When interest rates get cut and the govt caves into the indsutries demand for demand-side stimulus, we will see how nuch "saner" the property market is i guess!

We (@crossdale.bsky.social, Christina Pantazis, @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social, Tiê Franco Brotto and I) present the first academic peer-reviewed article, studying the criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest as a global phenomenon. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In this episode, you will hear: Natalie Koch, @maliniranga.bsky.social and Leonardo Fontes, as well as the host @gfearn.bsky.social.

Was a privilege to host this episode on authoritarian populism with these excellent scholars - drawing linkages and differences across the US, UK, India and Brazil in

The Tories have done far more damage to this country than Reform ever will be able to, it just didnt impact Starmer and his mates personally so he slept soundly.

Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen

Brilliant opportunity for scam artisits everywhere!

"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."

🚨NEW #UrbanStudies Volume 62(15) (November 2025) SPECIAL ISSUE: "Authoritarian Neoliberal and Illiberal Urbanisms: Towards a Research Agenda?" ✍ Editors: G. Özatağan, G. Fearn & A. Eraydin 🔍 Focus on authoritarian neoliberal #urbanism, urban #governance transformation & sociopolitical change.

🚨New paper alert🚨 My analysis of the energy crisis in Britain for @geographers.bsky.social as one of a transition between capitalism based on fossil capital to one based on electrify capital, which calls for a new accumulation regime of higher co-ordination and discipline for capital.

"Since when did we become Big Tech's free PR department?" I'm really pleased to see an article like this pushing back on the uncritical adoption of (gen)AI by our universities. It hits all the major concerns.

While the US & Europe ramp up military spending, millions live in poverty. Today, we launch Transition Security Project, investigating how militarisation makes us poorer and less safe amid climate crisis — and what genuine security could look like. 🧵 transitionsecurity.org

This essay by @sonalidhanpal.bsky.social on the relationship between decolonisation and mass council housing is one of the most exciting works of British urban history I've read in a long, long time. It points the way to a different kind of future for our work. direct.mit.edu/grey/article...

Brilliant, let's do that then!

Who was the gaffer messing things up this badly in 1925?

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

We need a bigger tent, that’s why we must betray and expel the following types of people:

This is an excellent collection

trump’s numbers are tanking and there is a palpable desire in the electorate for a real alternative and yet the only money in democratic politics is for doing starmerism

This story is playing out one country after another: declare the only way forward is major deregulation because you dont want to challenge capital, have these claims completely discredited by evidence, tell the public they are going to work anyway...and hope for the best?

The special issue on authoritarian neoliberal urbanism is now out. Happy to be featured in it and thanks to the editors - @gfearn.bsky.social Güldem Özatagan, Ayda Eraydin for this very timely work.

Very proud to say that our special issue with @urbanstudiesjournal.com is now all up online! We address the authoritarian turn in urban governance globally, as neoliberal policies lose legitimacy and require more coercive means of enforcement. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Ezra Klein’s NYT column about Kirk is legitimately disgusting. I don't care if he didn't write the headline, even suggesting that Kirk was a legitimate voice and not an active agent of hatred and intolerance is to throw everyone Kirk vilified to the wolves.

Everything about this is nuts www.wsj.com/business/ope...

Apparently I was shortlisted for the AESOP Best paper award for 2025, which was a very nice surprise! Congrats to Harriet Dunn for winning! aesop-planning.eu/resources/ne...

Think this did a great job of explaining why, very early on

What's the strategy behind the "Climate Realism Initiative"? Many many policy papers later, I can say I think I know what it is—and it's seriously wanting. Latest on the blog, a critique of this overconfident and hawkish "climate" strategy: advaitcore.substack.com/p/the-bellig...

The energy crisis. Devastating for households. A bonanza for energy companies. The Government and industry worked hand-in-hand to funnel wealth from the public to private companies — just like the financial crisis. 🧵 www.common-wealth.org/perspectives...

Solar power expanding. China leads (40% of global capacity). Most is big solar farms; rooftop solar a close 2nd. Outside the rich world, businesses & well-off households use it to back up unreliable grid electricity. Poorer households left behind. 1/4 peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/04/24/r...

Read our latest Perspectives piece by Gareth Fearn at our website: www.common-wealth.org/perspectives...

I've written about how badly the UK public lost out during the energy crisis and why this was a feature not a bug of privatised electricity.

Art of the Deal!!

I can’t help but think something has gone wrong in your life if you’re spending your morning off work holding a sign that says “Large Gametes”.

Unfortunately, genocide is not off limits for the UK government.

📰NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨 Focuses on Labour's plans for 'Clean Power by 2030', arguing that government's focus on speed places costs on consumers, creating a 'distribution dilemma' for with as energy costs are already very high. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📰NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨 Focuses on Labour's plans for 'Clean Power by 2030', arguing that government's focus on speed places costs on consumers, creating a 'distribution dilemma' for with as energy costs are already very high. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Despite the project’s crafty name – Net Zero Teesside – it can never, ever be carbon neutral It just doesn’t make sense for the UK to fund new fossil fuel plants when 1000s Gw of clean energy is produced across the globe Support our challenge to the £10bn subsidy for this: tinyurl.com/GLP-CCS

Launch of this timely new journal of Urban Political Ecology at #AAG2025 founded by @rkeil.bsky.social and Maria Kaika. Do consider submitting - us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/ur...

go to your local #TeslaTakedown protest this Saturday because, as @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social says, "you just start anywhere"

Just found out NIH has officially canceled our grant, a longitudinal study of Alzheimer's disease in Black Americans. I cannot even put into words how angry I am. The truth is they are canceling it because it has Black in the title. That's it, there is no other reason to do this.

part of living in the real world is also recognizing when arguments in favor of ideas like "abundance" are being coopted by corporations and ideologues that stand to gain from fewer environmental regulations and democratic processes

sort of hate how in the current climate + energy discourse if you question "abundance" as a mindset you're automatically labeled anti-tech or pro-degrowth

Zohran Mamdani—the NY assemblyman who went viral last week for publicly confronting Trump's Border Czar—raised more than $840,000 over the last two months and has more than 16,000 total donors to his mayoral campaign, per the NYT. Hell yea.

Some of my Columbia Law School colleagues and I offer our thoughts on legal issues with the Administration's March 13, 2025 letter to our University's president, and its threat to academic freedom. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...

If universities allow their students to be disappeared in direct contravention of all applicable laws for espousing the principles they have been taught in the classroom, then they have officially abandoned all pretense of mission. Something for those employed by Columbia to take under advisement.

Brilliant article by on the historical and contemporary importance of rent controls for housing justice! www.gmhousingaction.com/control-the-...

Energy security is national security. GB Energy can help deliver both by scaling homegrown clean power. If the Chancellor is to cut spending, it’ll leave Britain less secure & more exposed — with households facing higher bills & the betrayal of a popular manifesto commitment.