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Everything That's Wrong with Liberal Centrism in Under 3 mins As told by the late great David Graeber

"American liberalism is profoundly narcissistic. They want to believe that they are a force for good and they're organising the world. This may sound entirely insane, but they are profoundly convinced of this..." - Adam Tooze

I wrote this in 2018, from my review of Levitsky & Ziblatt's How Democracies Die. I think it still holds

"Don't perform like that, perform like this!" More absolute political genius from Mason.

During a minute silence in Amsterdam for the victims of the Valencia floods, fans of the Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv sang "There's no school in Gaza cause we've killed all the kids"

If you want to know why public trust in politicians and journalism is so low, look at how the events in Amsterdam have been reported. It's not just that they are asking you to buy a particular narrative but you're being asked to disbelieve your own eyes.

Once again reminded that the All Blacks are essentially the Barcelona of rugby* *adored by people who know nothing about the sport and despised by everyone else

The position of the UK on this chart is wonderfully counter intuitive - that of Italy even more so

Latest for the Guardian: "The political effects of economic misery are more indirect than 'It’s the economy, stupid' implies. Economic shocks are mediated by the existing emotional currents in society." theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

🧵 The editor-in-chief of top German paper @Welt went on an unhinged racist rant: “[...] barbarians just shout: “Free Palestine; say that now.” [...] an open declaration of war on our way of life [...] It's all out of the question... How do we deal with them?”—Ulf Poschardt

Starmer's view on lifestyle change is completely at odds with the science and our brand new paper (journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…): gov's job is to make it easier and cheaper for people to take action theguardian.com/politics/live/…

"Techno-optimism is unrealistic, risky, and misses opportunities to improve well-being: radical behavioural change is essential for tackling climate change," argue Lorraine Whitmarsh et al. in their recently published paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

So I'm back on in the other place - adamstandring.bsky.social I had set up an account a while back and I'll try and engage more there and less here.

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Setup for Daybreak. Ready to solve Climate Change with my Masters students

There's a perverse pleasure in explaining Matt Goodwin to non-British academics who haven't heard of him. It's like a modern morality tale.