Conrad Copeland
@conradcopeland.bsky.social
Economist interested in macro, trade, int econ, econ hist | UCL researcher | formerly OBR, UBristol, NYU, Columbia, UBC | Drinker of tea, particularly green | 🇨🇦 -> 🏴
This is pretty rich coming from the leader and party that ran an election campaign on rolling over for the US nationalnewswatch.com/2026/08/09/c...
Conservatives tell Carney to show 'backbone' as trade team heads back…
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Using government-linked companies to further imperial aims needs to be resisted. Companies need consequences when they take illegal action. Greenland must protect its conservation areas and its sovereignty 🇬🇱 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill
Island’s government says no approval given after Greenland Energy brings kit ashore for exploratory drilling
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Alcohol bans should all stay in place until tariffs are fully lifted. The feds need to be stronger on this. Fiddling with supply management, starting to sell US alcohol in government stores, and refusing to think about energy are not the way to approach Trump.
This warrants a national investigation and media reporting
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · last wk.Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
But sure, it wasn’t about intimidation…
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · last wk.Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
This would be an excellent move. Codifying rights and powers in the UK and preventing whims of parliament from changing the fundamental rules of the game would do a lot to modernise the UK’s political institutions www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Devolution plans strengthen case for written UK constitution, says Burnham
PM argues for codified model of decentralisation that would fundamentally change centuries-old workings of state
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Piketty's fundamental observation that r>g means rising wealth to income ratios remains incontrovertable because it's just accounting. Since Capital in the 21st Century we've had another decade of r >> g, so even if shares of wealth remain constant, wealth to income ratios have to rise.
Joe Sarling@joesarling.bsky.social · 2w agoGetting flashbacks to reading Piketty in 2013
What’s up with NDP voter proportions being so similar to CPC voter proportions on wanting to be part of the US? Are they ok?
Baroness Casey demonstrates internalized ableism here She can’t handle a reality that her health conditions could make her disabled because it’s a “bad” thing Disabled people can sit down for an interview Disabled people do work Disabled people do live The whole review is called into question
‘Even I would qualify as disabled’: Baroness Casey calls for tough questions on welfare
Baroness Casey of Blackstock, who is leading a review of social care that will conclude by 2028, says nation must ask ‘who should we be looking after, and how’
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What I think it actually shows is that criticism should add value: 1) criticism without offering an alternative policy is unhelpful 2) pretending to be ignorant of the issues is unserious (“what problem is this even solving”), especially when the cost of living crisis is so prominent
Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 2w agoOne thing you can see in the latest Stancil blowup is that a sizable share of this website thinks that good intentions are the only thing that matter in policymaking, and expressing skepticism that a policy will really work as intended is equivalent to stealing food from the poor.
This is exactly the wrong direction to go Senators (if we must have them) should only be for secondary scrutiny. They should be kept away from actual politics and influence as much as possible People want fewer avenues for influence peddling, not more www.hilltimes.com/2026/07/17/s...
Senate approves changes to ethics code and guidelines to allow political fundraising, loosen gifting rules - The Hill Times
A Senate committee and the Red Chamber approved changes to the ethics code and guidelines only weeks before Prime Minister Mark Carney announced four new Senators, two of whom are partisan figures.
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He’s by far the most qualified candidate for the job. If Burnham doesn’t put Ed in No11, he will have weakened himself from the start – just like Starmer ✏️ @jamesrball.com
If Burnham doesn’t pick Miliband as chancellor it’ll be his first error
He’s by far the most qualified candidate for the job. If Burnham doesn’t put Ed in No11, he will have weakened himself from the start – just like Starmer
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I really don’t understand the obsession the UK establishment has with getting Scots to cheer for England The King, the PM, numerous ministers? Who cares? It’s just soccer It’s like a weird demand for obeisance that honestly makes ABE funnier www.thenational.scot/news/2628210...
Douglas Alexander says 'anti-English' Scots should back Argentina in World Cup
SCOTTISH Secretary Douglas Alexander has urged Scots to back England against Argentina in the World Cup semi-final, saying Scottish fans should be…
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The storming of the Bastille was the opening act in a century-long upheaval that broke with the premodern world and finally put ordinary people in charge of their nation’s destiny. That’s the legacy of the French Revolution.
Why the French Revolution Matters
The storming of the Bastille was the opening act in a century-long upheaval that broke with the premodern world and finally put ordinary people in charge of their nation’s destiny. That’s the legacy of the French Revolution.
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In economics, we’re plagued by superficial understandings and failure to grasp full context; but IR makes a whole sub-field out of it… I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: IR needs to either stop teaching the Melian dialogue or assign the entire work www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
The Strong Do What They Can—and Suffer What They Must
What Thucydides really thought about power.
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Americans washing their hands of responsibility with hollow excuses is becoming a tired trope at this point Asking Canada to do you a solid while the US gov undermines our economy and threatens our sovereignty? You don’t get solidarity until you clean up your own house. The peak of arrogance
Sen. Adam Schiff@schiff.senate.gov · last mo.Canada's boycott of California wine is causing devastating harm to winegrowers. I'm urging the Canadian government to recognize that California doesn’t agree with these tariff wars, to lift these restrictions, and increase consumer options to strengthen both our economies.
Octopuses are among the strangest creatures on Earth—right down to their molecules. www.science.org/content/arti...
A molecular quirk unique to octopuses makes them better at building proteins
Certain shallow-water species carry a mutation that reduces translation errors and prevents toxic protein buildup
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THE FERRET: Scotland's first spaceport on Shetland plans to use the sea as a 'dustbin' to dump tonnes of debris from rockets, prompting claims it could endanger tourism and fishing
Spaceport’s plan to dump rocket launch debris into Scottish seas
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Someone on here had their students write a paper using Claude and then read them all to the class so they could see how blandly similar they all were
"It shows a classic shifting baseline problem," said Dr. William Cheung. "It's really important we have a proper baseline and understanding of the trends, to inform our current actions for conservation and for climate adaptations." @science.ubc.ca @ubccoru.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Kelp forests once covered part of the northern Salish Sea, UVic study finds | CBC News
Research from the University of Victoria shows that an area of the Georgia Strait near Comox and Denman Island was once covered in 5.5-million square metres of bull kelp forests, ten times the amount ...
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Hundreds of thousands have already lost their lives because of USAID cut: millions more expected over the next 4 years. The system rewarded the architect with over a trillion dollars, on a set of companies that produces next to no profit and survive off subsidies. The system is broken.
“Market expectations are disconnected from fundamentals” is an increasingly common phrase demonstrating the failure of the financial market to correctly price equities The hunt for ever-increasing returns and listings is beyond distortionary. Funds need to be circumscribed and indexes regulated
Granted, I haven’t seriously looked in a long time, but I haven’t noticed a serious price of analysis come out of these pages in a while
The Economist@economist.com · 2mo agoThe next generation of illiberal leftism is gaining ground. It is time to fight back econ.st/3RPYFPV
A new investigation by @ejfoundation.org reveals widespread illegal #fishing, environmental destruction and severe human rights abuses across the global squid industry, one of the world's most poorly governed #seafood sectors. ejfoundation.org/news-media/g...
Global squid fleets exposed: new investigation reveals rampant forced…
The Environmental Justice Foundation exists to protect the natural world and defend our basic human right to a secure environment.
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The court has effectively ruled that severely disabled people are not entitled to the same standards of liberty because they allegedly can't experience it fully. A bizarrely regressive ruling on rights It even implies non-resistance as possible consent: an extremely dangerous view for all victims
The Feds and Alberta are running roughshod over BC. Carney and Smith seem to feel they are entitled to build whatever they want in BC regardless of what the BC government says www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Where will Alberta's oil pipeline go? Documents reveal possible B.C. routes | CBC News
The Alberta government has considered three different pipeline routes through northern British Columbia for a new major oil export pipeline, according to documents obtained by CBC News which provide a...
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This is simply normalising imperialism
Foreign Affairs@foreignaffairs.com · 2mo ago“The onus to avert catastrophe is now on Havana,” write Michael Bustamante and Ricardo Herrero. “The longer Cuban leaders treat the path forward as a matter of revolutionary dignity rather than national survival, the more certain it becomes that whatever follows will be worse.”
LLMs and their proponents are becoming a new totalitarianism, infesting the minds and lives of humanity. They seek complete synthesis with daily life: work, entertainment, personal lives, relationships, decisions - every aspect of human existence is fair game and open for ‘enhancement’ 1/3
Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 3mo agoDownthread - AI companies buy rare books, ingest their contents as destructured "training data", then DESTROY THE BOOKS! Imagine if you went to the library, and they offered you 100,000,000 loose pages, all indexed alphabetically by their first word...
The number of PMs is not the correct indicator for ‘governability’, rather it should be the quality of policy implementation. All having long ‘reigns’ shows is the sclerosis of the political system and the failure to have democratic renewal.
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 3mo agoOpinion: The UK has had six prime ministers since May 2010. In contrast, it had just four in the 31 years after Margaret Thatcher took office. Now the number seems set to rise to seven. ft.trib.al/gT7z9cy
Entirely evidence-free wibbke from @rentouljohn.bsky.social/ @the-independent.com here. Has cutting immigration been good for growth or public services? No. Has it reduced racism/community pensions? Also no. Has it helped Labour politically? Also no. Also LOL But.. "it's a good story"
John Rentoul@rentouljohn.bsky.social · 3mo agoLabour has a good story to tell on immigration – even if no one wants to hear it: @Independent Editorial www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...