Interesting article as always from @dsmitheconomics.bsky.social but agree with @busecon.bsky.social that housing should have been mentioned for young professionals. Generally the UK economy seems to be a hostile environment for young graduates...no surprise they would look elsewhere.

Book your transport. Invite your friends. Show up. It’s time to show the far right who the real majority is. Join us on 28 March, Central London. #together #28march

London is chaos, horses on the loose. Khan has lost control

Looking forward to this

This is the kind of madness that features in our next podcast. If this was on 'The Day Today' you wouldn't be surprised. News flash - was in London last night, great fun not threatening.

Tosspot

Looking forward to this when it arrives

Can we remove his knighthood? What an odious man, who obviously lives offshore in Monaco

The Economics specifications need a big overhaul

Well done to the Economist for producing this video that calls out the BS targeting London that has infested social media. Facts. www.instagram.com/reel/DUcwBj_...

An important voice speaks up for global victims of war, but fails to join all the dots inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Is he really that stupid?

A great listen

Our new podcast is OUT NOW! In the 1st episode of Season 9, we look at John Stuart Mill, the man who wrote 'On Liberty' & beloved by libertarians everywhere. As always, we delve into his life & ideas & discover more than we expected. Have a listen. #EconSky #EduSky open.spotify.com/episode/6Ewj...

Latest from me: I went to Gorton & Denton, and found the national condition, raging on www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Another great night out in London, were I witnessed, no crimes, no phone thefts, muggings, sharia law. Just people out having a great time Trump/Farage can take their racist dog whistles and do one

V good interview. Lots to think about. www.ft.com/content/9dae... London’s high land prices need ‘market adjustment’, says housing minister

Great to make first appearance on IFS Zooms In Pod. @helenmiller.bsky.social and I were joined by the excellent @alanmanning4.bsky.social to talk about what's happened to to the UK minimum wage, and what impact its having on the UK labour market. Give it a listen.

Harris Federation's accounts have dropped a bit earlier than usual this year, with Schools Week carrying the annual story about increase in Sir Dan Moynihan's £500,000-plus salary two days in advance of accounts publication deadline. schoolsweek.co.uk/best-paid-ac...

Private sector monopolies in action.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Business secretary with little idea how economics work! Which is a bit of a worry

Britain’s business secretary Peter Kyle has called for MPs’ pay to be directly linked to GDP, to incentivise Westminster into prioritising economic growth www.ft.com/content/e401...

Really good article.

Latest from me: I went to minehead, to see - no, really - new council houses & flats. We could build them at scale, if we wanted. So why not? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A great read/listen. @economicsinten.bsky.social is Henry George on your podcast radar? Good chapter on him, as in Capitalism and its Critics

Great gig last night, Emma Rawicz at The Vortex Jazz club, Dalston. UK 🇬🇧 Jazz at its finest

Deloitte's Football Money League shows again the complete incompetence of those working at West Ham. To be ranked 20th in the league & be floundering at the bottom of the Premier League table says it all. And Karren Brady is giving advice on The Apprentice! #EconSky www.deloitte.com/uk/en/servic...

Hey! Teachers! Latest from me, on the (free) Maybe I'm Amazed Substack: one big & overlooked part of The SEND reform story is what it'll mean for people in schools who deal with the issues every day maybeimamazed.substack.com/p/special-ne...

Last week, 10 British far right activists linked to Raise the Colours were banned from France, after months of harassing migrants and NGO staff. In spite of the ban, ex-member Danny Tommo is now planning an action in Dover on 24 January. Read our updated briefing: hopenothate.org.uk/2026/01/20/p...

“Foreign exporters absorbed only 4% of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%. “Rather than acting as a tax on foreign producers, the tariffs functioned as a consumption tax on Americans.” www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

As Robert Jenrick jumps ship, Reform’s “new politics” looks more like a spin cycle for the same people behind 14 years of decline.

Great Audible listen @katieprescott.bsky.social

A really good read on Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon’s links with the UAE

Why we need economic literacy, so you can challenge these ridiculous numbers. This comes under the same umbrella as the recent immigration news & the misunderstanding of that. The general public struggle when they are consistently fed dodgy data and sensational headlines. #EconSky

A must read article:

Latest from me, on an eternally overlooked, sniffed-at issue that is politically huge www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... Water privatisation was, and still is absolutely criminal. One of Thatchers most, shocking, of many, legacies.

Latest from me in The Guardian: about how Farage, Jenrick etc won't be beaten until their delusional version of the UK's past is exposed. And why this should happen in the culture (a la Rock Against Racism) rather than through, say, Keir Starmer speeches www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If Trump visits another country can he be prosecuted in that country or is his game the only one in town? Amazing how crazy the world is going to become. No moral leadership anywhere from the big countries & the big companies. This is 'trickle-down politics' & not in a good way. Rule book torn up!

📗 Read @lukesibieta.bsky.social's report on impact of demographic change on schools across the UK, part of our Education Spending analysis funded by @nuffieldfoundation.org: ifs.org.uk/publications...

Unity is stronger than division. That’s why we’ve formed Together Alliance with 50+ organisations and thousands of individuals — all pushing back against the far right. #Together we show where this country really stands. Join us: togetheralliance.org.uk

2 excellent books for Christmas. Reading the John & Paul one, fantastic insight into songs we thought we knew! @ianleslie.bsky.social

Great book, and think @danielrachel.bsky.social recommended. Never forgot how London was in the late 70’s and 80’s, with the rise of racism and the NF, and only the great work of the GLC and many others in the left transformed London into a more welcoming and diverse place.

@robertshrimsley.bsky.social Important article in the FT. The dog whistles of the racist far right need to be challenged and defeated.

2026: Everything's Not Going To Be Alright ... what PTA's One Battle After Another can teach us about fighting the new fascism .... htsf.substack.com/p/2026-every...

Go to a care home and you see countless people who have looked after people for years on terrible pay. These are the people who should be recognised in the Honours not folk who get very well paid to do their jobs and get all the accolades that come with it. The system is all topsy-turvey. #EconSky