Oli Mould

Reform dare to pretend they are an anti-establishment party. But in truth they are the party of crony corporate capitalism and the elites funded by such people to look after their own interests. Latest figures from the Electoral Commission on political party donations.

"VAR is like trying to get hold of your bank at weekends" is a thing of pure brilliance

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.

No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.

Worth a watch.

(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

Urban life is cosmopolitianism and the celebration of difference at it's most viceral. He clearly attempted to destroy that as a gentrifying, homogenising real estate mogul, but as President with the apparatus of imperial violence at his fingertips, he can target that very essence of 'the city'.

One of the key facets of Trump's facistic violence is urbicide, and not just on a physical level (i.e. destroying cities, infrastructures and lives of those bodies he deems recalcitrant). It is ideological in that 'the city' characterises a vivacity of life he (and his ilk) hate.

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Caitlin Jones, Eliza Breder & Tyler McCreary (2026) entitled: 'Alligator Alcatraz and the Production of Environmental Carcerality in the Everglades' with a black banner at the top. In June 2025, the state of Florida opened 'Alligator Alcatraz', a federal immigration detention centre, in the Florida Everglades, weaponising animals and landscapes to construct racialised geographies of fear and rationalise multispecies environmental injustice. In this paper, we examine the symbolic and material conditions of Alligator Alcatraz, pulling apart how what appears to be a novel use of landscape and species for immigration enforcement, is in fact, a deeply historical logic that draws on long-standing settler colonial tropes of emptiness, danger and disposability. We illustrate how both the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis), and the Everglades itself, are conscripted into carceral geographies that reflect both ecological degradation and racialised state violence. The alligator becomes conscripted as a federal immigration officer, touted by federal and state officials as a mascot of environmental carcerality. Meanwhile, the Everglades is deployed as an empty, deterrent landscape, reviving a settler imaginary that has long justified its destruction and casts Indigenous land, life and knowledge and the more-than-human beings living within it as expendable. Alligator Alcatraz pushes us to consider what carceral geographies of US immigration policy reveal about the disposability of certain bodies—human, ecological and more than human. Ultimately, existing in this spectacle of the racialised past and present are the real human costs of detention development in the Everglades, which is damaging local ecologies and Indigenous and migrant lives.

New in Area - 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝟑 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬

'Alligator Alcatraz and the production of environmental carcerality in the Everglades' by Caitlin Jones et al.

This paper explores the weaponising of animals & landscapes to construct racialised geographies of fear in the U.S.

doi.org/10.1111/area...

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

Trickledown necropolitics

So "alternative facts" then

The Limits of Marx in the Age of Trumpian christofascism The Republic of Gilead from The Handmaid’s Tale; the christofascist state we’re headed for….? For me, it is increasingly perplexing to witness traditional class-based critiques be…

In the light of Trump's Holy Jihad that is a clear direction of his Christian Nationalist backers, it's worth revisiting that wot I wrote a while back: "the limits of Marx in the age of Christo-fascism" to think of resistance

HAHA! It's funny because the Epstein Files are the only thing that matters and the thousands of dead school children and Iranian people are just distracting from the real issue. I am very intelligent.

"Mr Speaker, as @GIGACHAD_1776 said to me on X yesterday"

Grammarly's presentation of something they call Expert Review, including my name (plus Stephen King's, plus Mary Norris's), though to be sure I've never been contacted by Grammarly, much less compensated.

What in the absolute fuck is this.

Compare this with, oh I dunno, Matthew 5 verse 38 “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Of the utterly unhinged, necropolitical rhetoric 2026 has unleashed so far, this is waaaay up there

Those of you old enough will remember Robin as the guy who treated the Focus E15 mothers of the Carpenters Estate with such horrific contempt. He's a mysoginistic, gentrifying bully - so perfect from Reform.

Data on geography at university | RGS Explore key data on how many people study geography at university in the UK and what they go on to do after graduation.

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The kneejerk reaction that any black or brown people who come to the UK to study must be doing it for alterior motives is one of the more foundational blocks of the institutionally racist house.

Mahmood to stop study visas from four countries due to 'abuse' The government will end study visas from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan, due to what she says is abuse.

Great. More attacks on the university sector under the guise of 'cracking down' on asylum. Perhaps if there was a functioning asylum system for Afghans, they wouldn't feel the need to 'lie' and apply for study visas?

BREAKING NEWS in the world of Sticky Toffee Puddings

FYI - you and I are closer in wealth to Bezos, than Bezos is to Musk.

Screenshot of the cover of Postcapitalist cities by Oli Mould

Extremely exciting news that the brilliant @olimould.bsky.social’s new book Post-capitalist Cities is OFFICIALLY OUT & ready to purchase!

I just put in my order - I recommend you do the same! 🤓🤓🤓

Trumpian Jihad

The more you see of the horrors of this ‘conflict’, the more it feels like a Holy War playing out on our screens.

Yes, because we all know ‘the Global South’ is a homogenous uniform block that requires no nuance at all. *stares in orientalism*

The contrast between him and Chris Sutton on the Monday Night Club for example is massive.

Apropos of nothing, Nedum Onuoha is by far and away the best football pundit going: articulate, knowledgable, polite and funny. Only ossifies my theory that full-backs make the best pundits (and strikers make the worst).

Strong. Very strong.

Tell that to the hundreds of girls they killed. I’m sick of the “distraction” discourse; it’s a liberal disease.

‘Natural gas’ prices in the EU have shot up ~40% in a day on news that Qatar is ceasing liquid ‘natural’ gas production at the world’s largest plant.

In related news, sunlight and wind remain free.