🎓Law Professor @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social, CBR, Cambridge + @granthamlse.bsky.social
🌹Labour law, enterprise law, pensions, corporations, human rights
🌍Cares about stopping inequality, climate damage + war
🕸️ https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/ewan-mcgaughey
Ewan McGaughey
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"France passed a single law and instantly unlocked 11 gigawatts of #solarenergy — without using new land. In 2023, France's government mandated solar canopies over all car parks larger than 80 spaces. The scale was enormous: There are 400,000 parking areas across France #ActOnClimate #Renewables
Laos bans petrol and diesel vehicle imports till end of 2026.
As EVs become cheaper upfront - and are dramatically cheaper to charge up compared to petrol/diesel - why should we keep harming business, consumers + public long-term by selling more obsolete cars?
www.eco-business.com/news/laos-su...
Universities need to take these KPMG hallucinations on board on multiple levels, including the use of consultancies to plan for their future shape, size and operations and their approaches toward embedding AI into research, learning and assessment. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Bogus case studies on UBS and transit systems exaggerated adoption of the technology
Collective bargaining is in decline, especially in many low-paying sectors.
In hospitality, only 3% of workers are union members and only 9% of jobs are covered by a collective agreement.
Read our latest research: buff.ly/3xOPY6g
It's only fair landlords are subject to the same taxes as everyone else. Extending National Insurance to cover them could raise £3.2bn to spend on public services.
Check out the coverage of our proposal in the @telegraph.co.uk
www.telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/ne...
Meanwhile @ciaranm.bsky.social has written a brilliant column why the British government (let me take this opportunity to make the same case for the German government) to stop using X.
Just leave. There is life after Twitter.
I should know.
www.thetimes.com/article/e895...
news.sky.com/story/palant...
The government voices concern about the social media platform spreading hate but has hundreds of accounts that help make it a success
Q: How do you get "growth" without innovation, and how do you get innovation without funding public research?
A: You don't. The UK has the worst public funding for uni + skills in the OECD, pay for starting lecturers down 25% since 2010, and that's why we are losing to countries abroad.
Patrick Dunleavy
Resolution Foundation
New Economics Foundation
Ewan McGaughey
📢Abstracts are invited for the European Journal of Industrial Relations Special Issue on 'Quantifying the Global Business Environment.' Papers welcome on B-READY, labour indicators, the World Bank in international/domestic labour policy etc. Deadline: 29th June. Further info: shorturl.at/mE8tT
Helene von Bismarck
Last year, we shared a paper showing that Labour's accommodation of the radical right did not work.
We now have a new version of the paper online: osf.io/preprints/so...
A ban through end-2026 aims to reduce fossil fuel dependence, control EV prices and expand charging infrastructure as Southeast Asia’s electric vehicle market grows.
Breaking: Government set to cut strategic priorities grant.
The government is on the cusp of cutting public funding for higher education teaching, the head of Universities UK has told MPs, placing institutions under even more financial pressure.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Vivienne Stern says letter confirming cut to teaching funds will be sent out “in days”
The US tech company has been involved with bodies including the NHS and the Financial Conduct Authority. A new parliamentary report warns the government risks becoming overreliant on the firm, potenti...
