Researching the political economy of electricity, urban and environmental planning. https://garethfearn.com/https://bsky.app/profile/gfearn.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/gfearn.bsky.social/post/3mhsw6fkrjs23Mamdani needs to learn from what happened to Corbyn. He conceded an inch on the first story about his wife, as soon as you show that weakness theyll go after that relentlessly. [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Mar 2026 15:45 +0000at://did:plc:kg5l7b4v2vk33fq44mrretms/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhsw6fkrjs23https://bsky.app/profile/gfearn.bsky.social/post/3mheejmh4k22eBetter to send children to prison for no reason, i guess. [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Mar 2026 20:51 +0000at://did:plc:kg5l7b4v2vk33fq44mrretms/app.bsky.feed.post/3mheejmh4k22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/gfearn.bsky.social/post/3mglbnx52uk2kThis has been a known problem for the best part of a decade, but even a major world energy crisis was not enough for the government to take action because the answer probably means some form of public ownership/funding. [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Mar 2026 21:24 +0000at://did:plc:kg5l7b4v2vk33fq44mrretms/app.bsky.feed.post/3mglbnx52uk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/gfearn.bsky.social/post/3mfjgo4cvvc2w✍️New essay for @the-breakdown.bsky.social which attempts an analysis of the energy transition as one between two competing fractions of capital - fossil and electric - and the conflicts and struggles which will lead towards an 'electro-capitalism' (or not!) https://www.break-down.org/electro-capitalism/23 Feb 2026 10:23 +0000at://did:plc:kg5l7b4v2vk33fq44mrretms/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfjgo4cvvc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/gfearn.bsky.social/post/3mfjgo4cvvc2w✍️New essay for @the-breakdown.bsky.social which attempts an analysis of the energy transition as one between two competing fractions of capital - fossil and electric - and the conflicts and struggles which will lead towards an 'electro-capitalism' (or not!) https://www.break-down.org/electro-capitalism/23 Feb 2026 10:23 +0000at://did:plc:kg5l7b4v2vk33fq44mrretms/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfjgo4cvvc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/gfearn.bsky.social/post/3me2khb7ve22eThe reset was in 2015. Labour blew their chance to change, got lucky in 2024, and now the decline is back on track. [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Feb 2026 18:55 +0000at://did:plc:kg5l7b4v2vk33fq44mrretms/app.bsky.feed.post/3me2khb7ve22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/gfearn.bsky.social/post/3mdwvwdxqsk2r🎧Final episode for @urbanpolitical.bsky.social in our series on authoritarian urbanism w/ @jluger.bsky.social, Miklós Dürr, Ayşegül Can & Oksana Zaporozhets We discuss whether contemporary urbanism continues to be 'neoliberal', and how the leading tendency is towards something more autocratic: https://urbanpolitical.podigee.io/103-beyond-neoliberal-urbanism03 Feb 2026 08:10 +0000at://did:plc:kg5l7b4v2vk33fq44mrretms/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdwvwdxqsk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/gfearn.bsky.social/post/3mdgl3kc5622xGenuinely think selecting Goodwin will make it alot harder for Reform to win. He is far too deep into the online, far right ecosystem to not say multiple weird and offputting things that will limit Reforms appeal to the more comitted.27 Jan 2026 20:13 +0000at://did:plc:kg5l7b4v2vk33fq44mrretms/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdgl3kc5622xhttps://bsky.app/profile/gfearn.bsky.social/post/3mctsfgr3v22h🔊🔊 Episode 2 of our mini-series on authoritarian urbanism is out with @urbanpolitical.bsky.social. I discuss emergent and intensifying authoritarian practices w/ @nitin-bathla.bsky.social @alkejenss.bsky.social @sdwolfe.bsky.social @ebrukurtozman.bsky.social https://open.spotify.com/show/5PaTdRPhonblOXeUPDDL0z20 Jan 2026 09:04 +0000at://did:plc:kg5l7b4v2vk33fq44mrretms/app.bsky.feed.post/3mctsfgr3v22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/gfearn.bsky.social/post/3mctsfgr3v22h🔊🔊 Episode 2 of our mini-series on authoritarian urbanism is out with @urbanpolitical.bsky.social. I discuss emergent and intensifying authoritarian practices w/ @nitin-bathla.bsky.social @alkejenss.bsky.social @sdwolfe.bsky.social @ebrukurtozman.bsky.social https://open.spotify.com/show/5PaTdRPhonblOXeUPDDL0z20 Jan 2026 09:04 +0000at://did:plc:kg5l7b4v2vk33fq44mrretms/app.bsky.feed.post/3mctsfgr3v22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/gfearn.bsky.social/post/3mcmd4esgtc2jProbably have to start reckoning with the reality that most social science disciplines int he UK wont fuctionally exist in 10-20 years. No such thing as a permanent job (not thay they exist!) if your departments in terminal decline!17 Jan 2026 09:41 +0000at://did:plc:kg5l7b4v2vk33fq44mrretms/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcmd4esgtc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/gfearn.bsky.social/post/3mckdm2yxfs2hEuropean gas price surging. Evidence for Labour's view that we need to reduce gas reliance, but could also kill their govt before that happens as they have failed to get on top of energy bills. If this carries on the '£150 bill cut' isnt going to happen.16 Jan 2026 14:45 +0000at://did:plc:kg5l7b4v2vk33fq44mrretms/app.bsky.feed.post/3mckdm2yxfs2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/gfearn.bsky.social/post/3mchy2wqakc24Seems like every quango in Britain has been weaponised in defence of Israeli genocide. [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 Jan 2026 16:13 +0000at://did:plc:kg5l7b4v2vk33fq44mrretms/app.bsky.feed.post/3mchy2wqakc24https://bsky.app/profile/gfearn.bsky.social/post/3m7wxkpy3bs2qWhen interest rates get cut and the govt caves into the indsutries demand for demand-side stimulus, we will see how nuch "saner" the property market is i guess! [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Dec 2025 10:58 +0000at://did:plc:kg5l7b4v2vk33fq44mrretms/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7wxkpy3bs2q