Emeritus Prof Christopher May
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Federation handle:
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us
Federation handle:
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us
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Emeritus Prof Christopher May
In response to this post@fkamiah17
No no no.... do you remember nothing for the onset of post-modern times.... there is no single truths, only contingent opinions & experiential feelings - fact checking; soooo last millennium!
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In response to this post@Deixis9 @emptywheel.bsky.social
The problem here is that absolute GDP flatters the UK's economic position in the world - if we modify by population size - that is use GDP per capita, then the UK is down in the mid-20s which feels more appropriate given other issues about the economy
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@h4890
Yes I think that's right as even if there are pockets of semi-socialist belief-communities they are quite small (and not really left wing by European standards)... my guess is, as you say, the more Right or perhaps business-focussed young people are most likely to seek to move to the USA (that's certainly what I saw among my students)
@ChrisMayLA6 I agree. This sounds reasonable. If I think back to my unviersity days, the very few people I know what they are doing, are mostly still in sweden. I'm the most widely traveled person by having lived in 6 countries. I know one guy moved to singapore for a few years, one guy moved to mexico for 1-2 years or so. But out of the 160 or so in my class, I only very loosely know about 6-7 or so.
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In response to this post@h4890
UK home schooling is very much a minority activity... driven in the main by:
a. religious belief - so some religious parents prefer to have the children taught at home & clearly inculcated into the community religion;
b. special educational needs; the SEN system is somewhat of a crisis & some parents having failed to find a suitable solution for their children's education end up taking it upon themselves (because they ay be better able to deal with behavioural issues, for instance);
@ChrisMayLA6 Ahh... but wasn't there an exception made for corona? I think the article I read was related to (b) where parents argue that the quality of schools are so bad it causes their children mental problems, and therefore they need to be home schooled.
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@marjolica @beemoh @passenger @KimSJ @simon_lucy
Yes, the final point is key; they continue to use the NHS as a backstop, adding to the potential crisis/emergency cases needing to be treated
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@wanwizard
Agreed; the somali cuts (often presented as 'efficiency gains') are disproportionally difficult to resolve without warning project(s) or activities
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@wanwizard
yes, the 'use it or lose it' is a frequent budgeting logic in large organisations; used to see it all the time at university (and as a middle manager adopted it myself, I'm afraid to say)
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@alexproe
When I taught an Art & Politics course (for the last year before I retired - it was a bit of a vanity project), we did a whole section on this very issue; arguments can go both ways & sometimes depend on the depths of the problem with the individual concerned.... but made for a fascinating discussion with my students
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@alexproe
ah yes, the perennial problem of separating the great art from the less great artist.... an issue across most arts (form music to painting, from acting to writing)....
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@h4890
Well, the convention is 18-24 months lag, but see this discussion from Catherine Mann of the Bank of England's Money Policy Comm... which north confirms & complicates that estimate
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/speech/2023/february/expectations-lags-and-the-transmission-of-monetary-policy-speech-by-catherine-l-mann.pdf
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@h4890
He was an American golfer, who said:
'The more I practice the luckier I get'!
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In response to this post@h4890
yes, spot on!
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@h4890
Yes, but then what is so fascinating, is given the logic of shaping young minds, at least in the UK, successive Govt's education policy has been both inconsistent & ineffective - if that was what they wanted to do they've not made a good job of it (but then again, I'm sure that lack of ability would be no surprise to you at all)!
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In response to this post@h4890
Hmmm... not so sure the young will want to move to the US; some of the mores & norms of conservative America would seem to conflict which much of what European youth seem to live by, but then again I'm no longer in touch with the young, like I was when I was working, so maybe I'm miss-reading that?
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In response to this post@guilevi
Interestingly I never did when I was on Twitter, but the social mores here very quickly indicated I should... and also Mastodon has a much clearer prompt to do so. Very happy that it helps read/appreciate the accompanying images (for me often charts)
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@yacc143 @johnelalamo
Hmmm, that's not what the internal review at the FCA found - they were using delays to figure out how to massage their own response data as well as to cast around for reasons not to comply....
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@Sbectol
Ha ha, yes I was 'confused' - it applies to private firms when they are fulfilling a public function, but otherwise not.... and of course I had the former at there front of my mind, not the latter!
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@skolima
I don't link to the FT as its behind a paywall... and also working with a limited character count, including the link takes up space.
Other articles/sources if free to view I always include.
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@Guy
Oh I know; I was sitting on the B4RN board during some of the time BT was trying to constrain the project.... they were utter b*stards
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ProfDJ's killer cuts for your streaming shuffle, No.7
Al Green. Lets Stay Together
From its first (almost mournful) brass fanfare, Lets Stay Together is a mid-tempo stone cold soul classic. Green voice elevates anything but this track is just reaches you like no other & never fails to have people swaying & singing along when I spin it.
There are plenty of other versions from Isaac Hayes to Tina Turner, but none have the soulful quality Green brings to the song. A classic
#KillerCuts #music
Tags: #killercuts #music
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