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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 22h

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

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

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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 22h

"Staring down the path of existential destruction..." - @philbc3 on how the Conservatives' voter coalition is breaking apart as they lose their Gen X voters to Reform:

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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 23h

📢💥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

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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 6d

"In France, Emmanuel Macron is absolutely detested. With a virulence that is perhaps difficult to imagine..." - Sebastian Budgen

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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 4d

"Reform is making inroads with business. The most recent Electoral Commission filings show new cash donors from the financial world, once the Tories’ preserve."

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Peter Geoghegan · Short Cuts: Reform’s Disaster Capitalism

Reform has been accused of lacking policy: its critics say it’s a party of Farage and his epigones, with few firm...

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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 6d

"In France, Emmanuel Macron is absolutely detested. With a virulence that is perhaps difficult to imagine..." - Sebastian Budgen

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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 6d

🇫🇷 NEW EPISODE 🇫🇷 - Sebastian Budgen on the political crisis in France where Emmanuel Macron has appointed his third prime minister in a year.

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France's political impasse and Macron's legacy w/ Sebastian Budgen

Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 01/10/2025 · 46m

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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 7d

"Very erratic, very unprincipled, very opportunistic on just about every, every level." - Sebastian Budgen on Emmanuel Macron's vacillating position on Gaza:

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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 7d

"Very erratic, very unprincipled, very opportunistic on just about every, every level." - Sebastian Budgen on Emmanuel Macron's vacillating position on Gaza:

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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 7d

Sebastian Budgen on Emmanuel Macron's failed economic programme and unimpressive domestic legacy:

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Anna Secor @ajsecor.bsky.social · 9d

London people come discuss and celebrate with us! A launch event for The Politics of Feeling on 25th November at the October Gallery, with @will-davies.bsky.social and @jemgilbert.bsky.social. Eventbrite link below! 🥂
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The Politics of Feeling and this Conjunctural Crisis

A workshop on the politics of feeling in this conjunctural crisis, with Anna Secor, Ben Anderson, Will Davies, Jeremy Gilbert.

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 8d

You can also see how well suited they are to the age of platforms, with meme-like visual 'icons' that hold their shape in a torrent of imagery, like emojis: the logo, that haircut, the bucket hats, the Adidas logo. Oasis 2025 is what an LLM might come up with if you fed it Oasis 1994-95.

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 8d

A factor in this triumphant return is how platforms (Spotify) dissolve historical time, with the effect that a) nobody needs to remember that this was a band whose 'good' patch lasted circa 18 months and b) they provide the backdrop for inter-generational bonding

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 9d

Oasis stadium jaunt ends (for now), it has been odd seeing how massively they’re loved, and also odd that it is seen as churlish to critique it. For me, they inescapably represent the worst of the 90s, the banterous homophobia, the conservatism. It made life miserable & I struggle to get over that.

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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 9d

"My abiding feeling reading was: oh God, this was all just as bad as it looked." - @nesrinemalik.bsky.social on the Kamala Harris book:

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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 9d

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Kamala Harris’s election memoir shows just how deluded the Democrats still are | Nesrine Malik

This unapologetic trawl through a doomed campaign reveals a celebrity-obsessed party high on its own supply. It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so tragic, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 9d

"My abiding feeling reading was: oh God, this was all just as bad as it looked." - @nesrinemalik.bsky.social on the Kamala Harris book:

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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 11d

"While Trump’s first term looked like an aberration, a morbid symptom of a dying world, his second looks more like an attempt to enforce a new paradigm." - @will-davies.bsky.social

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William Davies · Repeal the 20th Century: Pre-MAGA

To understand the intellectual coordinates of Trumpism requires us to look in less conventional places and to pay more...

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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 11d

"While Trump’s first term looked like an aberration, a morbid symptom of a dying world, his second looks more like an attempt to enforce a new paradigm." - @will-davies.bsky.social

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William Davies · Repeal the 20th Century: Pre-MAGA

To understand the intellectual coordinates of Trumpism requires us to look in less conventional places and to pay more...

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 21d

I have a review of John Ganz's When The Clock Broke in the new LRB www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

William Davies · Repeal the 20th Century: Pre-MAGA

To understand the intellectual coordinates of Trumpism requires us to look in less conventional places and to pay more...

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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 22d

"The Starmer leadership want Reform to do well. It's the strategy that you're going to alight upon if you are a centrist political formation with nothing positive to offer, because the only way you can get people to vote for you is to make it a kind of blackmail." - @leninology.bsky.social

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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 22d

"The Starmer leadership want Reform to do well. It's the strategy that you're going to alight upon if you are a centrist political formation with nothing positive to offer, because the only way you can get people to vote for you is to make it a kind of blackmail." - @leninology.bsky.social

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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 28d

“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.
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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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Max Read @maxread.info · 27d

not an iron law or anything but basically every assassination attempt on a political figure over the last 20 years has turned out to be driven by a disturbed person with functionally illegible politics

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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 28d

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Juliet Jacques interviews John Schneider for @poltheoryother.bsky.social

Britain's new left party w/ James Schneider

Juliet Jacques interviews James Schneider (co-founder of Momentum and director of strategic communications during Jeremy Corbyn's time as Labour leader) about the creation of the new left party in Bri

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Aaron Aardvark @laughinglemon.bsky.social · Aug 31

Currently listening to @poltheoryother.bsky.social interview with James Schneider about #yourParty Seems to be a continuation of the NLR Sidecar interview earlier, which is referred to.

Britain's new left party w/ James Schneider

Juliet Jacques interviews James Schneider (co-founder of Momentum and director of strategic communications during Jeremy Corbyn's time as Labour leader) about the creation of the new left party in Bri

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