Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 1hThe waiting list for a Tata EV is currently six months in India. 020
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 2hYeah I think for a lot of people Brexit is a hygiene thing. There’s plenty of people who agree with the Tories on migration and working age benefits but think Brexit was the work of morons and don’t want to vote for the moron party. 110
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 2hThink the right strategy for the Tories is to target middle class Brits who want to pay less tax (it’s Lindy) but why would anyone believe they’re capable of achieving it after last time? 140
Reposted by Gavin JacksonWill Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 18hHow else might we address the question of diagnosis? Some thoughts in advance of the welfare storm to come substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comWhat do want from diagnosis?Or how to circumvent a culture war 31612
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 19hIndian protesters demand electoral chief resign over alleged voter roll fraud giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...giftarticle.ft.comIndian protesters demand electoral chief resign over alleged voter roll fraudPressure mounts on PM Narendra Modi after youth-led unrest forced education minister’s exit 010
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 20hAnd those are small compared to the turnover of euro derivative swaps. 110
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 20hBut is a much less lucrative business. Nothing physical to sell and the IP is pretty generic fantasy. 130
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 21hSome of the best seafood in the world. Unfortunately largely ignored domestically and exported to Europe. 020
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Don't think there's that much fishing coverage in national news. 100
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I think fish processing isn't really a secondary activity in the same way. 100
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Think it's more like a luxury brand than computer games. 120
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Or like restaurants where people eat British fish. 100
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Sure but that would apply equally to fishing. If you start including like boat maintenance and fish processing the industry gets a lot bigger. 130
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The economic question I'm interested in about Games Workshop is whether it has created a cluster around itself. I know there's the Lead Belt in Nottingham but it seems like it's Games Workshop and then tiddly outfits. There is Creative Assembly but that's down in Sussex. 010
Reposted by Gavin JacksonTuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026More and more people are saying this www.ft.com/content/a5ca... 311629
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026But if you do that for games workshop you should do that for fishing too. The fish processing industry is bigger than the fishing one, for instance. 100
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...giftarticle.ft.comIndia’s first bullet train stumbles over divisions with partner JapanFlagship high-speed rail project has been beset by delays, cost overruns and tensions 001
Reposted by Gavin JacksonHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 06/10/2026‘Ever since numbers started appearing . . . all the numbers have been proved wrong!’ says Nobel Prize winning economist and @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow Christopher Pissarides www.ft.com/content/8f78...ft.comSilicon Valley expects AI will kill jobs but economists are not convincedEconomists do not see a future without jobs, but they do see scope for rapid, disruptive change in the nature of work 181
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Yes I've seen that one before too. The key thing anyway is that a big sophisticated successful economy consists of lots of small niches that will always look tiddly when compared to the whole. 021
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Yes you got a lot of this around Brexit, claiming the fishing industry was small and therefore undeserving of attention. But fishing has not done very well out of Brexit and there are lots of small industries which nevertheless have national import (e.g. journalism). 120
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Research on grasping bureaucrats startles Singapore www.economist.com/finance-and-...economist.comResearch on grasping bureaucrats startles SingaporeIt is more revealing about its academic culture than its civil service 040
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Also I think you can debate whether you should include fish processing and so on in these numbers. 210
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Which would still be bigger than GW by my calculation bsky.app/profile/gavi... 130
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I think the talent stuff is a canard. We should pay politicians more because it should be a respected job. 150
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026GW's staffing costs were £167m and its profit is £206m. So GDP contribution of £373m if all those staff are in the UK. 130
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026UK trade in salmon alone was worth £1.7bn in 2024. 140
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This can't be right. UK fishing contributes £888m to GDP. Warhammer's revenue last year was £625m, its contribution to GDP will be less than its revenue. 11374
Reposted by Gavin JacksonTony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Andy Burnham killed off the national ID scheme. Instead in its place is a new private sector growth industry, writes @johngapper.bsky.social here. (Side point: It might also solve the supermarket checkout wait problem when buying alcohol while your age is verified) as.ft.com/r/43769636-2...as.ft.comBritain has turned digital ID into a growth industryStart-ups such as Yoti and Luciditi are meeting demand for age and identity verification as the government retreats 021
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Should have said governments led by socialists 010
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026After the communists lost in Kerala earlier this year I think there are no democratically-elected communist governments left in the world. Wonder if socialists will soon go the same way. 130
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Outside of Europe the socialist/social democratic parties just have: - Australia - Brazil (likely not for long) - Mexico - Sri Lanka - Uruguay 110
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026So if Sanchez loses it'll just be UK and the Nordics that have parties from the socialist/social democratic tradition in government in Europe? 310
Reposted by Gavin JacksonWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The rabbi telling Anthropic that he thinks what they’re doing is fine, because Claude is just a machine to him, but if they’re right (and it is conscious), then they’re world historic monsters, is really interesting. 2075068
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Nice LRB piece kicking back against the Gandhi revisionism that has become consensus www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... 063
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Yes this was my view as well bsky.app/profile/did:... 020
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It's not particularly out there for Britain is it? 100
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Didn't realise how explicit the Defoe poem is www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44081/... 120
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Oh right. I wondered if it was because they thought of European identities as inherently timeless, "pure" and clearly delineated. Like those DNA tests where they say they're 15% Dutch and 33% Irish or whatever. 110
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I guess I don't think of mongrel as inherently offensive 120
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I guess the laws against miscegnation lasted a lot longer too. 100
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Why do Americans find the "mongrel race" (laudatory) thing so strange? 340
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026How India saved its tigers—and lions and rhinos and elephants www.economist.com/asia/2026/10...economist.comHow India saved its tigers—and lions and rhinos and elephantsIndia’s wildlife-conservation success holds lessons for other environmental efforts 1259
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Under Bolsonaro (senior) the rate of forest loss in protected areas and indigenous territories remained low. There has been slight growth in the number of these areas during Lula's third term. 1143
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026But you can see that even under Bolsonaro (senior) it never reached the areas of the 1990s and early 2000s. That is because the main way that deforestation happens is through landgrabbing and under Lula the ownership of the land has been disambiguated. 1342
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I visited the Amazon rainforest a year ago ahead of the cop conference in Belem. Historically the only thing that has stopped deforestation has been electing Lula da Silva has Brazilian president. www.economist.com/the-americas... 1451157
