In a recent article, Alan Manning explores how immigration becomes a salient issue and why some people fear it. Check it out here: buff.ly/uLbMnqo

The fear of strangers: why do some people reject immigration? - Economics Observatory

Exaggerated anxiety followed by gradual accommodation is one of the most consistent features of Western immigration history – with first Catholics, then Jews and now Muslims feared. In thinking about…

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And thanks to @immorebitschek.bsky.social for his review of my Secret Leviathan (about Soviet secrecy, politics, and economics) www.hsozkult.de/publicationr... @aseees.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social @echistsoc.bsky.social @cagewarwick.bsky.social

A kind review of my Economic Warfare and Sanctions since 1688 (with Steve Broadberry and many others) at eh.net/book_reviews..., thanks to Taylor Jaworski @echistsoc.bsky.social @cagewarwick.bsky.social

An update of "Rodionov's Chronology of the Aviation and Aircraft Industry of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1906 to 1946," by Ivan Rodionov, is now available as Version 16 (16 July 2026) at warwick.ac.uk/aviaprom -- 225 megabytes of annual data in text format

An update of *The Factories, Research and Design Establishments of the Soviet Defence Industry: a Guide* by Keith Dexter and Ivan Rodionov, is now available as Version 24 warwick.ac.uk/vpk/ -- now more than 34,000 entries

The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.

Wrote an essay for Engelsberg. Something I’ve been thinking about recently, inspired by the Strait of Hormuz closure. engelsbergideas.com/essays/abrah...

Today is World Refugee Day. Here’s a poem called ‘Refugees’.

„Le Monde has learned that the latest ongoing investigation, led by (…) France's counterintelligence agency, targets an individual accused of preparing to blow up a SNCF transformer used to regulate rail traffic...“ www.lemonde.fr/en/france/ar... #Sabotage #DGSI #France

Russia's shadow looms behind several sabotage and espionage attempts on French soil

At the beginning of June, counterintelligence agents arrested a man while he was filming a drone prototype in a factory near Toulouse. Other investigations are targeting individuals suspected of prepa...

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“Mother, I've weighed the risks - which I prefer to living in a world dominated by Nazis. Bill" Thank god for Bill and so many more like him (Pic from @profpeterdoyle.bsky.social on X)

Best case for the ban I’ve read.

Iain Mansfield@igmansfield.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The social media ban doesn’t have to stop every under 16 from using social media - if it stops most of them using it, and causes those who still do to use it less, that's a big win. 10 responses to common objections to the ban. www.edrith.co.uk/p/social-med...

A ‘Memorandum of Understanding’ is what you have when either there is no actual understanding or the parties do not want any understanding to be binding.

Once it was books, now its laptops & mobile phones. Everything changed while at the same time nothing changed.

In 1908 the Lancet called for an 18+ age limit on reading in bed for U.K. children.

"A teenage social media ban is the digital equivalent of seeing our parks full of needles, broken glass, and violent thugs – and deciding that a “KEEP OUT IF YOU’RE UNDER 18” sign stuck on the entrance is enough." www.jamesrball.com/p/a-teen-soc...

A teen social media ban is an admission of total and utter failure to govern online spaces

The UK government is currently calling for steps that fall short of a teen social media ban. Here's why it shouldn't take the next step.

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Powerful metaphor. Fair.

James Ball@jamesrball.com · 2mo ago

"A teenage social media ban is the digital equivalent of seeing our parks full of needles, broken glass, and violent thugs – and deciding that a “KEEP OUT IF YOU’RE UNDER 18” sign stuck on the entrance is enough." www.jamesrball.com/p/a-teen-soc...

Very much looking forward to giving a keynote titled “The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics” and the discussion to follow on Monday in Krakow at the conference Democracy and Trust in Times of Changing World Order. taubecentre.uj.edu.pl

The impact of the USAID shutdown on Africa, as seen from space and on the ground. In a new @iza.org Discussion Paper, Marcella Nicolini and I study the effects of the aid cuts by linking GODAD data on USAID projects to satellite-based measures of economic activity and IPC food insecurity indicators.

*** ANNOUNCEMENT *** How to Win a Trade War is finally on sale!! (UK pub day is Thursday, but I'm told people have already started receiving their copies...) Get yours here... US: www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-to... UK: www.panmacmillan.com/authors/soum...

How to Win a Trade War

An irreverent and invaluable guide to our new era of economic competition, written by Financial Times columnist and podcaster Soumaya Keynes and Ch...

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HOW TO WIN A TRADE WAR is officially published in the US today!!! Last week was so incredibly amazing but also so busy @soumayakeynes.ft.com and I had some serious Lady Gaga vibes

Much good sense talked here by @soumayakeynes.ft.com and @chadpbown.com on Economics Applied with Steven Davis of @hooverinstitution.bsky.social youtu.be/Yk-mlWPgZWY?...

Chokepoints and Supply-Chain Vulnerabilities

YouTube video by Hoover Institution

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How to win a trade war (and influence people) My new essay for the FT: as.ft.com/r/19d4135a-c...

No one wins a trade war. Or do they?

Why export restrictions have always been the best, and the worst, weapons to bring to global trade battles

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V good @soumayakeynes.ft.com essay. www.ft.com/content/5000... No one wins a trade war. Or do they?

No one wins a trade war. Or do they?

Why export restrictions have always been the best, and the worst, weapons to bring to global trade battles

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Just found this and wish I'd written it but @duncanweldon.bsky.social got in first

Engelsberg Ideas@engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Economic warfare works slowly, gradually imposing ever higher costs on the enemy. But there is no single trick that causes an adversary's war effort to falter. How to wage economic warfare | @duncanweldon.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/essays/how-t...

If this isn't "designed to stir up hatred" against Jews, what is? Why are the Met not arresting them?

Even though it was expected, it's really striking to see a Labour leadership contender just straight-up say it out loud.

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Wes Streeting, "Leaving the European Union was a catastrophic mistake" "The biggest economic opportunity we have is on our doorstep" "We need a new special relationship with the EU" "Because Britain's future lies within Europe, and one day, back in the European Union"

A very good afternoon to the absolute hero who organised and parked this beauty in the middle of little Tommy’s far-right hate march. ❤️

Any government looking to shield consumers from high prices by intervening in prices risks making the problem far worse. We risk shortages: don't subsidize demand! We need to CUT fossil fuel demand! www.economist.com/briefing/202... From The Economist

The crisis in oil markets will get bigger before it goes away

As stocks dwindle, further price rises are inevitable

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A great new article on Stalinist repression, 1937-45, showing how Soviet women formed a significant and systematically targeted group, and more so than previously understood.

By contrast, Winston Churchill discussing evacuating 338,000 soldiers, instead refocused on the strategic: "We must be very careful not to assign to this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations."