Brilliant news, best band in the world @ezracollective.bsky.social

🚨🚨🚨 Our new report on hotel accommodation drops today. These hotels are not 5*. Here's the proof. Relying on testimony from clients, photos & medical evidence, you can now see the awful reality of hotel life. More updates throughout the day so watch this space. www.ramfel.org.uk/asylum-hotel...

One of our suggestions in our Environment Special. #EconSky podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n... Amazing how undervalued UK jazz has always been to this country. How long have we been waiting for a UK jazz centre. Maybe time for Lisa Nandy to swap one of the many opera houses we have.

Excited to get an article into the current issue of Economics today from. Takes the mind of Liverpool losing and the weather!

Nice, new review of Ricardo's Dream "If you are interested in economics, history, politics and world affairs you should read this book" michaelcoblenz.medium.com/simple-econo...

Latest from me: on seven-party politics, why it's not going to go away & how Labour and the Tories are completely thrown by it www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Fantastic book. A proper deep dive into who is really ripping us off

Great journalism, shame the new football regulator can’t enforce a ‘fit and proper’ owners test on Man City. But guess they can step in if they want to change the badge!

If you read anything this weekend, make it this by @barneyronay.bsky.social - www.theguardian.com/football/202...

open.spotify.com/album/3SUEJU... A work of art

Now playing The B-52's - Mesopotamia 👇Click to read👇 friendica.world/display/84b6... #NowPlaying #Vinyl #TheB52s #Mesopotamia #Pop #Rock #Music

The new Economics Today magazine has our article on Margaret Thatcher in it and we made the front cover! If you teach or study A-Level Economics, why not subscribe? economicsfactory.com/product-cate... Learn more about #Thatcher from our podcast. #EconSky podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Superb article “Centering his campaign on making life affordable again, Mamdani won because he offered hope”

Inspired by Capatalism and its critics by @johncassidysays.bsky.social to dig a bit deeper into some mentioned. Starting with Karl Polanyi.

A tale of two halves

My mum’s 62 and never been a member of a political party. Today she joined the Greens. The establishment is underselling our want for change. The west is sick of neoliberalism. The public is sick of liars like Labour. The country is sick. The antidote? join.greenparty.org.uk

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Amazing what happens when you put the cost of living as your no.1 priority. Hope Starmer and Reeves are taking note

Big fan of modern art

www.goodreads.com/book/show/21... Now finished and what a truely outstanding book by @johncassidysays.bsky.social I gave it 5/5 on GoodReads, so expect sales to rocket now!

Great analysis of the broken housing market, especially in London from the FT

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... A great listen with @rockingbob.bsky.social and Pete Wiggs, who I used to DJ with at Smithfields back in the day, which I am sure is his career highlight.

Great episode, where Martin Lewis is doing the job that the government is failing to do. Calling out the regulators and private monopolies that are ripping us off daily. Why isn’t Rachel Reeves doing this? @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com

Happy World Vegan Day! A vegan is a person who abstains from all animal products, including meat, fish, dairy, and eggs, and may extend this principle to other areas of their life to avoid animal exploitation  #WorldVeganDay #vegan #EduSky #EduSkyUK #Disability #SEND

It's not a grassroots working class movement. "Wherever we looked for prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler." manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

Great read. Shame and ignorant that my local council think it’s a bit of fun

The biggest Q people want me to ask is 'why the hell do we pay more for energy than anyone else in Europe?' A snip from full Martin v Ofgem boss new episode of the Martin Lewis Podcast. Listen to it all on BBC Sounds, Apple, Spotify & all the usual pod players. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Martin Lewis, as always standing up for working people, which successive governments have failed to do.

Thoroughly deserved, a must read for all economists, students, and anyone who is interested in how the world works and has worked in the past

Great day up in London. People who argue that London is over, need to get up to London more

No matter which party is in charge, the shots are being called by powerful donors, not ordinary voters. No wonder most people feel so cynical about politics – they’re dealing with a cost-of-living crisis, while politicians from both parties are on the take. substack.com/home/post/p-...

youtu.be/htQBS2Ikz6c?... Won’t hear a better song this year

Home Office squandered billions on asylum hotels, MPs say Why aren’t right wing protesters protesting outside the offices of Clearsprings, Mears and Serco?

open.spotify.com/episode/464h... Good episode with Arthur Laffer, who makes some good points on simplifying tax and getting rid of all the exemptions and loopholes. Something not always mentioned when teaching the Laffer Curve. Great @economicsinten.bsky.social episode on him

Who'd have thought that politician's words could have consequences? 🤔 We will keep on saying this - we need better role models.

Just read about him. So many ideas from economists/social scientists you're not aware of. A really good read for Black History Month is A Rebel's Guide to Walter Rodney by Chinedu Chukwudinma via @bookmarksbookshop.bsky.social. He appears in the Latin America chapter of Cassidy's book! #EconSky

Had to get @johncassidysays.bsky.social's book after this recommendation. It looks like it's going to be part of the Economics In Ten staple diet alongside these other books by @lindayueh.bsky.social et al. Perfectly sized chapters as well. Check it out! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e... #EconSky

My Sunday Times piece: The negative effects of Brexit on trade, investment, growth and productivity have re-emerged ahead of the November 26 budget. Plus: scrapping the 60% marginal rate would cost a lot: Why the economic fallout from Brexit is a hot issue again www.thetimes.com/article/aa8a...

'Should they move left blah blah, no they need to worry about Reform blah blah' - this stuff is babytalk, they are the government, they need to worry about persistent inflation, poor public services and our exposed public finances:

“Physically, you’re bigger: your shape has changed. But the space is the same. The memories are the same.” I Interviewed Dev Hynes about moving back to Ilford when his mum got sick & how it inspired the incredible album Essex Honey www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

A Great book, started it on Audible, if that counts as ‘reading’ a book nowadays.

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

Latest from me: on what Liverpool says about the housing crisis, and the uneasy state of politics www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Another broken market, along with water, energy and food, pretty much all the basic necessities in life.

I subscribe to the digital FT, but I'l still go and buy the FT Weekend in print, even though I know I'll not make it through more than one section before Monday comes. It reminds me that civilisation and good things are still possible.

One battle after another is possibly the best film I have seen in my whole entire life. That’s it. That’s the tweet.

Very much looking forward to this.

Our next profile for #BlackHistoryMonth is Sir Arthur Lewis - a trailblazer in development economics and the first Black economist to win the Nobel Prize in 1979! A true inspiration for young economists around the world! #Economics #NobelPrize #ArthurLewis #DevelopmentEconomics #DiscoverEconomics