This is rather geopolitically interesting. www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-oil-...

Any news on the Epstein case?

Labour. The very definition of strategically stuck in the middle.

Most UK cities seem to be slowly improving or only getting a little bit worse on this traffic scorecard. inrix.com/scorecard/

I don't think they have guacomole in prison. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Fancy doing a PhD on a football related topic? We are looking for someone to work with us on a joint piece of research with Kick It Out evaluating why EDI in football often leads more to 'symbolic compliance' than cultural change. Find out more here: www.york.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Freudian slip the day thanks to @wonkhe.bsky.social

USS - apparently not doing quite as badly as we might think giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Find out about Alex Gillett and I's new book about the British influence on the Olympic movement in this week's @uoysbs.bsky.social spotlight research blog! #bizhis #mgthis #sporthistory #mbh blogs.york.ac.uk/sbs-spotligh...

Get into the new Pacer v Sprinter second generation DMU war...and find out why Pacers were rubbish into the bargain.

Some good discussion of High Streets up on the Granuiad site - but what is missing from the discussion remains how much worse the problem of visible decline is in the UK compared to other European countries (or indeed Asia or Australia). www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

Something is going right for towns which have played to their strengths to foster economic growth such as Wakefield, Barnsley and Doncaster. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Strategic. www.visualcapitalist.com/how-greenlan...

Exciting new(ish) map from Railmaponline - year by year timeline of the North East from 1825 to the present. #mgthis #bizhis #mbh www.railmaponline.com/north-east-t...

Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland. And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.

Neat piece about a new book on crisp packets and their strategic significance #bishis #mgthis #mbh www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Two examples of needless and unthinking AI misuse in the public realm in one day. How long before we see an AI misuse in public life that causes a disaster that costs lives?

Every year this is not done is money out of our econony, and every year the compound of the lost potential grows higher. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Potential good news if true, now put the committment in and get on with it.

This paper on political campaign spending is available on open access until the 21st Jan doi.org/10.1017/S002... and shows a strong correlation between candidate spending and votes that has increased since the 1880s.

One of the facets of this is that in Europe it seems to be just a British issue - retail stores, corporate and independent, seem to be well maintained and thriving in just about every other country. The management of British retailers should be made to visit Spain to see how to do it properly.

Merry Christmas all!

A good article about why the new GBR brand is just so, so bad. It doesn't even follow Network Rail's own 'Wayfinder' guidelines.

I've always thought a botched England tour would make an excellent comedy film, sort of like a combination between Mike Bassett and Spinal Tap. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

Good little article about why archives still matter and should continue to matter.

Day night matches, shorter matches, points only for a win, teams all play each other or not....just a reminder that the County Championship has always been kicked around and experimented with, even when it was the only competition. Daily Mail, 7 Aug. 1931, p. 15.

Unfortunate incident at Rockferry @rwldproject.bsky.social Daily Mail, 8 Dec. 1922, p. 10.

Don't expect privacy if you check into a hotel in Hastings in 1895. "Hotel Arrivals." Hastings and St. Leonards Observer, 5 Jan. 1895, p. 7.

Personally I think good design tends to abstract the symbolism into it rather than shouting it, so this is a fail.

Congratulations to Dr Turner, this is extremely well merited.

Devotion to a lost cause.

Cambridge needs a proper metro. www.businessweekly.co.uk/posts/cambri...

Its good to see this project finally come to an end - though building a new bridge would have been quicker and perhaps cheaper! www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/news/transpo...

Wakes up. Checks Cricinfo. The usual service resumes. Defeat 22 in 23 Tests in Australia beckons. And every time they mess around with the County Championship, looking for the magic answer. And they never find it. If only the Test players had featured in the dreadful Kookaburra matches!

The Bazball ethos seems to be to bowl yourself into an amazing position, then blow it all with the bat.

Our paper in the MOH SI on Microhistory about FIFA Secretary General Helmut Käser’s 1967 business trip to Northern Ireland and London for the IFAB annual conference is now available open access (apparently). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Listen to me in a discussion with CIPD fellow and HR scholar Sinéad McCotter about how we use theatre - with professional actors - in the classroom to give students reflexive 'real world' type experiences. This demonstrates the continuing value and relevance of humanities in the business school.

UK HE sector remains dangerously over-exposed to business schools under-recruiting postgraduate overseas students. charteredabs.org/insights/new...

It seems there is some reverse traffic in the current American cultural and by extension political invasion of the US.

Thank you to all who came to our launch session yesterday!

Good sense from @garethdennis.uk, LBA must be the worst airport in Europe. www.youtube.com/shorts/D-yIJ...

Good observation of what empricial historical research can do. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

With only 10.5% of the population high school qualified but without a degree, India isn't neccessarily the cleverest place for UK universities to set up overseas branches. South Africa, Romania, Brazil or even Czechia have a much bigger gap. www.visualcapitalist.com/most-educate...

How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS? You know what platform never crashes?

Running your own server and web presence often is a core capability, and outsourcing it a very bad strategy indeed.

If you missed it, I won the British Academy of Management Medal for Contribution to Communities. www.york.ac.uk/business-soc...

People with a degree are still more likely to be employed than those without one. The common view that having a degree is pointless in today's world is simply erroneous. www.ft.com/content/ea9e...

I think the AI 'industry' can afford it, or does the free market and property rights only work in certain circumstances.

Its good to see the Pacer controversey just won't die - they did not save rural railways. And I've yet to see actual numbers to evidence that they did.

Always nice to have the physical copy in your hands.