"We can see indicators of collapsing US hegemony long before this period. The intervention in Kosovo was a key moment... That's when the US uses NATO as a surrogate for the UN." - Juliano Fiori @alameda.institute
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The Rod Liddle biography suggests a certain post-1968 'type' who was just idiotically drawn to norm-breaching, moving via adolescent rebellion, punk, revolutionary socialism, and eventually ending up at racism, because by the 21st century that was the most efficient transgression still on offer
"The bully pulpit of the presidency remains, but the audience is no longer quaking in the pews..."
Trump keeps making threats. The world has stopped flinching.
The president’s bombast has ceased to rattle world leaders, who have seen him fenced in by courts, rebuffed by Congress and strung along by Iran.
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Just better hope the guy who was an absolute *delight* in person never held a job in which he shared horrific ideas with people who never got to meet him
NEW PODCAST: Daniel Trilling in conversation at the Bookshop with William Davies about his new book IF WE TOLERATE THIS, which examines how far-right ideas have come to dominate the political agenda Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d... @trillingual.bsky.social @will-davies.bsky.social
"Today, when we ask how to develop a left-wing way of being in the world, how to create new types of political subjects, the GLC has an obvious relevance, not least because its world resembles our own.." - Owen Hatherley in @tribunemagazine.bsky.social
Counterculture Comes to Power
The London of the early eighties gestured towards a socialist way of being in the world.
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Walking into the cinema to go see The Odyssey while carrying an LRB tote bag and a highlighted copy of Emily Wilson’s review. It impresses all the staff, and they offer me a free bag of popcorn. I refuse, as I pull out my container of Kimchi. Everyone stops what they’re doing and applauds
"Today, when we ask how to develop a left-wing way of being in the world, how to create new types of political subjects, the GLC has an obvious relevance, not least because its world resembles our own.." - Owen Hatherley in @tribunemagazine.bsky.social
Counterculture Comes to Power
The London of the early eighties gestured towards a socialist way of being in the world.
tribunemag.co.uk
On the class dynamics of education policy, the preservation of elite education & Labour's inability to articulate class struggle thru education. "Unless Burnham offers a substantial change there is little reason for anyone involved in education to vote Labour at all." lwbooks.co.uk/why-does-edu...
Why does education stay the same? - Lawrence Wishart
Class inequality endures throughout England’s education system, argues Sol Gamsu, in part because of the shared educational background of those who have wielded power. Will Andy Burnham break with the...
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Very good here on local government and the deficit of democracy within the metro-mayor structures. Interesting suggestion around a campaign to raise finance through some sort of local taxes as an option. Would like to hear more about how that would be possible.
Politics Theory Other@poltheoryother.bsky.social · 2w ago📢💥NEW PTO EXTRA📢💥 @leninology.bsky.social on whether the Burnham project has failed before it's even begun:
not quite what you asked, but this helped me understand an important aspect of this provincial, infuriating yet not-without-its-charms nation podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u...
[UNLOCKED] Look back in anger w/ Jeremy Gilbert
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📢💥NEW PTO EXTRA📢💥 @leninology.bsky.social on whether the Burnham project has failed before it's even begun:
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📢💥NEW PTO EXTRA📢💥 @leninology.bsky.social on whether the Burnham project has failed before it's even begun:
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"I go with good grace. I go with a smile..." I go with providing an admiring review of my own deportment.
Pippa Crerar@pippacrerar.bsky.social · 2w ago"Since then, it's been the privilege of my life to serve you and this great country as PM. I'm confident Britain is now stronger & fairer than two years ago "I thank the British people for the opportunity to serve. I go with good grace. I go with a smile. I go proud of everything we've achieved."
Jane Gingrich and I have written an essay for @ippr.org on a fundamental problem, that an age that demands more of the state also suffers from multiple state legitimation crises www.ippr.org/articles/the...
The legitimacy trap | IPPR
In many ways, the public want more government: to shape a fairer, more dynamic economy and protect ordinary people from the consequences of a turbulent wor
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There are more psychoanalysts per capita in Argentina than anywhere else in the world. They won it on the couch.
Argentina on the couch
Open access // by Anne-Dominique Correa (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, August 2024)
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The England fans are to blame. They were given a perfectly serviceable New Order song with some nice Italo piano and John Barnes rapping over the top. What do the estate agents dressed as crusaders choose to sing? Wonderwall and Three Lions.
The @britishacademy.bsky.social deserves praise for its work in this area, but the bottom line is that the 20th century academic career is going the way of the defined benefit pension: once past promises have been honoured, no new promises will be made.
Imagine the VAR chat if it was widely believed that the intensity of territorial disputes is downstream from football results.
📢💥NEW EPISODE📢💥 - Liza Featherstone on the stunning electoral wins for the Democratic Socialists of America in New York. We talked about the ramifications of the results, the DSA organising model, and the salience of the Gaza genocide in the primaries:
New York's rising socialist tide w/ Liza Featherstone | Politics Theory Other
Liza Featherstone joins PTO to talk about the impressive primary victories for DSA-backed candidates in the New York primaries. We chatted a
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📢 💥NEW PTO EXTRA 📢💥 @trillingual.bsky.social responds to listener questions on the trajectory of the far-right, the mainstream media's role in normalising far-right narratives and what to expect from Labour under Andy Burnham:
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Did a little extra subscriber-only interview for PTO, so you know what to do...
Politics Theory Other@poltheoryother.bsky.social · last mo.📢 💥NEW PTO EXTRA 📢💥 @trillingual.bsky.social responds to listener questions on the trajectory of the far-right, the mainstream media's role in normalising far-right narratives and what to expect from Labour under Andy Burnham:
I wrote about Heathrow expansion and Labour's 'number one mission' of economic growth (not climate catastrophe, not threadbare public services, not child poverty but...) Now the govt's own figures suggest related growth would be derisory, which is no surprise. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ja...
Rebekah Diski | Number One Mission
The government’s support for Heathrow expansion is in keeping with the robotic incantations of economic growth that...
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The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo agoHeathrow third runway GDP yield may be 90% less than original estimate
📢 💥NEW PTO EXTRA 📢💥 @trillingual.bsky.social responds to listener questions on the trajectory of the far-right, the mainstream media's role in normalising far-right narratives and what to expect from Labour under Andy Burnham:
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"Many of us in the labor movement have felt strongly that more of our [political] leaders should be labor union members, should be organisers, and that that's an important part of a vision for doing politics differently." - @lizafeatherstone.bsky.social on the New York Primaries:
I wrote about how, according to newly public FBI documents, Alliance Defending Freedom may have helped influence the criminal indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center
The Trump Administration Is Siding With Hate Groups
In investigating the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Department of Justice is making plain whose agenda it’s interested in furthering.
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