• revisesociology (82)in #education • 3 hours ago

  Migrant pupils are doing well. Why turn that into another competition between the poor?

  I was reading The Week’s summary of Fraser Nelson arguing that the “Boriswave” will benefit Britain. His starting point is a welcome challenge to the idea that immigration means…

  $5.18

  • Pending payout amount: $5.18
  • Breakdown: 0.00 HBD, 52.83 HIVE, 52.83 HP
  • Payout in 7 days

   315 0
• revisesociology (82)in #care • yesterday

  Burnham's National Care Service: a great idea paid for with money that doesn't exist...?

  I was reading The Week's briefing on Andy Burnham's plan to 'fix' social care, and while I've got a lot of time for the idea, the more I read about how it's actually going to be…

  $5.57

  • Pending payout amount: $5.57
  • Breakdown: 0.00 HBD, 56.83 HIVE, 56.83 HP
  • Payout in 6 days

   259 1
• revisesociology (82)in #right • 2 days ago

  Even the Telegraph admits Thatcher got Right to Buy wrong...

  I was reading in The Week a summary of a Michael Mosbacher column from The Telegraph, headlined with the idea that even Thatcher sometimes got it wrong, not something you see in…

  $9.06

  • Pending payout amount: $9.06
  • Breakdown: 0.00 HBD, 92.44 HIVE, 92.44 HP
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   276 4
• revisesociology (82)in #eu • 3 days ago

  Brexit has done "more harm than good"... so why is everyone still scared of the word 'rejoin'?

  So Andy Burnham finally stood up at a Labour conference and said Brexit has done more harm than good, which these days is 'brave' even though it's stating the obvious? The…

  $11.60

  • Pending payout amount: $11.60
  • Breakdown: 0.00 HBD, 118.39 HIVE, 118.39 HP
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   327 3
• revisesociology (82)in #runningproject • 4 days ago

  Weeklyish Running update... Final build block....

  So my final build block - intervals, easy, Park Run (Temp +) and easy... Tuesday's intervals.. Still on the Octopus sessions, last one of these! Thursday's Easy....…

  $5.62

  • Pending payout amount: $5.62
  • Breakdown: 0.00 HBD, 57.30 HIVE, 57.30 HP
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   336 4
• revisesociology (82)in #life • 5 days ago

  Extreme Day Trips: Barcelona for Lunch, Home by Midnight....?

  I was reading in The Week about the latest travel 'craze', people flying abroad for the day, wandering round a city for a few hours and then flying home again the same night. No…

  $10.06

  • Pending payout amount: $10.06
  • Breakdown: 0.00 HBD, 102.68 HIVE, 102.68 HP
  • Payout in 2 days

   435 9
• revisesociology (82)in #politics • 6 days ago

  Burnham's PR pledge: fairness, or just fear of losing?

  Andy Burnham has committed Labour to changing the voting system in its next manifesto, along with a shiny new national commission to look at the options. But hardly anyone votes…

  $5.79

  • Pending payout amount: $5.79
  • Breakdown: 0.00 HBD, 59.05 HIVE, 59.05 HP
  • Payout in 23 hours

   235 3
• revisesociology (82)in #economics • 7 days ago

  America's booming... so why is Trump about to get a kicking?

  I was reading in The Week about a piece by Ruchir Sharma in the FT which asks why the US economy is flying and yet Trump's lot look set to get hammered in the midterms next…

  $7.73

  • Past Payouts $7.73
  • - Author $3.87
  • - Curators $3.86

   333 5
• revisesociology (82)in #money • 8 days ago

  Lucky Ties, Full Moons and Diwali Trades: Is the Stock Market Just Posh Astrology?

  I was reading a little Economist editorial in The Week about how superstitious traders are..... Lucky ties and auspicious numbers The examples are fun enough. American…

  $10.62

  • Past Payouts $10.62
  • - Author $5.31
  • - Curators $5.30

   319 4
• revisesociology (82)in #apoclypse • 10 days ago

  The four horsemen of the commodity apocalypse – or just another Evans-Pritchard winter?

  Ambrose Evans-Pritchard's latest column in the Times has four horsemen galloping in together: the wars in Iran and Ukraine; the tightly interlinked markets for oil, gas and…

  $13.00

  • Past Payouts $13.00
  • - Author $6.50
  • - Curators $6.50

   309 6
• revisesociology (82)in #life • 11 days ago

  The minivan comeback, or the end of the SUV con?

  I was reading in The Week that the humble minivan is making a comeback in America, and maybe this is really a story about people finally noticing they've been had. For years…

  $9.59

  • Past Payouts $9.59
  • - Author $4.80
  • - Curators $4.79

   386 5
• revisesociology (82)in #wealth • 12 days ago

  Warren Buffett: the 'good billionaire' is still a billionaire

  I was reading in The Week about Warren Buffett finally stepping down as chair of Berkshire Hathaway, at the grand old age of 96, and the tone of the coverage was basically one…

  $10.34

  • Past Payouts $10.34
  • - Author $5.17
  • - Curators $5.16

   352 6
• revisesociology (82)in #benefits • 14 days ago

  Are most of us really 'net beneficiaries' of the state?

  Dominic Lawson, writing in the Telegraph, thinks taming the welfare bill will be Andy Burnham's toughest challenge. According to this figures 53% of us live in households that…

  $6.38

  • Past Payouts $6.38
  • - Author $3.19
  • - Curators $3.19

   261 3
• revisesociology (82)in #uk • 15 days ago

  Britain is as productive as France! (We just went on holiday)

  Chris Giles has some cheerful news in the FT: Britain is apparently far less useless than we thought. For fifteen years economists have scratched their heads over why UK…

  $13.88

  • Past Payouts $13.88
  • - Author $6.95
  • - Curators $6.94

   304 2
• revisesociology (82)in #uk • 16 days ago

  Labour's quiet immigration 'success': how much of it is actually Labour's?

  Lionel Barber, writing in the i, reckons Labour has one striking achievement it never shouts about: it has got immigration under control. Net migration is down more than 80% from…

  $8.44

  • Past Payouts $8.44
  • - Author $4.22
  • - Curators $4.21

   268 3
• revisesociology (82)in #life • 17 days ago

  Weeklyish Running Update - Park Life...

  Three pretty standard classic runs in the last week, just my routine ATM really.... All around the same Park! Saturday Park Run.... It was another beautiful day - with a…

  $6.61

  • Past Payouts $6.61
  • - Author $3.31
  • - Curators $3.30

   338 3
• revisesociology (82)in #pensions • 18 days ago

  The welfare bill: everyone wants to talk about the sick, nobody wants to talk about the pensioners

  This week's The Week ran a briefing asking whether the welfare bill is out of control. It's a decent roundup, but it includes a shaded box titled 'Perverse incentives', and you…

  $14.42

  • Past Payouts $14.42
  • - Author $7.21
  • - Curators $7.20

   427 3
• revisesociology (82)in #holiday • 19 days ago

  Paycation: England's new tourist tax is less scary than the hotel lobby claims

  At some point in the next few years you might book a couple of nights in an English hotel and notice a new line on the bill. The government has announced that mayors in England…

  $9.33

  • Past Payouts $9.33
  • - Author $4.67
  • - Curators $4.66

   428 5
• revisesociology (82)in #uk • 20 days ago

  More devolution needs more local news – but who's going to pay for it?

  If more decisions are going to be made locally, someone needs to be watching the people making them. Back in the 1980s, Britain had around 1,600 local newspapers employing tens…

  $5.08

  • Past Payouts $5.08
  • - Author $2.54
  • - Curators $2.54

   306 2
• revisesociology (82)in #cent • 21 days ago

  Nationalising Rotherham's steel: industrial strategy or Meccano politics?

  The government is buying another steelworks. Having already taken British Steel's Scunthorpe blast furnaces into public ownership this summer, it's now working towards acquiring…

  $7.16

  • Past Payouts $7.16
  • - Author $3.59
  • - Curators $3.58

   297 2