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Jennifer Churchill

@redjen.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in Economics UWE Bristol; macro, finance (especially pensions) and also philosophy. Previously dabbled in politics, policy, public affairs

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Andy Burnham has plunged the plan for a third runway at Heathrow into doubt by privately telling MPs he has always opposed the project, and the new prime minister is said to be “open minded” about whether it should go ahead. www.ft.com/content/0206...
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Burnham’s opposition to Heathrow expansion puts third runway in doubt
New prime minister has been a longstanding critic of the project
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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🚨 How big is the open-model threat to AI hyperscalers? (Spoiler: non-trivial) www.ft.com/content/4858...
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How big is the open-model threat to AI hyperscalers?
Games without frontiers
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Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“The idea that you could be here for the next 10, 15 years and you’d still have no legal right to remain in the country … how the hell do you plan?..It cuts across any effort to integrate at all.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘Fundamentally unfair’: Burnham must overhaul migration reforms, says TUC general secretary
Paul Nowak says changes to immigration rules risk overstretching social care and fuelling far-right sentiment
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You might have to turn up for the results of this one, Nige.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 09/09/2026
Breaking news: London's Metropolitan Police has expanded an investigation into the financing of Reform UK after an undercover TV sting operation that alleged the rightwing populist party sought illegal funding from overseas ft.trib.al/b7F4Acf
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The ansaphone message, like the forces of ethnonationalism, were dismantled only for within living memory to see it re-created in new and more horrifying forms.
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
NEW - Ed Miliband appears to suggest that there was previous resistance under Keir Starmer to taking this action. "I'll say very bluntly we should have acted earlier. And it has taken the new prime minister to come in and recognise the gravity of the situation."
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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · 08/09/2026
A VoxEU column from 2018 describes how differences in student effort on standardised testing can explain 32-38% of the cross-country variation in #PISA scores. By: @gzamarro.bsky.social, Sally Sadoff, Collin Hitt, @proflivingston.bsky.social, and Francesca Borgonovi cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky
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The effort students put into standardised tests varies widely by country
The Programme for International Student Assessment is a global standardised test of students’ mathematics, reading, and science skills. This column describes how the results of various studies using d...
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Ulrich Siegmund, the AfD’s lead candidate, thanked Musk on X "for your support and for your clear and highly important perspective on the political developments of our time", adding: "I would very much welcome the opportunity for strong and constructive cooperation". #R4Today
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Germany’s far-right AfD thanks Elon Musk as France warns state election win a ‘serious moment’
Lead candidate in Saxony-Anhalt welcomes further ‘strong’ cooperation with Musk as French minister says ‘we cannot forget our history’
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Henry Tapper @henrytapper.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Well done TPT - first of the CDC challengers to break cover. henrytapper.com/2026/09/05/w... “We say to prospects: authorisation submission is 26 and launch in 27,”
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Well done TPT – first of the CDC challengers to break cover.
All of the crew at Pensions Mutual wishes TPT every success as they set out on their CDC journey. We sound like we have a similar pathway to authorisation and launch and hope that we can compete to…
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If you want to read the paper that will soon ruin @danielmalinsky.bsky.social's life you can check it out here. Forthcoming in Journal of Causal Inference. www.liamkofibright.com/uploads/4/8/...
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Jim Kane @kanejim.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Good luck to Germany with destroying is paygo system. Its worked out great for those of us on the left of the chart that have over-inflated our financial sectors and propped up lunatic billionaires. www.apollo.com/insights-new...
Chart showing funded pension assets as a % of GDP. Canada is on the high end at 185%, followed by Switzerland (174%), the U.S. (162%), Sweden (149%), Australia (144%), U.K. (81%), Japan (72%), France (20%), Italy (17%), and Germany (7%)
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Powerful and important letter about artificial so-called intelligence from Sheila Hayman from Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, in the FT today
Margaret McGirr’s letter (“AI can lend a hand, but it will struggle to replace one”, July 21) and Chine McDonald’s guest column (“This retro revival is more than a longing for the past”, Opinion, August 7) both touch (sic) on something that should be obvious, but is carefully ignored by almost everyone in the tech world. Namely that our intelligence is embodied, evolved and biological, and inseparable from our bodies.
The brain’s job is to control the body in the world; it is the last organ to develop.
Every square centimetre of our hands (and of the rest of our skin) contains about a 170 touch sensors or nerve endings, sensitive to different kinds of touch: a slap, a burn, a caress, a hug — each of which travels to different parts of the midbrain, prompting the appropriate response. Quickly to the autonomic nervous system for something dangerous; more slowly via a different channel for something carrying meaning.
In addition to the hand’s limitless versatility, it is self-repairing, regulates its own temperature, knows without being programmed how much pressure to exert on an egg, a tennis ball or a day-old chick, and can fuse neurologically to whatever it holds.
So when we put a glass down on the table or slide a knife through an apple, we feel the table, or the apple, not the glass or handle in our hand (try it!).
Finally, and most urgently, the entire human body — including the hands — does everything on 25 or so watts of completely renewable energy: a tiny fraction of what a humanoid robot, even one of the current primitive iteration of robots, needs.
The “retro revival” is thus not cultural nostalgia.
It’s millions of years of evolution crying out to be heard, before we suppress it totally in the service of an automated — and dead — planet.
Sheila Hayman
Member of the Advisory Board, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, London NW1, UK
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This is very funny. idk if this was a very sly question to get him to say something mad 'another type of intervention' or just a wonderful accident.
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Henry Tapper @henrytapper.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The UK must stop treating pensions and housing as separate policy issues to address the growing retirement adequacy challenge, the Society of Pension Professionals (SPP) has argued. You can read… henrytapper.com/2026/08/15/some-tho…
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Some thoughts on the SPP’s “Home Truths; Rethinking Retirement Wealth”
You can read the SPP paper here The UK must stop treating pensions and housing as separate policy issues to address the growing retirement adequacy challenge, the Society of Pension Professionals (SPP) has argued. They're bang on In a new paper, Home Truths: Rethinking Retirement Wealth, the SPP highlighted a “structural mismatch” between the £3.84trn of housing wealth held by UK retirees and an aggregate annual retirement income deficit of more than £48bn against moderate living standards.
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RTVE Noticias @rtvenoticias.rtve.es · 12/08/2026
Eclipse solar 2026, en directo en vídeo hoy: así se vive el gran fenómeno astronómico en España dozz.es/rml_64
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Eclipse solar 2026, en directo en vídeo hoy: así se vive el gran fenómeno astronómico en España
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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
One of my local high streets went from being a two way road with narrow pavements to being one of the go-to places in Bristol, by closing about 50 metres of road to cars. Gloucester Road will be one of the world’s great high streets if we ever get round to taking the cars away
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
It’s the pensions industry, not the Chancellor, that starts this nonsense chatter before every Budget…
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Bill Murray's Iconic Groundhog Day Report
ALT: Bill Murray's Iconic Groundhog Day Report
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It’s just depressing. Further education has been cut to ribbons. Higher education is in crisis. Labour turns its eyes to the bit of the education system which is turning out the highest literacy rates in the western world and goes “that’s the bit that needs to change”
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Whilst Andy Burnham has found the time to opine on such vital issues as 'vertical drinking', and whether a bread roll should be called a ‘barm’, he has not found the time to comment on some of the worst racist violence on Britain's streets in the postwar period www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/illegitima...
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Illegitimate Concerns: Andy Burnham's Non-Response to the Thetford Pogrom Is His First Big Failure
Whilst happy to opine on 'vertical drinking' and whether bread rolls should be called 'barms', our new PM has had nothing to say about three days of horrific racist violence on our streets
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Erik Nordman @eriknordman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
🎂Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom was born on this day in 1933! Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics for her research on "collaborative governance, especially the commons." She showed how communities of users could work together to sustain their shared resources. 1/9
Elinor Ostrom receiving the Nobel Prize in Economics. She is a older white woman with gray hair and glasses, wearing a long batik dyed dress, and holding the certificate and medal (in a box).
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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
@jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on here. Britain needs to take economic policy more seriously (and not just how much government taxes and spends) www.ft.com/content/1c4a...
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To fix education, fix the economy first
Weak educational outcomes often owe more to economic performance than education policy
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I know he has a lot on, but in the midst of a ferocious drought, fires, heat events and severe threats to food production, it would be quite edifying to hear Andy Burnham mention climate breakdown.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Promises, promises.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 01/08/2026
Omg omg Cc @janinegibson.ft.com thequietus.com/news/elastic...
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Elastica to Return? | The Quietus
Elastica have suggested that there is to be some future activity in a cryptic post on their Instagram today, 31 July. Underneath an old photograph of the band they wrote “Missed us? We’ve been busy be...
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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"Man who doesn't believe in chairs" ... a PHILOSOPHER?!
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/07/2026
WELP I WAS ANNOYED AND HAD THE TIME: “When men say she should be grateful for the attention, they’re saying a woman’s scholarship only gains true meaning when a famous man shines a light on it.” news.chanda.science/archive/an-o...
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An Odyssey Through Testimonial Injustice
On reading Dr. Emily Wilson, properly
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/07/2026
Don’t make me write a newsletter about how Emily Wilson is allowed to be an expert, you guys
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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social on The Odyssey and the Tate brothers lithub.com/penelope-spe...
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Penelope Speaks: Rebecca Solnit on the Western Literary Tradition of Silencing Women
The following first appeared via Rebecca Solnit’s Meditations in an Emergency. Last weekend, the film The Odyssey was released and the Tate brothers were arrested in Florida at the behest of the Br…
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This is the equivalent of asking how a £1.5m turnover company is going to pay for £100 of drinks at the Xmas party.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
“Isn’t that a slippery slope?” “I hope so, as that’s where I’m at my most agile.” Heard this in a Q&A. I thought the quip was from Jeremy Waldron but he denied it. Could have been Bernard Williams, Ronnie Dworkin or several others I suppose.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
In case you didn’t have enough reasons to love Spanish football, here’s some more wholesome content of the male players paying their respects to the women’s team, which also won the world cup www.instagram.com/reel/DbEsgxe...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
France plans to ditch all fossil fuels by 2050. “France announced a ‘first of its kind’ plan to phase out coal by 2030, oil by 2045 & gas by 2050…The roadmap was published as dozens of nations gather for the first-ever international talks on how to transition away from planet-heating fossil fuels.”
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France unveils plan to ditch all fossil fuels by 2050
France on Tuesday announced a “first of its kind” plan to phase out coal by 2030, oil by 2045 and gas by 2050 during a global conference aimed at breaking reliance on fossil fuels.
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
All you need to know about our new Chancellor 🎧👇
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 21/07/2026
Ooh I know this one. It's by BANNING THE PERVERT GLASSES
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I don't get his theory of half time defeat [why Labour support collapsed] and how he is going to turn it around. He clearly doesn't buy the standard account that it was the futile pursuit of socially conservative voters with campaigns on asylum and immigration.
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Either Burnham approves of what she did, or he doesn't but needed the support of all the MPs who did and is prepared to accommodate them. Both are bad!
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Andy Burnham opts to keep Shabana Mahmood as Home Secretary. A big mistake
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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 20/07/2026
Dickheads
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Lorcan Roche Kelly @lorcanrk.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The difference between the UK and the US is that, for the UK, the line moves after the announcement is made...
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Ed Miliband is foreign sec
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The sound you can hear is a thousand keyboards tapping across sell side research teams as people google “John Healey fiscal policy views”.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Hydration break.
Hogarth Gin Lane etching. Scenes of debauched drunkenness.
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 17/07/2026
A reminder that a University of California study found that 80% of mass shootings/spree killings perpetrated by men were preceded by violence against women. Either their mothers, wives, girlfriends, or another female relative
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 17/07/2026
The closure of the University of Essex Southend campus will devastate a community. As Pam Cox, MP for Colchester, told Parliament, the loss is already being felt by residents, staff and students. The government must step in before more communities lose their universities.
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Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Stockpiles and Chinese import adjustment have got us much further than many expected, but the slack they provide is finite. Prices will move fast if we really start to test a market without buffers.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 15/07/2026
Oil traders warn market is close to running on empty as Hormuz shuts again ft.trib.al/0Vr79Rv
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Oil traders warn market is close to running on empty as Hormuz shuts again
Stockpiles that acted as shock absorbers early in Iran war are running low as key waterway closes once more
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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 15/07/2026
“Our world is increasingly moving towards extreme values: Damages from climate change, deaths due to genocide, wealth that knows no bounds. And we can't tackle them if we can't wrap our heads around the numbers.”
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Understanding large values: It's our ethical duty
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