column on tottenham, and what happens when you stop believing in magic
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Wrote about the Iran crisis, electricity costs, and why clean power is the right strategy - but not enough.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I have some reflections on the constitutional-democratic chaos that Britain is encountering, in the age of 5+ party politics. It's hard to see how we get from this to the kind of 'bold' and 'radical' government that (consensus has it) everyone is calling for right now www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
There's loads going on. The club's stance on Partey is also a big part of it for many people. And not just the club hierarchy. Let's not forget Arsenal fans singing "he shags who he wants"
“The ‘privatisation premium’, according to an analysis by the Common Wealth thinktank, sees almost a quarter of the average household energy bill – roughly £450 – flow today into corporate profits.”
Our latest briefing covered in @theguardian.com 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I reviewed Barry Eichengreen's new book about global currencies and the future of the dollar, check it out:
How to survive in the 21st century
"For the most part, however, he appears blasé about the social costs of hierarchical currency arrangements — the unequal distribution of economic power and opportunity they entrench — even in those countries that enjoy currency dominance, to say nothing of those on the wrong end of it." 🔥💵
I reviewed Barry Eichengreen's new book about global currencies and the future of the dollar, check it out:
Nice intro to my focus article with Gavin Wood, neat comment on ‘the edges’ of ownership, and a few pointers to some fine commentaries commissioned by the journal www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Was really good to talk to Dion Fanning at the Free State podcast, about Labour Together, and how it paid for a black ops campaign against journalists exposing its undeclared funding
Was great to have time and space to really unspool story and why it matters
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...
I live in a green facing seat in London and hear some variant of this question every day atm
If you're not yet convinced that AI is going to ransack the UK economy (perhaps more than any other economy), read this:
I really appreciate @dwallacewells.bsky.social's work, but this—green energy supplementing rather than replacing fossil fuels—seems to me the main story, not just a qualification to the story of the "green transition." GHG emissions keep rising—with 2025's projected to reach the highest level ever
Probably not coincidental that Atlanta also has long been ground-zero for private-equity investment in America's rental housing
If you're in Manchester March 3rd, join us for the Geography & GDI Lecture by @brettchristophers.bsky.social. The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet. 4:30 PM Lecture Theatre A, Simon Building. @uomseed.bsky.social @cperguom.bsky.social
📢 Special issue alert: "Housing young people under late neoliberalism"! 📢
See @constanceu.bsky.social, Igor Costarelli and Oana Druta's introducing piece ⬇️
This sounds like it has more to do with interest rates and construction costs than the property market as such - but if John Lewis can’t make plans for 10,000 homes stack up on land it already owns what does that say about rest of market?
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
It'll be very interesting to see how the Government reacts as the reality of rent increases become more obvious over the coming years.
www.thejournal.ie/rental-secto...
“it turns out that the engine of Musk’s X — its algorithmic ‘For You’ page — is an ideological ratchet.” - @jwherrman.bsky.social
nymag.com/intelligence...
The biggest problem with solar energy is not that it is intermittent, it is that greedy people cant make it scarce nor monopolize it.
#greensky #nature #energysky
On Sunday, @londoncentric.media broke the story that Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital was undertaking London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” - after our investigation, hundreds of tenants who received section 21s have now had them rescinded www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...
Absolutely fascinating piece, this -- with an unexpected, starring role for Ernst Mandel, whose 1972 visa refusal case played an important role in subsequent history of US ideological policing of its border
Really great reporting by the brilliant @pollysmythe.bsky.social on Criterion Capital and the billionaire philanthropist behind “one of the worst mass evictions in our capital’s recent history” www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...
NEW: Gareth Fearn lays out the stakes of "electro-capitalism".
"The economic basis of this transition is not simply between technologies of energy production. Rather, it is between two different fractions of capital."
www.break-down.org/electro-capi...
We're recruiting 2 PhD candidates in human geography here in Uppsala, one position focused on urban/housing issues and one in political ecology.
Please spread the word/repost etc. Being a PhD student in Sweden is a good gig.
He ain't wrong about everything though .... (eg "constant craving for recognition")
