Statement by President Connolly on International Women’s Day 2026
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Statement by President Connolly on International Women’s Day 2026
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Westminster Meeting House raided by Metropolitan Police again. Statement: “For Quakers, faith and action are inseparable. Peaceful protest, prayer and nonviolent action are integral parts of many Quakers' religious life. Whilst we take the planning of criminal acts very seriously, we believe that this incident is a deliberate targeting of committed young people who want to make our country a more equitable place. This raid is part of a systematic stifling of dissent. That this is the second time in a year that the police have raided our meeting house dramatically illuminates the broader trend in the UK of cracking down on those who disagree with the government. The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy. It's a key part of how people make their voices heard between elections.” – Oliver Robertson, Head of Witness and Worship Quakers in Britain, 5 March 2026
Yesterday evening, for the second time in a year, the Met Police raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists.
STATEMENT: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
🌍"There is still more possibility for progressive outcomes in the #UNTaxConvention than in any other intl' negotiation right now", @jayatighosh.bsky.social at IDEAs webinar.
2 key battles to:
→Ensure fair taxation of digital services based on formulaic methods
→Reforming unfair dispute mechanisms
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From the Archive: Michèle Lamont and Sada Aksartova, 'Ordinary Cosmopolitanisms: Strategies for Bridging Racial Boundaries among Working-class Men' - analyzes how ordinary people bridge racial boundaries. (2002) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
05.03.2026 12:30 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
What keeps men out of frontline care work? - Our new paper in @bjsociology.bsky.social suggests problem is less masculine identity anxieties & more low pay, insecure hours, limited progression & poor public understanding of care work onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#gender
New on Critical Takes:
UN independent expert Attiya Waris explains why talks on a UN tax convention are going unexpectedly well.
criticaltakes.org/tax-and-prof...
A recommended read for anyone in civil society whose work deals with the UN.
Doing Industrial Policy in a Geotech World: Challenges and Opportunities.
New Special Issue eds Salih Işık Bora, @fbulfone.bsky.social & Timo Seidl
www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...
@palmapolyak.bsky.social ’s work on EU battery policy is electrifying! No, seriously it is the best stuff you can read on this sector.
04.03.2026 17:05 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Winter in America
Gill Scott Heron, 1974
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2zK...
The road to 80% #CollectiveBargaining: where do we stand?
📜 Under the EU Minimum Wages Directive, countries below 80% coverage must adopt action plans. Only 9 of 18 countries required have submitted plans.
This week's ETUI conference explored how to turn commitments into real structural reform.
From South Africa to trains, how boycotts have shaped Irish sport. The public profile of sports events makes them a valuable forum for pursuing and drawing attention to social justice issues and other matters, writes Siobhán Doyle www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
04.03.2026 10:58 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
NLR 157 is out now.
Featuring an interview with Ervand Abrahamian on Iran and Susan Watkins on Trump.
Also in NLR 157: Costas Lapavitsas on dollar imperialism, Xi Ruochen on Sinosphere publishing, Tony Wood on the Latin American ‘boom’ and much more.
newleftreview.org/issues/ii157
"Noëlle Rohde's book offers a rich and compellingly argued account of the problems and pitfalls associated with the megatrend of quantification."
— @steffenmau.bsky.social, Professor of Sociology, @humboldtuni.bsky.social
Marked will be free to read and download June 2026📝 doi.org/10.31389/lse...
Deeply informative piece by Nazanin Shahrokni
'Who speaks for Iran?—and from where?'
via @journalspectre.bsky.social
spectrejournal.com/who-speaks-f...
Piper's Corner, pub on Marlboro Street.
Blue sky over Dublin.
03.03.2026 11:54 — 👍 23 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 1
"Netanyahu is a much bigger player in this conflict than the American press is reporting, and Netanyahu is committed to destroying all of Iran’s ballistic missile capabilities, which will require far more extensive bombardment, perhaps continuing for months."
by @rbreich.bsky.social
Profit and Power by Ronen Palan.
Explores how MNCs use arbitrage to legally strengthen their position, minimizing obligations and maximizing wealth, power, and influence.
📚 https://cup.org/4t49TOO
V interesting. Stability-change dialectic by @jptilsted.bsky.social @peternewell.bsky.social & Oliver Bugge Hunt
02.03.2026 10:35 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more
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🚨 How exactly *do* PE, private credit, and insurance intersect?
Took some time, but here it is:
on.ft.com/4kd077o
I have a new review paper out in @environmentalpol.bsky.social! ✨
What would it actually take for states to pursue green transformations? I identify 5 capacities — planning, disciplinary, strategic, legitimation and adaptive — and their respective policy elements, capabilities and institutions
Interesting (& helpful in thinking about power beyond military defense)- Europe may have more economic chokepoints than generally acknowledged by @martinsandbu.ft.com
www.ft.com/content/b92f...
📚 #SASEAuthorSpotlight: Global Production, National Institutions, & Skill Formation
In this book, #MerveSancak examines how skill systems shape development outcomes in middle income countries through a comparative study of auto parts suppliers in Mexico & Turkey
For more: sase.org/books-by-sas...
Many thanks to the European Institute at the LSE for inviting me to give a public lecture about stranded assets, who owns them and implications for the low-carbon energy transition!
Next Tuesday at 6:30pm London time, at the European Institute at the LSE.
Event coordinates in the link below 👇
Morning all.
Photograph by David Granick. Belhaven Street, now part of Mile End Park, London 1977. #kodachrome
Well this is interesting news. ‘Women's museum planned to replace International Rugby Experience in Limerick’
#spéirgorm www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...
The impact of Trump's attacks on the IRS, in two charts.
From my latest for @economist.com.
www.economist.com/finance-and...
Useful overview by @kclausing.bsky.social & Maurice Obstfeld
23.02.2026 22:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"“Limitations” in the rules mean AI companies may not have to account either for the cost of renewing a data centre lease or for the cost of not renewing it, even though either number could be huge"
Accounting gaps for real estate-related liabilities? Those never cause any trouble, right?
Any word on the Venezuelan head of state Trump kidnapped a few weeks ago?
23.02.2026 18:53 — 👍 89 🔁 13 💬 8 📌 2