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Ian Bruff
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Critical political economist, University of Manchester.

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Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 14d
The recording of my @cssgj.bsky.social talk from November 2025, entitled 'All That Has Never Been True: The Dismal Ruins of Neoliberalism', is now online here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJE-... It was an enjoyable event, with great questions!
Ian Bruff - All that has Never Been True: The Dismal Ruins of Neoliberalism.
YouTube video by CSSGJ
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Joseph Ward @jward232.bsky.social · 1h
The wonderful @maltelaub.bsky.social and I are hosting a workshop on the theme of Austerity Militarism at EWIS 2026 in Izmir! If you are working on these themes then please consider submitting an abstract! We'd love to see you there.

The link to submit is here: eisa-net.org/ewis-2026/ab...

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Joseph Ward @jward232.bsky.social · 2h
Returning to work this week after 3 weeks of lockout has been stressful to say the least! Please support us @sheffielducu.bsky.social to challenge Sheffield Uni's punitive approach before it becomes more widespread across the sector. Link here: linktr.ee/SheffieldUCU
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Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 4h
Is there such a thing as a functioning Starmer, though?

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Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social · 1d
They want you to believe Starmer's going because of Mandelson. He isn't. He's been on the way out since summer because the polls are disastrous because half the Labour base have gone to the Greens for entirely political reasons. This is why Starmer will go: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Why is Keir Starmer so unpopular?
Britain needs a leader willing to break with the legacy of Thatcherism
www.newstatesman.com

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Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 1d
I'm teaching on Southern Europe in a few weeks' time on my European Capitalisms module, so I will be making sure to say this! Compare and contrast to Italy/Spain, for instance

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Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 1d
I'm glad you've said this, as that was my interpretation as well but I couldn't be 100% sure. Seems like the Guardian projected Le Pen onto Chega

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 1d
“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English”

my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

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Joost Vervoort @joostvervoort.bsky.social · 5d
PAPER ALERT! 🔥How can we use theories of care to understand how games can help us care more for the future in the face of climate change? Carien Moossdorff and I investigated 287 climate-related games on they engage with care for the future. Now in FUTURES! Link below! #games #climate #futures

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 5d
By the time Starmer is replaced this summer, we'll have had two wasted years, in which a country crying out for transformation instead got more of the same, or even worse where environmental legislation is concerned, and a high possibility of Farage running the next government.
Thanks Keir.

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 6d
Two points. 1. There was Epstein merch? 2. This seems to have been taken in 2009. Epstein was first convicted in 2008, meaning that Mandelson is sporting convicted paedophile merch.
daraor.bsky.social Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 6d
"My Jeffrey Epstein-branded sweatshirt has people asking a lot of questions which, now I come to think of it, are entirely reasonable."
Peter Mandelson wearing a Jeffrey Epstein -branded sweatshirt in New York in 2009.

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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 6d
"My Jeffrey Epstein-branded sweatshirt has people asking a lot of questions which, now I come to think of it, are entirely reasonable."
Peter Mandelson wearing a Jeffrey Epstein -branded sweatshirt in New York in 2009.

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Vincenzo Maccarrone @bigmacca.bsky.social · 6d
I'm happy to share this article, which is now out in open access in the British Journal of Industrial Relations, and seeks to contribute to the debate on neoliberalisation & europeanisation of industrial relations
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Common Pressures, Uneven Trajectories: The Variegated Europeanisation of Wage Regulation Institutions
The debate on whether national industrial relations (IR) are experiencing convergence is a long-standing one. Recently, scholars argue that we are witnessing a neoliberal convergence of national IR, ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Tom Cowan @termcern.bsky.social · 6d
New publication! In this paper I draw on heterodox marxist engagements with subsumption to revise core approaches within marxist geography. Subsumption provides us with a dynamic tool to rethink capitalist property, uneven development and difference. Do reach out for access!

doi.org/10.1177/2043...
Geographies of subsumption - Thomas Cowan, 2026
This article draws on heterodox scholarship on capitalist subsumption to revise core approaches within Marxist and critical geography. The article argues that a...
doi.org

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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 6d
Wes Streeting saying on Today that Mandelson is ‘not the man we thought he was’ but the trouble is, he is exactly the man we thought, just on a much worse scale than almost anyone thought. And there is an alternative world where none of this is this govt’s problem, because they never gave him a job

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Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 6d
That was exactly my feeling in 2022! You do get out of this rut, honest

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 6d
Imagine Mandelson is under a lot of stress right now so just as well his husband is a trained osteopath.

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 7d
“Gramsci used to say 'Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will'. What he meant is: understand how the bloody system works.” - Stuart Hall, born Feb. 3, 1932

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Gareth @gfearn.bsky.social · 7d
🎧Final episode for @urbanpolitical.bsky.social in our series on authoritarian urbanism w/ @jluger.bsky.social, Miklós Dürr, Ayşegül Can & Oksana Zaporozhets

We discuss whether contemporary urbanism continues to be 'neoliberal', and how the leading tendency is towards something more autocratic:
103 – Beyond Neoliberal Urbanism?
Are we seeing the emergence of a new conjuncture for urbanism? The final part of our mini series asks whether authoritarian neoliberalism has created the conditions for a more illiberal and distinct t...
urbanpolitical.podigee.io

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 7d
1. In 2009 I wrote this. I argued that Peter Mandelson's department “functions as a fifth column within government, working for corporations to undermine democracy and the public interest.”
This thread explains what I saw, and reaches a startling conclusion.🧵
www.monbiot.com/2009/05/04/m...
Mandelson’s Fifth Column
The British government’s business department exists to undermine democracy.
www.monbiot.com

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Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · 7d
We're recruiting 2 PhD candidates in human geography here in Uppsala, one position focused on urban/housing issues and one in political ecology.

Please spread the word/repost etc. Being a PhD student in Sweden is a good gig.
2 PhD student positions in Human Geography - Uppsala University
2 PhD student positions in Human Geography, Department of Human Geography, Uppsala University
www.uu.se

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New Formations journal @newformations.bsky.social · 11d
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW

#114 Race, Racialisation and Racisms

Feat.

@jemgilbert.bsky.social (free to download)
Inna Arzumanova
Brenna Bhandar (free to download)
Erik Borda
Sarah Bufkin (free to download)
Basuli Deb
Anamik Saha

journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformation...
An image of a hard copy of issue 114 of the journal New Formations. The cover image features protestor Brianna Noble riding her horse in a street in Oakland, California. A placard reading Black Lives Matter is attached to the horse.

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Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 12d
Very interesting new article by Geoff Goodwin www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Understanding the roles of decommodification in socioecological transformations: a new theoretical approach
Decommodification is widely considered a central pillar of progressive socioecological transformations, like the green new deal, degrowth and ecosocialism. Yet it is inadequately problematised and ...
www.tandfonline.com

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Gemma Gasseau @gemmagasseau.bsky.social · 12d
On the 22nd of January (incidentally, the date of Gramsci's birthday) my article came out in @gpejournal.bsky.social

bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

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Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 13d
I had a letter from them, and wondered about that as well. But my work isn't in the database that would enable me to qualify for compensation, so this didn't matter in the end

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Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 13d
An excellent skewering

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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 13d
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s Matt Goodwin is sure he’s the right man for Gorton and Denton. He just doesn’t know why…
Introduced by an unsupervised Lee Anderson, the byelection candidate was out of his depth immediately
www.theguardian.com

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James Walker @jameslwalker.bsky.social · 13d
*Not so fun fact. Matt Goodwin was my dissertation supervisor.

Only briefly mind. I swapped after he said that my idea - a study and survey on the politics of the homeless (less than 1% vote) - was of "no academic interest".

I got a 1st 🎓
scotnational.bsky.social The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 14d
BREAKING: Reform UK have announced GB News host and far-right commentator Matt Goodwin as their candidate for the Gorton and Denton by-election

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Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social · 15d
Free online seminars this year feature Michael Hardt on multitudes, a 4-session dive into John Clarke's superb work of PROPER conjunctural analysis of modern Britain co-hosted with @autonomy-institute.bsky.social, the Politics of Feeling, Katja Diefenbach's Spinoza culturepowerpolitics.org/upcoming/
Upcoming Sessions
See below for details of a number of online and in-person seminars coming up From Marx to Spinoza Our irregular online seminar series From Marx to Spinoza: Affect, Ideology, Materiality, hosted by …
culturepowerpolitics.org

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European International Studies Association (EISA) @europeanisa.bsky.social · 18d
✅ WS R - Making Sense of 'Austerity Militarism': Welfare Cuts and the New Politics of Sacrifice in a Time of Defence Spending

🔗 Find a full list of workshops and descriptions here: buff.ly/zIxO8WE
WS R - Making Sense of 'Austerity Militarism': Welfare Cuts and the New Politics of Sacrifice in a Time of Defence Spending. Joseph Ward. Malte Laub.