How am I not surprised... Collapse of UK property lender sends shockwaves through Wall Street - www.ft.com/content/6731... via @FT

Extreme left language like ‘island of neighbours’😂

The SMR craze is just like the AI craze. And they are, of course, mutually connected. ‘Selling a dream’: the French nuclear start-up that ran aground - www.ft.com/content/a782... via @FT

As signalled, @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu annouces to move ahead on Mercosur: "I said before, when they are ready, we are ready... after intense discussions with member states and the European Parliament, I will propose the provisional application of the Mercosur Trade agreement."

'Members of the University and College Union (UCU) at the University of Edinburgh are to begin strike action following management's plans for £140 million in cuts and up to 1,800 job losses.' 1/2

The big shock will come when everyone discovers that not only young progressives vote green. I wouldn't be surprised by some Green winning in rural or semi-rural areas in the future.

Die @fau.de behauptet auf ihrer Website dieses. Das ist #Quatschjura. Eine solche Verpflichtung existiert nicht, das Verbot ist rechtswidrig. Jede·r Angehörige der Uni könnte Feststellungsklage (§ 43 VwGO) ergeben. Diese wäre zulässig und sehr sicher auch begründet. www.fau.de/studium/inte...

The civil service people survey results are out DHSC has the largest drop in engagement (staff morale) among Whitehall departments, 6ppts from 63% to 57% The dept also had a *13 ppt* drop for its leadership and managing change theme Seems like NHS England abolition is causing serious discontent

If Labour campaigners and leadership keep belittling the Green Party as a movement and underestimating the skills of Green leaders then Labour is heading straight to electoral oblivion. Stop refighting past factional wars within your own party and start adapting to new realities.

turns out McSweeney and the Blue Labour gang were wrong and the out of touch woke liberal elite Bluesky echo chamber bubble was right

One casualty of the racialisation of class: people fail to recognise that most Bangladeshi and Pakistani people in Britain are working class That they have the highest rates of poverty And that historically economic and related factors have been the key driver of their voting behavior

I guess we'll get yet another reboot.

Meanwhile, in other economic news, high interest rates cause inflation. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:

Postdoc-Stelle am @zzfpotsdam.bsky.social ! zzf-potsdam.de/chancen/stel...

Get me the most Belgian street name possible. No, that’s too Belgian.

This is what happens when you operate on a 'let's go with the best case scenario' plan coupled with a build, build, build obsession. Rapid UK coastal erosion throws spotlight on £40bn nuclear plant - www.ft.com/content/7f09... via @FT

people born in america probably don’t realize how cool america used to be. how many random people around the world built their identity around US signifiers. the decline of American cultural hegemony is going to have long term consequences we're only beginning to see. new post

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

I've been in the field of Ukrainian Studies for 25 years. You can download a PDF read my Ukraine under Western Eyes (2013) book FREE right here. 12/12 Link: www.academia.edu/1937504/Ukra...

💙💛🌻🧵Today, on February 24th, four plus eight years feels so heavy. I am just an ally, but all the deaths will do that. It is a long multi-allied struggle and by now, I hesitate to celebrate heroes or resilience. Back to 2013/14, if not 2004. 1/12

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Very happy to be in such great company and having contributed to this excellent volume with a chapter on ‘Studying Populist Security Narratives: An Analytical Framework’. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

The impact of austerity and Brexit build up over time and will take years to reverse. That's the reality that far too many politicians deny. You simply can't flip a switch (or pull a lever 🤦) and make everything right again.

Turns out (says @jburnmurdoch.ft.com) it's not so much an oversupply of graduates in the UK (the same would be true of other similar countries but it's not) as an undersupply of the kind of jobs that a better-performing, more productive economy would supply.

Importantly, this shows how long it's going to take to build this back. There simply are not sufficient numbers of speech and language therapists and psychologists - and the situation at UK unis doesn't help here. More training of teachers is a red herring.

Under current funding arrangements, fewer pupils means less money for teachers. Without government direction, many cash-strapped councils would seize the chance to cut education budgets for mainstream schools. But the Send rethink shifts the goalposts.

Absent from today’s debate about Send changes is the fact that by 2032 there will be 800,000 fewer children in the UK (cos of falling birth rate and immigration). This will have a profound impact on schools. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The important thing here is that AI is not affecting the way businesses in London are leasing office space. They are assuming they will still have the same number of people working for them. That is a counter indicator to the AI reworking the graduate labour market.

500 billion extra dollars to the US military budget won't save the US Navy if sailors and officers feel so badly treated that they leave the service in droves even as recruitment becomes increasingly difficult www.wsj.com/us-news/miss...

Great opportunity here for historians of voluntary action and child poverty to have their say, as the Education and Work and Pensions Select Committees reviews the government's plans, record and level of ambition on ending child poverty committees.parliament.uk/work/9581/re...

Fascinating story on a waste dump in green belt land that was supposed to become a putting range. I wonder: is there a trend to use land as more or less legal waste dump until conditions for a sale are ideal? Local/EA coordination a particular issue. www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/golf-course-...

I don't know what the evidence is, but I never see any political capital in building roads. Drivers want roads as a basic entitlement and don't thank the government for providing them. In fact they're likely to moan endlessly about how long a road development is taking.

My unpopular opinion is that regional policy is incredibly hard and takes a lot of money deployed consistently over a long time (have people forgotten about German unification?) New Labour certainly didn’t ignore these areas. What could they have done differently? is the question we should ask

Morgen in Frankfurt 👉 www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/eventleser/k....

This looks great.

Guten Morgen zusammen - wie gewohnt mit einem aktuellen Bild der Sonne per Satellit SDO.

Commodore SX-64 (1983). This $995 computer was a briefcase-size "luggable" of the Commodore 64 and is considered the first full-color portable computer.

Eye catching story. But more generally the wider economics of Pokemon cards are pretty interesting. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

RIP 👇👇👇

'Turbocharging growth' UK unemployment hits post-pandemic peak as wage growth cools - www.ft.com/content/241a... via @FT

This is part of a bigger story that hasn't had much coverage about the FCDO being cut to ribbons. Development funding has been slashed but foreign office staff are also being reduced by 20-30%.

"Jeder geht davon aus, dass er übers Ohr gehauen wird.“

And another bites the dust? The BBC World Service will run out of funding in just seven weeks. Its funding arrangement with the Foreign Office finishes at the end of March. There is no plan for what happens next. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Was Palantir lieber nicht in der Zeitung gelesen hätte: Schweizer Armee evaluiert das System und entscheidet dagegen. Sie „fürchtete, dass ein Abfluss von Daten aus den Palantir-Systemen hin zu US-amerikanischen Geheimdiensten wie CIA und NSA technisch nicht verhindert werden könne.“

According to multiple NYT sources, it wasn’t even military personnel at Fort Bliss that fired an anti-drone laser at alleged cartel drones. It was CBP who used the weapon on loan from DoD against a child’s party balloon they mistook for a drone. The Pentagon gave CBP an anti-aircraft weapon.

What is effective about this Burnham statement is it reads like something that he is personally invested in and is not worried about criticism for. More of this please.