Steven Fielding
@polprofsteve2024.bsky.social
Emeritus Prof, writing (slowly) about Labour’s existential struggles since 1976 for Polity. Knows stuff about politics & culture.
Labour List: https://labourlist.org/author/s-fielding/
Zeitgeist Tapes: https://shorturl.at/nwdO4
Labour List: https://labourlist.org/author/s-fielding/
Zeitgeist Tapes: https://shorturl.at/nwdO4
I don’t know if I’m correct but whenever I see a big gap between men being willing to have a definite opinion compared to women I tend to assume it’s on an issue about which most people really don’t know much but that men are are willing to say something even if it’s BS.
November 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I don’t know if I’m correct but whenever I see a big gap between men being willing to have a definite opinion compared to women I tend to assume it’s on an issue about which most people really don’t know much but that men are are willing to say something even if it’s BS.
Whatever the objective reality, there’s a visceral belief on the right that the BBC is biased against them. Perhaps they should stop reading the anti-BBC press?
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Whatever the objective reality, there’s a visceral belief on the right that the BBC is biased against them. Perhaps they should stop reading the anti-BBC press?
Yes you’re ✅ the issue was fudged in the manifesto, i.e. Lab didn’t say it would retain it but it didn’t say it wouldn’t. But everything else in the 2024 Campaign implied it would be retained & a plurality of Lab voters wanted that. So if ‘trust’ is Powell’s criteria she’s double-talking.
November 7, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Yes you’re ✅ the issue was fudged in the manifesto, i.e. Lab didn’t say it would retain it but it didn’t say it wouldn’t. But everything else in the 2024 Campaign implied it would be retained & a plurality of Lab voters wanted that. So if ‘trust’ is Powell’s criteria she’s double-talking.
November 7, 2025 at 7:17 AM
One of the few comforts I draw from this is that no matter how many drugs this guy takes we are very unlikely to meet him on the other side of the eye of that needle to which Jesus once referred.
November 7, 2025 at 7:15 AM
One of the few comforts I draw from this is that no matter how many drugs this guy takes we are very unlikely to meet him on the other side of the eye of that needle to which Jesus once referred.
A fascinating 1935 adaptation based on an 1899 play, which sometimes becomes melodramatic but always remains slyly comic, of possibly the greatest novel in English literature.
November 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
A fascinating 1935 adaptation based on an 1899 play, which sometimes becomes melodramatic but always remains slyly comic, of possibly the greatest novel in English literature.
This from the nation that selected Boris Johnson on a landslide. You really are kidding yourselves.
November 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This from the nation that selected Boris Johnson on a landslide. You really are kidding yourselves.
The Dems can only influence one of those three things… www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/u...
November 6, 2025 at 8:22 AM
The Dems can only influence one of those three things… www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/u...
Hang onto your hats, it’s going to be a bumpy Budget.
November 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Hang onto your hats, it’s going to be a bumpy Budget.
What a relevant week to start reading this treasure.
November 1, 2025 at 10:51 AM
What a relevant week to start reading this treasure.
What a splendidly sycophantic story!
I’m sure, if they were so inclined, they could’ve written one less servile, which would not have reflected so well upon Their Majesties.
But if you want a clue as to why Britain is in such a mess, you could do worse than start to build your case here.
I’m sure, if they were so inclined, they could’ve written one less servile, which would not have reflected so well upon Their Majesties.
But if you want a clue as to why Britain is in such a mess, you could do worse than start to build your case here.
November 1, 2025 at 9:36 AM
What a splendidly sycophantic story!
I’m sure, if they were so inclined, they could’ve written one less servile, which would not have reflected so well upon Their Majesties.
But if you want a clue as to why Britain is in such a mess, you could do worse than start to build your case here.
I’m sure, if they were so inclined, they could’ve written one less servile, which would not have reflected so well upon Their Majesties.
But if you want a clue as to why Britain is in such a mess, you could do worse than start to build your case here.
But public thinking, if that’s not too generous a word, on the issue is brutal.
October 31, 2025 at 8:32 AM
But public thinking, if that’s not too generous a word, on the issue is brutal.
I’m thinking this word might have undergone a slight transformation over the years.
October 30, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I’m thinking this word might have undergone a slight transformation over the years.
This from @yougov.co.uk is I suppose one of their less surprising findings: one nation divided by age & therefore politics.
October 30, 2025 at 7:58 AM
This from @yougov.co.uk is I suppose one of their less surprising findings: one nation divided by age & therefore politics.
I suppose that if the deputy leadership contest was a referendum on what Labour members think about Starmer then the 16.6% turnout was entirely appropriate.
October 25, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I suppose that if the deputy leadership contest was a referendum on what Labour members think about Starmer then the 16.6% turnout was entirely appropriate.
It’s at this point I refer readers to this ancient Hollywood film which outlines the necessary skills of a successful politician and only half of which Starmer might be said to possess.
October 25, 2025 at 6:52 AM
It’s at this point I refer readers to this ancient Hollywood film which outlines the necessary skills of a successful politician and only half of which Starmer might be said to possess.
Somebody has lost their crown outside Morrisons in Chorlton-cum-Hardy.
October 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Somebody has lost their crown outside Morrisons in Chorlton-cum-Hardy.
I am surprised that such a preponderance of Britons are no fans of the great man theory of history.
October 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I am surprised that such a preponderance of Britons are no fans of the great man theory of history.
Somewhere there is a social scientist, who has been grappling all through their career with the complexities of structure and agency, crying.
October 22, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Somewhere there is a social scientist, who has been grappling all through their career with the complexities of structure and agency, crying.
Just like I did when I was in the Cabinet, Lucy doesn’t quite say.
October 22, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Just like I did when I was in the Cabinet, Lucy doesn’t quite say.
Come on you Reds.
October 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Come on you Reds.
Clearly, the action of an antisemitic police force.
October 18, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Clearly, the action of an antisemitic police force.