Lùcas M

I’m happy in the summertime beneath the bricht blue sky.

FSU, political economy, decarbonisation, tech policy, Celtic FC

[Lùcas M @LukeBMM]

Much this week re Exeter University and the sector's financial crisis.

Resharing some of my recent thoughts on this issue and implications for UK govt's broader economic policy (serious).

We're structurally dependent on UK HEIs but undermine them.

https://t.co/TxihqgITLT

[New Left EViews @NewLeftEViews]

I am, how shall I say, aspirating on my own regurgitate.

[Lùcas M @LukeBMM]

@jakluge @Mike_Eckel Those buyers primarily being Russian banks, enabled in large part by CBR repos - hardly a ringing endorsement.

[Laurie Macfarlane @L__Macfarlane]

The main claim to fame of “Manchesterism” is creating a less absurd but still privatised bus system.

Meanwhile Edinburgh has a fully integrated municipally-owned bus network that’s won countless awards.

Perhaps Burnham could learn from Edinburgh-ism?

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

Great graph this. Every South English region fails to meet its housing target. Every North English region beats (and then is often constrained by) its housing target.

[Rory Stewart @RoryStewartUK]

Worrying from Exeter - the University it seems planning to slash humanities teaching while telling colleagues it is “in line with the government’s industrial strategy”. https://t.co/oLERjBmyf9

[Lùcas M @LukeBMM]

@NewLeftEViews @jburnmurdoch The viability of that model for those EMs, inc. China, of course being our insatiable appetite for consumption.

[Lùcas M @LukeBMM]

@NewLeftEViews @jburnmurdoch Much in this that I agree with, but I would strongly push back on the environmental component, which has far more to do with deindustrialisation in advanced economies and the offshoring of energy intensive industrial output to EMs, leading to overall higher emissions.

[Alexandra Prokopenko @amenka]

The West keeps looking for cracks in Putin's regime, such as elite splits and falling ratings. The real erosion is duller, as I argue in my piece for @FT In 72 hours, parliament let the finance ministry borrow past the debt ceiling — no Duma needed. The state is quietly abandoning its own procedures 1/
https://t.co/PlS316B3KZ

[Lùcas M @LukeBMM]

@RPMComo Think that’s pretty unfair and inaccurate tbh.

[Lùcas M @LukeBMM]

My conclusion and addition to Collini’s diagnosis simply being that this is more than a sectoral crisis, but one with much broader implications for govt. economic policy due to how we have institutionalised support to the science, innovation and technology system.

[Lùcas M @LukeBMM]

Grateful that @LRB published a letter with some of my thoughts on the v good recent piece by Stefan Collini on the financial crisis facing the U.K. university sector.

https://t.co/TxihqgITLT

[Lùcas M @LukeBMM]

@John_ForemanCBE R&D spending was in the dirt well before 2022, and is now truly buried. A genuine structural moat that post conflict Russia will probably never meaningfully be able to bridge.

[РБ головного мозга @belamova]

Критики европейских крышечек, ау, что теперь скажете?

[Lùcas M @LukeBMM]

How anyone can contest this is beyond me.

[New Left EViews @NewLeftEViews]

That was the correct decision: there was no visible contact, Mbappé anticipates it and falls; VAR shouldn’t have gotten involved since there was nothing “clear and obvious” here. Great call by the ref.

[Lùcas M @LukeBMM]

@DespoticInroad Don’t hold your breath.

[Lùcas M @LukeBMM]

@WarMonitor3 The biggest threat to me is your shite patter.

[The Jo Cox Foundation @JoCoxFoundation]

Today marks ten years since Jo was killed.

We remember Jo as a mother, sister, daughter, wife, friend, campaigner and public servant. We remember her courage, her compassion, and her belief that we have more in common than that which divides us.

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[Lùcas M @LukeBMM]

@EvanMcFarlane Utter dredge.