@geraintjohnes

Runner, aurora hunter, bass @HuddsChoral & Emeritus Professor of Economics @LancasterUni. Also mastodon/fediverse: @geraintjohnes@econtwitter.net

 Lancaster, United Kingdom
lancaster.ac.uk/lums/people/geraint-johnes
Joined November 2008
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Productivity has been chronically stagnant, the cost of living has put people in dire financial distress, and all our policy makers see fit to do is this… bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cme8…

Kirklees' controversial Reform UK flag policy to be reconsidered

Reform UK council leader Sarah Wood answers questions in front of a scrunity committee

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#basescoveredlive WOW!!!
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#basescoveredlive Thoughts about the WPBL which started yesterday?
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#basescoveredlive Great you’re back! Why is Ohtani’s out in his 2nd AB deemed a K rather than a flyout?
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Can’t resist dusting this old one off… researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/…
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Moscow muppet, Putin’s puppet. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm28…

Why has Trump eased sanctions on Russian oil - and will it help Putin?

The US said easing sanctions on Russian oil would provide only a limited financial boost to Putin.

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One hopes that ‘planned’ means it’s not too late to correct the unfortunate misspelling of ‘confectionery’… bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8eg…

New artworks planned for Castleford subway

The project is part of plans to improve routes to and from Castleford railway station.

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I’m bemused by media coverage of the by-election this morning. (Hello, @BBC.) The electorate did the smart thing & voted tactically to keep Reform out. Yet the coverage is all about how disastrous the result is for one of the progressive parties whose voters did the smart thing.
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It was the @HuddsChoral Society which made the first complete recording of 'Gerontius' on 8-12 April 1945; this latest chapter in the Society's ties to the work was recorded 80 years later, virtually to the day, on 5 April 2025.
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Superb performance of Haydn’s Creation by @HuddsChoral and @RNSinfonia at Huddersfield Town Hall this evening.
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The State of Us report needs taking (very) seriously - britishfuture.org/wp-content…. Gaps in community cohesion are a threaat to our democracy. (See map from gov.uk/government/statistics…)
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“The 8 sectors…are (mostly) heavily dependent on higher education & immigration. Yet the government has little to say about Britain’s universities, whose business model it has undermined by reducing the flow of foreign students...” economist.com/britain/2025/0…

Britain’s industrial strategy is unlikely to boost its economy

But it does at least focus on some of the right problems

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Channelling Martin Niemöller a lot these days… ‘First they came…’ bbc.com/news/articles/cy75ee… Smell the coffee and rise up.

US halts student visa appointments and plans expanded social media vetting

It comes during a Trump crackdown on top universities, which he accuses of failing to combat antisemitism.

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America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
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Jeffrey Sachs, the influential economist and Columbia university professor didn’t hold back this week when asked about trumps trade policy. “Mickey mouse is smarter than him” “ this isn’t strategy it’s a cartoon version of economics”
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Free speech , huh? Who are the purveyors of terror here? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20x…

Anxiety on US college campuses as foreign students deported

High-profile detentions and visa revocations are putting students on edge, as Trump tightens his squeeze on US schools.

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I'm with @PeterTatchell on this - bit.ly/42Hwkgz. It's what sovereignty is really about.
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10<20. So, finally, we observe a Brexit benefit. But it results from an irrational action. Trump’s interference with free trade (largely emanating from ignorance such as confusion re the nature of VAT) will cause huge damage - to consumers in the US and to the rest of the world.
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For anyone who hasn’t yet smelt the coffee… Silencing Dissent: U.S. Moves To Deport Kremlin Critic Kseniia Petrova via @forbes forbes.com/sites/andyjsemoti…
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