Tesla to cut 14,000 jobs as Elon Musk bids to make it ‘lean, innovative and hungry’ (or in other words facing stiff Chinese competition). theguardian.com/technology/202…

Missed opportunity for UK battery making… Britishvolt plans scrapped for site near Blyth in favour of data centre proposal. And fingers crossed the West Midlands can still pull off an investment at Coventry. ⁦West Midlands Combined Authority⁩ northumberlandgazette.co.uk/business/briti…

Dire service for Brummies too but so little noise being made about it by our region's politicians - where is the 'active' outrage (rather than the odd moan on twitter) and demands for action?

The European Union just came out with an official report:
REAL-WORLD emissions versus the new WLTP cycle.

The results are
*UNBELIEVABLE!!*

PHEVs emit on average
THREE AND A HALF TIMES MORE
than the official test claims!
climate-energy.eea.europa.eu/topics/transpo…

‘The courgettes were so good last year, I got a tattoo of one’: life on a Birmingham allotment theguardian.com/culture/2024/a…

Oligarchy is America's billionaires now being worth a record $5.7 trillion while the federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009. Hello?

New Brexit checks will cause food shortages in UK, importers warn. theguardian.com/food/2024/apr/…

📢📢📢Call for Abstracts📢📢📢
1st Midlands Trade & Investment Network ECR Conference on The Economics of Sustainability and Globalisation
Abstract deadline: May 24, 2024
Date: June 26, 2024
At Centre for Business Prosperity , Aston Business School, Aston University ,
medium.com/Centre for Business Prosperity/2024…

Watch Centre for Business Prosperity space for forthcoming analyses on UK trade in the coming weeks.

Agency and the structural determinants of regional growth: towards a retheorisation. ⁦New paper - well worth a read. Future Work Future Communities⁩ ⁦UniSA⁩ ⁦Regional Studies Association⁩ ⁦Regional Studies⁩ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Another Chinese automaker eyes a European factory. electrek.co/2024/04/11/chi…

Skateboarding: Teen celebrates as new sports added to Wales GCSE. Great idea. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

🗨️ 'The UK is living next door to a regulatory behemoth which it cannot afford to ignore'

🚨 Our NEW UK-EU Divergence Tracker from Joël Reland is out now.

ukandeu.ac.uk/reports/uk-eu-…

New Brexit checks to cost UK business £2bn and fuel inflation theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Great talking as always with Will Bain on BBC Radio 5 Live Wake Up to Money early today on Volkswagen EV sales falling in Europe & barriers to take up of EVs, at 41m56s. Much more govt support needed to encourage EV take up. Bham Business School UK in a Changing Europe bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Great talking as always with ⁦Will Bain⁩ on ⁦BBC Radio 5 Live⁩ Wake Up to Money early today on Volkswagen EV sales falling in Europe & barriers to take up of EVs, at 41m56s. Much more govt support needed to encourage EV take up. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

New divergence tracker out. It's really striking how much landmark legislation the EU is pushing through pre-election, while the UK policy machine enters rigor mortis.

New EU regs will also have a big impact on the UK (and NI in particular). Check the thread for more detail ⬇️

Think Tesla is in trouble? Pity even more its wannabe EV rivals economist.com/business/2024/…

The latest episode of Academy of Social Sciences podcast features Andy Pike talking about the financial crisis facing local authorities and what to do about it. Worth a listen for anyone interested in local policy and governance.

podfollow.com/the-we-society…