My attempt to shed a different light on the debate about New Industrial Policy. Exploring the history of social democratic managerialism, New Labour, and the forever crisis of growth and productivity in the UK .

RT @Cmmonwealth: 📗NEW REPORT📗 . What's wrong with UK pensions?. Our latest from @BBonizzi @jenchurchill79 @sahildutta explores how we can….

I wrote about how in a stagnant, skewed economy, monetary policy can't fix inflation without reinforcing underlying problems .

We wrote a book! It will hopefully be of interest to non-academic readers too. The politics Covid revealed btw, weren't great. .

'underlying the dispute is the broader problem of how universities are run, and by whom. Specialist managers move from institution to institution, partnering with expensive consultants to impose chaotic restructurings'

RT @chr1s_2_far: SMTs think university staff are reflexively resistant to change and so just plough on over considered and knowledgeable ob….

Ach, education is necessary and important but we cannot tackle the racism endemic in English cricket without redistributing resources in the game. English cricket is wealthy but cash is concentrated in places where 'diversity' is mostly an exception.

'When our jobs are under threat, student learning conditions unbearable, and when our sector is being destroyed by parasitic managers, the responsible thing to do is strike.'.If you can, pls donate to support our most precarious colleagues.

RT @JackCopley6: Lisa is a fantastic scholar, teacher, person - read what she has to say in full.

A helpful, supportive and even fun way to get your papers ready for submission. Join join!.

'Managers shape how contracts are assigned, how targets are set, and what opportunities these provide for external providers to extract profit'. Thing on how the NHS wasn't really 'marketised'.

RT @bat020: you may remember Rashan Charles, who died under police restraint in Hackney a couple of years ago. you may also recall that pol….

RT @DantonsHead: It is not just that cost of borrowing is at historic lows; it is that this is in part result of policy intervention. Co-or….

RT @_ourEconomy: Prof Gargi Bhattacharyya is one of our foremost scholars of race and capitalism. Hers is a key voice in @openDemocracy ou….

RT @WarwickCFG: How to best support early career scholars during a pandemic? .We decided to organise a manuscript development workshop wher….

At every opportunity, the guardians of liberalism sided with the right in a bizarre, destructive and forever culture war.

Corbynism, I still think, should be read as an attempt to defend liberal principles from the post-liberal right: equality before the law, free and factual press, production over rent, international human rights, public provision of public goods.

Britain’s established liberal guardians have again proved themselves completely unserious.

RT @KojoKoram: A thread on the new bogeyman of “critical race theory” .

The excellent @peters_nils is renting a new place, maybe you know somebody who may want to rent his old place - a 1-bed flat near Burgess Park.