Pinned
The paperback of Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century is out today with a new chapter that begins with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February last year, the day the hardback appeared.
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Helen Thompson POLIS
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Helen Thompson POLIS
@HelenHet20
Professor of Political Economy, University of Cambridge. Thoughts about our economic and political predicaments.
Joined May 2016
- Long-term German energy reliance on Russia arose from the acute foreign energy dependency predicaments Germany has faced for more than a century. 1/11
- This is going to be normal politics until politicians realise that crisis not growth is the new norm and that the world’s realities are shattering the platitudes of partisan politics and career ambition at an ever more rapid pace.
- Theresa May may join a line of PMs brought to resignation by the EU question, but she also joins Pitt the Younger and Gladstone in having a premiership end over the Irish question.
- It’s been a privilege to contribute to Talking Politics and before it Election. But good things also reach their end, and this seems the right time for new beginnings. Thanks very much indeed to everyone who has listened.
- My book Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century will be published by Oxford University Press later this month.
- A big difference between Labour in Leave England and Labour in Leave Wales is that Remain Labour has an anti-English bent and Remain Welsh Labour embraces Wales.
- The Eurozone is trapped because Italy can’t be a member without shared debt, there won’t be shared debt with Italy inside the Eurozone, and the Eurozone was designed to function without shared debt because Italy wasn’t suppose to be in the Eurozone.
- It feels pretty strange to be publishing a book in part about Europe’s long-standing geopolitical fault lines around Russia on this day. But Disorder is my attempt to understand the world in which we now live. It can be bought here: global.oup.com/academic/produ…
- The point of a monarchy is to remind us we collectively live in the seasons of time, and many years in the future people will still talk about what the Queen broadcast on Palm Sunday in this hour of crisis.
- If the EU position is now Northern Ireland cannot ever leave the customs union that is quite a departure from the backstop is 'temporary' language of February this year.
- My article 'The Habsburg Myth and the European Union', having won an award from the publisher, has escaped from its paywall: emerald.com/insight/conten…
- The corollary of energy sanctions against Russia is using less energy. That’s what we in the rest of Europe can do for Ukraine.
- Replying to @HelenHet20The German misjudgement was to ignore that the dissolution of the Soviet Union created the medium- to long-term risk of an outright Russian war in Europe. 11/11
