I wrote about Heathrow expansion and Labour's 'number one mission' of economic growth (not climate catastrophe, not threadbare public services, not child poverty but...) Now the govt's own figures suggest related growth would be derisory, which is no surprise. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ja...

📢 💥NEW PTO EXTRA 📢💥 @trillingual.bsky.social responds to listener questions on the trajectory of the far-right, the mainstream media's role in normalising far-right narratives and what to expect from Labour under Andy Burnham:

"Many of us in the labor movement have felt strongly that more of our [political] leaders should be labor union members, should be organisers, and that that's an important part of a vision for doing politics differently." - @lizafeatherstone.bsky.social on the New York Primaries:

I wrote about how, according to newly public FBI documents, Alliance Defending Freedom may have helped influence the criminal indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center

A clip from my interview with Liza Featherstone - on the DSA's victories in the New York primaries:

"Many of us in the labor movement have felt strongly that more of our [political] leaders should be labor union members, should be organisers, and that that's an important part of a vision for doing politics differently." - @lizafeatherstone.bsky.social on the New York Primaries:

📢💥NEW EPISODE📢💥 - Liza Featherstone on the stunning electoral wins for the Democratic Socialists of America in New York. We talked about the ramifications of the results, the DSA organising model, and the salience of the Gaza genocide in the primaries:

ICYMI - @adriennebuller.bsky.social editor of @the-breakdown.bsky.social on the politics of heatwaves and their unequal impacts. We talked climate adaptation (in its more and less benign guises), the Green Party, and the increasing threat of the deployment of geoengineering at scale:

'She said when young people from the banlieue left their areas to try to seek respite, for example at the seaside, “some French commentators talk about an ‘invasion’ because it is a group of 15-20 young people who are Black or north African”...

bit.ly/4aR3kYu Spectre editor @grundrza.bsky.social writing on postcolonial sociology.

'She said when young people from the banlieue left their areas to try to seek respite, for example at the seaside, “some French commentators talk about an ‘invasion’ because it is a group of 15-20 young people who are Black or north African”...

You almost wish there had been some sort of a major health event in recent years - one that would have provided the absolutely perfect opportunity to retrofit our schools and improve ventilation systems.

You almost wish there had been some sort of a major health event in recent years - one that would have provided the absolutely perfect opportunity to retrofit our schools and improve ventilation systems.

Everything is going fine. informat.ro/en/internati...

ICYMI - @adriennebuller.bsky.social editor of @the-breakdown.bsky.social on the politics of heatwaves and their unequal impacts. We talked climate adaptation (in its more and less benign guises), the Green Party, and the increasing threat of the deployment of geoengineering at scale:

Listen to the episode here:

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Watching BBC News and they just did 5 minutes with a doctor about how this heatwave is life threatening and the interviewer closed it with "well, it's just an opportunity to have ice cream for breakfast!!". Amazing clip of how the BBC seems just blissfully unaware of what is happening

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"There's a recent study by the University of Colorado looking at global media coverage of the climate crisis. And they found that in the five years since 2021, it's dropped by over a third and actually closer to 40%." - @adriennebuller.bsky.social, editor of @the-breakdown.bsky.social

From my recent interview with Adrienne - on the politics of heatwaves:

"There's a recent study by the University of Colorado looking at global media coverage of the climate crisis. And they found that in the five years since 2021, it's dropped by over a third and actually closer to 40%." - @adriennebuller.bsky.social, editor of @the-breakdown.bsky.social

"When temperatures top 30C, farmers are advised to stop transporting cattle... there’s no equivalent upper temperature limit on when you should stop putting children in classrooms." www.londoncentric.media/p/londons-sc... h/t @will-davies.bsky.social

My son’s primary school sending kids home at lunchtime all week due to heat. This will get Political at some point soon.

Striking fact from @adriennebuller.bsky.social on the reliably brilliant Politics Theory Other podcast: Each year, a trillion litres of water - 3 billion litres a day - is lost to leakage from the decrepit UK water system

[Politics Theory Other] TThe rise of the UK far-right w/ Daniel Trilling podcastaddict.com/politics-the...

[Politics Theory Other] Heatwave politics w/ Adrienne Buller podcastaddict.com/politics-the...

Great piece from @will-davies.bsky.social

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Jesienią pojawi się polskie wydanie 🫡 heterodox.pl/sklep/wartos...

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"We have infrastructural systems that are built for a completely different era... that are just radically ill equipped for the world that we now live in." - @adriennebuller.bsky.social of @the-breakdown.bsky.social on the politics of heatwaves:

The latest Interregnum with @leninology.bsky.social @poltheoryother.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/161260... #politics #fightthepower

"We have infrastructural systems that are built for a completely different era... that are just radically ill equipped for the world that we now live in." - @adriennebuller.bsky.social of @the-breakdown.bsky.social on the politics of heatwaves:

Really good podcast episode about religious extremism fueling Trump regime fuckery. Guest Eleanor Janega is a treasure. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/politics-theory-other/id1370561641?i=1000763972252

Liz Pelly was also on Politics Theory Other podcast talking about how Spotify has been shifting our* tastes, how we listen, and the that gets made— not to mention how it extracts from artists. It's diabolical because they sold themselves as the solution to the music industry. *I don't use Spotify

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📣 💥NEW EPISODE 📣 💥- @adriennebuller.bsky.social of @the-breakdown.bsky.social on the politics of heatwaves and their unequal impacts. We talked climate adaptation (in its more and less benign guises), the Green Party, and the increasing threat of the deployment of geoengineering at scale:

Essential listening

Brilliant episode of PTO, featuring my colleague @adriennebuller.bsky.social

this is the good stuff folks, go listen:

📣 💥NEW EPISODE 📣 💥- @adriennebuller.bsky.social of @the-breakdown.bsky.social on the politics of heatwaves and their unequal impacts. We talked climate adaptation (in its more and less benign guises), the Green Party, and the increasing threat of the deployment of geoengineering at scale:

I spoke to @poltheoryother.bsky.social last week for some reflections on heatwaves, ocean currents, a dose of geoengineering and the state of climate politics. Give it a listen! (then don't tell me if you do because I'm always too scared to listen back) podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

Great piece and very well written / understandable on how machine learning tools are being used - and not being used - in climate science and weather forecasts arstechnica.com/science/2026...

This is pretty much how Orbán was defeated in Hungary. People got united. All kinds of people from all kinds of backgrounds living in all kinds of places.

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This seems quite important in these times ...

"A regional order organized around Israeli impunity requires levels of coercion that are accelerating American decline."

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