I’m afraid this type of academic malpractice is quite widespread. I know of at least 2 instances where my work was used as ‘heavy inspiration’ without attribution for a book published by an academic publisher and a think-tank report.

Rory Waterman@rorywaterman.bsky.social · 4d ago

Some notes by little me on recent, hugely damaging, shamefully shameless events at Cambridge University. rorywaterman.substack.com/p/notes-on-a-cambridge-debacle If you read only one article about what has happened, try the new piece by Lanre Bakare in the Guardian, linked in my blog post.

Funny how national governments consider that the sale of golden passports to dodgy rich people is a strictly national competence, but regularizing migrants who are working for a living is not.

POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · 4d ago

Twenty-two EU leaders have raised “serious concern” that Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s migration policies are undermining the security of the bloc’s borders.

Shame on Yvette Cooper, whom while at the HO decided to proscribe Palestinian Action; shame on the Labour government who is arresting retired teachers, nurses and vicars while those who commit hate crimes on X remain free to spread their venom.

Lizzie Dearden@lizziedearden.bsky.social · 3d ago

The number of terror-related arrests in Britain has risen 1,200% a year following the ban of Palestine Action The number of people arrested for holding signs - under a law originally designed for IRA uniforms - is higher than total terror arrests over the previous decade inews.co.uk/news/retired...

Mixed feelings about Cascais. On the one hand I’m very happy to be back home, on the other I’m disturbed by the changes that mass tourism and the thousands of US digital nomads have brought to the town.

The Commission President expresses NO solidarity with Spain or the thousands of people affected in Ceuta. Nor does she call on other EU Member States to support Spain in managing what is a European border. No rebuke to Italy and Finland threatening to ‘suspend’ Spain from Schengen. That’s illegal

Oh, but it was Ed Miliband’s net zero zealotry which was apparently destroying the economy and the reason why he could not be trusted with the nation’s finances… www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...

June heatwave cost UK economy more than £1 billion, study finds - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment

The heatwave in June 2026 led to 24 million lost hours of working and a £1.15 billion hit to the UK economy, according to new research by the Institute and the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Cha...

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The UK will not have enough water for future datacentres. England faces 5bn litre a day shortfall for public water supplies. A trillion litres of water a year lost to leaks. Widespread hosepipe bans. No national grid for water. Poor infrastructure. No national plan.

Not enough water for UK’s datacentre plans, trade body says

Industry says government’s failure to address cooling demands means AI growth plans are ‘fatally flawed’

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Ed Miliband as Foreign Secretary ia very much a way of keeping him out of sight, remote from the centre of decision (it’s the PM who mostly decides and takes credit for foreign policy) making while ‘honouring’ him with a fancy title. share.google/Lhaify0UVK9L...

'Honour of my life to be foreign secretary' - Miliband

The BBC's political editor Chris Mason speaks to Ed Miliband about his new appointment.

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Burnham’s cabinet appointments are baffling given his ambition to break with 40 years of neoliberalism. There’s more continuity than change. Lots of Blue Labour vibes and a desperate attempt to please the right-wing press and that vague but powerful thing called ‘the business community’

As Burnham prepares to enter No. 10 Downing Street & become the UK's new Prime Minister today, Labour believes he can save the Party. @eunicegoes.bsky.social @richmondunildn.bsky.social says he can, but he'll have to navigate unpopular policy decisions & a hostile press @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social

Andy Burnham is Labour’s last hope | LSE British Politics

Labour seems to believe that Andy Burnham can turn the Party's fortunes around. The real test will be how he navigates unpopular decisions and a hostile press.

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S. Miguel, Azores, is so gorgeous!

Yes, Ed Miliband is really the right choice for the FCO if Burnham’s main foreign policy goal is to rattle Donald Trump. Then again, it can be a rather refreshing (brave would be the word chosen by Sir Humphrey Appleby) approach to the so-called special relationship.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 3w ago

Burnham is now expected to make Ed Miliband Foreign Secretary - including a roadmap to bring devekopment bsck to 0.7% of GDP, the Independent reports www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

As Burnham becomes Labour leader I explain in this post why the party is overwhelmingly behind him.

LSE British Politics and Policy@lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social · 3w ago

Andy Burnham is Labour’s last hope He has both the ideas and the plan to execute them that can see him win the next General Election. But the real test will be how he navigates unpopular policy decisions and a hostile press, argues @eunicegoes.bsky.social. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

The odd combo of New Labour’s triangulation and Blue Labour results in restarting drilling North Sea oil and gas and bringing Thames Water into public control.

I’ll be force feeding my piece down your throats bit by bit for the next few days. This is about why loss of research capability in universities isn’t just a linear bit of market forces but a messy process of universities sometimes doing panicky short term cuts

What a way to run an economy and a country. Faceless bankers decide who is the Chancellor of a Labour government on purely ideological grounds. This is how Labour governments fail all the time…

Lucy Fisher@lucyfisher.ft.com · 3w ago

What to expect from a Shabana Mahmood chancellorship? One UK bank board member says her right-of-centre politics suggest “a Reeves continuity, which is the best we could hope for” But Lucy Powell says Mahmood is in favour of “big change” & a “radical platform” www.ft.com/content/fe73...

"A closed country will be poorer. A country that underinvests will not grow. A state that refuses to reform tax will ration ambition. And a Labour government afraid to say these things will discover once again that caution, too, has costs." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Burnham must learn from Starmer’s mistakes: Labour was elected to transform the economy, not just stabilise it | Jonathan Portes

Devolution, tax, the EU and immigration: these are all opportunities for growth if Burnham abandons the excessive caution of the past few years, says economist Jonathan Portes

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Such a vile little team, Argentina. They may be good at football - and kicking and pushing - but they’re so small minded.

Paul Brand@paulbrand.bsky.social · 3w ago

But a rainbow bucket hat is too political?

Not yet in Number 10 but disappointing already. Rewarding a politician who revels on daily performative cruelty (while harming the UK economy) with the second most important job in government sends discouraging signals about Burnham. These New Labour era politicians are addicted to triangulation…

It’s quite something that at a time of tight public finances the UK government seems ready to squander billions because it doesn’t like international students and despises universities.

Martin D.B. Brown@martindbbrown.bsky.social · 3w ago

www.hepi.ac.uk/reports/hepi...

Not yet in Number 10 but already disappointing… Why is Burnham drawing attention to his stances on immigration?

Kevin Schofield@kevinschofied.bsky.social · 3w ago

Scoop: Andy Burnham will vote FOR Shabana Mahmood's immigration crackdown in the Commons tonight. Dozens of Labour MPs had written to him urging him to water down the Immigration and Asylum Bill, warning the party is “losing progressive voters”. Story 👇 www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/andy-b...

Shocking silence from Cambridge University about its links to the global far-right. Only in the rarefied air of Cambridge can an academic with problematic views on race be allowed to teach. bylinetimes.com/2026/07/09/p...

Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed

The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at...

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Discouraging an activity with a benefit-to-cost ratio of nearly 10:1. A triumph of policymaking.

Fall in international student numbers ‘cost UK £2.9 billion’

Latest cost-benefit analysis finds overseas enrolments generate nearly 10 times more money for UK than they take away

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Kudos to the Danish reporter who asked the question we all wanted to ask.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago

WOW -- Danish reporter *goes there* with Rutte "You sit next to Trump when he talks about conquering Greenland, lashes out at allies like Spain -- things it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?"

Yes, Burnham can find funds to fund important projects by cancelling expensive greenwashing projects like CCS. Next stop: data centres. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The great carbon capture con: behold the wasted billions Burnham could claw back | George Monbiot

There are far better ways to tackle climate breakdown, but successive governments have chosen to listen to the fossil fuel companies instead, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Nothing says 'man of the people' quite like a politician calling a by-election at public expense on the issue of whether or not he should have the right to secretly take donations from Thai-based crypto billionaires and a convicted fraudster

Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.

A glorificação injustificada nacional de Cristiano Ronaldo é uma metáfora perfeita para Portugal: a memórias um passado mais ou menos glorioso impedem progresso no presente e futuro.

It will be interesting to see Marine le Pen campaign to become French president with an ankle electronic tag…. www.lemonde.fr/en/france/li...

Marine Le Pen sentenced to three years in prison, including two suspended, and a 45-month election ban, including 30 suspended

The Paris appeals court is delivering its ruling on Tuesday afternoon.

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Hydration break (ht @brokenbanker.bsky.social )