John C
@badsocialism.bsky.social
PGR at QMUL 2025-29 researching Political Identity,Decolonisation, "Caribbean-ness" and the World Crisis 1935-1960
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Will sometimes write things of consequence here:
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Poetry in Motion, Like a Pathe Newsreel" [email protected] 🏳️🌈//🇬🇧🇨🇦🇮🇪🇹🇹
Will sometimes write things of consequence here:
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John C
@badsocialism.bsky.social
· Oct 7
Wow what you mean my book about internationalism and pro-democracy agitation in the 1940s has a prescient final point about our times, who could have predicted this
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ironically a lesson Starmer probably could have learnt from serving in the Corbyn shad cab! tons of Corbyn-era policies polled great with the public in a vacuum but as a whole, well,
The (obvious in advance) limits of the government's strategy since it took office: a budget in which the majority of individual items poll well, yet people think it is the most unfair budget since YouGov started polling on this question.
% who say each 2025 Budget policy was the 'right thing to do' (1/3)
Increase gambling taxes: 82%
Freeze rail fares: 82%
Reducing energy bills by £150 a year by reducing green levies: 75%
Increasing minimum wage: 71%
Mansion tax: 67%
Decreasing biz rates for retail/hospitality/leisure: 64%
Increase gambling taxes: 82%
Freeze rail fares: 82%
Reducing energy bills by £150 a year by reducing green levies: 75%
Increasing minimum wage: 71%
Mansion tax: 67%
Decreasing biz rates for retail/hospitality/leisure: 64%
November 27, 2025 at 11:19 PM
ironically a lesson Starmer probably could have learnt from serving in the Corbyn shad cab! tons of Corbyn-era policies polled great with the public in a vacuum but as a whole, well,
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my friends and I are discussing names for Americans - the origin of USian, people's disagreements as to which to use, and one mentioned that yankee mostly refers to the north east and I said: "Yeah, well, if the south didn't want to be called yankees, they should have won the damn war."
November 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
my friends and I are discussing names for Americans - the origin of USian, people's disagreements as to which to use, and one mentioned that yankee mostly refers to the north east and I said: "Yeah, well, if the south didn't want to be called yankees, they should have won the damn war."
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The mansion tax has been absolutely terrible for my productivity, in that I have fallen back hard into “looking at high end property”. Hate what they’ve done with the interior here!
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November 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The mansion tax has been absolutely terrible for my productivity, in that I have fallen back hard into “looking at high end property”. Hate what they’ve done with the interior here!
Vekllei is one of the best pieces of speculative fiction and worldbuilding I've read *ever*, specifically because of its engagement with anthropological and sociological concepts.
I've been working on a bulletin about how architecture in Vekllei shapes their economic behaviours.
If that's the sort of thing you might be interested in, check it out below:
millmint.net/factbook/bul...
If that's the sort of thing you might be interested in, check it out below:
millmint.net/factbook/bul...
November 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Vekllei is one of the best pieces of speculative fiction and worldbuilding I've read *ever*, specifically because of its engagement with anthropological and sociological concepts.
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Saw this irl at the V&A and it’s so good. An artist applying their tradition to a brand new subject and nailing it in one
That time, ~400 years ago, when Jesuits dragged a new world turkey nearly 2,000 kilometers from Goa to northern India.
Fun, but also reflective of premodern India's integration in global networks of trade and travel.
#Thanksgiving #Thanksgiving2025
Fun, but also reflective of premodern India's integration in global networks of trade and travel.
#Thanksgiving #Thanksgiving2025
November 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Saw this irl at the V&A and it’s so good. An artist applying their tradition to a brand new subject and nailing it in one
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First discovered by a boy seaman in the Grand Fleet:
"Dear Mam, I cannot tell you where I am. I don't know where I am. But where I am is miles and miles of bugger all. Love, Ted."
"Dear Mam, I cannot tell you where I am. I don't know where I am. But where I am is miles and miles of bugger all. Love, Ted."
November 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
First discovered by a boy seaman in the Grand Fleet:
"Dear Mam, I cannot tell you where I am. I don't know where I am. But where I am is miles and miles of bugger all. Love, Ted."
"Dear Mam, I cannot tell you where I am. I don't know where I am. But where I am is miles and miles of bugger all. Love, Ted."
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His name was Luis, he spoke no English, I spoke no Portuguese, but in that brief moment in the fading Angolan sunset, I knew him.
November 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
His name was Luis, he spoke no English, I spoke no Portuguese, but in that brief moment in the fading Angolan sunset, I knew him.
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This continues a theme of my Angolan taxi driver spending most of our journey out of Luanda listening to James Blunt's Back to Bedlam, on CD, on a loop.
Which, I admit, did make the attempted hijacking feel a little more intimate.
Which, I admit, did make the attempted hijacking feel a little more intimate.
November 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This continues a theme of my Angolan taxi driver spending most of our journey out of Luanda listening to James Blunt's Back to Bedlam, on CD, on a loop.
Which, I admit, did make the attempted hijacking feel a little more intimate.
Which, I admit, did make the attempted hijacking feel a little more intimate.
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Two months away from my DVD player, time to return to my long-absent comfort food.
November 27, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Two months away from my DVD player, time to return to my long-absent comfort food.
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I really think this is one of the biggest problems with online discourse. The libs of TikTok/ end Wokeness approach of just constantly bombarding you with individual anecdotes that make you feel threatened and at war.
If one person from a group does something bad there no exists a whole internet echo system that endlessly spreads the information to everyone else within the system and sadly that includes a lot of journalists and politicians.
November 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I really think this is one of the biggest problems with online discourse. The libs of TikTok/ end Wokeness approach of just constantly bombarding you with individual anecdotes that make you feel threatened and at war.
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Unheard of concept: former enemies sometimes become friends
November 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Unheard of concept: former enemies sometimes become friends
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catherine connolly is the president of ireland yes and also you know who is also irish? the supermajority of the population that unequivocally say aid must be sent to ukraine. she won by a series of freak accidents that meant everyone else was worse
a bunch of you already post about irish defence policy as if speirgorm posters are a representative sample of the nation and all i can say is that by that metric every second american must be a furry in a polycule
November 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
catherine connolly is the president of ireland yes and also you know who is also irish? the supermajority of the population that unequivocally say aid must be sent to ukraine. she won by a series of freak accidents that meant everyone else was worse
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what do you want me to do? declare that the good friday agreement, approved by /your people/, should be made void and northern ireland annexed via conquest?
November 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
what do you want me to do? declare that the good friday agreement, approved by /your people/, should be made void and northern ireland annexed via conquest?
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ok, let's see. as a So-Called NATO Ally, i have looked up the good friday agreement, which more or less basically says that the question has been outsourced to the actual people of northern ireland, when they feel like resolving it. what else is it you want exactly
we'd also probably think differently about nato if one of the founding members didn't ethnically cleanse us & wasn't continue to occupy part of our country. any other so-called nato allies gonna help us do something about that?
November 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
ok, let's see. as a So-Called NATO Ally, i have looked up the good friday agreement, which more or less basically says that the question has been outsourced to the actual people of northern ireland, when they feel like resolving it. what else is it you want exactly
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(In the queer group chat) what if it was Femme Cassidy and the Sundance He/They (realizing I’ve stretched beyond the limits of what’s cool for a cishet guy to post) uh, I mean, football, yeah (they know more about football than me) I’m gonna touch grass, I’m so cool and popular (drinking alone) yepp
November 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
(In the queer group chat) what if it was Femme Cassidy and the Sundance He/They (realizing I’ve stretched beyond the limits of what’s cool for a cishet guy to post) uh, I mean, football, yeah (they know more about football than me) I’m gonna touch grass, I’m so cool and popular (drinking alone) yepp
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to Reform UK + Zia Yusuf:
November 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
to Reform UK + Zia Yusuf:
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YOU WANTED NET IMMIGRATION TO COME DOWN! THIS IS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE!
November 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
YOU WANTED NET IMMIGRATION TO COME DOWN! THIS IS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE!
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I also think that part of this is the weird disappearance of economics from our national debate.
It just... doesnt seem to matter that much to many people
It just... doesnt seem to matter that much to many people
Starmer and Reeves run probably the most economically left-wing government of past five decades and yet bleeding support to its left thanks to dumb strategy www.economist.com/britain/2025...
November 27, 2025 at 9:02 AM
I also think that part of this is the weird disappearance of economics from our national debate.
It just... doesnt seem to matter that much to many people
It just... doesnt seem to matter that much to many people
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Two more. These are all a nice representation of the shows that were airing at the time! The UFP emblem was inspired by SNW, which was due to debut in a few months. /2
November 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Two more. These are all a nice representation of the shows that were airing at the time! The UFP emblem was inspired by SNW, which was due to debut in a few months. /2
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True more broadly of all the “you fool! Income tax rises are unpopular” chatter. What about the current 2027-9 spending plans looks popular to you?!
November 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
True more broadly of all the “you fool! Income tax rises are unpopular” chatter. What about the current 2027-9 spending plans looks popular to you?!
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There’s only one man who can salvage a botch-job like this government into something vaguely coherent: Tony Gilroy
November 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
There’s only one man who can salvage a botch-job like this government into something vaguely coherent: Tony Gilroy
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Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves if they're still in power in 2029
November 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves if they're still in power in 2029