RIP Alasdair MacIntyre, the greatest philosopher of my lifetime (and then some). 'After Virtue' is one of the few philosophy books that I immediately and viscerally felt was true and changed how I saw everything. If you haven't read it, read it

So far, our ultra-realist project ultrarealists.com has found four reasons to be worried and one reason to be intrigued or even hopeful. Neoliberalism is destroying a) the environment b) society and culture c) morality and d) geopolitical relations, BUT, it is also

If Reform UK embark on massive spending cuts (beyond their tax breaks) then they will be destroying net savings and leading the country into a deep recession.

Ultra-Realism's theoretical framework can be a bit chewy. Fear not, try this highly accessible study guide for students at all levels. ultrarealists.com/product/ultra-… amazon.co.uk/Ultra-Realism-… Simon Winlow Anthony Lloyd Keith Hayward British Criminology Critical Criminology

Ultra Realists Simon Winlow I was rereading it recently. If it had the place that A Theory of Justice has in academic philosophy, philosophy would be so much interesting.

This is how civilizations collapse. Their fearful, myopic political leaders and platformed commentators blame the symptons. The real cause - their own resolve to shore up a system that no longer functions - is just too traumatic to even consider. x.com/BBCNewsnight/s…

The Starmer government is risking social peace at home and World War abroad. They are a threat to national and international security.

Academics don't encourage Wikipedia, but students now use AI, which isn't doing a great job of representing ultra-realism. We've also been badly mispresented in some published articles, so we've set up a Wikipedia page as a corrective. Critical Criminology en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-rea…

The latest blog on the Ultra-Realist website. Written by criminology Masters student Mayra Barrera. A very direct style - like it! One of a growing number of young people now seeing the consumerism/social media axis for what it is. ultrarealists.com/the-digital-co… Ultra Realists

This should be on every major news site.

This is the class in whose interests we are being led now- the stock market and mega corporations. The government doesn’t even try and hide it.

The more I use ChatGPT the more I think it just can't be good that a lot of people are getting accustomed to having conversations in which they're endlessly congratulated on their great questions and repetitively told how brilliantly insightful and clever they are

There’s a strange emotional intensity to everyday life. A vanishing space to recognise something is objectively sad/tragic without also feeling (or claiming to feel) the tragedy at an intense personal level. Leads to an overly effusive emotional culture that reeks of dishonesty

"Despite massive spending—$680 billion allocated between 2021 and 2027, or more than a third of the European Union’s total budget—the Green Deal has delivered negligible climate results." 🎯by Thomas Fazi look Toni🔻 Carlos García Hrndz thomasfazi.com/p/the-european…

I sort of suspect that a fair amount of what gets referred to as “woke” isn’t really ideological so much as the result of some deeply maladjusted people having been given disproportionate influence over the way everyone else is supposed to live

I feel like this book, which came out in 2023, didn’t get enough attention at the time. As the accelerating and poorly defined concept of “social harm” is embedded unthinkingly into law and policy across the U.K., it seems more timely than ever.

Christopher Lasch's Angry Ghost Thanks Ghost! For those interested, this book was about the deep historical roots underpinning the current deep incoherence around harm. Now writing a sequel with Anthony Lloyd which roots harm within a view of human flourishing that combines neuroscience and MacIntyrean ethics

Social science disciplines like criminology now seem to lack any centre. There’s always been a range of sub-fields. But today they function autonomously, scarcely relating back to any core of the discipline

Big Tech also attracts a significant majority of the hundreds of billions, even trillions of capital invested via “green” and “sustainable” ESG funds. Something I’m looking at right now with my project, Dirty Green Money. isrf.org/people/thomas-…

Hi all, here's the new Ultra-Realist blog by Emma Armstrong and myself – the Disunion Jack, about the the contested meanings of national flags and who wins in the culture wars. Spread the word! Cheers ultrarealists.com/the-disunion-j… Ultra Realists Critical Criminology