Spoiler alert: no. ๐คฃ๐คฃ
In all seriousness, though, what fun to write this with @jsnyder.bsky.social, @martinlukk.bsky.social and Eric Schneiderhan, and to be in dialogue with so many wide-ranging and excellent responses to our piece. Thanks to all who contributed!
13.11.2025 21:09 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Great new exbo at my place of work #LSBU on community activism in SE1 in 1970s @se1.news. Free to all so come along to Borough Road Gallery at 103 Borough Road, SE1 0EH ๐. #localhistory @chppc.bsky.social
18.10.2025 11:44 โ ๐ 22 ๐ 10 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
The Politics of Feeling and this Conjunctural Crisis
A workshop on the politics of feeling in this conjunctural crisis, with Anna Secor, Ben Anderson, Will Davies, Jeremy Gilbert.
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! ๐ฅ
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...
29.09.2025 16:17 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Reform UK's migration plan 'abhorrent beyond words', says Royal College of Nursing
The Royal College of Nursing says that thousands of migrant nurses would lose their jobs under Reform UKโs plan to end indefinite leave to remain and that this would be abhorrent. Nicola Ranger, its general secretary and chief executive, said:
โEnchantedโ organisations, in Davies (2017: 23) terms, such as trade unions or guilds offer forms of authority that have no connection to โmarkets, calculations or individual choiceโ
tl;dr - Trade unions can call out your shit.
22.09.2025 16:17 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
"Bad state" can mean different things to different people. To some, it could mean that the area's been devastated by austerity and underinvestment. To others, it could mean that some black or brown people have moved into the neighbourhood.
28.08.2025 19:16 โ ๐ 26 ๐ 9 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
๐ท ๐ท ๐ท NEW: Polling for Compass reveals that a majority of the public support taxing the vast wealth of the UK's richest.
If Labour fails to listen to the country on taxing wealth and surrenders the resources that this would unlock, a decade of national renewal is a nonstarter.
24.08.2025 14:04 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 9 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
INTERVIEW with Jason Hickel: "Degrowth is a gateway into socialist thought for the 21st century"
Jason Hickel on the last five years of debating degrowth.
I joined @andrewonearth.bsky.social for this interview reflecting on degrowth, socialism, & political power.
"Our governments are not dealing with the ecological crisis because they are capitalist. So, it is capitalism that must be overcome."
breakdownjournal.substack.com/p/interview-...
11.08.2025 19:05 โ ๐ 83 ๐ 35 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 0
Degrowth should be understood as an element within a socialist transformation, as a corrective to certain productivist strains of socialist thought that are inadequate for our current moment."
11.08.2025 19:05 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
YouTube most popular first TV destination for children, Ofcom finds
One in five young viewers go to platform first when they turn on TV, as older people also watch more of its content
It's Ofcom Media Nations Day! The annual state of the nation report on the UK's media habits. This year the stand-out finding is that most kids start with YouTube. www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Quick ๐งต on how the presentation of these findings is a good example of what's up with media policy
30.07.2025 05:42 โ ๐ 49 ๐ 35 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 6
UK university staff: keep signing!
29.07.2025 05:51 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 9 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
24.07.2025 12:39 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
There is so much wrong with Labour's comms. But I think this ad, in many ways sums them up. It's not just a really shit ad - 13 words that make your eyes bleed, dissociated from the image they're clunkily slapped across. That's just shit execution.
23.07.2025 04:40 โ ๐ 122 ๐ 31 ๐ฌ 19 ๐ 34
Jacqueline Rose ยท On Cora Kaplan
There is a world which is at times โ and today even more โ regressive and frightening; cultural analysis must never...
โCora, in her work and person, always gave a unique gloss to the feminist slogan that the personal is political, which defined so much of the spirit of those heady early years.โ
Jacqueline Rose remembers the feminist critic Cora Kaplan: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
09.07.2025 14:10 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
This is one of those situations where having been surveyed before is really useful to interpreting survey results.
My strong hunch is that: these people don't think this. But when you are answering questions, you are aware that the data is going to be interpreted! So in your head when...
08.07.2025 10:47 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Well, so many people are, right now, on their bikes delivering things without labour protection.
08.07.2025 10:07 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
A happy person being presented with a tote bag by another happy person
Look how chuffed I am with my @jcultecon.bsky.social bag
Cheers @allartmarkets.bsky.social
02.06.2025 15:41 โ ๐ 13 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
people who receive child tax credit or universal credit are also โtaxpayersโ, of course
01.06.2025 07:54 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Great blog โ plenty of evidence of โcare strippingโ in our ongoing research on the social/welfare crowdfunding economy
22.05.2025 14:35 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
AI is a force multiplier for scams, and there is SO much we' urgentlyneed to learn in order to know what to do about it
21.05.2025 16:52 โ ๐ 28 ๐ 17 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Book cover for Public Data Cultures (Polity, forthcoming 2025).
"Public Data Cultures" now has a cover! It nurtures critical and creative engagements with data as cultural material, medium of participation and site of transnational politics. Out with @politybooks.bsky.social this autumn & now available for pre-order. ๐ฑ๐โจ๐๐ jonathangray.org/publicdatacu...
15.05.2025 08:51 โ ๐ 77 ๐ 21 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 3
Screenshot of GoFundMe saying they were โrefundingโ my payment to a fundraiser in Gaza
Today I received another email from @gofundme.com saying they were โrefunding meโ - aka continuing to stop starving Palestinians in Gaza from accessing one of the only ways of accessing money to pay for food. Aiding & abetting genocide, in other words. We wonโt forget.
30.04.2025 18:48 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Every "smash the gangs" reference, every Starmer op-ed blaming public service collapse on the tiny proportion of refugees who come to this country, every border externalisation and offshore "returns hub" deal, is Labour running Reform's campaign for them, gratis. That they can't see this is damning.
30.04.2025 09:40 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
I remember at my very first Labour branch meeting after moving to the Cotswolds, I suggested the council look at increasing council tax on 2nd homes, at which point a Labour councillor turned to me with doe eyes and woefully said โoh no, because some of us just inherited our parentsโ housesโ
14.04.2025 08:33 โ ๐ 66 ๐ 12 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 0
On Tuesday we are getting together to celebrate Finance Aesthetics: A Critical Glossary.
The event will be on campus at Goldsmiths, and will feature conversation from editors and guests. Come along!
Sign up for free here -
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/finance-ae....
03.04.2025 10:55 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
Our last seminar or the semester tomorrow. London media types very welcome.
02.04.2025 06:47 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Economist James Meadway (@meadwaj.bsky.social) on how Labour is approaching growth in COMPLETELY the wrong way ๐
#Budget2025
27.03.2025 17:36 โ ๐ 125 ๐ 44 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 4
Join us next week at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social to hear @jwyg.bsky.social & @lboungr.bsky.social of @publicdatalab.bsky.social share their work on developing collaborative methods for exploring public issues.
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Weds 2nd April, 16:00 - 17:30
๐Register now at edin.ac/3DCDVEF
25.03.2025 14:56 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
Economist (mainly ecological macro, housing, rent theory).
Honorary Fellow at UCL's IIPP.
Proud to have helped set up the London Renters Unionโ.
Co-author #LandForTheMany.
Feminist SocSci-Humanities scholar-practitioner in tech & AI. Associate Director & Senior Researcher: www.lcfi.ac.uk
VLR-MAA-DEL-BOM-BLR-BER-CBG
Outside cat; but more of a dog person really.
bodyofwork.in
Career Development Fellow in international political economy at University of Durham, working on neoliberalism and psychoanalysis
Postdoctoral Research Fellow @ Data Sciences Institute, University of Toronto.
Politics, inequality, and the internet. Author of GoFailMe: The Unfulfilled Promise of Digital Crowdfunding (Stanford University Press). www.martinlukk.com
Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. Interested in public health ethics, bioethics, philosophy, crowdfunding, and exploitation, among other things.
Global research policy, funding & HE news from Research Professional News, including Research Fortnight, Research Europe and Research Africa. Part of Clarivate.
The campaign for communities to have a powerful say on data and AI, to help create an equitable and sustainable world.
connectedbydata.org
Data nerd/wonk. Founder of Connected by Data, campaigning for communities to have a powerful say over data and AI.
Into trans rights, neurodiversity, board games, lego, dogs, spreadsheets.
www.jenitennison.com
Journalist and author from south London. Latest book: MULTITUDES: How Crowds Made the Modern World (Verso 2024).
https://cursedobjects.podbean.com/
https://danhancox.substack.com/
President,The British Academy.
Writes about housing and economic inequality.
Life Fellow at Girton College, Emerita Honorary Professor in the Dept of Geography, Cambridge University, UK.
(Views my own).
Outreach and research centre devoted to encouraging the widest possible participation in historical study and debate.
theoryculturesociety.org
Information on the academic, peer-reviewed journals 'Theory, Culture & Society' and 'Body & Society', as well as the TCS Book Series.
I (try to) advance knowledge on the politics of dictatorships, political elites, comparative politics, and ๐ต๐ as Associate Professor at University of Oslo. I also collect loads of data on governments: https://bit.ly/whogov.
@GeogDurham Postdoctoral Research Associate http://algorithmicsocieties.org on Machine Learning, Recognition, Attribution and Inference
Powering the National Databank, National Device Bank and our free online digital skills platform, Learn My Way. Supporting the National Digital Inclusion Network.
Header image text reads: "Fixing the digital divide - for good."
We are the think-do tank that backs community business. We turn bold ideas into action so communities have the power to change what matters to them.
powertochange.org.uk
Head of Advocacy at Patriotic Millionaires UK. These views and tweets are all mine.
Director of Policy and Programmes at the Economic Change Unit. Interested in all things politics, economics and climate. Views my own.
