So, I am writing an article; a proper academic article. Got me a journal in mind and everything. It's on incumbent strategies versus challenge(r)s, and uses multiple streams approach and defensive institutional work. Gonna have the sucker done (first draft) by the close of play on the 27th December if it kills me. Reading some... Continue Reading →
All in this together… Corporate (and State) use of “family” rhetoric
It makes my flesh crawl. That 'one team' bollocks, where our lords and masters (be they corporate or state) make out as if 'we're all in this together' - to quote the words of some already forgotten Tory Prime Minister. Yeah, right. So, I really want to read 'The Good Soldier Schweik' (after my thesis.... Continue Reading →
You Canute be serious! On Heresthetics, floods and much more
King Canute eh? What an arrogant tosser, thinking he could command the tide not to come in. Except I already knew he wasn't - that he had (probably) pulled the stunt - if he ever did- to get some of his more over-enthusiastically sycophantic courtiers to knock it off. What I didn't know was that... Continue Reading →
Suspicious minds and climate policy
Goering is alleged to have said that whenever he heard the word culture he reached for his revolver. For me, whendver I hear the word 'trap' I think of my Elvis. Specifically, 'We're caught in a trap. I can't walk out....' Meanwhile, this from an article Nair, S. and Howlett. 2015. From robustness to resilience:... Continue Reading →
The absence of structure is hierarchy
I went to a meeting (won't say if it was activist or academic or whatever - that's not the point). There was explicitly 'no agenda'. And we were then, without warning, asked to introduce ourselves (say what we had done, were doing and what we wanted to do around this particular issue/topic). And did they give... Continue Reading →
Epic streams epigram for the thesis!!!
"A new science of politics is indispensable to a new world. This, however, is what we think of least; launched in the middle of a rapid stream, we obstinately fix our eyes on the ruins which may still be described upon the shore we have left, whilst the current sweeps us along, and drives us... Continue Reading →
Last week in #Australian #Climate Politics – a bluffer’s guide
What happened? This week the government executed a massive policy backflip and its backbenchers weakened a leader who they despise and will probably knife quite soon. The opposition rolled its eyes and sighed and secretly squealed with delight. There were assurances that Australia is on track to meet its international obligations on emissions reductions when in... Continue Reading →
A winning Streeck that could end any day now
From here. In a phone call a couple of weeks later, I press Streeck again. “If I look 10 or 20 years out, I don’t like what I see,” he says. Nor is he alone: he quotes a new book by the former head of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, and his projection of... Continue Reading →
Weil’s disease – or ‘the internet is eating my brain’
When I was in Australia, I ended up with a smartphone (the handset was as cheap as the cheapest non-smart model, so I thought 'why not?'). There were two consequences a) I met up with someone who I'd have otherwise missed because I was able to check email on the move b) I freaked the... Continue Reading →
Buy popcorn stocks! Next year of #Australian #climate politics = HILARITY/BLOOD #auspol
Read this and weep (with laughter) Australia’s electricity and gas transmission industry is calling on the Turnbull government to implement a form of carbon trading in the national electricity market by 2022 and review the scope for economy-wide carbon pricing by 2027. Energy Networks Australia warns in a new report examining how to achieve zero... Continue Reading →
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