My first single-authored paper is out in @Peasant_Journal w/ #OpenAccess. It explores how land shapes women's agency across intersecting identities after the genocide in #Rwanda, and theorises the nexus between land dispossession and gendered violence👇https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2024.2407167

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In Britain, every time you... — turn on a tap — flip a light switch — board a train or bus — post a letter — drop your child at nursery ... you take part in a system designed to extract wealth & concentrate power. 🧵 From cradle to grave, this is how a failed experiment has shaped your life.

This is an excellent collection

think if you're broadly a centrist and were suuuuuper concerned about attacks on free speech from the left and so you decided to give the right a hearing then you need to realise you were taken for QUITE the ride (and don't really have anyone to blame but yourself)

It was a pleasure to sit in the passenger seat with Laam Hae's driving on the long journey that became this article. It's focused on her extensive work on the topic here, but I had some modest input with the theoretical framing.... 1/4

Online workshop: Urban social movements as extended class actors Join us on 25 September to discuss Sarah Uhlmann's article about struggles over social reproduction! With discussants @miria-gam.bsky.social and @bonfert.bsky.social Register here: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi... See you there!

Thinking of using #ChatGPT for 'help' with assessments? Think again. #university #AI www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

2025 is a shit year for fans of heavy music. Even more than Erik Wunder of Cobalt, Tomas Lindberg's death saddens me the most. I was never that into At the Gates, but they left an incredible legacy, influencing lots of bands I love. And his side projects were great. Plus a teacher of social studies!

Everything that Labour ignored and/or pretended wasn't in the Forde Report will now be regularly used to further weaken Starmer until he's too damaged to carry on.

The actual group moving most strongly to Reform are male Gen X-ers. We need more articles on how to deal with them.

I got asked to write about the Gaza Riviera Plan + argue it should be understood within the settler colonial logic of elimination + made possible through urbicide and expulsion theconversation.com/the-gaza-riv...

Charlie Kirk was killed for saying things "that used to be simple common sense," says Boris Johnson. Here's a few of those things

The first issue of my @europeanreview.bsky.social subscription arrived today. Exciting! Looking forward to reading the Kapka Kasaabova piece - love her books

Wes Streeting’s PFI plan is a disaster for the NHS youtu.be/xgDFaQ8nEEw?... Wes Streeting wants to fund 200 new NHS health centres through PFI. But the Public Finance Initiative was a disaster. This video explains why PFI 2.0 is a betrayal of the NHS.

Within a few weeks of the govt coming to power last year, it was clear that this is where it wanted HE to end up. Managed decline and asset stripping (including of staff) as the desired trajectory.

This looks to be an important special issue on Merleau-Ponty, especially regarding a phenomenology of institutions: read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...

Sarah is top, contact her if you fancy a good chat

Surely this will be my album of the year

Very much looking forward to this!

‘Self-regulation for good chaps’. Wrote this at the time. Was a witness for the CPSL in 2018 on ‘MPs outside interests’. I argued that decades of outsourcing had created hopeless regulatory drift that needed fixing, only to be told this had not been raised before. Wild! www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

PFI is back – and it will be at cost to us all www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/09... Wes Streeting is planning to bring back the very worst of Gordon Brown's ideas to create a disaster in hospital funding all over again.

With @gemmagasseau.bsky.social we have a new short piece in Capital & Class, where we analyse continuties and changes in European economic governance. We argue that, despite the changes since the pandemic, EU integration remains centered on neoliberalism (1)

Now out: Special Issue: Value Theory in the Country and the City Environment and Planning F Ten articles by Dallas Rogers @monicaclua.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social @davidaviles.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social @davidjmadden.bsky.social @feministonmarx.bsky.social and many more!

Very exciting: BAN return to a Memoria Vetusta type sound, even in the album title youtu.be/wtNT-lDPEQA?...

This piece is now free to read. @kmilb.bsky.social, @bertrussell.bsky.social and I argue that popular power and social property - rather than merely nationalisation - are important goals for working class struggles today. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/08/the-...

In the midst of preparing teaching materials and the now-normal anticipation of unackowledged student usage of AI, I enjoyed this garymarcus.substack.com/p/spinal-tap...

Labourites seem to have gone from "ha ha hypnotits" to "oh fuck Polanski will make Farage PM, is that what you want???" very quickly. But lads, if you want people's votes, win them. You're the government ffs.

Russian Academy of Sciences sociology centre just published polling which shows highest concern about cost of living since..... 1993. Bonus (because I don't have a better graphic): statistically significant rise over time in people saying end of USSR a 'self own' (47%)

"China's African port expansion, the end of the Line? Trump's self-named corridor, CPEC, Not Just Roads and Pakistani gateways." My second Global Corridor newsletter is now on Substack providing news + views on global infrastructure. globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

Amazing story: one of the organisers of the group putting Union Flags up around Manchester previously did time for being part of a people smuggling gang. manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...

This article examines the role of gender and patriarchy in shaping collective power and protest among male migrant construction workers in China doi.org/10.1332/2635... #SocSky #LaborProtests #patriarchy

Really excellent stuff, as always

Coming out now in hardcopy edited by yours truly with Dallas Rogers and Cameron McAuliffe in Environment and Planning F on *Value Theory in the Country and the City*

I had some fun writing an accessible text for learners seeking resources to problematize mainstream economics. This is especially meaningful to me because since my bachelor's in economics, I have spent much of the past decade thinking about how to study politically the economy shorturl.at/lohRl

Can't wait for this album - amazing song, and great lyrical themes

Outstanding paper - required reading for understanding what's going on at the moment, especially but not only in the US

The two articles are summarised here: www.ppesydney.net/all-that-has... The writing of this, among many things in my life, was inspired by @ultha.bsky.social

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... And the second article, focusing on the Big Society agenda in 2010s England to argue that neoliberalism aims for the recomposition of public-institutional spaces - towards monopolistic corporations on one hand, and unpaid social-reproductive activities on other.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... First post! The first of a couple of articles that were published last year. Neoliberalism has never been about the valorisation of free markets, in theory or in practice. Monopolistic corporations were and are idealised instead.