If the #Hormuz strait remains closed, European governments should avoid the huge fossil fuel subsidies they provided in 2022, argue @elisabettaco.bsky.social and @johnspringford.bsky.social in their new @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social insight.
Read here: buff.ly/7gKy4VB
New substack: whereas well-functioning markets can make bad people do good things, political systems can make even good people do bad things. chrisdillow.substack.com/p/in-it-for-...
Two months ago, I was wondering how we would react to the first "earth rise"* image taken in more than half a century.
We have just got the image back from Artemis II - but I fear Trump's threat of a "civilisation dying tonight" might distract us
Civilisation indeed.
*below is an "earth set"
For almost a century generations of scholars and thinkers have tried to understand why the Germans sleepwalked into disaster. Future generations will focus on a different case.
That said, there is scope for adapting some of its mechanics and resources – which is only possible because of how good the game is at modelling the physical and social aspects of climate change.
TLDR: It is a brilliantly crafted game, but it is difficult to see how it can be used ‘as is’ in a Politics/IR classroom without the mechanics becoming a distraction.
New post in the board games as pedagogical tools series at Active Learning in Political Science, with Jenny Morrison and @michaeltoomey.bsky.social
This time we’re playing Daybreak, a game about climate change and international cooperation.
activelearningps.com/2026/03/30/s...
If prices wouldn’t come down, then the short-run political and economic rationale doesn’t work. If demand for gas increases due to domestic supply then less of the gap is going to be filled and we’ll still need LNG. If demand for gas decreases (eg more electrified heating) then the gap is smaller.
All interesting, but there are a couple of things that it would be worth exploring in a future video. First, would an increase in domestic gas production result in lower consumer prices? Second, you’ve focused entirely on supply projections - what about demand?
This is a good question to address, actually.
There's often an intuitive assumption that when a country runs out of money, its war effort will grind to a halt. That's how households and (sometimes) companies work.
But those assumptions are really frequently frustrated - countries can push on.
this means it is not open for transit
Ok, let’s do this🙄
We’ll start with an explainer covering:
🕒What is a 15-minute city
🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford
👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from
And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article
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I prefer the framing of ‘discerning audience’
There’s lots of criticism of this, but to a large extent this should be understood as electoral positioning on the left. A key left criticism of the Greens is that they aren’t sufficiently anti-NATO - this pushes back on that even if it erodes some of the soft left votes that the Greens also want.
US attack on Venezuela is, among other things, a regrettable turn towards petro-imperialism. My take at @goodauth.bsky.social
goodauthority.org/news/trump-m...
Curious about the tech billionaires' claims to sovereignty mean for the international order?
Check out our @risjnl.bsky.social forum on this topic, organized by the brilliant @maharafiatal.bsky.social!
Good, clear article that allows me to propose once again one of my fave mantras:
If you think mitigation politics is hard, you haven’t thought enough about the toxicity of adaptation politics
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Going through some history of climate politics notes from last week, I realize we dont appreciate enough the climate mobilization of mid2010s and subsequent electoral green wave of late 2010s.
That moment was never really meant to be in the cards and we need to better study how we got there
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The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social
"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.
how it feels to contribute to an edited volume
My pleasure!
Very happy to see this published online. A thought provoking and beautifully crafted article that suggests we centre ‘being’ rather than active ‘doing’ in classroom. Well worth a read, this will be part of a forthcoming symposium on active learning in the Politics journal.
These are really insane numbers. Even if we only look at formal political offices, billionaires are more than 10,000x more likely to hold a national political position than the average person.
2024 Best Learning and Teaching Article published in Politics @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @sagepub.com @uofglasgow.bsky.social: we are happy to announce that the winner is Dr Donna Smith @drdonnasmith.bsky.social for her work on student communities. Details at: journals.sagepub.com/page/pol/col...
In this sort of situation, sending a primer sounds like quite a good idea ;)
Best part of this story:
NEW CHART: Trump's "big beautiful bill" & other efforts to dismantle climate policy means the US will add an extra 7bn tonnes of emissions to the atmosphere from now until 2030, compared to meeting its former climate pledge under the Paris Agreement 🫠
www.carbonbrief.org/...
