To the point... theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Updates from Brexit mess... theguardian.com/politics/2021/…

mind-blowing chart showing the difference between previous growth assumptions and what USS is now assuming

Lina Wertmüller dies at age 93 theguardian.com/film/2021/dec/…

Eighty years late: groundbreaking work on slave economy is finally published in UK theguardian.com/world/2022/jan…

A great piece on FT by the UCU general secretary:

Credit Suisse has allowed the morally bankrupt to steal from the poor for too long theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

ft.com/content/33b714…

Boris Johnson claims the UK is rooting out dirty Russian money. That’s ludicrous theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Who are the Londoners enabling the Russian elite? ft.com/content/d05649…

Forget a gimmicky windfall tax. Energy companies should be forced to slash bills instead theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Jean-Luc Godard, giant of the French New Wave, dies at 91 theguardian.com/film/2022/sep/…

The next HYPE webinar will take place on the 8th February from 1600 to 1730. Title: "From despair to where? A short history of the UK household #debt crisis" Presented by Joe Cox from DebtJustice.bsky.social Write an email to [email protected] to get a place. #householddebt #inequality

A recent blog post by members of our History and Political Economy (HYPE) of Business and Finance research cluster explores UK market efficiency at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Read more 👇 ow.ly/iQmr50Mu0uy D. P. Sotiropoulos Janette Rutterford Daniele Tori HYPE

BBC has hit a new low…

"#EnergyDebt is just the cost of trying to survive" From April we’ll be paying TWICE what we paid two years ago to heat and light our homes - while energy companies reap obscene profits. It's outrageous. Tell the govt to #EndEnergyDebt 👉act.debtjustice.org.uk/energydebt TogetherAgainstDebt

However hard one tries to make a positive case about Greece, the data on the same article do not help the case.

Excellent question by FT Alphaville. This is also a question for USS (one of the main shareholders of Thames Water) and, of course, its members…

The best way to lose a election…

Dimitris Sotiropoulos on 'The calm before the storm: UK closed end and open-ended fund management in the 1930s' - day 3 of #EBHSABH2024