Tim White

Illiberalism, war, violence and authoritarianism: the current conjuncture – an interview with Professor Anthony Bogues LSE Human Rights Professor Anthony Bogues examines authoritarian resurgence, the unravelling of the postwar order, and the entanglements of liberalism and illiberalism.

What’s driving today’s authoritarian turn? How is the postwar order shifting? And where do liberalism and illiberalism collide?

Professor Anthony Bogues spoke to @neilwarner.bsky.social and @willkend.bsky.social about his recent LSE lecture.

Billionaire halts mass eviction after London Centric investigation Exclusive: Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital hoped to replace hundreds of tenants with more lucrative temporary accommodation. That plan has been shelved – for now.

Really great work from @londoncentric.media. It's a crime that temporary accommodation, funded by council tax payers, is more lucrative than long term rentals www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

1. La vivienda en alquiler se ha convertido en un gran negocio. Los rentistas controlan la economía y la política, pero destrozan la sociedad.

Hay alternativas. La generación inquilina puede acabar con esta desigualdad y cambiar el modelo para siempre.

A partir del 9 de marzo🙌🧵

Hyper-commodified housing products and the triple crisis: regulating the symptom or rethinking housing provision? This paper argues that the regulation of co-living and short-term rental accommodation – identified as ‘hyper-commodified housing products’ (HCHPs) – faces an important hurdle. The hyper-commodific...

🤩So happy to see the first output of the HypeRent research project out!
In this OA paper, @douccap.bsky.social and I propose an analytical fmwk to make sense of the development and regulation of co-living and STRA, identified as hyper-commodified housing products.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Looks great, congrats guys!

Epstein Family Values • EQUATOR The billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants

There are some characteristically fascinating points in this @melindacooper.bsky.social piece about the Epstein scandal, and what it reveals about the "master and servant" logic of the contemporary far right www.equator.org/articles/eps...

Brilliant to see this out!

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Out today @intellectbooks.bsky.social: 'Reconstructing the American Dream: Life Inside the Tiny House Nation' w/Ella Harris, Mel Nowicki & Cian Oba-Smith. Through photographic and ethnographic accounts of life in Texas tiny home communities, we examine the politics of 'going tiny' in the US today.

Why is WeWork’s disgraced founder still so investable?

Read @timwhite100.bsky.social's paper 'The non-death of Adam Neumann: Alt-exiting, serial-founding, and failing up in Silicon Valley venture capital' in @finandsoc.bsky.social ⤵️

"This is a system that rewards calculated and strategic deception, ruthlessness and self-enrichment. It is ambivalent to failure and blind to social harm".

Looks like it's going to be great - the Adam Neumann & WeWork story is pretty wild when you read about it

Flow, one of Andreessen Horowitz's major projects, led by Adam Neumann, is a big piece of the puzzle in Network State / tech fascism, this is an important paper and thank you to the author for bringing really solid analysis of it and making sure we keep this piece in mind.

Thank you Shanley, found our exchanges on the topic super helpful!

Ooh thanks Kean, will check it out!

Cheers Olivier! Too true

Thanks to @davvkamp.bsky.social, @shanley.com, @ojutel.bsky.social, @aminsamman.bsky.social and Nils Peters for their support & input!

New in @finandsoc.bsky.social: ‘The non-death of Adam Neumann’, unpacking the return of WeWork’s disgraced founder. It’s about Silicon Valley’s ambivalence to failure & fraud, and how venture capital rewards already-powerful, ruthless and deceptive serial founders. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Bringing ownership in: a conjunctural approach to venture capital valuations Abstract. High startup valuations are commonly perceived as expressions of venture capitalists’ (VCs) power. This study complicates this view and argues th

New in SER: Nils Peters shows soaring UK startup valuations in the 2010s were less about VC power & more about a struggle for ownership. Late‑stage funds pushed into early‑stage rounds, intensifying competition & a small elite captured outsized returns. doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

How liberals lost the internet | Robert Topinka In the first part of our series on digital politics, we look at how centrists have lost ground fighting disinformation – when the real battle is over emotion and attention, says digital media academic...

I am super proud of this 3 part series about digital politics by the brilliant Robert Topinka that I commissioned and edited.

First piece here about how liberals misread the rise of the right content platforms.The illos by Antoine Cossé are so good www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I enjoyed writing this in the great new issue of Renewal. It's an effort to think through how fighting the far right should be integrated with campaigns for economic alternatives in a "postneoliberal" context

Temporary accommodation in England is ‘torture’ for neurodivergent children, report finds Exclusive: Parents said their children had become withdrawn or hypervigilant because of uncertainty, unsafe environments and removal of support

“It’s like torture”: our new report reveals how Temporary Accommodation is harming neurodivergent children and families across the UK. Based on a nationwide call for evidence, it sets out urgent policy asks for change.

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Debt and disruption: South East Water’s creaking infrastructure and finances Under-fire utility paid almost as much in interest and dividends as it invested in the network in past 15 years

'Debt & Disruption: South East Water's creaking infrastructure & finances'. With background analysis and comment from me, in this @financialtimes.com article on South East Water www.ft.com/content/534a...

Now available for pre-order and we're open for book talks to students, workshops and conferences, organisations etc.
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Just Space Community groups supporting each other on London planning

At last JustSpace has moved over here. Do follow and tell people. @justspace7.bsky.social (and remember to protest by Thursday against the Mayor's cave-in to the developers - briefing at JustSpace.org.uk)

Congrats, looks great!

Approved Housing Bodies - public, private, or not quite either?
I (try to) get at this in my new paper in IJHP on the piecemeal financialisation of social housing provision in post-crash Ireland - 50 free eprints at tinyurl.com/4MPF8U47, but DM me if you're stuck...

Beyond Generation Rent: Political Economy, Inequality, and the Private Rental Sector Beyond Generation Rent: Political Economy, Inequality, and the Private Rental Sector, As societies struggle to respond to the revival of private renting, this book offers the first comprehensive and c...

My book is out on Friday in print and ebook. Get a 40% discount wit this code: MIB26

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Finally made it to bluesky, just to share my conversation with Jan Groos about socialisation as transformation strategy 🙂

If you've ever wondered how co-living went from idealism and alternative living in the 1960s to rapacious capitalism hiding behind funky branding in the 2020s, this article explains a lot