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Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 7h

Neoliberalism does not advocate for free markets in theory - see my article that Malte just linked to. There's 6000 words of archival analysis in there.

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 1d

Definitely! Whether it's idealising hygge or misreading the trajectory of Danish social democracy, so-called progressive Brits do like to read into Denmark what they want

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 1d

Timely piece!

Rune Møller Stahl @runestahl.bsky.social · 1d

"Around Europe, labor parties have alienated their base by forming grand coalitions with the center-right . In Denmark, Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats have pursued this strategy with the same dismal results."

From my analysis Jacobin on the state of Danish politics after the local elections

In Denmark, Social Democracy Is Failing

Around Europe, old labor parties have alienated their base by forming grand coalitions with center-right forces. In Denmark, Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats have pursued this same strategy with t...

jacobin.com

Rune Møller Stahl @runestahl.bsky.social · 1d

"Around Europe, labor parties have alienated their base by forming grand coalitions with the center-right . In Denmark, Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats have pursued this strategy with the same dismal results."

From my analysis Jacobin on the state of Danish politics after the local elections

In Denmark, Social Democracy Is Failing

Around Europe, old labor parties have alienated their base by forming grand coalitions with center-right forces. In Denmark, Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats have pursued this same strategy with t...

jacobin.com

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 2d

Some in the government must have found the milkshake poem in Before Sunrise a traumatic formative experience

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d

Glasman: 'We will keep fighting the 1955 general election until you give us the RIGHT answer!'
The newspaper of British Conservativism: 'What a necessary voice!'

CSSGJ @cssgj.bsky.social · 3d

CSSGJ is pleased to host Dr.Ian Bruff on 24th November at 6p.m. (UK time). The title of his talk is 'All that has Never Been True: The Dismal Ruins of Neoliberalism'. Please register www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/all-that-h... @abieler.bsky.social @ianbruff.bsky.social @sinembal.bsky.social

All that has Never Been True: The Dismal Ruins of Neoliberalism

All that has Never Been True: The Dismal Ruins of the Neoliberalism = Free Markets Assumption - a public talk by Ian Bruff

www.eventbrite.co.uk

Antifascist Black Metal Network @antifascistbmntwrk.bsky.social · 6d

𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐳𝐢𝐣 𝐝𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞 - 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐈𝐬 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐎𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝐀𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞 (Full album, 2025) | Black metal, hardcore 

Today we feature a band that has a special place in hearts: @terzijdehorde.bsky.social, from Utrecht, NL, & their visceral, vitalistic black metal/hardcore fusion.

We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 6d

'PFI was a disaster - Labour musn't repeat it'

Read our LabourList article, which warns this government against using new NHS private finance - no matter what name it's packaged under.

'PFI was a disaster — Labour mustn't repeat it' - LabourList

PFI has been a disaster - so why are Labour considering going back to it asks We Own It's Sophie Conquest.

labourlist.org

Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 6d

This part from the #Covid19 inquiry speaks directly to something myself and Linsey McGoey wrote about in 2020 (published as journal article in 2024 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....): the construction of *impossibility to act* as the key feature of post-liberalism (a thread 🧵👇)

Joost Vervoort - Infrastructures of Mystery @joostvervoort.bsky.social · 7d

The Fetzer Institute published my writings about Infrastructures of Mystery! How do we build a world that scaffolds the wonder of existence - whatever that may mean for different people (and it differs a lot!)? #spirituality #politics #infrastructure fetzer.org/case-study/i...

Infrastructures of Mystery — Scaffolding the Wonder of Existence

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 7d

Publication Day for our Open Access book w/ Bristol Uni Press

"The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative: Infrastructures + Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road"

Edited w/ Elia Apostolopoulou, Han Cheng + Alan Wiig

Link here >> bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-material...

CPERN @cpern.bsky.social · 7d

Reminder: Join us on 27 November to discuss 'Coloniality dressed in green'!

With author @stefanzylinski.bsky.social who will explain how climate finance risks becoming a new tool for colonial rule

With discussants Johannes Jaeger and Ewa Dziwok

Register here: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: CPERN monthly workshop - November 2025. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Stefan Zyinski will present his article 'Coloniality dressed in Green' available: https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/gpe/3/2/article-p315.xml Discussants are Johannes Jaeger and...

bham-ac-uk.zoom.us

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 9d

How to be an effective liberal

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 9d

Really useful and accessible encyclopedia entry on neoliberalism by @cbtansel.net and @rosamaryon.bsky.social - great for teaching and research, too! link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

Neoliberalism

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Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 9d

It is a good word! It means that the new album is your Brusque rather than your Black album 😉

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 9d

Aw, I love Precipice! The way it finally unfolds into 'UNNNNNN-GRIEVABLE!!!' is fantastic. But yes, the new album is still your best

Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 9d

My commentary on Brett Heino’s wonderful new book *Literary Geographies and the Work of David Ireland*
@springer.springernature.com @springernature.com

Mapping the World of David Ireland - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

In Literary Geographies and the Work of David Ireland, subtitled “An Australian Atlas”, Brett Heino has delivered a classic book on political economy, space, and literature. It is highly original and ...

www.ppesydney.net

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 10d

Interesting post-publication addition! I wonder if Mahmood's proposals will be the final straw for many 'forever Labour' soft-leftists. FWIW, I fully agree with the article that this Labour leadership would be fine with going into coalition with the Tories post-2029.

Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks Ian. The one qualification I would make now is that there's circumstantial evidence for a massive exit of members to the Greens even since the article was written, which might yet finally hand the husk of the party over to to Streeting. But we're not there yet.

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 10d

Excellent piece by @jemgilbert.bsky.social I found especially interesting his point that the membership's centre of gravity remains soft left, meaning the 'what next for Labour' question has to be engaged with. It also made me think of the policy platform for Starmer's 2020 leadership campaign...

Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 10d

I simply do not understand how the govt can simultaneously believe (1) they don’t have enough political capital to breach the manifesto on tax and (2) they have enough to political capital to pick an unwinnable fight with their own MPs on immigration.

Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks Ian. The one qualification I would make now is that there's circumstantial evidence for a massive exit of members to the Greens even since the article was written, which might yet finally hand the husk of the party over to to Streeting. But we're not there yet.

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 10d

Excellent piece by @jemgilbert.bsky.social I found especially interesting his point that the membership's centre of gravity remains soft left, meaning the 'what next for Labour' question has to be engaged with. It also made me think of the policy platform for Starmer's 2020 leadership campaign...

Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · 10d

While many socialists are rightly repulsed by the misdeeds of the Starmer government, its tenure will come to an end soon enough. When it does, we must be ready to renew the Labour Party’s radical mission.

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 10d

Excellent piece by @jemgilbert.bsky.social I found especially interesting his point that the membership's centre of gravity remains soft left, meaning the 'what next for Labour' question has to be engaged with. It also made me think of the policy platform for Starmer's 2020 leadership campaign...

Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · 10d

While many socialists are rightly repulsed by the misdeeds of the Starmer government, its tenure will come to an end soon enough. When it does, we must be ready to renew the Labour Party’s radical mission.

Reclaiming Labour

While many socialists are rightly repulsed by the misdeeds of the Starmer government, its tenure will come to an end soon enough. When it does, we must be ready to renew the Labour Party’s radical mis...

tribunemag.co.uk

Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · 10d

While many socialists are rightly repulsed by the misdeeds of the Starmer government, its tenure will come to an end soon enough. When it does, we must be ready to renew the Labour Party’s radical mission.

Reclaiming Labour

While many socialists are rightly repulsed by the misdeeds of the Starmer government, its tenure will come to an end soon enough. When it does, we must be ready to renew the Labour Party’s radical mis...

tribunemag.co.uk

Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 10d

and it's a feature, not a bug, of whatever mangled faction this is that is running Labour. these people are able to do one thing and one thing alone - fight factional wars against the left.

they're absolutely shit at literally anything else.

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 10d

I live in Leeds nowadays, but still work at Manc uni and can travel over as well. But yes, that would be great.

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 10d

Likewise! You post a lot more than me! I've thought of you more than once in the last weeks when getting angry about this govt, and your thread shows why. Also, next week (the week on East Asia) is my annual tradition of saying 'read Death of Mao and his Foreign Policy articles' to my MA students

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 10d

I went to school and college with James, and I've been thinking the same thing. This 'dumb racist' caricature is both wrong and hugely damaging. Read the whole thread for something much more well-written than I could manage!

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 11d

when I hear Starmer speak about immigration and race he's spitting in the face of the Labour voters I knew growing up in Manchester, who put themselves on the line against the National Front - and often the police - in the 1970s and 1980s.

Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 11d

Ultimately the vision of britain that starmer has is profoundly cynical, nasty and just not true. He thinks that abidicating his responsibility in showing that another option is maturity and doing the difficult thing, but he's literally just creating the hateful country he is so afraid of

David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 10d

Late to this, but if the Sunday Times is correct that Morgan McSweeney spent one and a half hours last week with Lord Glasman then he isn't fit to fill any senior position in government.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 11d

when I hear Starmer speak about immigration and race he's spitting in the face of the Labour voters I knew growing up in Manchester, who put themselves on the line against the National Front - and often the police - in the 1970s and 1980s.

Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 11d

Ultimately the vision of britain that starmer has is profoundly cynical, nasty and just not true. He thinks that abidicating his responsibility in showing that another option is maturity and doing the difficult thing, but he's literally just creating the hateful country he is so afraid of

Dillon Wamsley @dillonwamsley.bsky.social · 14d

My new article on everyone’s favourite PM, Liz Truss, is out in New Political Economy 🧵

When neoliberalism meets technocracy: intra-elite conflict and the realignment of Britain’s macroeconomic regime under Liz Truss

This article offers a new account of Liz Truss’s premiership by analysing the political economy of the 2022 mini-Budget crisis. Engaging with literature on depoliticisation, statecraft, and the Cit...

www.tandfonline.com

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