anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Heather, if you listen to last week's excellent Politics Theory Other podcast about the history & strategy of Spotify, you'll want to find an alternative - and quickly, and rightly. 042
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 28/11/2025Agree this is good, but - much though I admire Polanski's politics - for an ex-actor his acting is rather stilted. 110
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 24/11/2025That's not exactly helpful in telling us what fiscal policies a progressive UK party should be advocating now, Jonathan, and that is the crucial question. 030
Reposted by @anothertimbre.bsky.socialChris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Just a superb column from @nesrinemalik.bsky.socialtheguardian.comShabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik 36325
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 18/11/2025So you need to start organising to this end within the PLP 000
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Yes the Guardian is weird like that, & much keener on radicalism abroad than at home. 031
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 28/10/2025The Times, Telegraph, Mail & Express are doing their bit to prepare the ground 010
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Yes, it's particularly hard to predict because there's likely to be lots of tactical voting against both Labour & Reform. It'll vary hugely from seat to seat as people look at local polls & choose which of the rest to vote for. 000
Reposted by @anothertimbre.bsky.socialStephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 24/09/2025This is some fine sounds 271
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Good piece. Now that the government has decided that perhaps genocide isn't so nice (while continuing to supply arms), will all those big name commentators on bsky who have remained silent for 21 months finally find their voices? 140
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 28/07/2025powerful piece - thanks for posting it 010
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Radicalisation isn't just caused by individuals with personal problems. It's also caused by eg a political culture founded on lying & deceit (eg Johnson & Starmer). And imo it's right to be radicalised the west's response to Gaza, which has laid bare hypocrisy & double standards in droves. 000
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 25/07/2025under FPTP they urgently need to create an effective alliance with the Greens, or both will fail 191
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 16/07/2025On the contrary, I think McSweeney is determined to prove that he's a real hard man by accomplishing the almost impossible feat of reducing the government's approval rating to single figures. 010
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 12/07/2025Almost everyone in the media helped project him as competent, grown-up, focused, efficient forensic etc etc, yet now that they have turned against him, no-one admits to having made a mistake. 000
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 12/07/2025Agreed, but the leadership election system was carefully tweaked in such a way that it's hard to see how anyone with even slightly different politics can win. So we'll almost certainly get more of the same. I think Labour have had it. 000
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 12/07/2025If Sir Keir cares about international law, it's in a very strange way. Israel is breaking international law at will in relation to the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iran and above all Gaza, committing war crimes almost daily, but not a peep of criticism from Sir Keir. 020
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 11/07/2025this (by Alfie Steer) is the best piece on the new party I've read: renewal.org.uk/blog/the-rev... I wish them well, but think Alfie points to some potentially serious problems, and will stick with the Greens myselfrenewal.org.ukThe Revenge of the LeftZarah Sultana’s recent announcement that she has resigned from Labour to ‘co-lead the founding of a new party’ with Jeremy Corbyn marks the beginning of probably the most significant left-wing schism ... 010
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 11/07/2025The common factor between Spiked & McSweeney is a form of disavowal whereby the principal determinant of whatever position you adopt is that it must fly in the face of established left-wing opinion. It's pathetic, childish & (as we now know) disastrous when applied in power, but there we are... 0141
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Corbyn might well have messed up the parliamentary procedures too, but at least he'd have been trying to implement humane & decent social democratic policies. 010
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 27/06/2025I suspect they're desperate to try to give Starmer a more human / sympathetic image, and hope that this will help. But it's desperate stuff, and almost certainly a futile mission. 000
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Don't underestimate the ability of the ghouls in charge of Labour to ignore or unilaterally adjust the rules so that the membership are left with the option of simply rubberstamping whoever they want to succeed Starmer. They've run the Party like a dictatorship for 5 years, and habits are ingrained. 010
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Another slide towards authoritarianism, led by a human rights lawyer and his home secretary, who was The Guardian's (and most centrists') pick for Labour leader in 2016. Labour have lost credibility as a progressive, or even a liberal force, and need a total transformation. 100
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Yes in a way it's extraordinary. But in another way 'politicisation without democratisation' is completely typical for a lot of centrists as neoliberalism flounders. 010
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Kind of appropriate title considering the racist nonsense currently coming from our government 010
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 16/05/2025My only slight hope is that in next year's local elections Labour do terribly, especially in city seats, and the Greens emerge as a viable alternative for left of centre voters. We need some such tectonic shift asap 140
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 16/05/2025During 2016-2020 the Lab right spent all their time determinedly undermining & attacking the left. That was successful but became a habit & that sectarianism is now a fixed mindset. But running the country requires a very different approach, vision & set of skills, which they simply don't have. 000
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Vote Green. I live in Sheffield Hallam, so remember Nick Clegg very clearly. The LibDems will swing rightwards quite happily under the least pressure (and Ed Davey may be nicer than Clegg, but he served in the Coalition gov too) 100
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 15/05/2025yes, but the journalists among them never admit that they got it wrong. Somehow in their own view they're always right so don't feel any need to apologise, whatever the contradictions and inconsistencies. 000
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 14/05/2025This is so typical of the contempt the Labour Right have got for anyone to the left of them. Perhaps it works when Labour are riding high in the polls, but Plaid are now way ahead of Labour in Wales, and it's likely to backfire. 020
Reposted by @anothertimbre.bsky.socialPink Cotton Candy Records @pinkcottoncandyrec.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Written a blog post on Dustsucker about the best new records from 2025 I’ve come across during April and early May. Also updated the music directory. Releases from @anothertimbre.bsky.social, @ad93rec.bsky.social, @feltelabel.bsky.social, and more. www.pinkcottoncandyrecords.com/blogpinkcottoncandyrecords.comDustsucker (Blog) | Pink Cotton Candy ReA blog and music directory run by Nikolaj Bruus (PCC/Quiet Sonia). 242
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 11/05/2025And the result of the government's reheated focus on immigration will once again be to lose yet more votes to LibDems & Greens while not winning back any votes from Reform, who remain the real thing for those who obsessed about reducing immigration. Smart politics indeed. Onward to evisceration! 040
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Lovely review of 'Homestead' anothertimbre.bandcamp.com/album/homest... by @koryreeder.bsky.social & @apartment-house.bsky.social on Bandcamp's April 'Best of Contemporary Classical': "every curve, swell, and glide opening up new pathways of unadulterated beauty."anothertimbre.bandcamp.com 0112
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 05/05/2025I was active in the party for 6 years, and hardly heard of Labour First until after Starmer became leader. We need a good book explaining how they operate & control the party machine, who funds them etc. Do any of them have laudable ideals, or are they all just unpleasant power-obsessed operators? 200
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 05/05/2025as an ex-Labour member, I am now free to say that this is just what we need 020
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 05/05/2025and it helps that Zack is Jewish, so they won't be able to smear him as an anti-Semite as easily 000
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Lab hope that Reform polling well means that centre & left voters will ultimately vote tactically for them. But they're now so unpopular that in many Lab-held seats the tactical vote to keep out Reform will be for either LibDems or Greens 000
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 04/05/2025The party is run in such an authoritarian way that hq are oblivious to pressure from within. But next year's elections may be a tipping-point if Reform do well again & 💚 also win a lot of city seats. 010
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 04/05/2025"It doesn't know how to deal with racism except to be anti-racist...." Well that seems to be a pretty good starting point to me. 120
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 03/05/2025Thanks for being honest. Any predictions for seats won are little better than guesswork in this situation. What does seem likely is that Labour & Tories will continue to struggle over the next period. 'Interesting' times ahead. 000
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 03/05/2025When Starmer became Labour leader there was a lot of wishful thinking, with commentators projecting their own beliefs onto him. He's turned out to be uninspiring, quite conservative, and - big surprise - politically inept. But the Lab right don't have a dynamic & inspiring candidate to replace him. 040
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 03/05/2025Yes, internal party politicking is ultimately the most important thing for McSweeney and co 010
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 03/05/2025In many city seats (like mine) where Greens are strong, Reform have no chance of winning. So why would radicals there vote 'tactically' for Starmer's right-wing Labour when we might get a left-wing Green MP? 000
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Also, in Nottinghamshire Broxtowe Independents - who resigned from Labour as a group last year - won 1 seat, with Teresa Ann Cullen beating the Labour Group leader. But sadly Reform won 6 of the 8 seats. 030
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Ruth decided to stand as an independent councillor & yesterday won easily with 57% of the vote. The Tories were 2nd with 17% and her Labour opponent came 5th, with 4% of the vote. Lovely case of local activism triumphing. democracy.derbyshire.gov.uk/mgElectionAr...democracy.derbyshire.gov.uk Election results for Whaley Bridge, 1 May 2025 - Derbyshire County Council Alert close - iconFill 1 Copy 10Untitled-1tt copy 3Untitled-1Untitled-1tt copy 3Fill 1 Copy 10menuGroup 3Group 3 Copy 3Group... 1101
anothertimbre.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Great story from Whaley Bridge in Derbyshire: Ruth George, was left-wing MP for High Peak 2017-2019, but narrowly lost to the Tories in 2019. She became a councillor for Whaley Bridge ward in 2021 (the first Lab candidate to win there), but was deselected by the Labour hierarchy in Feb 2025 1/2 130
