Great to meet Kirkcudbright pals Graham & Anne Bryce in Dublin this evening who are on the road cycling from Glasgow to Bethlehem in support & solidarity with Palestine & raising awareness & funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians. Total respect & admiration for their commitment.

What the article (accurately) says: "The average migrant worker pays more in tax than they received in public services compared to the average British-born worker". What the headline says: telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…

Student housing (and Build-to-Rent) is the superficial 'spatial fix' for everything but for nothing at all. Heaping future crisis on present crisis. It's an extraordinarily banal fiasco and a stunning failure of political imagination.

Cumbria coal mine plan quashed at the High Court. Mr Justice Holgate said: "The assumption that the proposed mine would not produce a net increase in greenhouse gas emissions, or would be a net zero mine, is legally flawed."..

New refrigerant may improve coefficient of performance of air-source heat pumps by up to 21%. pv-magazine.com/2024/09/12/new…

If you missed the latest on power markets this summer:

Baron Ross Kempsell, ennobled by Johnson (what for?) at the same time as Charlotte Owen, now has a further five jobs. Both peers can make laws for nearly 50 years. The House of Lords is broken. My column prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/67865…

What if I told you we could slash £200 off every household's energy bill? Right now, the companies that own the pipes and pylons - most of them foreign-owned - are raking in 40% profit margins, while energy retailers are capped at 1.5%. It's modern-day robbery...

The great vandalism in process…

France seems to do social housing so well compared to the UK. What are they doing differently? Does the gov supply more grants or what? Cc Aydin Dikerdem Peter barber Patricia Brown Claire Bennie and anyone else who might know!

Hear that “ golden ticket for U.K.” You will never hear a unionist politician utter those words. That would be to acknowledge Scotland’s possibilities through independence.

In France a law states that 50% of the materials in public buildings need to be timber or natural materials And this is the kind of libraries you get as a result By Atelier Woa in Paris

As our letter in today's FT makes clear, higher public investment is crucial for better public services and overall economic growth. The only purpose of the falling debt to GDP fiscal rule is to keep public investment low. That rule has to go. ft.com/content/b0df31…

On my way to meet Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney and Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes MSP to discuss global lessons on mission-oriented industrial strategy. Read more here: ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/publi… We'll also be discussing my report (w/ Laurie Macfarlane) setting out how this

Been listening to a C of E Bishop attacking their church’s vision and growth work - not feeling it really - seems like a caricature to me… but presented as a deeply nuanced esteeming of faithfulness and ‘small things’ - I mostly find this approach a false opposition…

Our housing policy is utterly broken - massive state subsidy which enriches rentier capitalists - big leap of imagination needed

Trump is a stupid man pretending to be smart to win votes - Vance is a clever man pretending to be stupid to win votes - both hollow men.

PJ saying Labour government not being serious about governing choices

Assisted suicide would risk making elderly people feel like a “burden”, Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey has warned. He’s right, and it’s not just the elderly who’d feel pressured to die. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/…

The letter which some economist colleagues and I sent to Financial Times is about the need to design a fiscal rule which doesn’t suppress public investment. The current ‘five year rule’ on debt/gdp distorts decisions on public investment. More below 👇 UofG Adam Smith Business School