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Prof Sarah Hall
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Professor @ Cambridge Uni, Deputy Director UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social. Economics,trade and politics of finance led development. Views my own.
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adamcorlett.bsky.social
Don't Panic: Britain is not broken. The UK can do better, but we shouldn't be too gloomy about things. If you look at the stats, there's a lot to be happy with (including how happy we are): adamcorlett.com/2025/11/30/d...
Don’t Panic: Britain is not broken – adamcorlett.com
adamcorlett.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:05 PM
drsarahhall.bsky.social
I always find it interesting how changes/future changes in the City's skyline can tell you a lot about changes in the City itself about politics, regulation and the economics of finance 👇

www.ft.com/content/6fe3...
JPMorgan’s Dimon approved London tower after UK assurances
Keir Starmer’s business envoy visited US bank boss in New York last week
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November 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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benzaranko.bsky.social
🚨Economics students! People who know or teach economics students!🚨

The IFS offers summer internships each year. Many of our permanent staff started with one of these. On Monday we're holding an online event to provide more info. Please do come/share.

ifs.org.uk/events/ifs-r...
IFS recruitment event 2025: Summer students | Institute for Fiscal Studies
We're offering an opportunity to meet current IFS staff and find out more about our summer placement scheme for current university students.
ifs.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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simonusherwood.bsky.social
Me, for @ukandeu.bsky.social, on why we might be going back to talking about money in the UK-EU relationship

@oupolitics.bsky.social @openuniversity.bsky.social
ukandeu.bsky.social UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 21d
💶"But as the UK has started to develop new links with the EU, so too has it generated new financial obligations."

✍️ @simonusherwood.bsky.social explains financial flows between the UK and the EU since the UK’s withdrawal & how they may be affected by the UK-EU reset

🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/the-sleeping...
The sleeping dog of UK-EU finances - UK in a changing Europe
Simon Usherwood explains financial flows between the UK and the EU since the UK's withdrawal and how they may be affected by the UK-EU reset.
ukandeu.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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ukandeu.bsky.social
⏰ TOMORROW ⏰

🌍 Global instability has become the new normal and our multilateral system seems increasingly fragile

Join our expert panel @anandmenon.bsky.social, Fiona Hill, Rana Mitter, Margaret MacMillan and @fromtga.bsky.social as they discuss key challenges👇

ukandeu.ac.uk/events/ukice...
UKICE Lunch Hour: Confronting foreign policy challenges - UK in a changing Europe
UK in a Changing Europe has assembled a panel of some of the world's top experts to analyse on the key foreign policy challenges we face.
ukandeu.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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ukandeu.bsky.social
🇪🇺 Today, the EU Enlargement Summit convenes in Brussels 🇪🇺

To dissect the details of it all, join @anandmenon.bsky.social, @sebastienmaillard.bsky.social, @heathergrabbe.bsky.social & @jobmaynooth.bsky.social

💻 Online
📆 Tues 18 Nov, 1pm GMT

ukandeu.ac.uk/events/ukice...
UKICE Lunch Hour: The prospects for EU enlargement - UK in a changing Europe
On 4 November, the EU is set to present its 2025 enlargement package. Join our expert panel as they discuss the package and the prospects for EU enlargement.
ukandeu.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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jreland.bsky.social
Yesterday Nigel Farage argued that the UK has failed to grasp Brexit opportunities to deregulate, which his 'pro-business' government would deliver.

I've got a piece in the Independent arguing why that is a misreading both of Brexit history and economics.

www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexi...
The political logic is clear: Farage is saying that the problem is not Brexit, but the politicians who have failed to properly implement it. If only the UK had pushed harder to rip up EU red tape, we would not be in the mess we’re in. But his economic and regulatory logic is fundamentally flawed. A close study of recent Brexit history (we happen to have produced one) shows that Conservative governments did, in fact, aspire to deregulate the UK economy. That they failed was due not to a lack of political will, but to reality – and the dawning realisation of the economic damage it would do. It is the very “business people” Farage claims to speak for who pushed hardest against the “Brexit opportunities” agenda. Farage promises to “reduce the size of the bloated state”, but the task of identifying legislation to reform, and then designing and implementing the new rules, would be a major administrative undertaking for Whitehall. The UK civil service has doubled in size since Brexit, and a key reason for this is that Whitehall has had to take on jobs that were previously left to EU regulators. The more the UK seeks to do things differently to the EU, the more British bureaucrats we will need to do the heavy lifting. If Mr Farage’s real priority is to cut the state to save cash, there is one obvious thing to do – join the EU single market.
November 4, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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anandmenon.bsky.social
I did a lecture for @keeleworldaffairs.bsky.social
on the challenges confronting the UK. Watch it here, if you're bored youtu.be/BkQTGOVaFxU?.... #britishpolitics #brexit #ukintheworld
youtu.be
November 3, 2025 at 7:42 AM
drsarahhall.bsky.social
The Yorkshire in me loves driving over the Humber Bridge, as I did on the way home yesterday
November 3, 2025 at 12:24 PM
drsarahhall.bsky.social
Some latest thinking on delivering economic growth through UK trade @ukandeu.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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infrastructuralgeo.bsky.social
Next talk in the Infrastructural Geographies Michaelmas Term 2025 Seminar Series will be delivered by Beth Greenhough (@oxfordgeography.bsky.social).

Oct the 29th, 16:00-17:30 in the Large Lecture Theatre. All welcome!
October 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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infrastructuralgeo.bsky.social
Four exciting talks for the Infrastructural Geographies Michaelmas Term 2025 Seminar Series

See @kbrickell.bsky.social and Mel Nowicki (Oxford Brookes), Beth Greenhough (@oxfordgeography.bsky.social), @penelopeanthias.bsky.social, and Pratyush Shankar (Navrachana University).

All welcome!
October 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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ukandeu.bsky.social
🚨 Don't miss our next online panel 🚨

🇪🇺 Experts @anandmenon.bsky.social, Fabian Zuleeg and Christine Reh will assess the state of the European Union 🇪🇺

💻 Online
📅 Tues 21 Oct, 1pm BST

Sign up now 👇

ukandeu.ac.uk/events/ukice...
UKICE Lunch Hour: the state of the European Union - UK in a changing Europe
Join our expert panel as they assess the state of the European Union as it confronts profound economic, political, security and social challenges.
ukandeu.ac.uk
October 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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infrastructuralgeo.bsky.social
Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State: @kbrickell.bsky.social (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) and Mel Nowicki (Oxford Brookes) as part of the Infrastructural Geographies Michaelmas 2025 Seminar Series on the 22nd October, 16:00-17:30 in the Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!
October 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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mia-gray.bsky.social
Debt Trap Nation -- a very powerful book.

Come and see @kbrickell.bsky.social and Mel Nowicki discuss the book on the 22nd of October (4-6pm)

Dept of Geography, Cambridge
agendapub.bsky.social Agenda Publishing @agendapub.bsky.social · Oct 3
“A chilling and eye-opening exposé... gives voice to those living at the sharpest edge of austerity and makes an irrefutable case for change.”

@graceblakeley.substack.com on 'Debt Trap Nation' by
@kbrickell.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki (out next week).

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/debt...

#housing #debt
Photo of a pile of books. The books are 'Debt Trap Nation' by Katherine Brickell and Mel Nowicki. Cover image features a woman and small child in a deep concrete basin or pit with no way of climbing out as the ladder is too short.
October 3, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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ukandeu.bsky.social
🇪🇺 One year into von der Leyen's second term, the EU faces profound economic, political and security challenges 🇪🇺

🤔 But are its plans to confront them fit for purpose?

Find out with our expert panel 👇

💻 Online
📅 21 Oct, 1pm BST

ukandeu.ac.uk/events/ukice...
October 10, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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ukandeu.bsky.social
Kemi Badenoch has said that the UK will leave the ECHR if the Tories win the next election

But is it possible to leave these conventions? If so, how? And, less radically, can these conventions be reformed?

@cbarnard.bsky.social has the answers 👇

ukandeu.ac.uk/leaving-the-...
Leaving the ECHR and the Refugee Convention - UK in a changing Europe
Catherine Barnard explains the political and legal consequences of leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the Refugee Convention.
ukandeu.ac.uk
October 6, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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ukandeu.bsky.social
"It is against this backdrop of uncertainty that the economic implications of the Economic Prosperity Deal are beginning to bite."

In light of Trump’s state visit to the UK, @drsarahhall.bsky.social discusses the extent of continuing uncertainties around UK-US trade

ukandeu.ac.uk/trouble-ahea...
Trouble ahead for UK-US trade? - UK in a changing Europe
In light of Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK, Sarah Hall discusses the large number of continuing uncertainties around UK-US trade.
ukandeu.ac.uk
September 18, 2025 at 7:01 AM
drsarahhall.bsky.social
Despite deals, there are still uncertainties in UK-US trade: ukandeu.ac.uk/trouble-ahea... @ukandeu.bsky.social
Trouble ahead for UK-US trade? - UK in a changing Europe
In light of Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK, Sarah Hall discusses the large number of continuing uncertainties around UK-US trade.
ukandeu.ac.uk
September 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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ukandeu.bsky.social
💥 The stage is set for our conference in Brussels on 'The future of UK-EU relations with @openuniversity.bsky.social 💥

We'll be posting key highlights here throughout the day, so watch this space 👀
September 17, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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ukandeu.bsky.social
"UK and Europe are changing in tandem and we share the same challenges.

This is what the future of EU-UK relations looks like - no more ideological barriers and instead finding practical and pragmatic solutions."

The Rt Hon. Nick Thomas-Symonds struck a positive tone in discussing UK-EU relations
September 17, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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ukandeu.bsky.social
"The reality is, if they want more spending on welfare and public services, and they want economic growth, they are going to have to get serious about broad-based tax increases."

✍️ @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social compares the 1970s IMF crisis and today's fiscal challenges

ukandeu.ac.uk/what-can-rac...
What can Rachel Reeves learn from the 1970s IMF crisis? - UK in a changing Europe
Paul Johnson reflects on the 1970s IMF crisis and the key parallels and differences between then and the current challenges the government...
ukandeu.ac.uk
September 9, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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ukandeu.bsky.social
"Looking across the issues most on the public’s mind, higher economic growth would unlock progress on many."

@ruthcurtice.bsky.social and @anandmenon.bsky.social give an overview of the policy challenges the UK faces and introduce the Policy Landscape 2025 report

ukandeu.ac.uk/explaining-t...
Explaining the policy challenges ahead - UK in a changing Europe
To mark the publication of the Policy Landscape 2025 report, Ruth Curtice and Anand Menon take a look at the key policy challenges facing the UK.
ukandeu.ac.uk
September 2, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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ruthcurtice.bsky.social
Fantastic to work with @anandmenon.bsky.social and others on this report out this morning. Big takeaway from our panel - is the government prepared to take on fights this Autumn to make progress on these challenges. Nothing left to lose, or the window of opportunity to be bold already passed?
resolutionfoundation.org Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · Sep 2
What are the key policy challenges the UK must confront?

As we publish the Policy Landscape 2025 report with @ukandeu.bsky.social, @ruthcurtice.bsky.social and @anandmenon.bsky.social reflect on the challenges facing the government one year in.

Read it here:
buff.ly/Q7LSOmx
Quote from Ruth Curtice and Anand Menon: The most consequential choice facing the government after a tough first year is whether to be more radical in their pursuit of growth. We’ve accumulated a series of wicked problems that can only be effectively addressed over a number of years. Yet at the same time, politics demands quick results, not least given the state of the polls.
September 2, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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anandmenon.bsky.social
IT'S OUT! @ukandeu.bsky.social brand new survey of the policy challenges confronting the UK, done in partnership with the wonderful @resfoundation.bsky.social ukandeu.ac.uk/reports/poli... 1/???
September 2, 2025 at 6:05 AM