Short answer: none. Left leaning centrists are still centrists with no vision to change the world. Unless Burnham takes on lobbies of oil, AI, defense, real estate, water and transport, inequality will continue to rise. @zackpolanski.bsky.social offers a vision for a just world.

This speech is worth your time. It's too bad Zohran Mamdani can't be our president.

A wild claim by an executive director at Wellcome that science "[..] cannot and should not decide the trade off between fairness, cost, growth, security, liberty and social cohesion." Science IS to deliberate on tradeoffs, ideally through a social and democratic process and activism is a part of it

40 Pounds (~49 Euros), the cost of a monthly pass to use any train in the Netherlands, may not even get you from Nottingham to London or Bristol on a regular weekday afternoon.

This week I was interviewed by CNN who picked up my conversation piece about the impacts of climate change on children edition.cnn.com/2026/06/28/c...

“Your wages will rise... weekly food shops will get cheaper… You and your family will benefit from a resurgent economy... Politicians both local and national will become more accountable..." A quick reminder of how Brexit was sold to us ten years ago today

Tesla presented self-published and inflated “Full Self-Driving” safety statistics directly to government regulators in Sweden and the Netherlands as it lobbied for European approval, according to correspondence obtained by Reuters through public records requests. /1

New publication on ethically informed urban planning, co-authored by Professor @trivikrama.bsky.social, in flagship journal 'Annals of the American Association of Geographers' @geographers.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/2469...

Glad to see this www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) isaiprofitable.com

If this is what Israel is doing to white Westerners on camera: What the hell do you think they're doing to Palestinians off camera?

On 9-13th Nov. 2026, we are going to host a *workshop on urban segregation computation with R*. Together, we want to identify and prioritise the methodological and technical developments needed to address big theoretical questions in the field of urban segregation. erc-segue.nl/Workshop

If you would like to be part of this, please register before 30th June 2026. Admission results will be communicated mid-July 2026. We expect to invite between 10 and 20 participants to this workshop. erc-segue.nl/Workshop

Immigration make Britain brilliant

NEW PROFESSORSHIP in Climate and the Environment 🌎 Lead world-class research on climate and the environment, enhancing our understanding of global change and associated hazards to inform or promote societal responses. 🚨 Post closes this week. Apply today:

The Northern Ireland government has just spent £11 million giving GenAI licences to every teacher in every school. A government actively promoting a tool that is more than likely to undermine the knowledge and skills of their teachers is unbelievably dumb. www.education-ni.gov.uk/news/givan-a...

‘We’re at the beginning of a new chapter for the Green Party - we are a serious force in British politics’ @RachelMillward discusses Green Party wins on BBC Politics South East. 💚Get involved in this journey by joining the Green Party now ⤵️

This ⬇️

Meet the sideshow FREAKS who REFUSE to use the work-stealing, planet-burning, minority-choking, teen-killing, water-guzzling, brain melter that gets most things wrong and makes the user decide whether they give a shit enough to do their job correctly or if they've given up completely on themselves.

Higher education in the UK just got much lower. How much lower will it sink before your MP notices and speaks out?

Publishers who built billion-dollar catalogues on unpaid academic labour are suing a company that built billion-dollar AI on unpaid Majority World labour. 🤔

Zoë is going to be such a brilliant Mayor of Hackney. Brilliant candidates who have so much to offer all around the country. Vote Green on Thursday. 💚

Mobility IS a service. A public sector service. Of widespread and accessible public transit and bike lanes. Academics trained in thinking engineering is a silver bullet are no less to blame for helping capitalists sell it AS a new service.

Wealthy people hate left progressive ideas because it means to dismantle the source of their wealth which is all too often acquired through deceit. Check in with people who get wealthier with age. They will a 100% move right in their ideology.

I love how this poem moves from funny to serious I've seen this. The bar in Belfast International Airport. We heard the alarm, could smell the smoke & sat on & finished our pints. I have witnessed the second half of the poem too. It's time to pour our pints on the fire #Poetry #Poemoftheday

Claude can now book a taxi for you. Instead of typing origin destination separately, you can type it in a longer sentence. Only if you wanted to screw over two gig workers at the same time

Powerful story about the experience of Somali families in Barton Hill, Bristol and the action they took to create space for children to play outdoors & its impact: “It’s like being back home. You come outside, talk to neighbours, there are people all around, children playing. It’s like the village”

Excellent and readable summary of the challenges of the civil service from Polly. A lot of the imported HR approaches like ‘up or out’ from consultancy don’t work for the majority of the civil service functions and misunderstand different motivations for work.

Everyday I feel vindication for the feminist scholars I studied at university who concluded that pretty much most of the terrible stuff going on in the world is a result of power hungry men swinging their dicks around

Nine out of 12 Trump voters told a New York Times focus group that they wish they had not voted for the president.

Surrey has lost the plot

Last week, I saw Daneel Nichol from the University of Exeter dismantle the DICE model of Nordhaus into dust. They showed how effectively catastrophic events can be modelled to understand real risks to communities. The most stunning master's thesis presentation I have seen in years.

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

women still have to deal with the pink tax, wage gap that widens over span of career, lack of medical studies that work for girls' & women's health, safety, ergonomic & industrial design that favors men, algorithmic bias against women, lack of representation in media, femicide and more.

The Greens won against Reform *in Kent* It's all up for grabs folks. The myth of Reform's inevitability is just that, a myth. They can be defeated.

All scientists should boycott the US

This is going to leave the US so deeply unskilled. This is exactly how technofascists like to see it. As @olivia.science & I wrote: “the AI industry has lobbied government agencies to mandate the use of its products, claiming that without them, students will be unprepared for the job market.”

A huge betrayal. Won't lower bills. Won't give us more energy security. Won't insulate from price shocks. And sends a clear message to the world that we are backing new oil and gas drilling. www.lbc.co.uk/article/ed-m...

Riding bikes to every destination since 1994!

I will likely buy Lush's expensive beard wash again

“A growing body of evidence, drawn from leaked planning documents, academic research, and the testimony of intel professionals, suggests the most consequential military operation of the 21st century may have been shaped less by strategic necessity than by a phenomenon researchers call AI sycophancy“

Is Spain the only country in Europe with a spine? Bravo to them for standing up www.bbc.com/news/article...

Powerful and careful interview by @vicderbyshire.bsky.social of five brave women, survivors of sexual abuse by Epstein and others, sharing devastating testimony.

NEW: Councils in England are for the first time to receive guidance on how to create streets that are safer for women and girls, as ministers try to tackle what they describe as systemic unfairness in people’s ability to walk around their own neighbourhood. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

strange that so many scientists are cross about this idea. I understand the urge to say eg “eugenics isn’t science”; as a shorthand it makes a kind of sense. but if science is just things that haven’t been proven racist/sexist/wrong by time, then all current scientists are schrödinger’s researchers.

Hey Bernie bros -- it's time to come get your guy. We need leaders who are not so easily taken in by the tech companies, for real.