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Stuart White
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I am an academic interested in political theory, anti-oligarchic political economy, and democracy. I post in a personal capacity and reposting does not necessarily mean agreement. He/him.

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Naomi Waltham-Smith @auralflaneur.bsky.social · 17h
Overjoyed to have been awarded an AHRC LUCIA grant to continue work with @justicehq.bsky.social, United Borders & members of @artnotevidence.bsky.social to increase awareness of rap’s aesthetic & socio-cultural value to combat criminalization & racial disparities in the criminal justice system.

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LSE Political Theory @lsepoltheory.bsky.social · 19h
Our very own @brunoleipold.com wins the Deutscher Prize 2025. Amazing news! And we celebrate by walking to Marx's grave with our Msc students. www.deutscherprize.org.uk/wp/

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19h
🎯 Davey is spot on. "We can have criticism of the BBC, but within that, we need to recognise how valuable an institution it is [and how] precious to our country. And that's one of the reasons why people like President Trump and Nigel Farage, want to undermine the BBC." 👏🏽~AA

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 1d
Scrapping the cap entirely is both good policy *and* good politics.

Half measures will "save" some money short-term, but will piss *everybody* off and still leave very large numbers of children suffering from a policy designed to make them poorer.

inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Food vouchers, free milk and two-child cap: Reeves weighs up help for families
Ministers' long-awaited child poverty strategy is due this month - and it's closely tied to the Chancellor's Budget
inews.co.uk

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Media Reform Coalition @mediareformuk.bsky.social · 1d
Davie's resignation is yet more proof: The BBC is an unaccountable, undemocratic institution - captured by political appointees, cowed by the press & unrepresentative of the public.

We need an alternative. Read our @cmmonwealth.bsky.social proposals for a mutualised BBC, controlled directly by us
Our Mutual Friend: The BBC in the Digital Age
The upcoming BBC Charter Review is an opportunity to transform the BBC into a public service mutual, founded on a genuinely democratic relationship with the public.
www.common-wealth.org

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 1d
the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 1d
30 million dead, The Somme, painting created by Mary Bishop 1976 in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital where she was compelled to live.
Aged 4 when her father was killed in WWI, the reverberations of his death & her mother’s vast grief traumatised & distressed Mary for the rest of her life
A painting of diagonal slashes and crosses of various kinds all filling the white page in red paint of varying intensity. In tiny scratching handwriting the words 30 million dead July 76 M Bishop The Somme

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d
This morning, in Broadview, 14 suburban women were arrested during an act of civil disobedience calling for an end to ICE/CBP’s kidnappings throughout the Chicago area.

“We want to encourage other people who feel strongly about ICE’s actions to step off the sidelines and take our cities back.”
Fourteen suburban moms arrested in sit-in protest outside Broadview ICE facility
The mothers sat in a circle on Beach Street on Friday to “demand an end” to the immigration raids that have swept through the Chicago area since the Trump administration launched “Operation Midway Bli...
chicago.suntimes.com

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 4d
"Far from draining our welfare system, migrants are supporting the British state’s solvency."

New analysis by @lgilbert.co

ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 4d
I'm becoming interested in the general phenomenon of norm equilibria that are getting shattered, and whether/ when that results in a new worse equilibrium.

Widespread pardons for Republicans convicted of corruption (see also Santos), the end of FCPA enforcement...

www.wsmv.com/2025/11/06/p...
President Trump pardons former TN House Speaker Glen Casada, chief of staff, after corruption convictions
President Donald Trump has pardoned the disgraced former Speaker of the Tennessee House Glen Casada and his co-conspirators after their corruption convictions and sentencing.
www.wsmv.com

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Adam Ramsay @adamramsay.bsky.social · 4d
Lovely interview with the always interesting, ever-energetic @anthonybarnett.bsky.social: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Anthony Barnett: “The Sixties were a catastrophic failure”
The writer and campaigner on nationalism, the rise of the new right and how a fractured left can organise in response
www.newstatesman.com

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 4d
The more democratic elements of the American constitutional and economic order are actually throwing up road blocks to Trumpism. Protests and boycotts and low level courts and juries and cetera. Elite actors on the other hand are all too frequently caving. Fascinating study in who actually cares!

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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 4d
We’ve joined almost 300 organisations in an urgent plea to politicians and the UK government to stop scapegoating the country’s human rights framework.
Quakers join call for “full-throated defence” of UK human rights protections
Almost 300 organisations, including Quakers in Britain, have issued an urgent plea to politicians and the UK government to stop scapegoating the UK’s human rights framework.
www.quaker.org.uk

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Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 4d
Which one is more English?

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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 5d
Thank you to my friends, family and colleagues who came to tonight’s inaugural lecture! And thanks to @polneuro.bsky.social for the photos!
#anarchy
Alex Introducing Proudhon Alex introducing three of his books Alex with the opening slide on the story of Guy Fawkes and the morphology of the cultural shift from Papuan to anarchism Alex’s dad and kids enjoying the reception

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Mike Quigley @quigley.house.gov · 5d
ICE isn’t going after the worst of the worst. This morning, they took a preschool teacher without a warrant IN FRONT OF CHILDREN in my district.

#ice #chicago

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 5d
🔴 MPs are banned from been paid to give 'political advice' - but Lords can.

And guess what? Many Conservative shadow ministers in the Lords are being paid by the industries they’re meant to scrutinise.

New on Democracy for Sale

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/the-lords-...
The Lords’ Work? How Tory Shadow Ministers Are Cashing In
Many Conservative shadow ministers in the Lords are being paid to ‘advise’ the same industries they’re meant to scrutinise.
democracyforsale.substack.com

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 5d
The "why do you care so much about the NY mayoral election" takes strike me as pretty obtuse. The world's sole superpower is being taken over by fascists, and this was part of the struggle to define what the opposition to that will look like. That obviously has major implications for all of us?

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Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 6d
Delighted that Mamdani has won and moreover opened his victory speech by quoting Eugene Debs. aeon.co/essays/for-s...
For socialism and freedom: the life of Eugene Debs | Aeon Essays
How Eugene V Debs turned American republicanism against the chiefs of capitalism – and became a true crusader for freedom
aeon.co

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 6d
When I was born to my migrant parents in 1970s New York City, they saw the beauty, vibrancy and hope in the city, even as they were aware of the ugliness and hardship. They are feeling more hope today, in a city they still think of as home

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UCU Commons @ucucommons.bsky.social · 6d
The latest issue of our fortnightly newsletter includes a report from the HEC held on 10 October. Also featuring @davehitchcock.bsky.social, @matildaf.bsky.social, @hagenilda.bsky.social and more! #UKHE #UCU

ucucommons.substack.com/p/ucu-common...
UCU Commons newsletter #3, 5 November 2025
Our fortnightly round-up of union and sector specific news
ucucommons.substack.com

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 6d
Such amazing news! Mandani’s hopeful and radical message triumphed over the dirty tricks of a tired l, out-of-touch and corrupt political establishment.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
New York mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani challenges Donald Trump in victory speech as Democrats win key US election races – live
Mamdani condemns ‘oligarchy and authoritarianism’ in speech directly talking to Trump as Democrats win California redistricting vote and New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial elections
www.theguardian.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 6d
Zohran's campaign was his determination to make New York a city everyone can afford to live in. Huge congratulations!

His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind.

It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.
Zohran smiling on the street

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 6d
Huge congratulations to Zohran Mamdani on his election as Mayor of New York City from all of us at the Green Party! 🎉💚
REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE. CONGRATULATIONS ZOHRAN FOR NEW YORK CITY Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 6d
This person took this when they called the race

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Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 6d
I'm excited that we will be hosting a discussion of John McCormick's new book, The People’s Princes: Machiavelli, Leadership, and Liberty, here at KCL, with comments from Lawrence Hamilton, Camila Vergara, and David Wootton. Do sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-people...
The People’s Princes: Machiavelli, Leadership, and Liberty
A book discussion with author and academic, John McCormick.
www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7d
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio

There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.

Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.

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Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 7d
Absolutely shocking that the Chinese govt pressured a UK university to shut down research about forced labour in Xinjiang and the links to global supply chains. The work of Laura Murphy and her team had been instrumental in getting Chinese companies sanctioned.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
www.theguardian.com

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 8d
'In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China.' 1/3
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
www.theguardian.com

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 8d
A new low, even by Goodwin's increasingly awful standards. Anxiety (no scare quotes are needed) takes many forms. And using his social media bully pulpit to punch down is despicable.