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The global chair of the M&A Group at Paul, Weiss is frustrated about Biden’s antitrust cops. And that’s a good thing.

#Industrial_policy is a cool field of economic inquiry right now - overlapping crises require #direction & #purpose , and the state needs to play a major role. Lots of work underway showing industrial policy does not need to mean 'picking winners' & supporting 'zombie firms' (from…

I think there’s some truth to the everything-bagel-liberalism critiques, but given that it is actually now ahead of schedule, I think we’ve got to chalk this up as a W for everything-bagel-liberalism

We have two brilliant jobs available IPPR:

🌟 HR manager - key to our operations, culture & impact
🌟 Senior research fellow or research fellow IPPRNorth, ideally in North East of England, to drive our work there

Could this be you or someone you know?
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Happy Meldrew Point Day, Matt Damon! Today you are 19,537 days old and have reached your Meldrew Point - the age of Richard Wilson on the day One Foot In The Grave was first aired on Jan 4, 1990. I don’t believe it!

I wrote a short letter in the Financial Times on the proposed UK mobile merger.
The merger will not work for UK consumers or for the UK economy.

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on.ft.com/3U23btn

Great to see IPPR research on public transport and car use covered in the The Independent

Our polling in collab with More in Common makes it clear why UK govt must stop treating transport as part of a culture war & deliver on people's priorities

independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

📢NEW: There's clear consensus among public that transport right now isn’t working & appetite for a new approach

Our latest report makes clear why UK govt must stop treating transport as part of a culture war & deliver on people's priorities

Read more➡️ippr.org/articles/who-g…

There was a time when someone thought it was a good idea to produce 'coal butter', a process that made 1kg of margarine from 60kg of coal

Never have inverted commas worked so hard as they have around 'razzmatazz' describing Kenny Everett

'Labour’s net-zero plan is made in China, claim Tories'

Well, I guess this is one way of admitting that their 11 successive industrial strategies in 14 years haven't worked thetimes.co.uk/article/1fd4b2…

If we lived in a sensible world, the fact that large chunks of the security architecture of the entire global online economy rely on vulnerable 'unpaid hobby projects' that appear to have been compromised by a potential state actor would be receiving more attention

The xz utils backdoor story is absolutely wild and the fact that no major news outlet has so far reported on it shows how limited the public's understanding of digital security issues is.
thestack.technology/xz-utils-githu…

Clear-eyed from ⁦Oliver Shah⁩ 'Jeopardy is an integral part of capitalism — the proper kind, not the rentier capitalism that has flourished in the privatised water industry until recently'

Hard to see Macquarie as anything other thn the villain here thetimes.co.uk/article/ecd3ed…

Thatcher told the House of Commons in 1989: “Privatised water is a better deal than nationalised water … Water privatisation, I believe, will go very successfully indeed”.

Narrator: She was wrong.
inews.co.uk/opinion/let-th…

After 14 years of the Conservatives, the tax gap - the difference between the tax owed and paid - grew by £5bn.

People can’t see a doctor yet the Tories have given up on making sure people pay what they owe.

It's time for change and a Labour government.
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

Labour victory party in Kemptown, Brighton (1966)

Ridiculous quote from Thames Water CEO

Seeing TW as an investment asset that exists to provide returns to shareholders, rather than maintain essential infrastructure to provide water to customers, is EXACTLY how it got into this mess in the first place!

thetimes.co.uk/article/481739…

a reminder that Thames Water’s debts have grown from *zero* to over £18bn since privatisation - with billions sucked out in dividends