Tim Leunig

Yet another lie from the Reform party and Nigel Farage. Reform says that there are 1 million non-english speakers in the UK. The last UK census says 161,000. Reform have refused to explain or justify their number.

Help fight Reform by sharing this video - we need to call out their lies.

📢now forthcoming in ECMA!

The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia

Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations.

Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵

The Your Party committee election was chaos. Why break the habit of a lifetime? | John Crace As the results livestream was delayed, voters lamented: ‘Is it too much to ask for competence as well as democracy?’

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

And that story proved to be wrong. Hence we need more office space!

Microsoft hunts for new London HQ on Elizabeth Line Sites from Paddington to Canary Wharf under consideration amid dearth of top-quality office space in UK capital

Lack of hire quality office space in good locations in London is making UK poorer. Here is an idea - maybe we could build more? www.ft.com/content/9c49...

The validity of first past the post in election like this is hard to justify

Obsessions can be good things in journalists. The UK is stronger for having @pickardje.bsky.social and everyone at the @financialtimes.com

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One of the the things that really make the British Isles unusual in Europe and the OECD, is that thanks to housing, we have prevented regional depopulation. Our high regional inequality because we have successfully pushed people into poor regions better than anybody else.

Julie McCulloch to join EPI as new chief executive ASCL policy chief 'hugely privileged' to take over as CEO of think tank EPI

Julie McCulloch has been appointed as the new chief executive of The Education Policy Institute (EPI)

https://schoolsweek.co.uk/julie-mcculloch-to-join-epi-as-new-chief-executive/

Yes it does, which is bad for the country in many ways

Love London!!

Liberal Democrats have fought tooth and nail to stop this stitch-up and the Government has been forced into a humiliating U-turn.

Labour are terrified of Reform. We are the only party willing to stand up to Farage and beat him, as we do week after week in council by-elections.

Want to know what I think the government should do about the "plan 2" student loans? It is your lucky day! >>>

The Victorians could do this, we should too Just sometimes my economic history knowledge comes in useful.

This week my substack shows how we could run a lot more commuter trains timleunig.substack.com/p/the-victor...

My letter in today's FT, showing that serious reforming governments, like Labour 1945-51 ran big budget surpluses, contrary to claims from @unitetheunion.bsky.social leader Sharon Graham. No conflict between reform and fiscal probity.

A graduate tax could fix Britain’s broken student loan sy... Tuition fees were meant to ease the burden on taxpayers and buoy universties. They have failed. A fairer alternative has been staring us in the face for two decades

In which Peter Hain says that the problems of unhappy graduates can be solved my making them pay about 3x as much per month, and for all of their life, rather than thirty years - observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

Good to see @hmtreasury appoint @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Busines School Professor Brian Bell, a serious economic heavyweight, as Government Chief Economic advisor.

What helps to improve teacher retention? This new research explores the factors associated with the leaving decisions of teachers, to understand in greater detail what actions policymakers might take to further improve teacher retention rate...

NEW: What helps to improve teacher retention?

Today we have published a new study on teacher retention, looking at the association between a wide range of factors relating to teacher's' working lives and their retention decisions

www.nfer.ac.uk/publications...

I don't think there are words in the dictionary to express how much I hate the ONS website. They must have a team of several dozen there working on making sure whatever data you want is impossible to find. Evil.

Read 200 pages of our new book here www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...

Or — if you’re in a rush — read @mikebrewerecon.bsky.social’s summary piece below, which does an amazing job of boiling the gist of it down to 900-odd words

I agree, one of Dom's better posts.

She's this mean we should have more onshore and less offshore wind? That would cut bills, presumably?

Have you read the article?

History predicts a fall in the price of gold. I wouldn’t ... The precious metal is now worth $5,000 an ounce and anyone who bought big a year ago has made a fortune, but that doesn’t mean it won’t go higher still

Have you ever thought about buying #Gold? I tell the story of what happened when I bought gold, and why it was my best ever investment - observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Gold's price began to move up at the end of 1967, but yet, one could claim other dates just as well. It would not alter my basic story

This is a great piece with a lovely punchline.

Except that France only has spare power in summer, when it is least useful. Nuclear + solar is a terrible combo.

History predicts a fall in the price of gold. I wouldn’t ... The precious metal is now worth $5,000 an ounce and anyone who bought big a year ago has made a fortune, but that doesn’t mean it won’t go higher still

I have written a column for @ObserverUK on the history of gold as an investment, and why its should now be seen as a risky, not a safe, investment. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

UK’s £8bn research fund faces “hard decisions” as it pauses new grants UKRI boss Ian Chapman said it had been told by the government to

Just catching up on the situation with UKRI and I can’t claim much expertise, but worth saying:
1. Research funding is pretty crucial when you’re a knowledge-based economy like the UK is
2. Blanket pauses in funding can be very damaging

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...