The UK government and the EU need to do something together about X. Now. It is pushing racist nonsense that is now bleeding into the mainstream media.

The economics of Brexit, 10 years on. My summary. ukandeu.ac.uk/brexit-ten-y...

Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.

The EHRC is meant to protect our human rights. Instead, they have drafted a manual for exclusion and harassment -one that explicitly admits it will have profoundly negative impacts on many trans people's lives at every level. Stripping Away the Power of the Law 6/17

Revealing confusion here. Social care is a lottery - you might need a lot, you might keel over. People don't self-insure because you might keel over. People want to pass on wealth to their children, but the current model punishes inheritance for the children of parents who need a lot. 1/

It is hard to overstate the egregiousness of this failure. The body whose statutory duty is to protect the human rights of, and prevent discrimination against, trans people has published exclusionary rules for trans people under the aegis of a government run by the party which created those duties.

This government’s defining quality is cowardice and now it has wobbled its way to a policy that 10 years ago was confined to the most extreme Republicans. Shameful

🧵 I’m extremely concerned by reports the government is exploring an “unofficial” supermarket price capping policy. Supermarkets already operate on razor thin margins. The CMA found average grocery margins were just 1.8% in 2022/23. 1/7

Too long; didn't read? 👇 Come hear it in person instead at LSE on Wed 20 May at 6:30pm. Full details here: www.lse.ac.uk/events/trade-2

Maybe the government should do something about corrupt foreign influence in British politics?

‪Trade is under strain. Understanding why demands more than one lens. To move beyond the headlines, check out our new special issue in LSE Public Policy: ppr.lse.ac.uk/16/volume/4/... Academically rigorous. Accessible to all. Huge thanks to my fellow editor and co-author @thomsampson.bsky.social

Good data is essential for policy. Today it’s been a year since we had a permanent National Statistician. No news on what is happening with the current recruitment which began Oct 2025. This is an under the bonnet issue that points to state failure 🧵 uksa.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/news/stateme...

Breaking: it turns out that a strategy that literally every political scientist went 'No, don't do that. That's nuts!' is, in fact, nuts.

relentless poll chasing + contempt for your political base + a total absence of principle or vision = political disaster www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/o...

Yet another example of the cruelty and incompetence of the UK immigration authorities, and the callous and unfeeling ministers responsible for them. Now blocking (and doing nothing to help) an 11-month-old baby born in the UK to a British mother from returning. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A Harvard study just published estimates Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has already caused 600,000 deaths 2/3 of them children. That is his legacy in this world.

Our aid cuts have been just as severe. It won't kill as many people because we spent less to start with, and focused a bit less on health/food programmes. But we've got nothing to be proud of here.

The biggest, deepest, most in-depth guide to the London borough elections you will find. @lewisbaston.bsky.social and I have gone ward-by-ward. It is a journey through the whole of the city: londondecides.lowickhedry.com #london

New UK steel tariffs ‘threaten’ British manufacturing, steel importers warn ministers. Letter from Confederation of British Metalforming to the U.K. trade department warns that protections meant to boost homegrown steelworks risk “severely disrupting supply chains.” www.politico.eu/article/new-...

Reform donor Ben Delo, who has given £4 million to the party, is making legal threats to those who reference his 2022 US conviction for failing to implement anti-money laundering laws, prior to a pardon by President Trump. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"Mentally unstable President given huge powers by cowardly party threatens to blow up the world" is the headline you're looking for.

Had several very sobering conversations with many able, intelligent and interested potential @cam.ac.uk applicants today in Yaounde. This UK visa ban is the most absurd measure and everyone in higher education should contact their MPs now. This is Home Office under Labour gone absolutely mad. 😡

Wondering what leverage in negotiations looks like? Australia's new FTA with the EU provides 16,830 tonnes of tariff free access for beef. Australia's FTA with the UK, completed with a desperate Johnson administration, provided 35,000 tonnes tariff free, rising to unlimited over 15 years.

The evidence is overwhelming: Brexit has been a disaster for London and the UK. Rejoining the EU is now clearly in our national interest. The option to rejoin should be on the ballot at the next General Election. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is cruel to the young people concerned, self-destructive for the UK and will not win over a single Reform voter.

Applications open for our @cep-lse.bsky.social summer internship programme.

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

VAR really takes any joy out of football. Just scrap it

Two stories here - the failure of the Starmer/McSweeney political strategy and Reform's toxicity to social liberals. The latter is important and seems underdiscussed. bsky.app/profile/samf...

🚨New report from us BCG CfG today🚨 we take a sector & firm view of UK productivity growth over past 3 decades, including benchmarking against peers. UK is falling back from global frontier but for quite different reasons in different sectors 1/

This lawsuit seems appalling to me, honestly. I feel for people whose student experience was lousy due to Covid but that's not the fault of universities. "I wanted in-person study." I'm sure you did. Nobody gets what they want in a global pandemic

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Just want to flag that, in total, the UK trades more goods with the EU than services. It’s a confusing story, because the UK overall has a comparative advantage in services, so has a positive trade balance, whereas we import a lot more goods than we export to the EU…

It is absolute and utter neglect to let this come this close to the wire just as the US has let most of its overseas broadcasting shutter.

I'm not sure I could ever forgive this government if it allows the BBC World Service to die

the loss of the World Service would be a tragedy and huge lost of soft power for Britain

I have been thinking a lot about this question. I saw David's YOLO'd paper, and have done similar things on my own. His paper's abstract is pasted below. 1. It's a remarkable achievement that CC can do this with minimal prompting. 2. The paper is unbelievably banal from a research standpoint.

Disgraceful decision by the IOC

Disgusting remarks, and that’s before you note this is someone who moved to (colonised as he would put it) a tax haven news.sky.com/story/the-uk...

Great discussion between @martinsandbu.ft.com and Michael Sandel on the rise of technocratic liberalism and the populist counter-revolution www.ft.com/content/7804...

New personal piece: Why does regulation often feel so toothless? The news is full of businesses behaving badly and seeming to get off very lightly. Why? As someone who used to work for a regulator, I wanted to set out some of the very simple reasons regulators struggle…

Usually UK companies base operations in other countries to get over barriers *their* governments impose, not ours.

The new LSE Research for the World has a reading list on the workings & future of world trade, chosen by @sjrickard.bsky.social @lsegovernment.bsky.social @thomsampson.bsky.social @cep-lse.bsky.social @lsepublicpolicy.bsky.social & researchers @lselaw.bsky.social @africaatlse.bsky.social & more 📚👇

🚨 New KITE analysis on the EU–India trade deal: Simulations show sizable trade effects from the “mother of all deals” linking ~1/4 of global GDP and ~1/5 of the world’s population. Beyond gains, it strengthens supply-chain diversification and market access in an uncertain global economy. Link here👇

More profiles in cowardice: Target, Best Buy, General Mills, Cargill and roughly four dozen other large MN companies issued a public letter calling for an “immediate de-escalation of tensions” in the state. Stops short of condemning the killings or who is responsible for them.

This country's ability to rinse the young and then berate them as lazy avocado addicts is ridiculous. They're so up against it, it's madness. - as.ft.com/r/094f3968-1...

There’s always a post..

Prioritising balance over objectivity is the most cowardly exercise that a news outlet or journalist can engage in. 'The evidence shows X, but the regime says Y - so it's impossible to know the truth.' Lies should not be afforded the same respect and credibility as the evidence that exposes them.

I’m really quite surprised at the BBC website today. ‘Here is a video, some people say it does not show what it very obviously shows’ is not how you report this.

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.