A bit of a shorter post this week as I’m now back in work and need to rethink my posting schedule. I’ve also started some work on energy policy in the UK as well, which will probably take awhile.
- A great deep dive on why Britain seems so uniquely exposed to energy shocks, despite our decades long green drive
- It’s always somewhat frustrating when you see an author write a piece that you are vaguely planning to, but it’s a great read on our historic energy policies from Thatcher onwards.
- The key is that a simple “free markets solve everything” doesn’t work in energy, and when you layer on the complexities associated with net zero, it gets very tricky indeed. What makes it so galling is that Britain has consistently paid for this energy transition, with no benefit to consumers and our industrial base shredded.
- We are capable of reversing this, but it will be painful – a very tough ask for a nation that hasn’t seen growth in GDP per capita for 25 years.
- I’ve shared work by Helen Dale and Lorenzo Warby before, so they’re definitely worth a follow.
- Here they examine how our genetic inheritance shapes the two genders and the implications for wider society as a result.
- Few interesting things come from this, such as why men tend to support free speech more than women, and why some women tend to be sympathetic / attracted to criminal men.
- The point about our institutions becoming feminised has been something I’ve become aware of in the last few years. I’m still not sure what the best solution here is, given the likely continued female outperformance in education.
- There’s also an unsurprising read across to our politics as well, with the fall of gatekeepers and greater exposure to political entrepreneurship, we’re much more likely to see diverging votes by gender than previously.
https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
- An oldie but quite an enjoyable deep dive into mechanical watches. I’ve not yet bought my first one, but having finally started wearing jewellery (my wedding ring) I find watches strangely compelling in our ever more digital age.
