People who bang on endlessly about "two-tier justice" and write fevered articles about a Labour "police state" seem remarkably relaxed about letting the state do anything it wants to people who have been locked up.
Abby Innes
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Assoc. Prof. at the European Institute, LSE. Research and teach the political economy of the state; green transition; regenerative economics. Optimist. Alarmed by people who lack self-doubt...
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Electric Buses Point of no return - have gone from 12% to 56% of new city bus sales in Europe in just 6yrs Europe's 2035 target of 100% zero emission bus sales could be reached as early as 2028 Bravo Europe 🇪🇺!
The Tory "plan" to send prisoners to foreign jails isn't getting enough scrutiny. What is the legal basis for banishing British citizens to Albania? Whose laws are they subject to? How many prison staff have to go over? Are family visits just abolished? How many prisoners are we talking about?
So a plant running at 20% might still break even building one variant of a platform, helping platform attain design scale econs. But the macro problem here is that Euro capacity is scaled to higher Euro population growth & export growth (which largely meant China) and those are gone. 2/
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration has detained more than 50 spouses, parents of US troops in immigration crackdown, AP review finds.
"appallingly racist" and "indefensible". See also the doctoring photos to create racist and sexualised images.
KJ Charles@kjcharleswriter.com · 7h agoThe sentencing remarks for someone Kemi Badenoch is allowing to stand as a Conservative candidate.
Grant Shapps about to get an American History X tattoo for his next selection panel.
But by all means, let’s play footsie with the fossil fuel industry.
George Smeeton @gsmeeton.bsky.social · 7h agoBritish farmers are facing a "completely brutal" year, with analysis suggesting the 2026 harvest could be the worst on record due to extreme summer weather: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
It's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.
This looks like an important book. It’s hardly surprising though that a system built on rewarding people for churning out papers in the same few journals is not very good at helping us find things out
Rebecca Sear@rebeccasear.bsky.social · 8h ago“The tragic implication of Plümper and Neumayer’s analysis is not that individual scientists are unusually dishonest, but that a system designed to incentivise truth-seeking has been incrementally transformed into one that often rewards its distortion” blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...
One of the interesting features of the summer holidays in my zone 3/4 neighbourhood is how much time dads appear to spend rearranging their car boots. Is it a place of safety, away from the family, or more like a perpetual quest to get just one more camping chair wedged in?
“How come I ain't got no money here? Hmm, Whitey's on the moon”
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 14h agoSpaceX rocket hours away from crashing into the moon in unintentional collision
BP's quarterly profits more than doubled to £4.2 billion in the three months to the end of June. These are the profits of war and climate chaos. It's time to make the biggest polluters pay.
Worth noting that these guys getting into power with an effective majority would be a generational disaster.
Lewis Baston@lewisbaston.bsky.social · 21h agoThe borders of the U.K. have been in place since 1922.
I recall we had a period of time where the response of Starmer and Cooper to concerns about these groups was ‘I like flags’
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterdayLeaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
Great thread from Giles here on HMT:
Giles Wilkes@gilesyb.bsky.social · 22h agoQuotes: "during our period of study (1993-2024), mechanisms designed to regulate spending tended towards input control and short-term decision-making, struggled to support strategic investment and often failed to deliver sustained improvements in outcomes."
This is a particularly dangerous way to think about spending in an ecological crisis, where repairing the ecological bearing floor is a long term strategic necessity with often high short term/up front investment costs. So if both public and private finance prioritise short term gains…🤔
Giles Wilkes@gilesyb.bsky.social · 22h ago"This focus on relatively short time horizons shapes behaviour across government and the wider public sector. Departments, for example, learn that proposals are most likely to succeed when they demonstrate clear, short-term benefits or savings"
Quotes: "during our period of study (1993-2024), mechanisms designed to regulate spending tended towards input control and short-term decision-making, struggled to support strategic investment and often failed to deliver sustained improvements in outcomes."
Giles Wilkes@gilesyb.bsky.social · yesterdayThis is the Nuffield research that the incredibly productive Diane Coyle refers to in this article. www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/publications...
We're not going to stop climate change unless we phase out fossil fuels.
Oil giant BP profits more than double due to Iran war - again
The "strong" three-month results come amid "one of the most disrupted periods in the global energy market".
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Two(!) permanent lectureships coming up at Cardiff: One in political behaviour/opinion cardiffuniweb.eploy.net/vacancies/52... One in British politics (very loosely defined) cardiffuniweb.eploy.net/vacancies/53... Feel free to get in touch and I'll be happy to answer any questions I can
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that may put me in a minority - and I accept not everyone uses social media at least partly for their work - but I miss having some interesting eg centre-right people on here! having a Twitter timeline full of clever people from over the political spectrum was good for the brain
If only there were some major literary character whose tenuous connection to reality took the form of antipathy towards windmills.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "Any country with windmills is a loser"
Fun fact: as part of their Water Resources Management Plans, water companies are required to assess the full range of options for securing water supplies, which includes... ...towing *icebergs* up the Thames
Akshat Rathi@akshatrathi.bsky.social · 2d agoThis wasn't on my adaptation bingo card. "Romania used 180kg explosive to blow rock to divert water from drought-hit Danube to nuclear reactor." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Wrote about the deafening silence on our summer of climate impacts from Labour, the Lib Dems, the Greens, business leaders, and even some campaign groups. The dominant climate discourse from the past week has been from those who want to ditch net zero targets and trash decarbonisation policies.
Jessica Elgot@jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 2d agoWe are in the third drought in five years. We have the National Trust and NFU - those radical types - sounding the alarm on unprecedented temperatures. But so little from any single figure in politics talking about the climate crisis.
Good for Times Radio: got a former Navy commanding officer of a warship on right now (1745) saying the plan (sic) is as full of holes as a leaky dinghy.
Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social · 2d agoSorry but unless you, as a media outlet, have managed to get someone from the Navy (probably a former sailor because those currently serving maybe disbarred from commenting) to explain that this is extremely unlikely to happen for legal reasons, then, arguably, you haven't really done your job.