Ste 🇬🇧🟰
@commontruth.bsky.social
🏴 🗣"Ultra-realist amateur strategist"
Blue Labour roots, post-liberal conclusions. Anglofuturist.
🥀 2+2=4
📍The Red Wall
https://commontruth.substack.com
Blue Labour roots, post-liberal conclusions. Anglofuturist.
🥀 2+2=4
📍The Red Wall
https://commontruth.substack.com
Socialism is rising in 2025. Embodied in Zohran Mamdani in 🇺🇸 and Zack Polanski in 🇬🇧. "Tax the rich" is now a buzzword. And as the left champions open borders. There is a contradiction here: mass immigration is a pillar of the left’s sworn adversary: neoliberal capitalism. 🧵
November 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Socialism is rising in 2025. Embodied in Zohran Mamdani in 🇺🇸 and Zack Polanski in 🇬🇧. "Tax the rich" is now a buzzword. And as the left champions open borders. There is a contradiction here: mass immigration is a pillar of the left’s sworn adversary: neoliberal capitalism. 🧵
Britain’s problems are many, but one runs through them all: a crisis of identity. We have gone from an empire on which the sun never set to a middling power in visible decline. At the same time, we have undergone rapid cultural upheaval from mass migration and a weakening of local roots 🧵
November 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Britain’s problems are many, but one runs through them all: a crisis of identity. We have gone from an empire on which the sun never set to a middling power in visible decline. At the same time, we have undergone rapid cultural upheaval from mass migration and a weakening of local roots 🧵
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🧵 Here’s why a left-wing Democrat winning in New York is proof that Keir Starmer needs to move further left to win in small red wall towns in Britain. (1/245)
November 5, 2025 at 10:04 AM
🧵 Here’s why a left-wing Democrat winning in New York is proof that Keir Starmer needs to move further left to win in small red wall towns in Britain. (1/245)
Post-Brexit Britain’s future remains uncertain. So far we’ve sought refuge within our junior role in the special relationship, yet the pull to rejoin Europe remains deep. Caught between two empires, the question is whether Britain can chart an independent course of its own. 🧵
November 4, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Post-Brexit Britain’s future remains uncertain. So far we’ve sought refuge within our junior role in the special relationship, yet the pull to rejoin Europe remains deep. Caught between two empires, the question is whether Britain can chart an independent course of its own. 🧵
London 2012.
A nation still celebrating while the fall had already begun.
"V. Britain’s Place in the World" explores how we mistook spectacle for strength and lost our footing between empires.
Link in the replies.
A nation still celebrating while the fall had already begun.
"V. Britain’s Place in the World" explores how we mistook spectacle for strength and lost our footing between empires.
Link in the replies.
November 3, 2025 at 9:19 PM
London 2012.
A nation still celebrating while the fall had already begun.
"V. Britain’s Place in the World" explores how we mistook spectacle for strength and lost our footing between empires.
Link in the replies.
A nation still celebrating while the fall had already begun.
"V. Britain’s Place in the World" explores how we mistook spectacle for strength and lost our footing between empires.
Link in the replies.
This turned into an accidental case study on why capitalism builds beauty and socialism builds basics.
Labour only has value when paired with capital.
A short thread on why socialism is a race to the bottom, and capitalism is the climb. 🧵
Labour only has value when paired with capital.
A short thread on why socialism is a race to the bottom, and capitalism is the climb. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
This turned into an accidental case study on why capitalism builds beauty and socialism builds basics.
Labour only has value when paired with capital.
A short thread on why socialism is a race to the bottom, and capitalism is the climb. 🧵
Labour only has value when paired with capital.
A short thread on why socialism is a race to the bottom, and capitalism is the climb. 🧵
If we ever want to return to a contributory society with civic pride, the first step is to reinstil personal responsibility as a social expectation. This is a step in the opposite direction, another personal problem the state will solve for you, free of charge or shame.
NHS makes morning-after pill available for free across pharmacies in England
NHS makes morning-after pill available for free across pharmacies in England
Those in need of free emergency contraception no longer have to see their GP or attend a sexual health clinic
The NHS has made the morning-after pill available for free across pharmacies in England in an effort to reduce a “postcode lottery” of access to emergency contraception.
Almost 10,000 pharmacies are now able to offer the pill without charge, saving those in need of free emergency contraception from having to visit their GP or to get an appointment at a sexual health clinic. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:58 AM
If we ever want to return to a contributory society with civic pride, the first step is to reinstil personal responsibility as a social expectation. This is a step in the opposite direction, another personal problem the state will solve for you, free of charge or shame.
18% of the economy and 45% of GDP is the public sector. Productivity problem? What productivity problem 🤷♂️
October 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
18% of the economy and 45% of GDP is the public sector. Productivity problem? What productivity problem 🤷♂️
Great piece. Gray offered excellent diagnosis but ultimately nihilism. In his critique, Sebastian Milbank injects the pragmatism and hope embodied in Blue Labour, reform rooted in morality and realism.
thecritic.co.uk/john-gray-is...
thecritic.co.uk/john-gray-is...
John Gray is wrong about postliberalism | Sebastian Milbank | The Critic Magazine
Postliberalism has been vilified in America, where JD Vance’s self-identification with the “postliberal right” has seen the concept associated with the spectre of Catholic authoritarianism in scenes…
thecritic.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Great piece. Gray offered excellent diagnosis but ultimately nihilism. In his critique, Sebastian Milbank injects the pragmatism and hope embodied in Blue Labour, reform rooted in morality and realism.
thecritic.co.uk/john-gray-is...
thecritic.co.uk/john-gray-is...
We may already have passed through the event horizon. Our only chance for salvation may lie in something transformative. This is hardly an original insight; the danger is in transition. We must minimise the chaos around us while we birth a dancing star.
October 21, 2025 at 7:39 AM
We may already have passed through the event horizon. Our only chance for salvation may lie in something transformative. This is hardly an original insight; the danger is in transition. We must minimise the chaos around us while we birth a dancing star.
Great piece. Gray captures the situation with precision, the danger of inaction, the lure of false prophets, and above all the constraints of reality. Required reading for anyone trying to understand the world as it is, not as they wish it to be.
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why I am not a postliberal
Hobbesian liberalism is the only way to rescue British society
www.newstatesman.com
October 19, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Great piece. Gray captures the situation with precision, the danger of inaction, the lure of false prophets, and above all the constraints of reality. Required reading for anyone trying to understand the world as it is, not as they wish it to be.
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...
"We are trying to run twenty-first-century systems on nineteenth-century hardware, the bureaucratic equivalent of Facebook powered by typewriters and candlelight."
open.substack.com/pub/commontr...
open.substack.com/pub/commontr...
Rewiring the State: Part 1 - The Case for Repair
Diagnosing the dysfunction at the heart of the British state.
open.substack.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:11 AM
"We are trying to run twenty-first-century systems on nineteenth-century hardware, the bureaucratic equivalent of Facebook powered by typewriters and candlelight."
open.substack.com/pub/commontr...
open.substack.com/pub/commontr...
Scrapping ILR is the right decision.
Anyone who wants to make their home permanently in Britain has the option of applying to become a British citizen.
ILR devalues citizenship and the responsibilities that come with it 🧵
Anyone who wants to make their home permanently in Britain has the option of applying to become a British citizen.
ILR devalues citizenship and the responsibilities that come with it 🧵
Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.
September 23, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Scrapping ILR is the right decision.
Anyone who wants to make their home permanently in Britain has the option of applying to become a British citizen.
ILR devalues citizenship and the responsibilities that come with it 🧵
Anyone who wants to make their home permanently in Britain has the option of applying to become a British citizen.
ILR devalues citizenship and the responsibilities that come with it 🧵
Ask anyone on the street: Britain feels
Disorderly.
Shops keep goods behind glass, youths broadcast crime for attention. Knife crime has surged by around 80% over the last decade. Less than 1 in 20 burglaries now result in a criminal charge.
Public trust is collapsing 🧵
Disorderly.
Shops keep goods behind glass, youths broadcast crime for attention. Knife crime has surged by around 80% over the last decade. Less than 1 in 20 burglaries now result in a criminal charge.
Public trust is collapsing 🧵
September 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Ask anyone on the street: Britain feels
Disorderly.
Shops keep goods behind glass, youths broadcast crime for attention. Knife crime has surged by around 80% over the last decade. Less than 1 in 20 burglaries now result in a criminal charge.
Public trust is collapsing 🧵
Disorderly.
Shops keep goods behind glass, youths broadcast crime for attention. Knife crime has surged by around 80% over the last decade. Less than 1 in 20 burglaries now result in a criminal charge.
Public trust is collapsing 🧵
This is pretty damming for many UK liberal and progressive commentators credibility.
Especially given they are so quick to label legitimate concerns as "misinformation."
Especially given they are so quick to label legitimate concerns as "misinformation."
September 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
This is pretty damming for many UK liberal and progressive commentators credibility.
Especially given they are so quick to label legitimate concerns as "misinformation."
Especially given they are so quick to label legitimate concerns as "misinformation."
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A lot of you really need to sit down and think about how easily you believed a huge, obvious pack of lies about this, in the face of clear evidence to the contrary, just because you heard it repeated a lot and found it ideologically validating. Barely distinguishable from MAGA conspiracy nonsense.
September 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
A lot of you really need to sit down and think about how easily you believed a huge, obvious pack of lies about this, in the face of clear evidence to the contrary, just because you heard it repeated a lot and found it ideologically validating. Barely distinguishable from MAGA conspiracy nonsense.
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Given Farage's comments on marriage yesterday, worth saying that levels of support for same-sex marriage among Reform supporters are almost double those who oppose it, and not far off the national average.
September 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Given Farage's comments on marriage yesterday, worth saying that levels of support for same-sex marriage among Reform supporters are almost double those who oppose it, and not far off the national average.
And add another five to six billion pounds onto the pensions bill in just one year..🧵
The state pension will rise by more than £500 next year after Pat McFadden confirmed the Government will keep the triple lock in place for the rest of the Parliament trib.al/GPzOHRj
September 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
And add another five to six billion pounds onto the pensions bill in just one year..🧵
Why did we leave Twitter again?
September 13, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Why did we leave Twitter again?
A man destined to lead a prestigious debating society celebrating his opponents death. The fact he did this at all is shocking enough, but after having met him in person, he is despicable and inhuman.
No progressive ever tell me what is moral ever again, this man is not fringe.
No progressive ever tell me what is moral ever again, this man is not fringe.
The president-elect of the Oxford Union appeared to celebrate the death of Charlie Kirk, the right-wing activist and ally of President Trump, months after debating with him at the university
Oxford Union’s new president ‘celebrated Charlie Kirk’s death’
George Abaraonye wrote ‘Charlie Kirk got shot, let’s go’ in a WhatsApp group after the ally of President Trump was fatally wounded in Utah on Wednesday
www.thetimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM
A man destined to lead a prestigious debating society celebrating his opponents death. The fact he did this at all is shocking enough, but after having met him in person, he is despicable and inhuman.
No progressive ever tell me what is moral ever again, this man is not fringe.
No progressive ever tell me what is moral ever again, this man is not fringe.
There is some hope for the left.
The reaction below should be the guideline on what form progressive politics takes when this rancid failure we have now is finally consigned to the dustbin of history.
The difference in basic humanity and core liberal values is mind-blowing.
The reaction below should be the guideline on what form progressive politics takes when this rancid failure we have now is finally consigned to the dustbin of history.
The difference in basic humanity and core liberal values is mind-blowing.
September 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
There is some hope for the left.
The reaction below should be the guideline on what form progressive politics takes when this rancid failure we have now is finally consigned to the dustbin of history.
The difference in basic humanity and core liberal values is mind-blowing.
The reaction below should be the guideline on what form progressive politics takes when this rancid failure we have now is finally consigned to the dustbin of history.
The difference in basic humanity and core liberal values is mind-blowing.
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Strange how the people here on BlueSky still think they are the good ones while openly celebrating a political murder.
September 11, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Strange how the people here on BlueSky still think they are the good ones while openly celebrating a political murder.
“When discourse ends, violence begins.” - Charlie Kirk.
September 10, 2025 at 11:19 PM
“When discourse ends, violence begins.” - Charlie Kirk.
Mask off moment for Femi.
A man dies for the crime of speaking freely, assasinated via political violence. Two children left without a father, and he could not put tribalism aside for one moment.
Inhuman scum.
A man dies for the crime of speaking freely, assasinated via political violence. Two children left without a father, and he could not put tribalism aside for one moment.
Inhuman scum.
September 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Mask off moment for Femi.
A man dies for the crime of speaking freely, assasinated via political violence. Two children left without a father, and he could not put tribalism aside for one moment.
Inhuman scum.
A man dies for the crime of speaking freely, assasinated via political violence. Two children left without a father, and he could not put tribalism aside for one moment.
Inhuman scum.