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@DoubleEph

27 Jun

I want to rant about football. No, not the beautiful game we all watch on TV. Something else I find increasingly disturbing as my kids get older. I wonder if the way the sport is structured is worsening whatever racial/class divides we have in this country.

Someone’s probably done some research on this but I’m too lazy to find it so I’ll just use anecdotes. Both my boys played in tournaments this weekend (loads of them now over the summer). Now we are getting text messages about signing up to some premier league clubs’ academies

Now, my views have been shaped by reading this some years ago so I’m not falling for that. In a competition between football and education; I will do everything within my power to ensure football loses for my kids. And it IS a competition. Constantly

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@DoubleEph

3 Apr

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This is very good by @mrianleslie. In particular, the paragraph that teases out the generational differences between the report’s authors and today’s activists ianleslie.substack.com/p/elite-wars

I’ll add that the report’s recommendations will be fairly popular with ethnic minorities themselves and if the govt implements some of them seriously, they will make a dent in some of the actual problems that prompted the commission in the first place

No one commission can solve all the problems that need solving. And yes, not all problems can be solved by the govt. But a simple test is to ask anyone who is very much opposed to the report to state which of the recommendations they don’t like and what they’d replace it with

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@DoubleEph

1 Apr

My lukewarm take on the government’s race report is that cultural pessimism is probably underrated the discourse around disparate outcomes among ethnic minorities.

The disparities highlighted between black Caribbean and black Africans really makes me wonder - I know it’s true now but what happens with my kids? And their kids? Britain is not a racist country (don’t bother trying to convince me otherwise, I’m not interested) but....

For all that I really like this country, I’ve made a decision to inoculate myself against the one part of British culture I absolutely cannot abide - the relentless pessimism of British people. (That and potatoes). If I spend the rest of my life here, I’m never buying into that

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@DoubleEph

6 Feb

https://twitter.com/cenbank/status/1357760892163735553

I think this will end like a situation where you ban the sale of alcohol and then armed robbery goes up because the new robbers were previously never sober enough to go out and rob people

https://twitter.com/cenbank/status/1357760892163735553

Unlike out here where crypto is mostly a fascination or a bit of fun for most people, in Nigeria it is a very real and increasingly important part of trade. People who trade with China use it to get around fx scarcity and restrictions

It’s been quietly taking away a lot of pressure on fx demand which is why it’s a bit unusual that Nigeria did not have its usual fx crisis last year, at least not in the way it got really bad in 2016

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@DoubleEph

4 Jan

https://twitter.com/ngrpresident/status/1345850155275268103

When I say Nigeria’s cement policy has been a complete failure, this is exactly what I mean. The Goverment is tweeting this out without irony

https://twitter.com/ngrpresident/status/1345850155275268103

Cement is an input. You can’t eat or drink it. On its own it’s useless. So as a government, if you decide to have a cement policy, the biggest mistake you can make is to set your success benchmark simply as increasing the amount of cement produced. But this is what Nigeria did

If you’re going to have a policy supporting the production of an input, the only sensible way to measure the success of that policy is to measure the things that that input goes into.

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@DoubleEph

3 Jan

https://twitter.com/paulwallace123/status/1345707416185425922

Can African countries not commit some funding to secure vaccines? What is more important to spend money? For once the media should stop playing up these sob stories that infantilise African countries. It’s not helpful

https://twitter.com/paulwallace123/status/1345707416185425922

As far as I’m concerned, I’ve set the target for Nigeria at $150m and not a dollar less. After Nigeria has committed that amount of funding, then I will he happy to hear stories about rich countries not helping. Until then, spare me these stories

Again I ask, what is more important than committing some funds to vaccinate *your own* citizens in a global pandemic? What else is a higher priority than this? If Nigeria cannot shake bodi and drop $150m, please close down the government and send everyone home

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