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buildings, politics, miscellaneous Everybody's gay, Kimmy. It's the 90s.

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Matthew Whitfield @matthewwhitfield.bsky.social · Nov 21

I co-authored a book about suburbs. Buy it cheap, buy it early. Hell, buy it twice! liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

England's Suburbs 1820-2020 | Home

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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 3h

New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues.
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Cover image of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) Diary, December 21-30, 1972. A purple and green poster-style image featuring text and a leafy plant design.

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Matthew Whitfield @matthewwhitfield.bsky.social · 2h

The Times didn’t back their guy in Berlin in the 1930s, just flat-out didn’t print what he wrote, because he disliked Hitler and Nazism too much. Received (crypto-fascist) opinion in London was appeasement, and the Times is nothing if not an establishment mouthpiece www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Patrick Cockburn · Diary: Interviewing Hitler

In August 1937, three German journalists were expelled from Britain for suspected espionage. Retaliation was a...

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Cluster Block🌈 🍉 @clusterblock.bsky.social · 2h

Almost all homes insulated under the ECO programme got serious damp and mould.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

While technically possible, retrofitting insulation is beyond the UK state and construction sector's capacity to do properly.

#FabricFIrst has failed. We need heat pumps instead.

Thousands of homes at risk of mould after botched eco insulation, watchdog finds

Almost all homes meant to benefit from a government-backed scheme are instead facing serious issues

www.independent.co.uk

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Jack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social · 3h

No one should be held hostage and I'm glad they're free, but man, the front pages of every newspaper today are galling when you think of the millions of Palestinians, whose suffering has *never* been presented in that urgent, humanising way at any point in the last two years.

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Matthew Whitfield @matthewwhitfield.bsky.social · 3h

tweeting out the most brazen shit imaginable, time to profit from the aftermath of a war they armed and sustained

Hamish Falconer MP tweets: The rebuilding of Gaza will be one of the most challenging operations in modern times.

With a ceasefire in place, we must seize this moment.

That’s why this afternoon I convened partners at Wilton Park to drive forward private finance efforts for Gaza’s reconstruction.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 2d

Every day he's showing up the class vs "idpol" debate for the facile nonsense that it is. One for all the amateur strategists to consider. As he wins by a massive margin.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Matthew Whitfield @matthewwhitfield.bsky.social · 1d

I’d rather eat a salad of wasps and drawing pins

iPlayer notification imploring me to watch Peaky Blinders

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Matthew Whitfield @matthewwhitfield.bsky.social · 1d

fascinating to see the chaos of transphobic positioning since the Supreme Court ruling. It’s what happens when you rule against reality, let alone legal soundness or ethics

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Yes, the perpetually dishonest Times is at it again. Today's leader column states "The Supreme Court ruling has made the law abundantly clear" and yet even the Times has no idea what it is. 👇🏻

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 17d

The Times 12 September: the Supreme Court case "had nothing to do with how or where single-sex spaces should be created."

The Times 26 September: "Trans women are still being held in women's prisons despite the Supreme Court ruling that access to single-sex spaces should be based on biology."

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Matthew Whitfield @matthewwhitfield.bsky.social · 2d

that is nausea inducing!

Matthew Whitfield @matthewwhitfield.bsky.social · 2d

I’m approx 8th generation Liverpudlian and deserve a bespoke nationality

Matthew Whitfield @matthewwhitfield.bsky.social · 2d

my boyfriend just achieved Irish citizenship on a technicality, whereas I, having been raised in the *Catholic Church* in *Liverpool*, am descended from too many generations of Irish people to qualify as Irish. Fewmin’.

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Matthew Whitfield @matthewwhitfield.bsky.social · 2d

who’s lying? I’m a 5th generation beef twister

Matthew Whitfield @matthewwhitfield.bsky.social · 2d

it’s useful to always answer this stupid question accurately, and ideally tell the questioner that, at best, they’re uneducated

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 2d

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Matthew Whitfield @matthewwhitfield.bsky.social · 2d

not a shred of real analysis, from figures like Macron or this newspaper, on why this is happening www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

France is not alone in its political crisis – belief in a democratic world is vanishing | Simon Tisdall

The populist right offers a solution in the form of turning back the clock. Macron and his counterparts need to find a different answer fast, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

www.theguardian.com

Matthew Whitfield @matthewwhitfield.bsky.social · 3d

if we lived in a halfway normal country this wouldn’t make anyone nervous, it would simply form part of what we all collectively agreed was real life

The i Paper @theipaper.com · 3d

Rachel Reeves's Budget is expected to contain multiple tax rises, which is making many with large assets nervous

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Matthew Whitfield @matthewwhitfield.bsky.social · 4d

Not an original thought but why does the Netflix/iPlayer type algorithm work on vibes only? Like I can’t recall a single instance of something being pushed on me that showed any insight into my viewing history?

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Matthew Whitfield @matthewwhitfield.bsky.social · 4d

never seen in the same room etc.

Matthew Whitfield @matthewwhitfield.bsky.social · 4d

Neil Kinnock saying the death of the Tory party would lead to the death of Labour

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Matthew Whitfield @matthewwhitfield.bsky.social · 5d

also with the Rail Alphabet 2 signage everywhere it’s starting to look kind of okay?

Matthew Whitfield @matthewwhitfield.bsky.social · 5d

we won

departure boards in the middle of Euston station concourse being dismantled

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Matthew Whitfield @matthewwhitfield.bsky.social · 6d

still not over that news clip of Yvette Cooper blithely saying she has the flags ‘everywhere’ at home, on her shed, her placemats, on her lingerie she uses to turn on Ed Balls. I made up the last bit but she was lying through her teeth anyway, helping to prop up fascistic hate and giving not 1 fuck

Rivoluzionario della melanzana @caponatacommie.bsky.social · 6d

You seriously might as well put a burning cross in your garden. You absolutely are NOT helping.

Rivoluzionario della melanzana @caponatacommie.bsky.social · 6d

The English flag is like a KKK hood to me. You can't ever convince me it's positive. I feel anxious and my fight or flight response kicks in seeing them. So if you're an "ally" using them, you're not doing it for us, you're doing it for yourself - because it harms us.

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Matthew Whitfield @matthewwhitfield.bsky.social · 6d

the only PMs to have studied history, arguably the best subject to prepare for a job like that, are Stanley Baldwin, Clement Attlee, Alec Douglas-Home, and Gordon Brown. Much to contemplate there

Matthew Whitfield @matthewwhitfield.bsky.social · 6d

most of her problems are personality related, but my goodness she lacks imagination. Should have done an english degree inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English

The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

inews.co.uk

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Matthew Whitfield @matthewwhitfield.bsky.social · 6d

dismantling the neo-liberal public realm feels good. Next we need to do bins and signage poles, things that weren’t ever privatised but have still become shit

Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 6d

In Manchester and appreciated how something so simple - making all buses yellow - can really improve public space. Feels neater

Matthew Whitfield @matthewwhitfield.bsky.social · 10d

Under the tories at least the highest levels of government happily called them ‘hate marches’