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Nigel Driffield @nigeldriffield.bsky.social · 11d

Not just pointless but leaves people facing monopsony wages

Nigel Driffield @nigeldriffield.bsky.social · 11d

Currently reading a phd - restricting labour mobility causes factor market distortions that advantage firms and workers are paid below their MRP - who would have thought it . Ps gets worse as labour protection is eroded. Reform anyone ?

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Nigel Driffield @nigeldriffield.bsky.social · 26d

Really pleased to have been included in this

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Nigel Driffield @nigeldriffield.bsky.social · 26d

Personally I’m unconvinced that a 1.5bn investment from palentir into our data fills me with confidence…..

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Nigel Driffield @nigeldriffield.bsky.social · 27d

Very grateful for being highlighted in this way, but a shame these things have to look backward rather than focus on what im doing this week

Academy of Social Sciences @acadsocsciences.bsky.social · 27d

Did you know the productivity gap between different parts of the UK is significantly higher than international standards? @nigeldriffield.bsky.social identified factors contributing to the West Midlands productivity gap & informed interventions to boost productivity. ➡️ acss.org.uk/publications...

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Academy of Social Sciences @acadsocsciences.bsky.social · 27d

Did you know the productivity gap between different parts of the UK is significantly higher than international standards? @nigeldriffield.bsky.social identified factors contributing to the West Midlands productivity gap & informed interventions to boost productivity. ➡️ acss.org.uk/publications...

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Nigel Driffield @nigeldriffield.bsky.social · Aug 19

British Salt and the salt union , beer orders bus services in Kent (why Kent?) ….

Nigel Driffield @nigeldriffield.bsky.social · Aug 19

Librium and Valium, artificial legs, petrol, electricity meters and condoms (as i recall) ?

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Nigel Driffield @nigeldriffield.bsky.social · Aug 19

Were you there when we did our OFT project - about 1997 ?

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Nigel Driffield @nigeldriffield.bsky.social · Aug 19

Anyone else old enough to remember contestable markets ? BT were messing me about terribly having closed by accounts in error. Was only solved when i said “i have the skyBB order page open and if you dont solve in 5 mins im going to click ‘order’”

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Nigel Driffield @nigeldriffield.bsky.social · Aug 13

Nothing is as quiet as a house the evening before à level results

Nigel Driffield @nigeldriffield.bsky.social · Aug 7

We have a suggested surname of McKinnon - grew up in formby

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Nigel Driffield @nigeldriffield.bsky.social · Aug 6

Ok so this is a long shot, and I’ve posted on various Facebook groups, but just in case ……

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Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · Nov 15

Just realised I forgot to post this the other day. Me and @pmdfoster.bsky.social on the scramble to get a hearing in the govt’s industrial strategy

on.ft.com/4fPy24e

The race to shape UK industrial strategy

[FREE TO READ] Business leaders and regional mayors try to influence government’s flagship economic growth policy

on.ft.com

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The Productivity Institute @productivity.bsky.social · Jul 10

Congratulations to all of the report authors: @teraallas.bsky.social, @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social, Patrick Diamond, @athenedonald.bsky.social, @nigeldriffield.bsky.social, Jun Du, @tomforth.co.uk, @richardaljones.bsky.social, @timleunig.bsky.social, Philip McCann, @econstevem.bsky.social 3/4

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Nigel Driffield @nigeldriffield.bsky.social · May 30

Just read Sebastian payne’s “broken heartlands”. The fact that it was political book of the year is a sad indictment of the judges / who I assume didn’t know this, living in their Westminster bubble

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Nigel Driffield @nigeldriffield.bsky.social · May 29

Brilliant !

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · May 25

The Telegraph has disappeared this from their website, possibly out of mortal shame.

You know what to do...

(Link is to archive copy. The internet never forgets.)

archive.is/2025.05.25-1...

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Nigel Driffield @nigeldriffield.bsky.social · May 25

An insight into midlands connectivity. Thinking of going to cricket at Worcester (28 miles) 1 hr 34 mins. Getting to lords, 1 hr 41 mins …..

Peter Kelly @thepeterkelly.bsky.social · May 24

Dear Mr. Clegg

I have started a business, selling the contents of your house

I knew when I launched I did not have legal access your house

Without this access my company will not be profitable

Others have told me I have a flawed business model, but I disagree

Please advise how I should proceed

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Nigel Driffield @nigeldriffield.bsky.social · May 18

Wise words !

theconversation.com/to-fend-off-...

To fend off Reform, mainstream parties must address the tangible decline of British towns

This is not a passing trend but a response to long-term institutional failures.

theconversation.com

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Nigel Driffield @nigeldriffield.bsky.social · May 17

Who doesn’t want to see a massive swan made out of balloons www.facebook.com/share/v/16J7...

Redirecting...

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Nigel Driffield @nigeldriffield.bsky.social · May 9

Absolutely , they get a text telling them when to work, log on to clock in and are always understaffed. In a more sensible system they could clock on earlier, get paid and deal with the queue.

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Nigel Driffield @nigeldriffield.bsky.social · May 9

We get the productivity we deserve @productivity.bsky.social in cafe, person run off her feet, other staff sat chatting while we queue. Don’t blame them, shift starts 745, no reason they work for free, but firms employment policy should be more focussed on performance and less on monitoring

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Nigel Driffield @nigeldriffield.bsky.social · Apr 29

Someone called this 100 days of trump (it wasnt me !) www.linkedin.com/posts/warwic...

#coreinsights #wbsresearch #warwickbusinessschool #trump100days… | University of Warwick - Warwick Business School

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Nigel Driffield @nigeldriffield.bsky.social · Apr 27

Heard a great quote from a (podcaster?) on radio 5 - « football is the most important of the unimportant stuff » - seems to sum things up nicely.

Nigel Driffield @nigeldriffield.bsky.social · Apr 26

One at least !

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Nigel Driffield @nigeldriffield.bsky.social · Apr 26

“Party” for sale

Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · Apr 26

‘Reform is launching a drive to raise funds from wealthy offshore donors in low tax jurisdictions including Monaco, UAE and Switzerland.’

Britain’s election laws are broken - and, so far, Labour’s mooted fixes are completely insufficient

www.ft.com/content/b133...

Reform UK heads offshore to raise funds from world’s wealthy

Party treasurer Nick Candy says events will be held ‘in restaurants, people’s private homes and on yachts’

www.ft.com

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Nigel Driffield @nigeldriffield.bsky.social · Apr 26

Yeah - Businesses in the West Midlands can’t move for banks saying to them “we’d really like to divert funds into supporting small business but ring fencing means we have to do speculative arbitrage instead”

Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · Apr 26

‘Reform is launching a drive to raise funds from wealthy offshore donors in low tax jurisdictions including Monaco, UAE and Switzerland.’

Britain’s election laws are broken - and, so far, Labour’s mooted fixes are completely insufficient

www.ft.com/content/b133...

Reform UK heads offshore to raise funds from world’s wealthy

Party treasurer Nick Candy says events will be held ‘in restaurants, people’s private homes and on yachts’

www.ft.com

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