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Paul Connell

@paulcconnell.bsky.social
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Founder @OpenInnovates non-profit, mission-led, innovation with data. Co-founder @TheDataCity mapping the world's economy with data. Also #MDANT Life is for living - let's get on with it.

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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 5h
Why are you reposting this ? Awful. Unfollowed .
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
😬
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Neither were yellow imho. And I’m a United red !
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Referees changing games. Awful Game’s gone
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We're already at war with Russia, exhibit 2342:
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Russia steps up bid to kill European defence chiefs, spy agencies warn
Companies increase personal security for top executives as Kremlin orders expansion of sabotage and ‘hybrid’ operations
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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Real conspiracies and conspiracy theories tend to be structured quite differently. There's a great paper on this by a UCLA computational folklorist called Tim Tangherlini. I spoke to him about it here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Conspiracies: The Secret Knowledge, Narrative Graphs
Phil Tinline continues his series exploring what conspiracy stories tell us about power.
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I support Wikipedia, where information is still human-created, fact-checked, and 100% free. Join me! donate.wikimedia.org
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Make your donation now - Wikimedia Foundation
Donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and other crucial free knowledge projects. Each year, the generosity of the 2% of readers who donate allows us to expand the reac...
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Great work. Best of luck with what’s next 👊🏻.
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It’s vibes based politics. “ Find me data to match the narrative!! “ Amateurs
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
That live show was mint!
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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Your new favourite GIF has landed #CelebrityTraitors
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Discogs is ace! Back to 1990 !
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The relative underperformance of North England’s economy is a mystery…..
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hard agree.
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
😬. This is not gonna end well.
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Future of Economic Intelligence Great piece here by @paulswinney.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/busines...
observer.co.uk
You can’t grow an economy if you can’t see it, but that’s...
‘Frontier’ technology firms are the most productive part of the UK economy, but largely absent from official data, leaving policymakers flying blind
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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Happy 45th birthday to Genius of Love by Tom Tom Club, released as a UK single on this day in 1981 youtu.be/aCWCF19nUhA
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Tom Tom Club - Genius Of Love (Official Music Video) [4K]
YouTube video by RHINO
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For anyone interested in the story
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Russia - Ukraine war | Olga Bigar callsign "Witch" has a nasty surprise for aggressor
YouTube video by Aphex Gaming
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is your semi-regular reminder that pensioner poverty: a) is real b) is significantly less prevalent than working-age poverty and half the rate of child poverty, and c) is such that a pensioner is statistically more likely to live in a household worth over £1 million than to live in poverty
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
See you there ✊🏻
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You know who else was obsessed with dancing around on the pinheads of imagined classifications based on where great grandparents were born and what they believed? The Nazis.
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So who else is heading to #Convenanza this weekend? www.convenanzafestival.com
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Convenanza
There’s always been an evangelical streak to Andrew’s endeavours and in order to preach the sweet gospel of Gnostic Sonics, he needed a temple... suitable for a transcendental ritual, when the most ja...
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I had a glance at today's Public Finance figures and was less alarmed than the BBC seemed to think I should be gileswilkes.substack.com/p/very-short...
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very short one on what seems reassuring in the growth figures
where the growth really counts
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So who else is heading to #Convenanza this weekend? www.convenanzafestival.com
convenanzafestival.com
Convenanza
There’s always been an evangelical streak to Andrew’s endeavours and in order to preach the sweet gospel of Gnostic Sonics, he needed a temple... suitable for a transcendental ritual, when the most ja...
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Like, I am sure government bond market pricing is partially a result of worries about policymaker credibility/public finances. But it’s also a story of inflation and what happens when you close the world’s most important waterway for seven months.
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It is both really obvious and seemingly often forgotten that an awful load of pressing economic problems would be an order of magnitude easier if the Strait of Hormuz was open.
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We should stop people & organisations “giving out, and marking homework “ and force them to do something more useful instead.
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
danieldrezner.substack.com/p/donald-tru... on the topic POTUS taking the L time and time again
danieldrezner.substack.com
Donald Trump Is No Longer Feared
What happens when a president has no ideas, runs out of steam, and loses credibility?
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Andrew Carter @andrewcities.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on youth unemployment: too few jobs in too many places | Editorial
Editorial: Young people in Britain’s poorer towns have far fewer opportunities. Changing this will require targeted support – and industrial strategy
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
IYKYK Play it now!
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/09/2026
I love this slide. I really don't think the geopolitical implications of the clean energy transition have sunk in for most people.
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WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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KYLIE MINOGUE CAN’T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I wouldn’t be as harsh, music is like food imho, people can like what they want and go and see whom they like. He seriously misjudged this.
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Compare and contrast with Ed Sheeran. www.bbc.co.uk/news/enterta...
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The Beatles banned segregated audiences, contract shows
The Beatles refused to play to segregated audiences in the US, a contract for one of the group's concerts shows.
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Vibes not data.
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WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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BELTRAM ENERGY FLASH
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
😬😬😬😬
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The hospitality industry are back lobbying for a VAT cut They don't mention the cost: £12bn They don't mention who gets the £: ❌ The smallest most vulnerable businesses? Get nothing ❌ Consumers? Prices won't fall ✅ McDonald's gets £400m. Big chains are big winners 🧵:
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
@simplemindsmusic.bsky.social on the telly box - great stuff. So many bangers.
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I wore my copy of this out. It is amazing
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
So much this. Employers can show you how to be commercial, communicate effectively, be ambitious and competent. In my case they couldn’t teach me how to complete and understand complex geochemistry analysis of soil and groundwater.
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
As I keep pointing out, does no one understand Ricardian comparative advantage anymore. FACT: China produces over 1 million engineering graduates per year FACT: To date, China has not produced a single internationally marketable game show format Where does it look like our advantage lies?
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Big game today
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
aleximas.substack.com/p/will-ai-so... The best blog ever written on AI and growth, by a clear margin. By @aleximas.bsky.social
aleximas.substack.com
Will AI soon lead to double-digit growth?
Probably not. Here is why.
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Toby Venables @tobyvenables.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
London is statistically safer than every US city. UK crime rates are falling. The number of people arriving in small boats is down, not up. Sharia Law has no legal power whatsoever in the UK. You are seven times more likely to get stabbed in the US than the UK. This is the reality.
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
And more bad news to come
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Dennis Healey what a bloke 👊🏼✊🏼👊🏻https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/1965-leyton-byelection-denis-healey-punched-fascist
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The 1965 Leyton By-election: When Denis Healey Punched A Fascist
Called to clear the return to Parliament of a high-profile Labour figure, the 1965 Leyton by-election prefigured the Makerfield contest, writes Lor...
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