The jaw-dropping mess of UK higher education is starkly revealed by a series of news stories all on the Times Higher Education website in the last week or so:

1.) There are job cuts right across the sector (44 universities and counting): timeshighereducation.com/news/portsmout…

So proud of ⁦Ralph Donovan⁩ and Mash for good times today

A BIS paper argues central banks ought to just set aside the whole concept of neutral, or r-star as it’s known. That’s because there’s so much uncertainty about it is trib.al/SFHnE30

“The prospect of 300,000 new homes a year in England seems as far off today as it did in 2004.”
🖊️ Economist, Kate Barker

New analysis on the housing shortfall
👉hbf.co.uk/news/hbf-beyon…

#BarkerReview

Diane Coyle Emran Mian Department for Science, Innovation and Technology Bennett Institute for Public Policy Brittany Smith Prof Gina Neff Panel 2 with Greg Clark @jennifercsic Giles Wilkes reflected on the #infrastructure which society needs and what policies can deliver it. As a classicist, I enjoyed the shout-out to *Roman roads*. Victorian railways bridges also celebrated. #Humanities in #policy @policyupen

There will be parts of the conference on our website in due course

I’m less sure too many books - but many are too long - they have a really good thought but don’t need to take 300 pages to eat it out……(and editing is worse than it was)

Ditto

Tim is right here and it’s not understood in household projections.

You won't believe how bad this pie chart is! The NHS Counter Fraud Authority NHS Counter Fraud Authority are using a pie chart to show the change over 5 years. I could cry. cfa.nhs.uk/about-nhscfa/c…. John Burn-Murdoch Stian Westlake 𒊓𒅂𒁓𒐗𒐕𒐗 Steve the skeptic Tom Whipple

It would be good occasionally to point out that getting on the ladder not always the answer. Specific dwellings can have specific risks - cladding , poor quality build, changes in locality. Especially true at lower rungs

First of many we hope!

Glorious lights Blenheim Palace

Important week reminder.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is launching new data on the distributional effects of inflation on 4 December - will give us more insight into how the cost of living crisis is affecting different groups.

Looking forward to the many exciting events as part of the National Productivity Week. Still time to register and join this one, and other sessions, on #AI and #productivity with Bart van Ark and Jurga Zilinskiene MBE. See full agenda and register here: beyondthehype.events

🎧 On the Bloomberg UK Politics Podcast today, we speak to former Bank of England policymaker Dame Kate Barker, whom Tony Blair commissioned 20 years ago to review UK housing supply. We get her take on what’s changed & Keir Starmer's homebuilding plans:

bloomberg.com/news/audio/202…

Bamboozled as to why this click bait hasn’t yet gone viral.

Not been to a live band for years so The National was a truly special night. Wow

Excellent report and event - worth catching up if you missed it! Well done Gregory Thwaites Richard Davies Nadim Hamdan