Gavin D. J. Harper

A great conversation about the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 - United States 🇺🇸 Critical Materials Deal just broadcast on
Asharq News, Asharq Bloomberg Business.

Great talking to Nadia Bsat about Rare Earths and our work at
@unibirmingham.bsky.social #BCSECM & @ifmcambridge.bsky.social.

Some great discussions about our work at @unibirmingham.bsky.social, University of Birmingham Business School, Birmingham Centre for Strategic Elements and Critical Materials #BCSECM and @cam.ac.uk, Institute for Manufacturing & Cambridge Industrial Resilience Group.

After a Parliamentary Address by Perran Moon MP, it was great to hear the presentations from Jeff Townsend of the Critical Minerals Association (UK), Mike Hill from the Department for Business and Trade, Bruce Adderley at Innovate UK and Andrew Thake from Resourcing Tomorrow.

A hearty thanks to Perran Moon MP and the All Party Parliamentary Group on #CriticalMinerals for the invitation to a Parliamentary Breakfast hosted at the Terrace Pavilion, House of Commons.

Really enjoyed filming this week as a guest on another episode of #TRTWorld Roundtable with Enda Brady. Great to talk about our research at @unibirmingham.bsky.social #BCSECM @UoB_Business ... more to follow next week... watch this space...

Jesus Christ. This email was less than a month before Helsinki

The US-China rare earths deal shows the importance of critical materials in a new era of strategic interdependence | USAPP As resource competition sharpens, resilience and innovation will be key to navigating this new era of strategic interdependence.

The US-China rare earths deal shows the importance of critical materials in a new era of strategic interdependence.

Viet Nguyen-Tien @cep-lse.bsky.social & @gavindjharper.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social for @lseusablog.bsky.social

The fucking irony of a party themed on The Great Gatsby - a novel they’ve obviously never read.….

Grateful to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on #CriticalMinerals for the opportunity to engage on behalf of the @unibirmingham.bsky.social Birmingham Centre for Strategic Elements and Critical Materials with their recent meeting at the Palace of Westminster.

The US-China rare earths deal shows the importance of critical materials in a new era of strategic interdependence | USAPP As resource competition sharpens, resilience and innovation will be key to navigating this new era of strategic interdependence.

Rare earth elements and value chains - @vietecon.bsky.social and @gavindjharper.bsky.social look at the background to the recent US - China deal.

The US-China rare earths deal shows the importance of critical materials in a new era of strategic interdependence | USAPP As resource competition sharpens, resilience and innovation will be key to navigating this new era of strategic interdependence.

The US-China rare earths deal shows the importance of critical materials in a new era of strategic interdependence write Viet Nguyen-Tien of @cep-lse.bsky.social and @gavindjharper.bsky.social of @unibirmingham.bsky.social

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This is disgusting. Blatant corruption at the highest level in plain sight and Oversight Chair Comer Pyle morphs into a combination of Mr. Magoo and Sgt. Schultz.

Screenshot of a post by Bernie Sanders. It lists money that Donald Trump has received in 2025. $3 billion: mostly from crypto $940 million: law firms $400 million plane: Qatar $36 million: CBS $25 million: Meta $24 million: YouTube $16 million: ABC $10 million: X Now $230 million from DOJ?

That we know of.

This is now the second-longest government shutdown of any kind ever in the history of our country.

The two longest shutdowns in US history both while Trump was in office.

He is the common denominator. That needs to start being the headline.

I guess people had short memories.

Destroying our heritage🥲

You know like how they got Al Capone on tax evasion, can the thing that brings him down be a zealous Heritage Buildings Officer getting him for not having listed building consent or whatever it is called in the U.S.

American democracy today....

Seems like the president and entire cabinet responding to today's rallies by posting straight up 4chan filth would be a major story tomorrow. Anyone care to place any bets

They use govt accounts, employees & resources to make partisan political messages.

They make partisan political speeches attacking the opposition party to troops routinely.

They get pardoned when they commit crimes.

They ignore the laws.

There is zero congressional oversight.

Call me old fashioned but I miss the days when we would all be shocked if a President posted a video of himself flying over protesters and dumping poop on them.

I miss the days when a video like that would have been grounds for instant removal from office.

I miss accountability.

Boston. Wow.

Judge Dariusz Łubowski on the decision regarding the extradition of the suspect in the Nord Stream bombing:

“Those actions were not unlawful. On the contrary, they were justified, rational, and fair.”

📹 tvp .info

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

Fox lies. Always wants gullible eyes on them.

America’s brain drain

No words

Nice recap

Remember, decent people like us were traumatized seeing infants and children in cages forced to appear in court alone while separated from their parents.

America voted for a second, more violent and inhumane term.

America voted for this.

Stop pretending ICE just happened out of thin air.

(🚨) BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump No Longer Remembers That He Was President and Controlled the FBI on January 6, 2021, Confirming Americans' Worst Fears About His Advanced Dementia

Crockett: When you I say you are the least qualified in the history of the FBI, it’s real…

Patel: That’s false

Crockett: I didn’t ask you a question. I want to talk about why you're a failure and honestly we need to tell you, bye, bye