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Chris Wright retweeted
21 Mar 2025
Beyond honoured to have become a trustee of the great cathedral of the Enlightenment
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Chris Wright retweeted
14 Mar 2025
A stunning essay in the FT on the international decline in the ability to read, reason, focus, and learn new things.
It began or accelerated in the early 2010s.
It's hitting teens AND adults.
Self-report and objective scores.
by @jburnmurdoch
ft.com/content/a8016c64-63b7…
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Chris Wright retweeted
17 Feb 2025
China dominates many industries.
But there is one where China is far, far ahead of the competition: renewable energy manufacturing.
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Chris Wright retweeted
15 Feb 2025
Simply amazing statistics. From Mario Draghi's FT column.
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Chris Wright retweeted
15 Feb 2025
Dani Rodrik has a new 'trilemma' for the world economy.
According to Rodrik, we can only achieve two of the following three at the same time:
1) combat climate change
2) boost the middle class in advanced economies
3) reduce global poverty
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Chris Wright retweeted
30 Jan 2025
In 2004, Jeff Bezos made one of the boldest decisions in corporate history:
He completely banned PowerPoint at Amazon.
Everyone thought he'd lost his mind.
But this one rule helped build a trillion-dollar empire...
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Chris Wright retweeted
30 Jan 2025
Why is making Heathrow bigger so screamingly necessary? A few points from my latest for @TheEconomist:
Start with a map of where economic output in London happens. After the financial centres, the Heathrow cluster in the west jumps out.
🧵 below
➡️ economist.com/britain/2025/0…
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Chris Wright retweeted
29 Jan 2025
If we want to grow, we have to build. And with this government the builders are in and the blockers are out. Here’s just one example: after 30yrs of failing to build a single reservoir @RachelReevesMP has today confirmed approval for £7.9bn investment into 9 new reservoirs
5 Dec 2024
Reservoirs. We gave up building them in the early 1990s. Great to hear @Keir_Starmer raise on of my favourite symbols of Britain's low investment disease - here's the relevant section of Great Britain? penguin.co.uk/books/461720/g…
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Chris Wright retweeted
25 Jan 2025
Just catching up with this from @jburnmurdoch. I was struck by the spike in time spent alone, by the youngest cohort, especially men. And possible connection to decrease in mental health for those groups. "Most obvious culprit" is "smartphones" and "hyper-engaging social media".
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Chris Wright retweeted
23 Jan 2025
And now it’s official: At 661 TWh (or 57.6% of capacity) European gas inventories are now **below the lowest point of the 2023-24 winter** (it was set on April 1). The depletion in 2024-25 is running ~69 days ahead of 2023-24
22 Jan 2025
With nearly half of the winter still ahead, European natural gas inventories are now at the same level as they were at the end last winter (early April 2024).
To be sure, last winter was unusually warm. But the stock depletion means higher for longer nat gas prices.
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Chris Wright retweeted
19 Jan 2025
The UK is ageing 🧓
But while the UK as a whole is getting older, some parts of it are getting younger.
So what is driving these changes?
ALT The UK is ageing - the typical age has risen from 33.9 years old in 1974, to 40.7 in 2022. But different places are younger, or older, than others, while the ageing process is quicker, slower, or even reversing.
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Chris Wright retweeted
18 Jan 2025
Another fantastic analysis @ft by @jburnmurdochl!
Since 2010, young people (specially men!) spend more time alone, less on meaningful activities. This change in time use explains much of their declining life satisfaction. Correlation yes, but ... meaningful.
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Chris Wright retweeted
16 Jan 2025
The electoral damage done to incumbents across the developed world in 2024 was utterly unprecedented. Subscribe here for more from Chartbook Top Links: tinyurl.com/y6p5k3bt
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Chris Wright retweeted
12 Jan 2025
I’ve been a bit absent. And have returned to nothing short of panic about the UK’s fiscal rules and speculation whether they will be “broken” in the @OBR_UK March forecast
They won’t be
Here’s why 🧵
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Chris Wright retweeted
13 Jan 2025
Great map of London rents from the GLA. Unfortunately high rents have spread so far that it may be time to re-do the scale:
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Chris Wright retweeted
11 Jan 2025
It's fair to expect that places with more older people need more adult social care services to support them.
However, evidence suggests that social care spending on older adults isn’t evenly distributed across the country after accounting for age.
ALT Chart showing proportion of the population aged 65 and above, compared to the proportion of social care requests not resulting in a service (left panel) and social care spending per person aged 65 and above (right panel): England, 2023 and 2022-23.
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Chris Wright retweeted
10 Jan 2025
NEW: the Elizabeth line has resulted in an increase in new homes and jobs, according to a new Transport for London study. Investing in infrastructure works!
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Chris Wright retweeted
11 Jan 2025
A global relationship recession: across the world, the drop in fertility is not due to less children per couple, but to a significant drop in the number of people in relationships.
Outstanding data story by @jburnmurdoch @ft
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Chris Wright retweeted
10 Jan 2025
Great (and scary) visualization of 2024 daily temperatures compared to prior years by the BBC today. Evocative of the iconic Joy Division album cover from 1979: bbc.com/news/articles/cd7575…
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Chris Wright retweeted
10 Jan 2025
🚨UK gas storage levels are starting the year at the lowest level in a LONG time 👇
NB the UK has long had too little storage, and hence is particularly dependent on imports.
Even so, that little storage we have wasn't replenished much in winter. It's now VERY low
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