If the UK does this two years after the EU directive.

Wonderful to present at the 2024 Economic Measurement Workshop 一橋大学. Great feedback and lots of interesting papers.

The UK is far behind Japan in mascots. Their stats bureau has two. Office for National Statistics (ONS) - can we catch up?

An end-of-year 🎄Economics Observatory piece from me featuring an over-engineered Christmas dinner calculator and my favourite axes I’ve put on any chart this year. economicsobservatory.com/what-can-chris…

There are basically no French-language globally known musicians - I can only think of Stromae. It’s tempting to blame this on globalisation/Americanisation but Kpop stars; Rosalía; Burna Boy; etc. do very well internationally. Where did France go wrong?

Wrote a BACI trade API for an HMT Hackathon, and did some vectorDB stuff for cool semantic goods searching + data viz. Shocked by how quickly vector dbs have become easy and cheap. Had a great time and delighted that our team won!

Great guide to what the Trump tariffs mean for the UK and how they will affect prices, by @RD_economist Finn McEvoy and Joshua Hellings. economicsobservatory.com/liberation-day

JUST PUBLISHED – The global water crisis: what is the right policy response? By Sam Bickel-Barlow 👇 buff.ly/6edLg9d

JUST PUBLISHED – What do the UK’s high streets reveal about regional inequality? By Finn McEvoy buff.ly/IlguQVD