Performative cruelty, unworthy of any government let alone a Labour one.

Absolutely brilliant take-down by @fionaharvey.bsky.social of ludicrous myths & misinformation spouting from Tony Blair’s think tank. Why on earth does he think it’s sensible to make our energy more costly & less secure?

The threat of fascism is real. Economics has too often helped rather than hindered its rise. We need an anti-fascist economics to defend our democracies. So, I’m writing a book to do my part. More soon.

PwC somehow more lucid on AI and education than most university leaders these days

Conclusion on ground 2 - the decision to seek proscription was contrary to the Human Rights Act 1998 because it amounted to an unjustified interference with the rights protected by the European Convention on Human Rights.

Good!

I've written about the capture of Slovakia's national art gallery by far-right populists, and why it might serve as a warning for other countries ... including the Czech Republic. robjcameron.substack.com/p/descriptio...

😂👏 Bagehot in this week's @economist.com on the alternatives to Keir Starmer.

UK has lost its official status as a country that has achieved elimination of measles, as vaccination rates have fallen below the 95% required to achieve herd immunity. So sad, and likely due vaccine misinformation. If you haven't already, get your kids vaccinated ASAP. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The problem with these Palantir deals is not primarily data security. It's the fact we are creating single points of failure in the NHS, armed forces, and police. Palantir has massive leverage over essential information and logistics systems. A bad idea.... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

The president is overruling science to eliminate measures that protect us from pollution and environmental damage, mainly to benefit multinational corporations that have thrown money at his campaign, ballroom, and family. It's simple corruption, and it will cost American lives and livelihoods.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

We are hiring a benthic ecologist at the researcher or senior researcher level 🧪🌍🦑 The Greenland Institute of Natural Resources is an excellent place to work, with friendly colleagues, support, and teaching opportunities. naalakkersuisut.emply.net/recruitment/...

BREAKING: Trump’s EPA just repealed the landmark endangerment finding to give polluters a free pass. The science is clear: greenhouse gas pollution presents a clear and present danger to our health and planet. No amount of denial from Trump or Zeldin will change that. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkWf...

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Grubby regime, grubby methods….

Following his claim that China doesn't have wind farms, Trump now says that no other country has mail-in voting. True, except:

I only met Matt once and he was on his way to meet Liz Truss's team in No 10 to advise them....

The blue is coal. You can see where this is going. The game now is to keep the plants alive a few more years and let the old Trumpers squeeze a few more bucks out of corroding power plants and depleted mines.

This video on the rise of Russ Vought is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.

The Justice Department is coming under intense scrutiny from members of Congress in both parties for allegedly cataloguing the search history of lawmakers who have gone to review the unredacted Epstein files.

strong vibes of that time the banks said the metaverse would be a $4 trillion industry

Day after Alex Pretti killing I complained to BBC about presentation of White House statements and evidence as equivalent. Duty of balance doesn’t extend to complicity with clear lies, I said. BBC could and should report WH making false statements as a *fact of the story*. Today I got response …

Trump is shrinking the EPA more quickly & aggressively than ever before, culminating in this week's move to rescind the crucial "endangerment finding" underpinning key regulations of planet-warming pollution. Here's what it all means (a gift link @bloomberg.com): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Large electric powered container ships are already a reality. When posting about this 2 years ago the so-called “experts” said it is impossible. Can people stop listening to oil and gas “experts” soon?

it really can't be said enough that this is a person who has dined with the president of the united states

On the hellish detention and deportation system built by EU countries. With quotes from the current and the former German chancellors expressing their commitment to the inhumane cruelty of this apparatus, described here in forensic detail.

These are all far-Right talking points & tropes. Citing pseudoscience to condemn the 'feminisation' of society & promote gender essentialism. 'Fertility crisis' = flip-side of Great Replacement Theory. Trad-wife movement - women's role to produce children for white alphas - 'great men of action'.

This, from @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social, is really perfect. open.substack.com/pub/johnpavl...

In a normal government, this results in the resignation of multiple cabinet officials (Transportation, Defense, and Homeland Security), and the closure or (at least!) radical reorg of the cartoonishly incompetent agency at the center of it: CBP. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

Fortunately I'm not bound by legal advice and I can say Matt should get a reality check of his own

After decades of recovery, southern right whales are showing signs of a climate-driven decline in breeding rates, which scientists say is a “warning signal” about changes in the Southern Ocean. #climatecrisis #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...

NEW ANALYSIS: China's CO2 has now been 'flat or falling' for 21 months * Down in 2025 * Still below Mar 2024 * Clean energy wave a key factor If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far… www.carbonbrief.org/...

There will come a day, when nobody competent or with any integrity will even consider a career in the Civil Service, if this is how people are treated. As for the desperation, it is clearly on the side of the "Government source“.

"Switzerland’s military has terminated its contract with Palantir… following a security audit… concluded that U.S. intelligence agencies could potentially access sensitive Swiss defense data… significant reputational warning for the data analytics firm" www.newscase.com/palantirs-sw... #R4Today

“That’s a frontier problem we’re working on now” = forecasting in a world of imaginative people. Tho’ more sophisticated than neoclassical IAMs, the problem with the promise of calculation and control is that social purpose is causative. We should choose to act. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Yesterday: we exposed the terrifying extent of corporate capture in British politics Three Labour select committee chairs came out calling for urgent action in response Today: Labour government's Elections Bill lands. Does almost *nothing* to tackle any of the issues we exposed. 🤦

You'd never guess that the @bjerknes.uib.no just issued an urgent warning of the existential risks to Norway 🇳🇴 from AMOC collapse & the need for increasing the urgency of decarbonization, would you?

A not-so-subtle reminder that we have chosen to publish Fantastic Kingdom in June, a few days before the 10th anniversary of you-know-what. It is a book about United Kingdom, not just Brexit. But guess what, it will come up. www.waterstones.com/book/fantast...

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In a crowded field, this stands out as one of the most short-sighted at almost every level. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

"If any criticism is needed, it should be directed towards those who have offered little contribution to our life here and have instead spent years siphoning wealth out of one of our proudest institutions."

That's right, the finance summer school is coming to Europe! June 4-5 at the LSE – applications are open until March 1.

a society losing the plot in real time

On Labour’s certainty that Starmer has failed and paralysing fear of what a leadership contest actually involves www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Does this mean states could technically begin to enact even stricter standards than what the endangerment finding supported before? Is there any silver lining to this supercharging some policy, or is it more "very uneven from now on and worst case race to the bottom" world now?

Miliband pledges up to £1bn for community green energy schemes

“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

I wrote on Russia's cyber-attack against Poland's energy system in December, why it suggests a more aggressive Russian approach to disrupting critical infrastructure in Europe, and why the involvement of the FSB, Russia's security service, is bad news. www.economist.com/europe/2026/...