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Stuart White

@stuartgwhite.bsky.social

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I am an academic interested in political theory, anti-oligarchic political economy, and democracy. I post in a personal capacity and reposting does not necessarily mean agreement. He/him.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 5h

It’s almost like billionaires and strong vibrant institutions of civil society can’t coexist

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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 8h

We welcome with deep relief and thanks the ceasefire in Gaza, the release of the living Israelis held hostage in Gaza and the release of Palestinians, including children, held in Israeli military detention.

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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 10h

Our latest Westminster voting intention (12-13 Oct) has the Greens on their highest figure ever recorded by YouGov

Reform UK: 27% (no change from 5-6 Oct)
Labour: 20% (=)
Conservatives: 17% (=)
Lib Dems: 16% (-1)
Greens: 13% (+1)
SNP: 3% (-1)

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 10h

Yet another wake up call about the scale & cost of #climate risk. That’s why we urgently need a National Climate Resilience Plan with emphasis on local funding, nature based solutions & community resilience - pls sign & share petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk

Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds

www.theguardian.com

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 1d

This weekend we reached 100,000 Green Party members - and we're not stopping there.

In fact... we've already passed 105,000 members.

Be part of the Green surge. Join the Green Party today ⤵️

REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.

105,000
Green Party Members

Green Party
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

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Stuart White @stuartgwhite.bsky.social · 2d

Welcome, Ben!

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Reposted by Steve Peers, Tobias Lock, Audrey Osler , and 8 more Steve Peers, Tobias Lock, Audrey Osler, Robert C. Richards, Rod Earle, Douglas Guilfoyle, Nicola Carr, Roger Masterman, Stuart White, Andrew Novak, Anne Deighton

Aoife Nolan @aoifenolan.bsky.social · 2d

Conor Gearty died a month ago yesterday. He was deeply committed to human rights law without idealising it. He recognised its power & value while acknowledging its limitations (& those of the people engaging with it). He was also an exceptional lawyer. This is a fitting final piece in the @lrb.co.uk

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Reposted by Safiya U. Noble, Christian Odendahl, Laurent Pech , and 4 more Safiya U. Noble, Christian Odendahl, Laurent Pech, Ann Bartow, Stuart White, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Renaud Morieux

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 4d

@mit.edu has done an incredibly important service to the nation by being willing to be the first school to reject the administration's "compact."

President Kornbluth focuses—and she's right—on the principle that "scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."

The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.

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Andrew O'Neill @andrewoneillcomedy.bsky.social · 4d

Rob Kemp's Beatlesjuice! The House Band playing Goth Classics!

Get your tickets: deadlegcomedy.com

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 4d

Well done, MIT! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Reposted by Steve Peers, Janet Murray, Rebecca Tushnet , and 7 more Steve Peers, Janet Murray, Rebecca Tushnet, David R. Miller, Scott A. Imberman, Brian Keegan, Stuart White, Stella M. Rouse, Nathan P. Kalmoe, David Darmofal

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 4d

I do wonder if Labour might look at the sorts of people dominating the discourse and dominating the content wars and maybe, just maybe, rethink the sorts of grey figures they routinely put up for interviews, instructed at that to be as cautious as possible. Things have changed. Their comms hasn’t.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5d

Rishi Sunak takes advisory roles with Microsoft and AI firm Anthropic

Former UK prime minister told post-ministerial jobs watchdog roles would not involve lobbying or UK policy influence Rishi Sunak has been appointed as a senior adviser by the US technology companies Microsoft and Anthropic. The former British prime minister’s pair of new jobs emerged on Thursday in letters published by Westminster’s office of the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba). They add to his roles as a senior adviser to Goldman Sachs International, the investment bank, and speechmaker to investment firms including Bain Capital and Makena Capital in the US, which have netted him over £150,000 a talk. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Reposted by David M. Schultz, Steven French, Akiko Suwa‐Eisenmann , and 1 more David M. Schultz, Steven French, Akiko Suwa‐Eisenmann, Stuart White

James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 5d

That England has had its three worst harvests on record inside the past five years really should be being treated as a much bigger cause for concern than is currently the case. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520171...

'This is what farming with climate change looks like': England endures second worst harvest on record

New analysis confirms three of the five worst harvests on record have occurred in the past five years on the back of extreme heat, drought, and rainfall

www.businessgreen.com

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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 5d

Quakers in Britain have warned that new government plans to tighten protest laws even further are "not only unnecessary but dangerous".

Quakers warn new protest powers “dangerous and unnecessary”

Quakers in Britain have warned that new government plans to tighten protest laws even further are “not only unnecessary but dangerous”.

www.quaker.org.uk

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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 5d

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 32% (-3)
LAB: 17% (-2)
CON: 17% (+3)
GRN: 15% (+4)
LDM: 12% (=)
SNP: 3% (=)

Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 8 Oct.
Changes w/ 1 Oct.

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Barry Eidlin @eidlin.bsky.social · 6d

Today's Marxist Sociology Blog post is a banger from @lwestheuser.bsky.social & Linda Beck based on their Critical Sociology article. It examines how workers think about class & class politics. Against ideas that they are irrelevant or "lost to the right" 1/
marxistsociology.org/2025/10/work...

Workers’ Political Consciousness in Demobilized Class Societies: Redistribution, Recognition and Representation | Section on Marxist Sociology

A sole focus on right-wing ideology captures only a narrow part of working-class consciousness. Most workers—including many right-wing voters—are politically demobilized and distant from all politics,...

marxistsociology.org

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 6d

My secret evil plot to ‘destroy Britain’ has been unveiled by (checks notes) the same paper that endorsed Liz Truss.

If I don’t know better I’d say we’ve got them entirely rattled.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Greens who want to save the world by destroying Britain.

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Town and Country Planning Association @thetcpa.bsky.social · 6d

Pound’s Park is in the heart of Sheffield city centre & marks a bold commitment by the City Council to embed child-friendly principles into urban regeneration.
www.tcpa.org.uk/resources/pl...

This case study is from a collection focused on child-friendly places from the TCPA & A Place in Childhood.

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Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 6d

Kemi claims “work is the best way out of poverty" on the same day analysis finds an avg earner would need to save almost all of their income for 52 years to become as wealthy as the top 10%.

Individuals working harder won't tackle income inequality; we need a wealth tax now.

Lifetime of earnings not enough for UK workers to join wealthiest 10%, report says

Research finds it would take average worker saving all their earnings for 52 years to match wealth of richest 10th of society

www.theguardian.com

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Reposted by Stephan Lewandowsky, Steve Peers, Lesley A. Hall , and 7 more Stephan Lewandowsky, Steve Peers, Lesley A. Hall, Alison Phipps, Graham Dutfield, Mark Robinson, Stuart White, Vaughan S. Roberts, Christina Pagel, Alexander Woywodt

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 7d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 7d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 7d

Hadn't realised lots of trusts were no longer prescribing gluten-free food for coeliac kids.

My son is coeliac and his food is so much more expensive. We don't get on prescription because we can afford it but for a family in poverty that's a massive issue.

www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

NHS suggests coeliac children use food banks as doctors blast ‘cruel’ cuts

Clinicians warn of ‘shocking levels of ignorance’ over ‘cruel and risky’ decision to cut gluten-free prescriptions

www.independent.co.uk

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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 7d

"Precisely because they have been losing court cases over free speech and visas for foreign students, Trumpists now seek to entrap universities in a deal that effectively removes the protections of federal law and gives the administration arbitrary power over them."

US universities must reject Trump’s ‘compact’. It is full of traps | Jan-Werner Müller

The administration is trying to make nine universities an offer they seemingly cannot refuse

www.theguardian.com

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 7d

NEW

Freedom is just another word for "a gap in the law"

The Home Secretary wants to ban more things

By me

Substack
emptycity.substack.com/p/freedom-is...

Personal blog
davidallengreen.com/2025/10/free...

Home Secretary tells Sky News that “there is a gap in the law” when it comes to frequent, repeated protests on the same issue. Hence she will be giving police greater powers to move them to another location or time.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 7d

The British government is Very Sensible and so can be trusted with the power to decide which protests have happened Enough Now and don't need to be heard from anymore thank you very much. It will be fine. When Reform get in they will be even more Sensible about all this.

inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Home Office could outright ban protests that risk ‘intimidation’ or ‘serious disruption’

The Home Secretary is considering giving police new powers to ban protests

inews.co.uk

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Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 7d

Guardian write-up states that the investigation ongoing, but hasn’t thus far turned up evidence of arson www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 8d

Whether workers can organize Amazon will be pivotal for the fate of the labor movement worldwide. Initial victories in Coventry, England, and elsewhere show that when unions put serious resources into organizing, they can win.

Organizing Amazon Should Be a Priority for Labor Globally

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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 8d

This should concern everyone.

Protest is a cornerstone of our democracy - without it, we wouldn’t have the right to vote. We must protect it at all costs.

After years of the Tories attacking our right to protest, this Labour government should strengthen our rights, not restrict them even further.

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