Gareth Ramsay

Still ageing like milk

The BBC love cutting jobs yet continue to employ Kuenssberg and Mason, both of whom are largely responsible for people moving away from their news coverage in droves. Nor are the aforementioned duo ever likely to appeal to the Tiktok generation the BBC claims it is so desperate to impress.

@friebos.bsky.social just a quick Corrections Corner - you and Lionel kept saying it, but Seixas is not the youngest monument winner. He’s the 4th youngest. Still not bad though.

It drives me absolutely mad that Hunt has never been forced to account for this. Interviewers never say "But isn't this your fault?" (It is.)

OK, there is something very, very weird going on in the press right now. It certainly appears, from the outside, as if certain people are being very much protected in a way that was not afforded to certain other people! Let's start with the facts around Lola Salem... 🧵1/

One of my brothers has sent me this

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

A DRIVER. A DRIVER chose to drive at you and your child. Please don't fall into the trap of blaming the vehicle.

Yep, this is bad. And aso looks like incompetence when the Tories have condemned Reform for doing the exact same thing.

Ridiculous behaviour from the Tories. Dealing with unfriendly journalists is a basic requirement for a political party!

I cannot think of one good reason they could have for doing this. Nor even a bad one. They should fix it.

I share Ganesh's irritation with "Good Growth" but I find the rest of this rather facile, honestly. If your solution to the UK's sluggish growth is "Cut pensions, spend it on tax cuts" I do need you to articulate to me why we're not living through Jeremy Hunt's utopia. www.ft.com/content/3b92...

You know, children, there was a time, not so long ago, when serious journalists - even right wing propagandists cosplaying objectivity - would applaud an experienced, even-tempered Foreign Secretary, like Hague or Hammond, being a bit dry, rather than jumping on stuff as if they were Perez Hilton.

I saw this. It sounds horrible. I hope she recovers well. The piece unfortunately conflates illegal e-motorbikes with legal e-bikes, which makes it hard to decipher what's happened

I spend my week crossing london on a bike and increasingly that means cycling alongside Wayve/Waymo robotaxis. it’s uncomfortable. they give you so much space, don’t do a close pass while accelerating as lights go red. So unnerving if you cycle on assumption everyone’s mental and wants to kill you.

I don’t know. You can over complicate these things. Much easier to just ask ‘is there a negative output gap?’ If the answer is no, you probably don’t want more expansionary fiscal policy.

As honoured as I am to see that The Times has picked up my Chagos article practically *word for word*, including my hard-gotten quotes, I’d prefer some credit — or for everyone to read my original FT piece! free link to read the evidently enviable article below (cheaper than a Times sub!) 🌴

"I want your children's lungs to be smaller and less functional" is a bold electoral strategy.

The Palmer we're seeing now would have been picked, but the Palmer we're seeing now does not bear much resemblance to the seemingly unfit and unfocused Palmer we saw last year. Those injuries really took their toll.

Happy birthday to Elizabeth Fraser. Here are Cocteau Twins appearing as This Mortal Coil to perform Song to the Siren on Loose Talk in 1983

What will the Pentagon say? "We can win the campaign against the bond market from the air, sir"

We have @nytpitchbot.bsky.social; we need The Economist Invited Essay pitchbot. This week we have Steve Bessent explaining why invading the bond markets is not as outlandish an idea as you think.

Oh jeez

Wow that is big

If anyone can explain to me, or sees anything good on, the US doubling its "liquidity support buyback operations for longer-dated nominal coupon securities", feel free to enlighten me.

The Economist piece on Acemoglu is extremely poor and seems motivated to me by some kind of animus.

Bbc #Wato (Jonny Dimond) just did a whole item on the Thames barrier needing replacing early… without once mentioning the >reason< why!: ie Without mentioning human caused climate chaos / sea-level rise. In the middle of this summer of extreme climate impacts, that’s a stunning fail. Pse repost.

He didn’t change. They did.

Last week I got to shadow the City of London's dedicated Cycling Team catching illegal e-motos on London's streets, disguised as e-bikes - and this is what happened www.cyclingelectric.com/in-depth/lon...

The Today Programme needs to be careful: it's starting to feel like it's *leading* a Daily Express-style "crusade" against early release, rather than reporting on a horrible policy dilemma.

When Camden Borough puts in a nice new cycle lane on High Holborn - and Camden's rubbish collection services immediately discover that it provides a lovely service spot for them (this is every morning)

Gianni Infantino still hasn't returned the medal of the Order of Friendship which Putin pinned on his jacket at the Kremlin.

Very weird to be living for weeks through what has so far been the worst UK drought since records began and for the Prime Minister to have still said absolutely nothing about it

Ketchup in slices. American cuisine, are you ok?

results not accidents.

Can this really be true? Astonishing if so. If this lasts it's a very bad sign indeed. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Every single person who rides an ostentatiously noisy motorbike can just fuck off. Those who do so in London or any town or city, and especially those who use chainsaw-volume engine revving as a “warning” can then fuck off all over again.

the four stages: 1. Allister Heath's columns are not real 2. Allister Heath's columns are not serious 3. OK, they are real and serious but it's too late to do anything about them 4. Our only hope is to find a way of adapting to Allister Heath's columns

Yes. You should. Or alternatively bin off the Nazi hell site and then you don't have to cross post your (very good) insights!

It is not historically true. Rebound/Jevons is a brain worm that is based on muddy thinking. Even Jevons himself misunderstood the issue. Steam engines had many advantages over competing technologies. It wasn’t just efficiency.

How *did* this Argentina side reach a World Cup final?