Cheers🍻from Roystons last Green drinks of the year at King James pub. Our Royston group is really growing🌱🌱🌱 This will be the only area having elections in North Herts next year so we are very hopeful 🙂

Thank you to Onur Ozmen for inviting me to contribute to this!

Also a lesson for morally bankrupt, supposedly progressive parties worldwide: if you spend your energy trying to make voters who hate everything about you hate you slightly less, they still won't vote for you.

🌿☕ Green Cafe - Letchworth ☕🍪 - Social drop-in: 📌*Miss Green Fingers*, 2-4 Eastcheap, Letchworth Garden City SG6 3DE 📅 Sat 5th July 🕙 anytime 10:00am - 11:30am Green curious? New Member? Thinking of making a green lifestyle change e.g. EV, heat pump, recycling tips? Come for a friendly chat🙂

Looking for critical realist PhD theses? Or do you have one to share? You need the CR Network's thesis archive! criticalrealismnetwork.org/the-critical...

🤗 FANTASTIC! Hitchin greens outnumbered by Royston greens💚 at our Cafe social today. Afterwards we finished leafleting Royston Place ward. Shout out to Kooky Nomad this #smallbusinessSaturday

This is how you protect your democracy. The US is a demonstration of what happens when you don't. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

I suspect that prosperous folk will still get them (including most of those driving this change) but guess what? Poor people won't.

♻️Green Cafe ☕🍪🫖🍰 Social drop-in: 📌Wakelin & Son, Carling Building, Market Pl, Hitchin SG5 1AR 📅 Sat 6th Sept 2025 🕙 10:00am - 11:30am Green Cafe Social drop in - discuss green issues, start a green initiative, green party curious? Come along and support this indy coffee shop #smallbusinesssaturday

Utterly scandalous. Renationalise without compensation now!

Cunliffe's review into the water sector deliberately left out the option of public ownership. The only way to stop millions of pounds being siphoned off for huge CEO salaries and shareholder dividends is to end the scam of privatised water. Public ownership now. greenparty.org.uk/2025/07/21/g...

Now to introduce proportional representation for all elections. Give us real representative democracy. #PR #FPTP

Very pleased that my paper 'Segmenting Ontology' is out in Synthese doi.org/10.1007/s112... On the relationship between quantum, material and social reality.

Interview: The road to Social Ecological Economics: an interview with Clive Spash, part 1, with Clive Spash & Jamie Morgan doi.org/10.1080/1476...

We must stop mega-donors from warping our democracy. A ban on annual donations over £5,000 would cut the influence of big donors on our politics and protect the interests of ordinary voters. Sign the petition secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/162623/...

Did you miss our webinar on Karin Zotzmann's new book 'Codes of Corruption'? Or was it so good you want to hear it again? You're in luck! You can watch it again here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3YY...

Great question... eastangliabylines.co.uk/business/eco...

New @shepherdbooks.bsky.social article featuring Oz Hassan out now pn Bisa ! 🎉 'The best books that explain why the West keeps getting the world wrong' inc/ @daveev.bsky.social , Arturo Escobar, Barry Buzan, Susanna P. Campbell & more 🌟 Read now - buff.ly/3dBk6EL @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org

It is clear British Steel must be brought into public hands. It's also clear that private ownership of public services has failed, with consumers paying billions of pounds over the odds for poor and unreliable services. Time to take back control of our public services.

This should be fascinating. Karin's book is based on a corpus of real corruption cases from Mexico. Find out more in her blog post: criticalrealismnetwork.org/2025/03/27/c...

Karin Zotzmann’s 'Codes of Corruption: A Critical Realist Discourse Analysis of Illicit Transactions' is out soon in the Critical Realism book series. Join us on May 14th 2.30pm BST, where Karin will discuss it with Robert Barrington & Gareth Wiltshire. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

"Austerity always leads to lower economic growth. That is what Rachel Reeves is choosing. In that case, her rhetoric will ring hollow today, and that is so politically inept I do not rate her chances of having many more goes at making such statements." What Richard said.

Balancing the books on the backs of disabled people is not just unfair; it’s cruel. A million disabled people stand to lose vital support, while the wealthiest are protected. This isn’t necessity, it’s a choice—and it’s the wrong one. #SpringStatement

If Labour's chancellor had any progressive principles at all, a wealth tax would be at the heart of the statement she is making right now. Instead, she is going to hammer the least wealthy and most vulnerable people in our society.

Blocking humanitarian aid is a clear breach of international law and will lead to more civilian suffering and deaths. UK must take the lead in condemning Israel's actions and calling for aid to be allowed into Gaza. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Out now: Jamie Morgan's interview with Ted Benton in the Journal of Critical Realism. Benton was a key figure in the early history of CR and remains an important eco-socialist. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment." qmucu.org/qmul-transfo... @qmucu.bsky.social

💥 Support for changing from First Past the Post to Proportional Representation hits a record high on @yougov.co.uk 📈 Change to PR - 48% (+3) 📉 Keep FPTP - 24% (-2) 13 Jan 2025 (+/- vs Jan 2024) 🚀 The government should launch a National Commission for Electoral Reform

UK private healthcare is lobbying Wes Streeting to sign a new PFI-like deal with them. Time is running out to ask Wes Streeting to say NO. Please add your name to this petition now. #NoNewPFI weownit.org.uk/act-now/tell...

This open access paper is now 'published in an issue': 'Context, Emergence and Critical Realism: A Response to Navarrete and Fryer' onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Really interesting - and useful for researchers who aren't sure about revealing their critical realist framework in submissions for publication.

England's listed water companies pay more in dividends than private ones United Utilities, Severn Trent Water, Pennon paid £3.6bn dividends since 2020, 61% of the total for water sector. Dents Ofwat claim that relisting of companies will improve performance Must nationalize water archive.ph/FVD4I

Looking forward to 2025's IACR critical realism conference? It will be held at the Akademii Nauk Stosowanych (Academy of Applied Sciences) in Szczecin, Poland (hybrid format). Wed 30 July - Friday 1 Aug, 2025. Pre-conference on Mon 28 & Tue 29. Put it in your diary now - more details later!

Another thing that's worth talking about - do governments really want to legitimise large scale unlawful behaviour followed by attempts to make changes to the law retroactively?

"English devolution bridges two of Labour's biggest challenges: how to make people feel better off and how to rebuild trust in politics." In my new piece, I consider how the government's English devo White Paper contributes to solving these challenges. theconversation.com/english-coun...

Looks interesting!

England water firms push for higher shareholder returns. NO. They picked customer pockets for years, paid high dividends, neglected investment. They charged for sewage disposal, dumped it in rivers. Customers due a refund. Let them go bust. Nationalise. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Thanks to Dean Curran for publishing the video of my talk on 'Inventing Value' in October: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddK-...

Nice to see my short new open access paper 'Context, Emergence and Critical Realism: A Response to Navarrete and Fryer' out online in the Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour doi.org/10.1111/jtsb...

🗳️ MPs have voted in favour of introducing a fair, proportional voting system for general elections. 🤝 The vote showed there is strong support for fair votes within the Parliamentary Labour Party. 🤔 So why doesn't Keir Starmer want seats to match votes?

Any new critical realists joined Bluesky since we created our CR starter pack? Let us know if you'd like to be added to it. go.bsky.app/PzrxpVG

New in JCR: "Falsificationism redux: in search of explanatory rationality in historical sociology" by Simeon J. Newman. Enjoy!

Hi all, Here is an encyclopedia article I wrote that seeks to explain different types of realism to grad students. Wheelahan, L. (2023). Realism and theorizing curriculum—the role of knowledge. If you can't get it, let me know and I'll send it to you: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Interested in Critical Realism? Try our new starter pack go.bsky.app/PzrxpVG Let us know if you'd like to be added (or removed!)

I'm planning an online discussion group on norm circles. Let me know if you're interested.

Was at the @finandsoc.bsky.social Conference last month where I was very fortunate to have a great set of panellists discussing my book "Data Enclaves". A big thank you to everyone for engaging with it! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...