Paul Ewart
@paulewart.bsky.social
Researcher at Sussex. Published on Mark Fisher in Critical Theory Today (Palgrave). Working on Popular Modernism, Fordist Melancholia and the spectre of the 1970s @paulewart23 at the other place.
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The problem with the "Farage was a racist" story is that we have a "left wing" gov't essentially saying that racism is a normal and expectable response to immigration. We are in a position where we have to argue "why it is wrong to be racist" and Labour need to take some responsibility for it
November 25, 2025 at 6:43 AM
The problem with the "Farage was a racist" story is that we have a "left wing" gov't essentially saying that racism is a normal and expectable response to immigration. We are in a position where we have to argue "why it is wrong to be racist" and Labour need to take some responsibility for it
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Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
I presume Foreign Affairs is not yet running my one-word rebuttal "don't"
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
How to Topple Maduro
And why regime change is the only way forward in Venezuela.
www.foreignaffairs.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Your Party's founding conference next weekend is an opportunity to put the distractions and drama behind us and refocus on what actually matters: our members, our movement and our shared political vision of socialism.
The time is now.
Join the movement: yourparty.uk
The time is now.
Join the movement: yourparty.uk
November 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Your Party's founding conference next weekend is an opportunity to put the distractions and drama behind us and refocus on what actually matters: our members, our movement and our shared political vision of socialism.
The time is now.
Join the movement: yourparty.uk
The time is now.
Join the movement: yourparty.uk
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I wish this was true but the brutal reality is that we can’t even prevent Tony Blair hurling himself into new, more horrific crimes against humanity, never mind convict him of the previous ones.
November 23, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I wish this was true but the brutal reality is that we can’t even prevent Tony Blair hurling himself into new, more horrific crimes against humanity, never mind convict him of the previous ones.
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Very funny that even after several weeks of "gosh, isn't Wes an impressive operator" from all and sundry, he still has functionally zero chance of winning a leadership election
November 23, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Very funny that even after several weeks of "gosh, isn't Wes an impressive operator" from all and sundry, he still has functionally zero chance of winning a leadership election
To understand those who have overseen our politics in recent decades, you need to grasp the smug, technocratic ethos informed by reading a few pop science books, stand-up, new atheism & music journalism.
They thought they were the smartest guys in the room. They still do.
Most of them are on here.
They thought they were the smartest guys in the room. They still do.
Most of them are on here.
October 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
To understand those who have overseen our politics in recent decades, you need to grasp the smug, technocratic ethos informed by reading a few pop science books, stand-up, new atheism & music journalism.
They thought they were the smartest guys in the room. They still do.
Most of them are on here.
They thought they were the smartest guys in the room. They still do.
Most of them are on here.
The Great Moving Far Right Show.
Wish I could say I was shocked, but here's the Labour government constraining the right to peaceful protest again...
'You can protest but only according to our rules. The rules are: you're not allowed to use any of the tactics that make protest effective.'
'You can protest but only according to our rules. The rules are: you're not allowed to use any of the tactics that make protest effective.'
NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.
October 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
The Great Moving Far Right Show.
You do have to wonder what goes on in Polly's head.
September 30, 2025 at 8:24 AM
You do have to wonder what goes on in Polly's head.
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Lmao, one of the government's loudly hailed "new towns" schemes is literally just "more of Milton Keynes". Not more towns like Milton Keynes, it's just urban sprawl around actual Milton Keynes.
Expert Taskforce recommends locations for new towns
The New Towns Taskforce has recommended locations for the next generation of new towns.
www.gov.uk
September 30, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Lmao, one of the government's loudly hailed "new towns" schemes is literally just "more of Milton Keynes". Not more towns like Milton Keynes, it's just urban sprawl around actual Milton Keynes.
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"Ending the housing crisis requires attacking one of the foundations of neoliberal capitalism: the idea that we are all little, budding capitalists just waiting for the opportunity to invest in financial markets."
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/building-m...
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/building-m...
Building More Won't Fix the Housing Crisis
Housing has become a financial asset that generates vast gains for the wealthy.
graceblakeley.substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 12:12 PM
"Ending the housing crisis requires attacking one of the foundations of neoliberal capitalism: the idea that we are all little, budding capitalists just waiting for the opportunity to invest in financial markets."
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/building-m...
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/building-m...
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"Farage must have spent the day pinching himself."
Vapid by Her Own Empty Standards
What was the point of Rachel Reeves's speech? Okay, it's Labour Party conference so it's expected that the chancellor/shadow chancellor shou...
averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com
September 30, 2025 at 8:06 AM
"Farage must have spent the day pinching himself."
Lots of beating around the bush to avoid the elephant in the room here: Burnham's a wool.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsWS...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsWS...
Andy Burnham begins leadership challenge to Keir Starmer | UK Politics | The New Statesman
YouTube video by The New Statesman
www.youtube.com
September 29, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Lots of beating around the bush to avoid the elephant in the room here: Burnham's a wool.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsWS...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsWS...
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Cooper "This intolerable suffering must end.. the Israeli govt must end the moral obscenity of this campaign"
So you'll stop all arms exports to Israel? No
So you'll impose sanctions? No
So you'll end all military ties? No
So just empty words from a govt complicit in genocide
So you'll stop all arms exports to Israel? No
So you'll impose sanctions? No
So you'll end all military ties? No
So just empty words from a govt complicit in genocide
September 29, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Cooper "This intolerable suffering must end.. the Israeli govt must end the moral obscenity of this campaign"
So you'll stop all arms exports to Israel? No
So you'll impose sanctions? No
So you'll end all military ties? No
So just empty words from a govt complicit in genocide
So you'll stop all arms exports to Israel? No
So you'll impose sanctions? No
So you'll end all military ties? No
So just empty words from a govt complicit in genocide
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Last week I published the full transcript from Burial's last ever interview on my Substack. The conversation took place the month before Untrue came out in October 2007, in my living room in Tooting. Suffice it to say people have gone a bit nuts over it 💗 danhancox.substack.com/p/burials-la...
Burial's last interview
A little exclusive, because why not
danhancox.substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Last week I published the full transcript from Burial's last ever interview on my Substack. The conversation took place the month before Untrue came out in October 2007, in my living room in Tooting. Suffice it to say people have gone a bit nuts over it 💗 danhancox.substack.com/p/burials-la...
So Corbynism is back, but we must call it Burnhamism or Manchesterism.
Fascinating insight into the editorial position of the NS team:
The 70s are good again, and New Labour were idiots.
Who knew?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsWS...
Fascinating insight into the editorial position of the NS team:
The 70s are good again, and New Labour were idiots.
Who knew?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsWS...
Andy Burnham begins leadership challenge to Keir Starmer | UK Politics | The New Statesman
YouTube video by The New Statesman
www.youtube.com
September 29, 2025 at 10:40 AM
So Corbynism is back, but we must call it Burnhamism or Manchesterism.
Fascinating insight into the editorial position of the NS team:
The 70s are good again, and New Labour were idiots.
Who knew?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsWS...
Fascinating insight into the editorial position of the NS team:
The 70s are good again, and New Labour were idiots.
Who knew?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsWS...
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at any given moment starmer has like 3 different positions put forth in articles and commentary, or lisa nandy is on TV being wrong about NI numbers, and his home secretary is saying something else *again* this very morning. I dunno man it kinda feels like they're lying to everyone, all the time
I sat down with the Prime Minister and asked him if he’s been doing enough to counter the shocking rise of the far right in this country.
It may have taken too long, but it’s good to hear him speaking like this now.
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
It may have taken too long, but it’s good to hear him speaking like this now.
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
'This far-right politics will pull apart what we are as a country'
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer vows to tackle the far right and child poverty as he speaks to the ECHO ahead of the Labour party conference
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
September 28, 2025 at 9:05 AM
at any given moment starmer has like 3 different positions put forth in articles and commentary, or lisa nandy is on TV being wrong about NI numbers, and his home secretary is saying something else *again* this very morning. I dunno man it kinda feels like they're lying to everyone, all the time
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If you wanted to create the conditions for the exact dangerous behaviour these same people shrieked about for a decade now, this is what you'd do.
I have spent *years* telling people partisan Israel wingnuttery mostly exists on a left-right axis, because it does. And I cannot tell you how utterly toxic it is for the Labour Party to conceal donations from billionaire Israel cranks, to crush the Palestinian solidarity movement. It is astonishing
September 28, 2025 at 11:52 AM
If you wanted to create the conditions for the exact dangerous behaviour these same people shrieked about for a decade now, this is what you'd do.
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I cannot underline hard enough how awesomely corrupt it looks, that the SNP were d3str0yed over that, while this fucking idiot took huge bungs from Israel partisans to wreck his own party and then create a government that would assist in the genocide of the Palestinians. It is unbelievably bad!
September 28, 2025 at 9:19 AM
I cannot underline hard enough how awesomely corrupt it looks, that the SNP were d3str0yed over that, while this fucking idiot took huge bungs from Israel partisans to wreck his own party and then create a government that would assist in the genocide of the Palestinians. It is unbelievably bad!
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The brief summary of the “coppers storming Nicola Sturgeon’s house” stuff is that the police were told the SNP had spent donations they were given for a second referendum on day-to-day party maintenance. I’m not even sure that is a crime. Now, look at what these clowns have done.
September 28, 2025 at 9:16 AM
The brief summary of the “coppers storming Nicola Sturgeon’s house” stuff is that the police were told the SNP had spent donations they were given for a second referendum on day-to-day party maintenance. I’m not even sure that is a crime. Now, look at what these clowns have done.
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Alan Johnson says we should back Starmer and he cites how loyal he was in 2009. As opposed to 2016, eh Alan?
September 28, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Alan Johnson says we should back Starmer and he cites how loyal he was in 2009. As opposed to 2016, eh Alan?