Colm O'Cinneide
@colmocinneide
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Irishman in London, Professor of Constitutional and Human Rights Law at UCL. RTs not endorsements, likes may be just nota bene.
London
Joined April 2013
Full text of my speech is here:
Interesting comments from @terrorwatchdog reported in the Telegraph. We disagree on doctrine. We agree the Online Safety Act doesn't work. There will be no standing up to the U.S. if Congress gets involved. That will end the discussion. https://t.co/UxhNEeB1kg
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One prediction I’m sure of: within 15 years, most non-liberal societies with declining birthrates that have fallen below 1.5 will shift from carrots (i.e., benefits) to sticks (penalties) to induce more births. China will likely be “in the lead” on this.
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Birth rates are crashing around the world. Should we be worried?
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The national security state is being turned inward on Americans. The task of rolling it back is going to be extremely difficult.
The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. An entire galaxy of public and private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed.
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“While Western commentators are trying to see China more clearly through the tools of Western theory, young Chinese netizens have been busy coining vocabularies to say something different.” Fantastic essay by @afrazhaowang
theideasletter.org
Wang traces the emergence of multiple generationally distinct “reckonings” with China among different groups: There are the young Americans who encounter the country as offering a sleek, TikTok-med...
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One of the biggest stories of the last ten to fifteen years is how the project of global development just died with a whimper. Now, essentially the entire global goods surplus is concentrated in East Asia, growth in Chinese import demand is evaporating, geoeconomics is
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"There is no good economics without good politics"--one of the principles of "The London Consensus," an interesting new book that is the subject of my latest column. 1/n https://t.co/HqfYYIBkeB
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“What we’re experiencing now is in some sense a crisis of reproduction of the boomer worldview. What worked for the boomers as a generation is just not working for everybody else, because they were world-historically unique.” —@TiltingatM3
nybooks.com
Since retaking the presidency in January, Donald Trump has initiated a blitz of chaotic, damaging economic policies. For months, as Nic Johnson wrote in
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New essay! Why does social media benefit populism? And if, like me, you're a small "l" liberal who opposes populism, what can be done about it? The essay has three parts. Part 1 argues that the main reason social media benefits populism is that it destroys elite gatekeeping,
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I tried to give this a name, “moral austerity,” but as you can see it didn’t catch on
@TSBurkhardt It’s a good question; liberals have this problem in part because their ideology is genuinely amoral (at least at the conscious level) to a degree that is a world-historical outlier. It is maybe the most amoral ideology of all time. Not immoral, mind you—*unconcerned* with morals
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Ludwig Wittgenstein gatecrashed John Maynard Keynes' honeymoon, and he wouldn't leave for six days
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New for @_fitzwilliam: a surprising number of Ireland's cultural peculiarities have their origins in an unlikely source – 19th century Protestant mysticism
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Irony here is Labour-led Wales has largely fixed this problem. Wales has more than halved its SEND rate by tightening up criteria and abolishing their nonsense unspecified ‘general’ category where kids couldn’t be diagnosed with anything real but were categorised SEND anyway.
This is normal and absolutely not a disaster. There is no need for SEND reforms.
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Tyler Cowen on the 'fallacy of mood affiliation' from 2011. Particularly relevant IMHO in the current political moment. (Link follows.)
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Schopenhauer is so interesting.
Lovely review of my book by fellow @UChicagoPress author Robert Zaretsky
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Interior enforcement is now operating with the view that anyone who entered the country unlawfully at any time is subject to indefinite detention and suspension of due process rights against current rulings and all previous immigration case law.
In today’s “One First,” I wrote about the Trump administration’s attempt to reclassify millions of non-citizens who have been living in the United States for years as “arriving aliens,” and why *hundreds* of federal judges keep ruling against it: https://t.co/FR6TUFProl
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So I just learned about Japanese Jesuit art from the 1600s ... This piece, "Four Equestrians at Combat|泰西王侯騎馬図," depicts: Holy Roman emperor (Rudolf II), Ottoman sultan (either Murad III or Mehmed III), Tsar of Muscovy (Peter the Great), Khan of Crimea (Ğazı II Giray).
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if china did this it would become a well known meme about its totalitarian nature, like “social credit”
India's telecoms ministry has privately asked smartphone makers to preload all new devices with a state-owned cyber security app that cannot be deleted, a government order showed, a move likely to antagonize Apple and privacy advocates
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We really, really do not want to establish a new norm where presidents authorize all sorts of unlawful acts while planning blanket pardons for all involved to escape jeopardy. We need a Constitutional amendment to restrict the pardon power.
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