Eric Herring ericherring.bsky.social @eric_herring

Prof of World Politics, University of Bristol. Research/action on Somali led sustainable development with @TransparencySol. Honoured by my Somali name Warsame tinyurl.com/eherringUniBri… Gradually moving to Bluesky Joined November 2009

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Farrukh @implausibleblog

3 weeks ago

Charlie Stayt, "You said Andy Burnham is too in hock to vested interests to deliver real change. You haven't given him a chance, have you, he hasn't even started?" Zack Polanski, "If he does do the right things I'll be the first to applaud him" "He's appointed James Purnell as chief of staff. This is a man who is a corporate lobbyist for private water companies" "When we have water companies pumping sewage into our rivers and charging us extra for the privilege, this doesn't seem a good start" "Then we know Josh Simons hired a private investigator to look into a journalist who was talking about undeclared donations for Labour Together" "And finally, the only substantial thing he's voted on as an MP in the last week, is to support Shabana Mahmood's regressive immigration reforms. Including asking asylum seekers to review their cases every 30 months. That's deeply inhumane for people fleeing war and persecution" "Andy Burnham might surprise me and move in a more progressive direction and I'd really welcome that" "But the rumours of appointing Shabana Mahmood as Chancellor, a politician who cites Margaret Thatcher as one of her political heroes" "This doesn't sound like we're moving in a direction to end ripoff Britain, it looks like more of the same"

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mass ave curmudgeon @mass_ave

a month ago

If this ain’t it in a nutshell

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Markus Virgil Hoehne @HoehneVirgil

a month ago

Very pleased that our (@Jethro_Norman and my) article has now been officially published in @AfrAfJournal first issue 2026, with page numbers as final and printed text. It will hopefully remain relevant for a long time.

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Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex

a month ago

We cannot consider #AI to be morally neutral. In reality, every technical tool embodies choices and priorities through what it measures, ignores, and optimizes, and how it classifies people and situations. Ethical discernment cannot be limited to asking whether we are using a system for good or bad purposes. It must also examine how that system is designed and what vision of the human person and society is embedded in the data and models that guide it. #MagnificaHumanitas

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Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 @JujuliaGrace

a month ago

The next Labour leader must commit to reversing NHS privatisation. Share if you agree 💙

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Daniel Gerke @drgerke1

2 months ago

It would be *much* more socially transformative to ban social media for over-65s

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Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein

2 months ago

HOLY CRAP Trump actually accomplished a miracle. Here is what he got out of Iran: - Reduce its stockpile of enriched uranium by about 98% - Limit uranium enrichment to 3.67% purity (far below weapons-grade) - Cut the number of installed centrifuges by roughly two-thirds - Only enrich uranium at one declared site (Natanz) - Stop enrichment activities at Fordow and convert it into a research facility - Redesign the Arak heavy-water reactor so it could not easily produce weapons-grade plutonium - Ship out or dilute excess enriched uranium Allow extensive inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Permit continuous monitoring of nuclear facilities and supply chains - Accept “snap” inspections under expanded monitoring rules - Avoid building new heavy-water reactors for years - Stay within strict limits on uranium stockpile size and centrifuge development for set periods ranging from 10–25 years Ooops, sorry! That was the JCPOA that Obama signed with Iran, only to have him tear it up, kill 140 kids, get hundreds of Americans injured, 13 killed, and gas prices to surge 50%.

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Fraser Sugden🌾🌽🌾 @frasersugden

2 months ago

This is a massive story. It'll go over heads of many, but represents a major structural change in China's agrarian transition & major event in global agrarian history. Till now limitation in the Chinese economy has been it's structural dependence on semi-proletarian labour (1/3)

South China Morning Post @SCMPNews

2 months ago

China removes hukou hurdle for migrant workers in social insurance shake-up. scmp.com/news/article/3…

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis

3 months ago

What a terrible start to his bid to reverse Starmer’s descent into one moral void after another! Adopting Mahmood’s ‘racism-lite’ agenda after embracing Reeves’ laughable fiscal rules does not augur well for Andy. Go Greens! theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

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Jonathan Shainin @jonathanshainin

3 months ago

Truly brutal obituary for the Starmer project from one of Britain’s great living historians, David Edgerton

The New Statesman @NewStatesman

3 months ago

"The question is not whether Labour values have been usurped by Starmer’s faction. It is what kind of party could be built out of the corpse of Starmer’s party. One option is clearly a more Blairite party: pro-tech giants, the US, and privatisation. But are there any serious

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Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon

3 months ago

The McSweeney/Starmer strategy was for Labour to out-reform Reform and treat progressive voters with contempt. We warned this would smash up Labour's voter coalition - and let Reform in. New polling shows that's what happened last week. Labour's vote "disproportionately stayed at home or went to another left party."

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Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska

3 months ago

🧵NEW: Josh Simons, MP for Makerfield, has resigned his seat to allow Andy Burnham, Manchester Mayor, to stand in a by-election. Simons is the controversial head of Labour Together, that hired a PR firm which spied on journalists - including Paul Holden. He wrote the book @StarmertheFraud which was highly critical of Starmer’s rise - accusing him, Morgan McSweeny, Mandelson etc of brutally smearing Corbyn and other MPs. 1/

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The Green Party @TheGreenParty

3 months ago

Wes Streeting, the member for Palantir North.

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana

3 months ago

Andy Burnham voted for the Iraq War, an illegal war that killed over a million people. As Health Secretary, he helped drive NHS privatisation. He joined Labour Friends of Israel, opposed BDS as “spiteful”, praised Israel as a “democracy”, and called the Balfour Declaration “British values in action”. He is a Zionist. Stop pretending he’s a radical alternative, he’s more of the same.

Andy Burnham @andyburnham

3 months ago

I can confirm that I will be requesting the permission of the NEC to stand in the Makerfield by-election. I grew up in this area and have lived here for 25 years. I care deeply about it and its people. I know they have been let down by national politics. Ten years ago, I

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. @jdpoc

3 months ago

Posted elsewhere, posted here for info. The map of Reform Councils in the UK. So much for 'WE'VE TAKEN OVER THE NATION !!!"

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Harry Eccles @Heccles94

3 months ago

Every media outlet who ignored these people is responsible for their election

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Kate Wilton @KateWilton1

3 months ago

And just like that, the very wealthiest party in the U.K. backed by foreign billionaires is supported by the very poorest members of society who dislike foreigners. You couldn’t make this shit up.