#Austerity

Richard Murphy

RichardJMurphy

There’s massive misunderstanding about what QE is and what it does. So please forgive a long thread on one of the most important tools used in modern economics, which if

Sarah Longlands

sarahlonglands

THREAD: We had our first virtual coffee session @IPPRNorth this week to discuss levelling up and regional inequality- a chance to keep talking in the midst of the #COVIDー19 lockdown.

Flavia Dzodan

redlightvoices

When people get upset because I am critical of the Dutch government's necropolitical strategy, here's a good explainer via BBC"Coronavirus: Why Dutch lockdown may be a high-risk strategy"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-5213581

Kitty

Kitdempsey

#COVID19 observations... Spent today in conversation with people being asked to ‘shield’ by the #NHS as ‘high risk’...it has starkly highlighted ( in case anyone missed them ... ) structural

Peter Apps

PeteApps

Automatic permission for new homes will only make housing affordable if you believe that housebuilders are willing to flood the market with enough supply to bring prices radically down, instead

Charlotte Cooper

thebeefer

When announcing anti-obesity strategies, public health policy-makers conveniently forget:a) BMI is not a great indicator of healthb) Fat is not synonymous with junk foodc) There have been multiple wars on

rockin r1ch 🇬🇧

rockinr1ch

Thread (probably).Not that I expect anyone to read it, I always assume that no one ever reads my tweets and just use them to vent my frustration.Anyhow, why I would

Anti-racist Geography Curriculum

ARGeogCurric

1/ THREAD: UK Housing CrisisAQA’s GCSE spec requires the study of how "urban change" leads to inequalities in housing. As this is often taught alongside “impacts of national & international

the small sleep

sickandboring

CN. Covid-19, ableism, DNR, death, call for solidarityAre feeling impotent and bored during your lockdown - the disabled community needs your solidarity. In the last week or so disabled and

⚰ theodude ⚰

docfission

privatized utilities and food supply chains = biopower? when i think of like, deloitte etc. being handed the keys to testing centers with the goal being optimization of process and

Aisha Ahmad

aishaismad

If this is the choice we have, I'd rather 4 years of Biden than 4 years of Trump. Let me be clear: I will not be voting for Biden. And

Shaun Lawson

shaunjlawson

Here's a statement of the bleedin' obvious. There's a quite massive difference in how Keir Starmer and Jeremy Corbyn *do* politics. I think it's at the heart of most of

Karam Bales

karamballes

@patel4witham You seem to have no understanding how your own policies cause poverty, let me try to explain.15k support staff jobs lostRemoving mobility aids meaning the disabled have to give

Gayle Letherby 🌹 #BlackLivesMatter

gletherby

I wrote the following for my paper at the International Conference of Autoethnography #ICAE7 today. It's a work in progress (I think) with probably more to come: T'was a night

Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD

Nicole_Lee_Sch

September is Pain Awareness Month. I've dealt with chronic pain my whole life. But it was not addressed, recognized, or respected until I was 19 and I got my #EhlersDanlosSyndrome

Luke Cooper

lukecooper100

The govt could actually purchase the entire UK private rental market for £1.3 trillion (2018 data). In all seriousness, buying up housing stock as the market crashes to then let