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Colm Murphy

@colmpm.bsky.social

Historian of UK and ROI politics and political economy. Senior Lecturer at QMUL and Deputy Director of Mile End Institute (https://www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/staff/profiles/murphycolm.html). Book on Labour and 'modernisation' (https://tinyurl.com/37tzatvk).

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Colm Murphy@colmpm.bsky.social · 7h ago

Reading Martin Wolf's 'Why Globalization Works' from 2004. It's quite an interesting time capsule, not least tonally. For example, I would gently suggest to Wolf that, if one seeks to persuade someone, comparing them to a spoilt child in writing might be a touch counterproductive.

Wolf on "anti-globalization protesters": "They fall rather in the category of spoiled children. But they are 'our' children. If we fail to persuade the idealistic young of the merits of a liberal global economic order, it may founder"
Colm Murphy@colmpm.bsky.social · yesterday

It's nice to see P&P promoting my article as we approach the anniversary of the 1976 IMF Crisis, when unilateral protectionism was furiously debated within the bowels of the British state. It's open access and free to read via the link below.

'The Political Crisis of British Keynesianism', by Colm Murphy. Abstract: 'In histories of Western political economy in the 1970s–1980s, Keynesianism is conventionally depicted as a victim of neoliberal ascendancy. Building on revisionist scholarship, this article looks beyond neoliberalism to explain the fate of Keynesianism in the transforming political economy of the United Kingdom in its global contexts. It explores a neglected case study: the intense controversies sparked by the Keynesian policy makers Wynne Godley and Francis Cripps. Responding to stagflation and strikes, Godley and Cripps demanded sweeping import controls to forestall mass unemployment and reverse Britain’s ‘decline’. They became celebrity economists, attracting admiration and opprobrium from government ministers and officials, political parties, journalists, and the City. Their arguments raised thorny questions, not just over economic policy, but also over Britain’s domestic statecraft and geopolitical relations after empire, during the Cold War, and inside the European Community. Revisiting these debates underscores the destabilizing impact of de-industrialization. It also reveals that (geo)political calculation determined the fate of Keynesian policy making more directly than neoliberal ideology. Godley and Cripps’s failure therefore illuminates a deeper political dilemma for fin-de-siècle Keynesians across Europe: upon which territorial order could they, and should they, exercise demand management as globalization accelerated? This question continues to shape Western politics in the twenty-first century.'
Past and Present@pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · yesterday

On advance access "The Political Crisis of British Keynesianism, 1973–1983" by @colmpm.bsky.social (‪@qmpoliticsir.bsky.social‬) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

Alex von Tunzelmann@alexvont.bsky.social · 3d ago

Catching up on this story. There is a dedicated far right campaign to scrutinise and intimidate black and brown academics. But this careful and judicious reporting by @lanre-bakare.bsky.social raises a lot of substantial questions. Really, a lot. www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

Playbooks, plagiarism and a pig’s head: new claims surrounding a star Cambridge professor

Jason Arday was regarded as an academic superstar, but then questions about his work prompted scrutiny of his backstory and counterclaims of racism

theguardian.com

Imogen Shaw@imogenshaw.bsky.social · 2d ago

Did you know 50% of the East Anglia One offshore wind farm was made in the UK? Here’s me on board one of their maintenance vessels last week, talking about the site and its in-construction neighbour, East Anglia Three.

Labour Climate and Environment Forum@lcefuk.bsky.social · 2d ago

Last week, our Climate and Energy Programme lead @imogenshaw.bsky.social joined ScottishPower Renewables for a trip to East Anglia One offshore wind farm to see the green transition in action.

Imogen Shaw@imogenshaw.bsky.social · 5d ago

Had a great day in the life of an energy nerd yesterday visiting the East Anglia One offshore wind farm with ScottishPower Renewables. It’s a 680MW capacity site, and half of it is UK content - meaning it was made here, boosting supply chains and supporting UK jobs.

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Modern British Studies Association@modbritstud.bsky.social · last wk.

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Matt Burgess (WIRED)@mattburgess1.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW: A glimpse at how AI image generators are used. Researchers set up a fake image editor on Hugging Face and within a week received 1,000 prompts. 73% of them were sexual and 83% of those were asking for people (women) to be “undressed”. Around 6% of the sexual requests also targeted minors

Hugging Face Has a Deepfake Nudes Problem

Researchers tested top image editing models on Hugging Face and found they could easily create explicit deepfakes—and 1,000 image editing prompts show how people use the software.

wired.com

Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · last wk.

(a review is never entirely interesting when the main message seems to be "I just think it should have been a different movie/book altogether" and though it is very elegantly written, I worry that Emily Wilson's take on the Odyssey falls at that hurdle)

Colm Murphy@colmpm.bsky.social · last wk.

This is a fun read, but honestly I don't think it's a good review. The aesthetic criticisms - as opposed to those based on interpretive choices in the text - imply an (involuntary?) predisposition against the film. (Nolan's big budget fares are clearly not Wilson's cup of tea.) And these predominate

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · last wk.

‘Nolan has read at least the first line of my translation of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺 into iambic pentameter. In one interview, he cited my version of it: “Tell me about a complicated man.” But I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script.’ New, by Emily Wilson www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Chris Dillow@chrisdillow.bsky.social · last wk.

Climate change hurts not just humans but large parts of capital: insurance cos, tourism, any business disrupted by it being too hot to work. In opposing net zero, the right is therefore aligned not with the interests of capital, but with those of the more reactionary elements of it.