Reposted by Luke CooperLaurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Remember the dotcom bubble? bsky.app/profile/ldw1... 021
Luke Cooper @lukecooper100.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Will the AI bubble burst and what will the aftermath look like? I wrote up a mini lit review on the blog focusing on google’s plan for world domination :) mafiapoliticsglobaldisorder.substack.com/p/scoping-th...mafiapoliticsglobaldisorder.substack.comScoping the AI bubble: Google’s strategy and the new capitalismOr why, when boom turns to bust, these sectors may become even more oligopolistic. 012
Luke Cooper @lukecooper100.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Andy Burnham makes a genuinely historic speech for a Labour Prime minister, a real break with 40 years of economic policy. And a striking political contrast to Blair’s 2005 speech that infamously said even debating econonc globalisation was like arguing over “whether autumn should follow summer”. 041
Reposted by Luke CooperRichard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 15/08/2026There’s a specific tone and lane here that’s abhorrent 1114210
Reposted by Luke CooperPriyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 06/08/2026We are asking for accountability at Cambridge. This is an institutional story as much as anything else. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comCambridge dons demand accountability over Jason Arday appointmentExclusive: Academics say university must take responsibility for ‘grotesque racism’ unleashed and hold independent inquiry 312832
Luke Cooper @lukecooper100.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Good piece. “There is a real risk of this case being used to undermine black academics and others in positions of seniority. For all the talk of preferential treatment… it remains true that there are documented, systemic barriers for black students”. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe takedown of Jason Arday has overjoyed the right, and must be a wake-up call for the left | Jason OkundayeThe Cambridge academic has rightly now resigned. But that won’t end the targeting of senior black figures or the lazy way institutions promote faux equality, says Guardian columnist Jason Okundaye 231
Reposted by Luke CooperSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Restore on 9% got 30% of the joint Reform/Restore vote (up from 16% of their cumulative vote in Makerfield) 3204
Reposted by Luke CooperSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Healey's fiscal buffer down to £7 bn from £25 bn (FT) due to Iran. He is also going to lose £12-13 billion when revising future immigration estimates down. (I don't think is already part of this drop to £7bn) 78140
Reposted by Luke CooperAnthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026We're just at the end of your last ten year plan. Not gonna lie, the results ain't that great. 1422530536
Reposted by Luke CooperByline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 09/07/2026🔴 NEW: Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK’s Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed By @nafeez.bsky.social, @peterjukes.bsky.social and @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation…bylinetimes.comPalantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project RevealedThe world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at Cambridge University. Why? 19266202
Luke Cooper @lukecooper100.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Christ. In just a few days of heat wave, Paris suffered astonishing loss of life (especially when you consider London, whose data isn’t exactly encouraging, is quite a bit bigger). 021
Reposted by Luke CooperHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Sobering to see in one chart how June temperature records have been broken this year in so many European countries www.ft.com/content/5f06... 16466315
Reposted by Luke CooperMarcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 08/07/2026The Daddy Trump strategy has run its course. I don't want to go as far as saying that it was a complete failure because there was a time when Ukrainians needed America a lot more, but whatever merit it may have had, that's over. Trump is weaker than he seems, he can't afford to fight us all 610120
Luke Cooper @lukecooper100.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I’ve written an article with Alex Sobel about what we learnt at the recent #UkraineRecoveryConference and why Ukraine’s experience at wartime governance reform and mixed state-market economy provides a useful lens on what the incoming Burnham government is calling “Manchesterism”. 032
Reposted by Luke CooperNick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 03/07/2026‘For all the eyewatering numbers, the defence plan actually imposes austerity on the armed forces, whilst showering defence firms with huge revenues, sacrificing soldiers’ pay and conditions to benefit our wasteful military industrial complex’ 👇mafiapoliticsglobaldisorder.substack.comBurnham should scrap the Defence Investment Plan and start againWhile champagne corks pop among shareholders in Britain’s privatised defence sector, Labour’s plan means austerity for the armed forces and soldiers’ pay and conditions. 294
Luke Cooper @lukecooper100.bsky.social · 03/07/2026I read the Defence Investment Plan - and thought it was a bit of a disaster. It imposes austerity on the already hollowed out armed forces, while showering vast amounts of money on an unreformed UK defence sector. A rentiers’ charter that Burnham should scrap👇👇👇👇👇👇 open.substack.com/pub/mafiapol...open.substack.comBurnham should scrap the Defence Investment Plan and start againWhile champagne corks pop among shareholders in Britain’s privatised defence sector, Labour’s plan means austerity for the armed forces and soldiers’ pay and conditions. 152
Reposted by Luke CooperPolitical Quarterly @politicalquarterly.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Read our 10-year Brexit retrospective virtual issue with @robfordmancs.bsky.social @olliheath.bsky.social @psurridge.bsky.social @robertsaunders.bsky.social @lukecooper100.bsky.social @christabelcoops.bsky.social @albertpweale.bsky.social and more politicalquarterly.org.uk/collections/...politicalquarterly.org.ukBrexit at Ten: A RetrospectiveTen years after the Brexit referendum, The Political Quarterly marks this significant anniversary with a virtual issue bringing together a selection of articles that have analysed the origins, impact ... 053
Reposted by Luke CooperTony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 23/06/2026As well as being just, this is also clever, as North Korean troops will recognise the new route to defection, NK leadership and loyal officials will recognise the risk, and the fighting efficiency of those sent there will be reduced by the effort of trying to guard against defection. 5442109
Luke Cooper @lukecooper100.bsky.social · 17/06/2026A podcast post on my substack. I spoke to @stellathegreek.bsky.social who was in the Makerfield constituency last week, about the atmosphere on the ground, what went wrong for the Starmer government and what might come next. substack.com/@lukecooper/...substack.comWill Burnham win? Is Starmer toast?A podcast post with Substack royalty the Human Carbohydrate 011
Reposted by Luke CooperSally Brooks @sallyhbrooks.bsky.social · 12/06/2026The conversation we should be having about national security and defence - paper by Mary Kaldor and @lukecooper100.bsky.social here: rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/2025/06/16/o... 011
Reposted by Luke CooperLawyers for Palestinian Human Rights @lphr-lawyers.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Nine countries including the UK, France, and Australia are to announce a package of sanctions this week designed to deter companies from from becoming involved in the E1 development, a proposed West Bank illegal settlement that would split West Bank in two www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...theguardian.comUK readies sanctions against Israel to deter proposed illegal West Bank settlementMove comes as 137 Labour MPs sign letter demanding ‘urgent, concrete action’ to stop settler violence 11813
Luke Cooper @lukecooper100.bsky.social · 07/06/2026I’m feeling strangely furious with the people answering “don’t know” in this poll. Faced with ultra racist definition of Englishness, “hmm yeah have to think more about that one”. 050
Reposted by Luke CooperNBC News @nbcnews.com · 01/06/2026NEW: The Trump administration signals it is backing off the creation of a $1.8 billion fund announced by the Justice Dept. that could send money to allies of President Trump deemed “victims of lawfare and weaponization.”. nbcnews.toTrump administration appears to back off $1.8 billion ‘anti-weaponization’ fund after rare GOP backlashThe Justice Department said Monday it will abide by a court ruling that blocked the fund as the White House seeks to restart stalled legislation to fund ICE and Border Patrol. 279729
Luke Cooper @lukecooper100.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Yesterday Blair achieved something rather unusual: he somehow managed to unite the Labour Party. 030
Reposted by Luke CooperTarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 21/05/20262% of LE26 Labour voters consider voting for Reform at the next election. Less than 1% of Reform voters consider Labour. Yet, Labour continues to target exactly those voters. Literally, politics for the 1%. Meanwhile, 42% of Lab voters consider the Greens. After already having lost tons to them. 17261106
Reposted by Luke CooperYouGov @yougov.co.uk · 21/05/2026YouGov's study of the 2026 local elections shows that just 46% of 2024 Labour voters who went to the polls remained loyal, with more backing the Greens (22%) than Reform (6%) two weeks ago The Conservatives retained 55% of their 2024 voters, with 33% switching to Reform yougov.com/en-gb/articl... 210163
Reposted by Luke CooperGlen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 21/05/2026As we look at a rapid and extreme contraction of the university sector, lots of good advice and discussion in the quotes of - and replies to - this post. As the HE world we've known comes to an end, there will be many very painful choices ahead. So we should support each other and share wisdom. ☹️ 14619
Luke Cooper @lukecooper100.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Thomas Massie says in his concession speech that the republican primary contest in Kentucky (a state of 4.5m people) is likely to have cost $35m - about equivalent to what the UK Labour spent in the 2024 general election. Source: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...podcasts.apple.comTrump gets “forever” immunity on his past tax affairsPodcast Episode · Americast · 20 May · 31min 010
Reposted by Luke CooperAPPG for Fair Elections @appgfairelections.bsky.social · 14/02/2026🚨 Over 50 leading academics have sounded the alarm on the UK's voting system ⚠️ In an era of multi-party politics, First Past the Post risks “random and arbitrary” results like never before 🗳️ The experts' letter warn Ministers they must address this to stem growing instability and distrustpoliticshome.comOver 50 Academics Warn That Voting System Is Not Fit For Multi-Party PoliticsDozens of academics have written to the government to warn that the current voting system risks producing distorted results on an 'unprecedented' s... 211763
Reposted by Luke CooperLabour4PR 🌹🗳️ @labour4pr.bsky.social · 18/05/2026"Labour must remember and reassert what it is we are here to do: address inequality – economic and political... political equality at the ballot box is fundamental to delivering equality everywhere else in society." ✍️ @alexsobel.co.uk in @labourlist.bsky.social labourlist.org/2026/05/labo...labourlist.org' After these Local Elections there can be no doubt: Labour’s future lies in electoral reform' - LabourListFirst Past the Post is the biggest example of the Status Quo in UK politics. 44528
Reposted by Luke CooperRyan MacMullen @dogpatchryan.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Makes me really quite nauseous thinking about the stakes here. 011
Luke Cooper @lukecooper100.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Is there any precedent for a by-election explicitly designed to overthrow the sitting prime minister? This is a massive roll of the dice by Burnham in a Reform-friendly seat, setting up a what is surely the most consequential by-election ever mafiapoliticsglobaldisorder.substack.com/p/the-most-c... 033
Reposted by Luke CooperChristoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Celebrating a new addition to the "Thomas L Friedman Hall of Fame" www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/o... 3522114262
Luke Cooper @lukecooper100.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Do you remember how many government resignations it took to get rid of Boris Johnson? It was 62 (!) including a record of 40 in 24 hours. I wonder if Starmer is holding out to try and break BJ’s record 🤔 040
Reposted by Luke CooperNatalie Sedacca @nataliesedacca.bsky.social · 27/04/2026New article from me analysing the provisions on workplace harassment in the Employment Rights Act 2025 and their contribution to remedying gaps in protection, which have been highlighted since the #MeToo movement and the ILO's 2019 violence and harassment Convention academic.oup.com/ilj/advance-... 1139
Reposted by Luke CooperSteve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Increased possibility of more EU sanctions against West Bank settlers following change of Hungarian govt www.politico.eu/article/eu-e...politico.euEU to approve sanctions on Israeli settlers, says KallasThe breakthrough comes days after Péter Magyar replaced Viktor Orbán as Hungary’s prime minister. 66019
Luke Cooper @lukecooper100.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Over the weekend an exchange of memos once again failed to end the Iran-cum-US blockade of the Strait. So who is going to blink first? My money is on Trump doing a TACO. My post on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/mafiapol... 022
Luke Cooper @lukecooper100.bsky.social · 06/05/2026$72bn to fight an illegal war and tank the global economy open.substack.com/pub/populari...open.substack.comThe real cost of the Iran War: $72 billion for the first 60 daysPopular Information crunches the numbers. The official accounting is at least $47 billion too low. 022
Reposted by Luke CooperGlen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 05/05/2026NEW from me: many of our universities are now in a dying fall. A new global-national-regional-local split is opening up, which could choke off progress on almost all the Government's plans. Do they have a plan? Nope, nothing, not a clue. 👇 isrf.org/blog/whats-t...isrf.orgWhat’s the future for our universities? 9280151
Luke Cooper @lukecooper100.bsky.social · 06/05/2026The United States govt are not so much “blinking first” but putting their hands in front of their eyes and begging for it to stop. 0245
Luke Cooper @lukecooper100.bsky.social · 03/05/2026I've signed up to Substack, I'm going to use to flesh out ideas on the bad guys taking over the world and what we might do about it. This first post is about why we shouldn't rationalise the actions of the mad king as a grand strategic effort to uphold American hegemony substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comPolicy and power in the court of king TrumpThe starting point for analysing Trump has to be that there is little strategic logic to his actions in the genuine geoeconomic challenges facing American power 033
Luke Cooper @lukecooper100.bsky.social · 01/04/2026💯👇 💯👇 💯👇 💯👇 💯👇 Really great and timely piece by George. Illegal fly tipping has become a terrible problem on London’s streets. The rise of this criminal industry, enabled be the hollowing out of the state, should be a national scandal. 0145
Reposted by Luke CooperAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 08/03/2026This is the largest oil supply shock in history in mb/d The enemy gets a vote. Iran is now delivering pain to Trump via multiple paths (1) Gulf Kings (2) Financial meltdown (3) AI tech oligarchs (4) Fuel, fertilizer, food disruptions Read our Polycrisis Dispatch: buttondown.com/polycrisisdi... 16869332
Reposted by Luke CooperGlyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 22/03/2026how long before there are riots in the streets around the world as a knock-on consequence of #trump's insane #iran misadventure 053
Reposted by Luke CooperEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Around 7000 Americans were killed on Iwo Jima and 19,000 wounded, and it was part of a campaign that ended with a nuclear weapon being used, so maybe not the wisest comparison. 47963471590
Reposted by Luke CooperSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 18/03/2026The rise of Hitler salutes and chats on college campuses is reminiscent of the 1959-1960 swastika outbreak that spread all across the US and the world. newrepublic.com/post/207877/...newrepublic.comCollege Republicans Chapter Sues School for Right to Make Nazi SaluteThe student group has filed a lawsuit after its suspension from campus. 39797356