Andrew Clark
clarkaw.bsky.social
Andrew Clark
@clarkaw.bsky.social
North Londoner. Communications adviser. Former Times, Guardian, Observer business journalist. Chair, Islington South Labour.
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The gulf between what London is actually like & how it is portrayed by terminally online, self-styled ‘patriots’ & their political heroes is absolutely incredible. I wonder how much it has to do with the city repeatedly electing a Muslim mayor…

www.timeout.com/london/news/...
London is officially the second-best city in the world, according to a prestigious new ranking
We’ll take it.
www.timeout.com
May 25, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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A GOOD FRIDAY! 🐣
Great to be out this morning in Holloway Ward. Thanks to all who share their time with us on Loraine Estate ❤️🙏

@clairezammit.bsky.social @joepeck.co.uk #NurullahTuran #clarejeapes @jasonjackson.bsky.social @clarkaw.bsky.social
#islingtonsouth #islington #holloway #loraineestate
April 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
As that we're all talking steel - here's a video of some steel being made (this is at Liberty's electric arc furnace in Rotherham) 🧨🔥
April 15, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Steel is not a relic of the past - it's the backbone of a modern industrial economy.

But with jobs at risk, the industry is on its knees.

In a guest blog, Advisory Board member
@clarkaw.bsky.social sets out what a serious UK steel revival would take.
www.goodgrowthfoundation.co.uk/news/steel-i...
Steel is on its knees: How do we revive it? — The Good Growth Foundation
Andrew Clark, member of the Good Growth Foundation’s advisory board and former UK Head of Communications at Liberty Steel.
www.goodgrowthfoundation.co.uk
April 14, 2025 at 8:56 AM
This is quite a way to do HR - two million US federal employees have been offered redundancy simply by sending a one word email, “resign”
January 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Wonder if we’ll get apologies from journalists who confidently called this wrong?
January 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Trying something a bit different, enjoyed a gig by @jimmoray.bsky.social at Walthamstow Folk Club last night - my first time there
January 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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SUNNY SESSION IN ST MARY’S & ST JAMES
Great to have so many of us knocking on doors this morning. A real pleasure to chat to local residents and discuss the matters of the day and more! @joepeck.co.uk
@nickwayne1.bsky.social @heathernstaff.bsky.social #islingtonsouth #islington
January 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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No, I don't need a bloody copilot for this document, thank you.

Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.
January 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Are closer ties with the EU really an electoral minefield? Perhaps not, according to research by the @goodgrowthfdn.bsky.social. Good piece by Praful Nargund. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
If we are serious about growth, the EU cannot be sidelined | Praful Nargund
Five years since the UK left the European Union, the director of the Good Growth Foundation argues that closer ties with our closest trading partner is more vital than ever
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Listening to a debate about climate change at @thefabians.bsky.social conference under the watchful eye of Dick Whittington
January 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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So despite all the fuss and noise, new data shows that the ULEZ expansion hasn’t hurt high street spending - it’s just helped clean up London’s air 💚

www.centreforcities.org/blog/ulez-ex...
January 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The gap between public and private sector pension provision is just mind blowing.
January 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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“Ridiculous, ill-informed and fuelling conspiracy theories.” Yep, that’s much of Westminster’s political “journalism” these days. www.scotsman.com/news/politic...
Questions put to Keir Starmer on Southport murders were ill-informed and fuelled conspiracy theories
The rule of law matters - and this is why certain questions put to Sir Keir Starmer at the Downing Street press conference were ill-informed
www.scotsman.com
January 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
We seem to be nationalising the existing railway but privatising a new one…
January 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Excellent NYT interview with the outgoing U.S. ambassador to Hungary. This is a key insight!
January 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Conclave is a pretty good film except for one or two moments of melodrama that had people in the cinema sniggering
December 15, 2024 at 6:09 PM