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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

well I'm very pleased - I've been calling for a National Care Service for years

Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is fundamentally daft. There are lots of services we provide to ourselves, from doing our own laundry, driving our own cars, and cooking our own dinner. The state sees no reason to tax us for this consumption, there is no logical reason to create a special carve out for housing services

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Kinda fascinating that a big part of the answer to this question should in theory be 'think tanks', yet not once were think tanks mentioned (and as far as I'm aware no think tankers are even at the conference)

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 12/09/2026

i mean how else do you explain right wing slack jawed morons saying "the jab" can you imagine that slang taking hold over here organically

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

New report from @nao.org.uk says Defra should learn from approaches taken in other countries, and strengthen preparedness for emergencies www.theguardian.com/business/202... (full report: www.nao.org.uk/reports/resi...)

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UK has not done enough to prepare for shocks to food supplies, says watchdog

National Audit Office urges government to act as climate crisis, disease and cyberattacks pose growing risks

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Copilot is like an overly verbose and self-regarding assistant with rapidly accelerating dementia. You need to get the task completed within 3 prompts otherwise it starts forgetting the initial instructions and then its game over.

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

So…yes! The commoditization of information makes the interrogation of information much more valuable. The humanities are (should be) all about the interrogation of information.

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The well organised and well funded far right have spent decades building an unassailable global disinformation machine, whilst liberals are still stuck flapping on about 'surely if we just debate them fairly then our better evidenced arguments will win out in the marketplace of ideas'

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Harry Ord @harry-ord.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

That's the aim at the moment but involves getting a new job

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I went to see rodrik speak and came away with the conclusion that his mental model of how economies work is too simplistic and his conclusions are largely wrong as a result. Labour should *not* listen to this advice

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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Short-sighted, stupid cuts to the UKRI budget include shutting down Jodrell Bank, the icon of British astronomy. (Many other cuts too, including 20% to our brand new @vrubinobs.bsky.social). Interesting politically to shut down a major facility in...um..Manchester 🔭 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

This resonates with my thoughts about systematic and non-systematic knowledge systems: Physics is systematic: everyone is taught the same thing, physicists rarely disagree over fundamental facts, knowledge is disseminated through calm explanation, translation into policy is straightforward

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Isn't he just repeating this (from 12 years ago) Prof Piketty’s r>g equation causes waves - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

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Prof Piketty’s r>g equation causes waves

Returns on capital rising faster than the economy is a big deal

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Gary Stephenson is a fine advocate for a wealth tax purely by dint of being a literal demonstration that just because you made a lot of money, it doesn't mean you know what you're talking about. It's actually brilliant and hard hitting performance art.

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

using these graphs to try to *debunk* the degrowth claim that the relationship between GDP/capita and poverty reduction flattens out above $20k is... a choice

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I actually think he should keep reeves. I think she's more aligned with his agenda than most realise. She hasn't been the problem (despite polling). And it would signal a seriousness that would provide more leniency in other areas

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Its 2035, and Morgan McSweeney is a regular pundit on BBC news, writes a substack, hosts a popular podcast, has a number of well remunerated advisory positions and guest columnist roles in the FT, and is widely described as having a brilliant strategic mind. Because this. is. how. it works.

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Congratulations genAI enthusiasts, you've exaggerated the benefits so obnoxiously you've managed to radicalise half the world into this incredibly hardline luddite position

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

ChatGPT absolutely nailing the maths today:

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

My contribution to the food discourse is below - Having briefly lived there, I'd say the US also falls into the diversified category, the main difference from UK food is the more heavily corporate food system with higher consumption of both fast food and highly processed food.

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Jen Nelles @jen-nelles.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

New report out today that I worked on with Adam on a vision for the Oxford to Cambridge region for the Supercluster Board. We explore the role of clusters, and strategies to optimize knowledge flows and innovation from gpts to specific industrial applications. Check it out!

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Excerpt from the chancellor's speech this afternoon. if you want to read the vision and rationale for the ambition she is referring to, see below

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

At the science superpower conference today. Rachel reeves speaking this afternoon. Earlier today, our new vision for the Oxford to Cambridge region was released. You can read it here: 16132662-4776-43f6-9435-f34efd9db16a.filesusr.com/ugd/f2c872_d...

16132662-4776-43f6-9435-f34efd9db16a.filesusr.com

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Plan to triple publications and patents from OxCam corridor. Ambition outlined for Oxford to Cambridge region to break into top 10 global innovation clusters. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-i...

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

16132662-4776-43f6-9435-f34efd9db16a.filesusr.com

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Losd @losdemas.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Is Tony Blair selling Crypto yet?

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Ultimately you can't get a growth burst without rejoining the CU/SM/EU, which you can't get without sorting out our informational environment, which you can't achieve without taking a hard line on regulating US tech platforms. I wish people would wake up to this basic reality.

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Matthew Gyamtso (Jee) @freedomforall.net · 24/05/2026

In March I told a Swiss investment banker or that European automakers will all either be partnered with Chinese groups for tech transfer, or dead ducks, within five years. He thought he was being optimistic by arguing but really he simply lacked insight into the nature of change.

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Testing how good Claude is getting at Industrial Strategy. I asked it to do this: what do you think it said?

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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

"Taking macroeconomic advice from bond market traders is like taking advice on how to deal with pandemics from undertakers."... Great quote from @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social #economics #endausterity

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Less of a logical non sequitur as a complete logical inversion in the space of 2 paragraphs. "The problem is that the state has not been active enough therefore we need to be even less active" errr

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Seems like a timely moment to repeat this short thread - As today has shown, reform are very clearly a direct threat to Labour, but the way to beat them is not to copy them, but to draw attention to, and attack their actual policies, over and over and over.

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

This is one of those where its genuinely crazy to actively believe it was a false flag based on current evidence, but equally, would anyone really be that surprised if in a decade's time, it turns out that's exactly what happened? Stuff like this turns out to be true surprisingly frequently.

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Just institutionalise it - if we'd have just institutionalised the entire internet 30 years ago like the wisest amongst us advocated, none of this other shit would have happened

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

This is just called adulthood - there is absolutely no need to impose gender stereotypes on this at all. Are we really saying women *don't* do all this?

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Apologies to Nesta, who are a good outfit, but this genuinely reads like a rambling reddit post from a 14 year old who has just read Ayn Rand for the first time and decided they're a libertarian. Its so wilfully naïve I genuinely loled a few times

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Claude relying on some... unorthodox sources here when I asked it to tell me current employment levels in CPCA districts

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

If you ever want to be reassured of the risks of facial recognition software, just allow Google to categorise your photos. All it takes is a bit of stubble or a different haircut and it can't recognise you

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Love it when the slido is full of really thoughtful challenging questions but the chair ignores them and asks the panel softtoss nonsense that guarantee insightless generic answers

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

After the latest mais lecture, can we stop claiming no one has a viable theory of growth? Securonomics/modern supply side economics is basically the consensus view. The problem is not the theory, the problem is keeping an incoherent cabinet away from lobbyists long enough to actually enact anything

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

crikey USA vs Venezuela as the final of the World Baseball Classic is a bit on the nose, eh?

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Good to see this, it was one of the key recommendations of the UK innovation pathway report we wrote for @britishacademy.bsky.social

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Both teams in white is an interesting choice

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I have asked the BBC to scrutinise + correct the factually inaccurate claims made by Mr Nigel Farage about why net migration fell in 'Political Thinking with Nick Robinson' Here is the link if you want to do something like this. www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...

Nigel Farage in answering Nick Robinson's question about why he believes Britain is broken gave an analysis of falling net migration that is demonstrably factually inaccurate.

"It is so broken and its declining so quickly that anybody with a dispassionate view can see it. It is quite interesting. Just look at the net migration numbers. 'Oh isn't it good net migration is coming down?' But do you know why? It is because there is an exodus. There is now an exodus.Those who are of a situation and a financial position to have a choice are now fleeing the country in numbers".

This is factually incorrect. Net migration fell year on year by 465,00 in the most recent Official of National Statisitcs figures: the year to June 2025. This was not because of an "exodus" (an increase in emigration). It is because immigration fell by 401,000 (to 898,000 from 1.299 million the previous year). That accounts for 90% of the big drop in net migration. The increase in emigration by 41,000 was a minor component. Most of the increase in emigration was of non-EU nationals. British citizens made up a third of emigrants, but there was no significant increasse in British emigration, which was at very similar levels in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025: it is not a significant cause of the drop in net migration.

Nick Robinson did tell Mr Farage that he was exaggerating the number of people who don't speak English - and BBC Verify did produce an analysis showing that was a five-fold exaggeration. But this central incorrect claim about immigration and net migration was not caught in the programme, or before broadcast.

It should at least be scrutinised and corrected afterwards - so that an accurate account of why net migration fell (primarily a reduction in immigration visas to the UK) can be communicated to the audience.

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Walking through Cambridge city centre, where beautiful old buildings line streets clogged up and fumigated by thousands of vehicles on a Saturday afternoon, it's almost impossible to overstate just how overdue proper pedestrianisation is

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