Our book is out and available for purchase in the U.K. Writing this book with @cacrisalves @SurbhiKesar & @ingridharvold was a long and arduous process that has arguably changed us all, and we’d be honoured for y’all to read it. Get it now from @politybooks and in bookstores!

I hope this episode with Ed Sheeran and Macklemore demonstrates to the masses how powerful we are collectively, how much power each of us holds individually to withdraw our consent and complicity, and refuse silence. Thank you to every musician who dropped out, and to every ticket holder demanding a refund and refusing to attend.

Just published a brief, popular entry sharing some thoughts on statistics, scientism, individualism, and economic analysis. A teaser of a few forthcoming formal pieces.... Read it and other recent critical interventions just published by @hetecon hetecon.net/2026/09/13/we-ne…

If you think this is crazy, wait till you hear how Larry Summers fired Joe Stiglitz as the World Bank's Chief Economist cause he couldn't take his critique of financial liberalisation after the 1997 East Asian crisis. American hegemony is not a Trump invention.

Sharing our new article, with Snehashish Bhattacharya,“Development economics and the colonial encounter: Informality, caste, and postcolonial capitalist development in India”, now published in World Development. 🧵 sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

Mainstream economic models obscure the structural power dynamics at the core of global inequality. bit.ly/46bG2Ko Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven argues that capitalism has always been an inherently uneven, global system shaped by imperialism, class, and unequal power relations.

EXCLUSIVE: Lloyds Bank refused a mortgage to the mum of Palestine Action prisoner Ellie Kamio, citing “adverse media”. Lloyds also debanked Ellie while she was on remand, before she was convicted of any crime.

"...as with dependency theory, decolonial theory was also twisted to serve a political function for global North academia, which became increasingly concerned with identity, epistemology & critiques of grand narratives in the 2010s." I wrote for @EADI 👇 developmentresearch.eu/?p=26…

Subes tu artículo o tesis a ChatGPT para que “corrija” la ortografía. Tiempo después, un investigador en otro país publica tu trabajo. ChatGPT se lo sugirió cuando utilizó tus datos como entrenamiento.

I watched weekend after weekend for two years at the Palestine demonstrations people being told to remove masks and being arrested if they didn’t. Last weekend at carnival I saw police forcing people to remove decorative flag bandanas or face arrest.

Eric Williams - British historians write almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it.

Being a CIA asset isn’t an oopsie and the lack of a broadbased liberation movement and even backsliding in (seeming) liberal victories can’t be divorced from admitted CIA sabotage.

Presumably the University of Cambridge will now announce an investigation into whether Dr Orr's apparent flouting of UK electoral law constitutes serious misconduct?

She literally bragged on TV about working for the CIA (and how “liberal” and “honorable” the men running it were) then went on to date Henry Kissinger and Epstein associates Stanley Pottinger and Mort Zuckerman. Wake up

My introduction to Gloria Steinem as a teenage girl was her doing rape apologia for Bill Clinton so he could win an election. So let’s pump the breaks on fawning obits for the CIA asset, shall we

Don’t let them re-write history: Gloria Steinem was a CIA asset who was tasked with subverting the feminist movement away from class-based analysis. She founded the Independent Research Service that was funded by the CIA to spread anti-communist propaganda at youth festivals abroad. When she was exposed as a CIA operative in 1967, Steinem confirmed her role to The New York Times without apology, claiming the CIA is “liberal, nonviolent, and honorable” and that she would do it again. The CIA is one of the most violent organizations in history.

The FDA has confirmed that the only thing safe left to eat is the rich

Only in Germany can a non-Jew experience "anti-Semitism" committed by a Jew

This rock formation at the Nepal - China border crossing gives a good visual guide to the scale of devastation. Every piece of infrastructure has simply disappeared.

This is just pure unadulterated propaganda by the BBC. And it takes literally 2 seconds to debunk: go on Xiaohongshu (or any other Chinese social networks), type a keyword related to the mudslide (I typed "泥石流", "mudslide") and you'll see thousands of posts with footage about it - including from state media (the first post in my screenshot is from People's Daily)🤷 Even crazier - which shows the extent to which the BBC thinks its audience are complete idiots - their lead example of footage that supposedly isn't being shown in China is… footage that comes from China! This is how they open their article: "The dramatic footage was almost impossible to miss. A torrent of water tearing through Gyirong Port, one of the main border crossings between Nepal and Tibet, sweeping away all in its path as hundreds of people fled for their lives. The scenes, captured by CCTV cameras, quickly spread on social media and onto screens around the world. Except here, in China." We've all seen this footage, which is Chinese CCTV footage, released first in China, and extremely widely spread on Chinese social media (it's in the 3rd post on my Xiaohongshu screenshot below 👇). It's literally insane: they think you're stupid enough not to notice that they're using Chinese footage as their lead example to claim China isn't showing footage 🤦 This also all points to a deeper issue: China does have a completely different and largely insulated media ecosystem with little overlap with Western media, and extremely little reach in the West. Which means it's trivially easy for outlets like the BBC to make false claims about what's happening in China that: a) their readers will never check: it's actually difficult to for foreigners to access Chinese social networks, if only for the language barrier. b) won't be challenged by the other side: Chinese media has so little reach in the West that there's essentially no one to push back. It's like lying about someone who isn't in the room. That's the irony when you read about "Chinese propaganda": the bigger issue is that it actually doesn't really exist - at least not in a material way - and therefore falsehoods about China can be written with an impunity that they could never get away with if they were writing about, say, France or Germany. As I keep repeating, this is actually mostly bad for the West because - given the importance of China in the world today - this is a country you simply cannot afford to misunderstand. Bad journalism about China is a strategic liability. So, in a somewhat ironic way, if there were one genuine "China threat" worth worrying about, it's this: that China is not great at communicating about itself with the outside world and Western publics are left with garbage BBC articles to understand it.

It’s mindblwoing BBC can lie like this when almost anyone can check it and see they’re lying.