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Stephen Hunsaker

@hunsaker.bsky.social
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Economist @ Resolution Foundation Analogue filmmaker and photographer

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Stephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Local Housing Allowance, the cap on housing support that helps 1.9 million low-income private renting families, has been frozen since April 2024. Rents haven't. The gap between rents and support hits a record this October. Our new spotlight shows why the Budget should end the freeze 🧵
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Stephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I have a new report out today with @simonpittaway.bsky.social on Britain's productivity revival – which is real, if it you measure it properly. And it isn’t being driven by the economy shedding low-paid jobs. 🧵
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Stephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
New Q2 2026 UK trade data this morning. While the impact of the Iran war will be the first thing on people’s mind, it seems to still be too early to see the full pass-through effects on UK trade.
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Stephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
0.4%. That is the headline figure for the UK economy in the second quarter of this year. While not quite as strong as last quarter (0.6%), growth was stronger than the Bank of England forecast at 0.3%.
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Eric Ansley Díaz 🏳️‍🌈 @geekboyeric.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
RIP Bonnie Tyler. And RIP Tandi Iman Dupree. This remains the best stage entrance by a drag queen of all time, even some 25 years later, and the best use of Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero” ever. youtu.be/IHQA5vqn6rw?...
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 22/06/2026
...Make sure you read the full report by @sophiehale.bsky.social @simonpittaway.bsky.social & @hunsaker.bsky.social Leaving EU Behind: How Britain lost its trading edge and whether Brexit is to blame www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
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Leaving EU behind • Resolution Foundation
A decade after the Brexit vote, the UK has lost its trading edge in goods faster and more broadly than any G7 peer. This briefing note explores why that has happened, and what the Government must do t...
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 27/06/2026
Why is the UK such an outlier on trade? Most countries have pretty consistent exports from one decade to the next, but in the past 5 years the UK’s trade profile has lurched in the opposite direction to almost everyone else. On our substack, @hunsaker.bsky.social digs in to what has happened⬇️
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Britain is doubling down, as other economies rebalance their trade.
Most countries have pretty consistent exports from one decade to the next. Stephen Hunsaker asks why the UK’s trade profile has lurched in the opposite direction to almost everyone else.
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Chris Drew @mesnilman.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
With a h/t to @anandmenon.bsky.social (and all at UK in a Changing Europe) as well as @jonnelledge.bsky.social (just avoid reading BTL in the Guardian article)
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
"The government's argument sounds plausible. There's just one problem. It doesn't fit the facts. And the government knows it." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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There’s only one problem with Labour’s immigration plans: they’re completely untethered from reality | Jonathan Portes
The government’s new policy will take us back to an uglier, more dangerous place – and it’s not even supported by the data, says professor of public policy Jonathan Portes
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Peter Foster @pmdfoster.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Labour wants to curb immigration: but doesn't want to engage in social care reform It wants to curb student visas and encourage more UK training: but wont fund unis or FE colleges. It just tells voter they can have both. /2
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British Future @britishfuture.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
59% of the public, and 64% of 2024 Labour voters, agree that migrants living in the UK and paying taxes should be eligible to apply for citizenship after five years or less, according to our new Focaldata research. www.britishfuture.org/white-paper-... #ImmigrationWhitePaper
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UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Trump hasn’t named the UK as a tariff target… but it’s not ‘if’, it’s ‘when’ says @hunsaker.bsky.social 👇 www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
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Donald Trump disaster looms for Keir Starmer in ticking timebomb for UK | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
It's less a question of 'if' when it comes to one Donald Trump tactic and more a question of 'when?'.
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Stephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
👀 Ummmmm excuse me Jim Shannon…
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Stephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I know amist Trump tariff news that the PEM Convention is on sooooo many people’s mind. Tl:dr PEM will have modest impact on UK trade, but it can be a decent first step in a UK-EU ‘reset’ for trade. Can also listen starting at 38 mins on Moncole. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
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Netanyahu goes to Washington
Podcast Episode · The Globalist · 02/03/2025 · 58m
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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Very grateful for the support 🙏🏾
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Stephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I completely agree, the message from this cabinet is clear: it is not ‘business as usual’
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Stephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I completely agree, I think the message from this selected cabinet is it will not ‘business as usual’
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Stephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Tl;dr The UK should take a two ponged approach: focus first on closing loopholes in the current system while doing that start the long process of implementing a wealth tax in the future. ukandeu.ac.uk/is-it-time-f...
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Stephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
As always @emilyfry.bsky.social is coming in with quick and brilliant analysis of ONS trade data. Some worrying services number to watch while some growth in non-EU goods. Definitely give her a follow!
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Sam Lowe @samuelmarclowe.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
This week's edition of MFN looks at what a UK-US Free Trade Agreement (or rather, free trade agreement) could look like. Also why I'd hate to be the Pitcairn islands right now. mostfavourednation.substack.com/p/a-uk-us-fr...
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A UK-US Free Trade Agreement?
And why the Falklands and Pitcairn are at risk
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Stephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
While a man who said Prozac is the cause of school shootings is being put in charge of health in the US, in London I went and saw Roots with Morfydd Clark at Almeida Theatre and thought it was very well done and would recommend it. You win some you lose some.
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
🚨🚨 It took me ages and I am pretty certain I missed a number of people that should be on the list but I made my first starter pack now for #brexit and #ukpolitics here: go.bsky.app/NZG5maf
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UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Reposting our UK in a Changing Europe researchers and academics (past and present) starter pack for our new followers! Follow for evidence-based analysis and insights 👇 go.bsky.app/796PuWt
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Stephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Wednesday I was depressed. Thursday I rage-wrote and @labourlist.bsky.social was kind enough to publish my thoughts post-US election. labourlist.org/2024/11/us-e...
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‘Is it the economy, stupid? Why politicians need to create a human-felt economy’ – LabourList
For nearly the last half century, the top issue for US voters has been the economy. But as the dust starts to settle on the…
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Stephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
Oh how was Tory Party Conference?? Very educational, very demure, very mindful…
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Stephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
Great experience on the Kings College London panel on the upcoming US election. youtu.be/pN601G3basY?... For a quick catch up before the election check out my explainer. ukandeu.ac.uk/explainers/t...
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Stephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
Um what’s that next to the cheese? Oh, Don’t mind that, it’s just £1,200 of 16mm film, normal fridge things ya know.
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
🚨🚨 "The UK has potentially lost £44 billion in public investment due to Brexit". @hunsaker.bsky.social has an excellent follow up analysis of a year old @ukandeu.bsky.social report on UK's public investment gap. Tldr; things are not looking better. 🧵 ukandeu.ac.uk/the-uk-has-p...
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The UK has potentially lost £44 billion in public investment due to Brexit - UK in a changing Europe
Stephen Hunsaker highlights that the UK has potentially lost over £44 billion in public investment since 2017.
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Stephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 25/07/2024
Just your normal neighborhood squabble.
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Stephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
They handed out pastel de natas at the premiere of Poor Things at the London Film Festival… I’m not saying it helped but it definitely didn’t hurt when I gave it five stars. Review: boxd.it/4ZT9XR
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Stephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
Me: can I buy hunger games? Mom: we have hunger games at home…
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Stephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 20/06/2023
Wales: we are putting a dragon on our flag. Zheleznogorsk, Russia: hold my vodka
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Stephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 20/06/2023
I’ve found the best advice in life to be on the back of a public bike.
Inflation is theft. Bitcoin has no inflation. Do your own research.
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Stephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 17/06/2023
My co-workers and I have spent an obscene amount of time at work fleshing out this political spectrum quadrant that is based off whether a politician would eat or not eat a worm and also whether they would neck or not neck a pint...
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Stephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 17/06/2023
Welsh Police have learned Photoshop
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Stephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 29/05/2023
This has no reason to be so accurate. I feel seen and equally called out.
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Stephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 20/05/2023
~France~
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Stephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 20/05/2023
Excuse me?? Were they named with the intention of becoming sailors or were they give the names by Poseidon once they became sailors?
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Stephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 16/05/2023
This painting doesn’t have a plaque… am I just to let go of this with no explanation?!
Man fucks frog, frog head man is born
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Stephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 16/05/2023
Curious as to the moral reasoning that this audioguide has to determine a good from a bad number.
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Stephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 14/05/2023
Would Sweden be the most likely to be on my Spotify playlist, yes, but is it better than a human centipede doing the wave shouting CHA CHA CHA, no not even close. #eurovision
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Stephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 10/05/2023
Would Christ even have a 95% vote share with a 53% turnout?!
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Stephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 08/05/2023
👈🏼 exactly, he’s not fun to root for or watch decimate the rest of the field.
It is the sport that makes Messi compelling. And that's what F1 teams are currently failing to provide. Verstappen has made F1 boring -good for him.
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Jacob @jcb.bsky.social · 07/05/2023
fair enough lmao
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Stephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 04/05/2023
Bluesky
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Stephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 03/05/2023
I’m very proud of this Spotify playlist artwork I made that has absolutely nothing to do with the music in the playlist I just thought it was a funny.
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Stephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 01/05/2023
Lots of questions but I guess it passes the vibe check. In a men’s WC in Plitvice, Croatia.
ACAB All Clitoris are Beautiful
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Stephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 30/04/2023
Penywern Rd, London Shot on Kodak Gold 200
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Stephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 28/04/2023
💀 Source: PopBitch
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Stephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 28/04/2023
Found my first Invader pieces while perusing Ljubljana today.
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