Abby Innes
@abbyinnes.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof. at the European Institute, LSE. Research and teach the political economy of the state. Optimist. Alarmed by people who lack self-doubt...
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Abby Innes
@abbyinnes.bsky.social
· Jun 9
‘Ticking timebomb’: sea acidity has reached critical levels, threatening entire ecosystems – study
- Ocean acidification has already crossed a crucial threshold for planetary health, scientists say
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Ocean acidification has already crossed a crucial threshold for planetary health, scientists say
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Ticking timebomb’: sea acidity has reached critical levels, threatening entire ecosystems – study
Ocean acidification has already crossed a crucial threshold for planetary health, scientists say in unexpected finding
www.theguardian.com
Governments ignore the science and prefer to just focus on climate change as an energy transition: as a spur to kick start a still completely unsustainable capitalism. We’re in breach of multiple planetary boundaries and they - and we - are deeply interdependent. It’s one hell of a category error.
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Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:
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🔔 Is it time for a new push on delinquent ownership? 🔔 We're hosting a conversation @kinship.works to share ideas...
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Is it time for a new push on delinquent ownership?
Across Britain, there are countless examples of land and buildings in the heart of communities lying empty and deteriorating, often stuck in unclear or absent ownership. We can all think of examples: ...
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December 3, 2025 at 8:34 AM
🔔 Is it time for a new push on delinquent ownership? 🔔 We're hosting a conversation @kinship.works to share ideas...
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An impassioned assassination of an ugly monster. Enjoy the read and grieve!
And: "Foster’s bronze goliath is a prelude of what may soon be built in London, on an even bigger scale.... by far the biggest office building in the capital... Brace yourselves..."
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
And: "Foster’s bronze goliath is a prelude of what may soon be built in London, on an even bigger scale.... by far the biggest office building in the capital... Brace yourselves..."
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
An eco obscenity: Norman Foster’s steroidal new skyscraper is an affront to the New York skyline
It contains enough steel to go round the world twice – and even has a fake breeze to flutter the stars-and-stripes flag in its lobby. If this $4bn colossus is just the first of a new breed of bulky su...
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:20 AM
An impassioned assassination of an ugly monster. Enjoy the read and grieve!
And: "Foster’s bronze goliath is a prelude of what may soon be built in London, on an even bigger scale.... by far the biggest office building in the capital... Brace yourselves..."
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
And: "Foster’s bronze goliath is a prelude of what may soon be built in London, on an even bigger scale.... by far the biggest office building in the capital... Brace yourselves..."
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Sigh.
And no Cabinet Office this is not a "complex and large-scale project".
It's a change in service provider. That's all
Oh hang on, it's Crapita :(
www.theregister.com/2025/12/03/c...
And no Cabinet Office this is not a "complex and large-scale project".
It's a change in service provider. That's all
Oh hang on, it's Crapita :(
www.theregister.com/2025/12/03/c...
New Capita-run civil service pension portal full of errors
Updated: Awarded a £239M contract, outsourcer apologizes for any inconvenience to 1.5M members
www.theregister.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Sigh.
And no Cabinet Office this is not a "complex and large-scale project".
It's a change in service provider. That's all
Oh hang on, it's Crapita :(
www.theregister.com/2025/12/03/c...
And no Cabinet Office this is not a "complex and large-scale project".
It's a change in service provider. That's all
Oh hang on, it's Crapita :(
www.theregister.com/2025/12/03/c...
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"Brooks is a Private Eye man but no idle laughing iconoclast: there is a deep seriousness in his analysis of the legal, corporate & political failings that led to this catastrophe"
Review in The Times of Post Mortem by Richard Brooks. www.thetimes.com/article/b612...
Review in The Times of Post Mortem by Richard Brooks. www.thetimes.com/article/b612...
‘Blessed is the brand’ — the truth about what caused the Post Office scandal
In his forensic, seething account, Post Mortem, the Private Eye journalist Richard Brooks dives deep into the biggest miscarriage of justice in British history
www.thetimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:19 AM
"Brooks is a Private Eye man but no idle laughing iconoclast: there is a deep seriousness in his analysis of the legal, corporate & political failings that led to this catastrophe"
Review in The Times of Post Mortem by Richard Brooks. www.thetimes.com/article/b612...
Review in The Times of Post Mortem by Richard Brooks. www.thetimes.com/article/b612...
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Crypto-investor who lives in Thailand gives record-breaking donation to Reform UK, to help it win power in a country he doesn't live in.
Britain's political funding laws are a charred and smoking ruin. Ducking change was a catastrophic mistake by Labour.
www.ft.com/content/db73...
Britain's political funding laws are a charred and smoking ruin. Ducking change was a catastrophic mistake by Labour.
www.ft.com/content/db73...
Reform UK gets record £9mn donation from Christopher Harborne
Nigel Farage’s party attracts far more funding than both Labour and the Conservatives
www.ft.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Crypto-investor who lives in Thailand gives record-breaking donation to Reform UK, to help it win power in a country he doesn't live in.
Britain's political funding laws are a charred and smoking ruin. Ducking change was a catastrophic mistake by Labour.
www.ft.com/content/db73...
Britain's political funding laws are a charred and smoking ruin. Ducking change was a catastrophic mistake by Labour.
www.ft.com/content/db73...
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"You can create money out of nothing, but you can’t create doctors, schools, or consumer goods." Nail. Head.
Agree with @jomichell.bsky.social here.
My earlier piece: "The claim that that MMT means that a future government can dodge hard choices about how to pay for decent public services is just plain nonsense."
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/econom...
My earlier piece: "The claim that that MMT means that a future government can dodge hard choices about how to pay for decent public services is just plain nonsense."
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/econom...
December 4, 2025 at 8:59 AM
"You can create money out of nothing, but you can’t create doctors, schools, or consumer goods." Nail. Head.
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This is the guy who gave Boris Johnson £1 million and then won a big MoD contract....
Reform gets largest ever political donation by an individual in UK history from a crypto baron living in Thailand
This is not normal
www.ft.com/content/db73...
This is not normal
www.ft.com/content/db73...
Reform UK gets £9mn donation from Christopher Harborne
Nigel Farage’s party attracts far more funding than both Labour and the Conservatives
www.ft.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:30 AM
This is the guy who gave Boris Johnson £1 million and then won a big MoD contract....
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It's like the incredibly tedious "Rachel from accounts" thing. Misogyny in politics remains a powerful force.
When I was at an Oxford college whose library for some reason has a copy of Reeves’ BA thesis, I was separately approached by two different people asking for help to get hold of it. The obsession with taking down her intellectual credentials is revealing - and absolutely mental.
This is the point where the anti-Reeves stories tip into madness. Criticise her performance all you like but what the hell is this?
December 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
It's like the incredibly tedious "Rachel from accounts" thing. Misogyny in politics remains a powerful force.
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Time for a (long - apologies)🧵 summarizing the findings! The paper was born out of a shared annoyance with some of the wild claims flying around about AI. Things like 'AI could destroy or save humanity'. For a recent example, see e.g., this piece in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
December 3, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Time for a (long - apologies)🧵 summarizing the findings! The paper was born out of a shared annoyance with some of the wild claims flying around about AI. Things like 'AI could destroy or save humanity'. For a recent example, see e.g., this piece in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
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"This government...reversed the additional austerity the last government had pencilled in, but once you allow for trends in health spending & debt interest the...reduction in the level of public service provision that we saw under 14 years of Tory rule has not & will not be significantly reversed."
New post: The Budget suggests the Chancellor is thinking too much about short term management and too little about long term legacy
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
What is missing is any sense that the government has a long term plan and is putting in place the resources to achieve it.
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
What is missing is any sense that the government has a long term plan and is putting in place the resources to achieve it.
The Budget suggests the Chancellor is thinking too much about short term management and too little about long term legacy
My posts come out on a Tuesday and Budgets are on a Wednesday. Not great timing, which is why in the past I’ve often done special posts on...
mainlymacro.blogspot.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:07 AM
"This government...reversed the additional austerity the last government had pencilled in, but once you allow for trends in health spending & debt interest the...reduction in the level of public service provision that we saw under 14 years of Tory rule has not & will not be significantly reversed."
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If the government is serious about wanting higher growth, at least a glance in the direction of the disintegrating HE sector might be warranted.
Grim news and vacuous messaging from Essex: 200 academic posts (in unspecified subjects) to go this year & 200 professional staff posts in the next 2 years. Closure of Southend campus will be a blow regionally as well. The vision and ambition that saw Essex et al established is sorely needed now.
Essex to close Southend campus and cut 400 jobs
University says it has been forced into making ‘decisions we could have never previously imagined’ after steep drop in international student numbers
www.timeshighereducation.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:54 AM
If the government is serious about wanting higher growth, at least a glance in the direction of the disintegrating HE sector might be warranted.
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masks: they're not just for covid
Large surge in Scottish flu cases as new strain takes hold
Large surge in Scottish flu cases as new strain takes hold
Flu cases across Scotland have jumped by 45% in the past week, figures from Public Health Scotland show.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 9:40 AM
masks: they're not just for covid
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Oh come on, that is naughty.
FWIW the Polanski clip was deceptively edited. He listed 4 names, the 4th of which was James Meadway @meadwaj.bsky.social — whoever created the clip deliberately left out the last name to change the overall vibe.
December 3, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Oh come on, that is naughty.
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there is a great deal of ruin in a planet …
everyone is astonished by the resilience and dynamism of the natural world
anyone who's worked in a university knows just how stupid very clever people can be
is the thing that's gripping us pessimism or fatalism?
I valued the conversation around that…
everyone is astonished by the resilience and dynamism of the natural world
anyone who's worked in a university knows just how stupid very clever people can be
is the thing that's gripping us pessimism or fatalism?
I valued the conversation around that…
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
David talks to novelist Ian McEwan, who was our first ever guest on PPF, about how the future will view our present once the disasters we are brewing come to pass. A wide-ranging conversation about how past, present and future co-exist in time.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
David talks to novelist Ian McEwan, who was our first ever guest on PPF, about how the future will view our present once the disasters we are brewing come to pass. A wide-ranging conversation about how past, present and future co-exist in time.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:35 AM
there is a great deal of ruin in a planet …
everyone is astonished by the resilience and dynamism of the natural world
anyone who's worked in a university knows just how stupid very clever people can be
is the thing that's gripping us pessimism or fatalism?
I valued the conversation around that…
everyone is astonished by the resilience and dynamism of the natural world
anyone who's worked in a university knows just how stupid very clever people can be
is the thing that's gripping us pessimism or fatalism?
I valued the conversation around that…
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There will come a point where Farage realises he needs non-dregs defectors to look vaguely respectable and Tory frontbenchers realise a pact is the only way they get to carry on being MPs. Then there will be deal.
FT Exclusive: The Reform UK leader told donors he expects a deal or merger between his party and the Conservatives ahead of the next general election, suggesting he does not believe he can sweep to power alone. on.ft.com/44xlHi0
December 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
There will come a point where Farage realises he needs non-dregs defectors to look vaguely respectable and Tory frontbenchers realise a pact is the only way they get to carry on being MPs. Then there will be deal.
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Column. British politicians do a lot claiming to face the world as it is, while their actions speak of yearning for the world as it was. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Fear of facing the future has British politics stuck in the past | Rafael Behr
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves claim to be dealing with the world as it is, but seem to yearn for a world that has disappeared, says the Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Column. British politicians do a lot claiming to face the world as it is, while their actions speak of yearning for the world as it was. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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It's like the old joke of members of the Chinese court exhorting the emperor to live for a thousand, then ten thousand, then a 100 thousand years, then forever. Then the next sycophant says, 'may you live forever, and a day.'
December 2, 2025 at 9:18 PM
It's like the old joke of members of the Chinese court exhorting the emperor to live for a thousand, then ten thousand, then a 100 thousand years, then forever. Then the next sycophant says, 'may you live forever, and a day.'
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Shares in a US cryptocurrency miner backed by Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump shed a third of its value on Tuesday as early investors cashed out en masse at the end of a lock-up period. on.ft.com/44JdOGa
December 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Shares in a US cryptocurrency miner backed by Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump shed a third of its value on Tuesday as early investors cashed out en masse at the end of a lock-up period. on.ft.com/44JdOGa
There’s a great essay by Katarina Clark on the inflation in praise for Stalin: on the shifts from ‘comrade’, to ’brother’, to the ‘father’ of the USSR to ‘all-knowing Father/God’, complete with a repurposed iconography by WW2. Trump simply loots the US and now he commands the weather?
Kristi Noem: "Sir, you made it through hurricane season without a hurricane. You kept the hurricanes away. We appreciate that."
December 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
There’s a great essay by Katarina Clark on the inflation in praise for Stalin: on the shifts from ‘comrade’, to ’brother’, to the ‘father’ of the USSR to ‘all-knowing Father/God’, complete with a repurposed iconography by WW2. Trump simply loots the US and now he commands the weather?
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this seems really, really huge
Clean electricity is officially growing fast enough in China that the level of fossil generation is falling, even as overall demand rises. They've gotten over the hump.
December 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM
this seems really, really huge
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December 2, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Not my field but it’s certainly odd who he chooses to quote.
December 2, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Not my field but it’s certainly odd who he chooses to quote.
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NEW – Guest post: Why carbon emissions from fires are significantly higher than thought | Prof Guido van der Werf
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December 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
NEW – Guest post: Why carbon emissions from fires are significantly higher than thought | Prof Guido van der Werf
Read here: buff.ly/8xbbdFn
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