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Robert MacDonald

@rfmacdonald.bsky.social

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Social Scientist/ Professor (Honorary - Durham) South Shields, UK. The usual stuff: ‘left-wing flim-flam’/ sociology (youth, inequality, class etc)/ hills/ birds/ dogs/ politics/ punk/ MCFC/ archaeology/ the North East, & those sort of things. 💙&✌🏽 .. more

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Robert MacDonald @rfmacdonald.bsky.social · 2d

A couple of days with Prof Webster & Mabel the Dog, #Northumberland #YeaveringBell #Longhorsley… ✌🏽🍂⛅️🥾🥾

Robert MacDonald @rfmacdonald.bsky.social · 7d

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Jamie Driscoll @jamiedriscoll.bsky.social · 7d

If you want to do more than like the hell out of things on social media, join @majorityuk.bsky.social. We campaign, do training, and build progressive alliances. We’re a social movement, so you can also be a member of your current political party. majorityuk.org/join

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Jamie Driscoll @jamiedriscoll.bsky.social · 7d

British people want leaders they can be proud of. Patriotism would be taking water back into public ownership. It would cost nothing. Simply enforce the fines. Share prices would drop to zero. And the government would look like it has a backbone.

www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...

For competent leaders with integrity, it's no use looking at the major political parties in the UK

Major political parties haven't got a hope or a clue, writes Majority's Jamie Driscoll as he skewers establishment politics

www.thecanary.co

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Robert MacDonald @rfmacdonald.bsky.social · 11d

A few pics from 27th…

Various racist & fascist groups tried to have a national launch/ rally/ march in #Newcastle

Vastly outnumbered, they were stopped at every point by thousands of anti-fascists

Proud of my city ✊🏽✌🏽♥️

#nopasaran
#antifascism

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Majority @majorityuk.bsky.social · 14d

Today Newcastle stood united. ✊🏼

The far-right were in town trying to spread their hate and division. Only about 200 turned up.

Over 3000 canny geordies, including dozens of Majority members stopped them marching and sent them packing!
#TheyDidNotPass #NaePasaran

Image of a crowd of protesters at grey’s monument in Newcastle, holding placards saying Majority against racism.

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Robert MacDonald @rfmacdonald.bsky.social · 19d

St Mary the Virgin Church, #Morpeth #Northumberland

Robert MacDonald @rfmacdonald.bsky.social · 27d

First fly-by of the #Autumn… (they really wind Mabel up!)
Old Bewick, #Northumberland
#geese

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Majority @majorityuk.bsky.social · 29d

When the majority speaks, change is inevitable.

Join us today. 👇🏼

#WeAreTheMajority #YourParty
@jamiedriscoll.bsky.social @zarahsultana.bsky.social

Features / 12 September 2025
"We are the snowballs that will start an avalanche'
ANYA COOK reports from a Majority conference in Newcastle last weekend featuring Jamie Driscoll and Zarah Sultana
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CALL TO LEAD: Zarah Sultana, Jamie Driscoll, Hugo
Fearnley (obscured) and Steph Langford

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Majority @majorityuk.bsky.social · Sep 8

If you missed our sold out conference on Saturday, this is a brilliant summary from @northeastbylines.co.uk

If you’re done sitting on the sidelines join us today 👇🏼

Packed out Majority
Conference with Zarah Sultana and Jamie
Driscoll
Over 300 packed Newcastles Discovery
Museum as Jamie Driscoll and Zarah Sultana launched a call for new politics
by Anya Cook - 08-09-2025 09:02
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Robert MacDonald @rfmacdonald.bsky.social · Aug 25

Bees & Butterflies, above #Rothbury #Northumberland #Summer

Robert MacDonald @rfmacdonald.bsky.social · Aug 22

Ros Castle & Cateran Hole, #Northumberland

Full of buzzing bees on the heather 🐝🐝🐝

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Majority @majorityuk.bsky.social · Aug 17

Join us on Saturday 6th September at Newcastle’s Discovery Museum for our Annual Conference.

Keynote speakers include @jamiedriscoll.bsky.social and @zarahsultana.bsky.social, who will give an update on Your Party.

Book today - tickets going fast. Free for Majority members, £6 for non-members. 👇🏼

MAJORITY
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
WITH JAMIE DRISCOLL & ZARAH SULTANA MP
Saturday 6 September 1pm to 4pm
Discovery Musuem
Blandford Square, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1
Image of Jamie Driscoll and Zarah Sultana

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Robert MacDonald @rfmacdonald.bsky.social · Aug 16

Here we go again…
#nopasaran
#Newcastle
#PeaceAndLove
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Robert MacDonald @rfmacdonald.bsky.social · Aug 9

#Newcastle #NoPasaran
Strong ant-racist turn out today - good vibes, far more of us, music, fun, Northumberland flags too!
The Union Flag wavers on the other side look pathetic, silly and a bit… anti-social.
#GeordiesAreBlackAndWhite
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Robert MacDonald @rfmacdonald.bsky.social · Aug 6

Connections
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Jean Beaman @jean23bean.bsky.social · May 15

Sharing on behalf of my @cunygcsociology.bsky.social friend/colleague Ruth Milkman who isn't on social media. Here's her statement re a problematic censoring of an obituary for Michael Burawoy to appear in ASA Footnotes #soctwitter #socsky #sociology

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Statement re Michael Burawoy obit

Statement from Ruth Milkman re commissioned obituary of Michael Burawoy to appear in ASA Footnotes: Dear All, As many of you know, I published a tribute to Michael Burawoy in Jacobin shortly after ...

docs.google.com

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Jamie Driscoll @jamiedriscoll.bsky.social · May 9

A lad called Ryan told me he would vote Reform. In 5 minutes I learned he wanted to end homelessness, help poor families, and help vulnerable people get off drugs. Not a word about immigration. He just couldn't vote Labour after so may lies. My latest article in The Canary.

The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · May 9

After the local elections, why are politicians still not listening?

It wasn’t Labour’s stance on immigration that lost them these local elections. It was their stance on truth.
www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...

After the local elections, why are politicians still not listening?

It wasn’t Labour’s stance on immigration that lost them these local elections. It was their stance on truth.

www.thecanary.co

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · May 8

staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch

🧢 @trumpfile.org

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · Jul 18

'We' didn't build British culture. We inherited it from immigrants & we need to remember that.

When we talk about British culture, let’s avoid the balance sheet approach. Let’s instead celebrate the good, but not repeat the bad, says ex-Labour Mayor Jamie Driscoll
www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...

'We' didn't build British culture. We inherited it from immigrants - and we need to remember that.

When we talk about British culture, let’s avoid the balance sheet approach. Let’s instead celebrate the good, and never to repeat the bad

www.thecanary.co

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Robert MacDonald @rfmacdonald.bsky.social · Jul 10

Ok, you’ve got me, just signed & paid up 🫡✊🏽

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Majority @majorityuk.bsky.social · Jul 10

“The establishment have their billionaire newspapers and GB News.

The 99% have mass movements.

While you’re waiting for the new party, join Majority.”

@jamiedriscoll.bsky.social on why now is the time to get active! Sign up below 👇🏼
@thecanaryuk.bsky.social
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

We need to replace our broken system with grassroots democracy. A new left party will help.

Former Metro Mayor Jamie Driscoll is involved in the Corbyn/Sultana new left party - and here, he gives us the latest updates

www.thecanary.co

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Majority @majorityuk.bsky.social · Jul 9

North East mayor Kim McGuinness was elected on a manifesto where she stated:

“I’ll have a simple measure of success - reducing child poverty in the North East.”

How’s that working out Kim?

We think there’s an alternative. Join us. Sign up in comments 👇🏼

Image of a child, only the torso is visible. The child wears a blue T-shirt and holds a fluffy toy. Below the headline reads: Child benefits
Children in England living in almost Dickensian levels of poverty'
Children's commissioner says any Labour strategy to tackle deprivation must scrap the two-child benefit cap

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Robert MacDonald @rfmacdonald.bsky.social · Jul 7

Day out in #York today @yorkuniversity.bsky.social to hear Aniela Wenham, Katherine Smith & Antonios Roumpakis present findings on #youth #place #mentalhealth
@youthstudies.bsky.social
(Top Biscuits 👏🏽)

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · Jul 3

Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party.

Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.

Join us. The time is now.

Sign up here to stay updated: actionnetwork.org/forms/join-t...

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Robert MacDonald @rfmacdonald.bsky.social · Jun 25

Excellent walk on the Simonside Hills, #Northumberland today with @profwebster.bsky.social
Prize to whoever deciphers the cap x2 initials 😄

Photo of two elderly gentlemen with beards and ‘baseball caps’, bearing initials MEGA & WWT

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Kate Aronoff @katearonoff.bsky.social · Jun 18

Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

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Majority @majorityuk.bsky.social · Jun 13

🚨Longbenton and Benton by-election

Last Saturday we had nearly 50 Majority, Green and North Tyneside Community Independent members leafleting the ward!

Let’s beat that tomorrow.

Help get Green candidate Jim Howard elected!

All details below 👇🏼

majorityuk.org/content.aspx...

Crowd of 49 smiling activists posing with Green Party leaflets. Trees in the background.

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Robert MacDonald @rfmacdonald.bsky.social · Jun 11

Big turn out for @ucu.org.uk @newcastleucu.bsky.social demonstration against redundancies at @newcastleuni.bsky.social & just about everywhere else. ✊🏽
#DogsOnPicketLines
#DogsOfBlueSky
#Universities
#BeardPower

Hundreds of demonstrators outside Newcastle civic centre

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UCU Newcastle University @newcastleucu.bsky.social · Jun 4

Updated location please share this one instead! Civic centre start!

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