On this week's Macrodose: @meadwaj.bsky.social considers the costs of extreme heat, reflects on the Andy Burnham speech that laid out more of his economic vision, and looks at the still incoming effects of The Strait of Hormuz's closure open.spotify.com/episode/3hDj...

Agree. And, as should be apparent by now, also illustrates the fact that the interesting economic ideas on the left -- and the prominent ideas in Manchesterism's soon to be expanded universe -- are to do with the supply side: devolution, nationalisation, industrial policy, green transition etc.

NEW. The £ impact on UK families from conflict in the Middle East modelled for first time. On avg. families to see disposable income (after housing costs) fall by 1.7% (~£740/yr), 2024-2029. Worst outlook at any point since general election, and would be the worst parliament on modern record. 1/

Good from @meadwaj.bsky.social on the welcome signs of a change in direction under Burnham —- and on the new challenges on the supply side that remain as yet unanswered. www.verdantthinking.org/blogs/andy-b...

Thanks to all who joined our London Climate Action Week event in Victoria yesterday: Data Centres: Powering AI or costing the earth? @foxglovelegal.bsky.social was joined by economists, lawyers & activists working to ensure data centre development doesn't come at huge cost to communities & planet.

Climate emergency cancels Reform's "cancel the climate emergency" meeting - council members were due to vote on Thurs on a Reform motion to rescind the climate emergency.

The first season of After Order podcast concludes with a live-recorded conversation exploring the central premise that has run through the series: that we are not living through an interregnum between stable systems, but through a period of sustained disorder.

🎤 What would it mean to reclaim digital infrastructure? IIPP Head of Research @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and Paulo Gerbaudo recently spoke about Digital Sovereignty in the age of #BigTech with @meadwaj.bsky.social on the 'After Order' podcast. 🎧 Listen to the episode here: buff.ly/PSUj5sJ

Only about 10 tickets left for our London Climate Week event next week on data centres! Sign up now if you're planning to come. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/data-centr... @globalactionplan.bsky.social @meadwaj.bsky.social

On this week's Macrodose @meadwaj.bsky.social is joined by Jonas Marvin to talk about the economics affecting the food in a changing global climate open.spotify.com/episode/4C2r...

🚨 Are you at London Climate Week? Join @foxglovelegal.bsky.social @globalactionplan.bsky.social, Housing Assembly Legal Resource Centre, @meadwaj.bsky.social & at our event: Data centres: powering AI or costing the earth? Limited tickets availably sign up here. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/data-centr...

Crazily bad take. Tower Hamlets Greens went from 0 to 19k votes for mayor; won 50% council targets; beat Labour on boroughwide council vote; ran Aspire v close across TH (see map); GP membership now up from 500 to 2,600. Greens well-placed to win Tower Hamlets Parliamentary seats at general election

OUT NOW! We sat down with economist @meadwaj.bsky.social to discuss how progressives can be trusted on the economy and how we re-commit to environmentalism is this fragmented age. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!

Interesting interview with former Corbyn adviser James Meadway, one of the smarter recent Green Party acquisitions (including why Corbynism doesn’t work now for the left) substack.com/@georgeeaton...

THIS WEEK! Keep your eyes peeled for the next episode of our podcast, It's Bloody Complicated, as we're joined by economist James Meadway (@meadwaj.bsky.social) to discuss just how progressives can be trusted on the economy.

On this week's Macrodose, @meadwaj.bsky.social asks if the big tech market crash is finally here, examines the first signs of El Niño's approach, and explains how public investments works in a high interest world open.spotify.com/episode/5Jqa...

Short report from local news site Tower Hamlets Slice on the protests against a proposed data centre on Brick Lane (yes, you did read this correctly, and yes, it is about as mad as it sounds). www.instagram.com/p/DZNN2OhlUok/

On this week's Macrodose, @meadwaj.bsky.social looks at how tech firms are cutting back AI spending, how progressives are taking on the UK political culture of bond market fear, and how a recent change in China’s welfare system will have global consequences open.spotify.com/episode/6rhN...

🎤 What would it mean to reclaim digital infrastructure? IIPP Head of Research @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and Paulo Gerbaudo recently spoke about Digital Sovereignty in the age of #BigTech with @meadwaj.bsky.social on the 'After Order' podcast. 🎧 Listen to the episode here: buff.ly/PSUj5sJ

There is a huge constituency of support for an economic policy that breaks with the (steadily failing) orthodoxy on interest rates and monetary policy as the key instrument for inflation control.

On this week's episode @meadwaj.bsky.social looks at adaptation -thinking about how the UK's current heatwave has brought the conversation into public thought and how market-led solutions will only further entrench inequality open.spotify.com/episode/4Rr8...

Really interesting back and forth between James Meadway and @georgeeaton.bsky.social:

Why Europe must embrace tariffs My FT column today 300 free clicks: as.ft.com/r/8c299ab8-7...

VG from @meadwaj.bsky.social on Green econ policy, eg this on wealth taxes: "The challenge politically, is this does not solve all your problems.. perhaps £10bn... The amount you want to spend on improving public services is an order of magnitude greater" www.arguably.uk/p/what-do-th...

Where do the Greens go now? I interviewed @meadwaj.bsky.social on a Burnham premiership, his new think tank Verdant, public ownership and how Britain adapts to becoming a hot country. www.arguably.uk/p/what-do-th...

Every now and then I see posts yelling "Why is no one talking about food prices and the approaching shortages due to climate change"... Sharing this now instead of waving in general direction of @macrodosepod.bsky.social

Sadly, I don't believe those at the top of government will pay much heed to this warning. It's just the latest convulsion in a broken food system that has had too many points of weakness for far too long. If Covid didn't force change then what will?

Written for the Guardian about how a deadly combination of Strait of Hormuz blockade and a forecast major El Niño event threaten Britain’s food system and the comfortable assumptions it is built on. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

"This is about the weakest form of price control you can imagine.. the real crazy reaction you're getting from some quarters about this really tells you something about the ideological content of this.." @meadwaj.bsky.social on @novaramedia.com

Get your tickets to Change:NOW! here: actionnetwork.org/ticketed_eve...

In the fifth episode of After Order, the Alameda’s podcast series with Macrodose, James Meadway speaks to Gabriel Tupinambá about popular sovereignty under conditions of growing instability. // @macrodosepod.bsky.social @meadwaj.bsky.social @gabrieltupinamba.bsky.social

Is social democracy dead? Was the post-war settlement just a historical exception? On this week’s AFTER ORDER, @gabrieltupinamba.bsky.social joins @meadwaj.bsky.social to explore the slow cancellation of the past - and what it means for politics today. Watch now 📺️ @alameda.institute Link in bio 🔗

Economist James Meadway, Green Party local council candidate, talks about the Greens Organise pledge to oppose local council austerity. @greensorganise.bsky.socgree @meadwaj.bsky.social Pledge greensorganise.uk/pledge-oppos... Full interview youtu.be/NByr1Wd54rU?...

New blog at Verdant - hard truths and short supplies: www.verdantthinking.org/blogs/au2mmg...

great discussion between @triofrancos.bsky.social and @meadwaj.bsky.social about what happened to the Green New Deal moment and what underappreciated openings exist in the current often chaotic shift to state capitalism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFHh...

Breaking Big Tech’s grip won’t be easy - we’re all entangled. But it’s the only way to reclaim political power. @paologerbaudo.bsky.social @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and @meadwaj.bsky.social on last week’s AFTER ORDER. Watch now 📺 Link in bio 🔗

Now @meadwaj.bsky.social @nsrnicek.bsky.social and Anita Gurumurthy of @itforchange.bsky.social on AI and the Politics of Power at Big Tech Empires

America is basically using gas as a weapon of war against Asia and Europe: their violent actions in the Middle East have pushed up the price elsewhere but *not* in the US. www.csis.org/analysis/str...

This is on May 12 and it’ll be good - if you’re in London, come on down!

Great conversation especially the part about extractivism of data centers and comparing them to military bases.

Governments must extricate themselves from the web of Big Tech enclosures. @meadwaj.bsky.social @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and @paologerbaudo.bsky.social on breaking Silicon Valley’s grip - and building a digital stack for people, not profit. Watch now 📺️ Link in bio 🔗 @alameda.institute

“This is privatisation on a level we’ve never seen before” Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla and @meadwaj.bsky.social unpack the private capture of diplomacy, and how a profit-loss logic is now seeping into every aspect of the state machine. Link in bio 🔗 @alameda.institute

Excellent conversation between @edpoole1975.bsky.social and @meadwaj.bsky.social , now the @greenparty.org.uk candidate for Bromley North, Tower Hamlets. essential listening if you want to understand the policy/ideology of MMT and aligned ideas www.youtube.com/watch?v=NByr...

I spoke to James Meadway, the Green Party candidate for Bromley North, Tower Hamlets about the upcoming local elections, Modern Monetary theory, the new think tank; Verdant, and fighting local austerity! @meadwaj.bsky.social youtu.be/NByr1Wd54rU?...

“We’re under no illusions about what it is we’re trying to challenge.” Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla joins @meadwaj.bsky.social to unpack South Africa’s case against Israel at the ICJ - and what it reveals about the myth of a “rules-based international order.” 📺️ 👇 open.spotify.com/episode/2pvT...

The green transition isn’t a “win-win.” Some will lose - and it should be the fossil fuel companies. @meadwaj.bsky.social and @triofrancos.bsky.social discuss the high point of Green New Deal organising, and what comes next. Listen now 🎧 @alameda.institute open.spotify.com/episode/10n4...

Was great to chat with @meadwaj.bsky.social @macrodosepod.bsky.social about the energy transition, resource extraction, capitalism, global north-south inequality & Left strategy amid the polycrisis that accelerates daily. In collab with @alameda.institute. Listen podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today. One for the history books www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Essential listening from the Macrodose team with @meadwaj.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m... How do we bridge the distance from where we are to where we need to be if we're to survive the biophysical tipping points that are coming? This has (some of) the answers.