Dave Elder-Vass

Thank you to Onur Ozmen for inviting me to contribute to this!

Also a lesson for morally bankrupt, supposedly progressive parties worldwide: if you spend your energy trying to make voters who hate everything about you hate you slightly less, they still won't vote for you.

🌿☕ Green Cafe - Letchworth ☕🍪 - Social drop-in:
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📅 Sat 5th July
🕙 anytime 10:00am - 11:30am

Green curious? New Member? Thinking of making a green lifestyle change e.g. EV, heat pump, recycling tips? Come for a friendly chat🙂

Explore Our Critical Realism Thesis Archive for Researchers Explore our thesis archive featuring critical realist scholars' doctoral theses, aiding your research in social studies and methodology.

Looking for critical realist PhD theses? Or do you have one to share? You need the CR Network's thesis archive! criticalrealismnetwork.org/the-critical...

🤗 FANTASTIC! Hitchin greens outnumbered by Royston greens💚 at our Cafe social today.

Afterwards we finished leafleting Royston Place ward.

Shout out to Kooky Nomad this #smallbusinessSaturday

If reform can rocket through the polls with a politics of despair, then it's time for the green party to do the same thing but with a politics of hope.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years for plotting military coup in Brazil Former president sought to ‘annihilate’ country’s democracy after losing 2022 election

This is how you protect your democracy. The US is a demonstration of what happens when you don't. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

I suspect that prosperous folk will still get them (including most of those driving this change) but guess what? Poor people won't.

♻️Green Cafe ☕🍪🫖🍰 Social drop-in:
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📅 Sat 6th Sept 2025
🕙 10:00am - 11:30am

Green Cafe Social drop in - discuss green issues, start a green initiative, green party curious? Come along and support this indy coffee shop #smallbusinesssaturday

Utterly scandalous. Renationalise without compensation now!

Cunliffe's review into the water sector deliberately left out the option of public ownership.

The only way to stop millions of pounds being siphoned off for huge CEO salaries and shareholder dividends is to end the scam of privatised water.

Public ownership now.

greenparty.org.uk/2025/07/21/g...

16 and 17-year-olds to be able to vote in next general election - live updates Lowering the voting age across the UK means around 1.5 million 16 and 17-year-olds will be able to vote at the next general election.

Now to introduce proportional representation for all elections. Give us real representative democracy.

#PR #FPTP

Segmenting ontology - Synthese Ontological universalism is widespread, but this paper argues that the validity of many ontological claims is bounded, and thus that segmented (though not fragmented) ontologies may represent the worl...

Very pleased that my paper 'Segmenting Ontology' is out in Synthese doi.org/10.1007/s112... On the relationship between quantum, material and social reality.

Interview: The road to Social Ecological Economics: an interview with Clive Spash, part 1, with Clive Spash & Jamie Morgan
doi.org/10.1080/1476...

Stop mega-donors from warping our democracy We must stop mega-donors from warping our democracy. A ban on annual donations over £5,000 would cut the influence of big donors on our politics and protect the interests of ordinary voters.

We must stop mega-donors from warping our democracy. A ban on annual donations over £5,000 would cut the influence of big donors on our politics and protect the interests of ordinary voters. Sign the petition secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/162623/...

YouTube video by Critical Realism Network Explaining real cases of corruption with critical realism

Did you miss our webinar on Karin Zotzmann's new book 'Codes of Corruption'? Or was it so good you want to hear it again? You're in luck! You can watch it again here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3YY...

Why don’t we punish people who break company law? It is ridiculously easy to create a company, and company law is there to protect us. But nobody is policing it. Why not?

Great question... eastangliabylines.co.uk/business/eco...

New @shepherdbooks.bsky.social article featuring Oz Hassan out now pn Bisa ! 🎉

'The best books that explain why the West keeps getting the world wrong'
inc/ @daveev.bsky.social , Arturo Escobar, Barry Buzan, Susanna P. Campbell & more 🌟

Read now - buff.ly/3dBk6EL

@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org

REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE. PUBLIC SERVICES IN PUBLIC HANDS Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

It is clear British Steel must be brought into public hands.

It's also clear that private ownership of public services has failed, with consumers paying billions of pounds over the odds for poor and unreliable services.

Time to take back control of our public services.

This should be fascinating. Karin's book is based on a corpus of real corruption cases from Mexico. Find out more in her blog post: criticalrealismnetwork.org/2025/03/27/c...

Book Launch: Codes of Corruption - Karin Zotzmann The Centre for Critical Realism is hosting this online book launch on May 14th 2025 at 2.30pm BST.

Karin Zotzmann’s 'Codes of Corruption: A Critical Realist Discourse Analysis of Illicit Transactions' is out soon in the Critical Realism book series.

Join us on May 14th 2.30pm BST, where Karin will discuss it with Robert Barrington & Gareth Wiltshire.

Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

"Austerity always leads to lower economic growth.

That is what Rachel Reeves is choosing.

In that case, her rhetoric will ring hollow today, and that is so politically inept I do not rate her chances of having many more goes at making such statements."

What Richard said.

Balancing the books on the backs of disabled people is not just unfair; it’s cruel. A million disabled people stand to lose vital support, while the wealthiest are protected. This isn’t necessity, it’s a choice—and it’s the wrong one. #SpringStatement

If Labour's chancellor had any progressive principles at all, a wealth tax would be at the heart of the statement she is making right now.

Instead, she is going to hammer the least wealthy and most vulnerable people in our society.

Israel cuts off humanitarian supplies to Gaza as it seeks to change ceasefire deal Netanyahu wants Hamas to allow for release of hostages without troop withdrawal, in plan Israel says came from US

Blocking humanitarian aid is a clear breach of international law and will lead to more civilian suffering and deaths. UK must take the lead in condemning Israel's actions and calling for aid to be allowed into Gaza.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

"One of the things that we have discovered, which is quite interesting, is that human beings have a psychological need to be cared for, but they have an even greater psychological need to care for others, or to care for something. If you don’t have that you basically fall apart. It’s why old people get dogs. We don’t just care for each other because we need to maintain each other’s lives and freedoms, but our own psychological happiness is based on being able to care for something or someone." . - David Graeber

From a realist epistemology to ecosocialism: an interview with Ted Benton, part 1 Ted Benton has had a long and distinguished career and made important contributions in realist philosophy, ecology and Marxism. In part 1 of this wide-ranging interview he discusses his formative y...

Out now: Jamie Morgan's interview with Ted Benton in the Journal of Critical Realism. Benton was a key figure in the early history of CR and remains an important eco-socialist. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If you'd like to email me at d.elder-vass@lboro.ac.uk I'll send you the details

Thanks Noemi, do you know about our online discussion group on norm circles?

UK HE shrinking This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. Solidarity to all. This sector is vital to the country’s…

"This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment."

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