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Jacqueline Antonovich@jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 3w ago

Gloria always

Portrait of American magazine publisher and political activist Gloria Steinem as she sits behind a paper-covered desk, New York, 1972. (Photo by Brian Hamill/Getty Images)

Man, we've lost a real one. What an absolute icon and beacon to the world.

Tim Harford@timharford.ft.com · 3w ago

'Marot is not the first Oxford entrepreneur to be underestimated by an Oxford economist.'

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Marot is not the first Oxford entrepreneur to be underestimated by an Oxford economist. William Morris began his business career running a bicycle-repair shop on High Street, before moving into the manufacture of automobiles. As ever-larger manufacturing plants were built in Cowley, east Oxford, the economic historian Edwin Cannan — who taught at the London School of Economics but lived in Oxford — was opining in 1927 that he could not imagine where the demand would come from.

Well, I was wrong about Bad Girl Books as.ft.com/r/ab93e7d2-4...

‘By now, it can sometimes seem as if we have no choice but choice, with consumer choice as the primordial form’ Enjoying this from Sophia Rosenfeld, on how personal choice has become equated to freedom.

From cover of Sophie Rosenfeld’s Age of Choice

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3w ago

‘Members of the public keen to see the Bayeux tapestry faced online queues of up to nine hours when tickets went on sale for the first time earlier this summer. There were reports of 40,000 people queueing by mid-morning, with that figure ballooning to almost 80,000 by mid-afternoon.‘

British Museum hosted Palantir founder Peter Thiel in private viewing of Bayeux tapestry

Owen Garling @ojgarling.bsky.social · 3w ago

Nice letter in the @financialtimes.com from my @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk colleague @ninajorden.bsky.social on what Baumol’s disease can tell us about the productivity puzzle, and what it can't. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Letter: What Baumol’s disease tells us about the productivity puzzle

From Nina Jörden, Bennett School of Public Policy, University of Cambridge, UK

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Ryanair never beating the allegations

Caitríona Beaumont@caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 3w ago

Loved this, encapsulating end of summer moods.

Attendees at the United Irishwomen summer camp Rosturk Castle, Co Mayo 1938. Photo: Louisburgh-Killeen Heritage/Mayo County Council/National Museum of Ireland

& if you want to learn more about how rural women embraced leisure & fun & dancing during the Jazz Age in Ireland (under the noses of the Catholic Bishops 😮) you can read my @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social piece that draws on my chapter for this great new collection ed. by Louise Ryan & Eileen Hogan.

Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 4w ago

FAO Josh O'Connor edition.cnn.com/2026/08/24/t...

The man who made a fake Greek amphitheater and went to jail | CNN

This “ancient Greek” stadium in northern Italy was charging locals €40. An investigation into it took only a day to conclude it was a scam.

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Listening to my colleague John Lourenze Poquiz present our paper at the IARIW conference

Ed Conway@edconway.bsky.social · 4w ago

‘Filleting a fish is a tricky business, especially once the fish is frozen. It’s one of those jobs machines have yet to master, and so turning cod into a block of white fish involves rather a lot of human labour’ and rather a lot of passport stamps..

✍️ Want to understand the bonkers nature of the modern economy? Take a ride with me on the 30,000 mile journey the cod in a fish finger takes between being caught off the coast of Scotland and consumed in a British home 🤯 Promise I'm not making this up👇 edconway.substack.com/p/the-30000-...

Joel@itsjoels.bsky.social · 4w ago

‘dream big dreams; learn everything you can learn; and care for all those who care for you‘ Dolly forever

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

Chris Paxton@cpaxton.bsky.social · 4w ago

Big fish little fish cardboard box

They don't want you to know this, but this is peak running form

Luke Tryl@luketryl.bsky.social · 4w ago

The hold that Costa (and its latte glasses) has over this country troubles me greatly

Brits tend to share Burnham’s view that vape shops and betting shops are top signs of high street decline. Interesting Barber shops are now high on “getting worse too” Meanwhile more hanging baskets and bakeries top the list for signs a high street is getting better.

love to see it

Resolution Foundation@resolutionfoundation.org · last mo.

Reminded of @jburnmurdoch.ft.com on WFH - and how it’s Gen Z who are ‘most opposed to fully remote roles and keen for their colleagues to spend more time in the office’ www.ft.com/content/2205...

What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?

New evidence suggests the rise of working from home has made entry-level hires a less attractive proposition

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Solo working, not just screen time, has driven the surge in time young adults spend alone More in our latest research ➡️ buff.ly/v7pfxOa

Infographic panel stating 18–29‑year‑olds are spending more time alone, reporting diary data that young men spent six and a half waking hours a day alone in 2023 and young women spent an extra one and a half hours (about five hours total).

Owen Garling@ojgarling.bsky.social · last mo.

'Adopting a historical perspective... challenges us to measure the value generated from the interactions between institutions and infrastructure, recognising that it is often their complementarity rather than their individual strength that shapes long-term economic outcomes.'

The Cambridge Phenomenon: what can we learn about the role of institutions and infrastructure? - Bennett School of Public Policy

Cambridge’s emergence as a global innovation powerhouse was not the result of a single policy or institution, but decades of interaction between government intervention, infrastructure, institutions a...

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My @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk colleague Julia Wdowin has written on the role of national government in the growth and development of Cambridge, emphasising the importance of infrastructure and institutions in it's growth. #PolSky, #EconSky, #Cambridge www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/blog/the-cam...

Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · last mo.

'Pemberton built a documentary around the belief that ADHD just isn’t that real anyway and, in any case, shouldn’t be treated with medication, but he failed to offer any kind of plan B for people suffering.'

wrote about that ADHD documentary, my own life as someone apparently living the perfect life of the unmedicated ADHD poster child, and why no amount of "oh but the system should change, not the people" doesn't work: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social · last mo.

"I was absolutely stunned when I first saw the results… The speed of catch up in lung capacity in the London group was surprising and impressive. This shows an ambitious clean air zone can drive pollution levels down, rapidly restoring children's stunted lung growth."

🎉🍾👏

Will Jennings📉🗳️@drjennings.bsky.social · last mo.

‘The scale of the challenge to deliver place-based policies cannot simply be answered by providing greater local autonomy. What is required is central government action and resources.‘

'How Place-Based Policy Could Counter Populist Discontent' Our latest essay on place and discontent is out today in @politicalquarterly.bsky.social Free to read ➡️ doi.org/10.1111/1467...

How Place-Based Policy Could Counter Populist Discontent

Gerry Stoker, Daisy Blackburn, Nick Clarke, Will Jennings

Resentment felt by people in areas that have suffered from social and economic decline is a significant driver of populist backlash—‘the revenge of the places that don't matter’. An effective place-based strategy could provide something of an antidote to populist discontent. In power, populist leaders are arch-centralisers, organising government to dance to their tune. By focusing on place, UK government can respond to people's feelings of being neglected by Westminster and give them the power and tools to tackle issues that matter to their community. Drawing on a survey conducted in England in 2025, we show that, although place-based grievance is widespread, people still express pride in place and see unfulfilled potential, while negative perceptions reflect the material condition of local areas. There is demand for state intervention, but little faith in the ability of central government to deliver. In response, a place-based strategy requires a new style of multilevel governance followed by a slower, more place-sensitive push towards devolved government.

Nick Garland @npjgarland.bsky.social · last mo.

Thought Burnham's choice to talk about the "care of people" on Downing Street was really interesting incidentally. Worth reading this in dialogue with another piece we've got coming soon from @sachahilhorst.bsky.social on the politics of care and corruption.

A new piece from @ojgarling.bsky.social and me for @ippr.org on rethinking ‘Manchesterism’ through the lens of infrastructural citizenship. Open access link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

What Could ‘Manchesterism’ Mean?: Infrastructural Citizenship for Civic Renewal

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