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Paul Ewart

@paulewart.bsky.social

Researcher at Sussex. Published on Mark Fisher in Critical Theory Today (Palgrave). Working on Popular Modernism, Fordist Melancholia and the spectre of the 1970s @paulewart23 at the other place.

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Ed Poole@edpoole1975.bsky.social · 3mo ago

For decades, governments have been asleep at the wheel, and the consequences are going to be worse than anything we have ever experienced. We need profound change now.

Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Food growers & farmers are increasingly experiencing climate breakdown harvests That means higher prices - and more food insecurity. Politicians have been quiet on this growing crisis - but silence isn't good enough when our food supply is at risk. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Paul Ewart@paulewart.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The NEET stuff is so obviously a smokescreen. Education is a mess, largely thanks to Thatcherite reforms that led to schools as placeholders for outsourced parenting, the introduction of the market and choice, and gentrification. The issue, as ever, has to do with inequality.

James Butler@piercepenniless.bsky.social · 3mo ago

(I also think regional variation in education advantages wealthy and mobile parents, though that's also true already. Lots of other reasons to be sceptical about needs of local businesses as a major criterion, not least because they don't always know what their needs will be in 5, 10, 20 years.)

James Butler@piercepenniless.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Sceptical that NEET problem is just a misalignment between curriculum and business needs. Much more credibly a mix of struggling local business (= fewer openings) & huge increase in mental distress and disability among young people. Latter (including un- or self-diagnosed) a huge part of the issue.

David Timoney@fromarsetoelbow.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Those changes that lasted (BoE independence, academisation, the GFA, the ECHR etc) enjoyed cross-party consensus (at the time) and would likely have been implemented by the Tories anyway after 1997. Probably the only one they would have balked at was devolution, and that was done half-cock anyway.

David Timoney@fromarsetoelbow.bsky.social · 3mo ago

There were no massive, substantive changes under Blair. We know this because most of what he did change was reversed or made irrelevant within a few years of the coalition govt.

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What can Burnham learn from Blair? My view: *Believe things! *You have to have a strategy *It has to be consistent and long-lasting *Strategy must fit with tactics and comms *Your people are important *Be optimistic, speak optimistically *You can make massive changes renewal.org.uk/blog/on-its-...

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3mo ago

As I said about MPs in the main left party here: you don’t suicide-bomb your political career and try to tank your own side because you’re worried that your party is going to *lose*.

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The reason Zohran scares the shit out of them so much is that they think this sort of technocrat FDR liberalism/market socialism will *work* and be popular, not that it will fail and be unpopular. They're afraid that he will be a good mayor not a bad mayor.

Paul Ewart@paulewart.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Worth remembering that French students explicitly rejected conservative Fordism in 1968: they demanded the right to sexual freedom within the disciplinary university.

Paul Ewart@paulewart.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Excellent cultural materialist outline of Fordism here. The culture referred to is, of course, the popular modern with origins in the inter war years. If you’re interested in this history, come and see me talk about it at HM26. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

Paul Ewart@paulewart.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Some wanker’s presenting 3 papers at Historical Materialism London this year. Come to find out about Popular Modernism, Affective Strategies and Exiting Capitalist Realism. Stay for booze.

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Cat Hobbs@cathobbs.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"Britain’s current model of privatised essential services is not protecting the public finances...it is actually jeopardising our fiscal sustainability" @chrismwhayes.bsky.social for @cmmonwealth.bsky.social explains public ownership is a good deal 💰 www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

How Burnham can do public ownership without scaring the bond markets

During months of speculation about his return to Westminster, the presumptive prime-minister-in-waiting, Andy Burnham, has made comments that have ...

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo ago

KARL: Rs are gonna make you the poster child for the D Party MAMDANI: Let them. We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last year & over the course of the last 6 months what we've delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible.

Paul Ewart@paulewart.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It always amazes me that liberals simply refuse to acknowledge domestic radicalism in Britain in the 60s and early 70s, always insisting on discrete and opposing struggles - the feminist movement opposed by trade union dinosaurs etc. 1/2

Paul Bernal@paulbernal.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The media silence over the Island of Strangers speech seems to be part of an overall consensus that it’s impossible for people *not* to be against immigration. The media won’t even consider that there are people upset by xenophobia.