Predictions of growth from airport expansion are based on faulty forecasts. Airport expansion won't create real economic growth, @alchap.bsky.social told the transport select committee this morning. 1/

As the Chancellor reaches for growth there's one place she won't find it - OBR forecasts.

OBR multipliers devalue public spending and keep us in a doom-loop of austerity

Our new report offers a framework that flexibly embraces the positive potential of public spending

Sustainable aviation fuels are not a get-out-of-jail free card when it comes to the climate damage of expanding the UK's airports.

Our research featured in this @itvnews.bsky.social segment last night, explaining the serious limitations of sustainable aviation fuels. 1/

New analysis: If four UK airport expansions including Heathrow are allowed to go ahead, they will cancel out the carbon savings of this government’s clean power plan IN JUST FIVE YEARS. This government must cancel these planned expansions.

neweconomics.org/2025/01/airp...

This is full of great ideas, not only for supporting music you like but also to discover more artists in general.

One of the things I've committed to in 2025 is going to more gigs - I love the suggestion here of watching an act you've never heard of each month at a local venue

There’s been so much great music this year, it’s impossible to keep up!

However, here are some songs that helped define the experiences we’ve had as a family, or I’ve simply enjoyed.

The soundtrack to the school run, dancing in the living room and caravanning in France.

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Trying out some different tree decorations this year

"You cannot run the government like a bank or private company."

@chaitanyakumar.bsky.social was on @lbc.co.uk to discuss the government's plans to have private companies review department spending plans

Focusing on real household disposable income rather than growth alone is the right call

But if the target is just headline, or even regional, increases in RHDI it won't sufficiently ensure those on the lowest incomes see the kind of increases needed to meet their essential costs & reduce inequality

Awake, they spend far too much of their time scrapping or chasing each other around the house at breakneck speed.

Then they fall asleep like this:

We are taking part in @biggive.bsky.social's #ChristmasChallenge to raise £16,000 to support communities taking climate action.

Thanks to Big Give and the Reed Foundation, every gift will be doubled at no extra cost to you!

You can help us reach our target here: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

This looks like such a good initiative between @musicvenuetrust.bsky.social and @drownedinsound.org

Grassroots venues provide the foundation for a lot of artists to make decent careers… and are where most of the interesting stuff happens!

Hopefully this becomes a fixture of the music calendar

NEW: Our analysis shows that if the Bank of England introduced a green interest rate to encourage investment in clean energy projects it could boost renewables and reduce electricity costs by more than £1.9bn a year.

Intriguing idea from @neweconomics.bsky.social proposes lower interest rates for green infrastructure projects. Would be intrigued to hear the counter-argument, because it seems a very attractive proposal on the face of it. www.businessgreen.com/news/4384003...

New housing developments are locking more and more people into car dependency.

NEF research by Emmet Kiberd and @benediktstranak.bsky.social shows over the last 15 years, homes have increasingly been built in places where people rely on cars.

This is bad for the environment and bad for our health.

"Fairer taxation of extreme wealth isn’t just a moral imperative – it’s an economic necessity"

Timely piece from @febalata.bsky.social at the G20 summit in Rio, where nations committed to work together to ensure the super-rich pay their fair share of taxes

neweconomics.org/2024/11/we-n...

NEW: A major new study from NEF shows that new housing developments have locked people into car dependency over the last 15 years.