Another giant...I don't think anyone could so effortless move between theory, sociology, and political economy

I'm seeing a lot of wonderment at Labour's focus on working-class voters - it's Blue Labour! It's emotions and identity! But am I wrong its just a cold electoral calculation? PMC vote concentrated in cities, no real reason to try to run up big margins, PMC will drift back with Farage threat

Everybody wants growth, but how can we get it? Jimena Valdez makes the case for a growth strategy that embraces international students and immigration, now online for @renewaljournal.bsky.social

I interviewed Dylan Riley about Trump, fascism, and civil society for @dissentmag.bsky.social www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Unitary executive theory, meet Marxist state theory, you two should talk

As every would be authoritarian knows, the first step is to get the military leadership on board by berating them for being overweight

Unironically using the most accelerationist, futuristic tech like AI to generate feelings of nostalgia, unity, and belonging - essential reactionary modernism

Today is the deadline for submission! 📢Call for Abstracts: PPE for Public Policy Graduate Conference at King’s College London 📅 Date: 26th Nov 2025 ✍️ CfA: 400 words (by 29th Sep) ➡️ Details & Application Form: tinyurl.com/5n7xv5cr

The Klein Coates discussion is very good and very revealing - pundit class is structurally dependent on the possibility of a reasonable politics of persuasion, otherwise what is the point of punditry? And Coates just rejects that.

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

No, I will never believe that an administrative reform of identity cards is a bold visionary agenda

Taking a walk down memory lane

@virginiadebiasio.bsky.social presenting some of her work as part of DERISK at the Hamburg systemic risk conference, showing that theorists can indeed do excellent poster presentations

Excited to bring the DERISK team to Hamburg for their excellent systemic risk conference. So far: will AI save us?

Reddit remains the best place on the internet

Yeah this is pretty bad the rest of the interview is just a series of lazy gotcha questions. Is Chotiner just trying to get viral hits now? He used to have a good balance of serious questions with some more critical pressing.

First line of my Life in the UK study and I am already doubting the accuracy of the materials: "Britain is a fantastic place to live: a modern, thriving society with a long and illustrious history."

Huge thanks to @anneliesedoddsmp.bsky.social for this fascinating and timely lecture on the social democratic response to big tech. Look out for the full lecture, forthcoming in our end-of-year double issue.

*being dragged into the camps while JD Vance watches* Menswear guy: "look hah he's fastened the top button on his jacket"

Some serious fascist enabling here by ABC.

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Hoodwinking and overawing some nouveau riche American to get their way - the Brits are in their happy place

Join us on 15 October for Professor Ewan McGaughey’s Inaugural Lecture. He’ll be examining how legal systems shape public services, economic democracy and fair wealth distribution. 🔗 Read more: https://loom.ly/z5Yu-Rc #ForeverKings🦁 @kcllaw.bsky.social

Exhibition opening soon! Combining Efforts: 200 Years of Trade Union History explores the development of trade unions since the 1825 Combination Act, through years of struggle, triumph, defeat, and resilience. With TUC Library @londonmetuni.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...

Welcome to Rip-Off Britain. A country remade by privatisation. Our latest project — Who Owns Britain? — explores how a radical experiment transformed our society and shapes your life. 🧵

It was a very great pleasure to appear on one of my favourite podcasts, and to talk with David Runciman about the Past, Present, and Future (!) of electoral reform & proportional representation

I join the now abundant discourse about Abundance. A good book but more importantly a bellwether book for the orientation of the center-left. But like many, they hope we can engineer a way around politics and put things back in the hands of competent technocrats...I am not so sure...

We're the only ones into free speech so unfortunately Bluesky is the intellectual dark web now

These are the Trump Administration’s demands on UCLA, in addition to a 1.2 billion dollar fine, as reported by the LA Times today. I must note again that the Trump Administration’s attempt to use title vi to enforce conservative agenda items is flagrantly illegal.

Very grateful to @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social for their interest my book #DemocracyUnderStrain. The entry also considers contexts beyond the 2010 sovereign debt crisis. What if military assitance from NATO came with political conditionalities? More here blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

I join the now abundant discourse about Abundance. A good book but more importantly a bellwether book for the orientation of the center-left. But like many, they hope we can engineer a way around politics and put things back in the hands of competent technocrats...I am not so sure...

From our latest issue: "Justice Beyond Rights: Haqq and Global South Migration" by Humeira Iqtidar. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New WP thread! 🤓 Vietnam's solar panel exports boomed between 2018 and 2022. With my PhD student Meng Yu Ngov, Trang Thu Tran, and Gaurav Nayyar we look at how this industry success can be attributed to attracting FDI and importing parts and components, as well to Chinese subsidy spillovers.👇

A top 50 US university yesterday fired an instructor, a department chair, and a dean because a course made some reference to transgender people without the brief official course description in the catalog saying “trigger warning: gender.” In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.

The big authoritarian creepiness of this is the students absolute certainty it is illegal for the professor to teach gender theory because the president said so

Begin with the thought of the infinite and then slowly work back to determinate objects

Here we go

This is what happens when you build your entire economy around financialization and inflating asset values for incumbent home owners

The first rule of British politics is to make sure your tax avoidance is legal, like the tories

NEW - Rethinking Citizen Competence: A New Theoretical and Empirical Framework - cup.org/3I85Zlp - @stevenklein.bsky.social & @ethanvporter.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Delighted that my paper with @ethanvporter.bsky.social on democracy and citizen competence is now out in @bjpols.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

450 were napped by ICE at a Hyundai construction site in Georgia, where 3 workers had been killed. Workers complained about the deaths to Trump's OSHA, which did nothing. Instead, ICE showed up in an act viewed as retaliatory. paydayreport.com/450-napped-b...

What should radical democrats think of expert knowledge? In this new piece I argue that democratic theorists could learn a lot by asking this question in the context of ecological activism. 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Some people find politics interesting. Others do not. In a new paper, I show that appealing to MEANING increases political interest. In 6 experiments, connecting what people find meaningful in their lives to politics increases political interest. Link: osf.io/preprints/so...

The @uaw.org has claimed a narrow victory in a union election at the BlueOval battery plant in Kentucky, a historic win. The tally is 526-515 for unionization. Ford is contesting 41 ballots, a challenge the union is urging them to drop.

I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Beyond the theoretical binary of state and market. In this new article, I revisit the work of JF Bray. I'm proposing it points towards an economic republicanism that resists both Bosses and Bureaucrats. Popular economic self government, that's the thing journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I wrote this piece in an attempt to get to grips with economic thinking inside the faction of the Labour Party know as Blue Labour. I hope it's of some interest.

Keir Starmer favours realism over ideology, but Steven Klein warns this risks bureaucratic paralysis. | iai.tv/articles/pra... Citing Max Weber’s Politics as a Vocation, he argues true leadership balances responsibility with conviction, not mere rule-following. Read more.

How would Max Weber rate Starmer's realistic approach to politics? Not too highly. A short piece on Weber's approach to political leadership in ‪@iai.tv‬ iai.tv/articles/pra...