One of my favourite pieces we have done so far in the magazine! www.break-down.org/the-sunlight...

"Stardust Solutions is a US-Israeli company that is developing technology for solar geoengineering. They've raised $15 million in funding from AWZ Ventures, a Canadian-Israeli venture capital fund that advertises its ties to the CIA, FBI, and the Mossad..." - Sofia Menemenlis

📢☀️NEW EPISODE📢☀️ Sofia Menemenlis joins PTO to talk about her recent article on the threat of solar geoengineering in the @the-breakdown.bsky.social:

You can read Sofia's essay here — a digital subscription is just over £1 a month and enables us to keep publishing these important stories www.break-down.org/the-sunlight...

Recommended listen: with Sofia Menemenlis on @poltheoryother.bsky.social covering her superb essay on the science and politics of geoengineering for Issue 2 of @the-breakdown.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

📢☀️NEW EPISODE📢☀️ Sofia Menemenlis joins PTO to talk about her recent article on the threat of solar geoengineering in the @the-breakdown.bsky.social:

I interviewed Sofia Menemenlis about her recent article in @the-breakdown.bsky.social on the concept and history of solar geoengineering and the threat it poses: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Excited to see Sofia Menemenlis discussing her @the-breakdown.bsky.social essay on solar geoengineering on the great @poltheoryother.bsky.social podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

BBC's editorial policy for stories of crimes committed by asylum seekers seems to be to boost them in the hope of achieving credibility with people who have already decided that the BBC is a pedophile protection racket

Another parable from George Osborne's Britain

"There is a quote often attributed to Chico Mendes... “ecology without class struggle is gardening.” In the case of the current Brazilian government, it is not only the class struggle that is absent, but also the gardening." - @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social www.break-down.org/lulas-dilemma/

Spectre's own Shireen Akram-Boshar writing for @truthout.org .

Really smart analysis by a friend and colleague who knows Korea inside and out. "The roots of the Korean far-right w/ Kevin Gray." podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

ICYMI - Kevin Gray on last year's attempted "self coup" in South Korea. We spoke about the Korean right's roots in the Japanese occupation, the US role in rehabilitating Korean collaborators, and the constituency of the far-right in South Korea today:

On the left, Marr today saying that the dog ate his homework and Britain can’t be governed. On the right, Marr on the NS podcast in late 2023, saying that the lobby hacks were bullshitting the public because they assumed Labour were lying, and they might be smarter and more capable than they looked.

ICYMI - Kevin Gray on last year's attempted "self coup" in South Korea. We spoke about the Korean right's roots in the Japanese occupation, the US role in rehabilitating Korean collaborators, and the constituency of the far-right in South Korea today:

Listen to the full episode here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Listen to the full episode here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

"When the Americans arrived in Korea [in September 1945] they refused to work with the People's Committees. Instead, the United States military worked with the Korean Democratic Party, which consisted mainly of the landlords and the collaborator class." - Kevin Gray

"When the Americans arrived in Korea [in September 1945] they refused to work with the People's Committees. Instead, the United States military worked with the Korean Democratic Party, which consisted mainly of the landlords and the collaborator class." - Kevin Gray

📢 🇰🇷 NEW EPISODE 📢🇰🇷 - Kevin Gray on last year's attempted "self coup" in South Korea. We spoke about the Korean right's roots in the Japanese occupation, the US role in rehabilitating Korean collaborators, and the constituency of the far-right in SK today: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

This was very good and helped explain a lot. It's fun just fir the shaudenfruede, if nothing else.

Excellent starter pack from the host of an excellent podcast. go.bsky.app/TFxd9Yh

Just finished listening to this the other day and it sounds like Alex and @philbc3.bsky.social had to restrain themselves from laughing every five minutes. Great fun!

There has been plenty analysis of the Tory crisis at a journalistic level but @philbc3.bsky.social explains the longer term historical and sociological challenges facing the party of Britain’s ruling class. Essential listening from @poltheoryother.bsky.social. open.spotify.com/episode/0BCp...

"There is a quote often attributed to Chico Mendes... “ecology without class struggle is gardening.” In the case of the current Brazilian government, it is not only the class struggle that is absent, but also the gardening." - @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social www.break-down.org/lulas-dilemma/

Listen to the episode here, or on all the usual podcast apps: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...

📢💥NEW EPISODE📢💥 - @philbc3.bsky.social on the ongoing crisis of the Conservative Party and whether there is a way back* for the party that has dominated British politics for two centuries. *spoiler: there isn't.

"Staring down the path of existential destruction..." - @philbc3 on how the Conservatives' voter coalition is breaking apart as they lose their Gen X voters to Reform:

I sat down with @poltheoryother.bsky.social to talk about the demise of the Tories and how a comeback is exceedingly unlikely.

I sat down with @poltheoryother.bsky.social to talk about the demise of the Tories and how a comeback is exceedingly unlikely.

"Staring down the path of existential destruction..." - @philbc3 on how the Conservatives' voter coalition is breaking apart as they lose their Gen X voters to Reform:

📢💥NEW EPISODE📢💥 - @philbc3.bsky.social on the ongoing crisis of the Conservative Party and whether there is a way back* for the party that has dominated British politics for two centuries. *spoiler: there isn't.

"In France, Emmanuel Macron is absolutely detested. With a virulence that is perhaps difficult to imagine..." - Sebastian Budgen

"Reform is making inroads with business. The most recent Electoral Commission filings show new cash donors from the financial world, once the Tories’ preserve." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"In France, Emmanuel Macron is absolutely detested. With a virulence that is perhaps difficult to imagine..." - Sebastian Budgen

🇫🇷 NEW EPISODE 🇫🇷 - Sebastian Budgen on the political crisis in France where Emmanuel Macron has appointed his third prime minister in a year. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...

"Very erratic, very unprincipled, very opportunistic on just about every, every level." - Sebastian Budgen on Emmanuel Macron's vacillating position on Gaza:

"Very erratic, very unprincipled, very opportunistic on just about every, every level." - Sebastian Budgen on Emmanuel Macron's vacillating position on Gaza:

Sebastian Budgen on Emmanuel Macron's failed economic programme and unimpressive domestic legacy:

London people come discuss and celebrate with us! A launch event for The Politics of Feeling on 25th November at the October Gallery, with @will-davies.bsky.social and @jemgilbert.bsky.social. Eventbrite link below! 🥂 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...

You can also see how well suited they are to the age of platforms, with meme-like visual 'icons' that hold their shape in a torrent of imagery, like emojis: the logo, that haircut, the bucket hats, the Adidas logo. Oasis 2025 is what an LLM might come up with if you fed it Oasis 1994-95.

A factor in this triumphant return is how platforms (Spotify) dissolve historical time, with the effect that a) nobody needs to remember that this was a band whose 'good' patch lasted circa 18 months and b) they provide the backdrop for inter-generational bonding

"My abiding feeling reading was: oh God, this was all just as bad as it looked." - @nesrinemalik.bsky.social on the Kamala Harris book:

"My abiding feeling reading was: oh God, this was all just as bad as it looked." - @nesrinemalik.bsky.social on the Kamala Harris book:

"While Trump’s first term looked like an aberration, a morbid symptom of a dying world, his second looks more like an attempt to enforce a new paradigm." - @will-davies.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"While Trump’s first term looked like an aberration, a morbid symptom of a dying world, his second looks more like an attempt to enforce a new paradigm." - @will-davies.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I have a review of John Ganz's When The Clock Broke in the new LRB www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"The Starmer leadership want Reform to do well. It's the strategy that you're going to alight upon if you are a centrist political formation with nothing positive to offer, because the only way you can get people to vote for you is to make it a kind of blackmail." - @leninology.bsky.social

"The Starmer leadership want Reform to do well. It's the strategy that you're going to alight upon if you are a centrist political formation with nothing positive to offer, because the only way you can get people to vote for you is to make it a kind of blackmail." - @leninology.bsky.social