DPhil IR @Politics_Oxford. Mainly on climate; oceans; developing countries; SE Asia; Catholicism; all things int'l politics. Mostly on hiatus.
Kuala Lumpur
Joined March 2009
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WE ARE NEWCASTLE UNITED
CARABAO CUP WINNERS
#wedontdoquiet
ALT WE HAVE WON THE CARABAO CUP
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Three years of brutal war in Ukraine.
What is the most memorable photo of the war for you, and why?
I’ll start with this iconic one of Zelenskyy’s team after Russia falsely claimed he had fled to Poland.
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It's the 10-year anniversary of when the 1MDB scandal broke out. At @brazenFM we are launching an effort to locate Jho Low and build up a deeper understanding of how he went from a little-known Malaysian financier who never had a job to international fugitive and Chinese spy asset
youtube.com/watch?v=gKLkR5FP…
The state of the one and only public transport stop serving Subang airport. And not even a pedestrian pavement to the terminal!
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NEW: How the UK became the first G7 country to phase out coal power 🧵
Four key ingredients in UK's success:
❌🏭Stopping new coal
❤️🔥☢️🌄Building alternatives
💷Making polluters pay
📢Clear political signals
But there's much more to say…
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interactive.carbonbrief.org/…
Seeing Like a State was the page-turner I had to slow down reading to fully absorb Scott’s meaning and all the doors it was opening.
Years later as I got interested in ocean governance SLaS triggered a new itch that led to a new pub on ‘large ocean states’. RIP.
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BREAKING NEWS: Malaysia commits to phase-out coal power by 2044.
@PetraJayaMP has just confirmed the country will half its number of coal power plants by 2035 and, by 2044, will phase-out coal entirely.
Watch the Dialogue live now:
youtube.com/live/Wsl8F7B1cgU
The changing shape of the #UNFCCC process - figures from a secretariat paper for ongoing (and never-ending) debate on streamlining the process (for the #SB60 Arrangements for Intergovt Meetings item unfccc.int/sites/default/fil…)
Stories from 🇲🇾 Malaysia’s 🇺🇳blue helmet service across decades for International Day of UN #Peacekeepers
Saw #ThePhantomMenace on the big screen again: trade politics, legalisation, “The Bureaucracy”, funnier than I remember (Anakin’s first line: are you an angel?), Duel of the Fates 🎶. What a show.
At #OurOcean2024 @OurOceanGreece 🇬🇷 key outcomes will include new voluntary commitments on ocean sustainability by govts, biz, philanthropists + NGOs.
My paper @PolicyMarine compares these to the UN Ocean Conferences which also emphasises commitment-making in ocean governance.
Now out in ✍️🌊@PolicyMarine: a comparison of the voluntary commitments on ocean health made at the Our Ocean and UN Ocean Conferences.
Headline: ~13% of commitments are cross-registered.
Access link (🔓for next 6 weeks): sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Impressed (and astonished) by the food that keeps appearing on Indian Railways #VandeBharat fast #trains
It gets better! Roses distributed to go along with breakfast #VandeBharat #IndianRailways
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Now out in ✍️🌊@PolicyMarine: a comparison of the voluntary commitments on ocean health made at the Our Ocean and UN Ocean Conferences.
Headline: ~13% of commitments are cross-registered.
Access link (🔓for next 6 weeks): sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
