Nick Taylor
@ntaylor.bsky.social
Lecturer at Queen Mary Uni of London | History of welfare, unemployment; history of economics; finance & climate change 🚲🌳
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On the hellish detention and deportation system built by EU countries. With quotes from the current and the former German chancellors expressing their commitment to the inhumane cruelty of this apparatus, described here in forensic detail.
Inside a Detention Site at the Heart of Europe’s Harsh New Approach to Immigration
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:23 AM
On the hellish detention and deportation system built by EU countries. With quotes from the current and the former German chancellors expressing their commitment to the inhumane cruelty of this apparatus, described here in forensic detail.
Very interesting recent paper by Xia Li & Caroline Flammer, which suggests that when firms' exposure to climate risks increases, they tend to adapt & lobby against climate policies, rather than mitigate or transform.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com
February 11, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Very interesting recent paper by Xia Li & Caroline Flammer, which suggests that when firms' exposure to climate risks increases, they tend to adapt & lobby against climate policies, rather than mitigate or transform.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
"Hydrologically absurd" 😲
Grazalema, Spain, received over 2,000 mm (78 inches) of rain in just the last 20 days.
Over a year’s worth of rain — and it’s only early February. This is hydrologically absurd.
Over a year’s worth of rain — and it’s only early February. This is hydrologically absurd.
February 11, 2026 at 11:18 AM
"Hydrologically absurd" 😲
Queensland's Premier, David Crisafulli, has a slogan on youth sentencing: "adult crime, adult time". What about when your own government violates binding legislation for emission reductions targets (for 75% below 2005 levels by 2035)?
The Queensland government has approved new oil and gas exploration in a region they believe could become Australia's first new major oil province in 50 years.
New oil and gas exploration site the 'size of Singapore' approved in Queensland
The Queensland government has approved new oil and gas exploration in a region they believe could become Australia's first new major oil province in 50 years.
www.abc.net.au
February 10, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Queensland's Premier, David Crisafulli, has a slogan on youth sentencing: "adult crime, adult time". What about when your own government violates binding legislation for emission reductions targets (for 75% below 2005 levels by 2035)?
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And here's what life is like in these camps - "locked in the same large, cold and damp room for 4½ months with more than 70 men [and] allowed outside for air and exercise fewer than 12 times in nearly 5 months." www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
Irishman detained by Ice appeals to Taoiseach to raise case with Trump amid ‘torture’
Seamus Culleton from Kilkenny has been in Texas Ice facility for nearly five months despite holding valid work permit
www.irishtimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:41 PM
And here's what life is like in these camps - "locked in the same large, cold and damp room for 4½ months with more than 70 men [and] allowed outside for air and exercise fewer than 12 times in nearly 5 months." www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
The scale of the incoming inflation in the American prison industrial complex is mind-blowing.
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:34 PM
The scale of the incoming inflation in the American prison industrial complex is mind-blowing.
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🚨 The political economy of finance summer school is back, 3rd year running! Better still: We're bringing it to London via @lse-ei.bsky.social.
𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜: Finance & democracy
𝙳̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚎̲: 4-5 June 2026
𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦: March 1. Link below.
We've got brilliant instructors as usual. Please spread the word!
𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜: Finance & democracy
𝙳̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚎̲: 4-5 June 2026
𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦: March 1. Link below.
We've got brilliant instructors as usual. Please spread the word!
February 4, 2026 at 3:27 PM
🚨 The political economy of finance summer school is back, 3rd year running! Better still: We're bringing it to London via @lse-ei.bsky.social.
𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜: Finance & democracy
𝙳̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚎̲: 4-5 June 2026
𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦: March 1. Link below.
We've got brilliant instructors as usual. Please spread the word!
𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜: Finance & democracy
𝙳̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚎̲: 4-5 June 2026
𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦: March 1. Link below.
We've got brilliant instructors as usual. Please spread the word!
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Along with return of "new conglomerates" (@nsrnicek.bsky.social) in Big Tech, shift from publicly-traded to privately-held companies pointed out by @lenorepalladino.bsky.social is major shift of 21c capitalism.
$1.25 trillion: "the most valuable private company in history"
we aren't going to go back to an era where the 'public' markets are the main thing and these 'private' companies & financial deals are the sideshow
adjust your priors everyone
www.ft.com/content/9d2b...
we aren't going to go back to an era where the 'public' markets are the main thing and these 'private' companies & financial deals are the sideshow
adjust your priors everyone
www.ft.com/content/9d2b...
How Elon Musk used SpaceX to rescue xAI and build a $1.25tn colossus
Billionaire folds rocket maker into a lossmaking AI start-up, betting scale and control can beat rivals to blockbuster IPO
www.ft.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Along with return of "new conglomerates" (@nsrnicek.bsky.social) in Big Tech, shift from publicly-traded to privately-held companies pointed out by @lenorepalladino.bsky.social is major shift of 21c capitalism.
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PhD scholarship opportunity, to work with @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social and myself on the 'local politics of climate backlash' at @uompols.bsky.social and @justcentre.bsky.social. Please circulate to anyone who might be interested! www.findaphd.com/phds/project....
October 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM
PhD scholarship opportunity, to work with @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social and myself on the 'local politics of climate backlash' at @uompols.bsky.social and @justcentre.bsky.social. Please circulate to anyone who might be interested! www.findaphd.com/phds/project....
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Excited this piece with excellent colleagues is now out! We examine implications of geopolitical turbulence in the world for the GEP research agenda @yixiansun.bsky.social @matpaterson.bsky.social
direct.mit.edu/glep/article...
direct.mit.edu/glep/article...
Global Environmental Politics amid Geopolitical Turbulence
Abstract. Over the past decade, three overlapping trends have fundamentally reshaped and now characterize the global geopolitical order: the rise of emerging powers, increasing military conflicts, and...
direct.mit.edu
January 30, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Excited this piece with excellent colleagues is now out! We examine implications of geopolitical turbulence in the world for the GEP research agenda @yixiansun.bsky.social @matpaterson.bsky.social
direct.mit.edu/glep/article...
direct.mit.edu/glep/article...
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Methane pollution from US oil and gas infrastructure causes more climate change than the entire economies of all but seven nations on earth.
(This is with methane's climate impacts conservatively evaluated over a 100-year time frame. Evaluated over shorter time frames, methane's impacts are worse.)
(This is with methane's climate impacts conservatively evaluated over a 100-year time frame. Evaluated over shorter time frames, methane's impacts are worse.)
Accounting for methane from natural gas infrastructure in United States greenhouse gas emission estimates
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that United States net greenhouse gas emissions have declined over the last two decades and are no…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 1, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Methane pollution from US oil and gas infrastructure causes more climate change than the entire economies of all but seven nations on earth.
(This is with methane's climate impacts conservatively evaluated over a 100-year time frame. Evaluated over shorter time frames, methane's impacts are worse.)
(This is with methane's climate impacts conservatively evaluated over a 100-year time frame. Evaluated over shorter time frames, methane's impacts are worse.)
New in SER: Nils Peters shows soaring UK startup valuations in the 2010s were less about VC power & more about a struggle for ownership. Late‑stage funds pushed into early‑stage rounds, intensifying competition & a small elite captured outsized returns. doi.org/10.1093/ser/...
Bringing ownership in: a conjunctural approach to venture capital valuations
Abstract. High startup valuations are commonly perceived as expressions of venture capitalists’ (VCs) power. This study complicates this view and argues th
doi.org
February 2, 2026 at 12:15 PM
New in SER: Nils Peters shows soaring UK startup valuations in the 2010s were less about VC power & more about a struggle for ownership. Late‑stage funds pushed into early‑stage rounds, intensifying competition & a small elite captured outsized returns. doi.org/10.1093/ser/...
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My colleague @chaitanyakumar.bsky.social has a new substack on all things climate. This piece on the maths and models behind global warming is both terrifying and insightful. Have a read at open.substack.com/pub/chaitany...
Global Warming's Terrifying New Math(s)- Revisited
Revisting Bill McKibben's influential Rolling Stone piece from 2012 and how the maths stacks up today
open.substack.com
January 28, 2026 at 10:49 AM
My colleague @chaitanyakumar.bsky.social has a new substack on all things climate. This piece on the maths and models behind global warming is both terrifying and insightful. Have a read at open.substack.com/pub/chaitany...
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Industrial policy for the prison & concentration camp sector
January 26, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Industrial policy for the prison & concentration camp sector
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ICYMI: for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social i went back to the ground zero for contemporary politics, 1990, to track the career of the James Goldsmith and his turn against the reigning free market orthodoxies to a new form of populism and anti-globalism
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2026/0...
James Goldsmith, godfather of British populism
Unlike Nigel Farage or Rupert Lowe, Goldsmith told the truth
www.newstatesman.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:36 AM
ICYMI: for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social i went back to the ground zero for contemporary politics, 1990, to track the career of the James Goldsmith and his turn against the reigning free market orthodoxies to a new form of populism and anti-globalism
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2026/0...
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🎁 Just before the holidays, the EU Commission granted Big Tech its Christmas wish-list: an unprecedented attack on our digital rights.
Together with @lobbycontrol.bsky.social we have mapped how the Digital Omnibus closely matches Big Tech lobby demands.
👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/01/a...
Together with @lobbycontrol.bsky.social we have mapped how the Digital Omnibus closely matches Big Tech lobby demands.
👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/01/a...
Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU’s roll-back of digital rights | Corporate Europe Observatory
In a new analysis we trace Big Tech's fingerprints on the Digital Omnibus proposals - a major deregulation of EU digital laws including the GDPR and the AI Act. They are helped in this attempt by the ...
corporateeurope.org
January 14, 2026 at 7:56 AM
🎁 Just before the holidays, the EU Commission granted Big Tech its Christmas wish-list: an unprecedented attack on our digital rights.
Together with @lobbycontrol.bsky.social we have mapped how the Digital Omnibus closely matches Big Tech lobby demands.
👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/01/a...
Together with @lobbycontrol.bsky.social we have mapped how the Digital Omnibus closely matches Big Tech lobby demands.
👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/01/a...
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Now available for pre-order and we're open for book talks to students, workshops and conferences, organisations etc.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
January 21, 2026 at 11:36 AM
Now available for pre-order and we're open for book talks to students, workshops and conferences, organisations etc.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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And the ones build inland (reliant on cooling from rivers/lakes) are increasingly threatened by drought
At least 100 #nuclear power stations have been built just a few meters above sea-level and will be increasingly threatened by serious flooding caused by accelerating #climate driven sea-level rise and more frequent storm surge.
nsip-documents.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/published-do...
nsip-documents.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/published-do...
nsip-documents.planninginspectorate.gov.uk
January 20, 2026 at 2:04 PM
And the ones build inland (reliant on cooling from rivers/lakes) are increasingly threatened by drought
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Super fun to talk about the US-Venezuela-Guyana oil triangle with @kendrawrites.com for SciAm's Science Quickly pod: www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...
How South America’s Oil Rush Collides with the Climate Crisis
A break down of why Venezuela’s oil boom is clashing with a hotter, more fragile planet
www.scientificamerican.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:50 AM
Super fun to talk about the US-Venezuela-Guyana oil triangle with @kendrawrites.com for SciAm's Science Quickly pod: www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...
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"An actuarial review of key #climate change assumptions shows we may have seriously underestimated the rate of warming as well as the related economic impacts. Unless we rapidly change course, climate damages will start to impact growth & future prosperity"
#ClimateEmergency
#ClimateEmergency
Underestimates in global warming pose major climate and financial risks
New analysis suggests the planet may be more sensitive to greenhouse gases than many models assume, meaning temperatures could rise faster and bring much greater climate risks than policymakers and fi...
news.exeter.ac.uk
January 15, 2026 at 7:23 AM
"An actuarial review of key #climate change assumptions shows we may have seriously underestimated the rate of warming as well as the related economic impacts. Unless we rapidly change course, climate damages will start to impact growth & future prosperity"
#ClimateEmergency
#ClimateEmergency
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A third of a billion spent on ruining people’s lives doesn’t seem a wise use of education spending
Ninety UK universities to have posted accounts so far cut 13,300 jobs last year, spending £303 million on severance pay - sector-wide total clearly going to be well in excess of predicted 10,000. Great reporting by @patrickjack.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/pay-spe...
Pay-off spend up by two-thirds as universities shed 13,000 jobs
Analysis of UK sector accounts shows number of job losses well above predictions, with experts warning cuts are not over yet
www.timeshighereducation.com
January 15, 2026 at 9:13 AM
A third of a billion spent on ruining people’s lives doesn’t seem a wise use of education spending
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1/ I recently wrote about Frances Perkins—FDR’s Labor Secretary and first woman cabinet member. She is best known as the architect of the New Deal but she had a lesser-known achievement:
She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵
She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵
January 14, 2026 at 3:43 AM
1/ I recently wrote about Frances Perkins—FDR’s Labor Secretary and first woman cabinet member. She is best known as the architect of the New Deal but she had a lesser-known achievement:
She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵
She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵
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The finance industry is relying on climate models that understate the speed of climate change and likely economic impact.
New report warns that climate-driven inflation, financial shocks, and insurance withdrawals could happen sooner than anticipated. 🧪
greenfuturessolutions.com/news/parasol...
New report warns that climate-driven inflation, financial shocks, and insurance withdrawals could happen sooner than anticipated. 🧪
greenfuturessolutions.com/news/parasol...
Underestimated climate risks could undermine global financial system, warn actuaries and scientists | Green Futures Solutions
greenfuturessolutions.com
January 14, 2026 at 9:38 AM
The finance industry is relying on climate models that understate the speed of climate change and likely economic impact.
New report warns that climate-driven inflation, financial shocks, and insurance withdrawals could happen sooner than anticipated. 🧪
greenfuturessolutions.com/news/parasol...
New report warns that climate-driven inflation, financial shocks, and insurance withdrawals could happen sooner than anticipated. 🧪
greenfuturessolutions.com/news/parasol...
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This thread responds to Prof. Christian Dunn’s Telegraph piece on #climate communication.
I argue it misdiagnoses public disengagement, underplays escalating scientific risk, & reproduces a media narrative that has actively shaped, not merely reflected, public resistance to climate action 🧵
I argue it misdiagnoses public disengagement, underplays escalating scientific risk, & reproduces a media narrative that has actively shaped, not merely reflected, public resistance to climate action 🧵
January 13, 2026 at 8:58 AM
This thread responds to Prof. Christian Dunn’s Telegraph piece on #climate communication.
I argue it misdiagnoses public disengagement, underplays escalating scientific risk, & reproduces a media narrative that has actively shaped, not merely reflected, public resistance to climate action 🧵
I argue it misdiagnoses public disengagement, underplays escalating scientific risk, & reproduces a media narrative that has actively shaped, not merely reflected, public resistance to climate action 🧵