Got the chance to speak with fierce labor reporter @kimkelly.bsky.social for upcoming Conjuncture. We discuss the ongoing @sbworkersunited.org strike, the role of labor in the struggle against fascism, and her book Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of the Labor Movement. We'll release in 2026! 1/2

I was lucky to join @addiemcgowan.bsky.social and @philiproscoe.bsky.social's (not so virtual) kitchen to chat about Musk and founder ideology with @dominikzelinsky.bsky.social. My podcast's baptism of fire 🙈 - thanks for having me!

Great read. Reminded me a lot of equivalent bleatings about Third Way transcendence a generation ago.

I would certainly be the last to say that NIMBYism, judicial review sclerosis in planning are not genuine problems (I've written on it in the past and soon will do again). But we are kidding ourselves if we think this is why Britain doesn't have infrastructure.

If your cost-benefit model tells you it isn't worth investing in a tram or light rail system for an urban area with a population of well over 1m, like Leeds-Bradford, your model is wrong and should be thrown in the bin.

NEW PAPER ALERT! 🚒🔥🔥 Teaching the "heads, hearts, and hands" of futures literacy in sustainability education using radical seeds of change! ecologyandsociety.org/vol30/iss4/a... #education #sustainability #hope #transition

I’m very pleased to have contributed a piece to Social Europe on how a socially and ecologically planned economic policy can reconnect Europe by rail – while creating jobs and protecting the climate. www.socialeurope.eu/europes-rail...

I had an interesting exchange with the chatbot issued to students by my university about the advisability of using it—at a university. It thought this was a terrible idea.

Albums of 2025! #1 is the incredible @terzijdehorde.bsky.social record. Shai Hulud Black Metal on steroids! Amazing lyrics, production, arrangements, everything. Somehow they topped what they've released in the past. terzijdehorde.bandcamp.com/album/our-br...

A planned rule to set new silica exposure limits—and finally address Appalachia’s devastating black lung crisis—has been under continued assault by coal bosses and the Trump admin. Now, it looks like it’s off the table entirely. New for @inthesetimes.com: inthesetimes.com/article/the-...

Looks like a very interesting piece

In a few years time we are going to see a kind of Warsaw or Bucharest shock among Anglosphere Right wing think tankers who go to Central and East European states expecting a "lost" ethno-national purity and end up in disbelief at how diverse and complex CEE Europe is.

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And apologies for the promotion, here's a link to an article we wrote on attempts to create a cyberlibertarian 'crypto-city' in Busan, South Korea. It reviews the same actors and more but shows how such visions often fail when they seek to materialize themselves in place. Open Access

Blasting this slice of lovely tech-trance while finalising assignment marks: khemiarecordslondon.bandcamp.com/album/dahlia...

It’s not the PM’s job to go to the water companies, instruct them to fix the systems they neglected so they could steal more money and jail execs, if they don’t. The PM’s job is to go on TV and explain that nothing can be done, convincingly enough so that the public don’t demand it get fixed.

Really good new article by Priya Chacko journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

One part of the jigsaw involves the extortionate gouging and rent seeking by the private equity-owner providers that councils are dependent on www.ft.com/content/fb3d...

Timely piece!

Glasman: 'We will keep fighting the 1955 general election until you give us the RIGHT answer!' The newspaper of British Conservativism: 'What a necessary voice!'

CSSGJ is pleased to host Dr.Ian Bruff on 24th November at 6p.m. (UK time). The title of his talk is 'All that has Never Been True: The Dismal Ruins of Neoliberalism'. Please register www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/all-that-h... @abieler.bsky.social @ianbruff.bsky.social @sinembal.bsky.social

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 Today we feature a band that has a special place in hearts: @terzijdehorde.bsky.social, from Utrecht, NL, & their visceral, vitalistic black metal/hardcore fusion.

'PFI was a disaster - Labour musn't repeat it' Read our LabourList article, which warns this government against using new NHS private finance - no matter what name it's packaged under.

This part from the #Covid19 inquiry speaks directly to something myself and Linsey McGoey wrote about in 2020 (published as journal article in 2024 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....): the construction of *impossibility to act* as the key feature of post-liberalism (a thread 🧵👇)

The Fetzer Institute published my writings about Infrastructures of Mystery! How do we build a world that scaffolds the wonder of existence - whatever that may mean for different people (and it differs a lot!)? #spirituality #politics #infrastructure fetzer.org/case-study/i...

Publication Day for our Open Access book w/ Bristol Uni Press "The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative: Infrastructures + Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road" Edited w/ Elia Apostolopoulou, Han Cheng + Alan Wiig Link here >> bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-material...

Reminder: Join us on 27 November to discuss 'Coloniality dressed in green'! With author @stefanzylinski.bsky.social who will explain how climate finance risks becoming a new tool for colonial rule With discussants Johannes Jaeger and Ewa Dziwok Register here: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

It's focus-group disease reinforcing UK state managers' belief that the only legitimate expression of state capacity is through punitiveness. This has a long history, but post-financial crisis austerity has cemented it. Ironically, such displays of strength are destablilising both govt and society.

Really useful and accessible encyclopedia entry on neoliberalism by @cbtansel.net and @rosamaryon.bsky.social - great for teaching and research, too! link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

My commentary on Brett Heino’s wonderful new book *Literary Geographies and the Work of David Ireland* @springer.springernature.com @springernature.com

and it's a feature, not a bug, of whatever mangled faction this is that is running Labour. these people are able to do one thing and one thing alone - fight factional wars against the left. they're absolutely shit at literally anything else.

Interesting post-publication addition! I wonder if Mahmood's proposals will be the final straw for many 'forever Labour' soft-leftists. FWIW, I fully agree with the article that this Labour leadership would be fine with going into coalition with the Tories post-2029.

Excellent piece by @jemgilbert.bsky.social I found especially interesting his point that the membership's centre of gravity remains soft left, meaning the 'what next for Labour' question has to be engaged with. It also made me think of the policy platform for Starmer's 2020 leadership campaign...

Late to this, but if the Sunday Times is correct that Morgan McSweeney spent one and a half hours last week with Lord Glasman then he isn't fit to fill any senior position in government.

I went to school and college with James, and I've been thinking the same thing. This 'dumb racist' caricature is both wrong and hugely damaging. Read the whole thread for something much more well-written than I could manage!

My new article on everyone’s favourite PM, Liz Truss, is out in New Political Economy 🧵

Two and a half thoughts on Hegseth and his war on beardos as expressed here: bsky.app/profile/atru...

With just a few weeks until publication, it's possible to pre-order my book in time for Xmas! For anyone who wants to read a decolonial approach to populism and understand why we are still so attached to the idea of 'populism' bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/europes-popu... @brisunipress.bsky.social

The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think. New piece from me. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

Sven Beckert in the NYT missing the point about neoliberalism. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...

We need to combat the Big Lie about neoliberalism. It was not about the free market, it's about redistributing income upward cepr.net/publications...

Reading about how one motivation for younger people to get involved in the Mamdani campaign was loneliness and a desire to find community brought me back to thinking about alchemizing the loneliness pandemic into social action. Wrote about that a few years ago: anticiplay.medium.com/heart-conste...

Seeing Kerbdog live this evening >>>>>>>>> Celebrity Traitors

Another essential paper by Carla. I scribbled lots of sweary notes when going through Becker's stuff on suicide, so it's good to see someone has properly held this nonsense to account

Unsurprised to hear any politics that looks to address inequalities, looks to centre the poorest in our societies, anything that challenges the unsustainable status quo, dismissed as 'radical socialism'. Political analysis/commentary is pretty poor globally but in the UK it is in the sewer.

Enjoying the irony of Norway's oil investment fund having "ethics rules". An oil fund! It's like a serial killer having ethics rules about where he can and can't bury the bodies.

Happy to have been part of this collective endeavour to understand what's happening in the EU's political economy - check out our chapter: "A lasting legacy? A critical political economy perspective on Berlusconism and its afterlives"

New CPERN online workshop: Coloniality dressed in green Join us on 27 November to discuss how climate finance risks becoming a new tool for colonial rule With author @stefanzylinski.bsky.social and discussants Johannes Jaeger and Ewa Dziwok Register on zoom: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Brilliant piece by @alfnilsen.bsky.social on Stuart Hall as a master dialectician from and for the Global South @dukepress.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social