Thanks Aliya :-) In case anyone is interested, this report of my death is an exaggeration...

The latest Open Access issue of Theoria has been published! View the TOC and more for Issue 184 here: bit.ly/425ZNBj @lukelavender.bsky.social @stevepaxton.bsky.social @theoriasa.bsky.social @laurencepiper.bsky.social

Really appreciate this thoughtful review of "The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism" by @stevepaxton.bsky.social in Theoria www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...

Stuck for a Christmas gift idea for a socialist-curious friend or a rabidly right-wing uncle? Alan Moore has your back...

I've made a short list of some profiles of people I'd been following on Twitter - some might jog your memory, some might be new faces. Check them out, share the list, suggest additions - we need to build a bit of a community here now... bsky.app/profile/stev...

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but capitalism was literally founded on the *politics of envy*. How will it end? You’ll have to read the book ;-)

Every town, every village - housing developments going up everywhere you look. Behind pretty much every one of those is a "cash-poor" farmer paying a multi-million-pound cheque into the bank...

95% of us who live in the countryside are not farmers and do not work in farming or agricultural industries. Our interests do not coincide with the interests of rural landowners or their businesses.

As inheritance tax on farms is a hot topic today, a reminder of how millions of acres ended up in the ownership of so few people. Every entry in this book lists a village with the number of acres stolen by Enclosure - the process that shaped the distribution of land & wealth ownership in England...

I've made a short list of some profiles of people I'd been following on Twitter - some might jog your memory, some might be new faces. Check them out, share the list, suggest additions - we need to build a bit of a community here now... bsky.app/profile/stev...

I've made a short list of some profiles of people I'd been following on Twitter - some might jog your memory, some might be new faces. Check them out, share the list, suggest additions - we need to build a bit of a community here now... bsky.app/profile/stev...

I signed up here ages ago but didn't do anything with the profile - planning to migrate to this Musk-free space... :-)