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Tom Arnold

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Researcher at the Heseltine Institute, University of Liverpool. Regional development, infrastructure, planning, Leicester City FC, cricket and pictures of my dog.

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Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place @livuniheseltine.bsky.social · 1d

Just 2 weeks to go until our 2025 annual lecture! Join us for a fascinating discussion on football's relationship with Liverpool, its economy and its people, featuring Keiran Maguire (Associate Professor in football finance) at @liverpooluni.bsky.social and more. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/heseltine-...

Heseltine Institute Annual Lecture 2025: Football and the City

Exploring the role of football clubs in driving regeneration, uplifting communities and sustaining our connection to place.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 3d

This brand based in Accrington made an exact replica of that shirt a couple of years ago. Sadly a very limited run and I didn't manage to get one. www.trickett-england.co.uk

TRiCKETT England – Don’t Worry. Be Accy.

Clothing and lifestyle brand, based in Accrington, Lancashire.

www.trickett-england.co.uk

Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 5d

I'm at Conservative conference next week with @instituteforgovernment.org.uk talking integrated settlements, local growth plans, fiscal devolution and probably a bunch of other stuff.

Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place @livuniheseltine.bsky.social · 5d

With the dust settling on Labour Party Conference, we're looking forward to joining @instituteforgovernment.org.uk again at Conservative Party Conference in Manchester next week.

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Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place @livuniheseltine.bsky.social · 7d

It's October, which means our annual lecture is this month! Marking Everton's move to a new stadium and Liverpool's 20th top flight title, we focus on the deep and complex relationship between football and the city. Join us on 21 October @liverpooluni.bsky.social news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/10/01/c...

City’s relationship with football in spotlight at Heseltine Institute Annual Lecture - University of Liverpool News

City’s relationship with football in spotlight at Heseltine Institute Annual Lecture

news.liverpool.ac.uk

Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 8d

Relieved that the weather has played ball in Liverpool for conference. Last year I attended an event where the politician on the panel arrived late and was so wet that he looked like he’d just stepped out of the River Mersey.

The River Mersey in the sunshine.

Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 8d

Big Coat Season getting shorter every year. Sad.

Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 13d

Took Kasper to a physio today where he had to wear safety goggles due to some kind of laser being used, so please enjoy this photo of him looking like a WW2 fighter pilot.

A small dog wearing goggles.

Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 14d

I’m not sure either, think this might be him.

Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 14d

Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 14d

The revival of the moustache and mullet combo is really remarkable. I blame the Australian men’s cricket team.

Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 14d

I have enjoyed embracing the slightly wider trouser in the last couple of years but they’re not quite the puddle draggers I was wearing in the early 00s.

Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 14d

I think they've been back in for quite a while! It's when they're back out again that I'll really start to feel my age...

Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 14d

First week of term campus fashion observation: we may be approaching peak big trousers. The wheel of trouser may soon turn and in 3-4 years everyone will start dressing like The Strokes again.

Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 19d

Sign him up @lancscricket.bsky.social

Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 29d

"I always win a trophy in my second full season mate" (holds League One play-off trophy aloft)

Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · Sep 6

I know by their nature reshuffles are disruptive but ditching McMahon seems really daft. He’s leading on a bill that‘s just passed second reading, dealing with tricky local government reorganisation, has worked the brief for several years and is widely regarded as doing a pretty good job.

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · Sep 6

Surprised to see Jim McMahon leave government. He was leading on the devolution bill currently going through Parliament.

Also surprised that Jacqui Smith is going to be doing skills and HE still but now split over two departments.

John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · Sep 6

The next phase of the reshuffle

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · Sep 5

Radical right accommodation really does not work.

New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk

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Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · Sep 1

What I'd give for a Wasilewski in this team.

Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · Sep 1

@footballcliches.bsky.social Julián Carranza has just signed on loan for Leicester, with the news accompanied on the LCFC website by this image. The year the loan ends on the back of the shirt - are we having this? Surely the date on the shirt thing should be reserved for contract renewals?

New Leicester City signing Julian Carranza holding a Leicester shirt with 'Carranza 2026' on the back.

Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · Sep 1

Looks like a Hollyoaks baddy, I like him already.

Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · Aug 27

David Cameron, 2015: "Britain and Twitter - they are not the same thing”.

Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · Aug 26

Funny you mention Blur, because isn’t that what they did as well? The final 3 albums before they split up first time round weren’t exactly packed full of Britpop bangers. The first single off 13 was 8 minutes long and featured a gospel choir!

Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · Aug 26

I think (though I'd never ask) this is my parents. Doubt they disagree with very much Farage says, but they find him uncouth.

Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · Aug 14

Manchester was pretty bad in the immediate post-Covid era but has hugely improved in the last couple of years.

Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · Aug 13

Will wait to see detail on this before getting too excited, given Northern Powerhouse Rail has come to mean anything from ‘Shinkansen style network enabling travel between Liverpool and Hull in 12 minutes’ to ‘electrification of one mile of the Transpennine’. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Labour to revive Northern Powerhouse Rail project

Starmer and Reeves expected to announce move before Labour conference, with aim of boosting backbench morale

www.theguardian.com