R to @jburnmurdoch: Full piece here: https://www.ft.com/content/649d3c64-b8e5-4979-9f0c-9aebd43642e2
R to @jburnmurdoch: Just one more example of how the UK is a formerly dynamic and growing economy behaving as if it is still a dynamic and growing economy, and then being surprised when things that used to work (and work for other countries that haven’t stagnated) no longer work here.
R to @jburnmurdoch: Fundamental point: the graduate earnings premium is not really measuring anything to do with higher education or graduates.
It’s measuring “how well-paid are your high-earners (which tends to be where your graduates are) relative to lower-earners?”
R to @jburnmurdoch: Which place has the highest grad wage premium?
The US, because it has lots of super well-paid professional jobs and quite high earnings inequality.
Which places have the lowest grad wage premiums? Sweden and Denmark (~25% each), because they have much lower earnings inequality.
R to @jburnmurdoch: For the UK today, think Italy of the 1990s and 2000s.
Just as back then the ranks of under-employed and emigrating Italian graduates were an indictment of the Italian economy and labour market rather than the Italian higher education system, the same is true of the UK today.
R to @jburnmurdoch: 2) Sustained increases in the UK’s minimum wage squeeze the graduate earnings premium from the other side.
• Graduate earnings (shaped more by economic dynamism) have been eroded
• Non-graduate earnings (shaped more by policy) have risen
• Grad premium doubly squeezed
R to @jburnmurdoch: 3) Weak economy means the UK has simply not created as many top professional jobs as peer countries (roughly half the growth in highly skilled occupations).
The result is a growing share of UK grads working in non-grad jobs.
R to @jburnmurdoch: I’ve shown another lens on this same thing previously: the UK’s top income decile has had a very rough couple of decades (and the top half as a whole has done much worse than the bottom half).
Who works in top-paying jobs? Graduates. That’s the erosion of the premium right there
R to @jburnmurdoch: 1) The UK economy’s growth and dynamism have never recovered from the financial crisis. This productivity crash has had a scarring effect on earnings at the top of the market — the jobs most graduates work in.
The real sign British education has failed is the number of people responding to this chart with "that’s what happens when too many people go to university"
HE has expanded in all of these countries, and in every one apart from UK that didn’t erode the graduate earnings premium.
R to @jburnmurdoch: “But it expanded more here than elsewhere”.
Not really relevant. Why did US and Netherlands going from 25% college grads to 40% college grads see their earnings premiums rise, while the same in the UK led the premium to fall?
The answers are quite straightforward:
"Who are the leading advocates of birthright citizenship in the US?" you ask. Democrats and the Chinese Communist Party.
Short story
(You decide if it's sad or not)
1. February 2024:
"All eyes on Rafah" campaign begins in an attempt to stop the IDF from isolating Hamas.
Joe Biden pressures Israel, including an arms embargo.
2. May 2024:
IDF enters Rafah after a 3 months pause.
During the pause, Hamas plants thousands of IED's (Improvised Explosive Devices) in almost EVERY building in Rafah!
3. In the ensuing months Rafah is completely destroyed. Hamas is happy for the success of their strategy. A true PR treasure to show the world of the evils of Israel.
Blocking Israel from entering Rafah prolonged the war, caused the death of countless soldiers, and ultimately also increased the suffering of the Gazans.
The end!
"Where was health? Absent."
In his latest Offline, Richard Horton discusses the lack of focus on global health issues at the 2026 Munich Security Conference: http://spkl.io/6015AvE9t
Kommunalwahl Augsburg. Die Grünen🌻, Liste 3, Platz 5.
For 5 years we were told America was “millions of homes short.”
Here were the estimates:
• NAR: 5.5M (as high as 6.8M)
• Freddie Mac: 3.8M
• Zillow: 4.5M
• NLHC (rentals): 7.1M
Consensus? 5–7 million homes short.
Now JP Morgan: ~1.2M
That’s nearly an 80% revision.
Was it a housing shortage…
Or a 3% rate + stimulus + migration demand shock?
Narratives move markets.
Math corrects them.
RCT: Among patients with 5 to 20 brain metastases, stereotactic radiation targeting individual tumors improved symptom severity and interference with daily functioning compared to hippocampal-avoidance whole brain radiation.
https://ja.ma/3MUG433
💬 Editorial: Most US adults were less comfortable with the use of income or zip code vs race when incorporated into clinical algorithms, despite increasing shifts toward race-neutral tools in #RiskPrediction.
https://bit.ly/3Mx8Uq3
🚨BREAKING STUDY: Israeli FOIA Data Reveals MASSIVE Heart Damage Spike in Children Immediately After mRNA Shot Rollout
Previously undisclosed government data from Israel show HUNDREDS of 12–16-year-olds suffered severe cardiac injury, including cases coded as HEART ATTACKS, within 6 weeks of mRNA authorization. ⬇️
According to Israel’s State Comptroller, approximately 279,300 adverse event reports submitted during the vaccination campaign by Clalit Health Services — Israel’s largest health provider — were NEVER processed by the Ministry of Health.
Only years later, following repeated Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, the raw dataset was released.
We analyzed that dataset using a deliberately conservative methodology. Our findings have now been peer-reviewed and published in the International Journal of Cardiovascular Research & Innovation, in a study titled, Cardiovascular safety signals in Israeli adolescents following COVID-19 Vaccination: Evidence from an unprocessed FOIA dataset.
FOIA data revealed 277 unique cardiovascular injury cases in teenagers, identified using conservative de-duplication methods.
98% of cases occurred in adolescents aged 12–16 within a narrow six-week window immediately after mRNA eligibility expanded in June 2021.
Hundreds of entries were coded in the national system as “Acute Cardiovascular Injury,” which in the original Hebrew terminology corresponds to acute myocardial infarction (heart attack).
Additional coded events included myocarditis, pericarditis, stroke, and thromboembolism.
When we contacted Clalit Health Services to clarify these adolescent "heart attack" entries, we were told: “The data do not exist.”
These reports existed within Israel’s national surveillance system — but were not processed or publicly analyzed during the critical 2021 policy window.
This data is now peer-reviewed and published for the world to see.
@YaakovOphir @YaffaRaz @david_shuldman @P_McCulloughMD
Ohne Struktur keine Qualität
Warum es irreführend ist, Personalschlüssel und Prozessqualität in Kitas gegeneinanderzustellen – und was Studien zu kleinen Gruppen tatsächlich zeigen. Eine Replik auf Ties Rabe von Dieter Dohmen.
Im Wiarda-Blog: https://www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/02/20/ohne-struktur-keine-qualitaet
GDP growth came in at just 1.4% but here's why: gov't purchases tanked almost 5.1%, pulling the headline number down almost a full percentage point; this is GOOD news and another sign the economy is being "reprivatized" - gov't shutdown also probably had some effect:
Gemini is getting tired of reasoning...
R to @txsalth2o: My parents got a settlement.
Granted that settlement is nothing, but when you’re dying better something than nothing. Trump would remove those settlements from dying Americans who have been killed not just by glyphosate, but by the corrupt FDA officials that greenlit the unregulated use of that dangerous chemical.
Last week my died from glyphosate exposure.
This week Trump is granting immunity to the companies that killed him.
Hallo Frau Hensel, wieso ist denn die Kommentarfunktion unter ihrem Kommentar ausgeschaltet? Mögen Sie keine Kommentare?
Zojuist heb ik bezwaar ingediend tegen het Woo verzoek tot openbaarmaking bedrijfsgegevens (zie foto). Is via eLoket niet veel werk. Indien je inspiratie nodig hebt als motivering van het bezwaar, stuur me een PB. Op naar 300 duizend bezwaarschriften!
It’sa me, Andi! 💊🕹️
Think visiting the Antibiotic Kingdom when you have a cold will make you peachy?
Wrong, antibiotics don’t work against viral infections like colds and flu. 🍑❌
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical-physical-sciences/events/2026/feb/rdr-celebrating-ucl200-communicating-risk-uncertain-world Looking forward to speaking with @jburnmurdoch at this event next Tuesday in London
R to @TheLancet: Access the full issue ⬇️ http://spkl.io/6013AvBxD
Pinned: Since the start of the war, 68% of Ukrainians report a decline in their health.
That the situation is not substantially worse is in large part thanks to the determination, adaptability, and courage of the country's health-care workers.
Find out more: http://spkl.io/6012AvBx8
Es sei denn, die Dienste wollten einen Wissensvorsprung. Genau das ist schließlich deren Geschäftsmodell.
📊 Research Summary: Cryopreserved platelets did not meet the criteria for noninferiority in controlling surgical bleeding compared with liquid-stored platelets.
https://ja.ma/3OrC1M7
From @JAMANetworkOpen: Albumin administration in #SepticShock was safe but did not improve 90-day survival compared with standard fluid therapy; results remain inconclusive due to early trial termination.
https://ja.ma/4aqtwcK
Oh… Epstein schlägt in Heidelberg ein…
Die Floskeln der Sporterporter bei Olympia: «Das ist unfassbar – aber sowas von.» Und weitere Müsterli.
https://www.infosperber.ch/medien/unfassbar-sie-liefern-absolut-aber-sowas-von/
Bildquelle: © SRF
R to @corona_realism: Hier der knapp 100 seitige Bericht:
https://futurefreespeech.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Preventing-Torrents-of-Hate-or-Stifling-Free-Expression-Online-The-Future-of-Free-Speech.pdf
Übergriffig.
Vor allem wenn man das im gebührenfinanzierten Schmierfunk RBB verkündet: Massagesitze, Gelbhaar, anyone?
Vermute zwar auch, daß die OAZ eine Totgeburt ist. Ich überlasse das aber dem Zielpublikum & dem Markt.
„Wer heute einem naiven Pazifismus folgt, der befördert die Kriege von morgen."
Das sagt ausgerechnet Kriegstreiber Merz auf dem CDU-Parteitag - der Mann, der seit Jahren unermüdlich für mehr Waffen, höhere Rüstungsausgaben und eine immer aggressivere Außenpolitik trommelt.
Mitte 2024 verklagte die Bundesdatenschutzbehörde den #BND, weil dieser der Behörde Auskünfte verweigerte und damit eine Kontrolle unmöglich war. Jetzt soll der Behörde die Aufsicht über den #BND vollständig entzogen werden. #BfDI https://background.tagesspiegel.de/digitalisierung-und-ki/briefing/wie-der-bfdi-an-der-kontrolle-des-nachrichtendienstes-gehindert-wird