Here's my latest newsletter - this time on the more intangible, immaterial aspects of loss and damage (which are no less important than those which we can easily 'measure'). I really enjoyed writing this one as I got to focus on stories, which is my comfort zone :)

New Years Resolution 2026: get more into Substack, both reading and writing. Below is one I’m excited to follow, on climate loss and damage, by the beautiful writer @sophiastories.bsky.social. And I’ve already been enjoying Diana Savarin’s, on thoughtful living that galvanises the soul.

Closing out the year with my latest newsletter, this one focused on COP30 and how it's a pretty terrible process (no surprise there). But also a shoutout to civil society orgs doing immense work against the odds - e.g. the just transition mechanism. lossanddamage.substack.com/p/reflection...

This is so disgusting.

I've just published my second newsletter on loss and damage - this one reflecting on Trump (urgh) and climate finance. Mostly doom and gloom but also an obligatory note of hope, to paraphrase Jenny Offill open.substack.com/pub/lossandd...

Something I've been thinking about for a while and have finally launched: a newsletter on Loss and Damage - do consider subscribing if you're interested in the topic, or more broadly in climate justice and questions of power, geopolitics and accountability lossanddamage.substack.com?r=a2qm0&utm_...

My god, the sheer relief of reading a piece by someone who knows something about this football match and didn't just learn to spell Maccabi two days ago www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Labour are just all in on the "concede the basic framing to Reform, argue that they are preferable within that framework" approach and in addition to thinking it is bad on merits I also sincerely think it is going to get them absolutely mullered at the polls.

Due to climate change these heatwaves were 100 times more likely. But sure, let’s spend our days scapegoating refugees and making cringe comments about how much we love flags. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I have a new article out today. It's about an environmental turn in Palestinian arts and activism, and how environmental framings of Palestine and the Palestinian struggle enable different forms of identification and solidarity: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

- 400 jobs to go at Lancaster University - 1 in 4 people will be made redundant But where's the financial evidence for this extreme action? Please read 👇 Sign the petition 👇 chng.it/7F52bThYqn

This letter is still open for signatures, but may not be for that much longer. If you've signed but your name hasn't appeared on the public list, it will be on the final letter, there are just too many names now to keep transferring them over!

Really grateful to everyone who's read and shared this, and especially people who've written to their MPs on behalf of the students stuck in Gaza. I hope we will have some good news to share before too long, so these students can get to the UK in time for the new academic year.

The shortlists for the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes 2025 have been announced! There are two prizes, in Fiction and Biography, and it's been a pleasure to judge the Fiction prize. www.ed.ac.uk/news/connect...

People who are still shouting that Israel is not committing genocide must be clapping their hands over their ears every time an Israeli minister steps onto a podium because

Finally a news headline I can get on board with

Thrilled my book is out in the world! It's a book about the rise & fall of US hegemony; about the road novel's trafficking in the fantasies of individual freedom and self-making that propel it; and about why we need to shatter those attachments for a more collective vision, narrative and politics.

Anyone who knows Columbia knows they've wanted to do plenty of this for a long time; it's just not that radical or disruptive for them. We shouldn't pretend otherwise. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

My statement on being denied tenure at the Medill School of Journalism drive.google.com/file/d/1BBBI...

Hard to overstate the gravity of this event, which could very well be the first major shot in a campaign to dismantle US civil society as we know it.

as kemi badenoch describes the UK's net zero goal as 'impossible', it's worth noting that the country's emissions are the lowest they've been since 1872

Gaza is under attack, being bombed heavily. Those people. What a horrible fucking world.

Such a brilliant episode on the backlash against BLM, wokeness, Higher Ed and Palestine. And the many ways in which class and race get weaponised by the right to build their authoritarianism. Definitely my favourite podcast atm. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

For the @theguardian.com I wrote about the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil & Trump's exploitation of anti-Palestinian racism to descend the nation into authoritarianism, with the full collaboration of academia. No one is free until Palestine is free. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

📢📢 Only two weeks left to submit your abstract for the ECMN conference in Bonn (8-10 July 2025)! 86 colleagues have already submitted theirs! Here is a FAQ page and the submission form: www.climatemobilities.network/ecmn25/ Hope to see you along the Rhine River in Bonn this summer!!!

A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.

I’ve just started a starter pack for ECMN members working on #ClimateChange, #Migration, and (im) #Mobilities. Feel free to reach out if you'd like to be added! go.bsky.app/Dan29j

Sport may be a blunt tool of social change, but it’s time to take a stand against Israel | Jonathan Liew

“We hear that those who are responsible to provide financing do not have enough resources in relation to the needs while worldwide defence spending rose by 9% in 2023 to reach US$ 2.2 trillion with the US at the #1. We can't remain passive whilst death is given priority over life.” Cuba at #COP29

This publication, for READ PALESTINE WEEK (Nov 29 - December 5) is now available in digital format, free, at our Gumroad storefront: arablit.gumroad.com

Have not seen much on here on Sudan, so I'm amplifying this horrific report that shows the number who are killed is higher than previously estimated. Adding here other writing to read to understand this war that has displaced over 11 million people; the highest displacement crisis globally. 🧵

Germany keeps being Germany 💆🏻‍♀️ www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

Ok I’m going to fully jump on the bandwagon now and try to do the Bluesky thing (I always hated Twitter anyway)

I’m organising a seminar for #ACLA2024 - if you’re working on displacement and environmental issues, send us your abstracts! Would love to hear from you a build a proper conversation around these topics. Link for submissions: www.acla.org/cultural-res...