A great piece by the reliably excellent @gfearn.bsky.social

Wrote for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social on the failures of Starmerism and the potential and limits of the 'productive state'.

@gfearn.bsky.social on the bus man and Manchesterism tribunemag.co.uk/2026/07/the-...

✍️New essay for @the-breakdown.bsky.social which attempts an analysis of the energy transition as one between two competing fractions of capital - fossil and electric - and the conflicts and struggles which will lead towards an 'electro-capitalism' (or not!) www.break-down.org/electro-capi...

Mamdani needs to learn from what happened to Corbyn. He conceded an inch on the first story about his wife, as soon as you show that weakness theyll go after that relentlessly.

Better to send children to prison for no reason, i guess.

Anxious and angry about forever wars over energy? Want to do something to make a better world happen sooner? i have good news. Electricity is the backbone for everything in our future, and you can do something now. Instead of feeling hopeless, you can join in with others to change everything.

This has been a known problem for the best part of a decade, but even a major world energy crisis was not enough for the government to take action because the answer probably means some form of public ownership/funding.

A brilliant and provocative essay by Gareth Fearn, on the emerging conflict between fossil and electric capital

A provocative piece of analysis from @gfearn.bsky.social on the likely shape of the energy transition and the conflicts that really define it for @the-breakdown.bsky.social recommended read!

NEW: Gareth Fearn lays out the stakes of "electro-capitalism". "The economic basis of this transition is not simply between technologies of energy production. Rather, it is between two different fractions of capital." www.break-down.org/electro-capi...

✍️New essay for @the-breakdown.bsky.social which attempts an analysis of the energy transition as one between two competing fractions of capital - fossil and electric - and the conflicts and struggles which will lead towards an 'electro-capitalism' (or not!) www.break-down.org/electro-capi...

this feels like a Roger Bannister four minute mile moment for "reactionary centrism". a level of reactionary centrism doctors (of political science) assured us was impossible but that training, dedication, ingenuity, and the Indomitable human spirit were determined to overcome

"As AI trans­forms academic labor, much more is at stake than the terms & conditions of our employment. At stake is the very integrity of the teaching & learning process & the notion that all humanity—not just a few individuals—should benefit from the production of knowledge at our universities."

My book is now available for pre-order!

The first episode of The Whale Pod is delivered ashore tomorrow. A chapter-by-chapter analysis of Herman Melville's 'Moby-Dick' with @leighsus.bsky.social and @pdkmitchell.bsky.social. Follow for free on Patreon or wherever you get your podcasts... 🐳 patreon.com/thewhalepod

The reset was in 2015. Labour blew their chance to change, got lucky in 2024, and now the decline is back on track.

🎧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:

📰Read Chris Saltmarsh for @jacobinmag.bsky.social on how Your Party remains an important opportunity for the left, amidst a Labour collapse and a Green surge... jacobin.com/2026/02/uk-l...

Genuinely think selecting Goodwin will make it alot harder for Reform to win. He is far too deep into the online, far right ecosystem to not say multiple weird and offputting things that will limit Reforms appeal to the more comitted.

🎧Listen to Chris Saltmarsh on @newpartypod.bsky.social, speaking with Tom Williams about why we need Your Party to become the party of eco-socialism, what distinguishes us from the Greens, and more! open.spotify.com/episode/3Z3M...

🗳️Endorsements are now open for the Your Party CEC elections! Our own Chris Saltmarsh explains why he is standing (in Yorkshire and Humber), and why we need to elect the Grassroots Left slate to lead Your Party to fight for an eco-socialist future: theecosocialist.co.uk/2026/01/21/c...

🔊🔊 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...

🔊🔊 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...

Commenting on the news that day-ahead wholesale gas prices have reached a six-month high in the UK, @jessralston.bsky.social, @eciu.net said: "The North Sea is continuing to run out of gas and won't help to lower bills or provide security of supply." eciu.net/media/press...

Probably have to start reckoning with the reality that most social science disciplines int he UK wont fuctionally exist in 10-20 years. No such thing as a permanent job (not thay they exist!) if your departments in terminal decline!

European gas price surging. Evidence for Labour's view that we need to reduce gas reliance, but could also kill their govt before that happens as they have failed to get on top of energy bills. If this carries on the '£150 bill cut' isnt going to happen.

Seems like every quango in Britain has been weaponised in defence of Israeli genocide.

Just before the year 2025 comes to an end, we are starting with a new series on Authoritarian Urbanism, acknowledging and thematising a worldwide rightward populist turn through the lens of urban thinkers, researchers and activists. urbanpolitical.online/101-authorit...

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?