@andrewleyshon.bsky.social
Economic Geographer. Co-author, The Rise of the Platform Music Industries (Agenda, 2025) with @allanwatson1.bsky.social & FinTech Capital (Zone, 2026) with @paullangley.bsky.social. Attended obscure Welsh Comprehensive of which even Elis James was unaware.
And, if you would like to know more about X Money, @andrewleyshon.bsky.social and I might just have the reading you're looking for
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Which end were you though? Man City I assume. Always thought working the bar at a football stadium is a job that's both high pressure and with a middling chance that something might go wrong, very quickly. But again, that might be my age and the fact that I used to follow Cardiff away for a while.
I don't disagree, but until their takeover City were often a prime 'banter club'. Briefly in the third tier less than 30 years ago, and their supporters were used to them messing up e.g their 1995 PL relegation after miscalculating result needed in their final game. This cuts some slack I think.
May be a first: Influencer FinTech. Come for the financial literacy, stay for the cryptocurrency advocacy at the back end. As comments here outline, the risks for those sold narratives of get-rich-quick alongside sound practical financial advice are considerable. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/b...
May be a first: Influencer FinTech. Come for the financial literacy, stay for the cryptocurrency advocacy at the back end. As comments here outline, the risks for those sold narratives of get-rich-quick alongside sound practical financial advice are considerable. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/b...
Excellent read from one of the most thoughtful of Labour MPs. Polanski’s “soak the rich” narrative works because it plays to the sense that the system is rigged in corporate interests. Amazing that a Labour government finds itself here open.substack.com/pub/liambyrn...
We're recruiting 2 PhD candidates in human geography here in Uppsala, one position focused on urban/housing issues and one in political ecology.
Please spread the word/repost etc. Being a PhD student in Sweden is a good gig.
Hard to overstate how certain we can be that this is, in fact, going to end badly.
@robinwigglesworth.ft.com on the gutting of the SEC.
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Yes, probably. If you think I typed that out then you have clearly never heard of copy and paste.
I for one welcome our soon-to-be AI overlords choosing to answer voice queries in Welsh
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Trying to work out which one you think might be Tarquin Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel.
I for one welcome our soon-to-be AI overlords choosing to answer voice queries in Welsh
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Fiji playing a 'home' match against Wales at Cardiff City Stadium is going to allow us to make a painful direct comparison with what the ground is like when Wales play football there.
The sheer contrast in vibes might be enough to kill the "rugby is Wales' national sport" myth once and for all.
Come at do a PhD with Sam Hind, Riza Batista-Navarro and me! "Artificial Inequality? AI and its impact on the UK Creative Industries" Deadline 30th March www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
This is impressive. I’ve shared it among contacts and everyone was equally impressed. One contact was so enthused he’s going to pass it directly to HMG given the policy potential.
As a veteran of (too) many NHS consultations & tests over the past decade or so, my pro tip would be if you are asked 'What time?', secure the day's first appointment & turn up at least 30 minutes early. Staff, anticipating subsequent delays, will likely ensure you're out before the appt time
and another giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
if you're not following this stuff private credit sounds like its private investors' risk but in all sorts of ways through pensions mortgages and life insurance this is not private risk but public risk. what's happening is even less transparent than the run up to 2008 imvho
The piece suggests a nightmarish dilemma. What's worse, the continuation of the AI investment bubble, but at the expense of significantly increased climate risk? Or its collapse, which might reduce climate risk, but which triggers a systemic global financial crisis given scale of investments?
Measles are back. Gold is at the center of the global monetary system. 1940s are so hot RN.
@paullangley.bsky.social and @andrewleyshon.bsky.social, Fintech Capital: The Digital Transformation of Everyday Money and Finance - Zone, July 2026
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
What she actually says is, "Oh it's nothing, just about nothing,". Call me old fashioned, but I'd have followed that up to ask why? Is the nature of her contract? Does it mainly go the Jim Steinman estate? etc. Penny streams notwithstanding, 1B is still a lot.
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Interesting. Fears in the early 1970s that US gold reserves were at risk lead to the end of the gold window and collapse of the Bretton Woods fixed exchange rate system. A former head of research at the Bundesbank advocates a 1960s Gaullist turn in Germany.
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Little wonder: "Some investors tell me they are war-gaming pretty extreme scenarios from here, including even the remote but plausible chance that Trump might one day threaten not to pay back government debt to investors or countries he does not like." www.ft.com/content/5c1a...
Coming Soon! FinTech Capital, by @paullangley.bsky.social and me, accounts for the rise and ubiquity of fintech and its global transformation of everyday financial transactions. The book is out in July in the US, and in September in the UK. Available for pre-order here: tinyurl.com/bdz2pjn5
Fascinating piece by @cedricdurand.bsky.social . A key issue here - as per Microsoft’s recent laments - is the impossibility of forcing firms to adopt a technology that demoralises them and delivers no near-term profit. The limits of financial and cultural hype. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Coming soonish! Now available for pre-order press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
