David Klemperer
@dmk1793.bsky.social
Historian, researcher, and co-editor of @renewaljournal.bsky.social
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In today’s episode David & @dmk1793.bsky.social try to answer some of the hundreds of questions, comments and suggestions we have had about this series. How do we know if democracy is broken? Have we ever had a real democracy anyway?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
In today’s episode David & @dmk1793.bsky.social try to answer some of the hundreds of questions, comments and suggestions we have had about this series. How do we know if democracy is broken? Have we ever had a real democracy anyway?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Really enjoyed recording this discussion with David Runciman, covering threats to democracy, early 20thc theories of oligarchy, how algorithmic social media is changing politics, the problem with 19thc approaches to suffrage - and much, much more!
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Pressuring foreign governments to go after these accounts & bot farms should be a new foreign policy agenda item for an international anti-authoritarian/anti-fascist political alliance.
Coordinate whenever these parties are in power to crush these mental pollution factories that target democracy.
Coordinate whenever these parties are in power to crush these mental pollution factories that target democracy.
"This has all been especially painful for X users who are, as a baseline, extremely racist. And they are now suffering through the psychic torment of learning that users, predominately from the Global South, are behind some of the bigger right-wing accounts on the site."
Republicans astroturfed themselves
Read to the end for a good Thanksgiving reminder
www.garbageday.email
November 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Pressuring foreign governments to go after these accounts & bot farms should be a new foreign policy agenda item for an international anti-authoritarian/anti-fascist political alliance.
Coordinate whenever these parties are in power to crush these mental pollution factories that target democracy.
Coordinate whenever these parties are in power to crush these mental pollution factories that target democracy.
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A bajillion years ago (around 2016), I was desperate for work and a client asked me to write an ad-lib listicle generator for a defunct news site he still owned and hoped to juice some last ad dollars out of. "11 times Jennifer Aniston was on fleek" ...just inane shit like that. Well...
November 24, 2025 at 9:05 AM
A bajillion years ago (around 2016), I was desperate for work and a client asked me to write an ad-lib listicle generator for a defunct news site he still owned and hoped to juice some last ad dollars out of. "11 times Jennifer Aniston was on fleek" ...just inane shit like that. Well...
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Here’s this week’s column, in which I beg the chancellor to go big this week - on both headroom and narrative - so that by next year, if she’s still here to deliver it, the budget will be boring, because we all know the plan 🙏🏻
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Rachel Reeves, please, let’s make budgets boring again | Heather Stewart
Budgets need to be reassuringly dull with no repeat of this year’s long, drawn-out and chaotic buildup
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Here’s this week’s column, in which I beg the chancellor to go big this week - on both headroom and narrative - so that by next year, if she’s still here to deliver it, the budget will be boring, because we all know the plan 🙏🏻
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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After the ‘summer of flags’ the left needs to engage with England and Englishness
England for the English? — Chartist
John Denham examines the flag phenomenon, why Labour is getting its response to England dangerously wrong and why it should develop a programme of genuine national and local democracy After the “summe...
www.chartist.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
After the ‘summer of flags’ the left needs to engage with England and Englishness
No one has ever looked at JD that way (and that’s why he’s like that)
November 21, 2025 at 10:47 PM
No one has ever looked at JD that way (and that’s why he’s like that)
Zohran Mamdani did to Trump through sheer charm what it took Elon Musk a thousand engineers to do to Grok
November 21, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Zohran Mamdani did to Trump through sheer charm what it took Elon Musk a thousand engineers to do to Grok
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Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
November 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
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I think this means he now holds our school year's record, as the previous classmate I was aware of only got 7 years for aggravated assault
Farage pal and former Reform Welsh leader Nathan Gill has been sentenced to 10.5 years in prison for taking Russian bribes.
November 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I think this means he now holds our school year's record, as the previous classmate I was aware of only got 7 years for aggravated assault
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This is one of the changes in the UK media landscape that should be more remarked on: the fact that being a very open, proud, outright racist is no longer a bar to being a pundit on some TV stations (in this case GBN and Talk TV).
Lucy White advocates a ban on "non-natives" from office, citing Rishi Sunak and Priti Patel.
So she is referring to UK-born ethnic minority citizens. (Her argument would apply equally to Shabana Mahmood, Kemi Badenoch, Suella Braverman and others)
Lucy White continues to be a GB News regular
So she is referring to UK-born ethnic minority citizens. (Her argument would apply equally to Shabana Mahmood, Kemi Badenoch, Suella Braverman and others)
Lucy White continues to be a GB News regular
November 21, 2025 at 11:12 AM
This is one of the changes in the UK media landscape that should be more remarked on: the fact that being a very open, proud, outright racist is no longer a bar to being a pundit on some TV stations (in this case GBN and Talk TV).
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I find insane that shabana mahmood is going out there and saying "white british people cannot be asked to accept too many of us outsiders, it is not in their nature, and their pushback against all of us is to be placated". What???
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood made more explicit her argument that when ethnic minorities face racism, "we have no choice but to ask: what is the cause of our division"
Her answer is the level of net migration, 2019-23 causes racism. (She on Monday said it was caused by the scale of asylum)
Her answer is the level of net migration, 2019-23 causes racism. (She on Monday said it was caused by the scale of asylum)
November 21, 2025 at 9:47 AM
I find insane that shabana mahmood is going out there and saying "white british people cannot be asked to accept too many of us outsiders, it is not in their nature, and their pushback against all of us is to be placated". What???
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This (from: www.ft.com/content/75ce...) is something you can *feel* if you are in the UK, especially if you've experienced living abroad. But infuriatingly successive governments and our entire media are somehow absolutely committed to suggesting anyone who wants to change this is the devil...
November 21, 2025 at 7:38 AM
This (from: www.ft.com/content/75ce...) is something you can *feel* if you are in the UK, especially if you've experienced living abroad. But infuriatingly successive governments and our entire media are somehow absolutely committed to suggesting anyone who wants to change this is the devil...
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Yep. You get what you pay for.
This (from: www.ft.com/content/75ce...) is something you can *feel* if you are in the UK, especially if you've experienced living abroad. But infuriatingly successive governments and our entire media are somehow absolutely committed to suggesting anyone who wants to change this is the devil...
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Yep. You get what you pay for.
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Elon Musk appears to be the most insecure human being in human history. Money can't buy you love.
I asked grok who was the better role model for humanity, Jesus Christ or Elon Musk. GUESS WHAT.
November 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Elon Musk appears to be the most insecure human being in human history. Money can't buy you love.
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What's happened to X has been a disaster for public discourse in the United Kingdom BUT it is also just very funny to see just how much some people will not really *notice* how degraded their media environment has become.
November 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
What's happened to X has been a disaster for public discourse in the United Kingdom BUT it is also just very funny to see just how much some people will not really *notice* how degraded their media environment has become.
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you get the feeling that PEG and Jack Posobiec will not handle an outright papal encyclical on immigration well
November 20, 2025 at 7:46 PM
you get the feeling that PEG and Jack Posobiec will not handle an outright papal encyclical on immigration well
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Also: most of the Labour voters in these regions do not own such homes! Labour’s electoral coalition skews heavily towards the young - young people are either renting or living in cheaper houses than this!
I sometimes feel like I am going mad.
Owning a £1.5m home is not normal in London or the South East of England.
Owning a £1.5m home is not normal in London or the South East of England.
November 20, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Also: most of the Labour voters in these regions do not own such homes! Labour’s electoral coalition skews heavily towards the young - young people are either renting or living in cheaper houses than this!
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This month I travelled to Ukraine, visiting Kharkiv and Kyiv, to learn about how trade unions and left wing activists are mobilising in wartime
www.opendemocracy.net/en/from-fron...
www.opendemocracy.net/en/from-fron...
How trade unions are fighting for Ukraine's future
www.opendemocracy.net
November 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
This month I travelled to Ukraine, visiting Kharkiv and Kyiv, to learn about how trade unions and left wing activists are mobilising in wartime
www.opendemocracy.net/en/from-fron...
www.opendemocracy.net/en/from-fron...
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Unions and environmental groups have urged the government to boost funding for key environmental regulators in the Budget
In a letter seen by @politicshome.bsky.social, they say regulators are “builders not blockers” and called for major investment to restore capacity across the sector
In a letter seen by @politicshome.bsky.social, they say regulators are “builders not blockers” and called for major investment to restore capacity across the sector
Give Environment Regulators More Funding To Unclog Planning Delays, Government Told
Unions and environmental groups have urged the government to boost funding for key environmental regulators in the Budget, warning that chronic und...
www.politicshome.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Unions and environmental groups have urged the government to boost funding for key environmental regulators in the Budget
In a letter seen by @politicshome.bsky.social, they say regulators are “builders not blockers” and called for major investment to restore capacity across the sector
In a letter seen by @politicshome.bsky.social, they say regulators are “builders not blockers” and called for major investment to restore capacity across the sector
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Growing backbench pressure about how government uses X
I hope this pressure can link up with pressure to recognise strength of prima facie evidence thst X is in breach of legal duties (in systemic failure of its complaints system to be compliant with UK law)
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
I hope this pressure can link up with pressure to recognise strength of prima facie evidence thst X is in breach of legal duties (in systemic failure of its complaints system to be compliant with UK law)
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Labour MPs Call For A More Serious Review Of The Government's Use Of X
Labour MPs are calling for ministers to take control of decisions over the government’s continued use of X, as concerns grow about the platform’s s...
www.politicshome.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Growing backbench pressure about how government uses X
I hope this pressure can link up with pressure to recognise strength of prima facie evidence thst X is in breach of legal duties (in systemic failure of its complaints system to be compliant with UK law)
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
I hope this pressure can link up with pressure to recognise strength of prima facie evidence thst X is in breach of legal duties (in systemic failure of its complaints system to be compliant with UK law)
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
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Employers! Avoid this problem by simply not firing someone an hour after they start a job you have presumably selected them for.
The Employment Rights Bill could allow one to start a job at 9 a.m. and claim unfair dismissal an hour later.
✍️ Michael Simmons
✍️ Michael Simmons
The greatest threat to the economy? The Employment Rights Bill
On Monday night, former England manager Gareth Southgate joined MPs and philanthropists for an event in Westminster described as ‘the Oscars of the charity world’. Cabinet ministers Lisa Nandy and...
www.spectator.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Employers! Avoid this problem by simply not firing someone an hour after they start a job you have presumably selected them for.
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From @philipjcowley.bsky.social - thanks to a happy coincidence we have a much more rigorous than usual understanding of the impact of Keir Starmer's "Island of Strangers" speech. As Cowley puts it "It is not obvious this was the intended outcome"
November 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
From @philipjcowley.bsky.social - thanks to a happy coincidence we have a much more rigorous than usual understanding of the impact of Keir Starmer's "Island of Strangers" speech. As Cowley puts it "It is not obvious this was the intended outcome"
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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A society that was doing well culturally, politically, intellectually would show zero interest in Curtis Yarvin
November 19, 2025 at 11:27 AM
A society that was doing well culturally, politically, intellectually would show zero interest in Curtis Yarvin