Matthew Hancocks
@mattyrealist.bsky.social
Co-author of a book called “utterly repellent” and “edge-lordy” and “good”.
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Reposted in memory of Paolo Virno who passed away last night.
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Interpreting a Changing World: Labor Power in Virno and Macherey
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November 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Reposted in memory of Paolo Virno who passed away last night.
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This petition will be mentioned in Parliament now that it has reached over 10,000 signatures.
Please keep signing and sharing it, the more people who sign, the more attention it will garner for possible debate.
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Please keep signing and sharing it, the more people who sign, the more attention it will garner for possible debate.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
November 7, 2025 at 11:39 AM
This petition will be mentioned in Parliament now that it has reached over 10,000 signatures.
Please keep signing and sharing it, the more people who sign, the more attention it will garner for possible debate.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Please keep signing and sharing it, the more people who sign, the more attention it will garner for possible debate.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
I’ve signed it, you should too.
URGENT: 6 WEEKS LEFT - We're 743 signatures away from forcing a Government response
The UK Government is rolling out freeports and free zones nationwide with billions in taxpayer money, yet operates with an alarming lack of transparency. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
The UK Government is rolling out freeports and free zones nationwide with billions in taxpayer money, yet operates with an alarming lack of transparency. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Petition: Transparency and Review of the free zones and ports impacts
To ensure full transparency by releasing data on governance, funding, and operations of free zones. Plus a public review to assess impacts, such as job displacement and value for taxpayers money
petition.parliament.uk
November 4, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I’ve signed it, you should too.
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“One of its most compelling conclusions is that the Biden administration seemed reluctant to engage in “picking the fights worth having” and sometimes took refuge in incremental policy gains due to a self-limiting “risk aversion.”
It’s about time: “In a critical diagnosis, the report also faults the Biden administration for being too naive about the bad-faith hostility of large swaths of the courts—and the true intentions of the conservative judicial revolution that remade them—to progressive governance.”
Why Is Trump Autocracy Rising? These Dems Have an Unnerving Answer.
A new Biden administration autopsy, based on internal assessments from many government insiders, has crystal clear lessons for the future.
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October 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
“One of its most compelling conclusions is that the Biden administration seemed reluctant to engage in “picking the fights worth having” and sometimes took refuge in incremental policy gains due to a self-limiting “risk aversion.”
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My article on UK Special Economic Zones is free to read on my Substack.
Please subscribe and, where possible, make a donation to my Ko-Fi tip jar. ko-fi.com/europeanpowell
Thank you💚
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Please subscribe and, where possible, make a donation to my Ko-Fi tip jar. ko-fi.com/europeanpowell
Thank you💚
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UK Free Zones are the most underreported transformations of democratic governance in modern British history.
I think what’s happening in the UK with free zones represents one of the most significant, and underreported transformations of democratic governance in modern British history.
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October 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
My article on UK Special Economic Zones is free to read on my Substack.
Please subscribe and, where possible, make a donation to my Ko-Fi tip jar. ko-fi.com/europeanpowell
Thank you💚
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Please subscribe and, where possible, make a donation to my Ko-Fi tip jar. ko-fi.com/europeanpowell
Thank you💚
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I wrote this a week ago, and *of course* I think of the perfect title now:
“(Anti)Christ, what an asshole”
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“(Anti)Christ, what an asshole”
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Peter Thiel’s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon
Silicon Valley titan desperately tries to detach self from power in amateurish talks attempting to ape his favorite philosopher
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October 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I wrote this a week ago, and *of course* I think of the perfect title now:
“(Anti)Christ, what an asshole”
www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
“(Anti)Christ, what an asshole”
www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
Someone’s not going to be happy www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...
Nobel Peace Prize 2025 live updates: Venezuelan democracy activist Maria Corina Machado wins
Nominations closed in January but US President Donald Trump had led a public campaign to win the award.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 10, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Someone’s not going to be happy www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...
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No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵
October 7, 2025 at 7:43 AM
No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵
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Just so, and - having said for a decade that something much like this was coming, if we didn’t move decisively to avoid it - I cannot tell you how *incredibly * hostile more or less everyone who considers themselves Sensible and Moderate was, to being told this. And yet, here we now are.
October 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Just so, and - having said for a decade that something much like this was coming, if we didn’t move decisively to avoid it - I cannot tell you how *incredibly * hostile more or less everyone who considers themselves Sensible and Moderate was, to being told this. And yet, here we now are.
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Buckle is just correct about reactionary centrists in the UK, they are a genuine threat to our democracy and will have us down the same path as the USA. Seeing how much of the authoritarian drive in the US has been due to elite acquiescence has shaken me.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
What is a reactionary centrist, and does the UK have them?
A term favoured by US progressives can help us understand Britain’s drift to the right
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Buckle is just correct about reactionary centrists in the UK, they are a genuine threat to our democracy and will have us down the same path as the USA. Seeing how much of the authoritarian drive in the US has been due to elite acquiescence has shaken me.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
Spot in - this was the 90s I was watching
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
September 26, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Spot in - this was the 90s I was watching
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2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint.
She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:
She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint.
She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:
She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:
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The censorship will continue until free speech improves
September 15, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The censorship will continue until free speech improves
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Funny you should say that… I start the preface by talking about Sch’s theory of laughter
August 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Funny you should say that… I start the preface by talking about Sch’s theory of laughter
6th December! Schopenhauer. Should be good for a laugh.
Excited to be appearing at a Philosophy in the Bookshop event at Blackwell’s flagship store in Oxford.
Please repost and register now!
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Please repost and register now!
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@philoswarwick.bsky.social
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PHILOSOPHY IN THE BOOKSHOP with David Bather Woods
For this months Philosophy in the Bookshop event, David Bather Woods discusses his new biography of Schopenhauer with Nigel Warburton
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August 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
6th December! Schopenhauer. Should be good for a laugh.
258m lives saved?
April 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
258m lives saved?
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On Trump Tariffs, McKinley, and Closing Society open.substack.com/pub/digressi... with a shout out to @lastpositivist.bsky.social, @nevillemorley.bsky.social and @dandrezner.bsky.social [HT @chrisbrooke.bsky.social]
On Trump Tariffs, McKinley, and Closing Society
With collapsing stock markets, retirement portfolios, and consumer confidence, there is an all-too-human tendency to focus on the economic effects of among tariffs by their critics: they are a tax on ...
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April 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
On Trump Tariffs, McKinley, and Closing Society open.substack.com/pub/digressi... with a shout out to @lastpositivist.bsky.social, @nevillemorley.bsky.social and @dandrezner.bsky.social [HT @chrisbrooke.bsky.social]
Did I just pick up Keith Ansell Pearson’s own copy? As a fan of the second hand, I thought this would tickle you @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social
March 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Did I just pick up Keith Ansell Pearson’s own copy? As a fan of the second hand, I thought this would tickle you @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social
Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916)
Dynamism of a Cyclist, 1913
Seen today at the Estorick Collection in Islington. Interesting small collection of early 20th Century Italian Art.
Dynamism of a Cyclist, 1913
Seen today at the Estorick Collection in Islington. Interesting small collection of early 20th Century Italian Art.
March 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Please do sign this petition we've been working on with Birmingham for Ukraine. Our initial research suggests roughly 30% of Ukrainians in the UK have had problems renewing/getting tenancy agreements and/or job contracts because of difficulties with visas. postsocialistbritain.bham.ac.uk/ukraine/
February 28, 2025 at 11:02 PM
🚨 BREAKING: Emmanuel Macron has just called an emergency EU summit in Paris for tomorrow.
Shit is getting real. Europe is moving. Fast. Buckle up.
Shit is getting real. Europe is moving. Fast. Buckle up.
February 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
If the wassailing gets too much: ECM Deep Winter
December 25, 2024 at 11:35 AM
If the wassailing gets too much: ECM Deep Winter
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Veronica Strang, Water Beings: from nature worship to the environmental crisis - Reaktion, March 2023
reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/water-b...
I've shared news of the book before. There is a New Books discussion with Jana Byers now available.
newbooksnetwork.com/water-beings
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I've shared news of the book before. There is a New Books discussion with Jana Byers now available.
newbooksnetwork.com/water-beings
Water Beings | Reaktion Books
Early human relationships with water were expressed through beliefs in serpentine aquatic deities: rainbow-coloured, feathered or horned serpents, giant anacondas and dragons. Representing the powers ...
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December 24, 2024 at 9:22 AM
Veronica Strang, Water Beings: from nature worship to the environmental crisis - Reaktion, March 2023
reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/water-b...
I've shared news of the book before. There is a New Books discussion with Jana Byers now available.
newbooksnetwork.com/water-beings
reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/water-b...
I've shared news of the book before. There is a New Books discussion with Jana Byers now available.
newbooksnetwork.com/water-beings