Emeritus Prof Christopher May
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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us
Federation handle:
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us
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Emeritus Prof Christopher May
ProfDJ's killer cuts for your streaming shuffle, No.9
Hi-Gloss. You'll Never Know
This classic song of betrayal & female disappointment (with men) is also a fabulous dance/disco groove. A mid-tempo lilting rhythm backing a great vocal arrangements, with a wonderful trumpet solo (emphasising the implied latin groove) in the second half.
Its one of a number of now only dimly remembered early 80s classics that came out on Prelude Records.
Just a great record!
#KillerCuts #Music
@ChrisMayLA6
I keep rewatching this..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvEj_urISko
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If you like a bit of data to help you formulate your discussion of the current & ongoing housing crisis, then BBC Verify have the tool for you; you can tap in your (or any!) postcode to find out what the current gap between building & 'need' is alongside some data on planning....
While, certainly there are many ways of understanding our housing crisis (from maldistribution of dwellings to the role of credit), lack of construction is a key element.
#housing #politics
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8j9j0j4l7mo
@ChrisMayLA6
This is well worth looking at. I should add that #labour #wandsworthcouncil seems to come out rather well by the measures cited in it!
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@ChrisMayLA6 uh-oh, I smell a new IT scandal...
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Emeritus Prof Christopher May BoostedHow badly to investors view the UK?
For the 9th year running there's been a £multi-billion outflow from funds with a UK focus.
As the FTSE continues to 'under-perform' relative to other indices investors are moving money, mostly to passive globally focussed funds (often excluding the UK).
Certainly, one might argue that such portfolio investment is beside the point, but it impacts on the ability to raise initial investments (due to projections of returns)!
#investment
h/t Investment Week
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Emeritus Prof Christopher May BoostedAndrew Dilnot (whose plan to reform to reform social care didn't get far) on the new Labour review of social care:
'I don’t think we need a very long time to work out what, we just need to decide ‘this is what we are going to do’. My own view is that three years is a completely unnecessary period of time. If we simply focused on it we could get that decided very, very quickly'!
More delay just compounds the problem, we need action not (more) review(s)...
#care
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/08/three-year-planning-phase-for-england-social-care-reform-is-too-long-says-expert
@ChrisMayLA6 it’s almost like they sat around while the letting the world slip through their fingers so that when they finally get into office, they didn’t hit the ground running with an idea of what to do.
This strikes me as extraordinary, particularly for parties in the UK. They have no idea what they mean to do.
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Emeritus Prof Christopher May BoostedAs managers across the economy seek to constrain or even stop hybrid working (and working from home), those sectors with stronger unionisation are reacting with strike action against such 'back to the office' policies.... this week public sector workers at the Land Registry are starting industrial action (short of a strike currently) in a dispute over a three day in the office rule being imposed on all sites.
Managers just don't (or won't) get it, will they?
#workers #HybridWorking
h/t FT
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Nicola Jennings on the relationship between Mark Zuckerberg & Donald Trump....
#USPol
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Oh the irony.... apparently Elon Musk's 'view is that western civilisation itself is threatened' according to those close to him (and talking to the FT)...
If he does, then the irony is among the chief threats to 'western civilisation' is him & his gang of far right nut jobs.
But of course, appealing to a form of global culture war is the mechanism by which he hopes to shift governance across the world in the direction (for whatever reason) her prefers!
#politics
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Emeritus Prof Christopher May BoostedAnother sign that a financial crisis may be looming.... the Bank of England have decided to 'relax' regulations on banks & insurers, but are reassuring us its not a 'race to the bottom'.
I mean it not like there's any recent experience that might want to give anyone pause for thought on any deregulative momentum in financial services.
What is it? Does no one recall what happened in 2008?
Oh no, of course.... we've learned the lessons of that crisis!
#FinancialCrisis #regulation
h/t FT
@ChrisMayLA6 Here's one of many reasons to keep money out of politics as far as possible.
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I'm fed up with Mark Zuckerberg's move to stop third party fast-checking, following on from Elon Musk various pronouncements about his own politics, that either are referred to as champions of, or furthering a mission of 'free speech'.
They are not! The former is trying to reduce costs in an environment where lying has become so normalised he knows he can get away with it & the latter is only interested in his *own* free speech as his attitude to critics demonstrates again & again!
#FreeSpeech
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Another week, another study confirming the persistence of the gender wage gap.
However, while the UCL researchers found women were more likely to be stressed at work, and paid at least 10% less than men, they also found little difference in job satisfaction levels.
So either, pay is treated as something separate from the actual job, or women (now that improvement on pay differences has stalled, again), have implicitly just 'settled' for what they got?
#GenderPayGap
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/dec/millennial-women-paid-less-male-colleagues-similar-jobs
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They won't. But there's a good way to push them: tax them for their employees' commuting distance.
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In response to this post@LMac1970
You're far from alone, I'm sure....
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@wanwizard
Agreed; rubbish managers (and there are a lot of them) aways mistake control for performance... its one of the problems underlying the UK malaise; our management class is too often not up to the job
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@pete
aha, thanks for the context.... I guess, I'm of the feeling that if the text works towards the green transition that sacrificing views is not so bad.... but, then again as I live in the middle of a village I have no views that would be impacted by any development even if quite near...
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@TheDailyBurble
yes, hybrid may work; the difficulty is mangers see it as a cheap way of delivering education (and are under budget pressures) but to do it really well is hellishly expensive - even the Open University with whom I did an MA online with (and who are a leader in the field) still struggle to get a really good educative experience to my mind.... and for school kids its a lot more difficult.
And of course, broadly speaking most education is already hybrid in some respects....
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As managers across the economy seek to constrain or even stop hybrid working (and working from home), those sectors with stronger unionisation are reacting with strike action against such 'back to the office' policies.... this week public sector workers at the Land Registry are starting industrial action (short of a strike currently) in a dispute over a three day in the office rule being imposed on all sites.
Managers just don't (or won't) get it, will they?
#workers #HybridWorking
h/t FT
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@pete
I assume they connecting up to local wind turbines? Are the conflicting thoughts linked to what the will look like or some other issue?
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Andrew Dilnot (whose plan to reform to reform social care didn't get far) on the new Labour review of social care:
'I don’t think we need a very long time to work out what, we just need to decide ‘this is what we are going to do’. My own view is that three years is a completely unnecessary period of time. If we simply focused on it we could get that decided very, very quickly'!
More delay just compounds the problem, we need action not (more) review(s)...
#care
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/08/three-year-planning-phase-for-england-social-care-reform-is-too-long-says-expert
@ChrisMayLA6 it’s almost like they sat around while the letting the world slip through their fingers so that when they finally get into office, they didn’t hit the ground running with an idea of what to do.
This strikes me as extraordinary, particularly for parties in the UK. They have no idea what they mean to do.
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Meanwhile in Scotland, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners are about to build the three largest battery energy storage plants in Europe.... to utilise Scotland abundance of surplus renewable energy, and the good interconnectivity in Scotland.
This looks like great news and a major further proof of concept for storage plus renewables to be able to deal with peak demand....
Lets hope this works well!
#Scotland #renewables #energy
h/t FT
@ChrisMayLA6 I'm glad this is going ahead. A bunch of EU-funded projects in Scotland got cancelled because of Brexit.
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Another sign that a financial crisis may be looming.... the Bank of England have decided to 'relax' regulations on banks & insurers, but are reassuring us its not a 'race to the bottom'.
I mean it not like there's any recent experience that might want to give anyone pause for thought on any deregulative momentum in financial services.
What is it? Does no one recall what happened in 2008?
Oh no, of course.... we've learned the lessons of that crisis!
#FinancialCrisis #regulation
h/t FT
@ChrisMayLA6 Here's one of many reasons to keep money out of politics as far as possible.
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