world/2024/a...

‘Urination equality’: Amsterdam women win fight for more public toiletswww.theguardian.com Years of pressure by those fined for urinating in street due to lack of facilities pays off with €4m plans

Dutch introduce 'pee bags' for trainswww.stylist.co.uk New plans are a 'toilet alternative'

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The third Chinese aircraft carrier, and first supercarrier equipped with catapults, Fujian, is leaving Shanghai for her first sea trial. Read about the event and the story for the carrier so far, via @navalnews.com. www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

Aircraft Carrier Fujian Starts First Sea Trialwww.navalnews.com Chinese aircraft carrier Fujian starts first sea trial. Ship has left Shanghai coinciding with anniversary of the Chinese Navy.

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Oh, I'm definitely here for this. So much so, in fact that (after some egging on from @t0nyyates.bsky.social) a while back I started an account on The Other Place dedicated to one-star reviews of famous books from GoodReads (which I couldn't be bothered to do much with before I left there).

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Not a wildly novel insight but very well put (from this paper arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/pa...)

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Oh Christ someone’s set the Aussie/Kiwi who-invented-the-flat-white wars off again. This usually ends in multiple deaths.

The best culinary export of Australia? The flat white. Even used for diplomatic aims at COP. www.economist.com/culture/2024...

Flat whites are Australia’s greatest culinary exportwww.economist.com They are even better than Vegemite

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About 8 years ago, comparativists looked at US politics and said "if Trump is elected president, the comparative experience tells us it will be extremely bad. Corruption, authoritarianism, threats to civil rights, political violence...it's all on the table." And all those predictions were true.

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Indeed, they will.

For decades, historians will be listening to Trump's increasingly incoherent, paranoid, vengeful, racist, anti-Constitutional and unhinged speeches, horrified by the number of Americans trained by right-wing media to ignore the evidence of their own eyes and ears. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

Trump’s bizarre, vindictive incoherence has to be heard in full to be believedwww.theguardian.com Excerpts from his speeches do not do justice to Trump’s smorgasbord of vendettas, non sequiturs and comparisons to famous people

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AI feels like a real mania, a genuine collective break from reality among the ruling class. They might as well be pouring billions of dollars into an attempt to replace all jobs and knowledge with a large bronze idol of Dagon.

NEW: an AI chatbot touted by City Hall as a helper for small businesses is giving illegal and incorrect information to those who use it

NYC AI Chatbot Touted by Adams Tells Businesses to Break the Lawwww.thecity.nyc The Microsoft-powered bot says bosses can take worker’s tips and that landlords can discriminate based on source of income. That's not right.

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Yes, the street sleeping & hunger of 2020s Britain is “Dickensian”. But so too is the hopeless response of the rich — new column www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/pove...

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Frequently say living in the UK these days is like living in the physical manifestation of a nervous breakdown, which the Telegraph embodies. Post election Telegraph is going to be lit

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"Bike traffic in Paris is a menace" . Now to take a big sip of coffee and look up what the car traffic used to be like..

You have to be very unlucky to be killed by a bike. They can’t poison you with fumes. And they are an essential part of city life with lower and later 0 emissions.

hell on earth

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