My latest piece for @thecanaryuk.bsky.social is about: 🔥💰 How elite men’s football is co-opted by fossil fuel interests ⚽🌱 How the sport can evolve beyond this, benefitting us all www.thecanary.co/sports/2026/06/25/why-major-polluters-need-kicking-out-of-football/

Why major polluters need kicking out of football

With extreme weather and war wreaking havoc on football, the sport's entanglement with fossil fuels further endangers the game itself.

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Aramco’s petrodollar backing of World Cup leaves stain of sportswashing by @berglundoscar.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...

The Hotspot | Aramco’s petrodollar backing of World Cup leaves stain of sportswashing

In today’s newsletter: How Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil giant is embedding fossil fuels as a crucial part of the world’s biggest sport

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Wrote this for The Guardian based on our recent report. Football has a longstanding relationship to fossil capital. But the sportswashing enabled by FIFA in recent years reaches new levels and forms a key part of petrostate foreign and energy policy. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...

The Hotspot | Aramco’s petrodollar backing of World Cup leaves stain of sportswashing

In today’s newsletter: How Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil giant is embedding fossil fuels as a crucial part of the world’s biggest sport

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Should scientists advocate for climate action? Our new review @plosclimate.org finds there is no single answer. The effects of scientist advocacy depend heavily on context, including who is speaking, what they are advocating for, and who is listening. Open access: journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

We’re delighted to announce that Policy & Politics has achieved a 2-year Impact Factor of 3.5 in the 2025 JCR, maintaining its position in the top quartile of journals in both Public Admin and Political Science. @eakoebele.bsky.social @allegrafullerton.bsky.social @berglundoscar.bsky.social

”Lite fascism och klimatförstörelse får man räkna med.” Har skrivit om fotbolls-VM, den ohållbara expansionen av den moderna fotbollen och dess nära kopplingar till klimatförstörande intressen.

”Lite fascism och klimatförstörelse får man räkna med”

VM EN KLIMATBOV:: Fotbolls-VM har expanderat från 32 till 48 lag och spelas i tre länder hundratals mil från varandra. En klimatkatastrof - men det hade inte behövt vara så, skriver Supermiljöbloggen...

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The World Cup could become the ‘most polluting ever’. 🏭⚽ A study claims governing bodies are prioritising commercial expansion over environmental concerns, and that the sport has become tied to fossil fuel interests and unsustainable growth. 📝 @lborouniversity.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social

Today, on the eve of the World Cup, we release our report 'Football and Climate Change: A Preview of the 2026 FIFA World Cup'. www.lboro.ac.uk/media/media/... @james7jackson.bsky.social @markdoidge.bsky.social @jennyamann.bsky.social @samtoscano.bsky.social @cabot-institute.bsky.social

Late last year, a study was released by researchers. It concluded that shutting down environmental protest is a core governing strategy. The mechanisms of repression? Introduce new laws. Leverage ant-terror or anti-organised crime laws. Increase police surveillance. Disappear and kill activists.

Maybe they do

Oscar Berglund@berglundoscar.bsky.social · 10mo ago

If the Labour Party cared about the Labour Party, they would sack Starmer, make Burnham leader and become social democratic. But I don’t think the Labour Party cares enough about the Labour Party.

It was great being hosted on the Transforming Tomorrow podcast with Jan Bebbington and Paul Turner. We spoke about the climate movement, protest, counter-productivity and why more scientists are engaging in climate and environmental activism 🎙️ tinyurl.com/5377znkj See below for links to literature

Football and Climate Change. Forthcoming in January 2027 with @manchesterup.bsky.social, @markdoidge.bsky.social, @berglundoscar.bsky.social, @jennyamann.bsky.social, @samtoscano.bsky.social and I have a book that first comprehensive effort to account for this relationship.

Happy to share that my paper, "Green energy transitions under financial subordination: climate finance, structure, and agency in the Global South," has now been published in @ripejournal.bsky.social! ✨ You can read the paper below: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/

Green energy transitions under financial subordination: climate finance, structure, and agency in the Global South

Climate finance is considered essential to the Global South’s green energy transition, yet little is known about how financial capitalism shapes access to it or the factors determining domestic rec...

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Look forward to speaking at this event at University of Bristol tomorrow. I’ll be talking criminalisation and repression of anti-genocide and pro-Palestine activism by the state and universities. Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-univers...

I just read the detailed CNN report about how many men go online seeking instructions and videos of drug-assisted sexual assault and now I understand why so many women choose the bear

Today, we joined the mass lobby of Parliament to demand the Government drop harsh new anti-protest powers from the Crime and Policing Bill. Protest has given us some of our most cherished rights and freedoms. It's essential to a healthy democracy, and must be protected.

Guatemala’s Indigenous leaders are facing a wave of criminalisation – and social media platforms are helping enable it. Our new report reveals how defenders are facing coordinated smear campaigns on Facebook, TikTok and X before and after they face false charges. https://gwitness.org/3NwQZAf

How social media is weaponised against Guatemalan defenders

Indigenous leaders who protested against efforts to overturn Guatemala's 2023 election results now face a wave of criminalisation and attacks on social media

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Green Party now represents labour. It’s the biggest party amongst working-age people and seemingly the most popular one amongst us trade unionists.

Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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My most used Habermas claim is that civil disobedience is a litmus test for democracies. One that countries around the world is epically failing by responding with authoritarianism and repression.

EL PAÍS@elpais.com · 5mo ago

🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | Muere el filósofo alemán Jürgen Habermas a los 96 años

Round 2 of the University of Bristol @unison.org.uk staff strike. We’ll be at the pickets on Tuesday 10th and Wednesday 11th March. I’ll be there for two reasons: Pay and Redundancies. (1/5)

Advice from Policy & Politics journal on how to choose the right journal for your research. Read the blog post by the editors here @eakoebele.bsky.social @allegrafullerton.bsky.social @cmweible.bsky.social @berglundoscar.bsky.social policyandpoliticsblog.com/2026/03/09/a...

That YouGov poll yesterday: Britain's working age population 18-65: 🟢Green 26% 🟣Reform 21% 🔴Labour 16% 🟠Lib Dem 14% 🔵Tories 13% Britain's retired population 65+: 🟣Reform 33% 🔵Tories 26% 🔴Labour 15% 🟠Lib Dem 14% 🟢Green 6%

The recent peak of UK two-party politics was 2017. It’s conceivable that all Corbyn’s voters would vote Green. It’s inconceivable that all May’s (or Johnson’s) voters would vote Reform. Also, more of them are dead

Oscar Berglund@berglundoscar.bsky.social · 5mo ago

If the next election is between Reform and Greens, as it’s starting to look like, Greens will win

If the next election is between Reform and Greens, as it’s starting to look like, Greens will win

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 8mo ago

If voters could vote against a party (More in Common)

Reform peaked too early

We (Colin Davis, @samuelfinnerty.bsky.social & I) are happy to share our Open Access article 'Assessing claims of counterproductivity of Just Stop Oil's civil disobedience': www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Assessing claims of counterproductivity of Just Stop Oil’s civil disobedience - npj Climate Action

npj Climate Action - Assessing claims of counterproductivity of Just Stop Oil’s civil disobedience

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the fake conspiracies are a distraction from the real conspiracies... this is what I found again and again while researching Doppelganger. And Bannon is doing it in overdrive these days.

People often ask me why I left the U.S. and there are various reasons but the thing that made me start really making an exit strategy was when journalists covering Standing Rock were being arrested. Historically a very bad sign for democracy. Seeing it get worse and more blatant is scary and sad

Had a great chat to one of the best climate journalists in the world, @amywestervelt.bsky.social, about criminalisation & repression of climate & environmental protest around the world the other day. Here’s the result.

Amy Westervelt@amywestervelt.bsky.social · 6mo ago

It's hard to feel like anything but punching Nazis matters right now, so we @drilledmedia.bsky.social have been busy connecting the dots between climate and everything we're seeing around the world. Today: repression of protest w/ @berglundoscar.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkbF...

Good to speak to Liza Featherstone the other day about how repression increases as legitimacy decreases. Here's her resulting article: A Truth From Iran to Minneapolis: Weak Governments Kill Protesters newrepublic.com/article/2059... via @newrepublic.com

A Truth From Iran to Minneapolis: Weak Governments Kill Protesters

Regimes are most violent against dissenters when they know that the protests have traction.

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