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Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 11h

This was really helpful and well worth listening to (and supporting)

Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social · 12h

The Starmer Disaster - The recording of our seminar with @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social, Mark Perryman , @profafinlayson.bsky.social and me is now online and in every podcast app: culturepowerpolitics.org/2025/10/13/t....

The Starmer Disaster

A recording of our online seminar with Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Mark Perryman, Alan Finlayson and Jeremy Gilbert, recorded October 8th 2025 We ask: How has it all gone so wrong for a government electe…

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · 12h

This was a really clarifying discussion. UK politics folk: have a listen.

Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social · 12h

The Starmer Disaster - The recording of our seminar with @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social, Mark Perryman , @profafinlayson.bsky.social and me is now online and in every podcast app: culturepowerpolitics.org/2025/10/13/t....

The Starmer Disaster

A recording of our online seminar with Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Mark Perryman, Alan Finlayson and Jeremy Gilbert, recorded October 8th 2025 We ask: How has it all gone so wrong for a government electe…

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Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social · 12h

The Starmer Disaster - The recording of our seminar with @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social, Mark Perryman , @profafinlayson.bsky.social and me is now online and in every podcast app: culturepowerpolitics.org/2025/10/13/t....

The Starmer Disaster

A recording of our online seminar with Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Mark Perryman, Alan Finlayson and Jeremy Gilbert, recorded October 8th 2025 We ask: How has it all gone so wrong for a government electe…

culturepowerpolitics.org

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Jorge Camacho @jcamachor.bsky.social · 1d

I shared this piece with @jemgilbert.bsky.social after listening to an excellent recent episode of ACFM. There’s a great opportunity to better connect critical and political theory as well as cultural studies with futures studies and applied foresight.
novaramedia.com/2025/09/21/w...

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Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social · 1d

A fascinating account of an exhibition on the idea and ideas of the future, curated by my old student @jcamachor.bsky.social.

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The Great Imagination

A dialogue between different visions of the future.

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Love is the Message Podcast @lovemessagepod.bsky.social · 3d

MUSIC IN THE COLD WAR pt.1

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On this patrons episode @jemgilbert.bsky.social and Tim Lawrence run it all the way back to 1917 to unpack the Bolshevik revolution in Russia and the musical expressions of this historic period.../

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Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social · 1d

I'll try, although it's always difficult to work out how far Gary's seeming naïveté about politics is a performance.

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Love is the Message Podcast @lovemessagepod.bsky.social · 3d

Love is the Message joins BlueSky!

We're a podcast about music, the dance floor, sound systems and counterculture, hosted by @jemgilbert.bsky.social and Tim Lawrence.

www.loveisthemessagepod.co.uk

Apple: tinyurl.com/5n6ehsd6
Spotify: tinyurl.com/59fnvebu
Patreon: tinyurl.com/mvbmdc9e

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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 4d

The UK commentariat out of touch & useless.
We're in the middle of a cost of living crisis that billionaires and corporates overwhelmingly fuelled.
We just had the 2nd worst harvest in a century - A CENTURY - as food prices take off again.
And.... tumbleweeds... the silence is deafening.

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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 4d

This is what we're up against. On just a single project a far right billionaire can spaff £33 million up the wall.

Likely multitudes more than the entire progressive policy space receives in a single year for work on making the country a better place.

www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/g...

GB News suffers huge loss despite doubling revenue and growing audience

The TV channel, whose well-known presenters include Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, fell to a pre-tax loss of £33.4m in the year to 31 May, 2024

www.business-live.co.uk

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Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social · 7d

The next Beauty and the Beat party will be a big one! I'm not gonna be there sadly but our old friend Leo will be stepping in and it's going to be fantastic. All details at www.houseparty.org.uk/next-party.

Next Party — Beauty and the Beat

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Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social · 7d

It was a real privilege to take part in this podcast with
@rachaelmaskell.bsky.social @compassoffice.bsky.social
- an excellent discussion of Labour's current predicaments.
www.compassonline.org.uk/podcast/upco...

It's Bloody Complicated: Labour's Autumn of Discontent - Compass

The Labour Government find themselves in a difficult moment. On the eve of their 2025 Conference, they are faced with the knowledge that their 'decade of national renewal' currently seems stuck in fir...

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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 8d

Why people hate billionaires

“There has never been a better time to be excited about the future,” Bezos declared. “We are gifted to live in a moment in time where there are multiple golden ages going on.”

Jeff Bezos hails AI boom as ‘good’ kind of bubble

Amazon founder’s comments follow warning by Goldman Sachs’ David Solomon that ‘it’s not different this time’

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Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social · 11d

Look! A new series of seminar at Ridley Road Market Bar, and other stuff!
culturepowerpolitics.org/upcoming/

Upcoming Sessions

See below for details of a number of online and in-person seminars coming up The Starmer Disaster A free online seminar with Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Mark Perryman, Alan Finlayson and Jeremy Gilbert O…

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Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social · 11d

We’re planning like 6 episodes of Acfm on this stuff actually.

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Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social · 12d

The Starmer Disaster. Online seminar with @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social, Mark Perryman, @profafinlayson.bsky.social and me, October 8th (next Wednesday) 6:30pm. Free, but register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-starme....

The Starmer Disaster

A free online seminar with Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Mark Perryman and Jeremy Gilbert, discussing the politics of the Starmer government.

www.eventbrite.com

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mandascott.bsky.social @mandascott.bsky.social · 12d

They really are locked in the 80s. It’s horrible to watch.

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Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social · 12d

Starmer's speech was interesting for taking his most explicitly anti-Blairite, social democratic position since 2020. However a) nobody believes a word he says and b) the scale of the reforms is so inadequate to the crisis that he still comes off as not really understanding it.

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Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social · 13d

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Casting the Runes PBTA

Casting the Runes PBTA Rules for playing gentlemanly / ladylike encounterers of the supernatural in Edwardian England, in the style of the stories of MR James and his contemporaries. If you want a v...

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Anna Secor @ajsecor.bsky.social · 14d

London people come discuss and celebrate with us! A launch event for The Politics of Feeling on 25th November at the October Gallery, with @will-davies.bsky.social and @jemgilbert.bsky.social. Eventbrite link below! 🥂
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...

The Politics of Feeling and this Conjunctural Crisis

A workshop on the politics of feeling in this conjunctural crisis, with Anna Secor, Ben Anderson, Will Davies, Jeremy Gilbert.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 17d

Looking forward to discussing @benandersongeog.bsky.social & Anna Secor's brilliant new @goldsmithspress.bsky.social book, The Politics of Feeling, with the authors and @jemgilbert.bsky.social on 25th Nov - all welcome, register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...

The Politics of Feeling and this Conjunctural Crisis

A workshop on the politics of feeling in this conjunctural crisis, with Anna Secor, Ben Anderson, Will Davies, Jeremy Gilbert.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social · 17d

Yes totally

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Ben Phillips @benphillips1989.bsky.social · 18d

Also feels like another example of the cargo cult Blairism you discussed in the emergency pod last week.

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Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 18d

Starmer has managed to unite in opposition Jeremy Corbyn, Nigel Farage, Zarah Sultana, Liz Truss, Owen Jones, the SNP, the Liberal Democrats, migrant advocacy and civil liberties groups, right libertarians, fascists, anarchists, socialists and your gran with her Doro dumbphone. Incredible work.

Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social · 18d

Digital ID cards is the single most 'The Thick of It' policy that any UK government has ever actually proposed.

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Ben Anderson @benandersongeog.bsky.social · 18d

London launch event for The Politics of Feeling on 25th November at the October Gallery, with @will-davies.bsky.social and @jemgilbert.bsky.social We’ll be thinking from the book about the politics of feeling in the post General Election/US Presidential election period. Eventbrite link below

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