the death penalty's popularity precisely means that government demonstrates evidence for not using it – mainly, how useless it is in crime reduction, which is a broader and more popular goal than killing people. why not at least look into whether or not water nationalisation would be a good idea?

not unreasonable to expect electricity price to fall and petrol to rise tbf, over a 18-20 year period.

is the idea not to get as much as poss onto electric so we can decarbonise from the supply side?

this gadget still means people driving around in petrol cars + pumping out emissions

It's also a problem for academics based in the UK on visas who need to travel abroad as part of their research. E.g. Manikarnika Dutta and Asiya Islam -- both employed in the UK because of their expertise on India, then refused right to remain because they'd done too much research travel to India.

It's a comical example of ideas of 'entrepreneurial state' etc. Parking tickets a good e.g. for teaching: getting students to think in P.E. terms (income from fines funds public services & so expanding parking restrics. etc is shaped by that need). Makes sense that private equity wants in on that!

Never realised how young they both were. 26 and 29 is good going. German Ideology and Feuerbach were written around the same time but they couldn't get them published, I think. An ACFM on the politics of age, of youth, and of getting/being old would be cool to hear

Avg. interviewee gets 20 hours of piped water in a week, on 2 or 3 days. No new substantial supply-side intervention will come online for years (Gerbi/Sibilu won't even close the gap). Any intervention that wants to meaningfully improve water supply needs to take seriously this day-to-day work.

Using the theoretical base of 'people as infrastructure' (Simone </> Deleuze </> Lefebvre </> Mbembe </> etc), we can understand relations between city residents, and the day-to-day actions of people in the city, as forming a dynamic infrastructure, that lets water jump across pipelines.