Matthew Lockwood

"The incremental U.S. fossil-fuel profits in 2022 relative to 2021 were enough to increase the disposable income of the wealthiest Americans by several percent and compensate a substantial part of their purchasing power loss from inflation that year, thereby exacerbating inflation inequality. "

Stability and Politicization in Climate Governance Cambridge Core - International Relations and International Organisations - Stability and Politicization in Climate Governance

Thrilled to see new book from buddy @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social available in full for free online from Cambridge UP. Paul Tobin, Matt Paterson & Stacy have assembled a diverse set of contributors/cases to examine Stability & Politicization in Climate Governance www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.

This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

Please help combat BBC news blackout of Green Party!
@zackpolanski.bsky.social was the only party leader not interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg during their party conference.
So please RT his cracking conference speech..

Student visas crackdown and new levies to cause ‘£1.8bn loss’ to UK economy The Government has proposed a 6 per cent tax on international student tuition fees and a reduction in graduate visas

I am genuinely baffled and distressed as to why the UK government is intent on destroying UK's genuinely world-leading universities, who bring £265 billion into the economy and support more than 250,000 jobs.

This tax will kill us.

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Be sure you take a moment today to remember Charlie Kirk for exactly who he was.

Yet more embarrassment for the Times, which has printed a ludicrous – and almost certainly false – line about windfarms being “dismantled” near Trump’s Scottish golf course

But why pick up the phone, as I did, when you can print nudge-nudge rumours instead?

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But is this on headline rates, or tax actually paid? High earners are notorious for making good use of clever avoidance schemes and all available reliefs.

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

The scenes on our streets are shameful consequences of decades of austerity - government after government fanning the flames of anti migration instead of tackling inequality.

We can & must make different choices. Solidarity to all communities under attack. We stand together.

How Charlie Kirk’s social media machine rewired a generation’s politics The 31-year-old activist and provocateur build a modern political organization for the social media age, through the arts of online discourse and discord.

⦁ Created watch list of professors while preaching free speech
⦁ Captured internet with viral videos playing liberals for laughs and sound clips calling George Floyd a "scumbag" and the Civil Rights Act a "huge mistake"
⦁ Made tens of millions in dark money to boost Trump to victory

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BBC continues to have a persistent editorial problem in hyping & exaggerating scale of asylum protests (even at odds with its own reporting)

How can a report quoting the police saying "about 150 people attended" a protest and counter-protest have the headline "hundreds join asylum hotel demo"

Paul Tobin, @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social and I are delighted to announce our new, open access, edited book ‘Stability and politicization in climate governance’. bit.ly/45Gb6RM. It is packed full of fantastic chapters about different aspects of climate politics. Here’s a short thread. 1/

Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims By Ayesha Tandon, Leo Hickman, Cecilia Keating and Robert McSweeney

🔎 @carbonbrief.org's latest factcheck reveals Trump’s DOE climate report contains over 100 false or misleading claims, highlighting major flaws in the administration’s approach to climate science.

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If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me.

#pediatriccancer #cancermom

Yes, send your email address to m.lockwood@sussex.ac.uk and I'll send you the pdd

Dozens killed by Israeli fire near Gaza aid sites, Hamas-run ministry says The UN human rights chief said Israel's

Every day. Deliberate massacres of unarmed, starving civilians. The world does nothing. A shame on all of us.

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I had one from the BBC after they broadcast on PM that policy costs were 30% of bills.

Nancy Fraser, A Triple Movement?, NLR 81, May–June 2013 Why has the global economic crisis yet to produce programmatic alternatives for social transformation? Nancy Fraser argues that present struggles fall within an ambiguous triangle formed by the forces...

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My argument: Trump's economic nationalism presents itself as helping workers but instead creates global instability while failing to address real US problems: stagnant wages, financialisation & corporate short-termism

The S&P500 transferred $795b to shareholders through stock buybacks in 2023 2/3

Predictable in the Telegraph. But disappointing that the BBC took the same approach in today's PM programme on R4

On Inauguration Day, Musk and his companies were facing at least 65 actual or potential actions from 11 different federal agencies. Today, many of those threats have been neutralized. By exercising his influence over the government, Musk is set to avoid more than $2 billion in financial liabilities.

Miliband in blistering attack on Farage’s UK net zero ‘nonsense and lies’ The energy secretary has accused Reform UK’s leader of peddling dangerous falsehoods about renewable power

Nice to see but better if hadn’t been preceded by various bits of backtracking on policy.

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a man in a suit says this is ridiculous in white letters ALT: a man in a suit says this is ridiculous in white letters

A short article of mine on civil-military relations and democratic backsliding had been accepted for publication in the journal "Connections".

Then I received an email that the editors can't publish the paper unless I "remove the case study/examples of the United States" (1/x)
#CivMilSky

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Oh no! Several of the Regional Climate Centers have had their funding lapse through DOC/NOAA. These institutes are critical for connecting weather and climate data and services to local communities across the United States.

Spread the word to drive attention and support!

'Five-alarm fire': Read the Trump proposal that could decimate climate research NOAA grants provide funding to nine cooperative institutions in California. Several branches of the agency could lose hundreds of millions of dollars.

NEW: The Trump administration proposes nearly $1.7 billion in cuts to NOAA that, if passed, could decimate weather and climate research, including funding to nine California institutions.

The @sfchronicle.com has obtained a White House document detailing the proposed budget cuts. Read it here:

🚨Some major errors & misleading claims from experienced presenter Nick Robinson on BBC Radio 4 Today, when discussing British Steel with Treasury Minister James Murray

I hope these are corrected on tomorrow's programme, and Robinson sticks to the facts in future.

Here's what he got wrong... 🧵

Finally Harvard lives up to its motto: Veritas view.hu.harvard.edu?qs=351b45ebf...

US DOGE Service Agreement With Department of Labor Shows $1.3 Million Fee—and Details Its Mission The unsigned agreement between the US DOGE Service and the Department of Labor provides significant insight into DOGE's work with federal agencies.

SCOOP: An unsigned agreement between the US DOGE Service (USDS) and the Department of Labor (DOL), obtained by WIRED, calls for the DOL to reimburse the USDS up to $1.3 million for work done by four DOGE affiliates, or “a slightly different number,” over an 18-month period.

In years to come, the people who did this will be the ones who will go to jail.