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Tom G @tpmg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The final posts do suggest this was likely a very localised collapse of Russian logistics capability due to intensive Ukrainian drone activity (just because I know most won't read the full thread 😉)

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Tom G @tpmg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I see him as fundamentally a hedge-fund guy right? So maybe there's some advantage in that sphere, or maybe as a Bloomberg talking head, conference speaker etc. I imagine he could get a hell of a capital raise afterwards on the notion that he retains some ~inside information / system understanding

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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 · 03/08/2026

Loved this episode 🙌

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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 · 12/06/2026

Guessing we mean in the non-AI sense here? If so then yes

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Tom G @tpmg.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Probably people who were investing £5m anyway, which is a whole other issue...

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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

It says something that Laura Kuenssberg has needed to recruit Brian Cox from back across the Atlantic for balanced and informed treatment of that particular issue on her morning show

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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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Tom G @tpmg.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

A bit like the old jab about 'in government but not in power', there's probably a similar one something like 'in opposition but not in the room'...

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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 · 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

Similar to productivity improvements by increasing cost of labour via NLW and NI, I wonder if this is a nuance that's been spotted by some observers. Could be a source of consumer surplus/better living standards. Would be keen to people like @duncanweldon.bsky.social exploring this...

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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

The point is mostly self-discipline, being proactive and motivated. It also comes back to good management and trust. Being 100% office-based is, for me, not as productive as we can be, but if you don't trust your staff - and they can't be trusted to work diligently - then you have bigger problems...

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Tom G @tpmg.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I had a great day in the office and managed to take an hour to talk to two mentees 1:1 👌 But I also spent five hours on Teams anyway, and I'll need tomorrow and this evening at home to catch up with written work... so tomorrow I'll work an extra two hours, make my own lunch and work from home 👍

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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

A lot of what I read focuses on this as a tax-raising budget with an element of politics, but it also makes sense if you view the Chancellor and gov't as taking action against low wage, low-investment economy and rebalancing incentives around shortage public sector occupations.

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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

This appears to be a classic early morning question-to-which-the-answer-is-no...

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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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Tom G @tpmg.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

Siri, show me the state of X in a single tweet...

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Tom G @tpmg.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

I am so engaged in this sort of thing (both personally and professionally). Would love to see more written on the intricacies of this issue if you have plans?

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Tom G @tpmg.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

I was somewhat involved in one of the launch events for Revolt on the Right back in the day (only as an intern), and I often look back at that moment with mixed emotions...

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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 · 18/10/2024

I think we're talking about things being announced or the media beginning to directly lift authoritative comments from BlueSky - those sorts of watersheds

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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 · 02/09/2024

As others noted, key context is the original picture where they *correctly attribute the quote* bsky.app/profile/timc...

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Tom G @tpmg.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

There's definitely a theory of political Comms where you constantly feed ammo to the other side of an issue to prepare for a change in stance a few years down the road...

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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 · 20/08/2024

Solid hit of the like button..although adding (hot)hot sauce as a dip would get the re-post from me

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