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anyone able to explain how this 'higher heating bills from putting the clocks back' works?
I grew up in the north west and winter journeys both to and from school were partly in the dark. There aren't enough light hours in the day no matter what. Higher heating bills are demonstrably true up and down the country.
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is the Tesco website really not intelligent enough to realise that my shopping behaviour is *completely different* in-store vs online and there's no point recommending me the things I buy instore as I do my fortnightly online shop?
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Question of my HOI4 players out there. I'm stuck in this playthrough & need help.
I need to take all of the territory in red. The mod I'm using doesn't let me use ground troops. How can I overcome this dilemma by using only a few standoff munitions from the green dots.
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Which was a HILARIOUS episode of Have I Got News For You
In the 1990s, Angus Deaton noted that the CPI we use to deflate tend to be based on weights for people in the top quartile of the population income-wise. When you shift to weights that represent poor people's expenditure patterns, you find different rates of inflation.
For the end of the 1860s to the 1910s, this was not trivial. The poor had more deflation (yes) than the "usual CPI" (and far more than the rich). Thus, just for these reasons, we understate their gains. Below I show the hourly wages of production workers deflated by either the CPI or a poor-people price index. You miss a great deal of gains.
Over that period, it means that the real gains at 2.5% per annum compared to 2.11% per annum. A 0.4 pp difference which is huge. So the faster-growing series cuts the time needed for wages to double by roughly 5 years (28 years instead of 33 years)
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And there goes the spark gap! On @CornwallInsight latest figures it will be cheaper to run a heat pump in January than use a gas boiler - heat pumps are 3x as efficient and now electricity is less than 3x as expensive
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hello @LNER
I'm trying to claim Delay Repay from you for the following journey, but your system doesn't believe this journey resulted in a delay. Can you help please?
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Terrific piece by Hugh Muir. Really, it can’t be said better than this. theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Just think of the number of economists who'll now be cancelling their subscriptions to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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Of course this week is the one that St John's College, Cambridge send me their annual alumni survey.
I'm sure their fundraising team will love reading my views about the Jason Arday situation on a Friday afternoon
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However much you feel Jason Arday may be the victim of the situation he's in, reporting journalists asking questions as criminal harassment and then threatening libel action is not something anyone else can be blamed for
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This kind of graphic is almost enough to make me abandon a lifelong commitment to PR
UK General Election nowcast under a hypothetical additional member system
323 constituency seats balanced out by d'Hondt PR at the regional/country level (compensatory)
🟥 LAB: 162
➡️ RFM: 152
🟦 CON: 130
🟩 GRN: 72
🟧 LDM: 72
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Xris Xeating retweeted
This is a good progressive take on the Arday scandal, not least because it doesn't pretend that it isn't a scandal. Rather it looks at those who instrumentalised Arday
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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this New York self checkout discount thing is probably the most self-defeating policy to come out of the US all year, well above starting a war with Iran
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I think this suggests Reform doing poorly, probably 3rd place
GM by-election, total votes cast in...
Bolton: 49.2k (-43% (% not %pts) on May)
Bury: 40.6k (-32%)
Manchester: 40.6k (-32%)
Oldham: 37.1k (-50%!)
Rochdale: 38.9k (-35%
Salford: 46.2k (-16%)
Stockport: 71.5k (-28%)
Tameside: 44.3k (-37%)
Trafford: 62.3k (-28%)
Wigan: 56.3k (-41%)
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