• 📚Assessment, Learning and Institutional Capacity: an evidence resource to accompany The AI Crisis in Higher Education

• 📣 My new book The AI Crisis in Higher Education: A Strategic Proposal is now out open access

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• We should be very careful about how we construct ‘the public’ in discourses of public engagement

• Three reasons why I believe in Jeremy Corbyn (and some doubts)

• Are journalists personally afraid of a Trump presidency?

• The Dispositions of the Metricised

• The Antinomies of ‘Intelligence’

• 3 dystopian visions of the future of gaming (and capitalism)

• Tony Benn on the Labour Party in 1991

• The Lean Revolution in Higher Education

• things I’ve been reading recently #26

• A Digital Capitalism Reading List

• Donald Trump explaining intelligence

• The emotional dimension of chronopolitics

• An Open Access Series of Books on Why We Post

• The sobered modernist perspective

• The digital avoidance of difference

• Structural limits to self-control

• The fetishisation of the event 

• Symposium: Anxiety and Work in the Accelerated Academy

• The colonisation of life by work

• Trump is masculinising poverty

• A wonderful example of how universities can use YouTube

• Well now everything dies baby that’s a fact

• The political significance of the zombie horde

• Home ownership as a psychological rather than economic reality 

• The future of labour in digital capitalism

• The fragility of the occupy movement

• What do you do when people you like act offensively online?

• Fragile movements and their political cultures 

• From Platform Capitalism to Protocol Communism

• The coming army of American demagogues

• The Geographical Dynamics of Winner-Takes-Most

• When did optimism become a characteristic possessed by the right and lacked by the left?

• Post-democratic decision making in the EU

• Academic video blogs: 5 tips for getting started

• Constraining the dreams of (aspiring) #digitalelites

• The economic limitations of the attention economy

• Something has ended and everyone can feel it

• What is a ‘strike’ and what is a ‘riot’?

• Symposium: Anxiety and Work in the Accelerated Academy

• The Return of the Riot

• I Could’a Been A Contender

• The future of digital corporate personhood

• The coordinates of the austerity consensus are disintegrating

• The limitations on learning to code as a labour market strategy

• things I’ve been reading recently #25

• The end game of the American free-market right 

• Understanding the rage of the Labour right

• The tragically incompetent elites of the centre left

• The radicalisation of reactionaries

• The fantasistic political ontologies which emerge under post-democracy

• The Myth of Elite Cosmopolitanism

• Stories of the River Irwell