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Anthony Barnett
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‘Notes on Now’ every month in Byline Times, Co-founder openDemocracy Led Charter 88 from 1988-2005. Iron Britannia; The Lure of Greatness; Taking Control! Etc Online articles in Authory.
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stephenharkin @stephenharkin.bsky.social · 2d
Every single day you live you make a difference in the world and you get to choose the difference that you make ...
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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Anthony Barnett @anthonybarnett.bsky.social · 9h
great report by Miles Ellingham and Jack Jeffery (neither it seems on here) www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
The truth about the small-boats crisis
What Nigel Farage won’t tell you
www.newstatesman.com
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23h
"We haven’t come all this way, Katwala says, “just for Elon Musk, a man born into an apartheid state, who’s polarised America, to come and start a civil war here by breaking the law"
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Sunder Katwala on race, patriotism and flag-waving: ‘The far right is vocal and angry because it is shrinking’
The director of British Future has spent his career trying to find common ground when it comes to race and immigration. He describes his own experience of racism – and why he’s still hopeful for the U...
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Anthony Barnett @anthonybarnett.bsky.social · 1d
I've registered my interest in the class action against Anthropic for training its AI by stealing from Iron Britannia www.faber.co.uk/product/9780... (one for @firstdataunion.org)
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Anthony Barnett @anthonybarnett.bsky.social · 1d
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Kevin Kibble @kevinkibble.bsky.social · 1d
Another catastrophic gaff at the Conference nobody is talking about
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d
Dear Gods of all that is stupid...

IT'S REAL.
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John Denham @jydenham.bsky.social · 2d
The very modernity of the nation state means that today’s nations embody much older ideas of nationhood with deep roots long before the emergence of democracy.
Changing and contested ideas of nationhood
This post explores how our ideas of democratic nation states can conflict with the current reality.
nationstateandpolitics.substack.com
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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d
Zack Polanski was the only major party leader not to be interviewed on the Laura Kuennsberg Show and he said that it’s likely because of his pro-Palestine and anti-genocide politics, which is obviously true.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d
The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.

This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester
BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview
The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show
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Raj Thamotheram @rajtham.bsky.social · 1d
"One leader tried to bridge the political centre and the neoliberal-authoritarian right; another has (however imperfectly) bridged the political centre and the emancipatory left"
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Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social · 2d
There's a fascinating case study to be done on the different strategies of Macron and Sánchez. Both emerged, against the odds, from centrist milieux in the mid-2010s to lead their countries since 2017/18. But their fates are totally different.
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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 3d
#Brexit 👇 #ThenAndNow 👇

@profjacob.bsky.social @pmdfoster.bsky.social #ICYMI
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 7d
Why is Starmer becoming more confident criticising Brexit? Because quietly, without any great drama, a consensus has been reached. It's a disaster inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...
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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 7d
Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB7w...
2025 Robin Cook Memorial Lecture
YouTube video by Compass
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Anthony Barnett @anthonybarnett.bsky.social · 5d
Extraordinary good piece by @willoyd.bsky.social on Gore Vidal! www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...
Gore Vidal: American prophet
The writer understood better than anyone how far the United States was going to fall
www.newstatesman.com
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Anthony Barnett @anthonybarnett.bsky.social · 7d
awesome political writing from @labourlewis.bsky.social on the state we are in (tho @adamramsay.bsky.social substack on the corporate capture of civil service boards deserved a mention)
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/29/t...
The Integrity Gap: How We Built the Authoritarian Future We Fear
Labour MP Clive Lewis argues that the collapse of public trust in Government is the product of corporate power being wired into the architecture of the state
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Anthony Barnett @anthonybarnett.bsky.social · 9d
Adding this to my thread on Tony Harrison which is here:
bsky.app/profile/anth...

www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/feb/...
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Anthony Barnett @anthonybarnett.bsky.social · 9d
This too www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/feb/...
Laureate's block
I'm appalled to see newspapers use my name as 'widely-tipped' for a job I'd never seek. Swans come in Domestic, Mute, and Tame and no swan-upper's going to nick my beak
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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 9d
NEW

The Kneecap prosecution collapsed because police and prosecutors did not take terrorism law seriously

Where "a technicality" hides a fundamental error

By me

Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/the-kneeca...

Personal blog:
davidallengreen.com/2025/09/the-...
At the bottom of this mess is a simple point: the police and the prosecutors were careless with terrorism law and careless about its express safeguards. Things were left to the last minute and a consent (which may or may not have been given) - a step imposed by parliament as a crucial step - was not obtained. And this mishap meant that the Chief Magistrate of England and Wales had no jurisdiction to hear what was on the face of it a terrorism case. Police and the prosecutors should remember that this is terrorism law that they are dealing with. Terrorism law should be taken seriously.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 11d
"Like so many of these so-called think tanks, the Tony Blair Institute dances to the tune of its funders"

Was so great to talk about Blair, Larry Ellison, Keir Stamer and corporate capture with @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/george-mon...
George Monbiot on Blair, Starmer and the capture of democracy
I spoke with the celebrated journalist and activist about ‘junk tanks’, dark money - and how we can fight back
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Adam Ramsay @adamramsay.bsky.social · 9d
REVEALED: the lead non-exec director of the ministry of Transport is the chairman of a company licensed to export arms components to Israel: open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...
REVEALED: The big polluter and arms industry bosses overseeing government departments
Two in three Whitehall department non-executive directors have corporate backgrounds - and only one is a trade unionist - analysis released ahead of Labour conference reveals.
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loopylaura.bsky.social @loopylaura.bsky.social · 9d
"Labour MP Clive Lewis says that these findings show how “Britain is being run by a shadow board room”. Green Party leader Zack Polanski said they show that, “when we see how the upper layers of government work, people have been largely excluded and business interests ushered in.”"
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Adam Ramsay @adamramsay.bsky.social · 9d
REVEALED: the lead non-exec director of the ministry of Transport is the chairman of a company licensed to export arms components to Israel: open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...
REVEALED: The big polluter and arms industry bosses overseeing government departments
Two in three Whitehall department non-executive directors have corporate backgrounds - and only one is a trade unionist - analysis released ahead of Labour conference reveals.
open.substack.com
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Anthony Barnett @anthonybarnett.bsky.social · 10d
And as a playwright. The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus was one of the stand out theatrical experiences of my life. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tra...
The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus - Wikipedia
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Anthony Barnett @anthonybarnett.bsky.social · 10d
It was reading Harrison that revealed to me how we too could have poetry that spoke to our time and articulated the pains and truths of class and work, especially those on his father especially 'Marked with a D'
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Anthony Barnett @anthonybarnett.bsky.social · 10d
My family favorite is his wonderful celebration A Kumquat for John Keats (kumquat7.blogspot.com/2004/09/kumq...) a joyful echo of his lifelong refrain on how opposites merge and the unified divides.
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Anthony Barnett @anthonybarnett.bsky.social · 10d
Salute to Tony Harrison, the great poet and playwright. You can see him reading V here - it's in four parts but seems to be the full film, that caused tabloid disgust at using 'fuck' and 'cunt', terms whose hollow spirit they had generated www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPut... 🧵
Harrison V Part 1
YouTube video by realthedeal33
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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 12d
This is superb, giving lie to the idea that the rise of the far right is simply a problem of bad/mis-information.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...
Claire Wilmot | Fascistic Dream Machines
Part of the misunderstanding of the deepfake threat stems from the idea that it is a problem of bad information, rather...
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 13d
Okay - so #TheHack ends on the select committee and the cliffhanger about whether Nick Davies can save the Guardian. It’s now going to pivot to the ‘most investigated murder in British history’. If you want to know about that go here

Www.untoldmurder.com
UNTOLD: The Daniel Morgan Murder
The Daniel Morgan Murder. Private Detectives. Corrupt Cops. Rupert Murdhoch's News of the World
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