Sociology @DerbyUni | OUT NOW 'The Party's Over: The Rise and Fall of the Conservatives from Thatcher to Sunak' @versobooks | Bylines @Tribunemagazine @Jacobin
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23 Aug 2023
Due out imminently.
A take on the Conservative Party that owes more to Marx, Foucault, and Wendy Brown than political science and lobby hack gossip. What's not to like?
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I am over at the other place though. Feel free to follow for the usual insights and nonsense.
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Barely worth posting in this sewer any more, so I;m shutting up shop.
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"He can be sacked, humiliated, live (temporarily) in disgrace. But it doesn't matter. If the wealthy or the powerful need him, he'll still be their best pal."
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"He can be sacked, humiliated, live (temporarily) in disgrace. But it doesn't matter. If the wealthy or the powerful need him, he'll still be their best pal."
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"... the lie, which emotes power, also issues a challenge. Are you going to stand for this? Vance and friends need to be careful, because sooner or later enough Americans will say "No"."
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"... the lie, which emotes power, also issues a challenge. Are you going to stand for this? Vance and friends need to be careful, because sooner or later enough Americans will say "No"."
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"... the lie, which emotes power, also issues a challenge. Are you going to stand for this? Vance and friends need to be careful, because sooner or later enough Americans will say "No"."
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EXCL: I delved into the Question Time panels of 2025. It threw up interesting findings 👀
Speaking with @philbc3, we looked at overrepresentation of Reform, why Scottish Greens don't feature much, and why there are so many journalists 🤔
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Truer now than it was 35 years ago.
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Sage words from 35 years ago.
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"... there are no crimes even the most extreme, reckless, and right wing American president in history can commit that would cause our country to step away from its subordination to Washington."
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"... there are no crimes even the most extreme, reckless, and right wing American president in history can commit that would cause our country to step away from its subordination to Washington."
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"... there are no crimes even the most extreme, reckless, and right wing American president in history can commit that would cause our country to step away from its subordination to Washington."
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"Trump's international piracy ... typifies a wider trend across the West: the assertion of authoritarianism and, with that, the open and unquestioned dictatorship of capital."
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"Trump's international piracy ... typifies a wider trend across the West: the assertion of authoritarianism and, with that, the open and unquestioned dictatorship of capital."
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Trump's international piracy ... typifies a wider trend across the West: the assertion of authoritarianism and, with that, the open and unquestioned dictatorship of capital.
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"... the main threat to liberty and democracy stems from the centre. Obviously, Ovenden cannot and will refuse to see it because this personifies this outlook."
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"... the main threat to liberty and democracy stems from the centre. Obviously, Ovenden cannot and will refuse to see it because this personifies this outlook."
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