James Meadway

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Economist. Host of the weekly Macrodose podcast: https://bsky.app/profile/macrodosepod.bsky.social

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Important research from @meadwaj.bsky.social showing jobs claims around data centres are hugely overblown: "vast new datacentres arrive at significant real costs to local communities and even our climate ambitions, and their use case has to be made by the government and industry".

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On Macrodose this week: @meadwaj asks if the dollar is still the globe's fundamental currency and looks at the physical strain facing artificial intelligence.

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Hayat is a cleaner at the European Parliament, union representative and mother who fought for daytime cleaning.

On our podcast "Unsung", she shares what it's like to clean a building that symbolises democracy, while often being treated as invisible.

Listen now: podfollow.com/macrodose/ep...

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ICYMI - @meadwaj on the economic cost of the UK heatwaves. We talked about how productivity was hit across the economy, and how the casualisation of the workforce makes people increasingly vulnerable to the physical and financial damage caused by such events:

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The OP. It’s something of a subtweet but if the article thinks that ex Corbyn staffers (NB I was John’s econ advisor not JC’s) are there to try and replicate Corbynism, then it’s mistaken.

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A reminder: Corbynism is finished, over, dead. The world has changed & the conditions that produced its relative success in 2017 (think: low inflation, low interest rates) are not coming back. The reason to join Greens is they are the party of the left best aligned with how the world has changed.