Senior Researcher at CLES, formerly @NEF
Joined March 2024
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🚗🚉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?... 🧵
Emmet Kiberd retweeted
I've written to Government regarding the Milburn Review.
Andy Burnham is right to oppose "crude cuts" and to defend social security.
We cannot let a report commissioned under the previous leadership take us backwards.
Cuts don't create jobs. They create poverty.
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Patrick Collison paid for a holiday for Sarah Rogers, the US Under Secretary of State who is trying to tear up EU regulations on Big Tech, while amplifying the European far right.
Rogers flew on Collison’s private plane to Egypt, Georgia and Greece.
archive.ph/Is2o6
It seems to me that democracy has on the whole worked very well in America over the last decade, and perhaps better than in any other major country in the West. National outcomes have repeatedly been responsive to underlying voter preferences on meaningful questions, and significant changes in policy have ensued. I’ve been reading Democracy in America this past week, and it’s striking how much it still rhymes nearly two centuries later.
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¿Pero cómo es eso posible si toda la riqueza la genera el empresario?
📢🔴 La huelga general le costará a España como mínimo 2.000 millones en PIB
✍️Por @EduOrtegasoc elespanol.com/invertia/econo…
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🚨BREAKING
The Financial Times has just revealed that Thames Water’s US hedge fund creditors are close to agreeing a ‘last and final’ deal to take over the company.
A handover to US hedge funds. A continuation of the privatised chaos. And a huge reward for the people who have run our water into the ground.
The deal would see them allowed to pollute our rivers and seas without consequence - in exchange for an upfront payoff.
This deal is absolutely outrageous, in every regard.
112 MPs have already called for special administration of Thames Water.
A cross-party group of MPs - who scrutinise the Environment Department - have said that the creditors’ proposal should be rejected and Thames Water should be brought into special administration.
And the former Environment Secretary rejected a previous version of the creditors’ deal in June. This new version is not better in any way.
@andyburnham promised to reverse Thatcher’s legacy of privatisation. He promised public control of life’s essentials.
This really is the moment of truth for Andy Burnham. If he allows the water supply of 16 million people to be sold off to US hedge funds - how can we take him seriously about any of his promises?
NO DEAL to the Thames Water creditors. Special administration now.
Emmet Kiberd retweeted
The Bank of England has just raised interest rates to 4%. But higher rates won’t make oil any cheaper, and households are paying the price for a shock we can’t control. My piece for @LBC 🧵1/9
lbc.co.uk/article/higher-int…
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The British state continues to cover up it's active role in murder.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland has paid undisclosed damages in connection with loyalist shootings in County Tyrone which left four Catholics dead.
bbc.in/48xRj8N
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Democrats just won back Congress!
Here’s what we need to deliver:
✅ No new funding for the war in Iran
✅ $25 an hour minimum wage
✅ Medicare for All
✅ Zero aid to Israel, stop military sales
Emmet Kiberd retweeted
Roibeárd Mac Cormaic was born into a Gaelic-speaking Rathlin and died in an English-speaking one. Noah Mac Seagháin on how fast a Gaeltacht can die, and what is lost when it does.
New article on anclogan.ie.
Read now.
anclogan.ie/rathlin-gaelic-d…
Emmet Kiberd retweeted
The Labour Government are arming a genocide.
And arresting those who do their moral duty to protest it.
Even when they eventually reverse it - it should be a huge shame and stain on them forever.
"You didn't join the police force to do this, did you?"
On the eve of the Supreme Court hearing on the Palestine Action ban, a 94-year-old barrister tells @ShehabKhan why she got arrested, and the words that made her arresting officer cry.
Watch the full interview 👇
Emmet Kiberd retweeted
.@krystalball: "There were 41 ballot referendums on whether or not people wanted data centres in their communities. It went 41-0. There were zero communities, very diverse, rural, urban, liberal, conservative, there were zero communities that voted to allow data centres"
Emmet Kiberd retweeted
It took American people less than two years to completely whitewash the Democrats’ facilitation of the Gaza genocide and put them back in power.
How quickly people forget is beyond me. The world is too scary.
Out of the frying pan into the fire…Israel is ecstatic.
Emmet Kiberd retweeted
Labour and the Conservatives alike talk about this country like they've been appointed to take a business into administration, and are negotiating a sale of furniture and premises for scrap.
“There is a lot of stuff that government does, that it doesn’t need to do”
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch says the state “has to stop doing certain things” but that she wants most spending cuts to come from welfare
#BBCLauraK
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001bv0…
Emmet Kiberd retweeted
New analysis: The government has made welcome promises on building council homes - but current funding plans look like they'll fall short.
The chancellor needs to commit an extra £7bn (on top of the £1.5bn announced at the budget), if their ambitions are to get back on track.
ALT Infographic stating that the government needs to build five times more social homes each year to meet demand. A bar chart compares current government plans of approximately 18,000 homes per year (teal) with the 90,000 homes needed annually (pink). White house icons illustrate the difference. The NEF logo appears in the top-right corner.
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Got interviewed on the budget for the Big Issue. I predict a riot… as the Kaiser Chiefs might put it.
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Britain is already run like a business, which is why we bungle from quarter to quarter fretting about the balance sheet, instead of doing the serious State-building work of looking to the next five years, next decade, or next century.
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Living standards don't have to fall. We could do things differently (and better).
"Painful" years ahead, think tanks warn, as living standards set to fall
bbc.in/4k5Vgsz
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It's fucking insane how high the UK defence budget actually is. Fifth highest in the world. Higher than France, higher than any European country except Germany. Higher than any country that actually borders an enemy. Not my fault if they budgeted it badly, spend less on coffee.