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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. Labour List: https://labourlist.org/author/s-fielding/ Zeitgeist Tapes: https://shorturl.at/nwdO4 .. more

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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 · 1h

Farage isn’t now referring to Judaeo-Christian culture because of a few evangelicals in the UK, it’s because of the Americans.

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 2h

I doubt they’ll do that as Farage seems very nudgeable in the same way Trump has been.

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 2h

I’m sure the appeasing BBC will follow up on this story. Very sure. 🙄

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 3h

As this detailed report shows Reform is a Trojan Horse for the US Christian right to secretly reshape British politics along Trumpian lines. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 15h

I ❤️ Viz

A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 16h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 22h

All of this suggests gross incompetence at the very top while the party was approaching government. Maybe they’ll find a sense of direction that’s politically popular at some point but at this pace Labour will be back in opposition. magazine.newstatesman.com/2025/10/11/i...

Inside No 10’s Policy Unit shakeup

A document circulating among Labour advisers suggests the party fight on “home turf”

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 1d

It was broadcast a bit before my time, but I was raised in an era when TV was something that challenged and educated and despite not reading many books it gave me a leg up in terms of understanding things.

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 1d

It got a very positive review in the Daily Express as well.

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know how many times Gramsci was ever dramatised but this is one of them - although I think Jack Shepherd had to walk on his knees when he played him. Despite that and his fright wig, it is a very good piece of work.

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 1d

When ITV albeit late on a Sunday evening when nobody was watching broadcast a play with revolutionary Marxist themes. youtu.be/o0KxIR2xO-E?...

Occupations - starring Donald Pleasence, Georgina Hale, Jack Shepherd & Nigel Hawthorne (1974)

YouTube video by Classic British Telly

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German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social · 2d

Call for Applications: Postgraduate Research Student Conference 2026 📣

Applications are open for the GHIL Postgraduate Research Student Conference, taking place 26–27 February 2026! 📅
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 2d

Aren’t they intrinsically both?

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 2d

True but Hitler was also ridiculous and Chaplin found a way - though the Second World War was a high price to pay for The Great Dictator.

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 2d

The only compensation is that it’s material for the satirist.

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 2d

Glassman is a dead end masquerading as a cul-de-sac.

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 2d

Well, if they think Glasman is going to tell them anything useful, God bless.

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 17d

Lord Glasman "sought out, and was sought after, by some of the most important Trumpworld movers and shakers" JD Vance, Steve Bannon... Curtis Yarvin and "as @bylinetimes.bsky.social can reveal – the tech baron and Palantir data firm founder, Peter Thiel"

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'Blue Labour' and the Thiel Effect: How MAGA Is Making In-Roads Into British Politics

The ideology of the ‘Make America Great Again’ movement, which has transformed politics in the United States, is having an impact in the UK. But how is this influence being transmitted?

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 2d

Here they come. bsky.app/profile/huma...

Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 2d

Christian Nationalists from the so-called 'King's Army' took to the streets of London's Soho to intimidate LGBT+ people. A clear sign of growing Christian Nationalist extremism in the United Kingdom.

Open-mouthed men and women in paramilitary style tracksuits stand in military foundation on Old Compton Street. They wear crucifixes and the label KING's ARMY. Overlaid is Humanists UK's headline: 'Christian Nationalist mob "King's Army" targets Soho, London's gay district'

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t see how Starmer survives a May elections massacre which just now seems the likeliest of results.

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 2d

Christian Nationalists from the so-called 'King's Army' took to the streets of London's Soho to intimidate LGBT+ people. A clear sign of growing Christian Nationalist extremism in the United Kingdom.

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, it doesn’t fit the socialism or barbarism trope at all.

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely. I thought we were all in favour of keeping to the rules.

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 2d

It’s so comforting that Lisa Nandy is in charge of protecting our culture from such extremist & polluting voices masquerading as news.

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 2d

Don’t you think that’s slightly sexiest? Comment? You should be ashamed mate or whatever you are.

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 2d

I’d rather watch Farage versus Rayner and maybe - hopefully - that will happen sometime next year.

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 2d

Nigel Farage v Keir Starmer is the only game in town | ✍️ Patrick Maguire

Nigel Farage v Keir Starmer is the only game in town

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely. Well spotted.

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 2d

That’s obviously what I wasn’t doing. But good luck anyway.

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 2d

What on earth are you talking about?

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve not watched GBNews for awhile but I as still shocked by how biased was their piece on VAT on private education. 2 presenters saying it was class war while the ‘expert’ from the taxpayers alliance described it as an ideological policy. This is not news: it is propaganda.

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