Steven Fielding

@polprofsteve2024.bsky.social

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Emeritus Prof, writing (slowly) about Labour’s existential struggles since 1976 for Polity. Knows stuff about politics & culture.
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Steven Fielding is an academic in the School of Politics at the University of Nottingham where he is professor of political history and director of the Centre for British Politics. His most recent work A State of Play sets out the qualified constructivist view that how individuals regard real politics can be shaped by fictional works about politics. .. more

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 6d

What is Labour’s record on multiculturalism & how does this government measure up? We talk to the author of this highly recommended book. www.progressivebritain.org/multicultura...

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Ava Glass @avaglassbooks.bsky.social · 11h

Plan for 2026 - Adopt the Ian Fleming writing method. It's like Pomodoro but with more skinnydipping and gin. Please feel free to join me.

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 14h

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 16h

The one time I spoke to Glasman he was full of praise for it. It’s an avatar for the rural idyll for slow-thinking urban reactionaries.

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 16h

Farmers on both sides of the Atlantic appear to specialise in voting for something then becoming infuriated when they get it.

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 18h

I don’t mean in terms of constituencies but votes. Unless Labour can convince those now saying they’ll vote Green et al it’ll lose lots of them & hand Reform power - but doubt just threatening them with PM Farage will do the trick.

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 18h

If Labour can’t beat the Greens et al it’s all over.

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 18h

It’s not quite Labour v Reform. It’s Labour v the Greens et al to beat Reform.

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 18h

On one of the few days I buy a print version of the Guardian & skipped through it in minutes, I wonder when was the last time anybody tremulously wondered: what does the (Manchester) Guardian think? Suez? It’s not alone but the loss of authority is almost total.

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 18h

I had the most gorgeous mullet to complement my canary yellow Pringle sweater.

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 18h

That was my impression - till I read it after his death! It’s overplayed at times & was appropriated by Burchill & other early culture warriors but there’s some truth about the posh modernists while his chapters of Wells & Bennett are almost moving.

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 18h

I see Andrew Roberts’ minibus has turned up

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 21h

Yes it can be useful … it’s just not life as we know it, Jim.

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 21h

At last! The Telegraph has found a drag queen it can believe in.

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 21h

Twitter is a fetid sump and a biased one at that but this place, comfortable though it is for people like me, too often seems detached from the life force.

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 21h

Reading this I wonder if the egalitarian Arnold Bennett would’ve left Twitter, for all its faults, and how much at home would elitist Virginia Woolf be here. 🧐

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 1d

Professor Emeritus No.

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 1d

I’d definitely like to hear what he thinks is the reality of the war’s politics!

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 1d

I suspected as much but it’d be interesting to see him articulate it. I’ve not seen it described as such before but in the terms you describe it, it’s a version of the politics of the war which over-reaches somewhat. Like all history ‘it’s a bit more complicated than that’.

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 1d

I shouldn’t have done this, as it only feeds the beast, but I wonder if I’ll get a response? The historian in me is just curious.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 1d

Important letter from an actual expert

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 1d

A hidden gem.

Film Noir UK @filmnoiruk.bsky.social · 1d

One of our favourite #BritNoir titles is on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social today at 6:15PM! Get yourselves ready for two excellent performances by both Peter Cushing and André Morell in Cash on Demand (1961). Directed by Quentin Lawrence and @hammerfilms.bsky.social. Enjoy this Christmas #FilmNoir

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 1d

He gives you a visceral sense of a PM under pressure - and his hatred for the left is almost comic.

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not his agent, but I can tell you that the hardback of this history wasn’t impossible to read and as far as I was concerned, it was an instructive read. amzn.eu/d/dUslZtg

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Film Noir UK @filmnoiruk.bsky.social · 1d

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 1d

Only Gaitskell wrote a diary and the published one is ok but I don’t remember it being esp illuminating. As somebody once suggested the best diaries are written by those who observe the people at the centre of power not the people themselves: one reason why the Mullin’s diaries are really good.

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 1d

Yes.

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 1d

Oh yes very good for Wilson and especially Callaghan - not read his New Labour ones yet.

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 1d

I have to say that I don’t recall that.

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 1d

And, in a very different direction, if you can get hold of cheap copies, the Goebbel’s diaries are often bizarre and show a remarkable lack of insight into who he was while Count Ciano’s highlight how impossible it was to work with Mussolini if you were vaguely rational.

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 1d

Gyles Brandreth’s similarly.

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