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Adam Leaver @adamleaver.bsky.social · 23d

This is genuinely great. Many thanks for this. The comments under the article are inexplicable.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 23d

My column in tomorrow's paper:

Starmer and Badenoch are handling the far-right march all wrong

A look back to the days of Enoch Powell suggests a better model

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Adam Leaver @adamleaver.bsky.social · Aug 19

Thank you for your kind words Hetan!

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Aug 19

Scrapping of audit watchdog for English councils ‘led to soaring costs and chaos’. Valuable report from @adamleaver.bsky.social & colleagues at the Audit Reform Lab
www.theguardian.com/business/202... (Full report here auditreformlab.group.shef.ac.uk/administrati...)

Scrapping of audit watchdog for English councils ‘led to soaring costs and chaos’

High critical report finds that instead of promised annual saving of £100m, fees have rocketed amid financial crisis

www.theguardian.com

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Sharon Graham @unitesharon.bsky.social · Aug 9

My column for Real Britain | The Mirror

➡️Brum bin workers are being told to take up to £8,000 worth of pay cuts or face #FireAndRehire while councillors' allowances increase and government commissioners – brought in to control the council – earn an eyewatering £1,200 a day.

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Rafaella Lima @eyeofraf.bsky.social · Jun 27

Successfully co-organized a 2-day workshop on the theme of Valuation, Space & Power this week, bringing together a brilliant group of scholars in Sheffield. Thank you to all the participants and fellow organizers @callumny.bsky.social @richmgoulding.bsky.social @adamleaver.bsky.social & Dan Tischer!

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Emanuele Sciuva @esciuva.bsky.social · Jun 25

This week, I was in Sheffield for the WS on @valspacepower.bsky.social. Met many ECRs interested in how economic value is constructed, where it is located, and who captures it. Thanks to Callum Ward, @adamleaver.bsky.social, @richmgoulding.bsky.social and @eyeofraf.bsky.social for the organisation!

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valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · Jun 23

Rafaella Lima @eyeofraf.bsky.social kicking us off by explaining how our workshop came about through a shared interest in value, calculation, critical accounting and economic geography

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Prof Sarah Hall @drsarahhall.bsky.social · Jun 24

This was such a fun and stimulating workshop. Thank you to the whole organisational team and all the presenters - I learnt lots and enjoyed my trip to Sheffield 🙏

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · May 17

Thames Water on collision course with govt over exec bonuses.

TW with £21bn debt, history of abuses & criminal convictions insists that it will pay bonuses, now calls them “retention payments”.

Govt must cancel it's licence, let it go bankrupt, prosecute execs, nationalise.
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Thames Water on collision course with government over bonuses

Utility claims new legislation to block bonuses will not capture ‘retention payments’

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Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · Apr 17

Agree people don’t know what councils do etc. But I also think the public is reasonable enough to question why the local area looks dirty/declining etc while council tax bills have gone up and up and up and up and up. Politically it’s therefore currently ripe for undeliverable promises

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AKA Fa͍ͥ͒ͦͣ͑bi̗̼̣̦̳̊͐̏͊̇aͭn̜͕̜̠̼ͤ̐̏ Munié̼͙̭͉̫̌ͤ̑̓s͚͔̩̓̆a @provokedeconomy.bsky.social · Feb 3

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Adam Leaver @adamleaver.bsky.social · Apr 3

An exciting new opportunity for ECRs - a call for papers is out now for our 'Valuation, Space & Power' workshop (see below)

Urban Institute @theurbaninstitute.bsky.social · Apr 2

Call for Papers: Valuation, Space and Power ECR workshop

www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

Call for Papers: Valuation, Space and Power ECR workshop

This two-day early career researcher focussed 'masterclass' workshop will take place in person 23-24 June 2025 in the ICOSS Conference Room, 219 Portobello, S1 4DP and will include different speakers ...

www.sheffield.ac.uk

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Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social · Feb 17

Congratulations to @savannahcox.bsky.social on this fascinating new paper on 'infrastructural time', and how resilience measures are shaped by earlier investments....

Savannah Cox @savannahcox.bsky.social · Feb 14

First paper from a new project on the politics of energy crises and transitions in South Africa is out! I use the analytic of infrastructural time to make sense of (1) how such crises emerge and(2) the specific formations of "resilience" developed in response.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Infrastructural Time of resilience: Accounting for new (and old) forms of government in the South African grid

Temporality has long, if implicitly, structured geographic research on resilience—whether by underwriting scholarly endeavors to show how resilience a…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · Mar 26

Real household disposable incomes (RHDI) is forecast to rise by just £1,200 over the course of the 2020s.

That's less than it grew over the course of the 2010s,when it rose by £2,900.

Chart showing Total growth in Real Household Disposable Income per person, by decade: UK

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JM Tubío @jm-tubio.bsky.social · Mar 26

Report by @adamleaver.bsky.social and colleagues.
"This failure is partly the result of national policies, where national planning guidance in 2012 strengthened the capacity of developers to avoid affordable housing requirements on the grounds of ‘viability’47.

www.sheffield.ac.uk/crafic/news/...

New report critiques supply-side urban development

The new report, written by Richard Goulding, Adam Leaver and Jonathan Silver, critically examines the supply-side, property-led urban development model, using Manchester as a case study.

www.sheffield.ac.uk

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · Mar 25

once more with feeling - failing to repair a roof is more expensive than repairing it, but only one of these costs appears in the accounts and is scored by the five year forecast.

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Carl Lee @drcarllee.bsky.social · Mar 14

@adamleaver.bsky.social & @richmgoulding.bsky.social setting out their work on Manchester's property led development model is valuable to anybody interested in how capital flows build, sustain and escape urban space in the UK & beyond. But what are the alternative models?

Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social · Mar 6

Episode 2 of #UrbanRadar is now LIVE!

Dive into the informative conversation with @goodfellowtom.bsky.social @itsbethperry.bsky.social @pillmad.bsky.social @adamleaver.bsky.social @richmgoulding.bsky.social on #Manchester ‘s model of property-led development.

Available here-
lnkd.in/g-cxJ-B4

Episode 2: Is Manchester's model of urban development a good blueprint for growth?

Urban Radar · Episode

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Mar 14

UK hoping to work with China to counteract Trump’s climate-hostile policies

Ed Miliband travels to Beijing saying co-operation with China vital to protect future generations, as US and Russia push for expansion of fossil fuels * Ed Miliband: ‘The global battle against the climate crisis needs China’ The UK is hoping to…

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Mar 12

🧵 I want to follow up this earlier thread by examining why the USA finds itself in the state it does at the moment; the process of disordered discourse capturing state institutions and how it inevitably results in a slide towards authoritarianism, a process we're seeing unfold before our very eyes.

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Feb 28

What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.