🚨A new cross-regional project has secured £3.4m funding to develop an #AI Research Development Network (AI.RDN+) The network will bring together 20 #highereducation institutions from our membership and Midlands Innovation. Read more: bit.ly/4pq7I6y

🚨Yorkshire Universities launches NEW strategy to champion Yorkshire Our 2025–2030 #Strategy is now live and our strategic priorities are set! We will: Amplify Regional Strengths Unlock New Ideas Partner to Drive Place-based Impact 🔗Read: bit.ly/YU2025-30Strategy #yorkshire #highereducation

We are featured as an established model of regional #highereducation collaboration within this new report, published today by @kpmguk.bsky.social and Mills & Reeve! 🤝 Read the report, 'Radical Collaboration: A Playbook': kpmg.com/uk/en/insigh...

🚨We are featured in a NEW report documenting how #universities can help drive local and regional economies! Our Executive Director, Dr Peter O'Brien, discusses the role of Yorkshire Universities and #highereducation institutions in economic place-shaping. 👉Read more: bit.ly/44TLy2U

⭐This academic year we have supported our members and partners with turning vision into impact! In our End of Year Report, our Executive Director reflects on challenges facing the HE sector, new #policy initiatives and our role in strengthening #collaboration. Read more: bit.ly/3UlTzcp

Disgraceful...https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg5zl75dmm0o

📢“…we can harness all the diverse and different expertise and strengths across our policymakers and also our higher education sector.” Hear from our Executive Director, Dr Peter O'Brien, discussing the strengths of policymaking #collaboration across the region: bit.ly/ypern2025highlights

🚨We are recruiting! Yorkshire Universities (YU) is recruiting a new Associate to work with the YU Executive Team. Read more here: yorkshireuniversities.ac.uk/2025/07/09/w... For further details please contact Dr Peter O'Brien at [email protected] by Monday 28 July 2025.

Concerning news that Financial Ombudsman is proposing to radically slash the interest rate consumers get when they're awarded compensation having been mis-sold or mistreated by firms. Contd

📢 The Government has confirmed an £86b R&D #funding package over the next five years, which includes a new £500m Local Innovation Partnerships Fund. Our Executive Director, Dr Peter O'Brien, has commented on the funding. Read more on our website: bit.ly/4jF89FK #Yorkshire #innovation #growth

I think Tuchel will be a decent short term appointment for the task he has been assigned (the World Cup) but you can't start Jordan Henderson and then complain about the players not taking the game seriously enough.

Car finance mis-selling update: regulator prepares for compensation scheme – and warns against using claims firms. MSE's quick briefing... www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/06...

Disagree. This is about cap ex in places that specifically haven’t had the same degree of cap ex because cap ex breeds cap ex. It’s not a politically London issue, it’s a policy London issue. You can debate it, but that’s what it is

Haven’t even had time to post this. Chancellor is going hard on Manchester-Liverpool railway project as part of capital spending splurge on.ft.com/43LEbu7

EXCLUSIVE: I've been told by multiple sources that Chancellor Rachel Reeves will tomorrow announce mayoral combined authorities will now be getting the billions in transport funding promised by former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak back in 2023. A short thread...

Ilkley Moor today. Stunning scenery...

Great summary of the case for Total Place. As the article says, there's a wide coaltion of organisations who support this. This was @instituteforgovernment.org.uk's contribution from earlier this month: www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...

What is the value in collaborating across the UK nations and regions? Dr Peter O'Brien, our Executive Director, and Kate Hainsworth, YU Associate Consultant, explore this question in an article published by Universities Scotland. Read more: bit.ly/3FmMJiR #economicgrowth #highereducation

More football clubs claiming R&D tax credits. Everton used to be called the ‘school of science’, but clearly there are a few more these days. www.thetimes.com/article/0520...

Since a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd in 2020, the number of people killed by the police each year has continued to rise — and Black Americans are still killed in disproportionate numbers. Our data reporter explains his findings. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...

Sir Alan Bates given ‘take it or leave it’ offer of less than half his Post Office Horizon claim

I wrote the weekend essay in the FT! I’m so chuffed I’ll probably mention it again soon… www.ft.com/content/f725...

Coverage of idiots claiming ‘betrayal’ or ‘surrender’ isn’t just bad journalism, it’s a dereliction of our duty to explain things. I’d actually forgotten just how bad it got but here we are, straight back to treating liars & spivs like authorities of equal weight to experts & honest brokers.

🚨NEW: Senior government source says UK-EU youth mobility scheme and measures to ease trade set to be part of the deal announced at Monday's UK-EU Summit Full story: independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-reset-deal-starmer-youth-mobility-b2748875.html

Some university mergers are now very likely. But multi-university groupings will have one big problem: the whole logic will be austerity and desperation, not creativity and opportunity. That could doom each new mega-uni from the start. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

How Keir Starmer has made foreign-born people in the UK feel… Brave, brilliant callers. www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/epi...

This is why Liverpool and Manchester’s mayors and its two major newspapers are joining forces today

Investing in the North’s connectivity is both good politics and good economics. Because if growth is the question, better transport is the answer. On Friday, we're setting out Yorkshire’s Plan for Rail with Mayor of South Yorkshire, @ynymayor.bsky.social and Lord Blunkett. ow.ly/FuAI50VSj77

Made in Wigan and Bolton: actor Sir Ian McKellen has performed over six decades in genres from Shakespearean drama to popular fantasy and science fiction. Born in 1939 in Burnley, he grew up in Wigan and Bolton. 1/8

Minimum wage is currently £12.21 an hour for 21 year olds and over. A quick internet search suggests care worker hourly pay around me varies from £12.90 to £13.90 an hour at the moment. Let’s see what those offered rates are in 6 months’ time.

BREAKING: GMB Union says “Scrapping care visas will be potentially catastrophic. Care is utterly reliant on migrant workers and there's still over 130,000 vacancies. We are working with the Government to deliver the pay rise care workers deserve. But this won't arrive soon enough to fill the void”

#nzpol At 5pm yesterday, the Treasury informed the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi (NZCTU) it has been barred from attending the Budget lock-up on 22 May. This is the first time the CTU has been prevented from attending a Budget lock-up in living memory

New Post: New Government, familiar problems – By Chris Husbands www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/05/12/n...

🌸A new season, a new newsletter! Take a look at what we have been up to since the frost thawed, in our Spring 2025 Newsletter: bit.ly/YUSpring25 Inside you will find updates on our work in #policy engagement, local and #regionaldevelopment, climate and #sustainability and #graduatetalent.

Red card all day long...#NEWCHE

I disagree with compulsion, and would be surprised to see it happening.

A man pulled up to a gas station to fill up his truck. ICE agents surrounded him and took him away. But his children were left behind. “They arrested someone,” witness said. “They left the children inside the truck.” www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...

Brilliant result for Hull KR! www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-...

Lads, they’ve renamed International Political Economy. www.ft.com/content/daf5...

Totally agree with this. Time and again people say things to me which is downright David Icke style stuff. Every couple of days I'm reminded that the formal news agenda of the BBC etc hides a completely different and subterranean world of pseudo-news communicated via WhatsApp and Facebook.

Energy firms pay out £7million to 34,000 customers after major billing error Energy regulator Ofgem has found more than 34,000 customers were affected between January 2019 and September 2024 www.mirror.co.uk/money/energy...

Thank Crunchie it's Friday...

Cassocks are red Conclaves are dope Wake up babe we got a

Admittedly not the biggest news in geopolitics today, but govt has finally staged an intervention in Warrington council, after years of warnings about its risky investments, £1.9bn in debt, five years of outstanding accounts and the resignation of its auditors last summer on.ft.com/3GYndRe

Since the start of the full-scale invasion, Ukraine has identified over 19,500 children who have been forcibly deported to Russia, Belarus, or occupied territories. So far, only 1,300 of them have been safely brought back.

There’s been some good stuff on “deliverism” here today (prompted by @gabrielmilland.bsky.social I think?)… but I just want to mildly defend government consultations on new policies. Consultations can be annoying and unnecessary, but they’re normally preferable to rushing out a bad policy

Trump says movies produced outside the U.S. are a national security threat. So he’s imposing a 100% tariff on all movies that are “produced in foreign lands.”

UK wins £500m in science grants from EU Horizon scheme after Brexit lockout

Good!

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky