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the labour party's 2nd most important irish morgan? I've written a book about the anti-brexit movement that will come out at some point and i co-edit @renewaljournal.bsky.social. email me @ [email protected]

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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · Nov 1

Some professional news: I am writing a book on the 2nd referendum campaign, which you can now pre-order here:

www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/no-sec...

No Second Chances

Between 2016 and 2019, a unique coalition assembled within British politics. Combining Corbynite campaigners and Conservative Cabinet ministers, celebrities and grassroots activists, seasoned politica...

www.bitebackpublishing.com

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ʟɪɴᴇs @lines.snail.skin · 1d

I can't believe cola bottles guy was milkshake ducked.

trasgernder @gemma.transwrites.world · 1d

english.elpais.com/culture/2025...

turns out he's a nasty racist btw.

‘Go Back to Where You Came From’: A flawed reality show that shines a light on racism and immigration

Channel 4 takes six Britons with intense and controversial viewpoints to places like Somalia, Syria, Lebanon, and Kenya to experience first-hand the tragedy of displaced people

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

this tipped me off to londoncentric.media and, boy, their stuff is really good even if you don't particularly care for London. Why? Because it's laser-focused on *the money* - who is getting paid and how for various aspects, especially the shady ones, of urban life.

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 1d

In piece for @renewaljournal.bsky.social, I suggest Labour conference saw the emergence of two distinct approaches to practicing politics in a broken public sphere:
- YIMBYs and Growth Groupers pursue disruption
- "progressive communitarians" seek re-connection

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Renewal @renewaljournal.bsky.social · 1d

What did we learn at Labour conference? Four members of the Renewal editorial team offer their reflections:

- @morganj0nes.bsky.social on Starmer vs Burnham
- @dmk1793.bsky.social on the Mair-ian void
- @parth0.bsky.social on Labour's nationalism
- @ben-glover.bsky.social on 'Big tent Starmerism'

What did we learn at Labour Party conference?

Ten days on from the Labour Party's annual conference in Liverpool, four members of the Renewal editorial team who attended offer their reflections on the events of the week. A stay of execution Th...

renewal.org.uk

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 1d

Reading @londoncentric.media and reflecting on how everything wrong with Britain can be seen through Deliveroo:
- much of the economy is fraudulent
- people don’t go outside
- workers are underpaid and insecure
- the immigration system is broken
- society is being eroded by Big Tech

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 1d

Wanting to live in Dubai is basically just a massive character flaw.

Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 1d

You definitely shouldn't move to Dubai, writes V&A director Tristram Hunt on.ft.com/46MfW1t

Don’t move to Dubai — this is still the place to be

[FREE TO READ] Better to buy the dip and celebrate the UK as an enduring cultural behemoth

on.ft.com

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strawberry garfield @bbburgerrr.bsky.social · 2d

2:12 am going back for more hole in the ground

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 2d

we are all sherman

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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 2d

no ! no !!

Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 2d

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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G🅰️reth @gbentl.bsky.social · 4d

Captain Tom's bathwater... now there's an untapped business venture

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 4d

Ahah. Whoops

We have been made aware that several titles in the Spy Dogs, Spy Pup, and Spy Cat series by Andrew Cope contain a weblink at the back of the book that no longer directs people to information about the books. Instead, the link now leads to inappropriate and unsafe material, containing pornographic content with no age restrictions.

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 4d

I enormously enjoyed this conversation with David Runciman about the history of compulsory voting, how it came to be adopted in countries like Belgium and Australia, and what it could for British politics today.

Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · 4d

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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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 5d

I know this is uncomfortable to admit, but there is a small area in England's second city where people are just not integrated with the rest of society. Many of them hold views that arguably go against British values.

Yes, we need to talk about the Tory conference in Manchester.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 5d

it was in this moment, where the infamous white nationalist followed by the vice president of the united states shared the cartoon show that neo-Nazis had made about me, that I realized the modern world had gone mad and must end

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Renewal @renewaljournal.bsky.social · 5d

"It is hard now to think of a touch point for Big Tech with the UK state that does not fall under the auspices of the Blairites"

@williamcb.bsky.social analyses the government's relationship with Big Tech in light of the recent Cabinet reshuffle

Britain's Big Tech problem

The essence of a banana republic is that the state has the legal form of a republic but substantive power resides elsewhere, in the hands of American corporations backed by a US state that considers t...

renewal.org.uk

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 5d

I genuinely find myself more british than these people just because imo britain is 100x better than a slavery fueled rich persons dystopia

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 5d

it's weird to me how much Gulf states seem to dominate the imagination of the UK right at the moment. I assume it's largely about who's giving them money, but I also think "Dubai expat" is a common social type in their circles.

Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 5d

I was on a panel at Conservative conference today where the UAE model was seriously proposed as a direction to take Britain’s immigration system.

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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 5d

I spent a few days campaigning in Milton Keynes last year and was actually surprised at how... nice (and green!) it was. My fault for believing the (un)hype, new towns are good, etc etc etc

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 5d

Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 5d

I was on a panel at Conservative conference today where the UAE model was seriously proposed as a direction to take Britain’s immigration system.

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 5d

Or the maid, with the employer with grabby hands and nothing to eat but bread and noodles, no bedroom, and no way to leave.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 5d

If it ain't broke etc

Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 5d

Sure Chris Philp, just do the exact same bit, why not

Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 5d

He's just repeating what I've always thought was a mildly funny Sajid Javid bit here.

www.gov.uk/government/s...

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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 5d

hearing the dissonant honk of an 8 year old playing the recorder: That's real Britain.

Ed Hammond @se13ed.bsky.social · 5d

Now in Yr 3 they all do exactly the same stuff British primary school children have always done - practicing the recorder, cutting up crepe paper with scissors, learning about the Egyptians for some reason, going on school trips to see the Cutty Sark. They're all becoming little Londoners. (3/end)

Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 6d

good answer!

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 6d

Good morning! This week's theme is the River Thames.
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'Bridge in London' (1908) by Mstislav Dobuzhinsky

(Private collection)

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 6d

when you have that one friend who didn't pick up a subculture with everyone else but you're still cool

Behind the scenes image from one of the Hellraiser movies showing Clive Barker in street clothes holding the Lament Configuration and surrounded by the cenobites in costume

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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 6d

Between everyone who lives in the UK today