Elections like yesterday reinforce my belief that researching the political and economic conditions under which democratic mobilization is unleashed (in the world of energy and climate, and beyond) are crucial to the current moment, and do not need to be only depressing

Geneva is really pretty!

Different views of the Acropolis in Athens.

The views from the Schönbrunn Palace are impressive.

Where democracy started and decline, the Athens Agora.

The Broken Chair in front of the UN in Geneva, to remember the pain caused by land mines.

The UN in Geneva has peacocks living freely on the gardens.

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Spring in Amsterdam

More Vienna

Vienna is stunning

Amsterdam Canals

As WMO unveils the Global #StateOfClimate 2025, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres calls for urgent action grounded in science.
📕Read the report: bit.ly/StateOfClimate2025
📽️UNSG's full message: https://youtu.be/iijVBQbm3jg

Some London spring pics

This might be the oil shock where the world learns that you can have Nixon style queues at gas stations without price controls.

Blaming shortages on price controls in a massive supply shock is like blaming the rain on the umbrella.

I still recommend using an umbrella.

I think I look cute in this pic.

What you need to know about Mexico’s drug cartels amid escalating violence Mexico’s cartel landscape has expanded significantly since 2006, fuelled by arms smuggling and drug consumption north of the border.

Mexico’s cartel landscape has expanded significantly since 2006, fuelled by arms smuggling and drug consumption north of the border.

What you need to know about Mexico’s drug cartels amid escalating violence Mexico’s cartel landscape has expanded significantly since 2006, fuelled by arms smuggling and drug consumption north of the border.

What you need to know about Mexico’s drug cartels amid escalating violence

theconversation.com/what-you-nee...

My piece at @uk.theconversation.com

What you need to know about Mexico’s drug cartels amid escalating violence Mexico’s cartel landscape has expanded significantly since 2006, fuelled by arms smuggling and drug consumption north of the border.

What you need to know about Mexico’s drug cartels amid escalating violence

theconversation.com/what-you-nee...

My piece at @uk.theconversation.com

Historia reciente de los precios de la gasolina en México (1995-2019)

rgzepeda.substack.com/p/historia-p...

Jürgen Habermas Dies at 96; One of Postwar Germany’s Most Influential Thinkers In dozens of books, he rejected postmodern cynicism about truth and reason, arguing that rational communication was the best way to redeem democratic society.

Jürgen Habermas, a philosopher and public intellectual who was one of the most influential and cited thinkers in postwar Germany, died on Saturday. He was 96.

En nuestro artículo para @nexosmexico.bsky.social, Karina García reyes y yo reflexionamos sobre las falacias de la guerra contra las drogas, la responsabilidad de Estados Unidos en su sostenimiento y la urgente necesidad de darle un giro a la conversación
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I missed Regents Canal.

Will Mexico’s Jalisco cartel’s violent biz model survive El Mencho’s death? El Mencho consolidated Mexico’s most powerful criminal organisations in part due to a unique franchise-based structure.

Thanks to @aljazeera.com for the interview aje.news/xai82t

"The removal of Mexican criminal leaders does not cause the market for drugs to vanish, nor does it cause trafficking routes to disappear. What changes is the balance of power among groups that already compete for territory, labour and access to ports, roads and local authorities."

Mexico may pay a steep price for the killing of Jalisco cartel leader El Mencho The killing of the Jalisco New Generation cartel’s leader is likely to spark a wave violence.

The killing of the Jalisco New Generation cartel’s leader is likely to spark a wave violence.

Mexico may pay a steep price for the killing of Jalisco cartel leader El Mencho The killing of the Jalisco New Generation cartel’s leader is likely to spark a wave violence.

Mexico may pay a steep price for the killing of Jalisco cartel leader El Mencho

My article at the @uk.theconversation.com

theconversation.com/mexico-may-p...

‘Christian pastors declared Pikachu to be a demon’: how Pokémon went from moral panic to unifying global hit Nintendo’s monster-collecting franchise was pilloried as a ‘pestilential Ponzi scheme’ in the 90s. But as its celebrates its 30th birthday, it now stands as a powerful example of video games’ ability ...

‘Christian pastors declared Pikachu to be a demon’: how Pokémon went from moral panic to unifying global hit

www.theguardian.com/games/2026/f...

I finally visited the British Museum Reading room, which used to the the British Library reading room until 1997. And, of course, I had to have a pic beside the information plate of Karl Marx, who researched and wrote The Capital here.

Fossil fuel firms may have to pay for climate damage under proposed UN tax Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation could also force ultra-rich to pay global wealth tax

Fossil fuel firms may have to pay for climate damage under proposed UN tax
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