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Jon Neale

@JonNeale

Researches cities, property, economics. Professional if accentless Brummie. DFL in Lewes. Beer & Music Snob. History buff & wannabe linguist. Views my own.

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Jon Neale
Jon Neale@JonNeale·
Between 1934 and 1939 tens of thousands of upmarket apartments were built for rent in Britain’s cities : a phenomenon that is almost completely written out of history. An absolutely fascinating piece to write and research
Sam Bowman@s8mb

NEW: How Art Deco conquered 1930s Britain, and led to tens of thousands of apartments being built that are still iconic today. By @JonNeale for Works in Progress. worksinprogress.news/p/britains-int…

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John@johnineurope321·
@JonNeale @PubyWax Yes plenty of those I’ve been on in Germany and Italy
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Jon Neale@JonNeale·
@PubyWax France is very exclusionary, outside certain areas. Germany, yes I was aware of the forest rights, but do you have miles of path through normal countryside like this? The green dotted lines are rights of way, a landowner cannot legally obstruct it or prevent you from using it.
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Humean Boeing
Humean Boeing@PubyWax·
@JonNeale IDK about France or the US, but Germany is closer to the Scottish/Nordic model - with extensive right to roam laws guaranteeing access to forests grasslands, etc. There is also an incredibly dense network of walking paths. You can stop people with a sign though, which sucks.
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Jon Neale
Jon Neale@JonNeale·
Really is quite remarkable how the development of flats v houses have diverged in London compared to the rest of the country.
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Jon Neale
Jon Neale@JonNeale·
@LoftusSteve That ignores the impacts on individual parts of expenditure, like local government - you know, the one which affects everyday “user experience” of Britain the most
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Steve Loftus
Steve Loftus@LoftusSteve·
Tory austerity is a myth. All Osborne did was cut annual borrowing (deficit) from £150bn in 2010 to £90bn by 2015. We still spent £90bn more than we taxed. And this happened across Europe. It wasn't unique to the Tories and UK.
Stella Tsantekidou@Stsantek

When George Osborne announced £80 billion cuts to the goverment budget, at a time of historic low interest rates when any sane country would be investing, stockpiling etc., did Lionel as editor of the Financial Times, the steward of the British economy, call out his vandalism?

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Jon Neale
Jon Neale@JonNeale·
@mattyglesias How long do you think it takes for any reforms to meaningfully change housing delivery, against the backdrop of mortgages rates that are 3pp or so higher than a couple of years ago?
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Matthew Yglesias
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias·
There are Americans who talk about "the housing theory of everything" but all those issues are MUCH more biting in the UK where it's really overwhelmingly clear what they need to do and Starmer even said he was going to do it but then just nobody actually does it.
Lisa Abramowicz@lisaabramowicz1

The "Liz Truss moment" of 2022 has turned into the UK's political reality, with 30-year yields soaring to their highest levels since 1998 and the pound weakening. "No matter who is in power, no matter their political leaning, there does not appear to be a credible plan to restore the country’s finances." bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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Old Northern Curio
Old Northern Curio@northerncurio·
Burnham vs Starmer is Anglo-Catholic North vs Puritan South. Starmer has brought in the Presbyterian Scots (Brown) to try shore things up.
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Scott Morris
Scott Morris@ScottMo43480713·
@LeCloudSurfer @Birdyword @lymanstoneky @TheRestHistory The most prescient thing about that series was the comment about how Labour reacted to borrowing costs Its all very well and good to take the popular line about telling the bond market to pound sand. And hey, you can do that, if you're not borrowing money. Hence the issue
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Mike Bird@Birdyword·
When you step back it is really fun that there's going to be a protracted Labour leadership contest with lots of infighting, after which any soft left winner will get bond market revolt-ed into returning to the Starmer program straight away
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Jon Neale
Jon Neale@JonNeale·
@John_Stepek @MerrynSW There is a need to acknowledge that the quality of a political discourse in this country has deteriorated. Just watch a debate from the 70s or 80s.
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John Stepek@John_Stepek·
Britain's political problem is not "comms", and nor are we "ungovernable". We simply don't have politicians in place who are able to rise to the challenges we face. The problem does not lie with the voters, much as many seem to want to blame us/them.
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Jon Neale
Jon Neale@JonNeale·
The responses to this are really quite mad. Starmer is simultaneously massively right wing, massively left wing and is responsible for literally everything wrong with the country while also doing nothing and/or being totally ineffective. And all in just 20 months in the job.
Definitely Not Al Gore 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇵🇸@AlDefinitely

I don't follow UK politics all that closely but literally what did Keir Starmer do to be so universally despised? Is it literally just that he's milquetoast and does nothing?

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Jon Neale
Jon Neale@JonNeale·
@Alex11583274 @PRAVDA_KECHB Also there were no real advantages to be gained from combining workshops into a big factory - gunsmithing was an artisan industry requiring skilled hand work - no ability to automate as with cotton spinning
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Jon Neale@JonNeale·
@Alex11583274 @PRAVDA_KECHB We’re talking fifty years before the height of Manchester cotton. Birmingham boomed earlier, was double the size of Manchester in about 1780. The drivers were “toys” and guns
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Jimmy "Hot Dog Fingers" Sloppegieuseppe
Jimmy "Hot Dog Fingers" Sloppegieuseppe@PRAVDA_KECHB·
it took a bunch of Dissenters and Nonconformists from Birmingham to realise rhat maybe not being cringingely ashamed of directly owning a factory and engaging in commerce is, economically, a good idea
Anup Malani@anup_malani

In 1700, England and the Netherlands were economic peers. By 1800, England was industrializing and the Dutch weren't. Why? Mokyr's answer isn't coal or colonies — it's that in England, scientific ideas flowed directly into workshops. In the Netherlands, they didn't.

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Tom Forth
Tom Forth@thomasforth·
This a very live debate in Greater Manchester at the time. Marx dismisses Owen's ideas as "already reduced to the position of a sect, and gradually dying out". And yet it is Owen's statue that stands proudly among the co-operative quarter's grand buildings. Marx has no statue.
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Jon Neale
Jon Neale@JonNeale·
They deliver the services people notice - highways, refuse, etc to mention just a few. It makes everyone feel the country’s problems, while bad, are much worse than they are. Particularly if you add in the cumulative decisions that made councils responsible for social care.
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Jon Neale@JonNeale·
At least half of the perception that the state isn’t working / doing what it is supposed to do and the county is a mess is a result of a a single policy decision. Namely, the coalition decision to force overwhelming and disproportionate cuts on local government.
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Jon Neale@JonNeale·
@asentance Do any of the parties have any serious economic policies, though? At least Labour are pro building and housing, while every other party is as NIMBY as they come.
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Andrew Sentance@asentance·
Lots of platitudes from Starmer in this morning’s speech, but no concrete actions and policies which are capable of turning the economy and his political fortunes around. However, none of those rumoured to be in the frame to replace him have any better plans and policies either!
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