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Steven Fielding

@polprofsteve2024.bsky.social

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Emeritus Prof, writing (slowly) about Labour’s existential struggles since 1976 for Polity. Knows stuff about politics & culture. Labour List: https://labourlist.org/author/s-fielding/ Zeitgeist Tapes: https://shorturl.at/nwdO4

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 3h

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Look at the data 🙄

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 5h

Yes, he’s not worth it.

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 5h

This - as any historian who has studied the subject of immigration knows - is what always happens over time & there is no reason to believe it will not continue. The only enemies of this benign process are those that highlight & seek to profit from division.

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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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 7h

I’m sure he’s a lovely person in private. No, I don’t. But his public persona is utterly ridiculous, like a comic villain from a very poor Dickens novel.

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 7h

It’s amazing how someone who was an objective failure is widely taken to be such a great success.

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 11h

Something is certainly ticking.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11h

James Cleverly says the opinion polls will now start "ticking up" for the Conservative party.

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 11h

Is he still looking for that safe seat?

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 13h

I just gave up on that. I’d rather walk: it’s quicker.

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 14h

Windows in Russia are just a health and safety disaster area.

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 14h

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 1d

It's quite wrong to suggest Robert Jenrick is a racist. Racists believe in something. My SKETCH.

Rob whistle | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine

The day had begun with Robert Jenrick accused of racism. This is of course quite unfair. Racists believe in something. Some of us remember Jenrick as a chubby-cheeked fan of David Cameron fighting the…

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 1d

But … the price of eggs is eternal vigilance.

Pat Andrea @oaktreedance.bsky.social · 1d

Excerpt from her October 29, 2024 speech at the ellipse, Washington DC

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 1d

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 1d

I’m assuming it was a fuck you kind of a vote.

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 1d

I’m old enough to remember when the band New Order got into a bit of trouble for using a name with fascistic overtones. But I guess it’s now ok for a politician to use it.

Omz2468 @omz2468.bsky.social · 1d

How can the likes of Simon Hoare, Caroline Nokes, Tom Tugendaht Jeremy Wright, Jeremy Hunt and even James Cleverly be in the same party as this Tommy Robinson with ozenpic in a suit extremist?

Forget politics, these people need to speak out

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 1d

And all those terrible towns and villages where you only see white faces.

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 1d

A bit like the 1920s then.

Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 1d

Four parties within a 5 point swing of first place and five parties on 12% plus.

This would be pure chaos under first past the post.

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 1d

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 27% (-2)
LAB: 20% (-2)
CON: 17% (+1)
LDM: 17% (+2)
GRN: 12% (+1)
SNP: 4% (+1)

Via @yougov.co.uk, 5-6 Oct.
Changes w/ 28-29 Sep.

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 1d

As nobody thought, Starmer’s (Labour) crowd pleasing speech wasn’t going to change much by itself. He needs to make similar speeches on a weekly basis & follow up the words with actions. Being PM is hard and he needs to work harder.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 1d

Latest YouGov Westminster voting intention (5-6 October 2025)

Reform UK: 27% (-2 from 28-29 Sept)
Labour: 20% (-2)
Conservatives: 17% (+1)
Lib Dems: 17% (+2)
Greens: 12% (+1)
SNP: 4% (+1)

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

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History & Policy @historyandpolicy.bsky.social · 1d

Book now for a special day conference @ihr.bsky.social on Thursday 30 October organised by our Trades Union & Employment Forum to mark the 60th anniversary of the introduction of industrial tribunals in the UK. You can register for it below: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Industrial/Employment Tribunals - 60 years on

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 1d

There are possibly other chapters apart from mine that might be of interest. www.amazon.co.uk/Rethinking-L...

Rethinking Labour's Past:: Rethinking the History of the Labour Party

Buy Rethinking Labour's Past: Rethinking the History of the Labour Party by Nathan Yeowell, Nathan Yeowell (ISBN: 9780755640164) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 1d

I’m in danger of self advertising something I try to resist, but I have written a whole chapter in a book about labour and its changing memory of Attlee.

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know enough about his pacifism to have known that, so thanks for the clarification, but I suppose my point is there must be limits to love and tolerance!

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not sure we would’ve got very far loving and tolerating the Nazis.

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