@colmpm.bsky.social
Historian of UK and ROI politics and political economy. Senior Lecturer at QMUL and Deputy Director of Mile End Institute (https://www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/staff/profiles/murphycolm.html). Book on Labour and 'modernisation' (https://tinyurl.com/37tzatvk).
@saraita101.bsky.socialReposted by @colmpm.bsky.socialScreaming
@johnspringford.bsky.socialReposted by @colmpm.bsky.socialConservatives double the cost of net zero with spreadsheet error. Spiky comment from the Climate Change Committee, whose estimates they messed up www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
@anandmenon.bsky.socialReposted by @colmpm.bsky.socialAn announcement. There will be plenty of time to reflect on what we've achieved, and on the fantastic colleagues who have helped us achieve it. But for now, sad news ukandeu.ac.uk/announcement... 1/2
@devolvedelections.bsky.socialReposted by @colmpm.bsky.socialOur first DevolvedElections Westminster projection on recent polling:
🌹 Lab — 301
➡️ Reform — 121
🌳 Con — 77
🔶 LD — 72
🏴 SNP — 45
🐉 PC — 8
☘️ SF — 7
🌱 Green — 4
🔷 UUP — 4
🦁 DUP — 3
⚫ Ind — 3
🌹 SDLP — 2
⚪ Speaker — 1
⬅ Restore — 1
Ⓣ TUV — 1
@chikatonooka.bsky.socialReposted by @colmpm.bsky.socialJust set up Bluesky... because my book is now out in the US and as an e-book. (Coming to the UK on 1 December!) 30% discount code P329 at press.princeton.edu. @princetonupress.bsky.social
@elizabethsim0n.bsky.socialReposted by @colmpm.bsky.social🚨The Politics and Policy of London: Elections, Demography and the Reshaping of Power in the Capital is now available for pre-order.🚨
@mobydickatsea.bsky.socialReposted by @colmpm.bsky.sociala profound silence
@colmpm.bsky.socialSuch idiocies are also, of course, a boon to the disingenuous, pro-Israeli expansionist, settler colonialist and racist right. People never learn.
@colmpm.bsky.socialIt is perfectly possible, indeed I would say easy, to condemn a genocide without implicitly endorsing ethnic cleansing - especially in something as abstract as a conference motion. It has long been a source of morbid fascination to me why so many feel compelled to fail this test.
@tabouchadi.bsky.socialReposted by @colmpm.bsky.socialFor my new research unit Politics of Democracy at the Berlin Social Science Center @wzb.bsky.social, we have 3 open research positions.
2 postdocs: 4 + 2 years (100%)
1 doc: 2 years (75%)
Starting date: 1 March 2027 (negotiable)
Application deadline: 1 November
@colmpm.bsky.socialI remembered this 'objective' claim today when reading Minford, this time in 1989, on EMU: 'an extraordinary surrender of control over economic policy to the cartel of Brussels bureaucrats … The prospect is so hopelessly unacceptable that it is incredible anyone would seriously put them forward’
@imogenshaw.bsky.socialReposted by @colmpm.bsky.socialBaffling to see The Times claim that Burnham “did not mention energy” in his conference speech. Energy was referenced no fewer than 10 times, alongside a major announcement of £4bn for Great British Grid to cut connection delays and bring bills down. Britain's energy challenge was front & centre.
@pwhitewood.bsky.socialReposted by @colmpm.bsky.socialSeal the tomb, salt the earth. He must not rise again.
@robertsaunders.bsky.socialReposted by @colmpm.bsky.socialJoin our fantastic roster of speakers - @stephanomics.bsky.social @will-davies.bsky.social @colmpm.bsky.social & Kathleen Burk - to explore everything from the 1976 crisis & the 1997 Asian crash to the 2007 Financial Crisis & the 2022 mini-budget.
Tickets free!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/politics-a...
@robertsaunders.bsky.socialReposted by @colmpm.bsky.socialOn 26 October, we'll be marking 50 years since the IMF crisis by exploring the politics of economic shocks.
What is it like to govern in an economic crisis? What happens when "the markets" turn on governments? And what does this mean for democracy?
All welcome!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/politics-a...
@colmpm.bsky.socialI too was reading Sainte-Just's despatches to the CPS in my spare time when I had just finished my A Levels...
@colmpm.bsky.socialSometimes one just feels inadequate. This snippet from @emile-chabal.bsky.social's fascinating intellectual biography of Eric Hobsbawm describes his reading and essay criticism of Sorel, in I believe a third language (French). He was around 19 years old and about to go to university.
@imogenshaw.bsky.socialReposted by @colmpm.bsky.socialTaking this opportunity for shameless self-promotion, if you want to read into the background of Burnham’s upcoming announcement on Great British Grid, here’s me for Renewal over the summer ⬇️
@tyron.bsky.socialReposted by @colmpm.bsky.socialrare column from @stephenkb.bsky.social that combines my interest in the state of the UK charts in a siloed culture with my interest in public policy giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
@colmpm.bsky.socialI definitely lean pessimistic in snap judgements, but I do prefer that immeasurably to self-harming optimism.
