Jack Saundrs
@jacksaundrs.bsky.social
Anarcho-syndicalist, labour historian (post-war motor industry, NHS). Author: Assembling Cultures (http://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526155979/) (he/him)
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The special issue of Cultural and Social History on “Researching Student Lives: Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives” (co-ed. w Georgina Brewis & Jodi Burkett) is live - yay! Several articles are OA :) Huge thanks to our contributors & the journal editors!
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfcs20/2...
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfcs20/2...
Cultural and Social History
Researching Student Lives: Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives. Volume 23, Issue 1 of Cultural and Social History
www.tandfonline.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:27 AM
The special issue of Cultural and Social History on “Researching Student Lives: Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives” (co-ed. w Georgina Brewis & Jodi Burkett) is live - yay! Several articles are OA :) Huge thanks to our contributors & the journal editors!
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfcs20/2...
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfcs20/2...
It's incredible how routine it is now to hear a Labour MP talking like the ranting old bastard at the golf club bar
Nothing here to contradict my thesis (they’re just personally repellent, horrible people).
February 9, 2026 at 8:46 AM
It's incredible how routine it is now to hear a Labour MP talking like the ranting old bastard at the golf club bar
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Prime Minister Milhouse needs YOU to tell your MP that you personally like him and will invite him to your birthday party
February 8, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Prime Minister Milhouse needs YOU to tell your MP that you personally like him and will invite him to your birthday party
Thing is, the whole country is run along essentially these principles, has been under Labour or Tories. Only difference is that Dan Hodges is thick as shit about it
February 8, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Thing is, the whole country is run along essentially these principles, has been under Labour or Tories. Only difference is that Dan Hodges is thick as shit about it
Que se vayan todos
NEW: Hearing that Starmer is considering making Vidhya Alakeson and Jill Cuthbertson, Morgan McSweeney's deputies, his joint chiefs of staff.
February 8, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Que se vayan todos
You would think one minor thing they might learn from the whole Mandelson fiasco would be that the culture of "he had a good resignation, let's bring him back in 6 months" should end, but apparently not
February 8, 2026 at 5:10 PM
You would think one minor thing they might learn from the whole Mandelson fiasco would be that the culture of "he had a good resignation, let's bring him back in 6 months" should end, but apparently not
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Wild stuff from Jonathan here, contingent as it is upon everyone agreeing to pretend they don’t know him and his mates fought for years to put the Peter Mandelson wing of the party back in charge, and that their core aim in all of their careers was to be much like Peter Mandelson.
February 6, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Wild stuff from Jonathan here, contingent as it is upon everyone agreeing to pretend they don’t know him and his mates fought for years to put the Peter Mandelson wing of the party back in charge, and that their core aim in all of their careers was to be much like Peter Mandelson.
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Here it is!!!! The Sandwich Fact!!!! Near guaranteed to make you go "huh I didn't know that" unless you did!
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
February 6, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Here it is!!!! The Sandwich Fact!!!! Near guaranteed to make you go "huh I didn't know that" unless you did!
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
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"well, he may be the a longstanding and largely unrepentant close associate of a convicted paedophile and sex trafficker, but I want to make use of his talents, so I'm going to overlook that" - definitely a thing that a decent person might think and do
February 6, 2026 at 1:06 PM
"well, he may be the a longstanding and largely unrepentant close associate of a convicted paedophile and sex trafficker, but I want to make use of his talents, so I'm going to overlook that" - definitely a thing that a decent person might think and do
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starmer’s supposed obsession with the fact mandelson lied is absolutely mental. it’s basically irrelevant as a defence! sends me spinning every time
February 6, 2026 at 2:39 PM
starmer’s supposed obsession with the fact mandelson lied is absolutely mental. it’s basically irrelevant as a defence! sends me spinning every time
This line Starmer's supporters keep reciting about him being "a decent man" is honestly just disgusting to me.
A self-degrading thing to say out loud.
A self-degrading thing to say out loud.
When I paid my annual subscription for “Force-feeding the British public Peter Mandelson’s sleaze in ten easy steps,”, I did not expect that the British public would then be force-fed Mandelson’s sleaze. This is an outrage and a tragedy
February 6, 2026 at 12:23 PM
This line Starmer's supporters keep reciting about him being "a decent man" is honestly just disgusting to me.
A self-degrading thing to say out loud.
A self-degrading thing to say out loud.
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I wrote about how all our politicians and media are incompetent.
I guess that means I’m officially back in the writing game
I guess that means I’m officially back in the writing game
‘Peter Mandelson is a case study for the way the Westminster ecosystem protects its own.
Protecting the system, and the powerful men who feel entitled to benefit from it, matters more than protecting the people it harms.’
New from @judeinlondon.com:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
Protecting the system, and the powerful men who feel entitled to benefit from it, matters more than protecting the people it harms.’
New from @judeinlondon.com:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
Jude Wanga | The centre shrinks
Peter Mandelson is a case study for the way the Westminster ecosystem protects its own until it is forced, by leakage...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 5, 2026 at 5:59 PM
I wrote about how all our politicians and media are incompetent.
I guess that means I’m officially back in the writing game
I guess that means I’m officially back in the writing game
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I hate these people - their playground shenanigans, their coy jocularity, their insipid palace intrigue, their anonymous briefings, their narcissistic strategising. Revolting pack of cunts.
February 5, 2026 at 9:29 PM
I hate these people - their playground shenanigans, their coy jocularity, their insipid palace intrigue, their anonymous briefings, their narcissistic strategising. Revolting pack of cunts.
The 21st century really is the hands down all-time champion of disconnecting wealth from the actual production of useful things
How rich is Elon?
I'm closer in net worth to Larry Page than Larry Page is to Elon.
I'm closer in net worth to Larry Page than Larry Page is to Elon.
February 4, 2026 at 8:39 PM
The 21st century really is the hands down all-time champion of disconnecting wealth from the actual production of useful things
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If this story is accurate, then all those stories about Keir Starmer meticulously selecting only the highest-quality candidates in 2024 were horseshit and, in reality, we are now governed by a crop of MPs personally selected by the financially compromised ‘best pal’ of a child sex trafficker.
Huge story in @theipaper.com
"[Mandelson] was very involved in all the details; I think he enjoyed it. He was involved in all the personalities and the mechanics including asking the question of who do we want in which seat"
Probably a breach of GDPR laws too ...
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
"[Mandelson] was very involved in all the details; I think he enjoyed it. He was involved in all the personalities and the mechanics including asking the question of who do we want in which seat"
Probably a breach of GDPR laws too ...
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Mandelson was given secret spreadsheet to vet left-wing MPs in Labour power struggle
The revelation shows the extent of Mandelson’s direct involvement in the bitter battle to gain control of the party ahead of the 2024 general election
inews.co.uk
February 4, 2026 at 1:30 PM
If this story is accurate, then all those stories about Keir Starmer meticulously selecting only the highest-quality candidates in 2024 were horseshit and, in reality, we are now governed by a crop of MPs personally selected by the financially compromised ‘best pal’ of a child sex trafficker.
January 2025.
The Mandelson as US ambassador is genuinely astonishing to me.
Ousted from office multiple times for corruption, close to Putin and Epstein, how is his political career not done several times over??
Ousted from office multiple times for corruption, close to Putin and Epstein, how is his political career not done several times over??
February 4, 2026 at 2:24 PM
January 2025.
IMO the weirdest thing here is that the other main factions in Labour don't seem to recognise this is the case? The soft left, the real ideological centre of the Labour Party, the group that should basically be the dominant faction most of the time, behave like these people are their comrades!
The Blairite faction hates everyone except themselves, and they spent the entire time from 2007-2024 seething, plotting, wrecking and scheming to get control of a party and a country they thought was theirs to rule by right.
As @lottelydia.bsky.social has said, you can't understand the treatment of Corbyn without looking at Miliband and you can't understand the treatment of Miliband without looking at Gordon Brown.
February 4, 2026 at 1:35 PM
IMO the weirdest thing here is that the other main factions in Labour don't seem to recognise this is the case? The soft left, the real ideological centre of the Labour Party, the group that should basically be the dominant faction most of the time, behave like these people are their comrades!
New housing development near me started out with a craft beer bar/pizzeria and a cafe, both went under quickly, despite being easily the most convenient spots for 1000+ flats filled mostly with affluent young people and often looking pretty full. You know rent and utilities will have killed them
February 4, 2026 at 11:45 AM
New housing development near me started out with a craft beer bar/pizzeria and a cafe, both went under quickly, despite being easily the most convenient spots for 1000+ flats filled mostly with affluent young people and often looking pretty full. You know rent and utilities will have killed them
Nah, sorry Wes, no way you're getting out from under this one either
February 4, 2026 at 11:09 AM
Nah, sorry Wes, no way you're getting out from under this one either
I know ousting sitting prime ministers is very much not the historic culture of the Parliamentary Labour Party, but I don't really understand how this can be the case and they're all still prevaricating about a leadership challenge
...and that of Morgan McSweeney who is said to have pushed Mandelson's appt.
Labour MPs received calls y'day to assess the vulnerability of their position. “Morgan is completely exposed but I just don’t think Keir can function without him,” one MP said.
Labour MPs received calls y'day to assess the vulnerability of their position. “Morgan is completely exposed but I just don’t think Keir can function without him,” one MP said.
February 4, 2026 at 10:02 AM
I know ousting sitting prime ministers is very much not the historic culture of the Parliamentary Labour Party, but I don't really understand how this can be the case and they're all still prevaricating about a leadership challenge
They should all go.
So much of this sleaze was in plain sight. When US Ambassador, Mandelson took Starmer for a photo opp at Palantir, a client of Global Counsel in which he had a huge stake. This was a monstrous conflict of interest and it was all public domain. Why did Starmer think it appropriate to go?
February 3, 2026 at 8:30 AM
They should all go.
Just incredible that their hitched their political project to Mandelson. Excited to learn where the polling floor for these absolute clowns is
PM's chief secretary, Darren Jones, tells MPs in Commons that the Govt believes Lord Mandelson "lied" on his disclosure and vetting before he became ambassador to the US:
"when someone lies in their declarations of interest, there must be a consequence.... removal from the HOL and loss of peerage."
"when someone lies in their declarations of interest, there must be a consequence.... removal from the HOL and loss of peerage."
February 2, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Just incredible that their hitched their political project to Mandelson. Excited to learn where the polling floor for these absolute clowns is
Poor Christopher Nolan, all his previous fash-adjacent propaganda for naught
The woke scolds are trying to make this about racism. But Musk is right. It's about historical and scientific integrity. When the God of Thunder disguises himself as a swan to seduce and fuck a queen and the resulting baby hatches from an egg, *of course* the baby will be white. It's just science.
Elon Musk claims Christopher Nolan has lost ‘integrity’ over The Odyssey casting
Lupita Nyong’o is reportedly set to play Helen of Troy in Nolan’s upcoming adaptation of Homer’s epic poem
www.independent.co.uk
February 2, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Poor Christopher Nolan, all his previous fash-adjacent propaganda for naught
Do think it's genuinely astonishing how successful transphobes have been in making "populist" copy out of issues that reactionaries straightforwardly wouldn't otherwise care about (or might even be hostile to). To whit:
Conditions in women's prisons!
Fairness in women's sport!
Conditions in women's prisons!
Fairness in women's sport!
That's Labour kicking off Scotland's 2026 anti-trans election in the paper that campaigned to keep Section 28.
February 2, 2026 at 9:51 AM
Do think it's genuinely astonishing how successful transphobes have been in making "populist" copy out of issues that reactionaries straightforwardly wouldn't otherwise care about (or might even be hostile to). To whit:
Conditions in women's prisons!
Fairness in women's sport!
Conditions in women's prisons!
Fairness in women's sport!
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To celebrate the publication of @d-j-frost.bsky.social and mine’s book ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’, I am giving away a copy to one randomly chosen person who reposts this post by 11.59pm ACST Sunday 1 Feb.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
January 27, 2026 at 7:21 AM
To celebrate the publication of @d-j-frost.bsky.social and mine’s book ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’, I am giving away a copy to one randomly chosen person who reposts this post by 11.59pm ACST Sunday 1 Feb.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/