It's widely understood that the vast majority of people expelled on that basis were only guilty of supporting Palestinian rights or of simply being inconveniently left-wing, so if this is the best attack line they can come up with, they're cooked. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
well we've had a preview of this already in that they've all read and apparently loved The Culture novels despite that being the very clear message
i read the essay on the economy. strengthening the welfare state and investing in renewables are both important things, but the affordability big ticket items are housing and utilities. these can imo only be addressed by nationalisation
Nationalising data is a fine idea, but if you're not nationalising water first, then you are missing the point so badly that you may as well stay home.
I've read this and you will be staggered to learn that there is not one proposal here that would move the dial back in Labour's favour by one millimetre and not one sentence that indicates they actually understand what the root causes of the problems are. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Great to see. We desperately need a national movement to confront the crisis in local government funding, and frankly it’s because they’re resigned to managing decline that so many well-intentioned Labour councillors are about to go. www.newstatesman.com/politics/gre...
we’ve got human beings on the dark side of the moon but microsoft word will still not let me add a comment to a footnote
What will the tech bros do when the AGI tells them that the only rational way to solve the world's problems is communism?
What a lovely review of Why We Fight by @sdrgames.bsky.social! 🎉
So full of Easter good will for humanity. Bombing the historic seat of civilisation into the Stone Age is exactly what Jesus would have done, and anyone who claims otherwise is a communist or a hippy, or both.
a 2 page spread from the new issue of Wyrd Science, showing off a feature by Stu Horvath where he interviewed Scott Robinson creator of the RPG Bunnies & Burrows on its 50th anniversary. to accompany it we have an illustration by Kaila Elders of a rabbit standing up in a field against a pink starry sky.
Feels appropriate to show off our feature on Bunnies & Burrows on this, the most important day of the year for rabbits. Anyway @stuhorvath.com spoke to Scott Robinson, co-creator of the game as it celebrates its 50th anniversary
Some lovely art to accompany it by Kaila Elders
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FWIW the source of the tone, for which I apologise again, if it's anything but my own narcissism, is me getting on my high horse about defending the dignity of Cultural Studies like I'm the last loyal son of the British New Left, which is a thing I do sometimes and most definitely not your fault.
Sorry for being an asshole about it.
You do and your account of those phenomena is very good and very useful so far as it goes. It's a short book with a punchy focus and on its own terms it's great.
Very good, clear, wide-ranging episode of the Culture, Power, Politics podcast on Hardt & Negri (& their context), Lazzarato/immaterial labour, the multitude, EU-as-institution-of-Empire, and Brexit, by @jemgilbert.bsky.social
culturepowerpolitics.org/2026/03/30/m...
Great recap and seminar! Thanks for sharing! However, there is one explicitly negrist electoral project, which is “pacto histórico” in Colombia. We are yet to see what will happen in this years elections but so far it has been quite successful
It's me in the Financial Times, detailing the deep and pernicious influence of one-size-fits-all management consultancy in our universities... Take a look! 👇
www.ft.com/content/5032...
Emergencies! We've got TWO live emergency podcast recordings, analysing the outcomes of the 2026 local & devolved elections. One will be in person in Bethnal Green, hosted by The Autonomy Institute (see below) May 13th. The other will be online May 15th: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/emergency-...
NEW EVENT – After the local and devolved elections: the debrief 🗳️
Live recording of the Culture, Power, Politics podcast with hosts @jemgilbert.bsky.social & Alan Finlayson 🚨
Weds 13th May, 18:30 (London)
This will be busy – don't miss out on a space 👇
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Our discussion with Michael Hardt about Spinoza, Marx, and the concept of the Multitude has now been released.
culturepowerpolitics.org/2026/03/30/m...
You can hear Richard discussing all the themes in that book very regularly on the @poltheoryother.bsky.social podcast, which is highly recommended.
2 episodes of Culture, Power, Politics. There's a 90-minute intro to Hardt & Negri from me (including reflections on Brexit as the will of the multitude to break from Empire) and then an actual seminar with Michael Hardt. On Spotify, all apps, and here: culturepowerpolitics.org/podcast-epis...
Asquith too in the First World War.
Yeah he did a grand job. That's why he's still on all the money and everything.
Yes thank God we didn't panic and replace our Prime Minister during the last World War. Chamberlain did a bang-up job of leading the country right until the end.
Yes thank God we didn't panic and replace our Prime Minister during the last World War. Chamberlain did a bang-up job of leading the country right until the end.
It is starting to look like the Labour Party doesn't even have the organic capacity to replace Starmer as leader - this being the obvious precondition for any kind of revival.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
An #ACFM on Boredom. Is boredom different these days? Has it been replaced by over-stimulated compulsion? Should we fight for the right for boredom? Nadia Idle, @jemgilbert.bsky.social, and I ask these questions and more while playing plenty of 70s punk!
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I will
Do It Yourself!: POST-PUNK pt.3
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@jemgilbert.bsky.social and Tim are continuing our mini-series on post-punk with a healthy dollop of DIY culture.../