Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
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Hetan Shah
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Only a third of eligible broadband customers and 39% of water customers who are struggling to pay their bills are aware of social tariffs. Latest @nao.org.uk report
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... (full report: www.nao.org.uk/reports/regu...)
I've always said I'm 'not into poetry.'
But turns out tht once I had kids, there were more than a few I wanted to share with them.
From the Jumblies to Lepanto, from the Destruction of Sennacherib to Tarantella, here are twenty I keep returning to.
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Moving, layered piece by @david-batty.bsky.social about his meetings with his birth parents and the complex relationships these opened up.
It highlights a horrible period in the UK where unmarried women were pressured to give up their babies
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
‘Athens & Sparta were dragged into confrontation by the ambitions & miscalculations of others… If there is a Thucydides Trap it should be less about ruling or rising powers than that these can get played off against each other’
@peterfrankopan.bsky.social
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Fast track passes at theme parks as a symbol of how low growth economies work and feel
www.ft.com/content/d863...
Here are some of the things we are doing at @britishacademy.bsky.social to boost UK participation in Horizon Europe
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/two-yea...
So many zingers in such a short obituary for Sir Alex Younger. 🧵
Let’s start with when he finally tells his mum he is a spy…
Is this the funniest thing anyone has ever said on the Guardian Blind Date? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Thirty years after my parents were pressured into placing me with an adoption agency, I finally reconnected with them. But it was nothing like the neat stories you see on TV
These are good times to be a scholar of the classical world. Last summer, Donald Trump issued an order that all federal architecture needed to be ‘beautiful’, noting that the Founding Fathers ‘wanted ...
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The majority of billpayers are unaware of special tariffs for water and broadband, the spending watchdog says.
It has been over two years since the UK became an associated country to Horizon Europe – a long sought after outcome for the sector in order to unlock the opportunities and collaboration possible in t...
