Paul Hayes
@paulhayes01.bsky.social
Senior Policy Fellow, Leeds University Business School. Defrocked #localgov policy bod. Into: Cities, Devo, Councils, Localism and all things The North. Doesn't have a podcast.
Your regular reminder that Cambridge University has been investigating James Orr for about a month, and it’s all gone a bit quiet. www.varsity.co.uk/news/32175
Have we now moved on from "Sports Washing" to "Sports Blackmail"?
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 2d agoUAE officials have warned the UK that a severe punishment for Man City could hurt future Emirati investment in Britain, Bloomberg reports. This is the perfect argument for keeping foreign money out of football.
Council Tax. Worked as a short term political fix for the 'Community Charge' (sic) debacle, but now woefully out of date and chock full of the outcomes of 3 decades of unintended consequences (if I'm being generous using that term).
Chris Hewson@chrishewson.bsky.social · 18h agoSo in summary, they'll now be paying slightly above the national average as a worst case scenario.
See also: social/affordable housing and housing related benefits :-(
Resolution Foundation@resolutionfoundation.org · 6d agoFor every £25 we spend on income support on young people who are out of work, we spend just £1 on employment support to get them into work. We’ve got the balance all wrong, says Alan Milburn at our Labour Party Conference fringe event
Saddest thing I ever heard in local govt was from a colleague in Blackpool: "We did some focus groups about why people in HMO's moved here as adults. Going to Blackpool was the last place where they felt happy as kids" :-(
David Higham@oldtrotter.bsky.social · last wk.Going back to Blackpool would certainly open a few eyes to the challenges of regeneration.
When yimbies celebrate the 30s as a housebuilding paradise, they often don't mention that building only followed massive public investment.
Mike@mikeyashworth.bsky.social · last wk.Looking through my old London Underground photos folder from 'work' - the almost completed platforms at Bounds Green station on the Cockfosters extension of the Piccadilly line seen on 8/7/1932. Note the very different & long lost lighting treatment this group of stations had. (LT photo).
Given my many, many bleak evenings on the Bradford/Whitehaven/Widnes (delete where applicable) terraces enduring dour nailbiting relegation struggles - this is simply wonderful #upthetrin
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 7d agoWakefield stun Wigan to storm into their first Super League Grand Final
Whatever did happen to that future George Osbone promised us? The one where we'd be wearing, sleeping on and eating Graphene? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
OpenAI’s George Osborne says datacentre nimbys holding back Britain
Former chancellor, now senior figure at OpenAI, says UK needs datacentres to maintain ‘sovereignty’ over AI tech
theguardian.com
Migration Economics Stat Of The Day.
Emiliano Mellino@mellino.bsky.social · 3w agoThe UK government is making upwards of £4.9bn in profit from visa fees, citizenship fees & the immigration health surcharge. Meanwhile, people are getting into thousands of pounds of debt or going without food just to afford to these immigration fees. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
"universities may be most effective when they support and strengthen wider civic capacity: contributing expertise, evidence, convening power and long-term commitment to place." Yup.
Wonkhe@wonkhe.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW on Wonkhe: Luke Green and Liz Shutt make the case that to make devolution a success, civic universities need to partner more and lead less buff.ly/iEfF0ul
Tufton St wunderkiddies polishing their cv's as I type....
My excellent Leeds University Business School colleagues in full effect here.
Charles Umney@charlesumney.bsky.social · 3w agoOpen Access paper in Work and Ox. Examines the "hollowed out" (Jessop) local state in the context of the rapid development of the digitalised logistics industry in a deindustrialised region of Northern England. Typologises regulatory strategies and their limits. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
A visitor levy for English mayors? https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/a-visitor-levy-for-english-mayors/
Daily Mail in Familiar With People In Black Uniforms Shock.
Deja vu time for any of us who moved from other public services into HE.
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 4w ago'The need to outsource services following redundancy programmes may be increasing universities’ costs rather than lowering them, as well as impacting staff productivity, a report warns.'
Some Cheery Morning Reading for y'all.
UK in a Changing Europe@ukandeu.bsky.social · 4mo ago🚨 NEW REPORT 🚨 🔟 Marking 10 years since the EU referendum, we've got a new report on the UK-EU relationship 🔦 It highlights ‘stark divide’ between the economic impact of Brexit and the govt.’s proposed response 🪜And sets out a ‘staircase’ of options for the future 🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/events/ten-y...
Chris Curtis MP @chriscurtis94.bsky.social and Jack Shaw @jacktshaw.bsky.social argue that once retail-heavy high-streets need 'beetroots, bowling alleys and botox' to survive. www.arguably.uk/p/can-the-br...
How to reinvent the British high street
Why town centres need beetroots, bowling alleys and botox
arguably.uk
📢 Join the launch of the Earning + Learning campaign Hear from young people, the TUC, Young Women's Trust and University of Leeds researchers on improving employment rights for student workers. 📅 24 September, 12pm 💻 Free online event 👉 Reserve your place and find out more: tinyurl.com/4j58sa3y
Fascinating Why We Game read about home made RPG playing in Prison. "There is a quiet, melancholic beauty of the game as an art form, a way of processing the world around us." barenuckelavee.bearblog.dev/no-one-can-t...
NO ONE CAN TAKE YOUR GAME FROM YOU
There is a sickness in the modern tabletop hobby, a kind of creeping, insidious consumerism that tries to convince you that you need things to play. We get c...
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The most amusing bit of Orr's academic page at Cambridge? "Not available for consultancy".
Are we going to get the 200 articles on James Orr then? Maybe read and interrogate the footnotes of his doctoral thesis? Is Cambridge going to have to issue out statements about its hiring standards?
Peter Jukes@peterjukes.bsky.social · last mo.Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI
All quiet so far today down the Cambridge University press office?