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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 1h

One out of three. Ho hum. #TheTraitors

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 2h

Picks? Lucy Beaumont, Tom Daley, Cat Burns. #TheTraitors

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 2h

Why does Jonathan Ross have to be on everything? #TheTraitors

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 7h

🧵 The Open Book Collective is pleased to share our 2024–2025 Annual Report: A Year of Important Progress. We’ve made big strides toward sustainability, expanded our collective + strengthened global partnerships for OA books. Read the full report: openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/open-boo...

Open Book Collective 2024-2025 annual report: A year of important progress

The team provide an overview of the Open Book Collective's work, as well as the work of its Publisher and Publishing Service Provider Members

openbookcollective.pubpub.org

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Emma Newman @emmanewman.bsky.social · 9h

Episode 7 of Starship Alexandria goes live tomorrow. We discuss The Ministry of The Future by Kim Stanley Robinson. The end blooper is one of my favourites, mostly because making @aptshadow.bsky.social dissolve into giggles with the opening line of the show made me so happy! starshipalexandria.com

Starship Alexandria

The Sci-fi and Fantasy podcast from the best of futures! In this future, humanity has solved its problems and is now sending spaceships from Earth, not in a desperate attempt to escape the apocalypse...

starshipalexandria.com

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The Stinging Fly @stingingfly.bsky.social · 5h

Join our meet and greet session on Thursday October 30th to share your experiences as a writer with a disability, as we devise a range of targeted supports for disabled writers.

Please contact Declan Meade by Wednesday October 22nd

We’d love to hear from you.

stingingfly.org/news/a-call-...

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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 1d

The Long Heat is a necessary intervention, defining climate politics when it's too late.

For a taste of the book, we have just published an extract: www.break-down.org/extract-the-...

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 4h

I sat down with @poltheoryother.bsky.social to talk about the demise of the Tories and how a comeback is exceedingly unlikely.

Tory Watching at the End of the Conservatives

What do you mean you didn't watch Kemi Badenoch's keynote speech at Conservative Party conference? Why, what a treat you missed out on. Th...

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Barry Eidlin @eidlin.bsky.social · 5h

Today's Marxist Sociology Blog post is a banger from @lwestheuser.bsky.social & Linda Beck based on their Critical Sociology article. It examines how workers think about class & class politics. Against ideas that they are irrelevant or "lost to the right" 1/
marxistsociology.org/2025/10/work...

Workers’ Political Consciousness in Demobilized Class Societies: Redistribution, Recognition and Representation | Section on Marxist Sociology

A sole focus on right-wing ideology captures only a narrow part of working-class consciousness. Most workers—including many right-wing voters—are politically demobilized and distant from all politics,...

marxistsociology.org

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 8h

JUST OUT: "Boundaries and Cleavages: Elements of a Cultural Sociology of Political Divides."

OA: direct.mit.edu/ecps/article...

It develops what the cultural sociology of group formation can contribute to research on political cleavages.

(And why "Somewheres vs Anywheres" really doesn't cut it.)

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 8h

Sorry James, you are not most people.

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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 12h

📢💥NEW EPISODE📢💥 - @philbc3.bsky.social on the ongoing crisis of the Conservative Party and whether there is a way back* for the party that has dominated British politics for two centuries.

*spoiler: there isn't.

When the party's over w/ Phil Burton-Cartledge

Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 08/10/2025 · 56m

podcasts.apple.com

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 14h

I enormously enjoyed this conversation with David Runciman about the history of compulsory voting, how it came to be adopted in countries like Belgium and Australia, and what it could for British politics today.

Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · 14h

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!

In today’s episode David talks to political historian @dmk1793.bsky.social about whether voting should be required by law and what might change if non-participation was no longer an option. Why have some countries made voting compulsory?

Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 12h

Join us at The World Transformed 2025! 🎉

We’ll be joining The World Transformed as a partner organisation, and two members of the Common Wealth team will be speaking on the following panels. 👇

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 18h

🧠 Alzheimer’s reversed in mice

A new study found that injecting nanoparticles can 'remind' the blood–brain barrier to function properly again, restoring normal brain activity in mice. Human trials could follow within years.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm #Alzheimers 🧪

Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy

Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy - Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport

www.nature.com

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 1d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 1d

No proper posting tonight.

Olivia Newton John/ELO - Xanadu

The few press attending Conservative conference have noted the party's Margaret Thatcher exhibition. On show are some of her most famous out...

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity with Mark Bray

For anyone who still doubted, reactionaries never believed in free speech, they always believed in forcing their ideas into the mainstream and mainstream institutions were too ready to welcome them

And these are the consequences

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 1d

An alternative view is that Jenrick is a cynic and an opportunist who will say and do anything if he thinks there's advantage in it.

Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 1d

Jenrick is a potential case study for the hypothesis that quite a few Conservative MPs and Spads whose brains have been marinated in Right wing American social media are increasingly being sucked into a civil war mindset that has embedded itself among many leading MAGA Trump figures.

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Irene Tsherit @irenetsherit.bsky.social · 1d

Finally!!! The real scandal of the asylum hotels. Why, instead of shining the light on these parasites, months were spent on demonising vulnerable people at their mercy?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper

Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of

www.bbc.co.uk

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 1d

Considering how few of them are there, I doubt it was worth their while.

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Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · 1d

New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

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Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social · 1d

catch the UK showing any interest in this. For all its faults the Irish government really supports creatives.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 1d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 1d

The most pathetic figure in British politics.

That is the closest to a balanced, scientific description of Robert Jenrick there is.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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