David Wearing

Laleh Khalili & David Wearing: Extractive Capitalism | London Review Bookshop Laleh Khalili, Professor of Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter, looks behind the glossy surface promises of frictionless trade and limitless growth to uncover the…

Me in conversation with @lalehkhalili.bsky.social at the London Review Bookshop on her new book "Extractive Capitalism". Here or wherever you get your podcasts www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/podcasts-vid...

"New World Order? Venezuela, Greenland, Iran: Geopolitics and the UK". Faiza Shaheen in conversation with Dr David Wearing, Assistant Professor in International Relations at the University of Sussex. Monday 7.30pm, 26th January. Pankhurst Hall, Woodford Memorial Hall, 209 High Road, London E19 2PA

Join me and @faizashaheen.bsky.social next Monday 26 Jan at Woodford Memorial Hall as we discuss UK foreign policy in a time of geopolitical crisis

@davidwearing.bsky.social : "Look at the record of the people who are on this board of peace.. are these credible people to be promoting peace? Are these credible people to deliver the interests of the Palestinian people? It's not cynical to say they aren't, its just a recognition of reality"

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Where's this from?

Yeah, Chomsky too

History will record how a non-trivial number of supposedly liberal centrists went along - wittingly or unwittingly - with the transparently McCarthyite scam of the cancel culture/free speech moral panic And in doing so helped pave the way for neo-fascism.

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CAAT - How the UK arms and supports Israel’s genocide in Gaza The UK is deeply complicit in supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza: through arms sales, RAF reconnaissance flights over Gaza, from which it is suspected intelligence is shared with Israel, training of...

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For Labour people, its either this sort of performance or just facing reality.

Saw an exchange this guy had with someone on UK arms to Israel and how its no big deal. And honestly the combination of utter self confidence and utter ignorance, which would be offensive at the best of times, is really something else when we're talking about genocide.

Sad to see them putting ideological purity before the national interest

and in framing themselves as the only True Knowers, the data boys fail to understand how they form part of the complicated, contingent outcomes they’re claiming to observe objectively. “We can only respond to poll numbers, not shape action,” is itself a theory of the world that evidence doesn’t back

How combining Lucy holding the football and Charlie Brown kicking the football can save Labour

A big blanket term for "people who aren't us" that encompasses social democrats and white supremacists.

Corporate power...and the far right

Beautiful :)

We have long departed the realms of actual pragmatism where you appeal to both your base and the swing vote. We are now in the realms of reactionary pathology where you hold your base vote and their values in sincere contempt while chasing a concept of a swing voter that is 100% illusory.

It will take a substantive, progressive shift in policy. The mind-blowingly radical step of doing things your target voters like. Maintain the current course, and insult a politician who is better appealing to your target voters, and you confirm in their minds that they were right to reject you.

Clearly Labour would sooner alienate even more of the progressive voters they're losing than do what it takes to build the voter coalition they need to keep Farage out of no10.

They'll never let go of that little article of faith no matter how low their numbers drop

These people live in a little fairyland. Probably have music playing in their heads when they type out stuff like this

What about someone like myself who is mixed British Asian? Could I get half a seat in the Commons? Could I share it with a sibling?

Yes, that was the paragraph that jumped out at me as well. Beautiful.

We may well be reading different things. In global political economy one cannot teach or research seriously without using the concept. Remember that neoliberal SAPs were devastating across the South. This likely explains much of the explosion in the term's usage in the graph you shared earlier.

I’m on hunger strike in a British prison. This is why | Amu Gib Our demands are simple – and they start with stopping the flow of arms to Israel, says activist Amu Gib

There has been a relentless, cacophonous campaign to stigmatise pro-Palestinian activists. But the inconvenient truth is that these are just ordinary people of good conscience who see the horrors of Gaza and simply cannot bear to stand by and do nothing.

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Dean of the Department of Didn't Happen

I think we can all agree on these principles. Where we disagree is the suggestion that neoliberalism is a term that has not - generally speaking - been used with due care. The mere number of times the term has been used doesn't constitute evidence of this.

Yes, that may be it. Although I suspect future historians will use terms to describe Trump and Farage that neither figure is currently using to describe themselves. And that there'll be less of a debate around them doing that.