Tom Arnold
@tjarnold.bsky.social
Researcher at the Heseltine Institute, University of Liverpool. Regional development, infrastructure, planning, Leicester City FC, cricket and pictures of my dog.
Looking forward to this 👇
*PSA EVENT* 'English #Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill'
Join top experts to discuss the future of local governance in England.
📅 24 Nov 2025 | Hybrid format
👤 Hosted by the PSA Local Politics and Governance specialist group @psalocalpol.bsky.social
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Join top experts to discuss the future of local governance in England.
📅 24 Nov 2025 | Hybrid format
👤 Hosted by the PSA Local Politics and Governance specialist group @psalocalpol.bsky.social
➡️
Hybrid Workshop - English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill - Possibilities and (Missed?) Opportunities | The Political Studies Association (PSA)
PSA Local Governance and Politics Specialist Group WorkshopDate: 24 November 2025Time: 12:30 – 17:00 GMTLocation: Online, and limited in person spaces available at the Political Studies Association,…
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October 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Really sad to hear this. Just the three albums across 20 years but all are stone cold classics. Black Messiah is surely one of the greatest comeback albums ever - to return with a record of such quality and innovation after so long away was incredible. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
R&B singer D’Angelo dead at 51 - BBC News
The singer, who was also an acclaimed songwriter, was known for helping create the genre of neo-soul.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Really sad to hear this. Just the three albums across 20 years but all are stone cold classics. Black Messiah is surely one of the greatest comeback albums ever - to return with a record of such quality and innovation after so long away was incredible. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
My view on JG is that 90% of his takes on culture are great but his stuff on politics is mostly terrible. This column contains some genuinely useful advice which has actually shifted my reading habits. www.ft.com/content/685a...
October 10, 2025 at 11:19 AM
My view on JG is that 90% of his takes on culture are great but his stuff on politics is mostly terrible. This column contains some genuinely useful advice which has actually shifted my reading habits. www.ft.com/content/685a...
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⚽NEW POLICY BRIEFING⚽To mark our 2025 annual lecture, which this year celebrates the deep relationship between the city of Liverpool and its football clubs, this new briefing by @tjarnold.bsky.social explores the role of clubs as anchor institutions. www.liverpool.ac.uk/heseltine-in...
Policy Brief 3(25) - Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place - University of Liverpool
www.liverpool.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
⚽NEW POLICY BRIEFING⚽To mark our 2025 annual lecture, which this year celebrates the deep relationship between the city of Liverpool and its football clubs, this new briefing by @tjarnold.bsky.social explores the role of clubs as anchor institutions. www.liverpool.ac.uk/heseltine-in...
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Just 2 weeks to go until our 2025 annual lecture! Join us for a fascinating discussion on football's relationship with Liverpool, its economy and its people, featuring Keiran Maguire (Associate Professor in football finance) at @liverpooluni.bsky.social and more. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/heseltine-...
Heseltine Institute Annual Lecture 2025: Football and the City
Exploring the role of football clubs in driving regeneration, uplifting communities and sustaining our connection to place.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Just 2 weeks to go until our 2025 annual lecture! Join us for a fascinating discussion on football's relationship with Liverpool, its economy and its people, featuring Keiran Maguire (Associate Professor in football finance) at @liverpooluni.bsky.social and more. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/heseltine-...
I'm at Conservative conference next week with @instituteforgovernment.org.uk talking integrated settlements, local growth plans, fiscal devolution and probably a bunch of other stuff.
With the dust settling on Labour Party Conference, we're looking forward to joining @instituteforgovernment.org.uk again at Conservative Party Conference in Manchester next week.
October 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I'm at Conservative conference next week with @instituteforgovernment.org.uk talking integrated settlements, local growth plans, fiscal devolution and probably a bunch of other stuff.
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It's October, which means our annual lecture is this month! Marking Everton's move to a new stadium and Liverpool's 20th top flight title, we focus on the deep and complex relationship between football and the city. Join us on 21 October @liverpooluni.bsky.social news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/10/01/c...
City’s relationship with football in spotlight at Heseltine Institute Annual Lecture - University of Liverpool News
City’s relationship with football in spotlight at Heseltine Institute Annual Lecture
news.liverpool.ac.uk
October 1, 2025 at 9:29 AM
It's October, which means our annual lecture is this month! Marking Everton's move to a new stadium and Liverpool's 20th top flight title, we focus on the deep and complex relationship between football and the city. Join us on 21 October @liverpooluni.bsky.social news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/10/01/c...
Relieved that the weather has played ball in Liverpool for conference. Last year I attended an event where the politician on the panel arrived late and was so wet that he looked like he’d just stepped out of the River Mersey.
September 30, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Relieved that the weather has played ball in Liverpool for conference. Last year I attended an event where the politician on the panel arrived late and was so wet that he looked like he’d just stepped out of the River Mersey.
Took Kasper to a physio today where he had to wear safety goggles due to some kind of laser being used, so please enjoy this photo of him looking like a WW2 fighter pilot.
September 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Took Kasper to a physio today where he had to wear safety goggles due to some kind of laser being used, so please enjoy this photo of him looking like a WW2 fighter pilot.
First week of term campus fashion observation: we may be approaching peak big trousers. The wheel of trouser may soon turn and in 3-4 years everyone will start dressing like The Strokes again.
September 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
First week of term campus fashion observation: we may be approaching peak big trousers. The wheel of trouser may soon turn and in 3-4 years everyone will start dressing like The Strokes again.
I know by their nature reshuffles are disruptive but ditching McMahon seems really daft. He’s leading on a bill that‘s just passed second reading, dealing with tricky local government reorganisation, has worked the brief for several years and is widely regarded as doing a pretty good job.
Surprised to see Jim McMahon leave government. He was leading on the devolution bill currently going through Parliament.
Also surprised that Jacqui Smith is going to be doing skills and HE still but now split over two departments.
Also surprised that Jacqui Smith is going to be doing skills and HE still but now split over two departments.
The next phase of the reshuffle
September 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I know by their nature reshuffles are disruptive but ditching McMahon seems really daft. He’s leading on a bill that‘s just passed second reading, dealing with tricky local government reorganisation, has worked the brief for several years and is widely regarded as doing a pretty good job.
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Radical right accommodation really does not work.
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
September 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Radical right accommodation really does not work.
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
@footballcliches.bsky.social Julián Carranza has just signed on loan for Leicester, with the news accompanied on the LCFC website by this image. The year the loan ends on the back of the shirt - are we having this? Surely the date on the shirt thing should be reserved for contract renewals?
September 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
@footballcliches.bsky.social Julián Carranza has just signed on loan for Leicester, with the news accompanied on the LCFC website by this image. The year the loan ends on the back of the shirt - are we having this? Surely the date on the shirt thing should be reserved for contract renewals?
Will wait to see detail on this before getting too excited, given Northern Powerhouse Rail has come to mean anything from ‘Shinkansen style network enabling travel between Liverpool and Hull in 12 minutes’ to ‘electrification of one mile of the Transpennine’. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Labour to revive Northern Powerhouse Rail project
Starmer and Reeves expected to announce move before Labour conference, with aim of boosting backbench morale
www.theguardian.com
August 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Will wait to see detail on this before getting too excited, given Northern Powerhouse Rail has come to mean anything from ‘Shinkansen style network enabling travel between Liverpool and Hull in 12 minutes’ to ‘electrification of one mile of the Transpennine’. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
This has been the best test series in England since 2005 I think. 2009, 2015 and 2019 Ashes all had their moments but there’s been drama almost every day in this series.
August 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This has been the best test series in England since 2005 I think. 2009, 2015 and 2019 Ashes all had their moments but there’s been drama almost every day in this series.
Crawley to bag his standard one big score per series here. He loves Old Trafford (as all batters should - it's even flatter than usual this year) #engind
July 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Crawley to bag his standard one big score per series here. He loves Old Trafford (as all batters should - it's even flatter than usual this year) #engind
Increasingly convinced the cheapest way to address this is to reverse local government austerity. Returning English local authority budgets to 2010 levels would cost about £7bn. Factor in population and demographic change and you'd want maybe £15bn. Benefits could be seen quickly and felt widely.
"The truly unnerving thing about the fall of Rome (yes, I’m going there again, sorry) was that most Romans probably didn’t notice it had happened."
Morning all!
Morning all!
The decline and fall of Great Britain
From the graffiti to the economy, a sense of terminal rot has set in.
www.newstatesman.com
July 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Increasingly convinced the cheapest way to address this is to reverse local government austerity. Returning English local authority budgets to 2010 levels would cost about £7bn. Factor in population and demographic change and you'd want maybe £15bn. Benefits could be seen quickly and felt widely.
Can’t be too many artists who’ve had as strong a run of albums as Alex G has over the last few years. Each one evolving sonically and lyrically from the last and bringing his fans along as they grow older with him. What a guy.
July 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Can’t be too many artists who’ve had as strong a run of albums as Alex G has over the last few years. Each one evolving sonically and lyrically from the last and bringing his fans along as they grow older with him. What a guy.
Delighted to announce my candidacy for Governor of the Western Ridge (c/o @reformthinktank.bsky.social) re-state.co.uk/wp-content/u...
July 17, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Delighted to announce my candidacy for Governor of the Western Ridge (c/o @reformthinktank.bsky.social) re-state.co.uk/wp-content/u...
Before being rebranded in the early 2000s he was known as Marti Jifuentes.
Leicester City have appointed former Queens Park Rangers head coach Marti Cifuentes as Ruud van Nistelrooy’s replacement.
Leicester parted ways with Van Nistelrooy in June, a month after the conclusion of the Premier League season.
🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/645...
Leicester parted ways with Van Nistelrooy in June, a month after the conclusion of the Premier League season.
🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/645...
July 15, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Before being rebranded in the early 2000s he was known as Marti Jifuentes.
I appreciate this is quite a niche request, but does anyone know why the cover art for the new Madlib record is a photo of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral?
July 12, 2025 at 8:15 AM
I appreciate this is quite a niche request, but does anyone know why the cover art for the new Madlib record is a photo of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral?
This is a superb (but very depressing) essay www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
William Davies · TV Meets Fruit Machine: Faragist TikTok
In my own For You journey into Faragism, I was struck by the recurring assumption that the ultimate prize was exit of...
www.lrb.co.uk
June 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
This is a superb (but very depressing) essay www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Hadn't spotted that the ONS regional productivity estimates were released yesterday. This is a good summary. North West performing strongly.
📊 ONS released the 2025 sub-regional productivity estimates yesterday. What does it mean for the UK?
Bart van Ark breaks down the key insights & what they signal for regional growth.
🔗 Read the blog: www.productivity.ac.uk/news/uk-regi...
#Productivity #Data #UKRegions
Bart van Ark breaks down the key insights & what they signal for regional growth.
🔗 Read the blog: www.productivity.ac.uk/news/uk-regi...
#Productivity #Data #UKRegions
UK Regional Productivity: Insights from the 2025 ONS Sub-Regional Estimates - The Productivity Institute
A blog by Bart van Ark examining the 2025 release of the UK sub-regional productivity estimates by the Office for National Statistics.
www.productivity.ac.uk
June 20, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Hadn't spotted that the ONS regional productivity estimates were released yesterday. This is a good summary. North West performing strongly.
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This week saw the launch of a new report by @paulanderson88.bsky.social and @tjarnold.bsky.social on English devolution. Drawing on interviews with key policymakers, the report calls for reforms to how government engages with regional and local leaders. www.liverpool.ac.uk/heseltine-in...
New Liverpool-led report highlights need for ‘new era’ of partnership between UK government and local leaders - Articles - Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place - University of Liv...
www.liverpool.ac.uk
June 20, 2025 at 9:08 AM
This week saw the launch of a new report by @paulanderson88.bsky.social and @tjarnold.bsky.social on English devolution. Drawing on interviews with key policymakers, the report calls for reforms to how government engages with regional and local leaders. www.liverpool.ac.uk/heseltine-in...
Skimming the 10 Year Infrastructure Strategy and you've got to wonder if sub-national transport bodies are long for this world. Over 100 pages and not a single mention of Transport for the North. Meanwhile on page 55 there's this map which uses data from pretty much everyone but TfN.
June 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Skimming the 10 Year Infrastructure Strategy and you've got to wonder if sub-national transport bodies are long for this world. Over 100 pages and not a single mention of Transport for the North. Meanwhile on page 55 there's this map which uses data from pretty much everyone but TfN.