Aveek Bhattacharya
Strategy Fellow, Global Health & Wellbeing at Coefficient Giving. Views my own
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- Been saying for ages, the possibility of someone from the 2024 intake being next is underrated - though more plausible if the contest comes later in the parliament bsky.app/profile/avee...
- My read tonight including what I think is an growing belief among the 2024 intake that none of current options for leadership are up to it, and they are starting to look among their own ranks www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
- Could get far worse PMs through far worse processes
- Seems bad to me that many voters engage so shallowly with politics that they don't notice their ideological inconsistency. People should take the responsibility of democratic citizenship more seriously imo
- Another bump for this, I'm in it if that helps (though you should be reading Ros' work anyway)
- I'm excited to read this book, though pedantically I don't think meat can be humanity's favourite food when so many people are vegetarian or near vegetarian. What is humanity's favourite (at that level of generality)? Maybe sugar?
- Can we have meat without livestock? The vegan who wants to leave steak on the menu - @brucefriedrich.bsky.social says humanity will never give up its favourite food: #meat. But we won’t need to when alternative proteins cost the same and taste as good www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- I am temperamentally disposed to be in favour of queueing in pubs, out of the same instinct that means I prefer traffic lights to roundabouts and favour a written constitutions. This probably means I somewhat underrate the spontaneous order of custom and free markets.
- You'll never sing that
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- This phenomenon is a major challenge for "deliverism" I think. If you're a politician, you can't just improve people's lives and hope they'll thank you for it - you need to convince them that wider society is getting better too, something they're disinclined to believe
- I don't think politicians have ever loved confronting trade offs, but I agree it's a particularly bad habit of this government. I don't think it's bad faith either - they have a tendency to convince themselves that min wage/employment rights/migration restrictions are actually good for growth
- I tried to think through whether the animal welfare strategy could make any electoral difference. As much as anything it's an interesting case study in trying to reason through whether *any* policy matters. aveekbhattacharya.substack.com/p/the-animal...
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- I think this dynamic would be helpful for Labour in 2028, but not in 2026. Which is part of why I think they'd be smarter to hold off on a leadership election for as long as possible
