Complete insanity.

Statement endorsed by the faculty of the New School for Social Research.

This cannot stand. This is not a public order issue, it’s a state suppression of thought issue.

Great thread by my friend and coauthor Jakob Schneebacher bringing a lot of strands of work and great thoughts together. We can and will get better and the infrastructure to do so is being built not just in the UK but across countries as we speak.

Middle East Eye Here’s Emory University economics professor Caroline Fohlin knocked to the ground with her head on the concrete. Her glasses are thrown off. She shouts “I’m a professor”
#Gaza #Protesters

It all could have been prevented. And it was not. And I really don't know what to say... What a catastrophic failure of the world's powerful and entrusted.

Cracking review of Yuan Yang’s brilliant new book Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China 👇

theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

A CNN crew witnessed at least two professors detained by Atlanta police, including Emory University economics professor Caroline Fohlin and Noëlle McAfee, chair of the philosophy department. #FreePalestine cnn.com/business/live-…

Longer clip from CNN that includes the period just before Emory Economics professor Caroline Fohlin was pinned down and arrested by two cops twice her size—for trying to get them to stop brutalizing a student

It's like a Hogarth - 'the public listen attentively to the prouncements of his majesty's minister'

(via Etan Smallman)

The narrative that the UAE buying the Telegraph would ‘destroy a great British institution’ versus the reality really is something

Hideous videos like this are going to create more and more protesters.

Do higher public debt levels reduce economic growth? My meta-analysis is out in the September issue of Journal of Economic Surveys. By analysing 816 estimates, I find
- publication bias in favour of negative growth effects
- no uniform public-debt-to-GDP threshold

Summary 🧵

Apart from everything else insane about this, why on earth is a police officer wearing a balaclava and khaki like some 1980s IRA militant

Tory MP Chris Philp discovers in real-time that the Democratic Republic of Congo is not Rwanda…

#bbcqt

The Committee also highlights that the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty & human rights, following his visit to the UK in November 2023, stated that the UK was in violation of international law in relation to its duty to provide a level of social protection>

RT

#UNCRPD2024

It’s nice in Bristol this afternoon.