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...

Very interesting new article by Geoff Goodwin www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

On the 22nd of January (incidentally, the date of Gramsci's birthday) my article came out in @gpejournal.bsky.social bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

An excellent skewering

*Not so fun fact. Matt Goodwin was my dissertation supervisor. Only briefly mind. I swapped after he said that my idea - a study and survey on the politics of the homeless (less than 1% vote) - was of "no academic interest". I got a 1st 🎓

The recording of my @cssgj.bsky.social talk from November 2025, entitled 'All That Has Never Been True: The Dismal Ruins of Neoliberalism', is now online here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJE-... It was an enjoyable event, with great questions!

Remember to submit your abstracts for our track (RN06) at the European Sociological Conference! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Deadline this Friday!

Free online seminars this year feature Michael Hardt on multitudes, a 4-session dive into John Clarke's superb work of PROPER conjunctural analysis of modern Britain co-hosted with @autonomy-institute.bsky.social, the Politics of Feeling, Katja Diefenbach's Spinoza culturepowerpolitics.org/upcoming/

Notes on a speech made yesterday: theconversation.com/trump-at-dav...

📣 My new article on Iran’s latest unrest for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ira... Iran has witnessed another wave of unrest beginning on 28 December—the fourth major uprising since 2017. (1/5)

Happy Birthday, Antonio Gramsci. #OnThisDay in 1891, the Sardinian Marxist was born. From Turin’s workers’ councils to founding the Communist Party of Italy, his Prison Notebooks - written under fascist imprisonment - reshaped Marxist thought on power and hegemony.

Now available for pre-order and we're open for book talks to students, workshops and conferences, organisations etc. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

This is such a good read!

New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.

A response to many of the replies I'm getting - people comparing AI to the emergence of useful technologies are getting it wrong. AI is not the wheel or computers. It is asbestos, it is leaf blowers. It is a more harmful version of something we can already do.

Belgian PM Bart De Wever quoting Gramsci's 'time of monsters' line against Trump was definitely not on my Geopolitics Bingo card

New CPERN online workshop: Finance and the Far Right (29 Jan) Join us to discuss how asset-manager capitalism has shaped financial-nationalist politics With author @ingarade.bsky.social and discussants Owen Worth and @alentop.bsky.social On zoom: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi... See you there!

Lockout at University of Sheffield! Yesterday, @sheffielduni.bsky.social members were told we'll lose 100% pay for the foreseeable as we refuse to replace teaching scheduled during strike action. They've docked pay once for this, now they're at it again! Donate here support us! gofund.me/ac2b3adcb

An essential collection

🔊🔊 Episode 2 of our mini-series on authoritarian urbanism is out with @urbanpolitical.bsky.social. I discuss emergent and intensifying authoritarian practices w/ @nitin-bathla.bsky.social @alkejenss.bsky.social @sdwolfe.bsky.social @ebrukurtozman.bsky.social open.spotify.com/show/5PaTdRP...

Drawing on his recent @risjnl.bsky.social article, Oliver Dodd explains why framing Colombia’s civil war as a narco problem fundamentally misunderstands how and why the conflict escalated @abieler.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social

Join @jward232.bsky.social and me in Izmir at #EWIS2026 to discuss the causes and effects of we have tentatively called 'austerity militarism' - the end of austerity for (European) militaries, but continued restraint and new cuts for welfare/social care. CfP here eisa-net.org/wp-content/u...

The paper edition of my book "Capitalism in Contemporary Iran: Capital Accumulation, State Formation and Geopolitics" will be released this month and is included in Manchester University Press’s January Sale. (1/8)

Insa Koch's new book is now out, a worthy follow-up to the outstanding Personalising the State www.insaleekoch.com/modernslaver...

This is a really excellent and timely paper

I'm really proud to have been one of the lead authors of Oxfam’s global inequality report this year. And honestly a bit overwhelmed by the impact it’s having this morning. When you’re used to your writing being read by a couple hundred fellow nerds, this is something else.

Looks to be an important, and politicised, contribution on conjunctural analysis. Very necessary at the moment!

Jenrick the latest conservative voice to use Poland & Bulgaria as rhetoric vehicles to advance the 'broken Britain' narrative, it's SO BAD that EVEN EASTERN EUROPEANS are (close to) doing better than us. But Poland's success isn't UK's failure. Two different stories, mixed up.

The single biggest thing (in cost terms) I’ve changed my mind about is UK tuition fees. Dreadful system, need to scrap it.

Thought I’d do a mega hread on NPR, partly because I’ve seen some London based commentary that doesn’t really get the bigger picture quite right imho

I think I'll be sharing this paper with quite a few people! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....