Argentina style reminds me of the way the City has been defending against Milliband as Chancellor.

My instinct—nothing more—is that this is an effort to push a decision: Andy, you can’t afford to disappoint the markets now that they think it’s hers… FT pages have been used for this sort of thing before.

What’s a woman? We asked The Odyssey and you’ll never believe the answer…s! 1. Bird with a lady head 2. Shapeshifting witch 3. Baddie who came out of a bird egg 4. A whirlpool maybe 5. Tentacle monster who barks like a dog 6. More different shapeshifting witch 7. Weird horny island hermit

What a thrashing.

Weird to be told by politicians that gender studies has no place in higher education when our politics are ALL GENDER ALL THE FUCKING TIME.

Post-disciplinary pedagogy rapidly becoming mandatory—but can we really make it work?

Post-disciplinary pedagogy rapidly becoming mandatory—but can we really make it work?

Oh God meta glasses

Any VCs on this platform hit me up—I’m starting a business like WeWork except it will be halls for giving exams inside Faraday cages.

We educators have relied on a 2-window panopticon (graded in-person tests & homework) to make students their own taskmasters. Now one has abruptly gone opaque; implanted devices will soon(?) darken the other. Will we be able to teach without making students‘ souls the prison of their Sitzfleisch?

Having reached the end of the sitting day, the EHRC Code of Practice has officially passed. It can now be brought into force at a date to be confirmed by govt. Read our joint response with @transactualuk.bsky.social and @scottishtrans.bsky.social: www.transsolidarityalliance.com/post/joint-s...

I know everyone is in wilful denial about this - oh, it can't be that bad surely - but really look at the numbers, think about how this will go down, think about how you will feel morally, and make your decision.

“There’s still lots of people we’re inspiring, little kids, boys and girls who are watching, and we have to show them the correct way to handle things, even when you think it’s unjust,” Balogun said two days later. He explained that he always shakes the hands of officials after matches.”

🚨 WE NEED YOU 🚨 As a new Prime Minister comes into power, we want to show that an overwhelming number of people support trans people, and want the government to take serious action to protect their rights. Will you say you stand with trans people? And share with everyone you know?

I know there are trans people right now, wondering if anyone is going to stand up for their simple right to exist. Well, I am.

Two unrelated stories on the gold market from today’s FT.

The emergence of automated mass lying is something that we really shouldn’t be shrugging our shoulders at

huge if true

The Crits were relentlessly hounded for their supposed legal nihilism and cynicism on judicial decision-making, but the Roberts court makes them seem like dewy-eyed naïfs.

TIL that the relations of property are no longer compatible with the already developed productive forces; they have become so many fetters. Maybe they need to be burst asunder?

I think it's hard to deny the existence of something like "Treasury Brain" when you have officials as senior as this whose instinctive dislike of debt and deficits causes them to forget really important facts

Outstanding piece from @will-davies.bsky.social framing PM transition. Quibbles:1. IMHO tries to have it a bit both ways on the ‘LIz Truss shows we have to listen to bond markets’ trope, with an accurate but vague reference to BoE role.2. @danielagabor.bsky.social can speak for herself, but 1/2

The brilliant scholar Kiren Aziz Chaudhry passed away six years ago yesterday. This essay is a remembrance. d-woodruff.medium.com/eavesdroppin...

The brilliant scholar Kiren Aziz Chaudhry passed away six years ago yesterday. This essay is a remembrance. d-woodruff.medium.com/eavesdroppin...

Apropos of nothing, Joe Crowley after losing to @aoc.bsky.social in June 2018, saying that the biggest danger is Trump and the thing to do is to focus on taking seats in November. youtu.be/jsp_ia70cMY?...

Apropos of nothing, Joe Crowley after losing to @aoc.bsky.social in June 2018, saying that the biggest danger is Trump and the thing to do is to focus on taking seats in November. youtu.be/jsp_ia70cMY?...

As someone who tries to communicate about the politics of money and finance, I’m really feeling the italics in this skeet: Look over here! This is so important for how our society shapes lives! Be patient enough to understand!

Our unions are pushing back against a Labour politician that may try to change a status-quo that has been deeply harmful for workers - all to protect a few jobs in fossil sectors that we cannot afford to keep running because they are literally destroying the planet

Hard not to regard this as a classic example of a pre-emptive campaign by certain sectors, along with their media sympathisers, to discourage a new prime minister from appointing someone who might damage their interests in the long and short term. And it will almost certainly work.

Die Koalition will einen Rentenfonds nach 🇸🇪 Vorbild, in den 2% des Lohns fließen. Wie schon bei Lindners Aktienrente (remember him?) greift die progressive Kritik an diesem Element der #rentenreform viel zu kurz. Internationale Evidenz zeigt: Kapitaldeckung = Finanzialisierungsmaschine. 🧵

Ein sehr lesenswerter 🧵. In unserer Zeit braucht der Staat mehr Möglichkeiten, die Wirtschaft zu prägen, nicht weniger.

The ECB just hiked into an oil price shock, again. In our new paper for the EP Monetary Dialogue, we argue that this needs to stop. 🧵 If inflation is a function of the energy mix (✅) and the energy mix a function of monetary policy (✅), then even a narrow reading of the ECB’s mandate ... 1/

Tightening against an energy price shock is a crude response, that only works if it chokes the economy, and green investment with it. It shouldn't be so controversial for the ECB to accept it.

Can the ECB stop chasing oil price spikes, please? This is the message of this important study in a nutshell. Inflation is all about fossilflation. So, we need a way to stabilize our economies that does not undermine the green transition we need, which is exactly what rate hikes end up doing.

It’s wild that politicians don’t seem to grasp the degree to which universities contribute to the economy- local, regional, national. The failure to intervene is a stain on this govt - a shocking dereliction of duty to every worker, every local business, every student, every area that is suffering

Vibes, yes, or as Keynes put it in 1936: ‘In estimating the prospects of investment, we must have regard, therefore, to the nerves and hysteria and even the digestions and reactions to the weather of those upon whose spontaneous activity it largely depends.’

The stupidest bit is that even the a Liz Truss moment wasn‘t “Liz Truss moment” in the sense these journalists mean. She didn’t illustrate the limits of fiscal policy for all time. She stumbled and knocked over a financial house of cards, allegedly now on much firmer foundations.

I've had 2 journalists today asking if Miliband as Chancellor would be a "Liz Truss moment" and find it difficult not to just respond "are you on crack?".

I’m pleased to say (as its President Elect) that @resmedia.bsky.social board of trustees agreed on Friday that the Society will stop using X (FYI @sundersays.bsky.social )

every fiction book i've bought this year has been because someone on here posted about it. Not once have i regretted it. if you like a book TELL THE WORLD. this post brought to you by Ada Palmer's Too Like the Lightning which is MAGNIFICENT. Go read it. my thanks to whoever shared that on my feed

The theory that “electable” means “work to appease right-wing bigots under the assumption that majorities agree with them, at least partially, and they prioritize it when voting” has been tried. It has failed. Try something else.

Minor spoiler: recalled today that there’s a teacher in this novel who has a DEMON help with her marking. I am extremely jealous (and no I’m never, ever going to pretend LLMs, however demonic, are the same thing). Great book for anyone who wants to see teaching taken seriously.

A heartfelt thank you to our amazing outgoing #EPSS president @sarahobolt.bsky.social, who was not only instrumental to creating EPSS, but also sheparded it so successfully through its first year. And equally huge thanks to incoming EPSS president @simonhix.bsky.social for his fabulous leadership!

🆕 Alongside colleagues, we have written to the Prime Minister setting out the damage he is doing to our community. We have made clear that this is a political choice. The UK must pick another path, and the responsibility here lies with government. Read more: transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/06...

"The Code of Practice now before Parliament is set to crystallise an interpretation of the law that is fundamentally in conflict with the UK’s human rights obligations." Very good letter. Letting this stand is a political choice and one that should not be acceptable.

Anyway like in many other things this is just skirting around the problem, which is the refusal to regulate content in general

It’s a good morning for Freudenfreude.

ethnonationalism can’t rock like this bsky.app/profile/lore...

While I recognise Keir Starmer appears unable to do this, it should not be that hard to politically sell the message “we won’t deport your grandad’s carer and we will lock up people who firebomb her house”

What is post-liberalism and how is it shaping the current political discourse? @pjthinker.bsky.social talks about his latest book ‘Post-liberalism. Why ‘Family, Faith and Flag’ is a dead end for the left.’ 📖🤔