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Cardiff Transformed @cardifftransformed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Conflicts across the world are having a devastating impact. Join us as we discuss WAR, CLIMATE AND THE COST OF LIVING #Cardiff Transformed2026 @meadwaj.bsky.social@tssa.bsky.social @bfawu.bsky.social @cardiffunison.bsky.social @rmtunion.bsky.social 📅 Saturday 26 Sep, 2pm 🎟️ bit.ly/45vUHQ3

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Cardiff Transformed @cardifftransformed.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

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Donald Campbell @dncampbell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Important research from @meadwaj.bsky.social showing jobs claims around data centres are hugely overblown: "vast new datacentres arrive at significant real costs to local communities and even our climate ambitions, and their use case has to be made by the government and industry".

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UK datacentres will create just 25% of jobs predicted by tech sector, analysis finds

Facilities likely to employ 10,400 workers, compared with 40,000 in industry estimates, thinktank says

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

People like @meadwaj.bsky.social have been foreseeing this for a while, but quite a historic moment when the Governor of the BoE cites 'weather' as a threat to price stability www.ft.com/content/faa6...

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War and weather threaten fresh burst of UK inflation, BoE governor warns

Comments by Andrew Bailey add to problems facing Andy Burnham ahead of next month’s Budget

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Cardiff Transformed @cardifftransformed.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Conflicts across the world are having a devastating impact. Join us as we discuss WAR, CLIMATE AND THE COST OF LIVING. #Cardiff Transformed2026 with Shabbir Lakha and @meadwaj.bsky.social @stwc.bsky.social @tssa.bsky.social @bfawu.bsky.social 📅 26 September, 2pm 🎟️ bit.ly/45vUHQ3

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New Economy Brief @neweconomybrief.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

One in six UK hospitality businesses are at risk of closure amid mounting pressures on supply chains and the cost of running a business. This week we explore the economics of the UK's struggling hospitality sector: neweconomybrief.net/the-digest/h...

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MACRODOSE @macrodosepod.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

On Macrodose this week: @meadwaj asks if the dollar is still the globe's fundamental currency and looks at the physical strain facing artificial intelligence.

Stacks of US $100 bills being handled by gloved hands, overlaid with bold purple text "ON MACRODOSE THIS WEEK" announcing a weekly finance/macroeconomics roundup.

Magazine-style cover asking whether the US dollar remains the world’s fundamental currency, featuring a bold headline and a collage of US banknotes with a hand counting bills to illustrate questions about American financial power.

Magazine-style article titled "The physical strain facing artificial intelligence" reporting memory-chip demand from AI has driven prices up, paired with three close-up photos of computer chips and circuit boards.

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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hayat is a cleaner at the European Parliament, union representative and mother who fought for daytime cleaning. On our podcast "Unsung", she shares what it's like to clean a building that symbolises democracy, while often being treated as invisible. Listen now: podfollow.com/macrodose/ep...

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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

ICYMI - @meadwaj on the economic cost of the UK heatwaves. We talked about how productivity was hit across the economy, and how the casualisation of the workforce makes people increasingly vulnerable to the physical and financial damage caused by such events:

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[UNLOCKED] James Meadway on the economic costs of heatwaves

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James Meadway @meadwaj.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A reminder: Corbynism is finished, over, dead. The world has changed & the conditions that produced its relative success in 2017 (think: low inflation, low interest rates) are not coming back. The reason to join Greens is they are the party of the left best aligned with how the world has changed.

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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

📻 Weekend listening 📻 - @meadwaj.bsky.social on the economic cost of the UK heatwaves. We talked about how productivity was hit across the economy, and how the casualisation of the workforce makes people increasingly vulnerable to the physical and financial damage caused by such events:

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[UNLOCKED] James Meadway on the economic costs of heatwaves

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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

[UNLOCKED] @meadwaj.bsky.social on the economic cost of the UK heatwaves. We talked about how productivity was hit across the economy, and how the casualisation of the workforce makes people increasingly vulnerable to the physical and financial damage caused by such events:

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[UNLOCKED] James Meadway on the economic costs of heatwaves

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Cardiff Transformed @cardifftransformed.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Conflicts across the world are having a devastating impact. Join us as we discuss WAR, CLIMATE AND THE COST OF LIVING. #Cardiff Transformed2026 @meadwaj.bsky.social @stwc.bsky.social @tssa.bsky.social @bfawu.bsky.social 📅 Saturday 26 September, Chapter Arts Centre, 2pm 🎟️ bit.ly/45vUHQ3

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026

Here's Amazon's two new planned fossil-fuelled AI data centres next to the ENTIRE POWER GRIDS OF SEVERAL LARGE COUNTRIES Together, the two gas-burning data centres will emit more than Spain's entire grid, if built

Bar chart comparing 2025 national grid CO2e emissions (grey bars) with two Amazon fossil‑fuelled AI data centres (red bars), showing the Amazon sites at about 33 and 17.5 megatonnes CO2e—higher than many countries' entire power grids.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Climate breakdown isn't just costing lives, it's scorching our economy. We need to redesign our economy for a hotter climate, and make oil and gas firms pay.

UK heatwaves may have cost economy £4.4bn in lost output so far this year, analysis finds.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Downing Street's press release for Burnham's "emergency" Cobra meeting on the drought didn't even mention climate, with the Prime Minister blaming the growing numbers of wildfires on disposable barbecues. He's since appeared on GB News this afternoon to talk about migrant camps

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 12/08/2026

Extreme heat isn't a summer inconvenience. It's a growing public safety challenge driven by the climate crisis, threatening lives, disrupting businesses and putting our economy at risk. I strongly welcome the PM convening COBR today. Government must act as one to protect people and communities.

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UK heatwaves may have cost economy £4.4bn in lost output so far this year, analysis finds

Verdant thinktank says cost could top £25bn a year by 2030 and calls for maximum temperature for working and urban redesign to cool down cities

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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"the “green transition” is happening already... driven by the countries of the Global South. It’s Chinese solar PV and batteries that are electrifying sub-Saharan Africa. It’s Uruguay and Kenya that have achieved a near-total decarbonisation of their own electricity systems." - @meadwaj.bsky.social

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Eco-populism or barbarism?

Making eco-populism work in a climate-shocked world.

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MACRODOSE @macrodosepod.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

On Macrodose this week: @meadwaj.bsky.social talks of the existential risk to cheese banks, the new Arctic shipping routes made possible by ice melting, and the burn out of AI data centres.

Bold pink headline "ON MACRODOSE THIS WEEK" over stacked Parmigiano-Reggiano wheels aging on wooden shelves, stamped with Italian markings — a promotional graphic announcing this week's episode or feature.

Headline reads "Will climate change close the cheese bank?" with photos of towering racks of Parmigiano‑Reggiano wheels in a climate-controlled vault and a cheesemaker inspecting a wheel, highlighting heat stressing storage and aging.

Headline announcing that ice melt has opened an Arctic shipping route, shown with three photos of container and cargo ships navigating broken sea ice and narrow open-water lanes.

News-style graphic warning that data centers are burning out faster than expected, featuring the headline, a blue-lit server aisle, rows of rooftop cooling units, and a technician inspecting rack wiring to illustrate equipment strain from AI workloads.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/08/2026

we have to live through OpenAI and Anthropic smashing the 'scary hacking story' marketing button more and more over the next few pre-IPO months, and journalist soberly reporting on the button-mashing www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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OpenAI to pause some work on AI model Astra due to security concerns

Agent found to be able to find and exploit vulnerabilities without human intervention, and to carry out cyber-attacks

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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Amazon is building the nation’s largest fossil fuel plant exclusively to power artificial intelligence As my colleague @emilypont.bsky.social notes, the plant’s permit allows for essentially double the emissions of the most polluting power plant in the U.S.

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Amazon Is Building America’s Biggest Fossil Fuel Plant to Power AI

The company confirmed its plans to market research company Cleanview.

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James Meadway @meadwaj.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

All in this week’s superheated Macrodose - third story here (no jellyfish shutdowns so far this summer tho) podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...

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Looming Food Crisis Warnings

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Lachlan Musicman @datakid.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Macrodose podcast has done a short series called Unsung: Cleaning in Progress which is a really great five episode deep dive into #cleaners #organising themselves. #unions #unionise podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

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Macrodose

News Commentary Podcast · Updated Weekly · Your weekly fix of everything economics. Hosted by James Meadway.

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The Rod Liddle biography suggests a certain post-1968 'type' who was just idiotically drawn to norm-breaching, moving via adolescent rebellion, punk, revolutionary socialism, and eventually ending up at racism, because by the 21st century that was the most efficient transgression still on offer

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MACRODOSE @macrodosepod.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

On Macrodose this week: @meadwaj.bsky.social talks the looming food crisis, the US bailout of Japan's yen, and how heat is making nuclear power unreliable.

Promotional cover for a weekly segment titled "ON MACRODOSE THIS WEEK," showing Donald Trump and Sanae Takaichi shaking hands and smiling in front of U.S. and Japanese flags, with bold blue headline text across the lower half.

Headline "The food crisis is looming" above collaged images of flooded crop fields, empty supermarket shelves, and a packed grocery haul, illustrating Britain’s strained food supply and rising risk of shortages.

Headline "The US Government Bailout for Japan" and explanatory text about the US Treasury propping up the yen, shown with a montage: a Japanese official speaking to reporters, an electronic board displaying exchange rates, and two senior officials seated in an ornate room.

Magazine-style layout with the headline "Heat is Making Nuclear Power Unreliable" and a blurb explaining extreme heat and drying rivers harm nuclear cooling, accompanied by photos of nuclear plants beside low river levels and an aerial shot of a largely dried riverbed.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

DSA-aligned Democrats are now the most pro-free-trade voting bloc in the United States, in an incredible turn of events www.theargumentmag.com/p/who-suppor...

A graph showing whether voters support or oppose free trade by party identification, showing 54% of "Dems favorable to DSA" strongly support free trade agreements

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

And @meadwaj.bsky.social has been warning about the impact of global warming on nuclear power plants for so long on @macrodosepod.bsky.social The water needed to cool them down is impacted by hot temps and droughts. So even our solutions are barely outrunning #CimateChange

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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

"As a migrant working here… it's not easy, and it has never been easy." In today's episode of our podcast "Unsung: Cleaners", we hear from Kwasi from Ghana who cleaned the London offices of one of the world’s largest investment banks for 20 years. Listen now @macrodosepod.bsky.social.

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 30/07/2026

++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...

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New Economy Brief @neweconomybrief.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

For this week’s New Economy Brief, we take a deep dive into the challenges facing Britain’s seaside towns and villages, and ask whether revitalising domestic tourism is a route to restoring some of Britain’s most deprived areas: www.neweconomybrief.net/the-digest/t...

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Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I disagree with 'most importantly, inflation is caused by the balance between supply and demand' other than in the most trivial sense. Inflation is caused by incompatible claims on output leading to increases in nominal wages and prices and/or by shifts in the terms of trade or exchange rates.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

New post: On Burnham's cabinet choices, early announcements and changes to No 10. They show we have a much more politically astute PM and one who has disagnosed at least some of the problems with govt. But also the challenges to come. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/a...

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A theory of power

Burnham's cabinet choices and changes to No. 10

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James Meadway @meadwaj.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Quick statement from me on John Healey being appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Are you sure you want to endorse countries paying climate damages sir

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Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Some thoughts on the potential direction of travel for Andy Burnham's political economy. The interesting ideas on the left relate to with the supply side -- ownership, control and distribution -- and offer scope for action. The macro constraints still bind however. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

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Will Andy Burnham’s political economy be any different? | LSE British Politics

Andy Burnham is about to become Prime Minister having signaled he wants to break with the political economy of the past 40 years. At the same time, he has committed to sticking with Rachel Reeves' fis...

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Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Enjoying this polite skewering of the FT's Burnham bond apocalypse obsession.

With Andy Burnham now about to enter Downing Street, the question is whether there is a third option. In an interview with the New Statesman last September, Burnham made a throwaway remark he has not been allowed to forget: ‘We’ve got to get beyond this thing of being in hock to the bond markets.’ Fund managers lined up to express their dismay, sounding dire warnings about what lay ahead if Burnham were allowed into power. Since then, the press – led by the usually more circumspect Financial Times – has been like a dog with a bone, chasing down bond market analysts for apocalyptic visions of Burnhamism, treating vox pops conducted within the Square Mile as the expression of pure economic reason.

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

. @meadwaj.bsky.social picks up some threads from my recent @lrb.co.uk piece on Burnham and runs with them www.verdantthinking.org/blogs/the-ba...

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The Bank of England is a Glaring Hole in Andy Burnham’s Plans for the Economy — Verdant

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

On this week's @macrodosepod.bsky.social @meadwaj.bsky.social: - Looks at how heatwaves are breaking data centres - Examines nuclear power plants closing due to extreme heat - And answers a listener question on why the UK borrows rather than prints New episodes every Wed wherever you get podcasts.

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High Cost Heatwaves

Podcast Episode · Macrodose · 1 July · 14min

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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Also features @vickyspratt.bsky.social on devolving technical education and skills, @meadwaj.bsky.social on a 'Doge of the left', @pollymackenzie.bsky.social on welfare reform as industrial strategy and @jamesomalley.co.uk on freeing the Postcode Address File. www.arguably.uk/p/20-ideas-f...

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20 ideas for Andy Burnham’s 100 days

Policy experts on how the next Prime Minister can turn the UK around

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MACRODOSE @macrodosepod.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

On this week's Macrodose: @meadwaj.bsky.social considers the costs of extreme heat, reflects on the Andy Burnham speech that laid out more of his economic vision, and looks at the still incoming effects of The Strait of Hormuz's closure open.spotify.com/episode/3hDj...

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Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Agree. And, as should be apparent by now, also illustrates the fact that the interesting economic ideas on the left -- and the prominent ideas in Manchesterism's soon to be expanded universe -- are to do with the supply side: devolution, nationalisation, industrial policy, green transition etc.

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Alfie Stirling @alfie-stirling.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

NEW. The £ impact on UK families from conflict in the Middle East modelled for first time. On avg. families to see disposable income (after housing costs) fall by 1.7% (~£740/yr), 2024-2029. Worst outlook at any point since general election, and would be the worst parliament on modern record. 1/

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Martha Dark @marthadark.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Thanks to all who joined our London Climate Action Week event in Victoria yesterday: Data Centres: Powering AI or costing the earth? @foxglovelegal.bsky.social was joined by economists, lawyers & activists working to ensure data centre development doesn't come at huge cost to communities & planet.

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Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Climate emergency cancels Reform's "cancel the climate emergency" meeting - council members were due to vote on Thurs on a Reform motion to rescind the climate emergency.

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Alameda Institute @alameda.institute · 22/06/2026

The first season of After Order podcast concludes with a live-recorded conversation exploring the central premise that has run through the series: that we are not living through an interregnum between stable systems, but through a period of sustained disorder.

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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

🎤 What would it mean to reclaim digital infrastructure? IIPP Head of Research @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and Paulo Gerbaudo recently spoke about Digital Sovereignty in the age of #BigTech with @meadwaj.bsky.social on the 'After Order' podcast. 🎧 Listen to the episode here: buff.ly/PSUj5sJ

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