Liam Conway
@liamos85.bsky.social
PhD student in English and Creative Writing at the University of Chichester. Writing about Robin Hood and cultural and historical representation.
Critical Theory, Marxism and all that Jazz
Critical Theory, Marxism and all that Jazz
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VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it
November 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it
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Remarkably simple solution. If you don't want the backing of the far-right for your immigration policy, or to have people point out that you have their backing, don't base your immigration policy on the far-right's rhetoric and ideology.
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Shabana Mahmood hits out at Tommy Robinson’s backing of Labour’s migration policy
Shabana Mahmood has said she finds it “deeply offensive” when MPs quote Tommy Robinson at her in the Commons, after the far-right activist backed the government’s sweeping asylum reforms. Asked about ...
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November 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Remarkably simple solution. If you don't want the backing of the far-right for your immigration policy, or to have people point out that you have their backing, don't base your immigration policy on the far-right's rhetoric and ideology.
www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/shab...
www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/shab...
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The first episode of House of Cards was broadcast on this day in 1990.
November 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The first episode of House of Cards was broadcast on this day in 1990.
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I do not understand those still attempting to defend Labour. Every day the gap between them and Reform, on immigration, trans and non-binary rights, disabled individuals etc shrinks. Human rights have to apply to everyone or they end up applying to no-one. #r4today
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November 14, 2025 at 7:26 AM
I do not understand those still attempting to defend Labour. Every day the gap between them and Reform, on immigration, trans and non-binary rights, disabled individuals etc shrinks. Human rights have to apply to everyone or they end up applying to no-one. #r4today
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POD EP 5: A Conversation About Dialectical Biology, with Mac Parker and Anatarah Bin AlKaf—on Richard Lewontin and Richard Levins' "Dialectical Biologist"!
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November 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
POD EP 5: A Conversation About Dialectical Biology, with Mac Parker and Anatarah Bin AlKaf—on Richard Lewontin and Richard Levins' "Dialectical Biologist"!
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Nothing cheers me up like a new podcast from Fall of Civilization
⛰️🏔️ Episode 20 is now live! 🏔️⛰️
In this episode, we look at the amazing story of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.
Find out how the world's largest empire rose, flourished, and finally fell in ash and flame.
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRYd...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6AeH...
In this episode, we look at the amazing story of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.
Find out how the world's largest empire rose, flourished, and finally fell in ash and flame.
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRYd...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6AeH...
November 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Nothing cheers me up like a new podcast from Fall of Civilization
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‘I once planned to sue the bbc for suggesting I encouraged an insurrection the time I encouraged an insurrection on live tv’
November 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
‘I once planned to sue the bbc for suggesting I encouraged an insurrection the time I encouraged an insurrection on live tv’
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John C. Reilly on working with Daniel Day-Lewis on Gangs of New York:
‘He invited me to his house & he was so lovely & our kids were playing & I thought I got him all wrong.
Then on Monday I saw him on set & said ‘thanks for Saturday’ & he said ‘Fuck off, Jack’ using my character’s name.’
‘He invited me to his house & he was so lovely & our kids were playing & I thought I got him all wrong.
Then on Monday I saw him on set & said ‘thanks for Saturday’ & he said ‘Fuck off, Jack’ using my character’s name.’
November 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
John C. Reilly on working with Daniel Day-Lewis on Gangs of New York:
‘He invited me to his house & he was so lovely & our kids were playing & I thought I got him all wrong.
Then on Monday I saw him on set & said ‘thanks for Saturday’ & he said ‘Fuck off, Jack’ using my character’s name.’
‘He invited me to his house & he was so lovely & our kids were playing & I thought I got him all wrong.
Then on Monday I saw him on set & said ‘thanks for Saturday’ & he said ‘Fuck off, Jack’ using my character’s name.’
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Great news - one of the best mini-series ever with a dazzling & eccentric screenplay by Troy Kennedy Martin & superb direction by Martin Campbell is back on iplayer.
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Edge of Darkness - Series 1: 1. Compassionate Leave
Thriller set in a world of obsessive state security. Ronald Craven is haunted by the murder of his daughter and begins his own investigation into her death.
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November 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Great news - one of the best mini-series ever with a dazzling & eccentric screenplay by Troy Kennedy Martin & superb direction by Martin Campbell is back on iplayer.
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Images from the films of the remarkable director Peter Watkins - RIP
The War Game (1966)
La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000)
Privilege (1967)
Punishment Park (1971)
The War Game (1966)
La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000)
Privilege (1967)
Punishment Park (1971)
October 31, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Images from the films of the remarkable director Peter Watkins - RIP
The War Game (1966)
La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000)
Privilege (1967)
Punishment Park (1971)
The War Game (1966)
La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000)
Privilege (1967)
Punishment Park (1971)
Culloden is a masterpiece in how to present historical anachronism in a serious and provocative manner. The audacity to do this in the 1960s and the rest of Watkins work show what a visionary he was, RIP.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
Peter Watkins, Oscar-winning director of The War Game, dies aged 90
Radical English director who clashed with the BBC over his ‘horrifying’ film about nuclear war, was forced to look abroad to continue working
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November 1, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Culloden is a masterpiece in how to present historical anachronism in a serious and provocative manner. The audacity to do this in the 1960s and the rest of Watkins work show what a visionary he was, RIP.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
Channel 4 has uploaded Rocco Schiavone series 6 and I'm already devouring it. I can't recall being this invested in a TV serial since Mad Men which aired before I had kids. Walter Presents has some real gems
October 31, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Channel 4 has uploaded Rocco Schiavone series 6 and I'm already devouring it. I can't recall being this invested in a TV serial since Mad Men which aired before I had kids. Walter Presents has some real gems
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New Recording—Pod EP 4: Amadeo Bordiga and the Murder of the Dead, with Samuel J. Thomas, J.E. Morain, & James Crane. On Bordiga’s incredible 50s/60s run of eco-communist polemics against the so-called “civil engineering” of capitalist civilization!
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October 24, 2025 at 1:22 AM
New Recording—Pod EP 4: Amadeo Bordiga and the Murder of the Dead, with Samuel J. Thomas, J.E. Morain, & James Crane. On Bordiga’s incredible 50s/60s run of eco-communist polemics against the so-called “civil engineering” of capitalist civilization!
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ALL Haymarket EBooks are 80% off through November 7th ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽
Haymarket Ebooks on sale for $2!
At Haymarket, our mission is to publish books that contribute to struggles for social and economic justice. We strive to make our books a vibrant and organic part of social movements, and we believe t...
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October 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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I don't rate TSICS now or much else of Miliband but it was through reading this, I discovered Poulantzas then from there Clarke, Holloway and Bonefeld et al so not all bad I suppose.
More than 50 years after it was published, Ralph Miliband's The State in Capitalist Society remains indispensable for any socialist movement with ambitions of power.
Ralph Miliband’s Masterpiece at 50
Fifty years after it was published, Ralph Miliband's The State in Capitalist Society remains indispensable for any socialist movement with ambitions of power.
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October 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I don't rate TSICS now or much else of Miliband but it was through reading this, I discovered Poulantzas then from there Clarke, Holloway and Bonefeld et al so not all bad I suppose.
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A new episode of Future Histories!
This time I talk to Aaron Benanav (@abenanav.bsky.social) about the first part of his ‘Beyond Capitalism’ essay series in New Left Review (@newleftreview.bsky.social).
Full episode here:
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
#FutureHistories #Podcast
This time I talk to Aaron Benanav (@abenanav.bsky.social) about the first part of his ‘Beyond Capitalism’ essay series in New Left Review (@newleftreview.bsky.social).
Full episode here:
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
#FutureHistories #Podcast
October 26, 2025 at 10:15 AM
A new episode of Future Histories!
This time I talk to Aaron Benanav (@abenanav.bsky.social) about the first part of his ‘Beyond Capitalism’ essay series in New Left Review (@newleftreview.bsky.social).
Full episode here:
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
#FutureHistories #Podcast
This time I talk to Aaron Benanav (@abenanav.bsky.social) about the first part of his ‘Beyond Capitalism’ essay series in New Left Review (@newleftreview.bsky.social).
Full episode here:
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
#FutureHistories #Podcast
Exactly this, one only needs to look at Streetings management of the NHS to see this, the politics are clear and people aren't fooled.
Wes Streeting on the lessons of the Caerphilly defeat - Labour aren't telling a compelling story about who they are, who they're for & what they are driving to do.
On the contrary, I'd argue voters have a very good idea who you are, who you're for and what you're doing.
On the contrary, I'd argue voters have a very good idea who you are, who you're for and what you're doing.
October 26, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Exactly this, one only needs to look at Streetings management of the NHS to see this, the politics are clear and people aren't fooled.
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One of the untenable things about the populism/mainstream dichotomy is that it inherently implies that the latter are inherently hamstrung by their need to engage with complexity at the expense of popular feeling, which they just fucking don't
October 26, 2025 at 8:52 AM
One of the untenable things about the populism/mainstream dichotomy is that it inherently implies that the latter are inherently hamstrung by their need to engage with complexity at the expense of popular feeling, which they just fucking don't
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Here’s the translation of Horkheimer’s 1928/29 essay “On Lenin’s Materialism & Empirio-Criticism”!
also includes a translation of Alfred Schmidt’s prefatory remarks that accompany the text in the GS & my own notes on refs to Lenin I’ve found in H’s life & work
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also includes a translation of Alfred Schmidt’s prefatory remarks that accompany the text in the GS & my own notes on refs to Lenin I’ve found in H’s life & work
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
October 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Here’s the translation of Horkheimer’s 1928/29 essay “On Lenin’s Materialism & Empirio-Criticism”!
also includes a translation of Alfred Schmidt’s prefatory remarks that accompany the text in the GS & my own notes on refs to Lenin I’ve found in H’s life & work
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
also includes a translation of Alfred Schmidt’s prefatory remarks that accompany the text in the GS & my own notes on refs to Lenin I’ve found in H’s life & work
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
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I’m totally baffled by how so many English politicians can be seemingly in-awe of a mythical halcyon past that didn’t happen, while simultaneously apparently unaware of historical events that certainly did happen like English Football clubs being banned from Europe, Enoch Powell, or The Cold War.
October 21, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I’m totally baffled by how so many English politicians can be seemingly in-awe of a mythical halcyon past that didn’t happen, while simultaneously apparently unaware of historical events that certainly did happen like English Football clubs being banned from Europe, Enoch Powell, or The Cold War.
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The govt spent days telling us that the banning of Maccabi fans was antisemitic. This was @ianmurraymp.bsky.social last Friday.
They were lying. And on the basis they must have been briefed on the police intelligence, they knew they were lying.
They were lying. And on the basis they must have been briefed on the police intelligence, they knew they were lying.
October 22, 2025 at 7:50 AM
The govt spent days telling us that the banning of Maccabi fans was antisemitic. This was @ianmurraymp.bsky.social last Friday.
They were lying. And on the basis they must have been briefed on the police intelligence, they knew they were lying.
They were lying. And on the basis they must have been briefed on the police intelligence, they knew they were lying.
People need to understand this is the LP position now, the rhetoric and policies are there for all to see. This isn't poor political instinct, we are past any of that nonsense, the government believes in this and proves it every day.
“We welcome those who come to this country, legally, and give more than they take. We believe the right to stay here must not be automatic, but that those who play their part should be able to earn that right."
October 21, 2025 at 10:51 AM
People need to understand this is the LP position now, the rhetoric and policies are there for all to see. This isn't poor political instinct, we are past any of that nonsense, the government believes in this and proves it every day.
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#OtD 20 Oct 1895 Gaston Leval (born Pierre Robert Piller), anarcho-syndicalist, Spanish Civil War combatant, and historian was born. His most famous work, which gives a detailed account of workers' control during the civil war, is available here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
October 20, 2025 at 6:10 AM
#OtD 20 Oct 1895 Gaston Leval (born Pierre Robert Piller), anarcho-syndicalist, Spanish Civil War combatant, and historian was born. His most famous work, which gives a detailed account of workers' control during the civil war, is available here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
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Iain Duncan Smith says when Maccabi played a game in Istanbul there was no trouble at all
@ianbyrnemp.bsky.social had to point out UEFA moved the game to Hungary after the Turkish authorities refused to stage it &the Hungarian authorities then played it behind closed doors. Hence no trouble
@ianbyrnemp.bsky.social had to point out UEFA moved the game to Hungary after the Turkish authorities refused to stage it &the Hungarian authorities then played it behind closed doors. Hence no trouble
October 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Iain Duncan Smith says when Maccabi played a game in Istanbul there was no trouble at all
@ianbyrnemp.bsky.social had to point out UEFA moved the game to Hungary after the Turkish authorities refused to stage it &the Hungarian authorities then played it behind closed doors. Hence no trouble
@ianbyrnemp.bsky.social had to point out UEFA moved the game to Hungary after the Turkish authorities refused to stage it &the Hungarian authorities then played it behind closed doors. Hence no trouble