The paper looks at decades of council expenditure data from London councils: how far as Big Con deepened our local authorities' dependencies on their services, and how much does it cost us all?

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Looks amazing! Congrats -- looking forward to reading it

I learned a lot and learned about a lot of great and terrifying research from this tidy review paper by Valentina Bosetti, Italo Colantone, @catherinedevries.bsky.social & Giorgio Musto

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Even if you don’t live in one yourself, everyone in their 20s & 30s knows someone who has a sweet andels or social housing set up. The ideology of siphoning half your income off to a landlord is thoroughly destabilized. The city wants better and knows it looks like

actually so funny that before the birth I thought I would be able to write and think during the day in maternity leave. clearly I underestimated how much work looking after a tiny human is (and how much cleaning, washing, sorting, admin, entertaining and cuddles they need lol)

I've said it before and I'll say it again: can really recommend Pacemaker for managing and breaking down big writing projects www.pacemaker.press/home