New ⁦@UKandEU⁩ report on ‘Manufacturing after Brexit’ just out co-authored by ⁦@UoB_Business⁩ @dgbailey & Ivan Rajic

UK plans for pay-per-mile electric vehicle tax could make the system fairer – or provoke a fierce backlash. Latest ⁦@ConversationUK⁩ piece with Phil Tomlinson. ⁦@UoB_Business⁩ ⁦@UKandEU⁩

What Next for the Global Car Industry: from the ⁦@IEA⁩ well worth a read.

UK plans for pay-per-mile electric vehicle tax could make the system fairer – or provoke a fierce backlash. New piece with Phil Tomlinson ⁦@ConversationUK⁩ ⁦@UoB_Business⁩ ⁦@UKandEU⁩

@martinibrooks @dgbailey @BCC_Help @Harborne_Jayne I appreciate your help as the only Hardworking Councillor I see in Harborne who engages with residents.

@dgbailey @Michael_Thawe @BCC_Help @Harborne_Jayne I’ll report it now. There’s leaf clearing work going on in Harborne today and next week, so will get these streets added.

Public inquiry needed into ⁦@BhamCityCouncil⁩’s failings. Sign the petition…

Why we’re calling for a Public Inquiry into @BhamCityCouncil failings: @mhclg @BrackleyJ @dgbailey @GOVUK @10DowningStreet

Great morning on Harborne High Street despite the weather!

Today, I joined 500+ researchers from 70 countries in calling on world leaders to create an International Panel on Inequality modelled after the IPCC— as recommended by the G20 Committee on Inequality led by @JosephEStiglitz. Help us spread the call. 🔗 https://t.co/R6mNpSUxMT

This deliciously well-informed article by David Aaronovitch explains that the BBC's 'independent editorial adviser' Michael Prescott wasn't that independent after all.

Stasis, sanctimony, and the liberal paradox. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog with such Brexit news as there is, but mainly analysis of what 'responsible Farage' tells us about the tensions in Reform and what the BBC row tells us about Brexitism: https://t.co/jLjqoCo4u8

We’re having a Quinton Foodbank stall at the the #harborne Market Christmas Light Switch-On this Saturday (15th). Hope you’re able to drop by with one of the items on our list. Thanks!

U-turn on a U-turn? Starmer and Reeves ditch Budget plan to increase income tax rates via @FT

Who cares what the US thinks on this? US ‘disappointed’ that Rolls-Royce will build UK’s first small modular reactors.

Its been all downhill in Birmingham since we stopped selling mini hot, salty potatoes at the bottom of The Ramp. Bring it back.

👀Just look at the economic impact of the cyberattack and shutdown at Jaguar Land Rover👇 Output from the entire UK motor industry contracted by 28.6% in September, according to the ONS. Save for the pandemic that's the biggest monthly fall on record...

The cyber attack on Jaguar Land Rover is the big reason for the small shrinkage in the UK economy in September, says @ONS : “Most notably, production output fell by 2.0% in September 2025 mainly because of a 28.6% decline in the manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and

‘I’d do it all again,’ says Dutch minister at heart of car chip standoff with China

Beyond print: ⁦@RegionalStudies⁩ in the digital age. Exciting new era as the journal shift to Build content online (BiO) and drops print.

Yesterday's fear & loathing was bound to happen. MPs & CLPs are disillusioned by No 10's lack of vision/direction, failure to listen, constant bungling. As one union official of yesteryear told me: "When you hear a lot of hammering outside, they are building a gallows for you."