Joel Budd
Journalist at the Economist, writing about life in Britain. Author of "Underdogs".
- My column in today's paper: Labour's white paper is part of an old, old story of how democracies react to waves of migration. But the UK, as with the rest of Europe, is now trying to do it while being an old, old country:
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- Are you interested in social class? I've two working papers which show: 1️⃣ Using actor recordings of different accents, that people derive class from accent and this causally influences trait evaluations 2️⃣ That class-based descriptive representation improves support for the political system. 🧵
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View full threadThis is really interesting. Do you think the large differences between Estuary English and Multicultural London English could be caused partly by assumptions about age and ethnicity? MLE is a younger, more ethnically diverse accent than EE.
- Perhaps. It's a regret that we didn't ask other attributes of the candidates. I would guess it's also partly because it's hyper-local, basically confined to inner London, in a way EE isn't.
- story of British politics for the past decade is people getting what they want and then fucking *hating* it
- When both parties responsible for Brexit campaign against independent trade deals, you do have to wonder what the point of it was
- About tariffs on films. In the late 1940s, with Britain in full post-war austerity, the government was worrying about the dollar outflow from American films. Britain did actually put a 75% tariff on the import of American films. The result was a standoff. Eventually the government backed down
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- We now have >250 wards/divisions reported and an increasingly clear picture of the Reform vote. It is higher in areas with fewer graduates, more people with no qualifications, areas where more people are employed in primary industries (e.g. manufacturing) and areas with more older people.
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- The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory. www.ft.com/content/8459...
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- New voter just dropped: Dead Man www.economist.com/britain/2025...
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- Who will speak for Henry? “Pity the High Earner, Not Rich Yet” economist.com/britain/2025...
