The median age in Britain is about 40. The median Briton has not experienced sustained economic growth in their adult life time.

🇫🇮 😊 Finland the world's happiest country for ninth year in a row: UN report Finland has been named the world's happiest country for the ninth year in a row, according to an annual UN-sponsored report. The country’s 5.6 million inhabitants generally report low levels of inequality #geneu_AFP

We at @lsepress.bsky.social are delighted to have 4 of our journals included in this inaugural collection. I’ve seen collective library support in action via our membership of @openbookcollective.bsky.social & it is powerful! Join us!

👀ICYMI: "adults who regularly sleep fewer than six hours face a 20 % higher risk of premature death compared with those who get seven or eight hours." ✍️ @jcosta-font.bsky.social #PublicHealth #Sleep

"...a stark reminder that when public health works, it’s invisible. We don’t see the outbreaks that haven’t happened. It’s also a reminder of the power of vaccines and why building up immunity in the population through routine vaccination programmes is so important." via @profdevisridhar.bsky.social

@brionykidd.bsky.social 😢

British best-selling spy author Len Deighton has died at the age of 97. Read our interview with him, from our archives: ft.trib.al/bG8X33B

@brionykidd.bsky.social this is horrific www.news.com.au/lifestyle/re...

We’re delighted to announce that Nicholas Stern, author of The Growth Story of the 21st Century: The Economics and Opportunity of Climate Action, will be speaking at #HayFestival2026 📚 📅 25 May 2026, 2.30pm – Discovery Stage Find out more: https://bit.ly/47FIIke

@emmavj.bsky.social Has an Emma flavour to it www.economist.com/business/202...

@manjusrii.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The @ipso.co.uk ruling of Telegraph’s preposterous “We earn £345k but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays”, reveals the article to have been a fabrication. There is no such family as Al, Alexandra, Ali, Harry and Barry Moy. Glad to have acted as lead complainant on this.

Woah! RIP

The Strait of Hormuz is critical to global oil and gas supplies, and to the conflict in Iran. Mohsen Khezri @@lsegeography.bsky.social calls the Strait an “economic clock of war”: a short closure is an oil shock but a long closure becomes an inflation and growth shock @lsebr.bsky.social

This #WorldSleepDay, in the latest piece for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social, Professor Joan Costa-i-Font draws your attention to the overlooked pillar in healthcare prevention: #sleep 💤 👉Read the blog based on his LSE Consulting report here: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Today is #WorldSleepDay! 💤 Did you know that humans sleep less than any other primate? David R. Samson reveals the reasons for this evolutionary paradox—and shares many other compelling insights—in his new book, The Sleepless Ape. Out May 19! Preorder yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

under pressure 🎶

the FT is one of those publications I tried to read as a kid and didn't really get, and always assumed was a stodgy/impenetrable financial paper. In reality it's the best financial (or finance adjacent) publication in the world, and regularly one of the funniest

@j-amesmarriott.bsky.social presents www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

@manjusrii.bsky.social cdh.princeton.edu/news/2025/11...

@manjusrii.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/coruna...

Many thanks from all our authors to the 16,400 readers who have downloaded a copy of our book "Australia's Evolving Democracy" since publication 15 months ago. It's free, one-click open access here, and always will be. press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3...

I miss indie.

Fascinating lecture by Dr Hannah Critchlow on the extent to which we are “pre-programmed” by our genes versus neuroplasticity. (Image shows what happens to the brain when the volunteer on stage was given clay to play with) #RosalindFranklinlecture

Hard-fi are back! youtu.be/COQvrcevrDg?...

Happy #WorldBookDay! 📚 Did you know that all LSE Press books and journals are published #openaccess? That means they’re completely free to read and download, giving you access to high-quality research that shapes public policy, at no cost. Find out more: https://press.lse.ac.uk/

BBC Four is repeating This Life to coincide with its 30th anniversary, beginning with a double bill on Wed 18 March with a new filmed intro from Daniela Nardini. #ThisLife

What a lovely tribute from her mum.

Another excellent @lseimpactblog.bsky.social post.

If you want to know how the British print news industry ends (which is, de facto, amazingly still what supports most newspaper websites) it's the distribution channels getting banjaxed. When you lose "TG Jones" etc even people who want a paper can't get one. That'll be the real start of the ending.

@brionykidd.bsky.social how was this ever popular? Hopefully she finds something better. I found the show to be crass and vulgar but imagine that was its usp. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

No it isn’t. If anything learning to craft a good one will be a substantial benefit to any jobseeker.

@manjusrii.bsky.social Some good news www.politico.eu/politico-exp...

This is bleak. Good blogpost though.

Excellent reporting by @jim.londoncentric.media, @pollysmythe.bsky.social, @coramazov.bsky.social with a robust and swift response by @tomcopley.bsky.social www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

I decree today that on 26 March we welcome Mike Joyce, The Drums in conversation to the Red Lion, Leytonstone 📕 Tickets www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1983727792... @musicmaps.bsky.social

My short courses in writing for web and content accessibility have been selling really well lately, hooray! Explore Cake user-centred design courses yourself on the website. 🍰🎂 #UCD #ContentDesign #Accessibility #Usability #WritingForWeb #Usability #UXWriting #Readability

Do you know a city, town or region with great bookshops? 📚 We'd love you to contribute to our global bookshop guide series! Email us at [email protected] with the place you'd like to feature. 📷 Photo of Daunt Books, Marylebone, London by mirigifford on Shutterstock

The best thing about @maryannehobbs.bsky.social BBC R6 show is that it's like going for a coffee or tea with an old friend who has excellent music taste. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Avoid Being Gordon Ramsay on Netflix. Produced by his own production company Studio Ramsay of which he has final cut. Six episodes of corporate marketing with some swish editing and sound design. Almost nothing about food. A world away from Jamie Oliver’s approach.

@crimegirl.co.uk Thank you for this crimegirlcouk.wordpress.com/2020/08/17/i...

LSE Press books are now available on JSTOR open access and many other outlets blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsepress/202...

Such a good piece today from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com which shows that the declining graduate premium is very much a UK problem rather than a general (or inevevitable) consequence of more people going to uni www.ft.com/content/649d...

Charli XCX was called “edgy and alternative” on #R4Today

Finished reading this today. As memoirs go the first third was interesting from Ilford to LSE. The chapters near the end are sometimes only a few pages and often read like an Apple notes entry. It reads like it has been transcribed instead of typed.

L: Private Eye front cover, yesterday. R: News headline, today. Stay ahead of the news; buy the Eye.

Wise words from... *checks notes* Jeff Bezos (in 2017)...

Around 3 million people work in *all* skilled trades. You can argue, given shortages, we maybe need 3.5 million. She wants 50% of 40 million adults to be trained in these jobs?!