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@uresg76.bsky.social
Emeritus Professor, regional economist who reads a lot of history. Frustated Architect who likes visiting places. Art, culture, and cat lover. Lifelong Gooner.
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Compare and contrast.
December 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Compare and contrast.
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All these questions prove is that very few people have the slightest clue what an apprenticeship actually looks like these days.
With a report suggesting half of graduates would earn more if they had done an apprenticeship instead, our polling shows that 46% of Britons think apprenticeships better prepare young people for the future - only 6% say the same of degrees, while 43% say both equally
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December 15, 2025 at 9:55 AM
All these questions prove is that very few people have the slightest clue what an apprenticeship actually looks like these days.
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The madness of peak fare pricing...the euh v uncrowded 8 40 ex Euston
December 15, 2025 at 8:44 AM
The madness of peak fare pricing...the euh v uncrowded 8 40 ex Euston
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I suspect you’ll find a lot pin this you agree with @daveproudlove.bsky.social , including the references to toxic landlords and market manipulation. Like the idea of a Troubled Buildings Programme (probably spend the entire budget in Stoke 😬) open.substack.com/pub/howtorun...
How do you solve a problem like the high street?
Time for a Troubled Buildings Programme
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December 15, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I suspect you’ll find a lot pin this you agree with @daveproudlove.bsky.social , including the references to toxic landlords and market manipulation. Like the idea of a Troubled Buildings Programme (probably spend the entire budget in Stoke 😬) open.substack.com/pub/howtorun...
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Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
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I am at Lyndon School in Solihull to give a talk for Speakers for Schools a very worthwhile venture
December 15, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I am at Lyndon School in Solihull to give a talk for Speakers for Schools a very worthwhile venture
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No more downers. It's still the weekend. Let's rock with Duane Eddy! youtu.be/VdlCtPzX8sE?...
Ramrod
YouTube video by Duane Eddy - Topic
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December 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
No more downers. It's still the weekend. Let's rock with Duane Eddy! youtu.be/VdlCtPzX8sE?...
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Really interesting piece. Going back in time the focus on outputs and innovation was initially drove challenge funding and SRB. substack.com/@pollymacken...
Polly Mackenzie (@pollymackenzie)
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December 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Really interesting piece. Going back in time the focus on outputs and innovation was initially drove challenge funding and SRB. substack.com/@pollymacken...
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I don't think a lot of people get quite how bad the situation has got with targeted attacks on the migrants rights and refugee sector.
My wife would be very happy if I left the sector I know that for sure. It's also just getting worse, stoked in no small part by government rhetoric and policies.
My wife would be very happy if I left the sector I know that for sure. It's also just getting worse, stoked in no small part by government rhetoric and policies.
🔴I wrote about far-right attacks against refugee charities and why some are choosing to leave the sector to protect themselves. It's awful but understandable.
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When it's time to move on
It's toxic out there
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December 14, 2025 at 8:42 AM
I don't think a lot of people get quite how bad the situation has got with targeted attacks on the migrants rights and refugee sector.
My wife would be very happy if I left the sector I know that for sure. It's also just getting worse, stoked in no small part by government rhetoric and policies.
My wife would be very happy if I left the sector I know that for sure. It's also just getting worse, stoked in no small part by government rhetoric and policies.
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Met Police to drop further investigation into Andrew Windsor
Looks like Met Police rolled out the same police officers who refused and resisted investigating Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak's Downing street parties during covid
Looks like Met Police rolled out the same police officers who refused and resisted investigating Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak's Downing street parties during covid
December 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Met Police to drop further investigation into Andrew Windsor
Looks like Met Police rolled out the same police officers who refused and resisted investigating Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak's Downing street parties during covid
Looks like Met Police rolled out the same police officers who refused and resisted investigating Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak's Downing street parties during covid
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If you wonder why people seem permanently enraged, the behaviour of click bait driven media offers a clue. This particular story appears on a regular basis and elicits the predictable responses
December 14, 2025 at 7:53 AM
If you wonder why people seem permanently enraged, the behaviour of click bait driven media offers a clue. This particular story appears on a regular basis and elicits the predictable responses
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These “bad faith state actors” now appear to include the US administration if the NSS Is to be taken seriously.
December 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
These “bad faith state actors” now appear to include the US administration if the NSS Is to be taken seriously.
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It's almost word for word the briefing that Johnson's team were putting out in spring 2022.
This sounds like defensive briefing straight from a Morgan McSweeney Whatsapp group in denial about how an ineffective leader unwilling to face the breakdown of US-Europe relations might not be the best figure to lead the UK into a post-American order
December 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
It's almost word for word the briefing that Johnson's team were putting out in spring 2022.
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With Labour ramping up its deportation program & putting in place all the infrastructure a future Reform-led govt will need to expand the attack exponentially
We have to be learning from the powerful solidarity & resistance methods of our cousins across the pond, & fast.
We have to be learning from the powerful solidarity & resistance methods of our cousins across the pond, & fast.
This article is sympathetic towards ICE but still a good read because it's clear that Minneapolis and Saint Paul are doing AMAZING work (with a little assistance from our weather).
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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ICE operation shows the difficulty of immigration arrests amid pushback in frigid Minnesota
NBC News was granted exclusive access to accompany Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers as they tried to arrest targets in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.
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December 13, 2025 at 7:54 AM
With Labour ramping up its deportation program & putting in place all the infrastructure a future Reform-led govt will need to expand the attack exponentially
We have to be learning from the powerful solidarity & resistance methods of our cousins across the pond, & fast.
We have to be learning from the powerful solidarity & resistance methods of our cousins across the pond, & fast.
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Meet people living in the Calais camps, see their living conditions and set out to change the narrative about migration and migrants. Thank you @zackpolanski.bsky.social
I've spent three days in Calais & it's horrendous.
People living in disgusting conditions. Our Government is spending £476m on the militarisation of the border.
We must divert that money to a humanitarian response that treats people with basic dignity.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
People living in disgusting conditions. Our Government is spending £476m on the militarisation of the border.
We must divert that money to a humanitarian response that treats people with basic dignity.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Zack Polanski: Allow small boat migrants in and let them work
Green Party leader accuses Sir Keir Starmer of following Nigel Farage in ‘pushing racist rhetoric’ and calls JK Rowling’s stance on single-sex spaces ‘hateful’
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December 12, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Meet people living in the Calais camps, see their living conditions and set out to change the narrative about migration and migrants. Thank you @zackpolanski.bsky.social
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I for one will definitely be ignoring pesky health professionals & turning instead to newspaper columnists who backed Brexit, Boris Johnson, Donald Trump & Liz Truss for all my expert health advice during this very serious flu outbreak.
December 13, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I for one will definitely be ignoring pesky health professionals & turning instead to newspaper columnists who backed Brexit, Boris Johnson, Donald Trump & Liz Truss for all my expert health advice during this very serious flu outbreak.
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Great essay. www.ft.com/content/1258... Could America win the AI race but lose the war?
December 13, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Great essay. www.ft.com/content/1258... Could America win the AI race but lose the war?
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"The problem is that recovering a decent chunk of those losses would require the UK to jettison its red lines on customs unions, the single market and the free movement of people."
John Springford on the economic impact of Brexit
https://ukandeu.ac.uk/the-continuing-search-for-a-workable-brexit/
John Springford on the economic impact of Brexit
https://ukandeu.ac.uk/the-continuing-search-for-a-workable-brexit/
The continuing search for a workable Brexit - UK in a changing Europe
John Springford looks at the economic impact of the Brexit deal. He argues that while backtracking on Brexit red lines such as joining a customs union would not be politically simple, the domestic reform required to create similar levels of growth would be equally difficult due to the nature of the UK economy.
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December 13, 2025 at 9:05 AM
"The problem is that recovering a decent chunk of those losses would require the UK to jettison its red lines on customs unions, the single market and the free movement of people."
John Springford on the economic impact of Brexit
https://ukandeu.ac.uk/the-continuing-search-for-a-workable-brexit/
John Springford on the economic impact of Brexit
https://ukandeu.ac.uk/the-continuing-search-for-a-workable-brexit/
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Ian Curtis with Joy Division at The New Osborne Club, Manchester, 7 February 1980. Photo by Daniel Meadows.
December 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Ian Curtis with Joy Division at The New Osborne Club, Manchester, 7 February 1980. Photo by Daniel Meadows.
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Small boat crossings follow same pattern every year. They drop off over winter due to weather conditions. It has absolutely nothing, zero, zilch, to do with Labour's anti-asylum policies.
What Labour's policies do mean though are more people are forced into using irregular routes in first place.
What Labour's policies do mean though are more people are forced into using irregular routes in first place.
December 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Small boat crossings follow same pattern every year. They drop off over winter due to weather conditions. It has absolutely nothing, zero, zilch, to do with Labour's anti-asylum policies.
What Labour's policies do mean though are more people are forced into using irregular routes in first place.
What Labour's policies do mean though are more people are forced into using irregular routes in first place.
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A disastrous consequence of a culture reserving its greatest rewards for commentators with the most pungently expressed opinions is how hard it becomes for them to climb down. By rights, *everybody* writing or speaking in the national interest should be horrified & outraged by Trump’s attacks on us.
December 13, 2025 at 9:08 AM
A disastrous consequence of a culture reserving its greatest rewards for commentators with the most pungently expressed opinions is how hard it becomes for them to climb down. By rights, *everybody* writing or speaking in the national interest should be horrified & outraged by Trump’s attacks on us.
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Raphael Ravenscroft played the saxophone (at session musician rates) on two tracks in Gerry Rafferty’s album “City to City”. Baker Street is the best known, but I’ve always thought the playing on this track was better youtu.be/wG4DzRCSbwE?...
Gerry Rafferty - Island (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Gerry Rafferty
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December 13, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Raphael Ravenscroft played the saxophone (at session musician rates) on two tracks in Gerry Rafferty’s album “City to City”. Baker Street is the best known, but I’ve always thought the playing on this track was better youtu.be/wG4DzRCSbwE?...
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Taking a break from fighting in the pubs?
December 13, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Taking a break from fighting in the pubs?
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"If I was in a nasty mood, I’d say that your constant attacks on London look more like the uninformed, racist rants of a low-information cable news viewer, who’s never seen the world and never had his stereotypes challenged. But you’re the president of the United States"
A letter to Donald Trump, from London
You don’t seem to like London very much, or our mayor. But people around here live longer than Americans, and we’re much less likely to get murdered. As for your Sharia law claims - have you ever actu...
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December 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
"If I was in a nasty mood, I’d say that your constant attacks on London look more like the uninformed, racist rants of a low-information cable news viewer, who’s never seen the world and never had his stereotypes challenged. But you’re the president of the United States"