Prof David Bailey

Appeal launched to keep Bronze Age treasure in Staffordshire The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery is fundraising to hold on to a nationally significant Bronze Age treasure trove

The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery is fundraising to hold on to a nationally significant Bronze Age treasure trove | Adam Colclough
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The EU’s Industrial Accelerator Act (due out this month) is part of a wider reconsideration of industrial strategy. Get up to speed with our bumper recent @cssjournal.bsky.social special issue on ‘Industrial strategy reborn’ @acadsocsciences.bsky.social
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A critical review of the UK's Modern Industrial Strategy: lessons for ‘place-based’ policy The paper explores the implications for regional development contained within the UK’s recently launched Modern Industrial Strategy White Paper (2025). We critically examine the industrial strategy...

As the EU discusses a ‘Made in Europe’ strategy & prepares to unveil its Industrial Accelerator Act, where has the UK got to on industrial strategy? Our recent critical review in @regionalstudies.bsky.social gets you up to speed. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @regstud.bsky.social

blogsfromtheblackstuff.com/blogsallauto... Move the 2030 Petrol Car Ban to 2035, and Fix the EV Transition Properly.

The coffee is rubbish too.

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.

Now, Starbucks is lifting a cap on the CEO's use of a private jet to commute from California to Seattle.

It's been four years since Starbucks stores began unionizing and workers still don't have a contract.

Move the 2030 Petrol Car Ban to 2035 & Fix the EV Transition Properly. New blog: blogsfromtheblackstuff.com/bftbautoblog...

The @smmt-ukauto.bsky.social is right. We really do need a comprehensive review of the ZEV mandate. New blog: blogsfromtheblackstuff.com/bftbautoblog...

UKICE Lunch Hour: UK politics in flux - UK in a changing Europe Join UK in a Changing Europe experts as they discuss the high levels of volatility and fragmentation in UK politics.

*******TODAY******* Put your questions to @drjennings.bsky.social @sophiestowers.bsky.social and Rachel Wolf. Address the burning issues. What's happened to our party system? What's happened to trust in politics? Is Starmer doomed? Should I be in the House of Lords? ukandeu.ac.uk/events/ukice...

The SMMT is right. We need a comprehensive review of the ZEV mandate. New blog: blogsfromtheblackstuff.com/bftbautoblog...

Green supporters pretending not to understand why I am annoyed about their misuse of my words and image on their leaflets will now be blocked without warning. I’ve explained it several times at length. Life is too short for this nonsense.

Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit

Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’
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Is the UK’s industrial strategy really place based? New @rsablog.bsky.social blog on our recent @regionalstudies.bsky.social paper. Blog here: regions.regionalstudies.org/ezine/articl... paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @regstud.bsky.social @rsaibis.bsky.social @prt1969.bsky.social

Starmer camp warns leadership challenge risks economic chaos Investors also signal concern at prospect of a more leftwing government

"Stability with Starmer or chaos with anyone else" might need a bit more work. This is a PM whose authority had been shredded by a series of policy U turns and now the decision to appoint Mandelson. Starmer won't be able to drive any meaningful change www.ft.com/content/c855... via @FT

the FT had by Saturday night broken two stories showing that the Mandelsons had taken over $100,000 from the world’s most famous paedophile

by Monday we were all writing various stories about him leaking sensitive state secrets to Epstein

they could have easily pulled this puff piece in time

Quite funny that Starmer's allies are waking up to this point now …

Cuts to Winter Fuel… not in the manifesto
Disability benefit cuts… not in there either
Cutting jury trials… also not there
Digital ID… no mention
Raising employers NI… nope
Freezing tax threholds… nah
Contracts with Palantir… no

BREAKING: Birmingham City Council 2day published Budget admits for 1st time pension fund refund of *£141million*. BCC thought it would be £42M only 10 wks ago. Employer Contributions: 16.5% - ridiculous.
The refund *should* be over £400m in next 3 yrs. Watch out for Blog 2moro + John Clancy.

I'm not sure how this works as a defence. There is nothing in what Glasman said that Starmer couldn't have worked out for himself. Outsourcing basic political judgement to a chief of staff with a clear agenda of his own is hardly the mark of leadership, is it?

We've reached the "Maurice Glasman showed better judgement than the PM" stage of this crisis. Not sure there's any way back from that...

Is the UK’s industrial strategy really place based? New @rsablog.bsky.social blog on our recent @regionalstudies.bsky.social paper. Blog here: regions.regionalstudies.org/ezine/articl... paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @regstud.bsky.social @rsaibis.bsky.social

BTW, that's not a quote from Chris. It's how I'm feeling about the impact of this - not so much on the Labour government and its chances of re-election but on British democracy itself. The whole thing stinks to high heaven and is an open goal for every tin-pot populist out there.

UKICE Lunch Hour: Financial services the UK-EU relationship - UK in a changing Europe Join our expert panel as they assess the UK's and EU's approach to financial services regulation and how the sector impacts the UK-EU relationship.

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📈UK-EU regulatory divergence has increased in the financial services sector, despite aligmnent in other areas

🇬🇧🇪🇺 To make sense of where the sector fits into the UK-EU relationship, we've assembled a team of UK and EU experts

📆Tue 24 Feb, 1pm GMT
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Many farmers are 'struggling to make ends meet'.

Katie Jones shares her own experience of the challenges many British farmers face.

Watch the full discussion on how we can decarbonise farming without pushing down on farmer's living standards:

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⏳12 days to submit your application to the ARL, @rsaeurope.bsky.social and University of Amsterdam joint summer school. ⏳

🔶 New Perspectives on Urban Infrastructures
📆 8-10 July

School is aimed at 2 & 3 year PhD students.

For more info & submit your application: www.rsaeurope.org/event/summer...

The art of industrial leapfrogging Why manufacturing paradigms matter and how to create the next one

Interesting post on new manufacturing paradigms suggests place might not matter so much ? blog.spec.tech/p/the-art-of...

Breaking: UK Local Govt. Pension Scheme assets now pass £0.5Trillion, so Management expenses this year inevitably over £3B. Labour has prioritised taxpayer payment of £16B almost entirely to investment bankers. Today's blog with @johnclancy

who do *you* think should investigate Peter Mandelson?

1) the parliamentary authorities
2) Peter Mandelson
3) the police
4) the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein

The Times published this fantasy monologue from Milburn on the front page without bothering to do the most basic factchecking, and follows up with the mealy-mouthed and borderline incomprehensible correction above. Pathetic excuse for journalism.

The majority of children with EHCPs (education, health and care plans) receive child disability allowance, but this is not the case across all children with Send (special educational needs and disabilities) support, as we wrongly said (News, Jan 24). The same article referred to research suggesting 83 per cent of the adult population could be classified as having a mental health condition at any one time: in fact the figure represents those who will have such a condition at some point in their lives.

The Times has now published a correction of some of the multiple errors in its front-page splash interview of Alan Milburn on NEETs/SEN.

Of course, having published Milburn's invented numbers, they don't bother to give their readers the actual ones.

Original article here: archive.ph/I0f49

here's tonight's FT splash, fresh from the Epstein files