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David Walter Runciman, 4th Viscount Runciman of Doxford, is an English academic and podcaster who until 2024 taught politics and… more

David Runciman
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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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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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by Tariq Modood — Reposted by: David Runciman

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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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by David Runciman

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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 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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by David Runciman — Reposted by: David Runciman

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🚨❓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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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.

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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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by David Runciman — Reposted by: David Runciman, Ben Crum, Alan Renwick

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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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by David Runciman

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

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‘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:

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

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What was​ Nigel Farage before he was Reform UK, before he was the Brexit Party, before he was…
David Runciman · Down the Rabbit Hole: Britain’s Europe Problem - United Kingdom News Beep
What was​ Nigel Farage before he was Reform UK, before he was the Brexit Party, before he was Ukip? Farage insists that he started out as a run-of-the-mill
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robertsaunders.bsky.social
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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by David Runciman — Reposted by: David Runciman

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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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by David Runciman

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Us too!! This is what we like to hear!🤣
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by David Runciman

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

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Thanks Nigel, and good idea - noted!
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"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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by David Runciman — Reposted by: David Runciman

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NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!

Today in our occasional series with @robertsaunders.bsky.social we explore the lasting consequences of a speech delivered 40 years ago this week - Labour leader Neil Kinnock’s excoriating attack on Militant at his party’s conference in 1985.

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"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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by David Runciman — Reposted by: David Runciman

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A fantastic screening and discussion last night of ‘My Dinner with Andre’ with Lee Hall.

We’ll be putting this and all the others in our live Films of Ideas series out as episodes over Christmas.

Two down, four to go.

Fancy joining us?

🎟️ Info & tickets here: www.ppfideas.com/events
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by David Runciman

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Love that we got you rethinking it Steve!
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It's forty years since i first saw My Dinner with Andre. I keep changing my mind. Last night I think I did so again, thanks to David Runciman and the @ppfideas.bsky.social crew who put on a screening at the Regent Street Cinema
I used to revere My Dinner with Andre. I thought it was some kind of high point for cerebral New Hollywood introspection, for downtown Manhattan intellectual self-confidence. The kind of cool New Yorker dialogue that the rest of us were just meant to admire. Then, a few years ago I decided, in a flash, watching it again, that actually it was a terrible, pretentious, involuted mess. The worst of American intellectual hubris. A dreadful, contemptible work of art. And it was kind of a relief (I gave it one star on Letterboxd and moved on). Then, last night, I went to see it again, at a live event put on by David Runciman for his Past Present Future podcast, and now I’m all over the place. I might have to write a proper review. Runciman’s guest, playwright Lee Hall, opened up the movie’s complexities, providing historical, theatrical and biographical context that gives the bloody thing a new validity for me. Blimey. Might have to revise that Letterboxd rating too.
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