Benjamin Clark
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21 days ago
🎥: Is liberalism just centrism? Absolutely not, @jerusalem.bsky.social tells Prospect’s @benjamin-clark.bsky.social. It should be “an extremely radical proposition”.
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27 days ago
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@yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social
tells Prospect’s
@benjamin-clark.bsky.social
that the left should not abandon angry young men: “I do not want to let any of them go to the fascists.”
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Yanis Varoufakis and the women who inspired his politics
Greece’s former finance minister on writing a feminist history—and how to beat fascism
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/people/71695/yanis-varoufakis-and-the-women-who-inspired-his-politics
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28 days ago
🎥: Is liberalism just centrism? Absolutely not, @jerusalem.bsky.social tells Prospect’s @benjamin-clark.bsky.social. It should be “an extremely radical proposition”.
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about 1 month ago
📚
@yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social
tells Prospect’s
@benjamin-clark.bsky.social
that the left should not abandon angry young men: “I do not want to let any of them go to the fascists.”
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Yanis Varoufakis and the women who inspired his politics
Greece’s former finance minister on writing a feminist history—and how to beat fascism
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/people/71695/yanis-varoufakis-and-the-women-who-inspired-his-politics
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about 1 month ago
Greece’s former finance minister
@yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social
speaks to
@benjamin-clark.bsky.social
about writing a feminist history—and how to beat fascism.
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Yanis Varoufakis and the women who inspired his politics
Greece’s former finance minister on writing a feminist history—and how to beat fascism
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/people/71695/yanis-varoufakis-and-the-women-who-inspired-his-politics
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about 2 months ago
In today’s Lightbulb, Prospect’s free daily newsletter,
@benjamin-clark.bsky.social
dredges up Mamdani’s rap career—and some more serious reflections on his election victory. Plus:
@benansell.bsky.social
reminds us there is ages until the next UK general election.
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Lily Allen ft. MC Mamdani
Plus: there is a loooooooong time until the next UK general election
https://prospectmagazine.substack.com/p/lily-allen-ft-mc-mamdani
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about 2 months ago
🎥: On this week’s episode of the Prospect Podcast,
@yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social
joins
@benjamin-clark.bsky.social
to discuss his new book on resistance. They cover Mamdani’s campaign, Starmer’s crackdown on protesters—and disagree over how to understand the war in Ukraine.
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Yanis Varoufakis on resisting fascism—in the US, UK, Russia and Ukraine
Plus: Yanis weighs in on Starmer’s crackdown on protesters and Mamdani’s campaign
https://prospectmagazine.substack.com/p/yanis-varoufakis-on-resisting-fascismin
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about 2 months ago
🎥:
@yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social
speaks to Prospect’s
@benjamin-clark.bsky.social
about Zohran Mamdani’s success, Keir Starmer’s crackdown on protesters, and how to resist fascism:
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Yanis Varoufakis on Mamdani, Tommy Robinson and resisting fascism | The Prospect Podcast: Part 1
How should the left resist fascism? On this week’s episode of the Prospect Podcast, Benjamin Clark speaks to Yanis Varoufakis, economist and former Greek finance minister, whose most recent book is ‘Raise Your Soul: A Personal History of Resistance’. Yanis reflects on writing a feminist history as
https://youtu.be/Mf7HyLkuNS0
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2 months ago
🎥: On the latest episode of the Prospect Podcast, @benjamin-clark.bsky.social speaks to @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social about resistance to fascism in the US, UK and Europe. Plus, his controversial views on Ukraine:
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2 months ago
🎥: On this week’s episode of the Prospect Podcast, @benjamin-clark.bsky.social speaks to @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social, about feminism, anti-fascism, the manosphere, Labour and Zohran Mamdani:
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2 months ago
🎥:
@yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social
speaks to Prospect’s
@benjamin-clark.bsky.social
about Zohran Mamdani’s success, Keir Starmer’s crackdown on protesters, and how to resist fascism:
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Yanis Varoufakis on Mamdani, Tommy Robinson and resisting fascism | The Prospect Podcast: Part 1
How should the left resist fascism? On this week’s episode of the Prospect Podcast, Benjamin Clark speaks to Yanis Varoufakis, economist and former Greek finance minister, whose most recent book is ‘Raise Your Soul: A Personal History of Resistance’. Yanis reflects on writing a feminist history as
https://youtu.be/Mf7HyLkuNS0
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2 months ago
Nancy Pelosi has announced she will not be recontesting the California seat she has held for almost 40 years. In September, Prospect’s
@benjamin-clark.bsky.social
spoke to
@saikatforcongress.bsky.social
, who is running to replace her.
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Saikat Chakrabarti is coming for the Democratic establishment
AOC’s former campaign manager is ready to take on Nancy Pelosi
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/people/71150/saikat-chakrabarti-is-coming-for-the-democratic-establishment
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I had a great chat with
@yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social
about his latest book, Mamdani, resisting fascism and a whole lot more. He and I agree on a lot—but not on his rhetoric about Ukraine, which I unpack later with
@ellenhalliday.bsky.social
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Yanis Varoufakis on Mamdani, hope and resistance
The Greek former Minister of Finance reflects on anti-fascism for the 21st century
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/prospect-podcast/71481/yanis-varoufakis-on-mamdani-hope-and-resistance
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2 months ago
In today’s Lightbulb, Prospect’s free daily newsletter,
@benjamin-clark.bsky.social
speaks to
@yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social
about Mamdani, austerity and Ukraine. Plus: Andrew Adonis on Rachel Reeves.
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Yanis Varoufakis on Mamdani and resistance
Plus: should Rachel Reeves raise taxes?
https://prospectmagazine.substack.com/p/yanis-varoufakis-on-mamdani-and-resistance
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2 months ago
🎧: Prospect’s
@benjamin-clark.bsky.social
speaks to
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, Greece’s former finance minister, about his new book—a personal history of resistance. Ben pushes back on Yanis’s rhetoric on Ukraine...
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Yanis Varoufakis on Mamdani, hope and resistance
The Greek former Minister of Finance reflects on anti-fascism for the 21st century
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/prospect-podcast/71481/yanis-varoufakis-on-mamdani-hope-and-resistance
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2 months ago
In today’s Lightbulb, Prospect’s free daily newsletter,
@benjamin-clark.bsky.social
takes the Times to task for interviewing the wrong Bill de Blasio. Plus, geoengineering, Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie and Philip Pullman.
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The wrong Bill de Blasio
Plus: is geoengineering just wishful thinking?
https://prospectmagazine.substack.com/p/the-wrong-bill-de-blasio
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2 months ago
Opinion | The right’s obsession with the “lawless London” narrative has less to do with facts, and more to do with political opportunism and a hatred of multiculturalism,
@benjamin-clark.bsky.social
writes.
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Elon Musk's idea of lawless London is complete bollocks
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/03/elon-musks-lawless-london-rubbish/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762144381-1
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Benjamin Clark
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2 months ago
🎥: AOC’s former adviser
@saikatforcongress.bsky.social
is running for Nancy Pelosi’s seat in Congress. In part two of his chat with Prospect’s
@benjamin-clark.bsky.social
, he discusses the Green New Deal, Abundance, and why Dems spend too much time fundraising.
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California’s Mamdani? Leftist candidate Saikat Chakrabarti slams corporate Dems | Prospect Podcast
As the Democratic party faces its lowest favourability ratings on record, one man wants to completely change its brand. This week, Prospect’s Ben Clark speaks to Saikat Chakrabarti, progressive political adviser and former chief of staff to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is now running for Congress h
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbBptmMkLm8
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2 months ago
In today’s Lightbulb, Prospect’s free daily newsletter,
@benjamin-clark.bsky.social
assembles a selection of pieces on psychoanalysis (new and from our archive). Was Freud sexist? And why was he so obsessed with mothers?
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Freud’s mummy issues
Plus: the ethics of IVF
https://prospectmagazine.substack.com/p/freuds-mummy-issues
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2 months ago
On the latest episode of the Prospect Podcast, @saikatforcongress.bsky.social joins @benjamin-clark.bsky.social to discuss moving from tech into politics, working for Bernie and AOC, and taking on Nancy Pelosi:
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2 months ago
🎧:
@saikatforcongress.bsky.social
is a former adviser to AOC and Bernie Sanders, who is now running for Nancy Pelosi’s seat in Congress. He chats to
@benjamin-clark.bsky.social
on the Prospect Podcast.
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Former AOC adviser: ‘Petty rules make no sense in an authoritarian takeover!’
Saikat Chakrabarti on why he’s running for Congress, and meeting Peter Thiel
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/prospect-podcast/71378/former-aoc-adviser-petty-rules-make-no-sense-in-an-authoritarian-takeover
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2 months ago
🎥: On the Prospect Podcast,
@benjamin-clark.bsky.social
speaks to
@saikatforcongress.bsky.social
, a former adviser to AOC and Bernie Sanders who is now running for Congress—in Nancy Pelosi’s California seat.
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AOC’s former adviser Saikat Chakrabarti on why he’s challenging Nancy Pelosi | Prospect Podcast
Meet the former Bernie Sanders operative who wants to change the Democratic brand
https://prospectmagazine.substack.com/p/aocs-former-adviser-saikat-chakrabarti
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3 months ago
On the latest episode of the Prospect Podcast, @saikatforcongress.bsky.social joins @benjamin-clark.bsky.social to discuss moving from tech into politics, working for Bernie and AOC, and taking on Nancy Pelosi:
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3 months ago
🎥: On the Prospect Podcast,
@benjamin-clark.bsky.social
speaks to
@saikatforcongress.bsky.social
, a former adviser to AOC and Bernie Sanders who is now running for Congress—in Nancy Pelosi’s California seat.
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AOC’s former adviser Saikat Chakrabarti on why he’s challenging Nancy Pelosi | Prospect Podcast
Meet the former Bernie Sanders operative who wants to change the Democratic brand
https://prospectmagazine.substack.com/p/aocs-former-adviser-saikat-chakrabarti
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3 months ago
In today’s Lightbulb, Prospect’s free daily newsletter, US congressional candidate
@saikatforcongress.bsky.social
chats to
@benjamin-clark.bsky.social
about challenging Nancy Pelosi. Plus: is history over?
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AOC’s former adviser takes on the establishment
Plus: is history over? Francis Fukuyama revisited
https://prospectmagazine.substack.com/p/aocs-former-adviser-takes-on-the
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Was great to chat with
@saikatforcongress.bsky.social
about what’s wrong with US politics and how to reinvigorate the Democratic party. 👇🏼 (Video version coming shortly)
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3 months ago
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Banger by
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. I’m a YIMBY so naturally like Abundance, but like Matt Breunig I don’t want a supply focus counterposed to welfare expansion. Here Demsas shows why we need both. (Look forward to chatting to her for Prospect in a few weeks!)
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Creative destruction is a miracle. It’s also a political problem.
The Nobel Prize in Economics has a lesson for abundance liberals
https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/creative-destruction-is-a-miracle?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=5247799&post_id=176106976&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=le5mc&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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3 months ago
Nancy Pelosi was asked, “what did the Democrats do wrong?” “And her answer was basically nothing... I just feel like it’s completely inadequate,” says congressional candidate Saikat Chakrabarti.
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Saikat Chakrabarti is coming for the Democratic establishment
AOC’s former campaign manager is ready to take on Nancy Pelosi
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/people/71150/saikat-chakrabarti-is-coming-for-the-democratic-establishment
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In today’s
@crikey.com.au
, I wrote about the furore over Albanese’s appearance at the UK Labour conference. The problem wasn’t that it was partisan, but that he intervened in the internal politics of UK Labour, backing Starmer against a rising chorus of critics.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/06/a...
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Albanese’s speech to UK Labour wasn’t partisan — it was factional
Why has Albanese stuck his neck out for the incumbent? Because Starmer has, in many, ways emulated Albanese.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/06/anthony-albanese-uk-labour-keir-starmer/?utm_campaign=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter
3 months ago
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3 months ago
The UK Labour Party could well have a new champion — one who is less sympathetic to "plodding centrism" than Albo's mate Sir Keir,
@benjamin-clark.bsky.social
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Albanese’s speech to UK Labour wasn’t partisan — it was factional
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/06/anthony-albanese-uk-labour-keir-starmer/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1759709690-2
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I had a great chat with Saikat Chakrabarti, former chief of staff to AOC. He is running for Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco seat—and if she runs again, she could face a fierce challenge 👇🏼
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3 months ago
AOC’s former campaign manager is ready to take on Nancy Pelosi. He speak to Prospect’s
@benjamin-clark.bsky.social
about how to change the Democrats’ toxic brand.
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Saikat Chakrabarti is coming for the Democratic establishment
AOC’s former campaign manager is ready to take on Nancy Pelosi
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/people/71150/saikat-chakrabarti-is-coming-for-the-democratic-establishment
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3 months ago
In today’s Lightbulb, Prospect’s free daily newsletter,
@tom-clark.bsky.social
examines Rachel Reeve’s conference speech,
@benjamin-clark.bsky.social
speaks to Democratic challenger Saikat Chakrabarti, and we take a look back at MPs’ writing in our archive.
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The left v the centre-left
Factions within Labour and the Democrats are itching for a fight
https://prospectmagazine.substack.com/p/the-left-v-the-centre-left
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3 months ago
In today’s Lightbulb, Prospect’s free daily newsletter,
@benjamin-clark.bsky.social
covers the Labour party conference, Andy Burnham media storm, ITV’s The Hack, Nigel Farage’s antics and much more.
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The truth about Andy Burnham
Plus: could Nigel Farage seriously be a future prime minister?
https://prospectmagazine.substack.com/p/the-truth-about-andy-burnham
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After Anthony Albanese appeared alongside Keir Starmer in Liverpool yesterday, re-posting one of my
@prospectmagazine.co.uk
pieces comparing the two. They’re remarkably similar—except that one regained electoral ground, while the other is still losing it.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/asia/a...
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What can Keir Starmer learn from Anthony Albanese?
After a listless first term, Australia’s prime minister has been re-elected with a landslide victory. Here’s how Starmer could do the same
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/asia/australasia/australia/69889/what-can-keir-starmer-learn-from-anthony-albanese
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Alona Ferber
3 months ago
At Labour Party conference to record the
@prospectmagazine.co.uk
pod with special guests
@stellacreasy.bsky.social
and Lucy Powell. Join me,
@ellenhalliday.bsky.social
and
@benjamin-clark.bsky.social
here at the Tees room at the ACC from 10:30
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4 months ago
In today’s Lightbulb, Prospect’s free daily newsletter,
@benjamin-clark.bsky.social
asks what might come next after the UK’s recognition of Palestine, drawing inspiration from our archive. Plus: what bubble tea says about contemporary capitalism.
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Beyond recognition for Palestine
For recognition to mean anything, the UK must push Israel to end the occupation
https://prospectmagazine.substack.com/p/beyond-recognition-for-palestine
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Banger of a Substack article by Manning Clifford, editor at large of
@inflectionpoints.work
. The US and UK political class is dominated by former lawyers. Beijing is full of trained engineers. Australian MPs, however, mostly used to work for other MPs, as advisers.
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Australia has become a staffer state
Dan Wang argues that America is a society of lawyers and China is an engineering state. What are we, and what does it mean for our policy?
https://substack.com/home/post/p-173890603
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James Ball
4 months ago
The involvement of the Downing Street press operation in this is genuinely shameful. Someone present should use their question to grill the PM on this, on camera.
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4 months ago
Reform UK’s party conference kicks off today, with Nigel Farage welcoming the party faithful. But he’ll also be welcoming a small group of very wealthy donors.
@petergeoghegan.bsky.social
talks to Prospect’s
@benjamin-clark.bsky.social
about who funds Reform:
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4 months ago
Our latest issue has just hit newsstands! Here’s a peek at what’s inside... 🧵 In our cover essay,
@benansell.bsky.social
surveys the resurgence of left populism, from Zohran Mamdani to Zarah Sultana. Should Keir Starmer take notes?
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
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4 months ago
Who funds Reform UK? And could these wealthy individuals influence the party’s platform—and, perhaps one day, the policies of a Farage-led government? @petergeoghegan.bsky.social joins Prospect’s @benjamin-clark.bsky.social to discuss:
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4 months ago
While Prospect’s podcasts are on summer break, we’re re-posting our fav eps of the year so far. Here’s @mehdirhasan.bsky.social talking independent media, censorship and Trumpism with @benjamin-clark.bsky.social:
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5 months ago
🎥: Matthew Goodwin presented himself as an intellectual foe of the authoritarian right. But gradually he began to sound more and more like them...
@jamesbloodworth.bsky.social
discusses his latest Prospect profile with
@benjamin-clark.bsky.social
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How Matthew Goodwin became a populist firebrand | James Bloodworth on the Prospect Podcast
Until a few years ago, British political scientist Matthew Goodwin presented himself as an intellectual foe of the authoritarian right. But gradually he began to metamorphose. Today, he often adopts rhetoric similar to the right-wing parties he once studied as an academic. He co-presents a show on
https://youtu.be/EfCQc0Li-AA
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5 months ago
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5 months ago
🎥: How did Matthew Goodwin go from intellectual foe of the far right to a spokesperson for conservative populism? @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social talks to @benjamin-clark.bsky.social about his recent profile for Prospect:
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5 months ago
🎥: Matthew Goodwin presented himself as an intellectual foe of the authoritarian right. But gradually he began to sound more and more like them...
@jamesbloodworth.bsky.social
discusses his latest Prospect profile with
@benjamin-clark.bsky.social
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How Matthew Goodwin became a populist firebrand | James Bloodworth on the Prospect Podcast
Until a few years ago, British political scientist Matthew Goodwin presented himself as an intellectual foe of the authoritarian right. But gradually he began to metamorphose. Today, he often adopts rhetoric similar to the right-wing parties he once studied as an academic. He co-presents a show on
https://youtu.be/EfCQc0Li-AA
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Many Tory donors are switching to Reform UK—including some Aussies, because it’s London and we’re everywhere here. Meet Peter Hall (the guy who brought the flat white to London) and former Neighbours star Holly Valance. My latest in
@crikey.com.au
:
www.crikey.com.au/2025/08/20/h...
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Meet the Australians behind Nigel Farage's Reform UK
From right-wing activist Holly Valance to the guy who imported the flat white to London, some Australians are getting caught up in the great Conservative-Reform migration.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/08/20/holly-valance-peter-hall-nigel-farage-reform-uk/?utm_campaign=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter
5 months ago
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5 months ago
🎥: How did Matthew Goodwin go from intellectual foe of the far right to a spokesperson for conservative populism? @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social talks to @benjamin-clark.bsky.social about his recent profile for Prospect:
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5 months ago
While Prospect’s podcasts are on summer break, we’re re-posting our fav eps of the year so far. Here’s @mehdirhasan.bsky.social talking independent media, censorship and Trumpism with @benjamin-clark.bsky.social:
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