Liam Conway
@liamos85.bsky.social
PhD student in English and Creative Writing at the University of Chichester. Writing about Robin Hood and cultural and historical representation.
Critical Theory, Marxism and all that Jazz
Critical Theory, Marxism and all that Jazz
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Imagine living in Britain,where pretty much every major institution has been culpable in a historic sexual abuse scandal, and believing its the foreign cultures that are a danger to women and girls
I’m sorry, but this is utter bollocks from Katie Lam. If Britain culture is truly built on the belief ‘that women are equal to men with personal, bodily and sexual autonomy’ there wouldn’t need to be specific measures taken to tackle misogyny in schools, would there?
December 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Imagine living in Britain,where pretty much every major institution has been culpable in a historic sexual abuse scandal, and believing its the foreign cultures that are a danger to women and girls
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Episode 20 is now available with video!
With maps, reenactments and beautiful aerial footage, find out how the world of Achaemenid Persian empire rose, flourished and finally fell.
With maps, reenactments and beautiful aerial footage, find out how the world of Achaemenid Persian empire rose, flourished and finally fell.
20. Persia - An Empire in Ashes
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December 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Episode 20 is now available with video!
With maps, reenactments and beautiful aerial footage, find out how the world of Achaemenid Persian empire rose, flourished and finally fell.
With maps, reenactments and beautiful aerial footage, find out how the world of Achaemenid Persian empire rose, flourished and finally fell.
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This could have been written by David Goodhart, ten years ago. Depressing and predictable with stock phrases about "legitimate expectations". Shorter: "unless we implement the policies of the populist right, the populist right will win." A human-rights lawyer ....
We must protect our borders to defend our democracies. Here's how
This is our strong message to our friends in Europe. Unless responsible governments reflect their citizens’ concerns, populists will win, say British PM Keir Starmer and Danish PM Mette Frederiksen
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
This could have been written by David Goodhart, ten years ago. Depressing and predictable with stock phrases about "legitimate expectations". Shorter: "unless we implement the policies of the populist right, the populist right will win." A human-rights lawyer ....
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December 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Everyone involved knows Mel is a virulently racist fascist lunatic with horrendous views on the use of massive, murderous violence against civilians. But there she still is on Sky News, because her crackpottery is well within acceptable opinion, for our political/media class.
December 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Everyone involved knows Mel is a virulently racist fascist lunatic with horrendous views on the use of massive, murderous violence against civilians. But there she still is on Sky News, because her crackpottery is well within acceptable opinion, for our political/media class.
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Hey everyone, here's the news, if you aren't a high earner, entrepreneur or a "skilled frontline worker" (whatever the fuck that means) the "Labour" Party says you aren't contributing, you're a taker!
December 7, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Hey everyone, here's the news, if you aren't a high earner, entrepreneur or a "skilled frontline worker" (whatever the fuck that means) the "Labour" Party says you aren't contributing, you're a taker!
Sad to hear about the passing of Asad Haider, I was fortunate enough to meet him at HM Conference 2013 when Viewpoint ran a session on Workers Inquiry, which was excellent. Viewpoint continued to publish some amazing work with Asad as an editor. RIP
viewpointmag.com/2013/09/27/w...
viewpointmag.com/2013/09/27/w...
Workers' Inquiry: A Genealogy - Viewpoint Magazine
In 1880, La Revue socialiste asked an aging Karl Marx to draft a questionnaire to be circulated among the French working class. Called “A Workers' Inquiry,” it was a list of exactly 101 detailed quest...
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December 6, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Sad to hear about the passing of Asad Haider, I was fortunate enough to meet him at HM Conference 2013 when Viewpoint ran a session on Workers Inquiry, which was excellent. Viewpoint continued to publish some amazing work with Asad as an editor. RIP
viewpointmag.com/2013/09/27/w...
viewpointmag.com/2013/09/27/w...
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Forgot to plug this one since I was sick
Episode 6 | Introduction to the History of Left Communism
-- Critique of the Podcast Form by @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social --
“Introduction to the history of left-communism, specifically the German/Dutch (councilist), Italian (Bordigist) and French (ultraleft) traditions.”
-- Critique of the Podcast Form by @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social --
“Introduction to the history of left-communism, specifically the German/Dutch (councilist), Italian (Bordigist) and French (ultraleft) traditions.”
Episode 6: Introduction to the History of Left Communism
Podcast-Folge · Critique of the Podcast Form · 26.11.2025 · 1 Std. 26 Min.
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November 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Forgot to plug this one since I was sick
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The last HQ of the British Batallion in the Ebro front before their withdrawl on 21 Sept 1938. Shared with comanders of Yiddish speaking Botwin company. Accents of London, Liverpool and Glasgow with those of Warsaw, Lwów and Krakow. Thanks to @TerraEnlla for showing me. Just outside Corbera d'Ebre.
December 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The last HQ of the British Batallion in the Ebro front before their withdrawl on 21 Sept 1938. Shared with comanders of Yiddish speaking Botwin company. Accents of London, Liverpool and Glasgow with those of Warsaw, Lwów and Krakow. Thanks to @TerraEnlla for showing me. Just outside Corbera d'Ebre.
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"We would have punished these guys if it hadn't taken us 4 decades to get round to it" is just a fantastic summary of police accountability in Britain
12 police officers would have faced gross misconduct cases over Hillsborough, says watchdog
12 police officers would have faced gross misconduct cases over Hillsborough, says watchdog
None of the former officers accused by the IOPC will face disciplinary proceedings because they have all retired
Twelve police officers would have faced disciplinary cases of gross misconduct for a catalogue of professional failings relating to the Hillsborough disaster if they were still serving, the police watchdog has said.
However, no former officer named by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) will face disciplinary proceedings because they have all retired. Some, including Peter Wright, the chief constable of South Yorkshire police at the time of the 1989 disaster, have died. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
"We would have punished these guys if it hadn't taken us 4 decades to get round to it" is just a fantastic summary of police accountability in Britain
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In 2025, rebel nuns were sent to nun prison for a crime they didn't commit. These nuns promptly escaped from a care home to the Austrian underground.
Now, they survive as nuns of fortune. If you’ve a problem, if no one else can help & if you can find them, maybe you can hire The N-Team.
Now, they survive as nuns of fortune. If you’ve a problem, if no one else can help & if you can find them, maybe you can hire The N-Team.
November 29, 2025 at 8:42 AM
In 2025, rebel nuns were sent to nun prison for a crime they didn't commit. These nuns promptly escaped from a care home to the Austrian underground.
Now, they survive as nuns of fortune. If you’ve a problem, if no one else can help & if you can find them, maybe you can hire The N-Team.
Now, they survive as nuns of fortune. If you’ve a problem, if no one else can help & if you can find them, maybe you can hire The N-Team.
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Just cancel your Netflix subscription and stop buying avocados. You'll be fine
November 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Just cancel your Netflix subscription and stop buying avocados. You'll be fine
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It is IMO not possible to operate any kind of meaningful democracy when your national press is a joke and a travesty, but your mileage on that may vary. I think it’s incontestable that it is impossible to govern well and effectively, while being in hock to these pantomime clowns.
November 27, 2025 at 8:46 AM
It is IMO not possible to operate any kind of meaningful democracy when your national press is a joke and a travesty, but your mileage on that may vary. I think it’s incontestable that it is impossible to govern well and effectively, while being in hock to these pantomime clowns.
I find it strange how pundits and reporters talk of wealth taxes or even basic increases in high earnings tax like it's never happened before or impossible. Post second world war through to the 1980s tax rates were far higher on high earnings than now.
The Labour Government: there to serve the
November 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I find it strange how pundits and reporters talk of wealth taxes or even basic increases in high earnings tax like it's never happened before or impossible. Post second world war through to the 1980s tax rates were far higher on high earnings than now.
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VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it
November 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it
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Remarkably simple solution. If you don't want the backing of the far-right for your immigration policy, or to have people point out that you have their backing, don't base your immigration policy on the far-right's rhetoric and ideology.
www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/shab...
www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/shab...
Shabana Mahmood hits out at Tommy Robinson’s backing of Labour’s migration policy
Shabana Mahmood has said she finds it “deeply offensive” when MPs quote Tommy Robinson at her in the Commons, after the far-right activist backed the government’s sweeping asylum reforms. Asked about ...
www.independent.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Remarkably simple solution. If you don't want the backing of the far-right for your immigration policy, or to have people point out that you have their backing, don't base your immigration policy on the far-right's rhetoric and ideology.
www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/shab...
www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/shab...
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The first episode of House of Cards was broadcast on this day in 1990.
November 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The first episode of House of Cards was broadcast on this day in 1990.
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I do not understand those still attempting to defend Labour. Every day the gap between them and Reform, on immigration, trans and non-binary rights, disabled individuals etc shrinks. Human rights have to apply to everyone or they end up applying to no-one. #r4today
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November 14, 2025 at 7:26 AM
I do not understand those still attempting to defend Labour. Every day the gap between them and Reform, on immigration, trans and non-binary rights, disabled individuals etc shrinks. Human rights have to apply to everyone or they end up applying to no-one. #r4today
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news.sky.com/story/home-s...
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POD EP 5: A Conversation About Dialectical Biology, with Mac Parker and Anatarah Bin AlKaf—on Richard Lewontin and Richard Levins' "Dialectical Biologist"!
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November 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
POD EP 5: A Conversation About Dialectical Biology, with Mac Parker and Anatarah Bin AlKaf—on Richard Lewontin and Richard Levins' "Dialectical Biologist"!
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Nothing cheers me up like a new podcast from Fall of Civilization
⛰️🏔️ Episode 20 is now live! 🏔️⛰️
In this episode, we look at the amazing story of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.
Find out how the world's largest empire rose, flourished, and finally fell in ash and flame.
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRYd...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6AeH...
In this episode, we look at the amazing story of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.
Find out how the world's largest empire rose, flourished, and finally fell in ash and flame.
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRYd...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6AeH...
November 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Nothing cheers me up like a new podcast from Fall of Civilization
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‘I once planned to sue the bbc for suggesting I encouraged an insurrection the time I encouraged an insurrection on live tv’
November 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
‘I once planned to sue the bbc for suggesting I encouraged an insurrection the time I encouraged an insurrection on live tv’
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John C. Reilly on working with Daniel Day-Lewis on Gangs of New York:
‘He invited me to his house & he was so lovely & our kids were playing & I thought I got him all wrong.
Then on Monday I saw him on set & said ‘thanks for Saturday’ & he said ‘Fuck off, Jack’ using my character’s name.’
‘He invited me to his house & he was so lovely & our kids were playing & I thought I got him all wrong.
Then on Monday I saw him on set & said ‘thanks for Saturday’ & he said ‘Fuck off, Jack’ using my character’s name.’
November 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
John C. Reilly on working with Daniel Day-Lewis on Gangs of New York:
‘He invited me to his house & he was so lovely & our kids were playing & I thought I got him all wrong.
Then on Monday I saw him on set & said ‘thanks for Saturday’ & he said ‘Fuck off, Jack’ using my character’s name.’
‘He invited me to his house & he was so lovely & our kids were playing & I thought I got him all wrong.
Then on Monday I saw him on set & said ‘thanks for Saturday’ & he said ‘Fuck off, Jack’ using my character’s name.’
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Great news - one of the best mini-series ever with a dazzling & eccentric screenplay by Troy Kennedy Martin & superb direction by Martin Campbell is back on iplayer.
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Edge of Darkness - Series 1: 1. Compassionate Leave
Thriller set in a world of obsessive state security. Ronald Craven is haunted by the murder of his daughter and begins his own investigation into her death.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Great news - one of the best mini-series ever with a dazzling & eccentric screenplay by Troy Kennedy Martin & superb direction by Martin Campbell is back on iplayer.
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Images from the films of the remarkable director Peter Watkins - RIP
The War Game (1966)
La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000)
Privilege (1967)
Punishment Park (1971)
The War Game (1966)
La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000)
Privilege (1967)
Punishment Park (1971)
October 31, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Images from the films of the remarkable director Peter Watkins - RIP
The War Game (1966)
La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000)
Privilege (1967)
Punishment Park (1971)
The War Game (1966)
La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000)
Privilege (1967)
Punishment Park (1971)