Luca Tiratelli
@lucatiratelli
Research at The King's Fund Own views | He/him
Not to question the FT but assuming that the number of haircuts that the British male public has per year is RELATIVELY static how can the barber shop number here be right
It really can't be overstated the extent to which a common sense is emerging that we got COVID wrong because we did *too much*. There is also a growing belief among people who would never consider themselves conspiracists that the lab leak conspiracy theory has somehow been proven to be true.
How excited should we be about devolution? Well... it's confusing. New blog here wonkwatch.substack.com/p/how-excite...
The luddites feared that new machines would take their jobs and that there would be no support for them afterwards... and they were right.
If you want to cut immigration and increase military spending, it has to be paid for. Good luck with the politics!
There are a lot of contenders but the licence fee feels to me somehow the most egregious example of the British state clinging to old ways of doing things that just don't make any sense any more. You can love the Beeb and still realise that this model is over - and that's okay!
Who are all these Luca's???? Are they italian??? What's going on???? I'm freaked out.
Mutually Assured Destruction was supposed to be the argument for why nuclear weapons keep us safe. But now it seems like loads of people who are very pro nuclear, don't seem to believe in it? If trident isn't a security guarantee, and we actually need loads of other stuff, why do we have it?
The government's own review ends up calling just for more research, because the link that is endlessly asserted just isn't found. www.gov.uk/government/p...
A shadow cabinet minister here says that we need to avoid ideology and look at the evidence - and then proceeds to deny the evidence and promote misinformation in order to promote an ideological claim.
During my brief career as a labourer I had numerous conversations with builders from the Carribean to eastern Europe to Australia who were all equally baffled and disgusted that there was no temperature it could hit in the summer that they wouldn't be expected to work in.
People saying stuff, or even 'warning' about stuff, should not be considered sufficient evidence for banning things.
Top doctors should step back and consider if it's good public health messaging to say things that categorically aren't true, and that anyone who can use google can immediately discover aren't true.
There's something to pull apart in how the very people who are most likely to oppose migration and make arguments about the natural ties between people and places... are also the same people who say other people must be removed from areas they want to buy flats.
Reminded of this paper. Policy preferences are not normal distributions, and you have to make a whole bunch of massive ideological leaps to assume that they would be in the first place. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
see also hand wringing about Poland catching up UK economically. okay… why exactly shouldnt that be happening?
*takes look at waiting times for ADHD diagnosis* "how about we do this for all conditions?"
Policy Exchange here implying that there's something nefarious about people sharing tips to navigate the benefits system. All of this seems like good helpful content to help people get what they need? Rather gives the game away that the point of bureaucratic forms is to put people off.
How austerity created a new paradigm for policy making wonkwatch.substack.com/p/not-just-a...
I love it when people think they're the first person to think of something. Like is the idea that people who work in mental health have never previously considered that it's important to find the line between mental illness and feeling sad? Thank god for this intervention!
If you believed this to be true : - you'd be knowingly creating a set of social conditions almost certain to lead to a revolution of some kind - you'd have to have a plan for the fact that there would be no experienced people in a generations time for the other roles 1/3 🧵
What do we not talk about while we're looking for 'one-weird-trick' solutions for our policy problems? wonkwatch.substack.com/p/one-weird-...
In which I argue that there are no short cuts, unless the short cut is money wonkwatch.substack.com/p/one-weird-...
I think Clause 4 would be a sign of being pretty influenced by Marx as well? And I agree with (another cliche line) that labour is more a party with socialists in it than a socialist party which i think you're getting at - but the comparison is to methodism. What would clause 4 for that even be?