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Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · 1h

Thanks Daniel. We've had a *lot* of messages from people clarifying the Swiss approach and will be covering it in our Q&A episode!

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 8h

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 · 8h

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?

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 23d

It was a very great pleasure to appear on one of my favourite podcasts, and to talk with David Runciman about the Past, Present, and Future (!) of electoral reform & proportional representation

Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · 24d

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!

For the first episode in a new series about the ideas that could help democracy work better David talks to @dmk1793.bsky.social of the Constitution Society about proportional representation. When will we get serious electoral reform in the UK?

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Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · 2d

🚨❓CALL FOR QUESTIONS! ❓🚨

We’ll be doing a Q&A as part of our Fixing Democracy series so get your questions in for David & David @dmk1793.bsky.social.

We’d love to hear your suggestions for Fixing Democracy too!

💬 www.ppfideas.com/contact

💬 Or reply below ⬇️

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Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · 8h

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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Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · 8h

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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Tariq Modood @tariqmodood.bsky.social · 23h

Gets my vote too! Very good discussion of the Labour Party from the rise of Thatcher to today with especial focus on Neil Kinnock's leadership challenges
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on @ppfideas.bsky.social
with @robertsaunders.bsky.social

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 1d

Apropos of nothing much @ppfideas.bsky.social

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The History of Bad Ideas: Nobel Prizes

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Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · 1d

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Fox Lane Books 🦊 @foxlanebooks.bsky.social · 2d

🎙️Past Present Future comes to South Yorkshire! Join David Runciman & Robert Ford at Hill House nr Doncaster, for a live podcast recording

Fox Lane Books will have a bookstall at this event, and David will be signing books after the recording🎙️

FREE! Book: shorturl.at/Wlu0D

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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 2d

This exploration of England's (I dont think Scots deserve to be included in the diagnostic) European Derangement Syndrome by David Runciman in the @lrb.co.uk is wild — and impossible to excerpt, there are just too many great bits.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

David Runciman · Down the Rabbit Hole: Britain’s Europe Problem

From Macmillan to Wilson to Heath to Thatcher to Major to Blair to Cameron, a succession of prime ministers persuaded...

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Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · 2d

🚨❓CALL FOR QUESTIONS! ❓🚨

We’ll be doing a Q&A as part of our Fixing Democracy series so get your questions in for David & David @dmk1793.bsky.social.

We’d love to hear your suggestions for Fixing Democracy too!

💬 www.ppfideas.com/contact

💬 Or reply below ⬇️

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Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · 3d

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!

In today’s episode David talks to @alanrenwick.bsky.social from UCL’s Constitution Unit about the pros & cons of referendums. How can they be used to open up political debate? When does a democratic question need to be put direct to the people?

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Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · 3d

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!

In today’s episode David talks to @alanrenwick.bsky.social from UCL’s Constitution Unit about the pros & cons of referendums. How can they be used to open up political debate? When does a democratic question need to be put direct to the people?

Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

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Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks Phil! @robertsaunders.bsky.social is a national treasure (or should be).

Phil Bryan @philbryan.bsky.social · 5d

Just been listening to this 2 parter - one of the best podcasts I’ve listened to for a very long time. I thought I knew this period well but learnt a lot more about it.

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Levente Koroes @lkoro.es · 5d

David Runciman reviewing @tommctague.bsky.social 's new book in the LRB is the birthday present I didn't know I wanted.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 7d

‘A succession of prime ministers persuaded themselves that their country was somehow different from the rest: it could pick and choose from the menu of European options in the way that suited it best. They were all mistaken.’

David Runciman on the road to Brexit:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

David Runciman · Down the Rabbit Hole: Britain’s Europe Problem

From Macmillan to Wilson to Heath to Thatcher to Major to Blair to Cameron, a succession of prime ministers persuaded...

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 6d

What happened to Militant after the 1980s?

How did Tony Blair invent "Old Labour"?

Why did Neil Kinnock speak highly of Momentum?

And has Keir Starmer learned the wrong lessons from Kinnock?

Part 2 of our discussion of the radical left from the 1980s to 2025.
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Now & Then with Robert Saunders: From Kinnock to Corbyn to Starmer

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Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · 6d

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 7d

Today on @ppfideas.bsky.social, it's the second part of our conversation on the radical left since the 1980s.

In Part 1, we discussed Neil Kinnock, Liverpool & the Militant Tendency.

Today, we talk about the 90s, Corbynism, Momentum & "Your Party". Hope you enjoy!
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Now & Then with Robert Saunders: From Kinnock to Corbyn to Starmer

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Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · 7d

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!

The second part of David’s conversation with @robertsaunders.bsky.social marking the 40th anniversary of Neil Kinnock’s party conference speech attacking the Militant tendency takes the story up to the present and beyond.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 10d

"You end in the grotesque chaos of a Labour council - a Labour council! - hiring taxis to scuttle round a city, handing out redundancy notices to its own workers!"

40 years on, I joined @ppfideas.bsky.social to discuss Neil Kinnock's blistering assault on Militant.
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Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · 9d

Us too!! This is what we like to hear!🤣

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 10d

"I’ll tell you what happens with impossible promises..."

It's 40 years since Neil Kinnock tore into Militant at the Labour Party conference.

I joined David Runciman on @ppfideas.bsky.social to talk about Kinnock, Trotskyism & the legacy of THAT speech today. Enjoy!
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Now & Then with Robert Saunders: Neil Kinnock vs Militant

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Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · 10d

Have a listen - we certainly get to that part too!

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