Stuart White
@stuartgwhite.bsky.social
I am an academic interested in political theory, anti-oligarchic political economy, and democracy. I post in a personal capacity and reposting does not necessarily mean agreement. He/him.
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Vouchers? 😡
I remember behind a mum in a supermarket queue who had “food vouchers” (cos she was a refugee) & was trying to buy a small toy alongside her food. The cashier said she had to put it back. Both women, & the whole queue, looked mortified.
The next person behind paid for the toy, btw.
I remember behind a mum in a supermarket queue who had “food vouchers” (cos she was a refugee) & was trying to buy a small toy alongside her food. The cashier said she had to put it back. Both women, & the whole queue, looked mortified.
The next person behind paid for the toy, btw.
Scrapping the cap entirely is both good policy *and* good politics.
Half measures will "save" some money short-term, but will piss *everybody* off and still leave very large numbers of children suffering from a policy designed to make them poorer.
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Half measures will "save" some money short-term, but will piss *everybody* off and still leave very large numbers of children suffering from a policy designed to make them poorer.
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Food vouchers, free milk and two-child cap: Reeves weighs up help for families
Ministers' long-awaited child poverty strategy is due this month - and it's closely tied to the Chancellor's Budget
inews.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Vouchers? 😡
I remember behind a mum in a supermarket queue who had “food vouchers” (cos she was a refugee) & was trying to buy a small toy alongside her food. The cashier said she had to put it back. Both women, & the whole queue, looked mortified.
The next person behind paid for the toy, btw.
I remember behind a mum in a supermarket queue who had “food vouchers” (cos she was a refugee) & was trying to buy a small toy alongside her food. The cashier said she had to put it back. Both women, & the whole queue, looked mortified.
The next person behind paid for the toy, btw.
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Our very own @brunoleipold.com wins the Deutscher Prize 2025. Amazing news! And we celebrate by walking to Marx's grave with our Msc students. www.deutscherprize.org.uk/wp/
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Our very own @brunoleipold.com wins the Deutscher Prize 2025. Amazing news! And we celebrate by walking to Marx's grave with our Msc students. www.deutscherprize.org.uk/wp/
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Absolutely right. I criticise BBC News, because we need it to be as good as we know it can be. People like Farage criticise the BBC, because they work for its competitors and don't want it to exist.
🎯 Davey is spot on. "We can have criticism of the BBC, but within that, we need to recognise how valuable an institution it is [and how] precious to our country. And that's one of the reasons why people like President Trump and Nigel Farage, want to undermine the BBC." 👏🏽~AA
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Absolutely right. I criticise BBC News, because we need it to be as good as we know it can be. People like Farage criticise the BBC, because they work for its competitors and don't want it to exist.
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Overjoyed to have been awarded an AHRC LUCIA grant to continue work with @justicehq.bsky.social, United Borders & members of @artnotevidence.bsky.social to increase awareness of rap’s aesthetic & socio-cultural value to combat criminalization & racial disparities in the criminal justice system.
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Overjoyed to have been awarded an AHRC LUCIA grant to continue work with @justicehq.bsky.social, United Borders & members of @artnotevidence.bsky.social to increase awareness of rap’s aesthetic & socio-cultural value to combat criminalization & racial disparities in the criminal justice system.
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the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
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Davie's resignation is yet more proof: The BBC is an unaccountable, undemocratic institution - captured by political appointees, cowed by the press & unrepresentative of the public.
We need an alternative. Read our @cmmonwealth.bsky.social proposals for a mutualised BBC, controlled directly by us
We need an alternative. Read our @cmmonwealth.bsky.social proposals for a mutualised BBC, controlled directly by us
Our Mutual Friend: The BBC in the Digital Age
The upcoming BBC Charter Review is an opportunity to transform the BBC into a public service mutual, founded on a genuinely democratic relationship with the public.
www.common-wealth.org
November 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Davie's resignation is yet more proof: The BBC is an unaccountable, undemocratic institution - captured by political appointees, cowed by the press & unrepresentative of the public.
We need an alternative. Read our @cmmonwealth.bsky.social proposals for a mutualised BBC, controlled directly by us
We need an alternative. Read our @cmmonwealth.bsky.social proposals for a mutualised BBC, controlled directly by us
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30 million dead, The Somme, painting created by Mary Bishop 1976 in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital where she was compelled to live.
Aged 4 when her father was killed in WWI, the reverberations of his death & her mother’s vast grief traumatised & distressed Mary for the rest of her life
Aged 4 when her father was killed in WWI, the reverberations of his death & her mother’s vast grief traumatised & distressed Mary for the rest of her life
November 9, 2025 at 10:48 AM
30 million dead, The Somme, painting created by Mary Bishop 1976 in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital where she was compelled to live.
Aged 4 when her father was killed in WWI, the reverberations of his death & her mother’s vast grief traumatised & distressed Mary for the rest of her life
Aged 4 when her father was killed in WWI, the reverberations of his death & her mother’s vast grief traumatised & distressed Mary for the rest of her life
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I do slightly think that what is happening in Chicago could be the beginnings of a non-violent civil disobedience movement that goes way beyond just like, No Kings protests, and could grow quite a lot
This morning, in Broadview, 14 suburban women were arrested during an act of civil disobedience calling for an end to ICE/CBP’s kidnappings throughout the Chicago area.
“We want to encourage other people who feel strongly about ICE’s actions to step off the sidelines and take our cities back.”
“We want to encourage other people who feel strongly about ICE’s actions to step off the sidelines and take our cities back.”
Fourteen suburban moms arrested in sit-in protest outside Broadview ICE facility
The mothers sat in a circle on Beach Street on Friday to “demand an end” to the immigration raids that have swept through the Chicago area since the Trump administration launched “Operation Midway Bli...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I do slightly think that what is happening in Chicago could be the beginnings of a non-violent civil disobedience movement that goes way beyond just like, No Kings protests, and could grow quite a lot
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As the child of a mother born in Ireland and a father born in Pakistan, I can't endorse this message strongly enough
#brotherhoodisuniversal
#brotherhoodisuniversal
November 7, 2025 at 10:55 AM
As the child of a mother born in Ireland and a father born in Pakistan, I can't endorse this message strongly enough
#brotherhoodisuniversal
#brotherhoodisuniversal
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I'm becoming interested in the general phenomenon of norm equilibria that are getting shattered, and whether/ when that results in a new worse equilibrium.
Widespread pardons for Republicans convicted of corruption (see also Santos), the end of FCPA enforcement...
www.wsmv.com/2025/11/06/p...
Widespread pardons for Republicans convicted of corruption (see also Santos), the end of FCPA enforcement...
www.wsmv.com/2025/11/06/p...
President Trump pardons former TN House Speaker Glen Casada, chief of staff, after corruption convictions
President Donald Trump has pardoned the disgraced former Speaker of the Tennessee House Glen Casada and his co-conspirators after their corruption convictions and sentencing.
www.wsmv.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I'm becoming interested in the general phenomenon of norm equilibria that are getting shattered, and whether/ when that results in a new worse equilibrium.
Widespread pardons for Republicans convicted of corruption (see also Santos), the end of FCPA enforcement...
www.wsmv.com/2025/11/06/p...
Widespread pardons for Republicans convicted of corruption (see also Santos), the end of FCPA enforcement...
www.wsmv.com/2025/11/06/p...
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"Far from draining our welfare system, migrants are supporting the British state’s solvency."
New analysis by @lgilbert.co
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
New analysis by @lgilbert.co
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
November 7, 2025 at 8:17 AM
"Far from draining our welfare system, migrants are supporting the British state’s solvency."
New analysis by @lgilbert.co
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
New analysis by @lgilbert.co
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
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Lovely interview with the always interesting, ever-energetic @anthonybarnett.bsky.social: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Anthony Barnett: “The Sixties were a catastrophic failure”
The writer and campaigner on nationalism, the rise of the new right and how a fractured left can organise in response
www.newstatesman.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Lovely interview with the always interesting, ever-energetic @anthonybarnett.bsky.social: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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The more democratic elements of the American constitutional and economic order are actually throwing up road blocks to Trumpism. Protests and boycotts and low level courts and juries and cetera. Elite actors on the other hand are all too frequently caving. Fascinating study in who actually cares!
BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The more democratic elements of the American constitutional and economic order are actually throwing up road blocks to Trumpism. Protests and boycotts and low level courts and juries and cetera. Elite actors on the other hand are all too frequently caving. Fascinating study in who actually cares!
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We’ve joined almost 300 organisations in an urgent plea to politicians and the UK government to stop scapegoating the country’s human rights framework.
Quakers join call for “full-throated defence” of UK human rights protections
Almost 300 organisations, including Quakers in Britain, have issued an urgent plea to politicians and the UK government to stop scapegoating the UK’s human rights framework.
www.quaker.org.uk
November 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
We’ve joined almost 300 organisations in an urgent plea to politicians and the UK government to stop scapegoating the country’s human rights framework.
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The "why do you care so much about the NY mayoral election" takes strike me as pretty obtuse. The world's sole superpower is being taken over by fascists, and this was part of the struggle to define what the opposition to that will look like. That obviously has major implications for all of us?
November 5, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The "why do you care so much about the NY mayoral election" takes strike me as pretty obtuse. The world's sole superpower is being taken over by fascists, and this was part of the struggle to define what the opposition to that will look like. That obviously has major implications for all of us?
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Thank you to my friends, family and colleagues who came to tonight’s inaugural lecture! And thanks to @polneuro.bsky.social for the photos!
#anarchy
#anarchy
November 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Thank you to my friends, family and colleagues who came to tonight’s inaugural lecture! And thanks to @polneuro.bsky.social for the photos!
#anarchy
#anarchy
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🔴 MPs are banned from been paid to give 'political advice' - but Lords can.
And guess what? Many Conservative shadow ministers in the Lords are being paid by the industries they’re meant to scrutinise.
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/the-lords-...
And guess what? Many Conservative shadow ministers in the Lords are being paid by the industries they’re meant to scrutinise.
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/the-lords-...
The Lords’ Work? How Tory Shadow Ministers Are Cashing In
Many Conservative shadow ministers in the Lords are being paid to ‘advise’ the same industries they’re meant to scrutinise.
democracyforsale.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
🔴 MPs are banned from been paid to give 'political advice' - but Lords can.
And guess what? Many Conservative shadow ministers in the Lords are being paid by the industries they’re meant to scrutinise.
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/the-lords-...
And guess what? Many Conservative shadow ministers in the Lords are being paid by the industries they’re meant to scrutinise.
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/the-lords-...
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The fortnightly newsletter from @ucucommons.bsky.social feels like a calm breath of insight + reflection, even when - as now - our HE sector is on fire. Thoughtful perspectives on developments + issues that matter.
The latest issue of our fortnightly newsletter includes a report from the HEC held on 10 October. Also featuring @davehitchcock.bsky.social, @matildaf.bsky.social, @hagenilda.bsky.social and more! #UKHE #UCU
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UCU Commons newsletter #3, 5 November 2025
Our fortnightly round-up of union and sector specific news
ucucommons.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:55 AM
The fortnightly newsletter from @ucucommons.bsky.social feels like a calm breath of insight + reflection, even when - as now - our HE sector is on fire. Thoughtful perspectives on developments + issues that matter.
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When I was born to my migrant parents in 1970s New York City, they saw the beauty, vibrancy and hope in the city, even as they were aware of the ugliness and hardship. They are feeling more hope today, in a city they still think of as home
November 5, 2025 at 9:09 AM
When I was born to my migrant parents in 1970s New York City, they saw the beauty, vibrancy and hope in the city, even as they were aware of the ugliness and hardship. They are feeling more hope today, in a city they still think of as home
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Delighted that Mamdani has won and moreover opened his victory speech by quoting Eugene Debs. aeon.co/essays/for-s...
For socialism and freedom: the life of Eugene Debs | Aeon Essays
How Eugene V Debs turned American republicanism against the chiefs of capitalism – and became a true crusader for freedom
aeon.co
November 5, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Delighted that Mamdani has won and moreover opened his victory speech by quoting Eugene Debs. aeon.co/essays/for-s...
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This person took this when they called the race
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
This person took this when they called the race
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Zohran's campaign was his determination to make New York a city everyone can afford to live in. Huge congratulations!
His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind.
It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.
His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind.
It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.
November 5, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Zohran's campaign was his determination to make New York a city everyone can afford to live in. Huge congratulations!
His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind.
It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.
His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind.
It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.
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Huge congratulations to Zohran Mamdani on his election as Mayor of New York City from all of us at the Green Party! 🎉💚
November 5, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Huge congratulations to Zohran Mamdani on his election as Mayor of New York City from all of us at the Green Party! 🎉💚
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Such amazing news! Mandani’s hopeful and radical message triumphed over the dirty tricks of a tired l, out-of-touch and corrupt political establishment.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
New York mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani challenges Donald Trump in victory speech as Democrats win key US election races – live
Mamdani condemns ‘oligarchy and authoritarianism’ in speech directly talking to Trump as Democrats win California redistricting vote and New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial elections
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Such amazing news! Mandani’s hopeful and radical message triumphed over the dirty tricks of a tired l, out-of-touch and corrupt political establishment.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...