Yale faculty to Yale administration: hands off our students.

💥New! When Conor Gearty started teaching his course Freedom and the Law in Britain, he thought that calls of the UK becoming a policy state were exaggerated, and that things were as hard for protestors as they had always been. He soon changed his mind. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpol…

Macron: At the end of the WW1 Paul Valéry remarked that we now know our civilizations are mortal. We must be clear about the fact that today, our Europe is mortal. It can die. It can die and it all depends on our choices. These choices have to be made now. geopolitique.eu/en/2024/04/26/…

Please, I want to descend these steps in a hail of Sobrani smoke, holding something pink & lethal in a martini glass, wearing a hostess dress with sleeves big enough to shelter a Shetland pony & make an acidic toast that turns tearful & ends in screaming at my guests to get out

'To enable green technology transfers, a comprehensive rethink of the intellectual property rights regime is necessary.' An absolute must-read.

Final plug (this week) for Aveek Bhattacharya and my edited collection

We asked a group of leading economists to consider Labour’s economic policy

What do they believe? Will it work? And how could they make it better?

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This is stunning, and not in a good way:

Or Bukharin's joke (before he was executed). Apparently told in England. 'We also have a two-party system. One party is in power, the other in jail.'

Our wonderful Judy Dempsey is stepping down from Carnegie Europe's #StrategicEurope blog (but not from the Carnegie family 🙂) so we are looking for a new Editor.

Her shoes are too big to fill, so we are open to ideas. Take a look at the advert here:
carnegieendowment.applicantpro.com/jobs/3332592

The Circular Economy Show podcast is back!

In the new season of the Circular Economy Show, we're meeting the people working to scale the circular economy; we'll learn what a world without waste means for global supply chains and more.

Link: links.emf.org/4b7zL2y

Radek Sikorski's utter straightforwardness is exactly what the world needs now.
Radek Sikorski
Radosław Sikorski 🇵🇱🇪🇺

“Can you call the philosophy department and tell them I’ve been arrested?” is an all-time quote.

Economics professor brutalized on a college campus for speaking her mind.
I wonder whether all these opinion writers obsessed with 'woke' who have endlessly claimed there is 'stifling of free speech' and 'cancel culture' on campuses will also write about this.

Anticipatory policymaking for a thriving future
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpol…

A very good thread on the manipulation of 'protest' for nefarious ends, by authoritarian and anti-democratic entities.

Reform UK’s company-like structure has Nigel Farage right at the top as a director and majority shareholder, but he doesn’t consider himself a politician.

Writing about UK equities once more. on.ft.com/3UdWiE1

Don't sleep on the symbolism of a masked man in military attire 'arresting' a philosophy professor on a university campus for engaging in peaceful protest.

In which we learn that Princeton was fine graduating a student who took part in the January 6 assault on Congress but will expel a finishing PhD student for sitting on the grass.

Carolin Fohlin is one of the economists whose work I admire the most. I saw her speak in 2016 at Goethe-Universität when she was a guest professor for financial history. She's a leading scholar of the history of German finance and corporate governance. She knows what fascism looks like.

Brilliant innovation from Civic Square - this incredible team really knows how to turn ideas for the future into action for our times.