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Impossible to put into words how useless Gmail search is. No wait, these guys did it!

Agreed, and I’m not even sure we’re talking about PPPs here. I suspect we’re talking about total privatization or majority private sector ownership, with some govt regulation and guardrails. UK utilities and transport are a very cautionary tale there

To whom does sovereignty belong? What's the balance between government, private and third sector in terms of who owns critical assets? I'd wager Carney sees more of an enabling role for the State (to secure, protect and maybe shape private sector assets), rather than direct ownership itself

It speaks to Carney's concept of sovereignty that Canada is both increasing protectionism and Buy Canadian policies for private sector, at the same time as increasing foreign ownership of existing state assets

The Home Office is institutionally hostile to immigrants. This level of cultural entrenchment cannot be reformed www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

It is particularly British to see schools as the unfunded Swiss Army knife of youth public policy Mental health? Schools should fix it. Youth crime? That’s a school problem. Youth employment? Schools are great at predicting high value skills in local markets in 10 years!

*Whispers* What if in fact, more working class children should go to university? If university is still how wealthy and middle class parents pursue success for their children, why are working class children pushed into technical routes instead? www.ft.com/content/cc78...

“Chad’s decision follows neighbouring Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, which also have military governments. The Sahel states jointly announced their withdrawal in September, accusing the court of selective justice.” www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/...

There’s a lefty critique that the modern individualistic concept of human rights is an intrinsic component of 18th-20th century liberalism The two co-evolved together And so to lose human rights and international law is to imperil liberalism itself

Another issue with Carney’s ‘no principles until economic security’ position: The US has a values-based foreign policy. We just don’t like those values And we ain’t middle powering a new ICC. There’s no concept of a bilateral human rights law agreement bsky.app/profile/schu...

The ICC is a canary in the coal mine, whose failing health embodies the Trumpian virus infecting the global rule of law and a wholesale attack on international law - all of it. To save the Court, then, is to save international law itself. justiceinconflict.org/2026/07/27/u... #ICC

The more I think about Carney's foreign policy decisions, the more I believe he views values as a luxury or a liability Values are at best, a nice-to-have, once economic fundamentals are secure. At worst, they're a risk and we get punished for them progressdevelopment.substack.com/p/that-davos...

New post - That Davos Speech: What We Missed Do countries earn the right to a principled foreign policy, only once they've reduced vulnerability to retaliation? open.substack.com/pub/progress...

Eventually, we'll find out what bribe Chad got, or what punishment they avoided in return for this

Thanks to @kevinmilligan.bsky.social et al for this study on the impact of universal childcare on women's income - Long run impact on women's earnings far beyond the childcare years - Increased tax remittances, reduced social insurance - Recoups 75-117% of program costs www.nber.org/papers/w35514

If humans have one consistent, defining feature throughout history, it is that we migrate. People have always migrated to seek a better life The problem is xenophobia and hatred, not migration www.barrons.com/news/south-a...

The task for many governments is not whether to govern left or right, or which philosophy they follow. It is to restore trust in government as effective and capable. That in a complex world, government still matters and can do big things for people www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

It's not just that people are mad about inequality generally and that their anger is showing up in weak consumer sentiment data; it's that rosy consumer spending and GDP trends are increasingly -- and nearly exclusively -- the purview of the rich. www.ft.com/content/1c55...

I am *absolutely sick* of hearing about young people as 'benefit scroungers'. Nearly 60% of welfare spending goes on pensioners! The people writing this stuff know that too.

Volunteers re-start the first swim lessons in Gaza in three years. Dragging sand and boulders by hand to create sheltered swim bays. Offering free classes to children whose parents have been killed in airstrikes www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...