Ste 🇬🇧🟰
@commontruth.bsky.social
🏴 🗣"Ultra-realist amateur strategist"
Blue Labour roots, post-liberal conclusions. Anglofuturist.
🥀 2+2=4
📍The Red Wall
https://commontruth.substack.com
Blue Labour roots, post-liberal conclusions. Anglofuturist.
🥀 2+2=4
📍The Red Wall
https://commontruth.substack.com
Is everyone on Bluesky retarded or is it just impossible to argue in good faith?
He's afraid it will only benefit people who are "staying home and living with their parents their entire life"
Staying at home and living with your parents your entire life is an easier life, it dosen't make it better.
December 5, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Is everyone on Bluesky retarded or is it just impossible to argue in good faith?
No reindustrialising? Our academic institutions are a part of the problem, overproducing elites and funnelling them into bullshit unproductive jobs. Half the universities need to close or become vocational colleges. You didn't even mention productivity.
Brexit is in the past. That ship has sailed.
Brexit is in the past. That ship has sailed.
Well, for one, the UK has a highly competitive higher education sector that is closely tied to innovation, and yet the past set of governments don't value academic institutions as value producers.
The other part is leaving the EU has basically damaged the British ability to trade goods...
The other part is leaving the EU has basically damaged the British ability to trade goods...
December 4, 2025 at 8:19 PM
No reindustrialising? Our academic institutions are a part of the problem, overproducing elites and funnelling them into bullshit unproductive jobs. Half the universities need to close or become vocational colleges. You didn't even mention productivity.
Brexit is in the past. That ship has sailed.
Brexit is in the past. That ship has sailed.
Define fascism for me...
It's very funny that this guy (and his associate) takes great offense to being compared to syncretic British historical figures and then says stuff like this.
Contraception is completely different. That is responsible. This is after the fact, and making it free makes it trivial and human life itself trivial.
December 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Define fascism for me...
This is literally Anglofuturism you have no clue of what you speak.
with the macroeconomic realities of contemporary Britain or the geopolitical realities of what it would take to make Britain's industry boom again.
December 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This is literally Anglofuturism you have no clue of what you speak.
Oh, we need to do far, far more than that.
Primarily because you are under the belief that if only true Blue Labour ideology (not the hodgepodge that is Starmerism in action) was the driving force behind No 10, Britain would be thriving. It's incredible but then again we're talking to someone who calls themself "Anglo-Futurist".
December 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Oh, we need to do far, far more than that.
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Everything I don't like is fascism # 783427
December 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Everything I don't like is fascism # 783427
Politics aren't supposed to be fun! They are a response to reality. If you ever want the world to get a little less miserable, then you really need to understand this. Or carry on flailing around in the dark, wondering why everything is so shit.
"Blue Labour→post-liberal" I don't know how guys with such politics get through the day. Sounds miserable
December 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Politics aren't supposed to be fun! They are a response to reality. If you ever want the world to get a little less miserable, then you really need to understand this. Or carry on flailing around in the dark, wondering why everything is so shit.
Personal responsibility is fascism now. These guys aren't gonna make it.
Is this account run by the rebirth of Oswald Mosley or what?
If we ever want to return to a contributory society with civic pride, the first step is to reinstil personal responsibility as a social expectation. This is a step in the opposite direction, another personal problem the state will solve for you, free of charge or shame.
December 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Personal responsibility is fascism now. These guys aren't gonna make it.
@sharonk.bsky.social
Turning on replies is a common courtesy when you sub tweet someone multiple times.
Turning on replies is a common courtesy when you sub tweet someone multiple times.
December 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
@sharonk.bsky.social
Turning on replies is a common courtesy when you sub tweet someone multiple times.
Turning on replies is a common courtesy when you sub tweet someone multiple times.
The UK is in a preference cascade. Opposition to mass immigration is becoming an 80/20 issue. The veil has lifted: slowly, then suddenly, and now everywhere at once. With this realisation comes an obligation: we must plan for our new state.
VI. The British Dream:
open.substack.com/pub/commontr...
VI. The British Dream:
open.substack.com/pub/commontr...
November 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The UK is in a preference cascade. Opposition to mass immigration is becoming an 80/20 issue. The veil has lifted: slowly, then suddenly, and now everywhere at once. With this realisation comes an obligation: we must plan for our new state.
VI. The British Dream:
open.substack.com/pub/commontr...
VI. The British Dream:
open.substack.com/pub/commontr...
Socialism is rising in 2025. Embodied in Zohran Mamdani in 🇺🇸 and Zack Polanski in 🇬🇧. "Tax the rich" is now a buzzword. And as the left champions open borders. There is a contradiction here: mass immigration is a pillar of the left’s sworn adversary: neoliberal capitalism. 🧵
November 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Socialism is rising in 2025. Embodied in Zohran Mamdani in 🇺🇸 and Zack Polanski in 🇬🇧. "Tax the rich" is now a buzzword. And as the left champions open borders. There is a contradiction here: mass immigration is a pillar of the left’s sworn adversary: neoliberal capitalism. 🧵
Britain’s problems are many, but one runs through them all: a crisis of identity. We have gone from an empire on which the sun never set to a middling power in visible decline. At the same time, we have undergone rapid cultural upheaval from mass migration and a weakening of local roots 🧵
November 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Britain’s problems are many, but one runs through them all: a crisis of identity. We have gone from an empire on which the sun never set to a middling power in visible decline. At the same time, we have undergone rapid cultural upheaval from mass migration and a weakening of local roots 🧵
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🧵 Here’s why a left-wing Democrat winning in New York is proof that Keir Starmer needs to move further left to win in small red wall towns in Britain. (1/245)
November 5, 2025 at 10:04 AM
🧵 Here’s why a left-wing Democrat winning in New York is proof that Keir Starmer needs to move further left to win in small red wall towns in Britain. (1/245)
Post-Brexit Britain’s future remains uncertain. So far we’ve sought refuge within our junior role in the special relationship, yet the pull to rejoin Europe remains deep. Caught between two empires, the question is whether Britain can chart an independent course of its own. 🧵
November 4, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Post-Brexit Britain’s future remains uncertain. So far we’ve sought refuge within our junior role in the special relationship, yet the pull to rejoin Europe remains deep. Caught between two empires, the question is whether Britain can chart an independent course of its own. 🧵
London 2012.
A nation still celebrating while the fall had already begun.
"V. Britain’s Place in the World" explores how we mistook spectacle for strength and lost our footing between empires.
Link in the replies.
A nation still celebrating while the fall had already begun.
"V. Britain’s Place in the World" explores how we mistook spectacle for strength and lost our footing between empires.
Link in the replies.
November 3, 2025 at 9:19 PM
London 2012.
A nation still celebrating while the fall had already begun.
"V. Britain’s Place in the World" explores how we mistook spectacle for strength and lost our footing between empires.
Link in the replies.
A nation still celebrating while the fall had already begun.
"V. Britain’s Place in the World" explores how we mistook spectacle for strength and lost our footing between empires.
Link in the replies.
This turned into an accidental case study on why capitalism builds beauty and socialism builds basics.
Labour only has value when paired with capital.
A short thread on why socialism is a race to the bottom, and capitalism is the climb. 🧵
Labour only has value when paired with capital.
A short thread on why socialism is a race to the bottom, and capitalism is the climb. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
This turned into an accidental case study on why capitalism builds beauty and socialism builds basics.
Labour only has value when paired with capital.
A short thread on why socialism is a race to the bottom, and capitalism is the climb. 🧵
Labour only has value when paired with capital.
A short thread on why socialism is a race to the bottom, and capitalism is the climb. 🧵
If we ever want to return to a contributory society with civic pride, the first step is to reinstil personal responsibility as a social expectation. This is a step in the opposite direction, another personal problem the state will solve for you, free of charge or shame.
NHS makes morning-after pill available for free across pharmacies in England
NHS makes morning-after pill available for free across pharmacies in England
Those in need of free emergency contraception no longer have to see their GP or attend a sexual health clinic
The NHS has made the morning-after pill available for free across pharmacies in England in an effort to reduce a “postcode lottery” of access to emergency contraception.
Almost 10,000 pharmacies are now able to offer the pill without charge, saving those in need of free emergency contraception from having to visit their GP or to get an appointment at a sexual health clinic. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:58 AM
If we ever want to return to a contributory society with civic pride, the first step is to reinstil personal responsibility as a social expectation. This is a step in the opposite direction, another personal problem the state will solve for you, free of charge or shame.
18% of the economy and 45% of GDP is the public sector. Productivity problem? What productivity problem 🤷♂️
October 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
18% of the economy and 45% of GDP is the public sector. Productivity problem? What productivity problem 🤷♂️
Great piece. Gray offered excellent diagnosis but ultimately nihilism. In his critique, Sebastian Milbank injects the pragmatism and hope embodied in Blue Labour, reform rooted in morality and realism.
thecritic.co.uk/john-gray-is...
thecritic.co.uk/john-gray-is...
John Gray is wrong about postliberalism | Sebastian Milbank | The Critic Magazine
Postliberalism has been vilified in America, where JD Vance’s self-identification with the “postliberal right” has seen the concept associated with the spectre of Catholic authoritarianism in scenes…
thecritic.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Great piece. Gray offered excellent diagnosis but ultimately nihilism. In his critique, Sebastian Milbank injects the pragmatism and hope embodied in Blue Labour, reform rooted in morality and realism.
thecritic.co.uk/john-gray-is...
thecritic.co.uk/john-gray-is...
We may already have passed through the event horizon. Our only chance for salvation may lie in something transformative. This is hardly an original insight; the danger is in transition. We must minimise the chaos around us while we birth a dancing star.
October 21, 2025 at 7:39 AM
We may already have passed through the event horizon. Our only chance for salvation may lie in something transformative. This is hardly an original insight; the danger is in transition. We must minimise the chaos around us while we birth a dancing star.
Great piece. Gray captures the situation with precision, the danger of inaction, the lure of false prophets, and above all the constraints of reality. Required reading for anyone trying to understand the world as it is, not as they wish it to be.
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why I am not a postliberal
Hobbesian liberalism is the only way to rescue British society
www.newstatesman.com
October 19, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Great piece. Gray captures the situation with precision, the danger of inaction, the lure of false prophets, and above all the constraints of reality. Required reading for anyone trying to understand the world as it is, not as they wish it to be.
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...
"We are trying to run twenty-first-century systems on nineteenth-century hardware, the bureaucratic equivalent of Facebook powered by typewriters and candlelight."
open.substack.com/pub/commontr...
open.substack.com/pub/commontr...
Rewiring the State: Part 1 - The Case for Repair
Diagnosing the dysfunction at the heart of the British state.
open.substack.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:11 AM
"We are trying to run twenty-first-century systems on nineteenth-century hardware, the bureaucratic equivalent of Facebook powered by typewriters and candlelight."
open.substack.com/pub/commontr...
open.substack.com/pub/commontr...
Scrapping ILR is the right decision.
Anyone who wants to make their home permanently in Britain has the option of applying to become a British citizen.
ILR devalues citizenship and the responsibilities that come with it 🧵
Anyone who wants to make their home permanently in Britain has the option of applying to become a British citizen.
ILR devalues citizenship and the responsibilities that come with it 🧵
Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.
September 23, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Scrapping ILR is the right decision.
Anyone who wants to make their home permanently in Britain has the option of applying to become a British citizen.
ILR devalues citizenship and the responsibilities that come with it 🧵
Anyone who wants to make their home permanently in Britain has the option of applying to become a British citizen.
ILR devalues citizenship and the responsibilities that come with it 🧵
Ask anyone on the street: Britain feels
Disorderly.
Shops keep goods behind glass, youths broadcast crime for attention. Knife crime has surged by around 80% over the last decade. Less than 1 in 20 burglaries now result in a criminal charge.
Public trust is collapsing 🧵
Disorderly.
Shops keep goods behind glass, youths broadcast crime for attention. Knife crime has surged by around 80% over the last decade. Less than 1 in 20 burglaries now result in a criminal charge.
Public trust is collapsing 🧵
September 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Ask anyone on the street: Britain feels
Disorderly.
Shops keep goods behind glass, youths broadcast crime for attention. Knife crime has surged by around 80% over the last decade. Less than 1 in 20 burglaries now result in a criminal charge.
Public trust is collapsing 🧵
Disorderly.
Shops keep goods behind glass, youths broadcast crime for attention. Knife crime has surged by around 80% over the last decade. Less than 1 in 20 burglaries now result in a criminal charge.
Public trust is collapsing 🧵
This is pretty damming for many UK liberal and progressive commentators credibility.
Especially given they are so quick to label legitimate concerns as "misinformation."
Especially given they are so quick to label legitimate concerns as "misinformation."
September 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
This is pretty damming for many UK liberal and progressive commentators credibility.
Especially given they are so quick to label legitimate concerns as "misinformation."
Especially given they are so quick to label legitimate concerns as "misinformation."