Giles Wilkes
@GilesybAfter advising No10 and BIS& writing @FT, now specialist partner @flintglobal, senior fellow @instituteforgov looking for authentic ways to improve us
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If you people on Twitter are wondering why you get less engagement nowadays, you are not alone. But until BlueSky got going I had not realised that it might well be algorithmic. Compare and contrast: Honestly, it is worth opening an account there just to witness this effect
The section in the Flyvbjerg book on Caro, the Moses biography and the difference between book-writing and a series of articles, is totally eye -opening
The investments this country needs are not exactly a total mystery "The rich country with the worst mobile-phone service" economist.com/britain/2024/1… From The Economist
This letter makes a simple point really well: it is objectively better now in the other place. Of course, this post will get almost no engagement, which is the point.
More evidence that BlueSky gets more engagement than here: I reposted this one over there at 9am, already 400 likes and 50 replies. Mostly questioning my groundsmanship...
Heroically showing my determination not to go full filter-bubble: What was the last thoroughly left wing policy, the enactment of which definitely raised the UK's growth rate? Am trying to imagine writing a future history in which the Growth Mission was Accomplished
I'm keen to debate this NICS measure but cannot always be bothered to post in both places bsky.app/profile/gilesy…
to understand industrial strategy, just remember what sits at its heart: skills, R&D, place, collaboration, space, green growth, collaboration, "a whole-systems approach to decarbonisation", growing the economy, and business led innovation. Simple.
hello and welcome to the 1M people that have joined Bluesky in the last week!!! join Bluesky: bsky.app/download
There's a really good Unhedged podcast on financial repression. Easiest way to find it is follow Katie over there x.com/katie_martin_f…
"X has increasingly become a “an Elon echo chamber,” said a top executive at an advertising company. “It’s a cesspit and many clients do not want to be part of that.”" - on.ft.com/3ABRLFO
To support point @thomasforth was making. Much UK deindustrialisation when industrial energy costs low & falling, when UK switched from energy importer to energy exporter Causes could include high interest rates, strong £, Dutch disease, financialisation, falling R&D intensity...
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new from me: Angel investment tax breaks like EIS and VCT are one of the sacred cows of the UK tech and VC ecosystem. I argue that the tax break tail is wagging the innovation dog, producing zombie companies, founder unfriendly terms, and increasingly little innovation. 🧵
Secret TFL plan to do awesome policy to create nicer city
Fascinating
AOC asked her followers who split their ballots either for Trump/her or Trump/downballot Dem to explain why and posted the replies:
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