Emmet Kiberd

Senior Researcher at CLES, formerly @NEF

[Emmet Kiberd @ekiberd3]

🚗🚉New @NEF research shows England's new homes are locking in more and more car dependency every year🏘️🛣️

This means higher emissions, worse places, less transport choice and more economic exclusion.

What is going wrong? How can the govt avoid repeating these mistakes?... 🧵

[G @Gideoomatic]

4-1 after rigging the game is absolutely dark. At least Canada and Mexico went out with some dignity lmaooooooooo

[Emmet Kiberd @ekiberd3]

Hope that Trump and the other Epstein affiliates are sent home by the Belgians

[PropaGandalf 🌾 @xghostnotesx]

Russia’s banned from the World Cup & Olympics. The US is hosting both while openly cheating, facilitating genocide, kidnapping and murdering the leaders of sovereign states and murdering fisherman in boats and posting the snuff films on the official White House account.

[Emmet Kiberd @ekiberd3]

Vozinha is incredible 🇨🇻

[Steve Akehurst @SteveAkehurst]

The second group, though, were asked how they’d vote if Labour stood on the below platform – established from aforementioned testing.

This saw a sizable jump (15ppt) in Labour vote share and seats – to 358 seats. Massive improvement on status quo trajectory.

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

Hold your head high, Amad — you did your country proud 🇨🇮

Rest up and we'll see you soon ❤️

[Tom Hatfield @WordMercenary]

Bro, you are the system

[IWGB Game Workers @IWGB_GW]

Our campaign for a union at Rockstar continues! Today, we've filed for recognition with @RockstarGames, asking Rockstar to meet with their workers to agree a deal for good working conditions, fairness and a say at work. We await Rockstar's response.

https://t.co/4sxgaZCZ1r

[Grace Robertson 🏳️‍⚧️ @GraceOnFootball]

hs2 manchester leg is going to get built so quickly once journalists keep having to get trains from london to burnham's manchester number 10 operation.

[Aydin Dikerdem @AydinDikerdem]

We are in peak Don’t Look Up era. All experiencing this unprecedented heatwave (‘the coldest summer of the rest of your life’) and yet article after article attacking Net Zero and Ed Miliband

[Emmet Kiberd @ekiberd3]

Encouraging language on housing from Burnham. Devil will be in the detail but promising signs. Would be good to see actual major council housebuilding (rather than current inadequate proposals) and public land value capture & LR ownership, not just de-risking private developers

[Emmet Kiberd @ekiberd3]

Good to hear the recognition of continued deep underfunding of local government from Burnham, but how is he going to restore funding? Even the status quo is creating a crisis in the coming years, especially in areas losing out from the new formula

[Match of the Day @BBCMOTD]

"It's a touch of Ecuador gold" ✨🇪🇨

Gonzalo Plata gives Ecuador the lead and the stadium goes wild!

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

Ecuador were beaten by Ivory Coast in the 90th minute and held to a goalless draw by Curacao, but improbably, they have beaten Germany in New Jersey.

Gonzalo Plata's goal in the 77th minute sparked scenes of delirium from thousands of Ecuadorians inside the Metlife Stadium and no doubt back home, too.

They did it the hard way but they will escape Group E along with Germany and Ivory Coast.

🔗 https://t.co/47PBc3cdbm

[Emmet Kiberd @ekiberd3]

Weather info all from just now.

At what point in the 21st century will these boneheads have to finally acknowledge reality?

How many of the people they're meant to serve will die from extreme weather before then?

[ESPN Africa @ESPNAfrica]

Goalkeeper Benjamin Asare plays for Hearts of Oak in the Ghana Premier League.

He’s spent his entire club career in Ghana.

Now he’s kept a clean sheet against England at the World Cup, a nation whose players all feature in Europe’s top leagues 😮👏

[Manus Carlisle @manus_carlisle]

This will be my enduring memory of the Starmer premiership

[Steve Hall @ProfHall1955]

Ping-pong-brain here wrote an entry-level (entry into kindergarten, that is) pop psychology book about a diversity of ideas being better than groupthink. However, when it comes down to economics, he parrots neoliberal groupthink.

We face a monumental problem. The UK is a deindustrialised, financialised service economy. In the big private sectors such as hospitality, retail etc. over 50% of jobs are low-paid. 22% of private sector jobs across the board pay below the living wage. AI will replace 3 million of these jobs in the coming decade, and in businesses already utilising AI, entry-level job postings have dropped by 78% since 2022.

Financiers, professionals and techies are doing OK, but lower down the pecking order over 60% of people in poverty live in a working household. 26% outside of London live below the poverty line. Yet, many individuals led by mouthpieces like Syed still believe that individual entrepreneurs funded by private moneylenders will grow the economy and create the conditions for decent jobs.

Without a healthy public sector this country will descend further into a two-tier economy with a widening inequality gap. The political implications, which we are already seeing, are very dark.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

From @TheAthleticFC: Senegal captain Kalidou Koulibaly has questioned why his country’s fans have been hamstrung in their attempts to support their national team during the World Cup, with Senegalese nationals facing a travel ban in the United States. https://t.co/lMngm4B7NX

[Ali Howorth @ahoworth97]

For all the joy of Cape Verde winning let's not forget that Vozinha was denied celebrating this win with his family because if you come from Cape Verde, you have to pay $15,000 dollars for the privilege of maybe being allowed into the US, something his mother didn't have.

Virtually every Cabo Verdean without a foreign passport were in the same position.