When we started doing this podcast I did not expect Tim to be playing tracks by East Anglian post-punk bands of which I hadn’t been previously aware. And yet here we are…

This morning I was wondering too about the impact that X has on the perceptions of mainstream journalists. These are the top 3 tweets replying to Mamdani's last campaign video. No wonder they lack true analyses, their perception is always already distorted by spending too much time over there.

Presenters of BBC Radio's flagship news show react to news from NYC. One is on repeat: 'what happens when he can't deliver his programme?' The other can't stop trying to attribute Zohran's victory to his personality, his campaign style, anything but his programme. Pure ideology.

Yes here's our @novaramedia.com #ACFM podcast about Your Party. Inevitably there were things we didn't get around to: e.g. the contentious role of the 'independent MPs'. We DO talk about historical precedents, online democracy and competing ideas of authority in a social media world.

I think the real significance of Caerphilly is that once centre-left voters start accepting that they might have to vote for parties to the left of Labour in order to block Reform, then the entire basis for centrist political strategy since the 1970s is out of the window.

Please, please, please if you know anyone who even might be in Unison, encourage them to vote for Egan. This would be the biggest win for progressive forces in the UK since 2015.

An observation on language and the Caerphilly by-election result. I’ve read that the result is the outcome of ‘tactical voting’. I define tactical voting as this reasoning. I support party x. I oppose party y. In order to achieve the latter I will vote party z (1/2)

First Oswald Moseley was sent packing by 6000 anti fascist miners, now Farage had to run away from the count, so he wasn't similarly embarrassed! Now unless Labour do change their mind and go into coalition with Reform (!) we can block Reform from being in the Welsh Government in May.

No pasaran. Cymru am byth.

After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results: - AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2% - ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1% - ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%

Glad to hear Keir Starmer is finally making the right decision to attend climate talks. Now let's talk about taxing wealth.

Keir Starmer for several years: "If you don't like the Labour Party you can fuck off out of it lol yolo" Keir Starmer now: "What you look at the Greens for that's fucked up man I'm literally right here wow just wow"

David’s right of course. Except I think a lot of the MPs do understand all this and simply don’t care.

This was really helpful and well worth listening to (and supporting)

This was a really clarifying discussion. UK politics folk: have a listen.

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I shared this piece with @jemgilbert.bsky.social after listening to an excellent recent episode of ACFM. There’s a great opportunity to better connect critical and political theory as well as cultural studies with futures studies and applied foresight. novaramedia.com/2025/09/21/w...

A fascinating account of an exhibition on the idea and ideas of the future, curated by my old student @jcamachor.bsky.social. medium.com/preferable-w...

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The UK commentariat out of touch & useless. We're in the middle of a cost of living crisis that billionaires and corporates overwhelmingly fuelled. We just had the 2nd worst harvest in a century - A CENTURY - as food prices take off again. And.... tumbleweeds... the silence is deafening.

This is what we're up against. On just a single project a far right billionaire can spaff £33 million up the wall. Likely multitudes more than the entire progressive policy space receives in a single year for work on making the country a better place. www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/g...

The next Beauty and the Beat party will be a big one! I'm not gonna be there sadly but our old friend Leo will be stepping in and it's going to be fantastic. All details at www.houseparty.org.uk/next-party.

It was a real privilege to take part in this podcast with @rachaelmaskell.bsky.social @compassoffice.bsky.social - an excellent discussion of Labour's current predicaments. www.compassonline.org.uk/podcast/upco...

Why people hate billionaires “There has never been a better time to be excited about the future,” Bezos declared. “We are gifted to live in a moment in time where there are multiple golden ages going on.”

Look! A new series of seminar at Ridley Road Market Bar, and other stuff! culturepowerpolitics.org/upcoming/

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They really are locked in the 80s. It’s horrible to watch.

Starmer's speech was interesting for taking his most explicitly anti-Blairite, social democratic position since 2020. However a) nobody believes a word he says and b) the scale of the reforms is so inadequate to the crisis that he still comes off as not really understanding it.

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Looking forward to discussing @benandersongeog.bsky.social & Anna Secor's brilliant new @goldsmithspress.bsky.social book, The Politics of Feeling, with the authors and @jemgilbert.bsky.social on 25th Nov - all welcome, register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...

Also feels like another example of the cargo cult Blairism you discussed in the emergency pod last week.

Starmer has managed to unite in opposition Jeremy Corbyn, Nigel Farage, Zarah Sultana, Liz Truss, Owen Jones, the SNP, the Liberal Democrats, migrant advocacy and civil liberties groups, right libertarians, fascists, anarchists, socialists and your gran with her Doro dumbphone. Incredible work.

London launch event for The Politics of Feeling on 25th November at the October Gallery, with @will-davies.bsky.social and @jemgilbert.bsky.social We’ll be thinking from the book about the politics of feeling in the post General Election/US Presidential election period. Eventbrite link below

Digital ID cards is the single most 'The Thick of It' policy that any UK government has ever actually proposed.

A treat for all Emergency Podcast listeners. I'm chairing which means I can finally (finally!) interrupt @jemgilbert.bsky.social. You want to hear this! Plus @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social (who I'll not interrupt) & Mark Perryman. Oct. 8th 18:30-20:00 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-starme...

Not just the panel, but the audience was a Who's-Who of current popular political and economic thought, with @jemgilbert.bsky.social and @garyseconomics.bsky.social

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This was really great, thank you both. Helpful analysis (with a smattering of hope) in really weird and frightening times.

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It's been a tumultuous time for the Labour Government at present - and Conference next weekend might be the last thing they want. Compass members can join us LIVE at 6pm on Tuesday 23rd as we sit down with @rachaelmaskell.bsky.social MP and @jemgilbert.bsky.social to discuss what's next!

I'm actually not sure about that. Roy Hattersley was right-wing; Anthony Crosland was right-wing. These people are NOLS right-wingers – they're only on the Right in the sense that they've build a career on fighting the Left. Which, we can assume, appealed to them because they're horrible people.

It's similar to that Helen Lewis post about middle aged male celebrities turning far right because of a mid life crisis. We have a political commentariat that sees politics wholly as gossip and personality, never as the structural interplay of social forces.

The fact that the Labour Right are the most horrible people in politics is about to become common knowledge, which is much better than it not being, but this will still be used to distract from the fact that the basic problem with them is being very right wing, rather than them being rude.

It's great how the media are prepping the ground for Starmer to have lost his job because of Peter Mandelson and nasty emails from staffers ten years ago, rather than because his entire political strategy has demonstrably failed by being far too right-wing.

Your Party deciding to really go for it with mass assemblies, mass canvassing, sortition conference and online voting is a very brave experiment in popular democracy that should be welcomed by anyone who doesn't want us to be governed directly by Elon Musk by 2035.

if only there was a way he could've prevented all this...

you know it's over when somebody bullying diane abbott actually has consequences

most surprising news is that Starmer had a director of strategy