Robert Skidelsky, the economic historian who was a leading authority on the life and work of John Maynard Keynes, has passed away

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

Symptom of a government who are quietly doing some excellent long terms things for this country, on energy and education, but have no coherent positive message. They need to look at what Mamdani is doing in NY message wise

War breaks out → oil spikes → prices surge → consumers squeezed

Meanwhile: Wall Street banks report record profits from “market volatility.”

That’s a shame. 😳

Confessions of a Pop Group is a high TSC watermark, some of Wellers finest work, but he should be as revered as Bowie, but strangely isn’t

Wow, Weller? Are you in the book?
The Style Council were such an important band for me. Did see The Jam at Wembley, but my older brother was a proper 79 Mod, I loved The Jam, but I was always a big jazz fan and left wing, so TSC resonated so much at the time

Reading this atm such a good book

White Riot by Joe Thomas review – racial tensions in Thatcher’s Britain Drawing on archive material, this propulsive crime novel explores police violence and unsolved killings in a fracturing nation

Hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Think it’s the second book that brilliantly manages to integrate The Style Council into events around that time. www.theguardian.com/books/2023/j...

Lord Skidelsky obituary Economic historian and politician who was a leading authority on the life and work of John Maynard Keynes

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

My introduction to Keynes. What a truly great series of books.

All the main ‘needs’ in economics have been left to the market, and are failing. Water, energy, housing and food.

One of the truly great economic writers

One of the great Economic books

Absolutely ✊

Oh, I just meant the Joe Thomas books are set in London, not claiming the exclusivity on racism!

Such an important part of this countries and London’s history. People forget how popular and vicious the far right were, with the NF and the BNP. It’s only the great and brave work of groups like RAR, GLC, Red Wedge, Weller, etc they transformed London into a better place. We should never forgot

It’s a fiction book trilogy, but Daniel Rachel advised on it, as it’s a brilliant trilogy of books around the events of RAR, Red Wedge, The Style Council, etc. such an important part of London history

My favourite all time music book. This is a nice companion piece as well.

‘Exam-obsessed’ schools leave pupils unready for work, Alan Milburn says Former minister leading review into young people and work cites survey showing most teachers decry lack of ‘soft skills’

Great that government acknowledging that troubling stats we see re young people – in this case NEET numbers – may be in part a product of ed policy. www.theguardian.com/education/20... But, with the Francis review having concluded that this is basically successful, policy not looking v joined-up.

Need to thank Michael Gove for that.

A massive market failure that this government and many previous have failed to deal with, and have mostly encouraged.
Good article in the house section in this weekends FT on it, relating to schools shutting in Hackney

The spine of our team is so weak.

All came from Mamardashvili given the ball to Pickford for no reason,and Konate being too soft again.

Need to buy Stewart Downing, to supply the crosses

Or tackling

Gravernberch is terrible and has been since the middle of last season. Doesn’t know to tackle, and Konate doesn’t win headers. Fundamental flaws in the team

Big up London Jazz. Ezra Collective, Moses Boyd. Nubya Garcia, Shabaka Hutchings 💪🇬🇧❤️ something this country should be celebrating.

V&A East Museum marks Stratford regeneration milestone Once dubbed

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Big up London and down with the far right racist dog whistler’s

BBC Music Studios BBC Music Studios relocates to East Bank to connect to the widest possible audience.

www.queenelizabetholympicpark.co.uk/east-bank/bb...

Big up London and down with the far right racist dog whistlers

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Super book, read that a few months back, a real eye opener