co-directing @TransitionSec, researching military industrial complexes @Cmmonwealth
Joined December 2013
- Tweets1.6K
- Following798
- Followers1.4K
- Likes32.4K
Pinned Tweet
Very excited to announce @TransitionSec, a new research centre that will investigate the US and UK military industrial complexes as economic, climate and geopolitical threats.
A collaboration between @Cmmonwealth and @cplusci.
Follow us and sign up for our launch. 👇
🚨 EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
Join us for a free online panel on the war economy, the climate impacts of war & the geopolitics of the climate transition.
Speakers: @stephensemler, @triofrancos & @IliasAlami, chaired by @LalehKhalili
📅 16 Oct 6PM BST
🔗 eventbrite.co.uk/e/war-clima…
As pressure builds for a massive expansion of the military budget — again at the expense of essential climate programmes — I spoke to @poltheoryother about the realities of Britain’s military spending 👇
📢 💥NEW EPISODE 📢 💥 - @KhemRogaly of @TransitionSec joins PTO to talk about the doubling Britain's military budget amidst an ever increasing drumbeat of commentary predicting a major European war. Link in the 🧵
Khem Rogaly retweeted
“I think this is exactly the approach progressives and socialists need to adopt, tackling the arguments about military spending directly on the terms the defence establishment try to present them”.
@meadwaj on our report, “Posturing to the World”, in the latest @macrodosepod.
Khem Rogaly retweeted
Written a quickish response to suggestions that support for heat pumps will be cut to fund increased military spending: it’s classic Treasury brain short term thinking, hacking off support at the exact point a new industry needs it most.
Link below, as usual…
Khem Rogaly retweeted
The government should not cut vital climate programmes to fund further increases to the wasteful military budget.
Our research shows that cuts used to fund military spending lead to job losses overall. Read more below.
theguardian.com/environment/…
Khem Rogaly retweeted
"the US, NATO and their global allies account for four fifths of the world’s military expenditure. Even excluding the US, the rest of NATO spends almost as much as all states not aligned with the US combined." - @TransitionSec
Khem Rogaly retweeted
When we're told the UK has had a ‘peace dividend’, we must realise that our military budget is higher in real terms than it was during the Cold War.
@KhemRogaly breaks down myths about Britain's soaring military spending on @novaramedia.
Khem Rogaly retweeted
"3.5% doesn't represent anything. There's no document you can find which says, 'this is why we need 3.5% of GDP for the military...' We're spending an extra £280 billion over the next decade to meet this artificial target."
@KhemRogaly spoke to @novaramedia about our new report.
Khem Rogaly retweeted
More excellent work by @TransitionSec - puncturing the myth of a 'defence spending deficit' in UK.
We hear a similar narrative in Ireland focussed on how the country is the 'weak point' in Western Europe. The arms industry loves a new market.
Khem Rogaly retweeted
You're being told the British army is on its knees.
You're told we need to slash social support to pay for huge defence hikes.
It's a lie.
New column 👇
zeteo.uk/p/theyre-lying-to-y…
Khem Rogaly retweeted
“The billions Britain wastes on global military deployments every year symbolise its destructive, outdated foreign policy... Britain should end its support for these attempts at global policing.”
@KhemRogaly on our new report, featured in @guardian 👇
theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
Khem Rogaly retweeted
In the UK, there's apparently no money to fix crumbling public services, build housing or invest in climate action. But somehow there's money to double the military budget to project force around the world, even when it does little to make anyone safer.
Important new research from @cashmank_ and @KhemRogaly on where UK military spending actually goes.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
The British military wastes billions every year sustaining overseas operations. We don’t need more military spending. We need a new foreign policy.
Our latest report @TransitionSec estimates the costs of Britain’s global military strategy and its overseas deployments.
Khem Rogaly retweeted
NEW: Keir Starmer declared last year that the “peace dividend” was over, promoting the myth that Britain’s military spending has declined since the end of the Cold War.
Our latest report shows this simply isn’t true. 🧵
Khem Rogaly retweeted
Control without ownership?
In a recent op-ed, Will Hutton & Andy Haldane have proposed a way forward for the UK's failing water industry: introduce new guardrails, but keep water companies in private hands.
@chrismwhayes explains why this plan is ill-founded – and why only public ownership can fix this broken system.
common-wealth.org/publicatio…
Khem Rogaly retweeted
Our Co-Director @patrickmbigger on Israel’s ecocide in Gaza for @zeteouk 👇
Listen to @TransitionSec fellow David Wearing discuss our research on Britain’s role in the war in Yemen on @poltheoryother
👇👇👇
"In Yemen you've got Royal Saudi Air Force jets, flown by Saudi pilots, but the pilots are trained by Britain. The bombs are supplied by Britain. The maintenance is supplied by Britain. The jets themselves are British built, and that British support sustains the aerial operations..." - @davidwearing
Khem Rogaly retweeted
In the episode we talked about the report David co-authored with @KhemRogaly and Sam Perlo-Freeman for @caatuk and @transitionsec
caat.org.uk/publications/rep…
Khem Rogaly retweeted
TSP's @KhemRogaly will be chairing this panel at Green Party Conference on Friday. Join us!
📅Join us on Friday at Green Party Conference, where we will be joined by two prominent European politicians, Li Andersson (Finnish Left Alliance) and Danièle Obono (LFI) to discuss the options for left foreign policy in this unstable era. Chaired by @KhemRogaly of @TransitionSec
