Since I spent a significant amount of time listening to people on the doorstep in the run up to the 2019 election, I've thought a lot about fatalism as a barrier for progressive politics, and a gift for the far right. Thanks to @renewaljournal.bsky.social renewal.org.uk/blog/overcom...

We've got a packed room for our panel on Breaking the (Fiscal) Rules! With @franboait.bsky.social , @macrodosepod.bsky.social's James Meadway, Guardian journo @pollytoynbee.bsky.social, @neweconomics.bsky.social's @dhnnjyn.bsky.social and @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social #RadicalRenewal

Never been early enough to the British Library to join the queue to get in! Like a theme park but we are just queuing up to start work...

If you, like me, are trying to make sense of Trump's second inauguration I can highly recommend Wendy Brown's Nihilistic Times, seems like we are gonna have to understand nihilism to come out the other side of this collapsing system.... (alongside capitalism, patriarchy, and white supremacy)

Want to know about how we move beyond the dollar, and towards a future of money and payments for economic and climate justice? I'm looking forward to Chairing this event tonight! There is still time to sign up and listen to the fantastic line up of leading scholars in the field

Critical from @keeanga.bsky.social about the economic and social pain that the Dems completely misunderstood: "https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-pain-creating-a-new-coalition-for-trump

a bit embarrassing 😅

“Our damning findings must serve as a wake-up call: this is genocide and it must stop now” David Lammy, Keir Starmer over to you..... www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

“I’ve been wondering why artists are required to dream up liberation in the gallery, but when that dream means life, we are shut down” ❤️https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/dec/03/jasleen-kaur-38-wins-the-turner-prize-2024

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

The problem is Starmer saying he wants “nothing less than the complete re-wiring of the British state,” is a bit like Gregg Wallace saying 'he wants nothing less than to dismantle patriarchy', he can say it but it doesn't mean he knows what it means www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“Elon Musk has been radicalised by his own platform,” said a British tech lobbyist, referring to the algorithms on X which have been feeding him a skewed and distorted view of British politics.

Whatever happens in today's vote, most people would agree citizens assemblies or participatory democracy could have helped national conversation, as pointed out below 👇 Pity Keir Starmer got rid of Sue Gray who was going to champion such democractic processes 🤔 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Wintery morning on the heath

Glorious five-minute musical tour of how the Klamath got damned and undammed. youtu.be/J9TTgV3wzQ8?...

'he seemed to have a respect for me that I’d not really experienced before' Though its a story about severe mental illness its also a universal story about the power of being heard & respected, I'm really proud of my brother Ed's article in Schizophrenia Bulletin academic.oup.com/schizophreni...

First snow swim at the ladies pond...Winter is here ❄️❄️❄️

'There has been no interest in the economic profile of British Muslims and how their material frustrations intersect with those over foreign policy, giving rise to protest votes that are profoundly democratic and integrated, rather than separatist.' www.runnymedetrust.org/publications...

It’s always difficult when a group of new friends meet together for the first time to get acquainted. So I'm perfectly prepared to start the ball rolling. I mean, I have absolutely no idea what we're doing here. Or what I'm doing here, or what this place is about, but I am determined to enjoy myself

I like these lists to speed up following folk on here, but now I'm following 100 FT journalists and no one else....on the look out for the radical green feminist socialist list 👀

'Our despair goes beyond Trump. We feel we lost our era, and we have become pointless.' www.ft.com/content/b713...

What happened to mastodon? Did everyone decide Bluesky was better? (Realise I'm a bit late to the party)

Looking forward to delivering a lecture on 'Money, Finance, and the Economy' thank you @cacrisalves.bsky.social for the invite, the last time I gave a lecture to Masters students was Cambridge MScis in 2012 on carbon dioxide storage, and they were falling asleep 😅 www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...