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@Frances_Coppola

Finance & economics writer and commentator. Author of 'The Case For People's Quantitative Easing' (Polity Books). Sings a bit too. Always right, never believed.

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    Oct 2

    in case it isn't obvious, the point of this post is that as the pandemic destroys the insecure jobs created after the financial crisis, wages for those at the bottom of the income scale will drop well below subsistence level.

    Coppola Comment: A Financial View of Labour Markets. Reposted from Pieria (2013) without significant change as it is still incredibly relevant today.
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    Auditions for the part of a black cat, Hollywood, 1961 via historyinmoment

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    Because who doesn’t like a mini rainbow 🌈

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    Broad consensus on (illustrated by Nick Timothy, Ash Sarkar, Tim Farron & Iain Dale) - Starkey's open racism reprehensible - Met over-reaction unnecessary, inappropriate + worrying - Grimes naive + unprofessional (not just in interviewer role, but as publisher)

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    Absolutely loving how the Home Office twitter account is currently getting completely owned by the ‘lefty lawyers’

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    I am so happy to share the news that my friend Lili Pohlmann, who made such a deep & lasting impression on me & my listeners, has been made an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. It is for her services to Holocaust Education, Awareness & human relations.

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    6 hours ago

    Congratulations to OBE and CBE for their recognition in the birthday honours. Your work to memorialise and educate about the Holocaust has been outstanding and has deservedly won you the admiration of survivors, their children and the wider community.

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    18 hours ago

    Back by popular demand. What beavers do for butterflies. A reminder we don't need to chose between which species to reintroduce. Pick the right ones and the rest will follow. Beavers are keystone species. Here is just a little of what they do as habitat managers par excellence.

    1. In the past few days, we’ve seen a lot of disappointing statements about the natural world. Anger leads to resentment & passivity – but positive visions fuel us all. So here is a magical story of Beavers & Butterflies to get you through a damp Wednesday afternoon.
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    Dear , if your proposed action is frustrated by legal claims, it can't be "entirely legitimate and legal"....

    Plans to return 10 migrants who’d reached the UK by boat to Italy were abandoned yesterday following several legal claims. The Home Secretary, Priti Patel, said: ‘Once again, our efforts to facilitate entirely legitimate and legal returns were frustrated by legal claims.’
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    22 hours ago

    An informed legal summary and analysis of the Court of Appeal's judgment in the pensions case, focusing on why the indirect sex/age discrimination aspect of the claimants' argument failed, and the discrepancy between their concept of discrimination and that of the law

    On explains the Court of Appeal's decision on the pension age, including analysis of constitutional principles and discrimination law:
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    5 hours ago

    Entertainment and care homes- two of the hardest hit by the pandemic - are combining forces. We're excited to be putting on live performances with West End stars in our care homes. You can watch live by making a donation 👏

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    Super excited to be working on this project with linking to Get in touch with project lead if your keen to get involved!

    On it's crucial to know how socio-economic factors affect That's why, with the support of , we're running a series of online events exploring & . The first are scheduled for 23&24 Nov.
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    The usual excellent Saturday morning run through of Brexit issues by . There's a lot to do, and in a normal negotiation such issues could easily take a year. We have a couple of weeks.

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    European Commission to investigate mother and baby homes

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    Oct 8

    Our warmest congratulations to Odile Renaud-Basso, our next President! She has been elected by our Governors today during and will take over from , our Acting President. Exciting times ahead for the !

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    Congratulations Odile Renaud-Basso for being chosen to become the first female President of . Congratulations EBRD for getting such a capable woman to lead the institution.

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    Thanks! We’ve got signed first editions here:

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    Bitcoiner: "There can never be more than 21 Mio Bitcoin." Me: "Oh, but there can. It can be changed." Bitcoiner: "Yes, but it's not gonna happen." Me: "What if fees won't pay miners and security will be threatened?" You've been blocked by Bitcoiner.

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    Reminder: IDS ran on a platform that the withdrawal agreement was an "oven ready deal", voted for it, and even demanded that parliamentary debate be curtailed on it

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    An orangutan teaches how to crack coconuts

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    4 hours ago

    How the 2020 physics Nobel winners helped us better understand the universe's most mysterious phenomenon

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