Another instalment of interesting not-quite-news for us @rightsnet.bsky.social -
Great policy - these vehicles cause a lot of negative externalities
Norway recently implemented a weight tax on all vehicles (including electric!!) NOK 12.5 per kilogram over 500 kilograms. EV lobby groups and big car companies that have been aggressively bloating EV models for years are *very* pissed off about it.
Ekstra avgift innføres for elbiler. Og når elbilene skal bli dyrere, blir alt dyrere.
Basically the state of half the country lanes in the UK due to years of council cuts
Ok listen. All I know in all my years of life is that this is the peak moment for my sense of humor. My whole life has led to this moment. Nothing will top this. It is wholly perfect.
The release also shows potential redundancies notified to the Insolvency Service (when Jobcentres did more employment support, the notification was to JCP). Percentage changes since 2019 on the right. The pandemic peak was when government tried to reopen the economy in June 2020.
This morning, ONS published weekly real-time indicators. This is for online vacancies, using Adzuna deduplicated data - vacancies are often advertised in multiple places. The change from 2019 (yellow dot), is in the bar on the right. The most recent point is the highest since Feb 16 2024.
A reminder that the Stansilav Petrov story is both more complex and more terrifying than people think. I did a full deep dive into it, but importantly WHY the USSR was at launch-on-warning (which is what would have caused catastrophe) many years ago. medium.com/lapsed-histo...
At the height of the Cold War, with alarms screaming, one Soviet officer stopped to think. It cost him his career. It may also have saved…
RIP Danni Mason. We will miss her deeply, not just for her sound advice and enthusiasm, and the positivity, kindness and generosity that she brought to everything she did, but also for her friendship. Thoughts with friends and family. @whatworksgrowth.bsky.socialwhatworksgrowth.org/news/remembe...
It is with great sadness that we are writing a memorial tribute to our friend and colleague, Danni Mason.