I like the way she’s willing to believe in endless multi-tentacled globe-spanning conspiracies, but “Labour are corrupt and they work for millionaires, against the public interest” immediately explodes her brain.

When I first researched the Israel lobby over a decade ago I argued they had largely given up on the 'battle of ideas' in the conventional sense & were focused on shoring up elite opinion.

I appreciate people were squeamish about sending George Bush II and Tony Blair to prison but straight up, that might actually have been a deterrent that might have prevented (waves hand at half the planet ablaze)

New post: 'Reform’s Donations are not Normal'. Plotted every donation in the Electoral Commission donations register in grey - and Reform's recent mega donations in red.

As you can see from the graph there were already some mad outliers. We absolutely need a cap on individual donations.

Tom Mills@tommills.bsky.social · last wk.

New post: 'Reform’s Donations are not Normal'. Plotted every donation in the Electoral Commission donations register in grey - and Reform's recent mega donations in red.

New post: 'Reform’s Donations are not Normal'. Plotted every donation in the Electoral Commission donations register in grey - and Reform's recent mega donations in red.

'...having left the Today programme, perhaps I can now asseverate opinions that a fortnight ago would have got me sacked.... Today is no den of wokeness, trust me.' Think we can agree on that much. spectator.com/article/now-...

Now I’ve left Today, I can finally say what I really think…

Hello, what’s this I see before me? A blank page; and a pen unencumbered by the heavy weight of BBC News impartiality. I still present University Challenge, it’s true; but having left the Today progra...

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Sending me to prison won’t unembezzle the company pension fund, your honour

Lovely interview with a far right activist on BBC radio this lunchtime.

@autonomy-institute.bsky.social backs open letter calling on Andy Burnham to introduce a strong cap on political donations 👇 bylinetimes.com/2026/09/01/a...

Andy Burnham Faces Backlash Over Apparent Retreat From Donations Cap Pledge

Open letter says 'politics should not be for sale' as Government resists extending its £100,000 overseas-donor limit to UK voters

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Been listening to Culture, Power, Politics on neoliberalism. Does v good job synthesising different perspectives. Inspired me to resurrect a lost article I wrote years ago for New Left Project (anybody?) on neoliberalism, freedom & rational choice theory. tamills1981.github.io/society-from...

Been listening to Culture, Power, Politics on neoliberalism. Does v good job synthesising different perspectives. Inspired me to resurrect a lost article I wrote years ago for New Left Project (anybody?) on neoliberalism, freedom & rational choice theory. tamills1981.github.io/society-from...

You really need to be become a supporter of Culture Power Politics. Keeps your political instincts sharp and gives you substantial theory deep dives too: www.patreon.com/culturepower...

A really useful summary of research on genetics & 'race' from @sashagusevposts.bsky.social inc. a detailed section on 'The heritability of IQ test performance' (linked). Quite technical, but you should be able to get the gist of it with a bit of persistence. gusevlab.org/projects/hsq...

A downloadable pdf version is available: [ 📄 here ]

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DEMOCRATISE OR DIE A bold plan to save the BBC by democratising it. In this intervention, three leading media policy experts (inc. @tommills.bsky.social) warn the BBC will not survive its fast-approaching Charter Review unless its popular legitimacy is reinvigorated.

DEMOCRATISE OR DIE A bold plan to save the BBC by democratising it, coming soon from @orbooks.bsky.social.

We can nutshell this one: the Conservative Party fucked everyone in Britain. It should’ve destroyed them as a party, but it didn’t: it wrecked all of us instead and they got away with it because Britain has no meaningful systems of accountability that apply to our ruling class.

The British media hounded a man to his death claiming it was in the public interest. Is investigating that story in the public interest?

Nice throwaway comment from Adam Tooze on new Postscripts podcast: 'Hegemony doesn't just consist of offering people treats and telling them good stories. It consists in breaking your enemies.' 🎯

Wow. Do update us on any more incontrovertible observations he makes.

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2mo ago

The US president’s remarks came on the eve of his first meeting in Washington with Benjamin Netanyahu since the two launched the war on Iran earlier this year. ft.trib.al/ltSkifh

Good read. Really like Tim Mitchell's stuff & will def get to this soon. Glad to hear Capital as Power paradigm being acknowledged. newleftreview.org/issues/ii159...

Jack Copley, Rentier Regimes, NLR 159, May–June 2026

Jack Copley on Timothy Mitchell, The Alibi of Capital. Capital re-conceptualized as terraforming expropriation of the future.

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Thought long & hard about this & have decided, no. It is not.

Why have Iranians seen Britain as a threat to their sovereignty? It's a total mystery. Just a bit mad I guess.

Tom Mills@tommills.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Amol Rajan: ‘There is a long history here if you go back to the Revolution of ’79, even 20 years before that, or 25 years before that to Mohammad Mosaddegh... Britain was often seen by very powerful Iranians as a nasty piece of work that had a toxic influence on their history.’

Got to hand it to BBC Today. Managed to do an item on the threat to the UK from Iran that for once mentioned Mosaddegh, yet still failed to mention that Britain & the US overthrew him & installed a dictator.

Bari Weiss looking to headhunt Justin Webb? What could possibly have attracted her to the Today presenter who injects right wing talking points into every interview and who cannot help but obsess about trans people?

Good piece from @leninology.bsky.social jacobin.com/2026/06/uk-b...

Capitalist Power in Post-War Croydon. New post in which I discuss the network of business people & local politicians behind Croydon's concrete building boom. tamills1981.github.io/society-from...

Capitalist Power in Post-War Croydon. New post in which I discuss the network of business people & local politicians behind Croydon's concrete building boom. tamills1981.github.io/society-from...

New post on 'Society From the Top Down' in which I address the important question: Is Croydon shit, and if so who's to blame?

Policy planning network affiliations of the Biden administration. Full article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....