just another neoliberal Argentinian that the FT so loves, downplaying the disaster that was the Macri Administration's liberalisation agenda. that's why Macri got the IMF loan, not because he was close to the previous Trump Administration

if you wondered how Samantha Power, so-called genocide expert said nothing about Gaza genocide while head of USAID during Biden Admin, wow.

was Hayek a liberal? yeah! was Hayek a supporter of a murderous military dictatorshi? oh yeah! amazing @ichotiner.bsky.social interview with Cass Sunstein, such a clear case for the violent exhaustion of liberal democracy, by and with intellectuals like Sunstein

how you torture English to say that Wall Street is funding a crazy AI bubble that will not find enough customers for it.

Going to make a 'capital doesn't only thrive under liberal economic institutions but fascist ones too' card to put up every time we wonder how easy they give in

Appreciate these insights from @emollick.bsky.social. But the "wizard problem" isn't that AI is too opaque. It's that we're designing systems that hide their processes. We could build AI that shows its work, explains, and lets us intervene. Instead we're choosing black boxes and calling it magic.

UNCTAD has now joined the chorus of the WallStreet consensus

another day, another proof that this Labour government is out of its depth, but this time with a bit of Brexit flavour for us migrants on this island.

a word of warning, if you wonder why I am not answering your emails, I no longer have access to that one, please use my SOAS email.

Bring back woke science and its little fixations like, say, references?

Privatised Britain isn't working, every time I have to travel Bristol to London and back

New Zealand taking derisking into a spiritual dimension

Remember, this is an unelected central bank making discretionary decisions that have massive fiscal impact, with ZERO theoretical backing. They are just making it up.

Happy "What's the QT number?" day @louisashworth.bsky.social has the Numberwang here www.ft.com/content/96e6...

The silver lining in privatised, subsidised trains in Britain is that if one is late, the connection will be too, so at least your journey looks the same, just about 3 hours longer

this is fascinating!

Gosh what is going on, Nick Robinson is cutting through AI data centres hype and grilling Labour government on their climate commitments

clearly Britain is no place for business, Larry is not there.

remember the theory that Trump gets intimidated when his bullying hits parties willing to stand up to him? China is testing this theory, and pushing local AI/chips tech capacity ahead. www.ft.com/content/12ad...

as I am finishing the book manuscript on the WallStreetConsensus, it is kind of remarkable how often Germany is the obstructive actor in the room, from the Eurozone debt crisis to the brown taxonomy to fiscal rules

there are other reasons to criticise the geniuses, but the Biden investment program was literally named the Inflation Reduction Act.

fascinating piece on France's strategy to fix crisis of housing affordability hammering European cities. you'll never guess, but it's the state building more (social) housing, to great outrage of institutional landlords, real estate lobbyists and FT's American readers www.ft.com/content/76fb...

congratulations to the @financialtimes.com , you are annoying all the right people!

La Flotilla busca llevar ayuda a Gaza y concienciar sobre la urgencia humanitaria. España, junto a otros 15 países, está a su lado defendiendo la paz y el respeto del derecho internacional. No más violencia contra la sociedad civil que trabaja por la vida y la dignidad del pueblo palestino.

today, Rachel Reeves meets BlackRock & Blackstone bosses to ask what British derisking state can do for them. New Rip-off Britain project by @cmmonwealth.bsky.social shows what institutional ownership has done for us: 200bn from our pockets to Big Finance!

Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.

As a Temu Marxist (???), I'd note that the links between fascism and economic anxiety are pretty well documented, that nobody denies there are rich fascists and that the (eye watering) price of a pint in London is not that strong of an argument here.

Hey British police, I know where you should go next

let's call this the Rachel Reeves view on monetary-fiscal interactions

Independence does not mean neutrality, a view that we must continue to hold even as the authoritarian crazies are converging towards it

it's Monday, another day when Andrew Bailey, the governor of the Bank of England, enjoys fiscal powers nobody gave him, and uses them against the government www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

Want to be clear that the predictable violence against the police wasn't the only problem with yesterday's march It's that 100,000 angry racists gathered in London for the biggest racist march in 50 years, and anyone not white had to steer clear The govt can't see that because they are inadequate.

Keir promised he'd get BlackRock to rebuild Britain, apparently into a place where far right thugs run free, with his silent complicity.

I notice that our Prime Minister, the man who gave the island of strangers speech, routinely demonises refugees and immediately condemned Charlie Kirk's murder on twitter/X has still said nothing about the violent far right mobs on said platform.

I didnt expect the crisis of liberal democracy to unfold with Abundance liberals like Ezra Klein normalising white supremacy as 'liberal' dialogue just because the guy didnt hit people on their heads.

I wrote a short piece on definitions that conflate anti/semitism with (anti)-Zionism and the dangers that their adoption poses specifically for international lawyers, including for our Palestinian colleagues and students: voelkerrechtsblog.org/defining-awa...

ah, @theguardian.com allowing a transphobe to complain about 'lack of inclusion and pluralism' when their entire point is to try to exclude a marginalised group they dont like

yesterday I spent 20 minutes in the morning on X in the wake of the Kirk assasination and I have never seen so much open racism, anti-semitism, fucking AI pictures of Hitler in my life. And yet our government communicates there, and take the 'pulse' of public opinion there

in my professional opinion, we cannot afford hobbyist managers and politicians ruining one of the successful exports of this country.

Coming soon....

Life in late British capitalism - capital poisoning our rivers and pleading for subsidies if we chose to die when we want.

speaking of political assassinations, today we denounce again the dark beginning of neoliberalism, the assassination of Salvador Allende in Chile, a military coup backed by United States. 'The U.S. spent $8 million on covert actions between 1970 and the 1973 coup'. www.npr.org/2023/09/10/1...

omg @leaypi.bsky.social so many questions

Regular reminder that the FT finds itself often to the left of Keir Starmer, just by simply asking the obvious questions.

OMG the universe is not just a sequence of shitty news one after the other

I've written a post Seville piece on the Wall Street Consensus and the investible development paradigm for @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/08/d...

manufacturing jobs report looking bad? Trump has a deflection strategy: arrest some foreign workers at a factory, claim they were there ilegally, blames them for stealing manufacturing jobs from real Americans, and MAGA buys it.

The Trump/Republican take on industrial policy is just nuts - Japan has 45 days to fund projects earmarked by Trump, will share profits with US, but also will benefit from 'buy from Japan' procurement rules for those investments. make it make sense. www.ft.com/content/ba94...

This looks smashing