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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 20h

reading about the motorist rights party that just won a load of seats in Czechia

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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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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 1d

Deliveroo is a business almost every bit of British politics should have an incentive to regulate out of existence, and yet...

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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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not sure I understand your point here - Deliveroo is MORE expensive than eating out

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AE Snow @demofuturist.bsky.social · 1d

Great article - for communitarians I guess my questions are who is the enemy? What is the controversy?

Right now the dominant story on the left is wealth tax and that is going to squeeze out any other “left” issue

If you want to tell another story you will have to raise its salience by a lot

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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Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile MPs including @liambyrnemp.bsky.social are planning to mount a cross-party campaign to force the government to include an outright ban on crypto in the Elections Bill

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Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social · 1d

Exc: The Electoral Commission has been given early notice of the UK's first ever crypto donation

The has been "made, but not declared", to a party understood to be Reform

Reform spox said: "All donations above the reporting limit will be disclosed in the usual way"

share.google/VvtjBjEjEjRa...

Calls for transparency on political funding after first c...

Electoral Commission notified of financial contribution, which is rumoured to have been handed to Reform UK

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 1d

Which way Labour man?

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Oliver Rivers @maxrothbarth.bsky.social · 1d

I love @londoncentric.media because it’s proper old-school shoe leather journalism.

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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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 1d

This is the one I was reading yes!

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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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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 1d

‘“Faragism” is neoliberalism at its most inhumane, more destructive even than [Thatcher’s] monetarism, and vindictive far beyond austerity.’

Good analysis by Gordon Brown - and why progressives should attack Farage on economics above all:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Don’t fall for the authoritarian hype – Reform and the hard right can be stopped in their tracks | Gordon Brown

From the US to Europe and Asia, grievances are being exploited to gain power. But moderate voices are still in tune with the majority, says former prime minister Gordon Brown

www.theguardian.com

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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · 1d

Many smart, sad lines in this Runciman piece www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... but my favourite is this

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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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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 2d

Future scholars will struggle to understand the political importance and ideological subtleties of frogs in early 21st century American politics

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 2d

Former PMs should receive a compulsory seat in the House of Lords, a lifetime pension, and a hard lifetime ban on taking any form of paid employment.

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 2d

This should be illegal

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

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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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 2d

I for one wasn't aware they'd even started.

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 2d

I think it's bad that we allow financiers operating out of the gulf states to run massive private propaganda operations designed to undermine British democracy and stir up racial hatred

Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 3d

If a news organisation is making -200% margin after five years, it is not a commercial operation and should be assumed to have a different purpose.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3d

The channel lost £33 million to communicate its content to a large audience
www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/g...

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 3d

This is a really interesting listen which is full of insights but did make me regret the opportunity Labour has missed to reinvigorate English local democracy.

John Denham @jydenham.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve a new post on my Optimistic Patriot section of Nation, State and Politics - for those who like to listen rather than read it’s a podcast with LED Confidential that discusses identity, place, politics and growth

🎧 Listen: Total Place 2.0 and the politics of belonging

I join Mike Spicer and David Marlow on LED Confidential to unpack the rise of English identity politics and its implications for place-based inclusive growth.

nationstateandpolitics.substack.com

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Peter Allen @peterallen.bsky.social · 3d

Print and send this chart (from your newsletter on Tuesday) to every household in the country.

A graph from the FT showing government spending by age cohort. Over-70s have more spent on them than any other age cohort.

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 3d

(There is of course a typo here: I meant to say "and what it could DO for British politics today.")

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Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · 3d

I know he was once considered a real threat but Jordan Peterson's King Lear story arc where he gets visibly frailer with every public appearance while his daughter very obviously slowly poisons him is kind of iconic...

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 3d

Smashing talk from Tom Musgrove of @qmul.bsky.social on “Henry Noel Brailsford and the Last Crusade”

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