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Stephen Farry

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Stephen Farry

@StephenFarryUU

Professor of Strategic Policy in Practice and co-director of the Ulster University Strategic Policy Unit | Email: [email protected] All views are my own.

Belfast, Northern Ireland

Joined May 2012

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View From Stormont
@ViewFrmStormont
May 26
Ann Watt from think tank Pivotal has welcomed a new £102m transformation fund, while Professor Stephen Farry from Ulster University adds that part of the difficulty is getting agreement from all Executive parties. Watch more tonight at 10:45PM.
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Gita Gopinath
@GitaGopinath
May 14
A painting of the end of meritocracy: A meeting of the two largest economies and not one woman at the table.
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Probation Board for Northern Ireland
@PBNINews
May 13
Last week PBNI AI working group met. Chaired by Head of Communications Gail McGreevy this group considers how we can use AI to responsibly and safely enhance efficiency. The group heard from Professor @StephenFarryUU from @UlsterUni on current AI developments in NI.
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Prof Jodie Carson
@JodieCarson19
May 12
It is deeply worrying that political noise may crowd out disturbing reality re unprecedented state of UK public finances. As I outline here, public debt and cost of servicing it is already unaffordable. And full impacts of war and rising gilts will compound. New territory.
Irish News Business
@irishnewsbiz
May 12
‘Servicing UK public debt is £110bn a year. This cost is unsustainable, displaces spending, and threatens the wellbeing of the economy.’ Read Jodie Carson: tinyurl.com/5yn36wy2
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Irish News Business
@irishnewsbiz
May 12
‘Servicing UK public debt is £110bn a year. This cost is unsustainable, displaces spending, and threatens the wellbeing of the economy.’ Read Jodie Carson: tinyurl.com/5yn36wy2
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Prof Jodie Carson
@JodieCarson19
May 11
Absolutely this
Paul Johnson
@PJTheEconomist
May 11
All Labour MPs should be looking at this very carefully. Potential leadership contenders who reckon that more borrowing and/or (even more) growth unfriendly policies on tax, spend and regulation are the way forward should reflect on it even more carefully.
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Stephen Farry
@StephenFarryUU
May 11
Agreeing a budget is the core task for any government. We are over a month into the financial year, and almost a year since the Block Grant was set in the UK Spending Review. Scotland & Wales set budgets in January. The absence of a local budget brings significant consequences…
Belfast Live
@BelfastLive
May 10
Writing for Belfast Live, Professor Stephen Farry explains the implications of Stormont having no agreed budget belfastlive.co.uk/news/northern-…
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Belfast Live
@BelfastLive
May 10
Writing for Belfast Live, Professor Stephen Farry explains the implications of Stormont having no agreed budget
Stephen Farry: Without an agreed budget, Stormont will limp on with chaos
From belfastlive.co.uk
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Prof Jodie Carson
@JodieCarson19
May 10
One year ago @StephenFarryUU and I argued that NI needs a cross-cutting AI strategy so that AI be harnessed to drive productivity and proactively up/re-skill our workforce. We can’t afford to be passive on this. @UlsterUniSPU @UlsterUni ulster.ac.uk/__data/assets/…
Financial Times
@FT
May 10
Female-dominated clerical work is among the most vulnerable to automation, and labour market losses are already being felt. Read more here: ft.trib.al/v65DI4O
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Prof Jodie Carson
@JodieCarson19
May 5
I don’t wish to be alarmist but as I recently tweeted there is little that matters more than this at the moment. This determines almost everything the Gov can or can’t do, including in response to the Middle Eastern crisis. This is beyond serious.
Mohamed A. El-Erian
@elerianm
May 5
Some may feel I’m dwelling on this, but I am concerned for the health of the UK economy. The yield on the 10-year gilt has climbed 12 basis points today (see the CNBC chart below), decoupling from both oil prices and yields in other advanced economies—both of which are currently
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Stephen Farry
@StephenFarryUU
May 1
This is a limited backstop option. And stands in stark contrast to the option of having a strategic multi-year budget in place. There are knock-on consequences for workforce and other planning, and grants to community and voluntary sector delivering services.
JPCampbellBiz
@JP_Biz
May 1
Stormont accounting officers have received guidance from the Dept of Finance about how they should operate in the absence of a budget. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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Stephen Farry
@StephenFarryUU
Apr 28
This is very positive from @Education_NI. Assisting teachers with workload pressures is a clear and obvious opportunity from deployment of AI. Many of these steps have been informed by colleagues in @UlsterUni
Belfast News Letter
@News_Letter
Apr 28
Department for Education investing £10m in AI to cut teachers' workloads trib.al/iDOgeiU
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Prof Jodie Carson
@JodieCarson19
Apr 19
Wrote this article just over 1yr ago. The failure to have adequately prioritised spending on renewables and climate adaptation leaves us very exposed to the ME current crisis, capacity to support households and withstand the incoming inflationary shock.
UK’s fiscal framework should be revised to reflect climate risks - UK in a changing Europe
From ukandeu.ac.uk
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