Beyond print: @RegionalStudies in the digital age. Exciting new era as the journal shift to Build content online (BiO) and drops print. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This weeks post: UK Productivity and the Budget mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/11/uk-p... if the Chancellor is going to break her tax pledge, she should do so in a big rather than small way. What she wants to avoid at all costs is finding herself in the same situation in a year or two years time.

Mystery deepens on Nexperia this morning. After White House claimed it was solved and Sefcovic hailed progress, a MOFCOM statement today throws the Dutch government under the bus "The Dutch side continues to act unilaterally without taking concrete steps to resolve the issue"

New post: UK Productivity and the Budget mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/11/uk-p... When it comes to breaking their tax pledge, the phrase ‘better late than never’ applies. Better now than in a budget nearer the election, both from a political and economic point of view.

As @jillongovt.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social point out, this is late and may not help Reeves much politically. But at least she's acknowledging that Brexit has been damaging. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Indeed. They lost a whole year.

Third of British farmers made no profit in past year, report finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🚨🚨 #China intimidated @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social to ditch #humanrights research conducted by @lauratmurphy.bsky.social . Absolutely disgraceful behaviour by Sheffield Hallam uni. www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

UK small businesses struggling to take advantage of trade deals on.ft.com/3WwK2Ah

Considering he's supposed to be innocent of all accusations against him, this is a very 'HE'S GUILTY AS ALL FUCK' move from his brother.

New post out: "The worst social policy ever" Today we have a guest post from @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social on the abomination that is the two-child limit and why Labour need to scrap it ASAP. Lots of data but also powerful testimony. (Free to read) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...

Show starts with Follow Up and the impact from the JLR shutdown, thanks to Professor @dgbailey.bsky.social's article linked in the show notes. Will lessons be learnt? 🤷‍♂️ To 👂 via streaming click 👉 www.motoringpodcast.com/episodes/202... To 👂 via other services click 👉 mpnewsshow.captivate.fm/listen

In critical dialogue with @nickbernards.bsky.social’s recent book 'Fictions of Financialization: Rethinking Speculation, Exploitation, and Twenty-First-Century Capitalism'

New in Finance & Space! 📢 Why does financialisation happen — and who benefits? Hannah Hasenberger digs into the politics behind state financialisation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

UK auto’s low volume crisis in 2025. Implications for suppliers. New blog. blogsfromtheblackstuff.com/bftbautoblog...

This is the perfect read for a Sunday afternoon when it’s getting dark too early. And yes, it’s also very good. 👇

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Counting the cost. New blog on the Cyber Monitoring Centre Report. blogsfromtheblackstuff.com/bftbautoblog...

Looks like Maccabi have saved the UK government from the spectacle of somehow overturning an expert public safety assessment. Either politicians make public safety at sports stadiums an absolute priority or they do not. #AVFC

In global asset terms this converts to $0.63 Trillion. If UK LGPS a combined fund it would be the 5th biggest pension fund in the world on the latest TAI | P&I 300 ranking.

New blog: why the ‘moral hazard’ argument re the JLR loan guarantee is overblown. blogsfromtheblackstuff.com/bftbautoblog...

Threats to children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) grow Parents of children with special needs fear Labour’s SEND reforms could scrap EHCPs, sparking mass protests and petitions northeastbylines.co.uk/news/educati...

Speaking of which, this, with @jdportes.bsky.social and Gove is still well worth watching ukandeu.ac.uk/video-audio/...

Mike Olley is spot on. The hapless Chris McDonald sounded particularly unimpressive yday. Why did he even come up to Brum? More ‘listening’? Not enough. His role should be retitled ‘Minister without Furlough’. Btw Olley’s brilliant blog GRIT is essential reading. www.linkedin.com/posts/mike-o...

JLR shutdown extended again as ministers meet suppliers www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The 'automatic stabilizer' "Arbeidstijdverkorting", shortening the work week also exists in the Netherlands. It requires government permission to use the unemployment funds, owned and overseen by employers and labor unions per sector, for it. It was used end 2008. The UK doesn't have such laws?

It is amazing that these attacks aren't more headline news, they are growing and getting worse.

JLR shutdown a 'wake up call' for UK's cyber resilience - on today’s #politicsmidlands with the excellent Elizabeth Glinka www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The JLR cyberattack has damaged manufacturing plants, putting jobs at risk in the West Midlands & in the supply chain. @zarahsultana.bsky.social (Coventry South MP) might better focus on protecting good jobs in the West Midlands rather than political rows of little interest to constituents.

Wholly agree - this is an excellent long read from Reuters chronicling the origins of China's domestic EV production, from the mass use of central government subsidies to bolster consumer support for the transition from ICE vehicles, to the frantic manufacturer price wars seen today.

'A large majority of member states oppose restrictions on UK participation, as they want flexibility over defence procurement. One EU diplomat described the proposed 50% limit as “the classic French obsession”.' www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Jaguar Land Rover’s output could take several months to normalise, fear suppliers - interesting piece by Kana Inagaki on.ft.com/42zgmWl

Bluesky isn’t perfect but at least its owner isn’t demanding violent insurrection in the UK from thousands of miles away

JLR cyberattack: some suppliers 'face bankruptcy' due to hack crisis ⁦‪- BBC piece by Theo Leggett‬⁩ + comments by yours truly ⁦‪@UoB_Business‬⁩ ⁦‪@UKandEU‬⁩ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Regional businesses are urged to go global at major summit www.warwickshireworld.com/community/re...

Interested in. #Phd in #industrialstrategy #regionaldevelopment. Join @fmfai.bsky.social Chris Dimos at @uniofbath.bsky.social. Details below 👇🏼 @regstud.bsky.social @uresg76.bsky.social @dgbailey.bsky.social @uniofbathipr.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

How Lotus’s drive to become a ‘British Porsche’ went wrong via @FT on.ft.com/4gdst14

Tesla market share in US drops to lowest since 2017 as competition heats up. www.reuters.com/business/aut...

JLR cyberattack could hit profits by £5m for every day of shutdown. Supply chain also feeling the pain & may need govt help. Latest blog here. blogsfromtheblackstuff.com/bftbautoblog...

To boost the UK economy we need to be 'tough on growth, tough on the drivers of growth' argues @dgbailey.bsky.social. Catch up on our discussion with @ukandeu.bsky.social on the policy challenges facing the Government 👇 buff.ly/Al4n9sk

You can catch up on the launch of the Policy Landscape 2025 report with @resfoundation.bsky.social and read the report in full here 👇 ukandeu.ac.uk/reports/poli...

"Growth is the number one problem. Without it we can't do the things that we want to do as a nation, whether it's to spend more on public services or improve our public realm more generally." @dgbailey.bsky.social explores how the government's industrial strategy intersects with its growth agenda

David @dgbailey.bsky.social is spot on, sadly no sign of growth appearing over the horizon anytime soon.

To boost the UK economy we need to be 'tough on growth, tough on the drivers of growth' argues @dgbailey.bsky.social. Catch up on our discussion with @ukandeu.bsky.social on the policy challenges facing the Government 👇 buff.ly/Al4n9sk

Jaguar Land Rover manufacturing and retail ‘severely disrupted’ by cyber incident www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Tesla European sales take a battering. Musk alienating customers and a limited, ageing line up of models is being overtaken by rivals. www.cnbc.com/2025/08/28/t...

University of Oregon is attacking its faculty and the right to tenure. Help them fight back by signing here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/fi...

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

Will this approach slowly make its way across the pond…? @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social @dgbailey.bsky.social

Why America Is Suddenly Slowing Down on Electric Vehicles www.investing.com/analysis/why...