Here’s a post, first of a three-part series, from The Monkey Cage about inequality and power. The point Martin Gilens makes is that where a policy has broadly similar support across US income groups, its chance of being put into effect follows a well-behaved response curve with its approval rating. But a policy on which…
Read More The reactionary Internet predates ‘t other unWhy don’t I subscribe to Steve Randy Waldman’s blog? This piece is fantastic, on the competitiveness gap between southern and northern Europe, and makes up the best case I’ve yet seen for the view that prices, rather than wages, rose in Spain. The labour share of national income fell, while the prices of tradable goods…
Read More I commend these links to the House.The CDR high is powerfully addictive. See also the Malte Spitz stasimulator. Alan West doesn’t quite say that the sudden appearance and sudden disappearance of the “defence black hole” has a lot to do with clever accounting, but gets a lot of the way there. Jamie Kenny explains why Chinese doctors smoke. Noahopinion and Facts…
Read More linksIt’s high time we did a little blogdrinks. I’m off on holiday at the end of this week, so I’m thinking Tuesday or Wednesday. Update:: OK, so it’s the Three Compasses on Hornsey High St at 7pm or thereabouts.
Read More MeetupCompare and contrast. My review of the Gary Oldman Tinker, Tailor…, CMcM‘s. Your 1000 favourite Wikipedia articles. What is it with the critic and the ass-hat? As it’s their XML export pages, perhaps somebody’s experiment has gone out of kilter. But then, why is the User Datagram Protocol at no.12? It would be interesting to…
Read More LinksHere’s the list of talks that Gareth Williams might have attended at BlackHat 2010. The slides are here. I wonder if he got the “I’m the Fed” t-shirt?
Read More Death by powerpoint, for realEd Miliband joins Total Defence! Labour councils across England will act as the “last line of defence” against the controversial health act, Ed Miliband said as he pledged to overturn its “free market, free-for-all principles”. Speaking at the launch of the Labour local election campaign in Birmingham, Miliband said Labour councils would use the public…
Read More Clearing out the link pileAfter the wave of links posts, here’s a links post with no particular theme. Fantastic new civil servant blog has some interesting thoughts on Trident replacement and the interactions with US defence cuts. Specifically, as the Americans reduce their nuclear arsenal, will they still want an Atlantic and a Pacific SSBN fleet, and in the…
Read More LiiinksDid anyone else read this and this and get the horrible feeling that Maurice Glasman is over-promoted, and likely to crash in some really embarrassing way, even more than he has done already? It reminds me a bit of Tony Blair at his elevenarife worst or one of those people who are caught pretending to…
Read More he’s not the Messiah, he’s a very naughty boyMike Konczal and the snark: We are perpetually in a spiritual crisis that can only be fixed by a woman in the kitchen. It’s a huge win for the second half of the 20th century that this argument has been moved from leading political figures addressing graduating classes to the shadier alleyways of the Wall…
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