Excited to be a fellow @transitionsec.bsky.social with a bunch of brilliant people thinking about the intertwining of militarisation and climate breakdown. Launch event this eve and lots of great stuff to follow!

‘More than a hundred groups co-ordinated to try to shut DSEI down. There were banners from the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, the Global Women’s Strike and Quakers for peace, among others.’ Rebekah Diski at the Stop the Arms Fair protests, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...

For the @lrb.co.uk blog, I wrote about DSEI, one of the world’s biggest arms fairs, which the UK hosts every 2 years. This year, protests drew attention to the companies profiting from genocide in Gaza, while Starmer met Israeli president Herzog at Downing St. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...

I wrote about David Lammy's newfound outrage over Gaza. Hard to swallow for those of us in his own constituency, where he and Haringey council have consistently ignored our demands for action: tribunemag.co.uk/2025/05/too-...

Larry Fink's 2025 letter: we will solve distributional crisis of capitalism if you give me your savings so I can privatise every public good under the sun. We shall call this democratizing investment. www.blackrock.com/corporate/in...

I always struggle a little to explain my students why Marxists are right about freedom in the capitalist state. Jeff Bezos does it so much better.

This is by one of the booksellers in East Jerusalem whose shop was raided by Israeli forces last night, and is currently in Israeli detention. (Written in November 2023) www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/no...

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Of course they back a third runway at Heathrow. I wrote about Labour's obsession with growth and the madness of airport expansion on the LRB blog www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ja...

I wrote quite a long thing about Bidenomics, contradictions of green growth, and why we shouldn't be so excited by 'the return of industrial policy' for Strange Matters magazine: strangematters.coop/failure-of-b...