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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 1h

Lovely

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 4h

We get on very well, so some of the lulz didn't make the recording!

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 4h

Have you considered that it might not be possible to say absolutely everything in a very short blog post dealing with a particular and marginalised tradition within Toryism? I wrote an entire book about the Conservatives and class politics. Available at all good outlets.

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 4h

I agree

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 4h

This old post has done the numbers this week, for obvious reasons.

Ian Watkins and Narcissism

"I'm going to put out a statement on the 18th just to say it was mega lolz. I do not know what everybody is getting so freaked out about." S...

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 5h

"For the first time the right are open and honest about what they're about, and it's best for us to face them as they are ... There are no good Tories. Only class conscious defenders of a decaying system."

What Happened to One Nation Conservatism?

The jamboree of delusion and extremism that was Conservative Party conference birthed a small, fleeting genre of political centrist-to-soft...

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 9h

Thanks Chris

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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 10h

My review of The Fraud, Paul Holden's explosive new book

"Holden’s book shows the contempt with which senior Labour figures around Keir Starmer hold not just the left, but also truth, decency and the law."

insidecroydon.com/2025/10/12/w...

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 9h

"For the first time the right are open and honest about what they're about, and it's best for us to face them as they are ... There are no good Tories. Only class conscious defenders of a decaying system."

What Happened to One Nation Conservatism?

The jamboree of delusion and extremism that was Conservative Party conference birthed a small, fleeting genre of political centrist-to-soft...

averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 20h

"For the first time the right are open and honest about what they're about, and it's best for us to face them as they are ... There are no good Tories. Only class conscious defenders of a decaying system."

What Happened to One Nation Conservatism?

The jamboree of delusion and extremism that was Conservative Party conference birthed a small, fleeting genre of political centrist-to-soft...

averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 2d

There has been plenty analysis of the Tory crisis at a journalistic level but @philbc3.bsky.social explains the longer term historical and sociological challenges facing the party of Britain’s ruling class. Essential listening from @poltheoryother.bsky.social. open.spotify.com/episode/0BCp...

When the party's over w/ Phil Burton-Cartledge

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 1d

As much as Peter Andre is much loved etc, this is not among his most distinctive works. #totp

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 1d

Genuinely had no idea at the time that Peter Andre would become a national treasure. #totp

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 1d

Ghetto Supastar is truly terrible. #totp

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 2d

LLM AI exists to crush labour. That's not even my surmise, the people paying billions of dollars to fund this stuff are extremely open and explicit that this is their goal.

There are no ethical use cases for LLMs at this point in time. Maybe when the bubble has popped thoroughly. Not before.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 2d

They lionised a woman for calling for hotels full of asylum seekers to be set on fire. Now they're lionising a man who set fire to a Quran in public.

The far-right, whether it's Reform UK or Conservatives, are championing the cause of those who will violently tear our society apart.

Reprehensible.

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 2d

Not helped by the fact a centrist government is undoing our freedoms by attacking the right to protest and banning organisations it finds politically inconvenient.

David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 3d

The UK is in collective denial about the damage a populist nationalist government could do given thd absence of checks and balances in our system. Not sure why, since we had a pretty close run a few years ago.

Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 3d

As an American watching our best & most crucial institutions crumble in less than a year under Trump, I suggest you make as many of these changes now, while you can.
We didn’t, obviously.

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People & Nature @peoplenature.bsky.social · 3d

"Capital’s need for social control underpins near-fascist methods. From Russia’s dystopian punishment of dissenting citizens as 'terrorists' & 'traitors', patterns are retraced in the witch-hunts in USA & Europe, against opponents of Gaza slaughter."
peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/t...

The courtroom rebels standing up to warmonger Putin

Voices Against Putin’s War: protesters’ defiant speeches in Russian courts is published this month by Resistance Books. Here is the Introduction to the book, by Simon Pirani, first published on lin…

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 3d

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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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 3d

New! Thanks to support from our listeners on Patreon (patreon.com/workingclass...), we have been able to add transcripts to our double podcast episode about the successful movement against the UK poll tax. Check it out on our website: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e110...