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Calvin Jones

@calvjones.bsky.social
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Regional Economist and sometime troublemaker. Energy, climate, post-growth, guitars, Sci-Fi, bikes, world-systems.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wage growth just keeps slowing. And yes, wages are rising slower than prices, and no, that's not how economic growth is meant to work.
Line chart titled "Nominal wage growth is slowing" showing year-over-year growth in average hourly earnings of private-sector workers. Wage growth has declined steadily from a peak of 5.9% in early 2022 to 3.0% in September 2026, the slowest rate in the series. This nearly 3 percentage point drop over four and a half years indicates significantly cooler labor market conditions, with the deceleration accelerating in recent months as growth fell from the 3.7-3.9% range in 2025 to the low 3% range currently.
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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just seen an absolutely marvelous #AfghanWhigs gig in #Liege.
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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Not one of Europe's more glamorous rivers, the Meuse.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 30/09/2026
#OtD 30 Sep 1953 British communist boxer, Len Johnson, went for a drink at the Old Abbey Taphouse in Manchester, but was refused service because he was Black. Soon after, 200 people picketed the pub until the landlord agreed to stop discriminating. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1112...
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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Dangerously close to the Standing With Legs Far Apart mode of politics.
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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@timofnewbury.bsky.social hi Tim. This boring but lovely Orval in Le Platain, Brussels is for you.
Orval beer
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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Your know you're old when you sit in an outside bar in a European capital and look at all the kids smoking and think 'holy feck what are they *thinking*??'
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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Been for a lovely ride in Flanders. Rental bike had 2sp internal rear worked off a button to give you lower gears. I didn't know... thought it was an E bike 'on' switch so didnt use it and... so went up all the bergs in the big ring 🤯🤯🤯😩
The Koppenberg climb
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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Flanders fields looking lovely in the haze.
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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tomorrow, I'll be riding up the Oude Kwaremont and Paterberg *really* slowly.
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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
27 years of Labour in Wales treating local authorities like children and only after an almost complete wipe out in Senedd do they belatedly and unrelatedly 🤔 realise Plaid should now be giving away power to the layers below. A period of silent reflection might have been more welcome.
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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Beginning of my train trip to Brussels brightened immensely by fanboying #Ludwig and his brainy other half at Cardiff Central 😁
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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"League One? Halcyon days. For City fans of a certain age and disposition, beating Gillingham in the playoff is our top footballing memory." I remember it like it was yesterday #FeedtheGoat www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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We Manchester City fans fear relegation and losing trophies … but club are bang to rights
Despite the club’s shocking attempts to legally filibuster the charges out of existence for the past three years, we’ve rightfully failed
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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So @nickharkaway.com is that new Zeta Jones thing yours? nickharkaway.com/books/seven-...
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Seven Demons
Jack Price and his Seven Demons, the most dangerous and feared assassins in the world, are taking on the bank heist of the century.
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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Barney Ronay spot on as usual. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Anger at Tuchel over World Cup exit exposes biggest obstacle to England success | Barney Ronay
Manager is not responsible for underlying weaknesses but there are reasons for optimism in the buildup to Euro 2028
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University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
📚️ BOOK LAUNCH 📚️ Reserve your spot for the launch of 'Nations Without States' by Samuel Parry now! 🕖️ 7pm 📆 30 October 📍 The Canopi, Tudor Street, Cardiff Reserve your free space: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lansiad-ll... Read more about the book here: www.uwp.co.uk/book/nations...
Book cover featuring an illustration of a  a harbour full of ships surrounded by industrial buildings and houses, leading up to the mountainside scattered with houses, a castle, and a manor house
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
the Republican agenda since Reagan is working
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Donald Campbell @dncampbell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Palantir have found their new Peter Mandelson www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir
Peer takes full-time position at the controversial company as it fends off pressure from both Andy Burnham’s government and Sadiq Khan
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026
I'm just going to keep yelling this louder and louder until it clicks: weird overpaid AI nerds hand-wringing about human extinction are trying to distract you from the extremely deadly and serious harms they are causing yesterday, today and tomorrow www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Headline: "US Data Centers Set to Burn More Natural Gas Than Most Nations" above a photo of natural gas compressor towers, power lines and a crane at an industrial site, illustrating rising gas use tied to data centers.News excerpt reporting that U.S. data centers’ natural gas use is expected to grow by 15 billion cubic feet per day by 2035—amounting to more gas than every country except China, Russia, Iran and the U.S., citing the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This might be where me and Apple part company after many productive years.
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Irish musician Aaron Rowe has said he is withdrawing as a support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour.
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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Good day for Reform in Wales then.
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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hilarious. We're going to reject Westminster's broken economic model, but assume economic growth is what will fix our nations 🤔
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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It is a thing of great wonder that the flying taxi in Back to the Future II (1989) is a #Citroen DS (1955)
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TechnicallyRon @technicallyron.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Took a picture of my friends dog at the train station and may have created the best horror movie poster ever
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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
OK Bluesky, do I use centrist or centre-left? #Wales
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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I'm not sure I'd really describe this criticism as 'widespread' 🤔
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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
That Royal Blood pretend guitar is just cheating sorry.
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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Just saw The Odyssey. Quick review. Very good but the bit in the horse was pure Monty Python and yes, in the Suitors we've *finally* found a set of villains more hapless than Imperial Stormtroopers.
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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I had almost managed to forget I once owned a #Lancia Y10 It was the posh one where the digital fan slider on the dash had about 10 lights but the actual fan only 2 speeds, neither adequate. Damn you @classicretromodern.bsky.social magazine! #classiccars
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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
That sad time of year when the summer bike goes into the attic and the winter bike comes out* #cycling *not in that order obvs
Two bikes
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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Just saw the state on Pog yesterday when they tried to get him back on the bike. Pro Cycling is fked.
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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Simply devastated that those particular leopards are eating this particular face. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Milo Yiannopoulos, a far-right political commentator, detained by ICE
A former editor of Breitbart News, Yiannopoulos has also served as an intern for Marjorie Taylor Greene
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Ashley @ashleysays.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Chefs kiss
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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Guess who is in Belgium for a conference when the Whigs are playing Liege 👀😎 #altrock www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...
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‘I had to learn how to be a feminist’: Greg Dulli on surviving grunge, shunning misogyny, and Afghan Whigs’ glorious return
With a soulful sound and soul-baring lyrics, the Afghan Whigs rode the post-Nirvana boom to the big leagues. Their frontman explains his exploration of the male ego – and how Usher got the band back t...
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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Can't help thinking there are several salutory lessons here. #football #ManCity
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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Which of these do you think a sensible society should spend more time worrying about? A Two undeserving people might be released from jail early B Nationwide food harvests for 2026 and 2027 are already ruined?
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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Delighted to share my new report on #Rural Resilience in the Welsh Marches / Y Gororau. It's stark reading for those who care about the British countryside #demography #climate #ecology #economy #innovation lpiphub.bham.ac.uk/green-and-pl...
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Green and Pleasant Land? Rural Resilience in the Welsh Marches – LPIP
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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
New Guitar Day #NGD #Fender #Jaguar #Thinline
Guitar
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.
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General Motors streetcar conspiracy - Wikipedia
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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
BBC in discovering economics shocker.
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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This was such a difficult watch. This all started going (even faster) downhill when cuts meant they had to merge BBC News and World channels. Neither has been the same since.
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Prof Martin Attrill @martinattrill.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
As a Brit can I apologise for what has become of the BBC
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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
We need to take a moment to salute Gianni Infantino for being the first person in history to get 55 European countries to unanimously agree on anything.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 29/07/2026
All the video game studios that refuse to use generative AI aftermath.site/video-games-no...
someone holding up a sign that AI crossed out
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Barney Stringer @barneystringer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
They say the best time to plant a tree is 40 years ago… so I’m off on a mini adventure to fact-check that 40 years ago this summer, as a sixth-former, some friends and I volunteered on a conservation project in Snowdonia (Eryri) Now we’re heading back to climb a mountain and see whether it worked…
View down the tracks on an above-ground Tube platform. A lot of vanishing perspective going on - symbolic perhaps?
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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
They'll be singing in the streets of Kiltimagh tonight! A decent year of GAA results eh @decjordan.bsky.social ? Mayo beat Kerry in thriller to end 75-year All-Ireland wait - www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articl...
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Kerry 1-17 Mayo 1-20: Mayo end 75-year All-Ireland wait with thrilling win at Croke Park
Mayo end a 75-year wait for the county's fourth All-Ireland Senior Football title with a 1-20 to 1-17 victory over Kerry in a captivating and intense final that went down to the wire at a raucous Crok...
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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I like this new final stage #tdf
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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Top stuff again from Will (or as we're going to have to start calling him, Wil). This immigration also of course has negative implications for the Welsh Government's aspirations for economic growth (if one cares about stuff like that).
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