Happy International Workers Day! Today only get 20% off A Workting Title I Want to Change with the coupon code MayDay20 at repeaterbooks.com/product/a-wo...

“Why had two entirely different cultures developed in Yorkshire and Surrey around a single game?” How sport encouraged a sociologist to dig deeper into regional identities. @drcricket.bsky.social

Appreciated these kind words from @aaronrosspowell.com about our new essay collection "What is Liberal Socialism?" for @repeaterbooks.bsky.social Aaron is doing great work building bridges amongst liberals.

The Secret to Fixing Britain's Railways One of the best Railnatter episodes yet by the wonderful @garethdennis.uk www.youtube.com/live/ERRlmtB...

Millions of people are becoming poorer, sicker, and less secure every day, yet we continue to flock to the very figures cheering on our decline. Going beyond rote takedowns of their lies to expose the true nature of the con, "Confidence Men" is available now in stores or online at RepeaterBooks.com

Cover and explainer for "What is Liberal Socialism?" for @repeaterbooks.bsky.social is out! With Florian Maiwald and @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com

New on Repeater/Zer0 Substack! Snapshots of England’s Pop Rebels and Outsiders! Read an excerpt from Albion's Secret History by Guy Mankowski at repeaterzer0.substack.com/p/let-england

Pre-order sale for "What is Liberal Socialism?"-our essay collection with Florian Maiwald and @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com-has started. With @repeaterbooks.bsky.social!

Went to a launch party for this last night. We all got a TESCO badge... Proper launch at Waterstone's in L'pool in April, 21st I think...

she was and is correct

The government's updated its guidance for migrant seasonal farm workers with this helpful advice: If your boss makes you feel unsafe, talk to your boss about it! If that doesn't work, talk to the recruiter your boss pays. Nothing about unions, legal advice, enforcement bodies...

Very pleased to have contributed to this swell volume on fascism, then and now

Set in the labyrinth of Tesco’s flagship supermarket, A Working Title I Want to Change explores the harshly lit world of austerity Britain, revealing consumerism’s rituals in all their comedy and menace. Read an excerpt and buy your copy now via the links in our bio.

This is basically Colonialism 101, but we can expect the campists and tankies to, uh, well

"Just as Isaac Babel proclaimed that he’d invented a new genre, that of silence, to keep the regime at bay; and just as Kafka’s Sirens possess a weapon more powerful than their song — namely, their silence — so here at Tesco there might be those for whom sound is not the desired norm."

@martinoneill.bsky.social unpacks the story of Labour Together and Josh Simmons to explore a toxic political culture that relies on smears and disinformation to serve the interests of wealthy donors. What does this mean for the future of the UK's Labour party?

Utterly convincing on the benefits of rail, but also about so much more than just trains, describing how we can effectively create society and community that works for us all

Finally got round to reading @garethdennis.uk excellent book How the Railways will Fix the Future

“Streaming is more like having an industrial catering-sized fridge in your home, in which the abundant food is going out of date before you can eat it.” bsky.app/profile/repe...

I am on a train with a new copy of that @garethdennis.uk book. This shit needs fixing (the trains, not the book).

I will never get tired of seeing people get excited about the better future than trains can give us... THANKS SO MUCH X

🟢 Israel agreed to a “ceasefire” in Gaza on Oct. 10. Since then, Israeli forces have: ➤ Launched 852 airstrikes & artillery attacks ➤ Opened fire on Palestinians 665 times ➤ Committed 1,856 armed violations on the ground 🔴 Israel Killed: ➤ 198 Children ➤ 85 Women ➤ 23 Elderly Citizens 648...

Read for context: ⬇️

At least 70 people, including some 60 children, were killed when US & Israeli strikes hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minab, southern Iran, according to the Fars News. The attack reportedly struck during school hours, w/ about 170 girls inside. Vids show families screaming...

Going back to go forward, for the love of vinyl. Read an exclusive extract from Body of Work: How Music Outplayed the Algorithm and Survived Playlist Culture, by Keith Jopling, over on the Repeater substack: repeaterzer0.substack.com/p/the-needle...

Listen to @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social, the independent journalist who broke the huge story of the credible Trump accuser whose interviews were scrubbed/hidden by the DOJ. What is the Trump Administration hiding and why? thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-epstei...

The reason you can’t give a single inch on anything be it trans rights or dignity for unhoused people is that they, democrats and republicans alike, will take it and say thanks what else is in your pockets? They won’t say thanks actually.

Very excited to have gotten the proofs for our little essay collection "What is Liberal Socialism?" for @repeaterbooks.bsky.social. Includes contributions by me, @liberalcurrents.com editor @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com and Florian Maiwald

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

Finally finished this excellent book by @garethdennis.uk, highly recommended to all interested in modern society! It got me thinking how do people doing infrastructures now and in the premodern period can have a conversation? There is clearly loads to talk about here, many similar observations.

Those who oppose fascism today do so at great personal risk. We know more lives will be lost in the coming year, but Bob Sheldon's death shows us that the spirit of liberation cannot be killed. Long live I-Books! His memory is a blessing ❤️‍🔥

"Nazis were just regular people" is not a statement meant to evoke empathy or to excuse their crimes. It is a statement of warning. The capacity to be part of and perpetrate atrocities is not limited to "monsters," it is wholly human. It is what we must always be aware of.

Hey! My books THE MEDIUM PICTURE (@ugapress.bsky.social) and POST-SELF (@repeaterbooks.bsky.social) are now available everywhere! 💙📚 #booksky roychristopher.com/books/

Thanks to everyone who turned out - we sold out of books. Remember, as Keith said, ratings (good ones) and reviews (ditto) are vital so please share the love 🙏

We should be talking a lot more about how the San Francisco tech scene is populated by a strange cult of doom acceleration nerds who fantasize about using computers to destroy humanity. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Delighted, and thanks to the organisers and all who turned out to launch Body of Work last night!

Thurs PM: Keith Jopling / @songsommelier.bsky.social At 21Soho w/ @rnrbook-club.bsky.social @repeaterbooks.bsky.social

Keith Jopling Body of Work book event at @21Soho in conversation with @Flyteband Body of Work is available from all booksellers @repeaterbooks.bsky.social @songsommelier.bsky.social

PREORDER SALE: 25% off on upcoming Repeater titles at Waterstones @waterstones.bsky.social with the code FEB26 !!!

Damned interesting conversation on the Left Hook with David Morris (author of "Stealing The Future: Sam Bankman-Fried, Elite Fraud, and the Cult of Techno-Utopia"). As most of us have already deduced, the Tech Bros are a pack of weirdo creeps. #CreepyPeople thelefthook.substack.com/p/epsteins-g...

Called "among the most important books of the year" by The American Prospect, if you want to understand the techno-feudalist ideology that's underwriting a lot of what's going on in Washington and Westminster, there's really no better book to read than David's (and no better time to buy it than now)

”The elimination of just one major but pernicious environmental factor—that of the internal combustion engine—could transform human (and animal) life." Read a free extract from Dynamo Island: The Cultural History and Geography of a Degrowth Utopia on the Repeater/Zer0 substack:

”The elimination of just one major but pernicious environmental factor—that of the internal combustion engine—could transform human (and animal) life." Read a free extract from Dynamo Island: The Cultural History and Geography of a Degrowth Utopia on the Repeater/Zer0 substack:

Thursday @21Soho London Keith Jopling on what the album means to all of us in the age of streaming and AI - in conversation with Flyte Final tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1978877705... @repeaterbooks.bsky.social

🚨The Ditch exclusive🚨 Jeffrey Epstein invited Bill Gates to his island and told him – the month after Donald Trump was first elected US president – the “new administration people” were visiting. www.ontheditch.com/jeffrey-epst...

"She is not the first lighthouse keeper to lose her mind on the shores of Cabo Polonio. But she is determined to be the first to survive it." Another fantastic new voice joins our list. Welcome Valentina Cano Repetto! Loba publishes on November 10th.

Seen this play out in startups I worked at, it is one of the most disturbing dynamics here, and why one of the biggest danger factors I see is the constant recruitment and exploitation of youth and infantilized young men, especially with Thiel-programs targeting young boys as early as high school.

"This is how technology startups work: capital is expended on twenty-somethings willing to work at a life-annihilating pace for the future enrichment of investors... The greatest heroes of technology and finance are made children, so that they can be child sacrifices".

Dropping a quick book rec for @davidzmorris.bsky.social 's Stealing the Future, on FTX. I hadn't dug too far into this story and appreciated the accessible information on the details of the financial crime. A passage that very much stood out to me: