Stuart Shields

Stuart Shields

@docstushi.bsky.social

Accidental International Political Economist, Deputy Associate Dean PGR Faculty of Humanities University of Manchester. Director Methods NorthWest Research: regional development banks, Gramsci Real life: Welsh Springer Spaniels, obscure 80s italo disco

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Stuart Shields
@docstushi.bsky.social

I'm increasingly surprised at the absence of research or investigations connecting recent politics with the off the scale availability of cocaine.

Peter Geoghegan@petergeoghegan.bsky.social

It feels like Britain and ireland needs to start talking about the mass scale of cocaine usage that seems to be happening Just got off train to bunch of lads outside station playing techno and snorting lines. But seen similar in rural ireland And that’s before get to the ‘patriots’

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Steven Fielding
@polprofsteve2024.bsky.social

This person went on GBNews to attack Labour & call for tax cuts but it turns out her parents took out £2.5 million from the business and that is the cause of her problems. But of course, the BBC simply takes her claims at face value because it suits a certain narrative. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.ukBakery owner calls for Budget help for firmsFrankie Dyer has written to the prime minister urging Budget support for businesses.
Stuart Shields
@docstushi.bsky.social

Just had confirmation that the final published version of this is now out and open access so anyone can read it! The collective organic intellectual strikes back: the EBRD Transition Report, the state and the new state capitalism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.comThe collective organic intellectual strikes back: the EBRD Transition Report, the state and the new state capitalismThis article argues that the Gramscian notion of the collective organic intellectual offers a fruitful way to analyse the recent legitimisation of state intervention in Eastern Central Europe, fore...
Stuart Shields
@docstushi.bsky.social

I'll be discussing the role of regional development banks in the global political economy tomorrow and hopefully setting the scene for the other three participants to focus on the New Development Bank. There's a Zoom link below. It's 7am UK time, get the coffee on.

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Jonn Elledge
@jonnelledge.bsky.social

I do sometimes worry that all the worried headscratching about youth unemployment might be missing the point. Everyone is always talking about how it relates to the education or welfare systems, no one wants to say "well the economy just produces far fewer entry level jobs than it once did"

Stuart Shields
@docstushi.bsky.social

Much vaunted private sector turns out to be more interetsed in profit than efficient provision of service. No shit sherlock. though you'd obviously not be able to flush the toilet after even if they did give a shit www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.com‘They’re a private company, run for profit!’: fury in Kent at South East Water’s outagesWater company blames increased demand in extreme heat, but customers want answers about lack of storage reservoirs
Stuart Shields
@docstushi.bsky.social

spent most of today without wifi access so managed to get some edits done. The 16000 word draft I was wrestling with to get down to 9,000 is currently at 21,805 words 🙄

Stuart Shields
@docstushi.bsky.social

The @manchestermill.bsky.social as ever doing great work. What's Andy Burnham good at? Being Andy Burnham. Lots of the content here rings true to my rather limited knowledge of the mayor. Stop looking for Burnhamism - in six years, I’ve never found it manchestermill.co.uk/stop-looking...

manchestermill.co.ukStop looking for Burnhamism - in six years, I’ve never found itWatching the mayor up close in Manchester, I’ve seen his unusual gifts and glaring weaknesses. Would he make a good prime minister?
Stuart Shields
@docstushi.bsky.social

My life's ambition is to have an ego the size of Burnham's.

Alex Andreou@sturdyalex.bsky.social

I really wanted this Burnham speech to leave me hopeful and was actively rooting for it. I found it deflating - to put it mildly. Where it needed to be brave and expansive, it was small and meek. Let me give one example that I found quite instructive, since Andy used it as a framing device. 1/

Stuart Shields
@docstushi.bsky.social

Enjoying reading how little commentators know about Burnham & (Greater) Manchester. Best piece I've read is Jennifer Williams FT article www.ft.com/content/9dd4... btl comments illustrate why Andy will find Westminster very different from GM & that's if he can win Makerfield (fwiw I think he won't)

ft.comCan Andy Burnham, Labour’s charismatic chameleon, reinvent himself again?Greater Manchester mayor has earned public respect by going from insider to outsider, but economic doubts could undermine his bid for Downing Street
Stuart Shields
@docstushi.bsky.social

In addition, she told universities to be careful not to “do things that frankly look as if the priority is money and bums on seats rather than quality”. Skillz minister, innit

Stuart Shields
@docstushi.bsky.social

Started messing with LLM as a search tool. Could it identify EBRD employees and their university education? looking for socialisation patterns relations, etc. not wholly convinced with the accuracy of the list 🤔