For the Ideas Letter, i tried to understand what's going on with the constant summoning forth of an immanent civil war on the British right. Featuring ethnic determinism, remigration, and the strange radicalisation of conservative intellectuals www.theideasletter.org/essay/all-be...

New on @the-breakdown.bsky.social, Casey Williams rereads Stuart Hall in an age of climate breakdown www.break-down.org/reading-stua...

Governments and companies worldwide are increasingly investing in solar radiation management as a "fix" to global warming. Our podcast of the week explores how billionaire-backed research has normalized geoengineering. With Sofia Menemenlis on @poltheoryother.bsky.social buff.ly/heeIBDo

I got to write about our global waste problem for @lrb.co.uk, in dialogue with 3 really good books, by @alexclapp.bsky.social, Oliver Franklin-Wallis and John Scanlan. You can read it here:

For the Ideas Letter, i tried to understand what's going on with the constant summoning forth of an immanent civil war on the British right. Featuring ethnic determinism, remigration, and the strange radicalisation of conservative intellectuals www.theideasletter.org/essay/all-be...

genuinely very few things more satisfying than reading the kinds of emails rich and famous people send each other

🚨 Common Wealth is hiring a Researcher to work full time on Transition Security Project. @transitionsec.bsky.social is a research and policy centre that investigates the US and UK military industrial complexes as economic, climate and geopolitical threats. Find out more 👇

PSA: If there is a thinker you want to write about through the lens of climate politics, whether or not they wrote on the environment, send us a pitch! Guidelines here: www.break-down.org/pitching/

This is part of a new series we'll be running, (re)reading radical thinkers for the climate crisis. If you have pitches/ideas for other writers and thinkers we should cover, then send them to us! www.break-down.org/pitching/

Excited to be soft-launching a new online essay series for @the-breakdown.bsky.social - (re)reading radical thinkers for the climate crisis. First up is Casey A. Williams on Stuart Hall and his analytical power for climate strategy today. www.break-down.org/reading-stua...

New on @the-breakdown.bsky.social, Casey Williams rereads Stuart Hall in an age of climate breakdown www.break-down.org/reading-stua...

For the latest episode of @the-breakdown.bsky.social podcast (we're back!), I spoke to @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social about Brazilian ecological politics, developmentalism and her essay "Lula's Dilemma" Listen below / wherever you get your podcasts 🌳🍃 www.break-down.org/lulas-dilemm...

Sofia Menemenlis joins @poltheoryother.bsky.social podcast to discuss her article on solar geoengineering - or “solar radiation management" as it has become known. They talk about how the implementation of SRM is imagined and what the potentially catastrophic side effects would be. Uh… geostorm🎬

I’m in this week’s @newstatesman1913.bsky.social with a review of Holly Smith’s brilliant history of house rise council housing in Britain, Up in the Air www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

We're at the Historical Materialism conference all weekend, selling issues (with a discount on our already cheap subscriptions!). Come through if you're here

Recommended listen: with Sofia Menemenlis on @poltheoryother.bsky.social covering her superb essay on the science and politics of geoengineering for Issue 2 of @the-breakdown.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Just TWO DAYS until our Issue 2 launch party in London! Tickets for readings are sold out, but there are still a handful available for the party from 8pm — See you there! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-breakd...

Hats off to the BBC for restoring Peter Watkins' The War Game to the iPlayer. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Huge

Excited to see Sofia Menemenlis discussing her @the-breakdown.bsky.social essay on solar geoengineering on the great @poltheoryother.bsky.social podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

This feels about right.

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"This is not stabilization—it is the active production of instability that justifies permanent external control." LOLA ALLEN on Javier Milei, the IMF and the contradictions of Argentina's extractive economy. Read the full essay👇

Calling all Milei-heads Incisive new piece from Lola Allen on Milei's latest victory, the IMF and extractivism in Argentina. As Allen writes: "This is not stabilization—it is the active production of instability to justify permanent external control." www.break-down.org/javier-milei...

Due to popular demand we have had to UPGRADE the space for the forthcoming London launch of @the-breakdown.bsky.social issue 2! Only a handful of tickets left, so book soon –– and come along to party and celebrate with us.

Ignoring the obvious racism of Cuomo, it's nuts to hear the Fox presenter say that London now is "largely Muslim" with "women completely covered up"

A brilliant essay by a former journalist at the The Inner Mongolia Life Weekly –– about recent Chinese and Mongolian history, the art of the reporter, China's persecution of minorities, and the power of boozing to get a story www.equator.org/articles/the...

Due to popular demand we have had to UPGRADE the space for the forthcoming London launch of @the-breakdown.bsky.social issue 2! Only a handful of tickets left, so book soon –– and come along to party and celebrate with us.

PARTY UPDATE: we’ve moved our sold out Issue #2 launch party just around the corner to a larger venue and added a handful more tickets 🎈 Join us at the OCTOBER GALLERY on 7 Nov for readings + a party! 📍 October Gallery, WC1 🗓️ Fri 7 Nov, from 18:30 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-breakd...

We've moved around the corner and added more tickets! 🎟️ Escape the November blues with us next Friday — we'll be celebrating Issue 2 of @the-breakdown.bsky.social, listening to some lovely readings and spending time among friends! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-breakd...

PLEASE WAIT A FEW WEEKS!!!

Excited to see the launch of @equatormag.bsky.social ! www.equator.org

This is bad

This by @willoyd.bsky.social is the kind of writing we need at the moment. Democracy's enemies think seriously about the realities of power, and act accordingly. It's one reason they're winning. Democrats have to do the same. www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

🚨 TOMORROW Join us at The October Gallery in London as we launch the Green Planning Commission, a transatlantic initiative building a new era of democratic planning and recovering a democratic and decarbonised future from the crises of our age. 🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-the...

I think this is partly true, but it also gives permission for them to remove politics from their analysis. Civil wars are caused by conflict between rival ethnic blocs which move as if by force of nature –– politics doesn't mediate at all.

“The way US empire is being restructured adds to the existential threat of climate crisis — militarisation, a new Cold War and the formation of power blocs are carbon intensive undertakings.” Read the introduction to our new series — Two Transitions transitionsecurity.org/two-transiti...

🎉 Join us in London to launch the Green Planning Commission — rethinking the politics & practice of planning for a democratic & decarbonised future 🎙️ Carolina Alves, @brusselermel.bsky.social, Richard Kozul-Wright & @mathewlawrence.bsky.social 🪑 Sarah Nankivell 🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-the...

The right have reached the "Is [pop star] a feminist? Is MasterCard a Queer ally?" stage of online derangement

I fear the overuse of the term "doom loop" is reaching crisis proportions

Every day i read the right-wing press in the UK i discover new ways to butcher the English language

BBC's editorial policy for stories of crimes committed by asylum seekers seems to be to boost them in the hope of achieving credibility with people who have already decided that the BBC is a pedophile protection racket

Very much appreciate the NS's new line in reporting on the London and Home Counties Grotesque www.newstatesman.com/politics/the...

‘The new road between El Fasher and the town of Tawila is barely any safer. It’s known as 𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘲 𝘢𝘭-𝘮𝘢𝘸𝘵 – the road of death.’ Jérôme Tubiana reports from Sudan’s ongoing civil war: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Catching with my stack of unread LRB's, and this piece, by @will-davies.bsky.social on John Ganz, is superb. Particularly intriguing is his suggestion of the possible parallels between the US and British early 1990s. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Very good article this. Need to reflect on it more but there are def some interesting parallels to the Reform strategy of using anti-solar panel sentiment as a wedge issue amongst farmers to push back on renewables. (as @tom-cb.bsky.social and I have just pitched as an article to The Conversation!)

My article in @the-breakdown.bsky.social is now free to read online! While far-right parties have traditionally ignored climate, I explore how the Sweden Democrats embrace it as a wedge issue, creating redistributive conflicts around class & urban-rural divides: www.break-down.org/petrol-for-t...

Vital new project on militarism and alternative forms of security amid climate crisis From Common Wealth's Khem Rogaly & @cplusc.bsky.social Read Khem's essay for @the-breakdown.bsky.social for an intro to this urgent work www.break-down.org/against-a-mi... & follow @transitionsec.bsky.social

We're having another party 🎉 Join us at The Lamb on 7 Nov to celebrate ISSUE #2, with readings from contributors and special guests followed by drinks! Come join us 🎈👇 www.eventbrite.com/e/the-breakd...

We're having an overdue party in London to celebrate our second issue on Nov 7th! Come by, listen to some lovely readings & spend time w/friends Tickets for readings are limited as it's a small space, so get yours quick (plus we'll throw in a copy of the issue) From 8pm the party is open to all!