I've been following this BlueSky debate on inequality with interest. A lot of people do seem to be relishing the opportunity to scold the left on their political rhetoric. This measured response by Chris Dillow seems to me to be appropriate.

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ... yes, but ... if we were market stall holders.. you said we could only sell apples for 50p. and it didn't matter how much inflation was, 50p was the price. but you also said we could sell peaches for as much as we like, because the price of apples was.. 1.

The writing life, courtesy of Franz Kafka.

Great to see this!

Presumably Frank Furedi and Matthew Goodwin will now discover the visionary genius of Aleksandar Vucic

If this is a conjuncture marked by escalating crises, provoking growing interest in conjunctural thinking across the critical social sciences and humanities, now's the time to ask... What's the point of conjunctural analysis? New article out in Dialogues in Urban Research: doi.org/10.1177/2754...

Me publican este artículo en Sin Permiso sobre "La convergencia ideológica de la nueva ola reaccionaria" 👇 sinpermiso.info/textos/la-co...

New article from @abieler.bsky.social on the empiricism of polycrisis debate and how to parse structural and conjunctural analysis @adamtooze.bsky.social

#OpenAccess from the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics - “It’s like a prison”: EU externalization, racial capitalism, and anti-Black racism in EU–Tunisia cooperation on migration - https://cup.org/46lw0as - @rosamaryon.bsky.social#OpenAccess #FirstView

Great new article by @rosamaryon.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Very good article!

I can't believe it - new Neurosis! neurosis.bandcamp.com/album/an-und...

Revealing who owns England just became Government policy. Here's my blog post analysing this historic moment, as well as assessing some of the other ambitious policies unveiled in the Government's new Land Use Framework: whoownsengland.org/2026/03/19/r...

New OA article on nickel extraction & processing in Indonesia - I hope this is useful to someone 🙏 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The first-ever Land Use Framework for England has been published. I think it is the most far-sighted plan for England's land since the Second World War. Here's my thoughts on what it does (& doesn't) do: 1/ www.gov.uk/government/p...

New paper out now witten with my brilliant collaborators @jamcjo.bsky.social and @drowendthomas.bsky.social. Hard to write given the topic and ongoing injustice but hope it proves useful to others.

Looking forward to it!

Me and Mary Robertson in @ripejournal.bsky.social articulating a Marxist perspective on race, racialisation and subprime in a special issue on Raced Finance expertly co-edited by @iliasalami.bsky.social @alibhagat.bsky.social @vincentguermond.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Tackiing the polycrisis afresh with @abieler.bsky.social and Vincenzo Maccarrone in a new critical political economy book on the EU www.ppesydney.net/critical-pol... @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social @adamtooze.bsky.social @alexcallinicos.bsky.social

Hard agree with this analysis. I think a main contradiction of the Silicon Valley/tech right is a vision of decentralization and extra-territoriality that is in fact backed up by US might and force. The Network State is actually the US 'empire'.

Looks very interesting. Reminds me of Japhy Wilson's work on apocalypticism

My favourite Fugazi album is Red Medicine, so I approve of this mix of In On The Kill Taker!

My contribution to the literature on emotions in IR--using Watsuji's philosophy to think about emotions as a function of space. Part of a special issue on Emotions in Japan's Foreign Policy. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Got to love/pity those who still think that artist and audience are separated by a giant chasm, allowing them to exist in two hermetically sealed spaces

So for Starmer, the party which gives a shit about literal shit in our rivers and seas are the extremists. Run that argument by me again...

Essential reading

A new post summing up what I got wrong and right, four years into the Russian war on Ukraine. Some musings on the problem of prediction, on main problems of not taking economic forces seriously enough, and lots more. postsocialism.org/2026/02/25/a...

✍️New essay for @the-breakdown.bsky.social which attempts an analysis of the energy transition as one between two competing fractions of capital - fossil and electric - and the conflicts and struggles which will lead towards an 'electro-capitalism' (or not!) www.break-down.org/electro-capi...

The Meaning of Peter Mandelson. Me & @profafinlayson.bsky.social on the fall of Mandelson and why he ever mattered. Is the Long '90s finally totally over? Would we rather be ruled by the actual Sith than guys who hang around with Steven Pinker? It's all here: culturepowerpolitics.org/2026/02/17/t...

Why is it so hard to translate high-level committements into actual policy changes when it comes to gender equality? Check out our newly published article - ‘It would have slowed down the work’ – the challenges of gender sensitive economic policy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This take on recent history of UK universities omits the 35% cut in academic salaries, the booming bureacracies, the managerial incompetence, the dodgy governance, the obsession with new buildings, and the debts and disciplinary convenants. Otherwise, it's spot on. www.ft.com/content/131f... via @FT

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

New online workshop: Towards a radical highway geography - Berlin and the remaking of city logistics in global capitalism When: 26 February, 6pm CEST Where: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi... With author @soederberg1.bsky.social and discussants Darragh Golden and Laura Stegemann See you there!

Returning to work this week after 3 weeks of lockout has been stressful to say the least! Please support us @sheffielducu.bsky.social to challenge Sheffield Uni's punitive approach before it becomes more widespread across the sector. Link here: linktr.ee/SheffieldUCU

The wonderful @maltelaub.bsky.social and I are hosting a workshop on the theme of Austerity Militarism at EWIS 2026 in Izmir! If you are working on these themes then please consider submitting an abstract! We'd love to see you there. The link to submit is here: eisa-net.org/ewis-2026/ab...

They want you to believe Starmer's going because of Mandelson. He isn't. He's been on the way out since summer because the polls are disastrous because half the Labour base have gone to the Greens for entirely political reasons. This is why Starmer will go: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English” my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

PAPER ALERT! 🔥How can we use theories of care to understand how games can help us care more for the future in the face of climate change? Carien Moossdorff and I investigated 287 climate-related games on they engage with care for the future. Now in FUTURES! Link below! #games #climate #futures

By the time Starmer is replaced this summer, we'll have had two wasted years, in which a country crying out for transformation instead got more of the same, or even worse where environmental legislation is concerned, and a high possibility of Farage running the next government. Thanks Keir.

Two points. 1. There was Epstein merch? 2. This seems to have been taken in 2009. Epstein was first convicted in 2008, meaning that Mandelson is sporting convicted paedophile merch.

I'm happy to share this article, which is now out in open access in the British Journal of Industrial Relations, and seeks to contribute to the debate on neoliberalisation & europeanisation of industrial relations onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New publication! In this paper I draw on heterodox marxist engagements with subsumption to revise core approaches within marxist geography. Subsumption provides us with a dynamic tool to rethink capitalist property, uneven development and difference. Do reach out for access! doi.org/10.1177/2043...

Wes Streeting saying on Today that Mandelson is ‘not the man we thought he was’ but the trouble is, he is exactly the man we thought, just on a much worse scale than almost anyone thought. And there is an alternative world where none of this is this govt’s problem, because they never gave him a job

Imagine Mandelson is under a lot of stress right now so just as well his husband is a trained osteopath.

“Gramsci used to say 'Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will'. What he meant is: understand how the bloody system works.” - Stuart Hall, born Feb. 3, 1932

The thing is, you didn't have to be Nostradamus to see it. You just had to be independent of the ultra-rich. Unfortunately, the great majority of the media is in the plutocrats' pockets. So the people pointing it out are shunned. In 2009 I tried and tried to get the BBC to pick this up. But ...⛔🤐

🎧Final episode for @urbanpolitical.bsky.social in our series on authoritarian urbanism w/ @jluger.bsky.social, Miklós Dürr, Ayşegül Can & Oksana Zaporozhets We discuss whether contemporary urbanism continues to be 'neoliberal', and how the leading tendency is towards something more autocratic:

We're recruiting 2 PhD candidates in human geography here in Uppsala, one position focused on urban/housing issues and one in political ecology. Please spread the word/repost etc. Being a PhD student in Sweden is a good gig.

CfP for #EWIS2026 is open until 11 February and @jward232.bsky.social and I are looking forward to submissions from across politics, political economy, sociology, and beyond. We are especially interested in papers from ECRs. Get in touch if you have any questions!

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW #114 Race, Racialisation and Racisms Feat. @jemgilbert.bsky.social (free to download) Inna Arzumanova Brenna Bhandar (free to download) Erik Borda Sarah Bufkin (free to download) Basuli Deb Anamik Saha journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformation...