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Mike Tucker
@michaeltucker.bsky.social
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Retired from IT, eco-socialist and a big fan of Karl Marx but, not necessarily of Marxists or elements of the Marxist tradition.
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 6d
My essay on stupidology (originally published in N+1) is in today's Guardian www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...
A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0
If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might th...
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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 27d
“The escalation from Trump One to Trump Two has seen irrationality spread from the deliberative public sphere to flood the veins of government.” In our brand-new issue: an anatomy of stupidity by @will-davies.bsky.social.
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...
Stupidology | William Davies
The challenge posed by this political crisis is how to take the stupidity seriously without reducing it to a wholly mental or psychiatric, let alone genetic, phenomenon. Stupidity can be understood as...
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Double Down News @doubledown.news · 7d
EXPOSED: Starmer, Epstein, Mandelson & the REAL Prime Minister
EXPOSED: Starmer, Epstein, Mandelson & the REAL Prime Minister
You won’t see this on the BBC
www.doubledown.news
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Mike Tucker @michaeltucker.bsky.social · 5d
The transition from the liberal international order created after 1945, that was violated de facto by the USA, to the contorted linguistic and legal justifications for violations from the Great War on Terror, to its abandonment by Trump.

www.thenation.com/article/worl...
Why Trump’s Venezuela Attacks Matter So Much
They signal a US empire increasingly willing to dispense with even the perfunctory legal legitimation that past presidents leaned on.
www.thenation.com
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Mike Tucker @michaeltucker.bsky.social · 9d
A very good judgement of the machinations of Morgan McSweeney.
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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 9d
On a curious and failed effort to rehabilitate Labour Together
The Banality of Morgan McSweeney
I see there was a strange effort to rehabilitate Labour Together, the right wing think tank/pressure group set up by Morgan McSweeney as his...
averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 15d
"Having silenced most institutional dissent within his first nine months, what could Trump accomplish in the next fourteen?" My column. www.ft.com/content/a284...
America’s accelerating exit from itself
After the Kirk murder, Trump is pulverising the country’s founding principles with astonishing ease
www.ft.com
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 20d
We said this was your party — and we meant it.

We have just launched our membership.

Join us and be a part of history: yourparty-membership.uk
THIS IS YOUR PARTY
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Mike Tucker @michaeltucker.bsky.social · 22d
3). Overall they wanted to forget about rather than to glory in the boys own story and this nation’s heroic island story. More often they would compare the health service before and after the creation of the NHS, a different island story. Excellent article!.
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Mike Tucker @michaeltucker.bsky.social · 22d
2). Her sisters husbands and brothers fought in various theaters of the war. My father served in the merchant navy during the war. Hardly ever did they talk about the experience of the war.
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Mike Tucker @michaeltucker.bsky.social · 22d
1). Jenrick is making scared the memory of his grandmother for propaganda purposes. I am of the generation of his parents, my parents generation, like my mother and her many sisters worked in converted textile factories to manufacture shells for the war.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 23d
NEW | on banging on about WW2 and making up news…

BOBBY JENRICK VS. BERTOLT BRECHT

Robert Jenrick and The Daily Telegraph are banging on about history teaching but their memories don't stretch as far as 2013.

brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/bobby-jenr...
Bobby Jenrick vs Bertolt Brecht
Robert Jenrick and The Daily Telegraph are banging on about history teaching but their memories don't stretch as far as 2013.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 25d
I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
www.thenation.com
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 25d
My Weekend FT big read. www.ft.com/content/f5df...
America’s dangerous descent into mutual loathing
The murder of Charlie Kirk is part of a new cycle of political violence with echoes of the 1960s. But this time, leading figures on the right are inciting revenge
www.ft.com
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 29d
Through Israel and the ideology of Zionism, western elites reinvented their ugly, racist system of control and sold it as a ‘moral’ cause. Now the game is up.

My latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza...
In Gaza, western colonialism has been unmasked
Through Israel and the ideology of Zionism, western elites reinvented their ugly, racist system of control and sold it as a ‘moral’ cause. Now the game is up
www.middleeasteye.net
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 28d
NEW | a look at how a ‘new’ think-tank got coverage…

THE BBC, THE NHS, AND A ‘NEW’ THINK-TANK

A case study in how vested interests rebrand themselves as "think-tanks".

brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-bbc-th...
The BBC, the NHS and a 'new' think-tank
A case study in how vested interests rebrand themselves as "think-tanks".
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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · Sep 5
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Authoritative to authoritarian: rightwing radicalisation is blurring the Conservatives’ political red lines | Andy Beckett
Listen to the inflammatory language around immigration, multiculturalism, press freedom – that old notion of British ‘moderation’ has gone for ever, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett
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Kai Heron @kaiheron.bsky.social · Sep 3
This piece is now free to read. @kmilb.bsky.social, @bertrussell.bsky.social and I argue that popular power and social property - rather than merely nationalisation - are important goals for working class struggles today. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/08/the-...
The Slow Reappearance of the Future
In a world where economic stagnation and ecological deterioration threaten our very existence, we need to envisage a socialist transition based on the radical democratisation of utilities and governan...
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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · Sep 2
"... Labour's defences against Polanski's eco-populism are so many chocolate fireguards. The Greens stand on the threshold of an historic opportunity, and every sign points towards their readiness to capitalise on it."
The Greens' Historic Opportunity
Congratulations to Zack Polanski for his emphatic victory in the Green Party leadership race. Carving out an 84% share of the votes shows a ...
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · Sep 3
The wild thing is that McSweeney spent months and years explaining the plan was to fuck off the left, ignore the libs and build a crushing electoral bloc of Sensible Moderates and Reasonable Tories. And it was *instantly* clear the day after the election that this had not worked, nor would it ever.
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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · Aug 23
managing collapse

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The great myth of empire collapse | Aeon Essays
Societal downfalls loom large in history and popular culture but, for the 99 per cent, collapse often had its upsides
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · Sep 3
Four of Britain's six steel companies now need government support to stay in business. That's the 'superior efficiency of the private sector' for you.
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · Sep 2
Funnily enough, I've never seen a Daily Mail front page expressing outrage at the number of homes owned by Lord Rothermere
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · Sep 2
The Rolling Stones have toured the US just 15 times in their entire seven-decade career. Nigel Farage has been there ten times in the last year alone.
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · Aug 31
Britain has been multicultural for the last 2000 years. That's why we have the Roman alphabet, a Middle East religion, Arabic numerals, a Syrian patron saint, an aristocracy with French ancestry and a German royal family.
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · Aug 26
The people screwing you over arrive in Britain in private jets. Not small boats.
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