On to the regular old academic posts: Nice little paper this which came out of Bonnie's PhD - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...@jreades.bsky.social and a few others. Open Access too!
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Yeah, not seen it yet either - looks ace! And by track 3, I was back at Warning in the Cambridge Junction in about 2002, walking into the main room, preparing to dance my brains out until reality intervened again at some point the next day!
Going to shift my socials on to here now, finally, after holding off the inevitable! So to get people going before any boring work stuff, let's have a bit of Stevie Hyper D! What an album if you've ever been to a proper drum and bass night, this will do it for you! open.spotify.com/album/00Jh3e...
Album · Logan D · 2024 · 10 songs
How much?! Ffs! If we charged that for CUPUM we'd be able to retire to a tropical island! Well, assuming more than 1 very rich person turned up, which is the more likely scenario!
Ah, sorry, yes here it is - link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
Favourite thing I've written in my academic career to date, out today - a brief history of UK beer taxation & its impact on the London beer scene. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...#GeographiesOfBeer@frogo.bsky.social
Fascinating chart - thanks! So the dampening effect of increased supply far outstripped by demand fuelled by income and availability of credit. Really interesting that - and I guess tenure shift towards ownership really supercharging the effect further
Even though we're lagging behind, dwellings per person still on an upward trend since the 1960s - which begs the question why affordability is so much worse? Some mix of unequal distribution, tenure issues and a poor dwelling / household match (old retirees in massive family homes, etc.)?
Ooh, this is like old twitter - that's more like it! :)