Andrew Leyshon

@andrewleyshon.bsky.social

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Economic Geographer. Co-author, The Rise of the Platform Music Industries (Agenda, 2025) with @allanwatson1.bsky.social & FinTech Capital (Zone, 2026) with @paullangley.bsky.social. Attended obscure Welsh Comprehensive of which even Elis James was unaware. .. more

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Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · 23h

If you’re in or near @uonresearch.bsky.social tomorrow (Tuesday 25/11) then why not come along and see me present research, jointly undertaken with @allanwatson1.bsky.social, on music and platforms. The Music Dept is an important part of UoN’s research & teaching ecosystem: long may it continue!

Notice of a research seminar superimposed upon a photograph on a concert orchestra during a performance.

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Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · 1d

A useful reminder that above all else financial capital hates inflation because it erodes the real value of wealth over time. Lots of useable quotes here. on.ft.com/488mVmh What big bond investors want from the UK Budget

What big bond investors want from the UK Budget

Gilt market players call on government to cut spending and steer clear of inflationary tax rises

on.ft.com

George Mann @sgfmann.bsky.social · 1d

i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday

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Music Ally @musically.com · 5d

Create Music backs catalogue-buyer Circuit Capital with $500m

The latest entrant into the catalogue-buying game is Circuit Capital, a new fund launched by management collective The Circuit Group. It’s backed by $500m in capital from Create Music Group (CMG), which it plans to use to acquire…

Create Music backs catalogue-buyer Circuit Capital with $500m

The latest entrant into the catalogue-buying game is Circuit Capital, a new fund launched by management collective The Circuit Group. It’s backed by $500m in capital from Create Music Group (CMG), which it plans to use to acquire catalogues, but also invest in labels, publishers and other kinds of music companies. Its focus is particularly on the electronic-music sector. “Circuit Capital is our way of ensuring that when artists decide to sell or scale, they can do it with people who speak the same language and share the same values,” said The Circuit Group co-founder Harvey Tadman.

musically.com

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Nick Srnicek @nsrnicek.bsky.social · 15d

Most of the discussion around America's AI strategy abroad has focused on the AI Action Plan - but perhaps more important was the Executive Order on exporting the AI stack.

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University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 17d

Sam Watts, composer of #TheTraitors theme and UoN music alumni, shares his thoughts on the newly renamed University of Little England course closures...

#StopTheCuts #SaveHE

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A photo of a man with a conductors baton pushed against his nose with various tv show title cards next to him

“The UoN Music department set me up in my career. The arts and art education are vital, and the UoN music department excel at not only imparting knowledge, but creating community. So, the idea of removing arts programmes and closing the department seems to be incredibly short-sighted.”

Sam Watts, composer & UoN alum

Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · 18d

After that, I kind of wish the assassination attempt on Nick Mohammed’s character had been successful at the end of the latest series of Slow Horses.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 23d

Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC

The driver "managed to contact the control
centre at Network Rail and get the train
diverted onto the slow line", Calder says.

"That was absolutely crucial because this
train was scheduled to be travelling through
Huntingdon station on the tracks with no
platform at 125mph."

"It didn't stop in the middle of nowhere,
which would have been very difficult."

Calder thinks this was handled in the "safest
possible way" thanks to the "incredible
professionalism from the driver and the
police". Train drivers are trained on how to
take appropriate action, he adds,

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Nick Srnicek @nsrnicek.bsky.social · 24d

Today is the official UK publication day for Silicon Empires! I'm excited to have it out and hear what people think.

There's an enormous amount happening every day in AI, and it's difficult to gain a stable perspective. I wrote the book to try and get some secure hold on that constant flux. 🧵

Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · 26d

Or, as @brettchristophers.bsky.social’s put it in relation to the renewables energy sector, the price is wrong. It’s not supply and demand so much as profitability that matters.

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... New homes: even if you build them, there’s no one to buy them

New homes: even if you build them, there’s no one to buy them

We’re often told housing demand exceeds supply — so why are new homes struggling to be built and bought?

giftarticle.ft.com

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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · Oct 20

Co-authored with @andrewleyshon.bsky.social for a forthcoming special issue of @finandsoc.bsky.social, this essay takes Elon Musk's planned FinTech makeover of X as a provocation for a critical analysis of so-called 'embedded finance' and the evolution of FinTech
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Embedded finance and FinTech disappearance | Finance and Society | Cambridge Core

Embedded finance and FinTech disappearance

www.cambridge.org

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Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · Oct 20

If you enjoyed @kateconger.com and @rmac.bsky.social's
Character Limit, and wondered about Musk’s ambitions to turn X into a fintech behemoth, then you might be interested in a new Open Access paper by @paullangley.bsky.social
and me on fintech's 'disappearance'.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Embedded finance and FinTech disappearance | Finance and Society | Cambridge Core

Embedded finance and FinTech disappearance

www.cambridge.org

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · Oct 19

New post just out:

"On the edge"

On my unexpected week in hospital and five things I learnt about the state of the NHS.

(Free to read)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/o...

On the edge

My week in the NHS

open.substack.com

Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · Oct 18

I used to take my Nottingham raised son to see Cardiff City play away at various teams in the Midlands a few years back. I only realised the impact the away end had on him when he refused point blank to even consider Cardiff as a possible University destination on grounds of personal safety.

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Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · Oct 16

The pause in Defender manufacturing in 2016, due to a need to adapt the design to confirm with Euro NCAP pedestrian safety, prompted Jim Radcliffe’s Ineos to develop its look-a-like Grenadier, so there’s that too!

Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · Oct 14

Monday’s pod debate on what to call next year’s World Cup, given that it’s spread between the US, Canada and Mexico, missed the most geographically correct answer: North America ‘26. While most of the continent’s many countries are not hosting, the 3 that are include about 85% of total population.

Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · Oct 13

Full disclosure: I ran an urban geography field class to New York from 2017-19, so guilty as charged. In mitigation, it wasn't even the most exotic of our offers & by the time it launched was considered quite a passé destination by many of the places with whom we competed for students. But still ...

Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · Oct 13

I know that the @rgsibg.bsky.social was encouraging a critical engagement with the 'field class as recruitment device' arms-race pre-pandemic. But it would be interesting to see whether the field course competition simply started up again following the pandemic as restrictions eased.

Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · Oct 13

This thread should be of interest to all those working in Departments of Geography at UK Universities who sometimes ponder why their UG student intake often skews to the privileged. This skew is then exacerbated through the use of exotic field classes as marketing and recruitment bait on Open Days.

Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · Oct 13

Inexplicably, my son’s very standard state school - in a mixed area, not a particularly affluent one - arranged a £4K trip to Kenya last year. I keep meaning to do a story on the astonishing escalation of the school trip.

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · Oct 13

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FINTECH CAPITAL @fintechcapital.bsky.social · Oct 8

It's alive!

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · Oct 3

David Harvey at 90: A Verso Series www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/... @versobooks.bsky.social First essay by Eric Sheppard now posted.

Harvey at 90: A Verso Series

Last year, we celebrated Fredric Jameson's ninetieth birthday with a month long series commemorating his impact on literary criticism, critical theory and philosophy. This month, in honour of David H...

www.versobooks.com

Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · Sep 30

Again, not new: the Jamaican music economy was like this years ago as it was virtually impossible to protect IPR. Performance became prioritised as source of income. Big cheaper than a night at Wembley though, admittedly.

Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · Sep 30

There’s a chapter on live performance in the book on The Platform Music Industries by me and @allanwatson1.bsky.social which came out earlier this year. As copyright has been devalorised (for most artists) as streaming platforms makes all music easily available, the event becomes more important.

Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · Sep 30

Agreed, but the success of the tour is also the length of the band’s absence, and the accumulated desire of fans to see them together live again in an age when the financial returns from performance far outstrips those of recordings. This is not new. The Stones have long been their own tribute band.

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Mike Slaven @mcslaven.bsky.social · Sep 26

If you want to know what a new UK digital ID for immigration would mean, read "States of Ignorance" a book that came out of an ESRC project comparing the development of UK control with two countries with ID. From this research, I think it's a dangerous idea 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

States of Ignorance

Cambridge Core - Twentieth Century European History - States of Ignorance

www.cambridge.org

Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · Sep 24

The parallels to housing subprime are clear, but with a twist. The value of many of the assets is based on repayments from a predominantly immigrant worker market, but ICE action has disrupted such communities, as an earlier FT report (15.9.25 below) pointed out, so undermining the payment base.

Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · Sep 19

Kyle perhaps should be more interested in rigour than vigour: then he might not have conflated Stanford with the entire US university system. There are historical and geographical reasons why students who want to be founders might chose to go to Stanford.