Andrew Judge

Ok, let’s do this🙄

We’ll start with an explainer covering:

🕒What is a 15-minute city
🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford
👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from

And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article

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I prefer the framing of ‘discerning audience’

There’s lots of criticism of this, but to a large extent this should be understood as electoral positioning on the left. A key left criticism of the Greens is that they aren’t sufficiently anti-NATO - this pushes back on that even if it erodes some of the soft left votes that the Greens also want.

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow

Trump made a clear choice: return to petro-imperialism Trump made a clear choice: return to petro-imperialism. To understand what just happened in Venezuela, look at oil politics and U.S. foreign policy.

US attack on Venezuela is, among other things, a regrettable turn towards petro-imperialism. My take at @goodauth.bsky.social

goodauthority.org/news/trump-m...

Curious about the tech billionaires' claims to sovereignty mean for the international order?

Check out our @risjnl.bsky.social forum on this topic, organized by the brilliant @maharafiatal.bsky.social!

Who decides how we adapt to climate change? | Leah Aronowsky The question is not whether we will reshape our institutions to manage climate impacts, but how

Good, clear article that allows me to propose once again one of my fave mantras:

If you think mitigation politics is hard, you haven’t thought enough about the toxicity of adaptation politics

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Going through some history of climate politics notes from last week, I realize we dont appreciate enough the climate mobilization of mid2010s and subsequent electoral green wave of late 2010s.

That moment was never really meant to be in the cards and we need to better study how we got there

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Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social

"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

how it feels to contribute to an edited volume

My pleasure!

Very happy to see this published online. A thought provoking and beautifully crafted article that suggests we centre ‘being’ rather than active ‘doing’ in classroom. Well worth a read, this will be part of a forthcoming symposium on active learning in the Politics journal.

These are really insane numbers. Even if we only look at formal political offices, billionaires are more than 10,000x more likely to hold a national political position than the average person.

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2024 Best Learning and Teaching Article published in Politics @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @sagepub.com @uofglasgow.bsky.social: we are happy to announce that the winner is Dr Donna Smith @drdonnasmith.bsky.social for her work on student communities. Details at: journals.sagepub.com/page/pol/col...

In this sort of situation, sending a primer sounds like quite a good idea ;)

Best part of this story:

NEW CHART: Trump's "big beautiful bill" & other efforts to dismantle climate policy means the US will add an extra 7bn tonnes of emissions to the atmosphere from now until 2030, compared to meeting its former climate pledge under the Paris Agreement 🫠

www.carbonbrief.org/...

A straw man argument that entirely misses the point. It is the failure to tax wealth properly and redistribute the proceeds of innovation that is leading to resentment about capitalism.

TBF this is Morgan McSweeney's second go at tanking a Labour leader. Makes sense that he would have refined his techniques.

Blogged: why liberal centrists should mourn the decline of the left, because it led to illiberalism & irrationality: stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_an...

Don’t overthink it. The hacks coming up with this shit certainly don’t.

i think the biggest public relations coup AI boosters scored was calling it “AI.” people genuinely think it is an intelligence, and that when they query it, it is providing reasoned answers

Snippet from the Financial Times that says: “Morgan McSweeney, Starmer’s chief of staff, will pore over the results on Friday and is likely to conclude that he is right to pursue a “Blue Labour” strategy to address the populist threat — a policy which is already starting to be deployed.”

Efficiently confirming his priors and ignoring any evidence that points in other directions. Starmer will no doubt be forensic in his agreement.

You have to admire Morgan McSweeney's commitment to voter efficiency. Who else could lose so many votes so efficiently less than a year after a General Election?

It's a problem of seeing everything through the eyes of voters - who don't know/care about institutions or voting systems so it's dismissed as unimportant. But it deeply affects your ability to do the things voters do care about.

There’s a real threat to women’s safety - and it’s not trans people Let’s be clear from the start: The biggest threat to women’s safety is – and always has been – men.

Bimini Bon Boulash absolutely fucking nails it in this piece.

If you don't have the spoons, or simply don't know what to say to your MP, just send them this:

metro.co.uk/2025/04/19/a...