Nick Clifton
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Nick Clifton
@frannystash.bsky.social
Economic Geography Prof at Cardiff Metropolitan University, affiliated Member at CIRCLE, Lund University. Father of 2, European, follower of #SaintsFC, lately obsessed by trees. Personal views, RPs≠endorsements, blah etc.
okeydokey👍Yeah those regional development fans are a nightmare...
November 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
...or maybe you meant me, that could also be true...
November 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I mean I did wonder...
November 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Actually @path-dependent.bsky.social do you have a report / paper related to your pres that you could share? (was going to DM you here but apparently that now requires age verification, since when has that been a thing?!)
November 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
When I say 10.15 I mean pm... otherwise I might have got all my money back 😏
November 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Ha! yes see post above, I thought I was confused (easily done!). Yes legged it back to Pad only for for 21.48 only to be delayed til 10.15 (another 3 mins and I've got the 30 quid back and been quids in)
November 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I knew I shouldn't have had the fancy larger in that place 😏(luckily after I made it back just in time to Paddington the Delay-Repay covered it in the end...)
November 17, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Thought exactly the same thing..!
September 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Indeed. We had this experience in South Wales a decade ago, words such as efficiencies, synergies and critical mass are bandied about without any real definition of what these actually might be, and how achieved in reality (and what resources might there be to do so...)
September 10, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Assume you're right, legal entity only I guess. Not sure who exactly would apply to "London and South East University Group" 😱
September 10, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Is it just me or is that an awful name
September 10, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Will never catch on
September 10, 2025 at 8:45 AM
The fact that Owen himself felt the need reply in the way he did tells you all you need to know about his character.
September 8, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Can we assume said chefs came last & second last or is that too cynical?
August 14, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Reposted by Nick Clifton
everyone's said pretty much all there is to be said on the 'island of strangers'/'incalculable damage' stuff, so just sharing this by a migrant care worker on how it feels to hear yourself discussed like this while looking after people's loved ones www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Opinion: Migrant workers prop up the UK’s social care system. Now…
Labour’s crackdown will break a promise made to workers like me – and leave the system in disrepair
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
May 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM