Featuring me, Robin and Toby goofing around in the FT office

While @georginaq.bsky.social has a great Inside Politics on saving:

Fix Social Care Good piece by @georginaq.bsky.social on some structural economic issues I’ve seen in my grandparents and now my own needs how the current system doesn’t work well for carers or those in need of care. We can and should do better Looking forward to the newsletter on funding

Fantastic look at the economics of England’s care sector by Georgina:

Why do people *not* respond to the Labour Force Survey? For a while the biggest problem was thought to be failure to make contact with the sampled households. New data suggests by far the bigger problem - arguably more worrying - is people knowing they've been invited but refusing to take part.

Sharing a page from our graphic novel, YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION. Feeling nostalgic about neon Hong Kong at night. Have a good weekend.

Great piece by @georginaq.bsky.social on the cottage industry that's grown up around UK universities, which are paying agents to recruit international students for them www.ft.com/content/3f49...

In the FT today I dug into the unregulated third-party networks cashing in on Britain's multibillion pound international education industry and helping prop up the sector. www.ft.com/content/3f49...

Why is the backlog of UK asylum cases so large? Great deep dive here from @georginaq.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/819c... via financialtimes.com

@financialtimes.com @georginaq.bsky.social has a fascinating bit of info in the newsletter: Though "brain rot” was only recently officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term is actually 171 years old. 1/2

cool new experiment by Inside Politics and friends! A web Q&A on where Labour goes from here with whipsmart columnists @stephenkb.bsky.social @greenmirandahere.bsky.social @robertshrimsley.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/692c...

phenomenally good article on UK productivity, city and the role of services and densification from @georginaq.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/5767... Bookmark-worthy! Uses good work from @centreforcities.bsky.social

🚨 My first nature of money post in FTAV cc @lorcanrk.bsky.social on.ft.com/44l12Nk

With lots of students now doing online lectures and working part-time jobs during term time....I stress-tested the idea that UK tuition fees are falling in value relative to the other costs (rent, food, textbooks) & explored quality issues as the real fee erodes on.ft.com/3ZEW4td

Finally managed to write something new for my Substack. It’s on the government’s immigration white paper and its likely unintended consequences. open.substack.com/pub/wewanted...

will be speaking at this tonight in London, all about remembering as a means of resistance

Really good, really important reporting by @georginaq.bsky.social:

Enjoyed this from @georginaq.bsky.social on what plans for new towns might learn from Milton Keynes www.ft.com/content/e640...

This was really interesting- my main reservation with Milton Keynes is that some parts of it are just impossible to walk between (despite pedestrian and cycle ways) so think a modern version would need a good tram system. Brilliantly written and lots of information though www.ft.com/content/e640...

Terrific newsletter this morning by @georginaq.bsky.social on 'using AI to fix potholes'. I learnt a lot, both about the specific policy and also about potholes - and it is genuinely a really fascinating read: (first 300 clicks free, then you have to register or subscribe)

nice piece on AI/potholes from @georginaq.bsky.social with 1 positive for the AI case and 2 negatives... www.ft.com/content/7e9d... +ve: it can help reducing search costs! -ve: it only reveals other constraints (labour, etc ) -ve: we already knew how to do this! the challenge is diffusion 1/2

It's kind of impressive BBC can run an "In-depth" piece about an increase in Vietnamese people crossing the channel and not mention they are one of the main at risk groups of human trafficking in UK, or get the difference between smuggling and trafficking right #r4today www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

excellent column this morning from @georginaq.bsky.social on how young people are getting their political news from TikTok, and how it's boosting Nigel Farage: www.ft.com/content/0d77...

Firing up Disney+ to begin the thirteenth complete Simpsons rewatch of my adult life because it speaks to real issues faced by real people in Barrow (proximity to nuclear power plant) and Plymouth (eccentric sea captain)