The Rod Liddle biography suggests a certain post-1968 'type' who was just idiotically drawn to norm-breaching, moving via adolescent rebellion, punk, revolutionary socialism, and eventually ending up at racism, because by the 21st century that was the most efficient transgression still on offer
Just better hope the guy who was an absolute *delight* in person never held a job in which he shared horrific ideas with people who never got to meet him
‘In private, senior NHS executives acknowledge that there are problems with Palantir’s technology – not least its deep unpopularity with data analysts. A briefing for senior NHS leaders in February complained that the FDP is “slow and clunky”.’ On Palantir and the NHS: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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Greatly saddened by this. Sarah was a generous and wonderful colleague who I had the pleasure of teaching and co-supervising with. We also shared research conversations and always lots of laughter. RIP, Sarah
Geography at Durham@geogdurham.bsky.social · last wk.Durham Geography is devastated by the sad news of the death of our dear friend and enormously respected and much-loved colleague, Sarah Knuth, after an incredibly brave battle with cancer. Our thoughts go out to her family and close friends. We will miss her immensely.
Sarah exemplified our belief that rigorous, creative social science research matters. She undertook that research with incredible flair. To keep her legacy alive, we have created the Sarah Knuth Junior Fellowship for Energy Research. climateandcommunity.org/bio/sarah-kn...
Sarah Knuth (In Memoriam) - Climate and Community Institute
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On Saturday, our community and the world lost Dr. Sarah Knuth, one of the foremost thinkers on energy, climate, and just transitions. She was the driving intellectual force behind so much of CCI’s research. We will miss her desperately.
such a loss 💔 I only knew her a bit & always appreciated her work - heart goes out to all friends & family & the @cplusc.bsky.social crew
Climate and Community Institute@cplusc.bsky.social · last wk.On Saturday, our community and the world lost Dr. Sarah Knuth, one of the foremost thinkers on energy, climate, and just transitions. She was the driving intellectual force behind so much of CCI’s research. We will miss her desperately.
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Open letter to the PM on Rosebank & Jackdaw oil and gas fields, covered in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environment/... Full letter here: climateuncensored.com/letter-to-th...
Anyway don’t worry you’ll be protected from AI generated slop as Amazon limits the number of titles authors can create to 10 BOOKS PER FORMAT PER WEEK
In NLR 159: Rentier Regimes Jack Copley (@jackcopley.bsky.social) assessesTimothy Mitchell’s conceptualization of capital as capture of the future. newleftreview.org/issues/ii159...
I was just there, on a day trip after the SASE conference in Bordeaux. Where thousands of academics had gathered (in unbearably hot university buildings). Many (most?) had travelled there by plane. Still thinking that if we keep doing conferences at all, we need much stricter air travel rules.
France orders total evacuation of Cap Ferret peninsula as wildfire spreads
‘Intense and highly unpredictable’ blaze forces more than 40,000 people to flee popular holiday spot
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Wrote a review essay of four new-ish books on Soviet energy and resource history for @kritikajournal.bsky.social. They're different in terms of scope, archival depth, and the extent to which they take the materiality of resources into account – but I enjoyed them all! muse.jhu.edu/pub/28/artic...
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Details for the 2026 Wheelwright Lecture, the marquee event of the year for Political Economy, at the University of Sydney with Geoff Mann on *Climates of Uncertainty* @geoffmann.bsky.social @garethbryant.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au @mkonings.bsky.social @clairerhiannon.bsky.social
2026 Wheelwright Lecture | Geoff Mann | Climates of Uncertainty - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
What can the ways we wrestle with uncertain futures—like climate models, prediction markets, high-tech promises, or reactionary revanchism—tell us about a world without a “normal”?
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Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.
Adam Hanieh breaks down the Energy Institute's 2026 Statistical Review of World Energy, an annual report on global energy trade, production and usage.
Renewables, ‘Electrostates’, and other Myths of the Green Transition
The start of this month marked the publication of the 75th edition of the Energy Institute’s 2026 Statistical Review of World Energy, the flagship publicly available dataset on global energy…
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Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism
BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) on X
Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The announcement will form part of a flurry of policy m...
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Good to see my book, 'Take Over the City: Spatial Composition in Italian Autonomy', is now published in the US with @CommonNotions (UK release August). Link below👇 Would love to hear from potential reviewers or anyone who can facilitate a talk or book launch. Neil.Gray@glasgow.ac.uk
Jane Gingrich and I have written an essay for @ippr.org on a fundamental problem, that an age that demands more of the state also suffers from multiple state legitimation crises www.ippr.org/articles/the...
The legitimacy trap | IPPR
In many ways, the public want more government: to shape a fairer, more dynamic economy and protect ordinary people from the consequences of a turbulent wor
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My latest for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social. The general argument is that starving an energy-hungry growth model of cheap renewables in an era of energy supply-chain shocks and booming AI data centers is bad economic policy. Common sense, really. prosyn.org/EjCZBmq
The US Economy Cannot Grow Without Renewables
Daniel Driscoll warns that the Trump administration’s grim determination to ignore clean energy will undercut consumption.
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It seems ages ago since we finished it, but @fintechcapital.bsky.social, by @paullangley.bsky.social and me, is now out: published today in the US by @princetonupress.bsky.social. It’s published in the UK in about six weeks or so press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Fintech Capital
A thorough examination of the worldwide digital transformation of people’s everyday monetary and financial relations driven by the emergence of FinTech
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A very, very big day has finally arrived! Co-authored by @paullangley.bsky.social and @andrewleyshon.bsky.social FinTech Capital is now officially published and available in the US (UK publication in September) press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Fintech Capital
A thorough examination of the worldwide digital transformation of people’s everyday monetary and financial relations driven by the emergence of FinTech
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It's striking how much worse recent inflation has been in UK (and US) than Sweden. Pre-Covid, when I visited UK from Sweden, everything -- incl. coffee -- seemed cheap. Now, it's the reverse. Not sure of the explanation.
Will Davies@will-davies.bsky.social · 3w agoAlways found it odd that 'fancy' coffee places are treated as the peak of inflationary gentrification, whereas in fact - according to this piece - a flat white costs £5.50 *in Starbucks* www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ju...
Some sobering graphs from the EIA today. This one shows that, while the rise of renewables lately has been notable, the real energy story of the 21st century in the US has been the large-scale replacement of coal by natural gas.
"why do fossil fuel companies plan to pump more than ever?" Sick of articles deploring growth in oil production without mentioning rich-world demand. One reason they pump more is we -- with our refusal to change our carbon-intensive ways -- ask them to. Don't ask oil firms to change if you won't.
Fuel on the fire: why oil companies are profiting as the world gets dangerously hot
The scientific consensus is that burning fossil fuels drives the climate crisis, yet the world’s biggest oil companies are planning to increase production
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The plan seems to involve inheriting ownership of the majority of the land www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/d40bcb4...
Prince William’s plan to solve Britain’s housebuilding crisis
Heir to the throne sees developing affordable homes as key to tackling homelessness
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