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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 14m

and the attached wine and spirits drinkers. Probably quite a bit of food being bought too

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 20m

Low margin/high turnover?

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 35m

it really is not good at all

Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 37m

ending the right to buy should happen. It's happened up here and the sky's not fallen in. And as councils can often borrow more cheaply, they're now building a lot more socially rented homes, mid-market rent homes, and homes for sale

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 2h

I've just realised that with the ending of peak fares on the trains, that the train is now cheaper and quicker than the bus or tram for a chunk of journeys in Edinburgh. And yet single ticketing is as elusive as ever...

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 13h

I did not know that!

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 13h

It really is. My mum tells the story of her mum explaining she saw it in the cinema in 1942 when you didn't know who was going to win the war, and I can't even begin to imagine the impact it had on audiences

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 18h

If you're in Glasgow, and have a kid who might be looking for something to do on the Monday of half term, you might want to sign-up for my colleague's event on Bridge:
festivalofsocialscience.com/events/bridg...

Bridging Skills for Working Lives | Events | Festival of Social Science

Bridging Skills for Working Lives is a half-day interactive event (approx. 3–4 hours) designed to introduce young people to the strategic card game bridge as a tool for developing…

festivalofsocialscience.com

Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 21h

Salary: this chalice, which might possibly be poisoned 😬

Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 21h

sorry, missing bit - Dubai developed; the documentary just explained this

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 21h

there was a cracking BBC documentary about Dubai broadcast in 2022, and it developed EXACTLY because of what you're describing - British ex-colonial administrators started moving there in the 1970s to continue their lifestyles as the empire collapsed

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 22h

yeah, totally agree. From my Social Policy perspective, I also think the way the State Pension has, in-turn, constructed how we think of older-age means we don't have interesting debates about how best to support flourishing in older age through the social security system

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 22h

Noted. I'm just wary about automatic "older people should work longer" policy ideas as they do not recognise this inequality

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 23h

I think that's more complicated than people realise. Some people yes. Some people are ready to retire. Health inequalities are such now that many people can't work beyond 60, and we're back to the days of people dying at work

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 23h

I got locked out of deck.blue when I got a new phone last week and can't get back in. It doesn't seem to send the emails I need for my verification codes. Is anyone else experiencing this?

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 1d

👀

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 1d

almost literally what the did with the Beveridge report. He didn't have that chart, but it was a central argument. And we dropped translated copies of it over bombed out Germany

Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 1d

because you retire and you've not got much to do. We should probably deliver a lot more active retirement training

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 1d

Songs that I hate that I adore

BBC Radio 3 Now Playing Bot (Unofficial) @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social · 1d

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Richard M. Sherman, Julie Andrews, Disney Studio Chorus, Disney Studio Orchestra & Irwin Kostal
Feed The Birds (Tuppence A Bag)

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 1d

🎶ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLL BY MYYYYYYYSEEEEEEELLLLLF🎶

BBC Radio 3 Now Playing Bot (Unofficial) @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social · 1d

BBC Radio 3
Essential Classics

Now Playing
Sergey Rachmaninov, Khatia Buniatishvili, Czech Philharmonic & Paavo Järvi
Concerto no. 2 in C minor Op.18 for piano and orchestra - slow movement

Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 1d

And the bagels were overpriced sh**e that left you hungry as well

The Edinburgh Reporter @edinreporter.bsky.social · 1d

Liquidator of Bross Bagels confirms determined effort to recover director’s loans has proved futile – file closed!
Biggest loser is UK taxpayer – left with £635,000 tab in unpaid VAT, PAYE and National Insurance theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2025/10/bros...

Bross Bagels creditors get a "hole" lot of nothing - official report into £1m debt

Creditors of the failed Bross Bagels chain which crashed with debts of almost £1 million will not receive a penny, the official liquidator has confirmed. Losers in the one-time feted bakery business i...

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 1d

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 1d

Edinburgh

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry, I only ever wrapped a sober dulcimer

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 1d

I agree although I would suggest that, as they're citizen-focused, public sector bureaucracies are often better than private sector bureaucracies because they will find ways to wiggle through the bureaucracy for the complicated cases

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