Tuesday, 28 February 2023

Fighting today’s battles with yesterday’s strategies? On the romanticism of the picket line!

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Since 2018, UCU has been in almost permanent industrial action over cuts to pensions, pay and working conditions including more than 60 days...
Thursday, 5 January 2023

Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis - new book review

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Just over four years ago, Adam D. Morton and I published our book Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis (CUP, 2018). In this book, ...
Friday, 16 December 2022

COP 27 – Surviving the Apocalypse: From ‘me’ to ‘we’.

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Ultimately, it comes down to political will, when confronting the climate crisis. Instead of indulging in Elon Musk’s fantasies about life o...
Monday, 12 December 2022

COP 27 – Greening Everything: Putting back more than we take out.

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If we want to confront the climate crisis successfully, greening everything and here especially our cities is key, argued Alan Simpson in th...
Thursday, 8 December 2022

Watch out Benjamin Zephaniah! International Relations Theory poetry.

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With a view to engaging students through different teaching methods, Andreas Bieler and Adam David Morton launched a poetry competition in...
Tuesday, 6 December 2022

COP 27 – ‘The 15-minute city’: connectivity as driver of carbon reduction.

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We do have the necessary alternatives. What is missing are politicians with the necessary radical vision to put these alternatives into prac...
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Tuesday, 29 November 2022

COP 27 – Energy: Back to the Future, local democracy, public ownership and social inclusion.

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In his third talk on the Climate Crisis, Alan Simpson tackled the issue of energy production and distribution in a shift away from fossil fu...