Jack Simpson

this is what morrissey was yapping about

England! 🦁 What incredible team spirit What you’d give for the men’s team to play like this / pull off these kinds of games #Euros2025

Sad to see more cultural space under threat. Space in cities is increasingly subject to market forces, meaning it is often managed, owned, controlled by those / capital from outside. How should we retain & develop agency in cities? I wrote about this for Urban Inequalities…

Another venue struggling / potentially closing in Leeds. Feels like we increasingly have meetings about cultural strategy. Whilst small - medium scale culture increasingly struggles. How to get around the fact that cost & regulation just doesn’t favour many in cities?

Heading to Heaton Park today. This heat, British people, booze, Oasis’s first show in Manchester in nearly two decades… This is going to go one of two ways isn’t it 😅

Result of the massive increase in defence spending in USA, UK, and EU? 1. Cuts to essential social services (and development eg ODA) 2. If we produce more weapons, gotta use em right? So let’s go to war left and right. Both already playing out and senselessly hurting/killing…

Are men maybe too emotional for positions of leadership?

Is this new system we are moving to even Capitalism, or is just Feudalism with modern technology?

🚨 New Report 🚨 'Centripetal Cities: A critique of supply-side urban development' Given the Government's aim to 'unleash growth' we've drawn on over 3 years of research to think about the implications of this agenda for towns + cities Available here // sheffield.ac.uk/media/87471/do…

Labour market economists have been obsessed with the question of whether technology will replace market demand for human labour. But my question is different: What if tech replaces NON-MARKET DEMAND. And that’s precisely what we see: surging solitude.

#SaveThePCC Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease. For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below; you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princecharle…

American social media companies write the algorithms that determine what voters read; moderation systems are opaque; political advertising cannot always be tracked. Do European democracies, or any democracies, really have sovereign elections anymore? theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Europeans watching DeepSeek overtake ChatGPT on Apple App Store

All this AI talk… interesting a potentially huge development in tech, and there’s relatively little talk of how anybody’s lives / society will be better A lack of faith in current power structures perhaps? More concern workers will have no use; not better lives

Appreciate Labour are doing some kind of rope-a-dope pretend to be boring thing. And that the alternative to them is even worse… But could really do with at least one senior member of the party being very publicly inspiring soon

If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have deeply, deeply misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Great vibe at the relaunch of the music library at Leeds Central library Great to hear a bit about the history of the library ~ a link to politics of a different time ~ civic collective problem solving / provision… Things can be different and all that Incredible cake game 🎹

Every time I watch It’s A Wonderful Life I never fail to cry, and then I think of this as Lynch himself swells up in tears. Rest in Peace.

Bro are you ok? You seem to be beating against the current while being borne back ceaselessly into the past

Big vibes for @bradford2025 People milling through the streets to the launch. Super diverse crowd, positive vibe. Yorkshire ✊ #Bradford