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Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 4h

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

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 16h

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 · 1d

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 · 3d

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 · 4d

'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 · 4d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 7d

How to be an effective liberal

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 7d

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

link.springer.com

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 7d

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

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 7d

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 · 7d

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 ...

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Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 9d

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 · 9d

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 · 8d

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 · 9d

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 · 9d

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 · 12d

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

Malte Laub @maltelaub.bsky.social · 12d

The references to broken-windows policing and zero-tolerance approaches here, neither of which do much about "crime" but lots to justify stop & frisk policing and incarceration of Black people, reveal the deep historical roots of Trumpism & that Hegseth's 'common sense agenda' is about racial order.

Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 14d

The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.

New piece from me.

open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

The truth about impartiality at the BBC

And the hysteria of the current "crisis"

open.substack.com

Emmy Eklundh @emmyeklundh.bsky.social · 15d

With just a few weeks until publication, it's possible to pre-order my book in time for Xmas! For anyone who wants to read a decolonial approach to populism and understand why we are still so attached to the idea of 'populism'
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/europes-popu... @brisunipress.bsky.social

Europe’s Populist Condition

Europe’s Populist Condition; Challenging the notion that populism is an anomaly in European politics, this book argues that the main threat to democracy is the exclusionary nature of European democrat...

bristoluniversitypress.co.uk

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 19d

Enjoyed reading this! I recently published a paper that you might be interested in? Saying similar things via an examination of the writings of original neoliberal intellectuals (e.g. Hayek/Friedman), i.e. no redemptive 'free market' moment for neoliberalism: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Detaching ‘neoliberalism’ from ‘free markets’: monopolistic corporations as neoliberalism’s ideal market form

The article contributes to the emerging literature on neoliberalism that explicitly rejects the long-held assumption that it is fundamentally about the valorisation of free markets. This scholarshi...

www.tandfonline.com

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