Beach holidays in the climate crisis, France. As an old viral quote said: “Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you’re the one filming it.”
Martin O'Neill
@martinoneill.bsky.social
dad of four · professor of political philosophy at the university of york · london-irish turned northerner · arsenal fan · trustee at the democracy collaborative · writing about the theory and practice of social and economic justice
Fancy some weekend reading? Want to see how practical policies to devolve economic power can be implemented here and now? The report of the Community Wealth Building Commission for York and North Yorkshire, set up by @ynymayor.bsky.social, is now in the public domain👇 cles.org.uk/resilient-th...
Resilient, thriving and healthy: building community wealth in York and North Yorkshire - CLES
This report sets out the findings of the York and North Yorkshire Community Wealth Building Commission, the first mayoral commission of its kind in England, which was supported by CLES. It offers a pr...
cles.org.uk
“Britain needs a deep transformation of its economic system, one that expands the democratic economy & shifts power back to working people & communities. Community Wealth Building is a powerful & proven way to achieve this goal.” - @martinoneill.bsky.social renewal.org.uk/blog/if-burn...
If Andy Burnham is serious about changing the British economy, Community Wealth Building is the way to do it
This week, Renewal are publishing a series of reflections on the direction that Andy Burnham's new government could or should take. In this piece, Preston City Council Leader Matthew Brown and politic...
renewal.org.uk
So interesting! Thanks for posting @drannaclark.bsky.social Apart from the overall difference of feel and tone they saw different skies and chose to depict different people. And what’s going on with the church spire?
Dr Anna Clark@drannaclark.bsky.social · 2w agoWhen two artists paint the same view: Rue de la Chausée à Argenteuil, painted on the same day in 1872 by Claude Monet & Alfred Sisley, friends and founding figures of French Impressionism, who set up their easels side by side en plein air. Private Collection | Musée d’Orsay
I have a post on the @york.ac.uk Social Change blog, on the launch of the report of the Community Wealth Building Commission for York & North Yorkshire, set up by @ynymayor.bsky.social @davidskaith.bsky.social, and on which I was honoured to serve as a commissioner. blogs.york.ac.uk/social-chang...
My heart is heavy that we are making a collective miscalculation in undervaluing the humanities - from my FT piece www.ft.com/content/fbde...
I've written a short piece for @renewaljournal.bsky.social with Matthew Brown, Leader of Preston City Council & main architect of the 'Preston Model' of @communitywealth.bsky.social, on what Andy Burnham needs to do if he's serious about changing the British economy. renewal.org.uk/blog/if-burn...
If Andy Burnham is serious about changing the British economy, Community Wealth Building is the way to do it
This week, Renewal are publishing a series of reflections on the direction that Andy Burnham's new government could or should take. In this piece, Preston City Council Leader Matthew Brown and politic...
renewal.org.uk
England haven't won.a football match since Burnham's team started briefing Shabana Mahmood for Chancellor, is all I'm saying
At @sciencespo.bsky.social in Paris, for a wonderfully interdisciplinary conference on "State and Capital: Old Problems, New Trajectories", organised by Chiara Cordelli. The programme has a great mix of political theorists, historians, philosophers and economists. www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/fr/...
State and Capital: Old Problems, New Trajectories
A conference on the relationship between the state and capital organised by the Center for History and Economics in Paris.
sciencespo.fr
All I really want to know about Burnham is where does he stand on turning civil disobedience into terrorism, and will he reverse the current approach in which inciting damaging military hardware is punished far more severely than inciting far right riots? www.thekeymagazine.com/p/palestine-...
Punishing Protest as Terrorism
The eminent human rights lawyer on the sentencing of The Elbit 4 and the UK government's unprecedented suppression of protest
thekeymagazine.com
Get in touch if you — or someone you know — would be interested in applying for a British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowship to be held at the University of York. @uoyphilosophy.bsky.social @york.ac.uk 👇
The British Academy@britishacademy.bsky.social · last mo.Applications for the Postdoctoral Fellowships are open. This fellowship is a three-year award made to an annual cohort of outstanding early-career researchers in the humanities or social sciences. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4xWduAS
"The idea that people will be able to hold it together and deliver a term of teaching before they vanish off into the horizon, is bizarre, spiteful and naive as well.” The Times HE's punchy account of Exeter University's #BonfireOfTheHumanities & what one academic describes as "existential terror".
‘I thought we were safe’: shock at Exeter’s humanities ‘gamble’
Leading department being in the firing line shows how changing student preferences are fundamentally reshaping universities
timeshighereducation.com
Without googling — which critic of capitalism said this, and when did they say it?
The current management of the University of Exeter are currently engaged in crude vandalism against a proud institution. Sign here to register your opposition to the self-destructive round of redundancies going on at @exeter.ac.uk . c.org/2tVvMSzDQr
Sign the Petition
Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
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I've long loved Dinosaur Jr's cover of The Cure's "Just Like Heaven", but I only yesterday discovered this similarly lovely J Mascis cover of The Smiths' "The Boy with the Thorn in His Side". Enjoy! Good album title too. 😊 www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbbF...
The Boy with the Thorn in His Side
YouTube video by J Mascis - Topic
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A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.
If you know of any suitable candidates who might be interested in applying for a British Academy post-doctoral fellowship to be held at York, do encourage them to drop me a line... www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
Postdoctoral Fellowships
The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships is a three year award made to an annual cohort of outstanding early career researchers in the humanities or social sciences.
thebritishacademy.ac.uk
Some have argued that Elon Musk is a mass murderer for having terminated USAID. I examine this claim and conclude that if Hitler—who never personally killed anyone in his life—is a mass murderer, then so is Musk. Indeed, Musk is a mass murderer of world-historical proportions.
Is Elon Musk a Mass Murderer On Par with the Worst Dictators in History?
Yes, and this shouldn’t be controversial. He intentionally cut aid to the world’s poorest people. 1.6 million have already died and 14 million will die by 2030. (1,000 words)
realtimetechpocalypse.com
Really interesting history of economic debt R/T @martinoneill.bsky.social : www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/06/mich...
Michael Hudson: Debts That Cannot Be Paid Won’t Be | naked capitalism
R. C. J. Cranstoun spoke with Michael Hudson ont debt, rentierism, and the geopolitical rift over sanctions, energy, and the dollar system
nakedcapitalism.com
i mean obviously over simplifying here but I do think a fairly key qualification for the next labour leader should be "proud determination to make us less, not more, dependent on people who openly want to destroy progressive values and incite pogroms"
Now that the world has its first trillionaires, perhaps it’s time to get serious at last about wealth taxes. Here’s the case for taxing wealth that @howardread.bsky.social and I made in a @fairness.bsky.social report last year: fairnessfoundation.com/win-win-win
Win-Win-Win
Taxing wealth for fairness, revenue and growth
fairnessfoundation.com
Given the deeply damaged state of UK higher education, vacancies are few and far between these days. But here's a one-year teaching post in Political Philosophy at the University of Newcastle. jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...
Lecturer in Political Philosophy (T&S)
Lecturer in Political Philosophy (T&S)
jobs.ncl.ac.uk
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov on the Arsenal, saved from behind the NY Times paywall. Great reading for socialist Gooners. 😊⚽️✊ archive.is/Da3Px
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Attn @martinoneill.bsky.social.
Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · 2mo ago1. London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers. After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.
After the painful ruse of Starmerism, the left should be cautious about @andyburnham.bsky.social My column on the questions he should answer 👇 theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Notre-Dame de Paris, from the left bank of the Seine, taken this morning.
