Last year I was commissioned by the UK ministry of housing to write a report on the demand side-drivers of the housing affordability crisis. After some election-related delays, here it is. (1/13) ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/publi…

Looking forward to working with Competition and Change Journal !

How extremist settlers in the West Bank became the law ig.ft.com/west-bank

“20,000 missing children in Gaza — some maimed beyond recognition. On top of the 17,000 killed in 12 months. We call it genocide because it is genocide.” —UN Special Rapporteur, Francesca Albanese

They say climate *protesters* are disruptive. Valencia today.

Real class act..my Gawd!!! No wonder the Zionists resorted to smearing her “ Israel membership of the UN to be suspended” 👏👏👏

Award-winning author Arundhati Roy strongly criticised the US and Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza and Lebanon in her acceptance speech for the PEN Pinter Prize at a ceremony in London earlier this month

How private equity convinced Labour to go easy on its multimillion pound tax perk theguardian.com/business/2024/…

UK austerity policies ‘increased rate of premature and low birth weight babies’ theguardian.com/society/2024/n…

More than 100 BBC journalists publicly decry the corporation's huge bias towards Israel and warn that staff confidence is at a historic low. The media crisis over the failure to report the Gaza genocide is profound, as I explain in my latest article: middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-i…

Strange that, when every country claims to be a ‘world leader’ on addressing climate change 😉. Someone must be telling an untruth … perhaps the atmosphere is conning us, or perhaps policy makers & their coopted acolytes are spinning a yarn? Now which is more likely 🤔

Good see this but technological advances and productivity increases over the last several decades necessitate speedier progress on 4-day week employment theguardian.com/money/2024/nov…

The BBC’s Middle East Editor is revealed to be far from impartial Raffi Berg was revealed to not only have been a former CIA employee, but has also expressed support for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, who currently has an ICC arrest warrant issued against him for committing war

In the UK, 4.2 million children live in poverty, with an average of 9 in every classroom of 30. Adequate financial support and policies that help parents balance work and care are essential to end child poverty. Kitty Stewart Almudena SEVILLA cpag.org.uk/sites/default/…

Hmm. I agree on the shortage of competent operational management, but that too is a consequence of “new public management” doctrines, which stress generalist, accounting-based and un-specialised management by people sympathetic to simplistic neo-liberal doctrines.

A lingering puzzle about inflation is why the public still seems so unhappy about it, even though it has, by conventional measures, returned to normal J. W. Mason – The Cost of Living and the Cost of Money braveneweurope.com/j-w-mason-the-… #Economics #Inflation

Being clear about the strengths and trade-offs of the funding options available to local and national government to drive decarbonisation will enable informed and pragmatic decisions, says Cllr Kieron Williams London Councils themj.co.uk/comparing-fund… via The MJ

How best to fund local climate action? Read a piece from our Executive member for Climate, Transport and Environment Cllr Kieron Williams in The MJ, sharing findings from our new policy paper with University of Hertfordshire #NetZero #climate

Great to see this piece on our #netzero work with London Councils: for many local authorities, any borrowing, should be reserved for statutory responsibilities…National government is in a better position to borrow at scale required to fund net zero, more efficiently. University of Hertfordshire

📢📢Financing #netzero at local level - in partnership with London Councils, we explained why central funding is more sensible for scaling-up #local netzero investments. londoncouncils.gov.uk/news-and-press… University of Hertfordshire Hannah Hasenberger Mia Gray