wishful thinking perhaps, but this crisis has exposed a rot that may accelerate the end of FIFA in its current form at this conjuncture, it’s difficult to see how FIFA will be able to accommodate pressures for fundamental reform

VEEERRRRY punchy statement by UEFA on the reversal of the American red-card suspension. And quite right, too. "We express our disbelief at such an unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable decision." www.uefa.com/news-media/n...

my colleague @lukaslehner.bsky.social has been doing some incredibly cool and important work on the socio-economic impacts of Walmart in the US a real contribution to the business power literature

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The Forever Pollution Project, which Watershed contributed to, calculated that, even if we stopped producing all PFAS tomorrow, the clean-up costs in just the UK + Europe would be £1.6trillion. As companies continue to manufacture more, that figure will only rise: share.google/80IdL9ibxNer...

Once again, we see plainly the disgrace of Scotland’s squandered North Sea windfall whereas Norway invested in long-term programmes designed to yield sustainable Haalands

Noooooo, my sweet prince :(

Whoever could have predicted that Nigel Farage’s pro-tobacco, pro-nicotine, anti-WHO campaign has ties to the tobacco industry? I’m shocked, I tell you. Shocked!

you never hear football commentators describe a match as "high octane" and that's a real shame in my view

Over the past few years, I've been struck by Colombia's leadership on fossil fuels, including its hosting of the first-ever FF summit in April Now, Colombia’s gov has been defeated by a hard-right Trump ally pledging to “frack to the max” I examine what it means www.carbonbrief.org/qa-what-chan...

Accepting $$$ from Saudi Aramco - the world's largest oil company - and committing to climate action is an unsquarable circle support @fossilfreefootball.bsky.social and @clientearth.bsky.social in demanding that FIFA stop accepting sponsorship from polluters

How does rampant #assetisation and variation in #assetmanagement affect social conflicts? Our special issue co-edited with @theobourgeron.bsky.social in New Political Economy proposes a framework to analyse such asset struggles and brings together 7 papers with key empirical studies. 🧵

Last year, the Trump administration suddenly & massively slashed aid for global health & humanitarian assistance, an unprecedented & brutal act In 2025, Americans spent more on Halloween candy than their own government did on life-saving humanitarian aid www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/stat...

idea for a paper: the neoliberal spirit of capitalism, but it's just the shareholder reports of Big Food companies during the 1990s

RIP zoom institutional license you were the lesser of a much worse evil

As internal documents show, Exxon spent decades trying to obstruct meaningful action on climate change, knowing that its internal modelling predicted global warming that's not skepticism, it's a corporate political strategy of delay

I shall watch this with interest. There's no way to get 60% of kids actively travelling to school without disrupting current patterns of car-based mobility. This includes making all urban streets safer, not just those right outside schools www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

the idea for this paper was formed during a whatsapp call on an incredibly hot day in Geneva, as negotiations toward a UN plastics treaty hit deadlock this article grapples with the erosion of liberal environmentalism and what it might mean for global environmental governance

new study led by colleagues at @pml.ac.uk which shows that plastics packaging linked to food and beverages is by far the dominant form of marine plastics pollution the headline finding is perhaps not thath surpising, but the figures are pretty staggering

New @policy-politics.bsky.social paper revisits how Scotland became 1st UK nation to introduce smokefree public places. I argue for extending Punctuated Equilibrium Theory via Niche Construction Theory to understand behind the scenes policy work required for implementation success: shorturl.at/GlhxR

this is awful news Raúl was such a generous person / academic and a real force for good on here.

During the Premier League title race, I interviewed Mayor Zohran Mamdani for GQ about his love of Arsenal FC and his plans for NYC during the World Cup. You can read it here: www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/zohr... - if of interest, please share.

POV: you’re the lead author on an interdisciplinary project, checking the google doc a few days after dividing up writing responsibilities

This just out from @profkatsmith.bsky.social, @profbambra.bsky.social and me

the most evergreen of evergreen takes

periodically I’ll glance at my copy of this book gathering dust and then remember why, despite repeated attempts, I have failed to get through all of it

well done william

⚖️ 🌍 ⚡ 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐮𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 🇳🇱 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞: 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐮𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝, @milieudefensie.bsky.social et al. v. Shell. #ClimateJustice #ClimateCaseShell 🧵 ⬇️ analysis in thread below

for anyone interested in just how similar tobacco and oil industry strategies are, search Philip Morris ‘Unsmoke the World’ exact same discourse around transitioning away from the commodity that sustains their profitability

my partner’s dad is a spurs fan and I am exercising frankly superhuman levels of self-restraint in the groupchat right now

I recently did an interview for the Land & Climate Review, talking about the research I've been doing on the political economy of plastics, the circular economy, and corporate power @landclimate.bsky.social

Don’t trust someone who doesn’t have VLC on their laptop.

"The objective is really to divert attention away from the production of plastics". This week on the Land and Climate Podcast, Alasdair speaks to Dr Rob Ralston @policyrelevant.bsky.social, lecturer in Public Policy at the University of Edinburgh. Listen now: landclimate.org/plastics-cir...

America's oil execs have pocketed $1.4 billion selling stock during the Iran war, the WSJ reports This cash windfall won’t go primarily toward yachts and private jets, but toward political campaigns and lobbying orgs dedicated to blocking climate policy and fueling authoritarianism

hi, uk centre left posting expert here! memeing ed miliband into being pm is not funny, uk centre left posters only do this when the labour party is in extreme distress.

Beautiful, insightful post by el alcalde, @andresdelcas.bsky.social on the #SantaMarta process and the #justtransition away from fossil fuels. "The Santa Marta Process is not a fist striking the table; it is the construction of a new table." www.linkedin.com/pulse/letter...

FAO have just released a report on plastic and food contact materials, and finds that recycled plastics are associated with higher levels of chemical migration into foods to me, this underlines the limits of a 'circular economy' and the need to reduce plastics + shift to reuse models

really interesting piece by @danielagabor.bsky.social and @benbraun.eurosky.social on 'decarbonized sovereignty' in light of the recent high-level conference in Santa Marta, Colombia on transitioning away from fossil fuels

My book Myth of the Garbage Patch is out now on Thousands Press! I’m grateful to Sally Boyd for publishing this accumulation archive. 🌊 thousandspress.com/shop/p/myth-...

Scotland confirmed to have our first trans MSP! Congratulations @irisduane.bsky.social!

i'm sorry but have you tried to edit your university profile page - a Kafkaeque undertaking

20 years since we last made the CL final COYG!

for all the corporate citizenspeak about addressing the plastics pollution crisis, Big Food companies continue to lobby against single-use bans and alternative reuse models

Santa Marta: Key outcomes from first summit on ‘transitioning away’ from fossil fuels ✍️ @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org Read here ⬇️

“After years stuck in endless debates about whether to phase out fossil fuels, finally we are focusing on the how. We are no longer fighting for recognition of the problem, but creating solutions." Tzeporah Berman

the atleti fan that starts making his jamon sandwiches just before half-time is the ideal of 'chaotic good'

I’m mindful that proposals for a fossil fuel phase out treaty are squarely in my research interests of petrochemicals + plastics, but I’m genuinely surprised at how little media coverage has been given to some pretty significant govt commitments linked to the first round of talks

decent FT piece on the 'coalition of the willing' involved in the first conference of a potential Fossil Fuel Treaty will be interesting to see whether petrochemicals / plastics feature in the discussions