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Tom G

@tpmg.bsky.social
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Management consultant and former think-tanker. Posts are strictly my own opinions, mainly the more nerdy and/or cynical ones...

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A year ago I wrote one of my most popular posts: "the financial crisis theory of everything". It looks at how the 2008 crash led to Trump, the rise of the radical right, Brexit, the war in Ukraine etc... I've taken off the paywall so it's now free to read. samf.substack.com/p/the-financ...
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The financial crisis theory of everything
Last month there was a fascinating poll from More in Common asking people to pick the main reason Britain is “on the wrong track”.
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Tom G @tpmg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
@azeem.bsky.social Just finished reading your paper on the state of the AI economy via Exponential View. Loved it. On page 44 re. elasticity of token demand, this triggered a (neo-Keyesian?) instinct that tech. is often elastic on the way up, but once integrated it's inelastic on the way down 📈
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Tom G @tpmg.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Not only do Norway have Haaland, but the kit's a big plus... #EngNor
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Tom G @tpmg.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Finally watched Legends on Netflix and struggling with how on-brand the Telegraph review is and how off-brand the Guardian one is... Fearing I will now dedicate the next few weeks to finding someone else who has watched the show and boring them with the specifics
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Tom G @tpmg.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
I'm one of the more left-wing people in my friendship group, and I'm both pro-union and more generally pro-jobs-for-life...but the fact we're probably going to have driverless cars a decade ahead of driverless trains in the UK blows my tiny little mind.
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Tom G @tpmg.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Premised with the fact that I'm part of a Muslim family - I keep misreading the name of the Times Royal correspondent as the topic of an article series, alongside a vague headline, and thinking that Harry and Megan are converting... www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-fam...
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Prince Harry ‘wants to come home much more and bring family with him’
The Duke, who is returning to Britain alone next week, is said to be ready for some fun on a four-day reset
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Tom G @tpmg.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Camilla Long's latest Times article on Rather really is every putrid misogynistic trope gleefully deployed, including that a male PM and female deputy must be writing 'love letters'...
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Tom G @tpmg.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
I just discovered that #bbciplayer has a non-stop Louis Theroux channel...and I have no idea how someone missed calling it 'Louis Theroux and Theroux'
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Paul Frame @paulframe85.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Neil O'Brien thinks that the Leader of the Opposition's children being taught in London are a symptom of Britain in decline.
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Tom G @tpmg.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
While I'm sometimes dubious about @thetimes.com, I have to doff a metaphorical hat to @charlotteivers.bsky.social who seems to have found two very different but equally pithy topics this week (in addition to a restaurant review). Maybe 'columnist' is one c-word that deserves to stay after all...
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Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
There is signal in the Musk/Cummings noise if you clear away the ridiculous egos - reforming the modern state via brute force is, basically, impossible. You can damage things, fire people, cut spending but the vast majority of things the state does are deeply embedded and critical functions.
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Tom G @tpmg.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Today in 'most French things I have read in the @thetimes.com'... god bless them 🇫🇷
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Tom G @tpmg.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
@hugorifkind.bsky.social today/yesterday's My Week: The Money Guys sketch is outstanding *chef's kiss* (£ www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...)
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My Week: The Money Guys group chat*
Scott Bessent Hi guys. Treasury secretary here. Setting up this group so we can all talk freely.Scott Bessent No journalists this time. I’ve double checked.Elon Musk Speaking as one of the cleverest
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Tom G @tpmg.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Part of the question re. the US is whether the government sees tariffs as a bargaining tool, or whether they genuinely believe that tariffs and government cuts will enable massive tax reductions... My concern is mainly that it's the latter
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Tom G @tpmg.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
There's a med-term UK outcome I'm watching re. these tariffs for how goods flows might change...On the one hand, 'dumping' could be v. bad for some British sectors like steel and car manufacturing, but more broadly they increase incentive to export to UK which might be disinflationary?
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Tom G @tpmg.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
I do wonder how all these stories involving Simon Case seem to be strategically leaked at intervals just in time for the Sunday papers...
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Jonathan Simons @jonathansimons.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I couldn’t agree more with this. This is an opportunity that comes once in a generation.
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Tom G @tpmg.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Watching #Panorama and I find the argument that I should come into the office to spend 1.5hrs on cramped transport so the private equity-owned retail space next to the office doesn't make a loss so unconvincing I could scream...
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Tom G @tpmg.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Also imagine the claims of people who had their benefits reduced under austerity after much less notice and communication, or people who missed letters and ended up with additional fines after driving incidents. None of it necessarily fair, but once established then where do we stop?
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Tom G @tpmg.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Listening to the recent Rest is Money with @danneidle.bsky.social and I'd be interested to hear more analysis on 1. impact on private vs. public sector employees given recent pay settlements and 2. incentives on substitution of capital for labour in some parts of the economy...
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Tom G @tpmg.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
What a thing it is to live in interesting times...
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Tom G @tpmg.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Wakes up and looks specifically at Atlanta...definitely cope but have the networks called Georgia too early again?
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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
Hello! I’ve finally got fed up of the binfire that is X these days and hoping for a less toxic experience over here…
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a cartoon opossum is standing in the dirt with the words peace out below him
ALT: a cartoon opossum is standing in the dirt with the words peace out below him
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Tom G @tpmg.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
This is one of many issues that need fixing if electrification of road transport is going anywhere in the UK. Are we facing market failure here? I wouldn't be averse to gov. investment / nationalisation of some of this infrastructure to normalise prices, but short of that what options are there?
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Tom G @tpmg.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
Came for the great thread as normal with Stephen, stayed as normal for the replies 👍
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Tom G @tpmg.bsky.social · 06/10/2024
So here's a thing - if CGT rose in line with income tax...in some situations wouldn't there be a huge disincentive to effort, as someone could realise an absolute gain from reducing their income for a year? Feels like I'm missing something blindingly obvious...
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Tom G @tpmg.bsky.social · 21/09/2024
The coverage of the donor gifting to Labour is in one sense pretty valid, but also feels to me more like ignorance / naivety / oversight than malice... Conscious these might be my biases, but there we are
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Peter Donaghy @peterdonaghy.bsky.social · 06/09/2024
Put another way, the British state raised more revenue in 2023 from corporation tax paid by OnlyFans' parent company (£118m) than it did from North Sea oil royalties and license fees (£69m)
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Tom G @tpmg.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
Excellent blog by @gilesyb.bsky.social on the nature of the fiscal inheritance of this government. Possibly worse but certainly different vs. the coalition 👌
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Tom G @tpmg.bsky.social · 21/08/2024
Is it just me that's occasionally checking the app because this feels so much like old-Twitter?
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Tom G @tpmg.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
Thought about an initial BlueSky post, but I feel like I might be in a post-posting era...
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