"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%" Read the Stanford report: siepr.stanford.edu/publications...

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

Gill’s conviction for taking Kremlin money is yet more evidence of Russian influence in our politics, as the Russia report itself found. So when will Ministers finally investigate this wider interference? Why are we forced to pursue it in court? @carolecadwalla.bsky.social

This research is important because it corroborates what we already knew - that when comparing the UK to peer economies, it has had a big slowdown since 2016. It does so with firm-level data and finds more EU-connected firms have sizeable shortfalls in productivity and investment compared to less.

The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

On its 40 year anniversary, Jeanette Winterson remembers the creative process behind Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.

Just read “Capitalists Must Starve” by Park Seolyeon & @antonhur.com The title & blurb led me to expect a book about a factory strike... It is an absorbing portrait of Juryong’s whole life - its hardships, how she was treated as a woman, her resilience, determination & passion. A fascinating read!

Well worth watching.

Two explosions targeted a railway line that connects Poland and Ukraine. Prime Minister Tusk is calling these attacks “an unprecedented act of sabotage aimed at the security of the Polish state and its citizens.” www.reuters.com/world/explos...

Imagine having a thumping majority in parliament and deciding to use it for something as squalid as this.

ICE, out now, is a Trans-Siberian odyssey into an endless winter to confront something utterly alien. Here translator Ursula Phillips reveals the journey to bring Jacek Dukaj's novel to an English readership: https://bit.ly/4qT5DR9

Says the dude swimming in donations - or are they investments - from private healthcare interests. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025! "Each of these books arrives in English in expert and accessible translations that honour the art and voice of their original authors." tinyurl.com/f9sccz4v

Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.

If parties want credit for telling hard truths, they need to tell them when they're genuinely hard. If Labour had told the truth about taxes & the costs of Brexit before the election, its majority would be smaller. But it would have more real power & the public would put more faith in its judgment

2nd edition of our The AI Shift newsletter is out. The question today: could AI be making us LESS productive? @jburnmurdoch.ft.com www.ft.com/content/2480... At the individual level, it's clear we're not reliable witnesses on this Q. At an organisational level, it gets even more interesting...

Your daily reminder that the government continues to commercially support an individual who wants to destroy it through fascist violence.

Farage: epic grifter

Announcing the longlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025! Featuring 10 languages, 12 publishers, 4 collections of poetry - and much more. The longlist travels from Argentina to South Korea, from Haiti to Romania, from Sweden to Slovenia. tinyurl.com/4cu8sdv9

Sadly, there's a lot to be said for Marina Hyde's analysis here. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to “go home”. This is their home. I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.

Via Press Gazette: "The Daily Star’s livestream of the Liz Truss lettuce has been acquired by the British Film Institute’s National Archive for a collection of significant pieces of online video. The BFI’s curator said it was “a seminal moment in British political history”"

shout out to the major English-lang. newspaper that wanted me to write something about Krasznahorkai but ghosted me when I said I would need to be paid something

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

“Don’t do something that might foreseeable facilitate a crime” seems a pretty basic ethical standard to me.

Facts… The polar opposite of what drives most media coverage of the issue.

See you in the UK you guys! antonhur.com/2025/10/14/2... Cheltenham / Sheffield / Edinburgh /Glasgow / Manchester / London

Still I'm sure it'll be fine. It's not like those expectations are based on a completely unproven product with deranged costs and hysterical levels of hype.

A bubble so large you can see it from space and it's going to fuck all of us.

Join literary translator Michele Hutchison & editor Tamara Sampey-Jawad as they explore the intricate process of editing translations -exploring collaboration, challenges & rewards of bringing international literature to new audiences. www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...

“Inner Space” is out in French! If you happen to be in Brussels you could meet the author, Jakub Szamalek, and his translator, Kamil Barbarski, at the LibreBook bookshop cafe.

Let's hope the Government now finds the courage to go against the proper VIP Tory Royalty who also made tens of millions at a time of crisis supplying PPE which was not fit for purpose. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Today is International Translation Day. Create connections through literature instead of division through ignorance!

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

I feel like I post about this every year, but it would be useful if the media explained that it is not, in fact, easy to immigrate to this country, to get a national insurance number, to get indefinite leave to remain, to get citizenship. It is, in fact, already very difficult.

Nato confirms it intercepted Russian fighter jets over Estonia as EU calls airspace violation a „dangerous provocation” and calls for swift adoption of sanctions on Moscow Latest on Europe Live @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Good god I hope so

"Franz", a biopic about author Franz Kafka by Polish director Agnieszka Holland, has been selected as Poland's entry for Best International Feature Film at the Oscars.

I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday. As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.

19 drones launched over several hours, from Russia and Belarus, into Poland, were not a mistake. Many of them did not carry explosives, so they had not gone astray in Ukraine....they were a probe of Poland, NATO and Trump.

translating sloppy writing is physically painful

Last night the Polish airspace was violated by a huge number of Russian drones. Those drones that posed a direct threat were shot down. I am in constant communication with the Secretary General of NATO and our allies.

Too many drones to call it an accident. Putin is doing what had to be expected. A tentative attack on a NATO country to test out what happens.

👊🏻Join me for this 'Translation as Activism' workshop at the 2025 Manchester Literature Festival 👊🏻 @mcrlitfest.bsky.social manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/trans... 🤜🏻10 free tickets can be claimed by MMU (@manmetuni.bsky.social) & UoM (@uomhums.bsky.social) students ➡️📧 [email protected]

#TranslatedThusly Elegantly

It's here! Welcome to the Lancaster Litfest Autumn Weekend 2025, running 17-21 October and 18 November. Ft Sarah Hall, Simon Armitage, @oliverklangmead.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com Xiaolu Guo @malikalnasir.bsky.social & more! Browse the full programme and get your tickets now! litfest.org

A sad state of affairs…

I reviewed House of Day, House of Night - Olga Tokarczuk’s mosaic of memory, myth and misfits translated by #AntoniaLloydJones & publ by @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social - for @ftweekend.com - online now: www.ft.com/content/7886... via @ft