New from The Fitzwilliam: We are starting a monthly reading group in Dublin about economics, science, and history. Details below, I hope you will join us:

It’s incredible that anyone in the Treasury or the Chancellor’s economic team needs to be told this. It’s literal Econ 101 stuff. Gobsmacked that it’s even being briefed

Will be absolutely dismal if this happens to the S&S ISA. Beyond the wrongheaded understanding of what's wrong with UK equities, the direct effect (obvious if you know anyone who uses the full allocation) will be an affluent cohort spending far more on their primary residence.

Terrific review from Helen Castor for the great @drjoannepaul's new biography of Thomas More. telegraph.co.uk/gift/283acad4f…

I’ve long wondered what the statistics on this were, especially as millennials, anecdotally, have such widely varying memories of what they were taught in history classes.

Credit where it’s due: at least MIT tried to correct this. All too often, institutions just double down behind the fraud!

Why do some houses have rails around the top of the walls? It’s because walls used to be made of plaster and wood. You couldn’t put nails in: it was too weak. So you’d hang pictures from the rails instead. Today, nobody uses picture rails. That’s because of one technology –

Ooh, fantastic. Lambert was one of my favourite lecturers at university - I took his course “British Strategy: 1815-56”

Any naval historians know what this might be, doodled in 1627? It's on a list of preparations for Cornelis Drebbel to use his new-invented weapons against French ships. I'm wondering if it might be a drawing - the only surviving contemporary one? - of his submarine.

“Outwith” - a word I had never, ever heard before moving to Scotland. Now I must hear it almost every day. A useful word too!

New podcast from The Ruffian: the brilliant Dr Anton Howes on the origins of the Industrial Revolution open.substack.com/pub/ianleslie/…

Great piece from Alex Chalmers on nuclear regulations broadly, but this bit really stuck with me. The past is a foreign country etc

We should fix this - why not make the flu jab compulsory for NHS staff? I don’t see why people who work with the sick and vulnerable think they can skip it.

🚨🗺️ I’m extremely pleased to announce that the wonderful ‘Scout’, built by the team at the recently closed Tract, is now OPEN SOURCE! @britishprogress will act as its custodian. Scout is an amazing tool that lets anyone see key planning data online.