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Steven Fielding
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Emeritus Prof, writing (slowly) about Labour’s existential struggles since 1976 for Polity. Knows stuff about politics & culture.
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Steven Fielding is an academic in the School of Politics at the University of Nottingham where he is professor of political history and director of the Centre for British Politics. His most recent work A State of Play sets out the qualified constructivist view that how individuals regard real politics can be shaped by fictional works about politics. .. more

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 40m
Just seen that Jack Shepherd has died. He had quite a career, from playing Gramsci to Neville Chamberlain.
mjherbert.bsky.social MJ Herbert @mjherbert.bsky.social · 42m
"It is the people who create"... Bernadette Hyland looks back at the 1976 tv series Bill Brand by Trevor Griffiths in which Jack Shepherd, who died this week, played a left wing Labour MP from Manchester who clashes with his own party lipsticksocialist.com/2012/05/17/b...
Bill Brand; It is the People who Create………
Bill Brand (played by Jack Shepherd) speaking at a workers occupation Bill Brand, a TV series broadcast on ITV in the summer of 1976, was written by one of Britain’s (and Manchester’s) greate…
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MJ Herbert @mjherbert.bsky.social · 42m
"It is the people who create"... Bernadette Hyland looks back at the 1976 tv series Bill Brand by Trevor Griffiths in which Jack Shepherd, who died this week, played a left wing Labour MP from Manchester who clashes with his own party lipsticksocialist.com/2012/05/17/b...
Bill Brand; It is the People who Create………
Bill Brand (played by Jack Shepherd) speaking at a workers occupation Bill Brand, a TV series broadcast on ITV in the summer of 1976, was written by one of Britain’s (and Manchester’s) greate…
lipsticksocialist.com

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 1h
🤷‍♀️

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 1h
That would be incredibly funny if it did get to court. I’m sure there are many people that would happily finance them taking action against him.

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 1h
It sounds like there are quite a few kneejerk reactions to this. I’ve watched enough episodes of Crown Court to know juries can get things right as well as get things wrong. All I know is that if I was in trouble, I’d probably want legal experts to decide my fate (esp as I know a judge!).

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 1h
I chose a hell of a day to start reading this.

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 10h
I don’t know enough about it to have an opinion.

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 10h
Semiologists will be scratching their heads over what this is supposed to mean for decades to come.

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 11h
I can’t be arsed to watch it myself, but I just wonder how GB New is covering this?

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 11h
He really is so bad at this: a little bit of pressure and he’s a house of cards.
vicderbyshire.bsky.social Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 11h
‘I can categorically say that stories being told about me from 50 years ago are not true’

- a statement from Nigel Farage tonight on claims he racially abused fellow school pupils

That firm denial tonight is different to what he said in interview with BBC Wales Political Editor Gareth Lewis 👇

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 11h
‘I can categorically say that stories being told about me from 50 years ago are not true’

- a statement from Nigel Farage tonight on claims he racially abused fellow school pupils

That firm denial tonight is different to what he said in interview with BBC Wales Political Editor Gareth Lewis 👇

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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 11h
Wednesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 13h
Trump would’ve pardoned him anyway.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13h
From @theathleticfc.bsky.social: Cristiano Ronaldo has avoided a suspension for the start of next summer’s World Cup after FIFA handed the Portugal captain a three-match ban, with the final two games suspended for “a one-year probation period.”
Cristiano Ronaldo avoids World Cup ban as FIFA grants Portugal captain ‘probationary period’
Ronaldo, 40, was sent off in Portugal's penultimate World Cup qualifier against the Republic of Ireland.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13h
From @theathleticfc.bsky.social: Cristiano Ronaldo has avoided a suspension for the start of next summer’s World Cup after FIFA handed the Portugal captain a three-match ban, with the final two games suspended for “a one-year probation period.”
Cristiano Ronaldo avoids World Cup ban as FIFA grants Portugal captain ‘probationary period’
Ronaldo, 40, was sent off in Portugal's penultimate World Cup qualifier against the Republic of Ireland.
nyti.ms

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 14h
What a shocker.
financialtimes.com Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 15h
Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has signalled Russia could reject a modified US peace plan to end the war in Ukraine if it fails to satisfy Moscow's long-standing demands. on.ft.com/4ohPaDO

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 15h
Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has signalled Russia could reject a modified US peace plan to end the war in Ukraine if it fails to satisfy Moscow's long-standing demands. on.ft.com/4ohPaDO

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 16h
I would definitely not do it, it seems such a ridiculous thing to do, but i wouldn’t give a flying feck if anybody else did

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 16h
This definitely needs an I don’t effing care option @yougov.co.uk

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 17h
So it must be true

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 17h
And I think it was generally taken to suggest she was getting a bit loopy and out of touch so it didn’t exactly help her. The Reeves unconsciously echoes those remarks to suggest she hasn’t really got much of a clue about speaking in public.

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 17h
I think Thatcher said it in 1989 or 1990 so she didn’t last that much longer.

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 17h
‘Let’s all say we were only indirectly racist and see if they buy it?’

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 23h
The way things are going with Labour, he might just find himself in the right party.

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 1d
I’m not sure threatening to go on and on and on is quite the rhetorical trick she imagines it to be. But Reeves‘s superpower does appear to be found in her tin ear.
pippacrerar.bsky.social Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 1d
“I’ll show the media, I’ll show the Tories, I’ll not let them beat me. I’ll be there on Wednesday, I’ll be there next year & I’ll be back the year after that” - Rachel Reeves urges Labour MPs to back budget @jessicaelgot.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Rachel Reeves urges Labour MPs to back her make-or-break budget
Chancellor tells parliamentary party they might not like every measure but promises budget will be ‘fair’
www.theguardian.com

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 1d
“I’ll show the media, I’ll show the Tories, I’ll not let them beat me. I’ll be there on Wednesday, I’ll be there next year & I’ll be back the year after that” - Rachel Reeves urges Labour MPs to back budget @jessicaelgot.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Rachel Reeves urges Labour MPs to back her make-or-break budget
Chancellor tells parliamentary party they might not like every measure but promises budget will be ‘fair’
www.theguardian.com

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 1d
That would also be quite a lot of shagging.

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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 1d
Since Labour won power, an insidious little phrase has been popping up constantly in the media: "tax raid".

So I looked into this for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social

And it turns out it once meant something completely different.

www.thenewworld.co.uk/phil-tinline...
Why the right wing media keeps screaming ‘tax raid’
This isn’t journalism, it’s propaganda that reframes tax policy as assault and a democratically elected Labour government as thieves
www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 1d
Ones spoken by our Nige, obviously 😬

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 1d
He really is terrible when subject to real scrutiny and pointed, repeated questioning. Clearly, he’s just not used to it.
pippacrerar.bsky.social Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 1d
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”

Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 1d
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”

Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school

@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social