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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’ve heard UK academics say that complex degree programmes involving cooperation between departments are targeted for cuts because they are more costly to run. Disastrous if true and goes against intellectual trends of interdisciplinary thought. Very shortsighted.

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Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy 100th birthday to John Coltrane, born 23 September 1926 in North Carolina. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll3C...

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John Coltrane - A Love Supreme [Full Album] (1965)

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Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I've published a review essay for @ssir.org of Mariana Mazzucato's recent book, The Common Good Economy. I'm broadly sympathetic to her approach, but discuss some issues about power, and the challenges posed by those who are committed to acting *against* the common good. ssir.org/books/review...

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Arriving at Collective Power (SSIR)

In The Common Good Economy, Mariana Mazzucato is clear-eyed on where we need to go, but the next step is understanding the power structures that prevent us from getting there.

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Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I've published a review essay for @ssir.org of Mariana Mazuccato's recent book, The Common Good Economy. I'm broadly sympathetic to her approach, but discuss some issues about power, and the challenges posed by those who are committed to acting *against* the common good. ssir.org/books/review...

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Arriving at Collective Power (SSIR)

In The Common Good Economy, Mariana Mazzucato is clear-eyed on where we need to go, but the next step is understanding the power structures that prevent us from getting there.

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Beach holidays in the climate crisis, France. As an old viral quote said: “Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you’re the one filming it.”

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Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Fancy some weekend reading? Want to see how practical policies to devolve economic power can be implemented here and now? The report of the Community Wealth Building Commission for York and North Yorkshire, set up by @ynymayor.bsky.social, is now in the public domain👇 cles.org.uk/resilient-th...

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Resilient, thriving and healthy: building community wealth in York and North Yorkshire - CLES

This report sets out the findings of the York and North Yorkshire Community Wealth Building Commission, the first mayoral commission of its kind in England, which was supported by CLES. It offers a pr...

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Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

“Britain needs a deep transformation of its economic system, one that expands the democratic economy & shifts power back to working people & communities. Community Wealth Building is a powerful & proven way to achieve this goal.” - @martinoneill.bsky.social renewal.org.uk/blog/if-burn...

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If Andy Burnham is serious about changing the British economy, Community Wealth Building is the way to do it

This week, Renewal are publishing a series of reflections on the direction that Andy Burnham's new government could or should take. In this piece, Preston City Council Leader Matthew Brown and politic...

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

So interesting! Thanks for posting @drannaclark.bsky.social Apart from the overall difference of feel and tone they saw different skies and chose to depict different people. And what’s going on with the church spire?

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Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I have a post on the @york.ac.uk Social Change blog, on the launch of the report of the Community Wealth Building Commission for York & North Yorkshire, set up by @ynymayor.bsky.social @davidskaith.bsky.social, and on which I was honoured to serve as a commissioner. blogs.york.ac.uk/social-chang...

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

My heart is heavy that we are making a collective miscalculation in undervaluing the humanities - from my FT piece www.ft.com/content/fbde...

Thinking is hard. Reflection is hard. Perhaps we will persist with our collective miscalculation and ignore all that philosophy, literature, classics and history have to offer us. The humanities have a word for this: tragedy.

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

England haven't won.a football match since Burnham's team started briefing Shabana Mahmood for Chancellor, is all I'm saying

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Philip Goff @philipgoff.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I love Mary's first answer on this...no hesitation!

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Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

At @sciencespo.bsky.social in Paris, for a wonderfully interdisciplinary conference on "State and Capital: Old Problems, New Trajectories", organised by Chiara Cordelli. The programme has a great mix of political theorists, historians, philosophers and economists. www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/fr/...

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State and Capital: Old Problems, New Trajectories

A conference on the relationship between the state and capital organised by the Center for History and Economics in Paris.

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

All I really want to know about Burnham is where does he stand on turning civil disobedience into terrorism, and will he reverse the current approach in which inciting damaging military hardware is punished far more severely than inciting far right riots? www.thekeymagazine.com/p/palestine-...

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Punishing Protest as Terrorism

The eminent human rights lawyer on the sentencing of The Elbit 4 and the UK government's unprecedented suppression of protest

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Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Get in touch if you — or someone you know — would be interested in applying for a British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowship to be held at the University of York. @uoyphilosophy.bsky.social @york.ac.uk 👇

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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

"The idea that people will be able to hold it together and deliver a term of teaching before they vanish off into the horizon, is bizarre, spiteful and naive as well.” The Times HE's punchy account of Exeter University's #BonfireOfTheHumanities & what one academic describes as "existential terror".

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‘I thought we were safe’: shock at Exeter’s humanities ‘gamble’

Leading department being in the firing line shows how changing student preferences are fundamentally reshaping universities

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Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Without googling — which critic of capitalism said this, and when did they say it?

“This concentration of power and might, the characteristic mark of contemporary economic life, is the fruit that the unlimited freedom of struggle among competitors has of its own nature produced, and which lets only the strongest survive; and this is often the same as saying, those who fight the most violently, those who give least heed to their conscience.”

Without googling — which critic of capitalism said this, and when did they say it?

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Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The current management of the University of Exeter are currently engaged in crude vandalism against a proud institution. Sign here to register your opposition to the self-destructive round of redundancies going on at @exeter.ac.uk . c.org/2tVvMSzDQr

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Sign the Petition

Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I've long loved Dinosaur Jr's cover of The Cure's "Just Like Heaven", but I only yesterday discovered this similarly lovely J Mascis cover of The Smiths' "The Boy with the Thorn in His Side". Enjoy! Good album title too. 😊 www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbbF...

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The Boy with the Thorn in His Side

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Ben Phillips @benphillips1989.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.

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Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

If you know of any suitable candidates who might be interested in applying for a British Academy post-doctoral fellowship to be held at York, do encourage them to drop me a line... www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

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Postdoctoral Fellowships

The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships is a three year award made to an annual cohort of outstanding early career researchers in the humanities or social sciences.

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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Some have argued that Elon Musk is a mass murderer for having terminated USAID. I examine this claim and conclude that if Hitler—who never personally killed anyone in his life—is a mass murderer, then so is Musk. Indeed, Musk is a mass murderer of world-historical proportions.

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Is Elon Musk a Mass Murderer On Par with the Worst Dictators in History?

Yes, and this shouldn’t be controversial. He intentionally cut aid to the world’s poorest people. 1.6 million have already died and 14 million will die by 2030. (1,000 words)

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

i mean obviously over simplifying here but I do think a fairly key qualification for the next labour leader should be "proud determination to make us less, not more, dependent on people who openly want to destroy progressive values and incite pogroms"

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Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Now that the world has its first trillionaires, perhaps it’s time to get serious at last about wealth taxes. Here’s the case for taxing wealth that @howardread.bsky.social and I made in a @fairness.bsky.social report last year: fairnessfoundation.com/win-win-win

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Win-Win-Win

Taxing wealth for fairness, revenue and growth

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Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Given the deeply damaged state of UK higher education, vacancies are few and far between these days. But here's a one-year teaching post in Political Philosophy at the University of Newcastle. jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

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Lecturer in Political Philosophy (T&S)

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Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov on the Arsenal, saved from behind the NY Times paywall. Great reading for socialist Gooners. 😊⚽️✊ archive.is/Da3Px

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Arsenal FC @arsenalfc.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

After the painful ruse of Starmerism, the left should be cautious about @andyburnham.bsky.social My column on the questions he should answer 👇 theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Notre-Dame de Paris, from the left bank of the Seine, taken this morning.

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Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Extremely informative visualisation of how this deeply disappointing Labour government has lost ground on both its left and right, to both Greens and to Reform. It also shows how the shape of British politics can no longer be contained within a First Past the Post system.

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Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Looking forward to this conference in Paris tomorrow, organised under the auspices of @leaypi.bsky.social 's Chair at the @college-de-france.fr - "Socialism and Liberal Egalitarianism: a necessary dialogue". We all need a horizon of hope beyond capitalism! www.college-de-france.fr/en/agenda/sy...

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Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

32 years ago today since John Smith’s heart attack and sudden death. It felt like a tragedy at the time, but the scale of the disaster only becomes fully clear in retrospect. It’s hard to imagine that Britain would not now be in much better shape now had he lived to become Prime Minister.

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Philosophy of Grief and Loss at York @griefyork.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Some work in progress from our Picturing Grief embroidery workshop last night. The exhibition is open until Sunday: opening hours and visitor info on the website. 👇 www.projectinggrief.com/pg-exhibition #DyingMattersWeek #york #grief

Partially completed embroidery using quotes from the University of York's Grief Survey.

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Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

If you're within striking distance of York, the 'Picturing Grief' exhibition runs until Sunday 10 May at Thin Ice Press. Six artists respond to work on grief from the AHRC Grief Project @uoyphilosophy.bsky.social @hrcyork.bsky.social at the University of York projectinggrief.com/pg-exhibition

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Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Let’s hear it for the Greenford Garrincha! #Saka (Pictures via @poorlydrawnarsenal.com ) #COYG!

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Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

How lovely to receive an email from the University of York Students' Union telling me that I've been nominated for both "Most Inspiring" and "Teacher of the Year" in the 2026 York SU Excellence Awards. As a university teacher, it means an enormous amount to know that our efforts are appreciated! :-)

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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Meta is logging its workers’ every keystroke to train the AI that will replace them. Extract what workers know. Model it. Cut the workers. This is happening because governments are letting it happen. On this. On Palantir. On facial recognition. Inaction is still a choice. And someone is making it.

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Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

This has not been discussed in parliament. If the British military are aiding and abetting war crimes in Lebanon, and our politicians have not even explained to us why this is happening, in what sense are we living in a genuinely democratic society any more?

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 13/03/2026

Just so we're all clear, this is a war crime and would be punishable by life or death under U.S. law.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Exactly the kind of story I warned about a few weeks ago. Insane that the Home Office cannot just let back in a British citizen (with birth certificate in hand) who needs to do her GCSEs in a few weeks. Where is the common sense? Can Mahmood get anything right? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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British schoolgirl stranded in Denmark after return flight blocked over UK border rules

Exclusive: Hanne, 16, from Sussex, was not allowed to board flight to London after weekend in Copenhagen

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York Centre for Social Justice and Democracy @ycpt.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

We are looking forward to welcoming Alex Gourevitch in York next week for his talk about "Strikes and the Ideological Bind of the Fair Contract". A great event co-sponsored by our Centre and @uoyphilosophy.bsky.social

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Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Hugely looking forward to this event in York @york.ac.uk next Tuesday, 24 March, when we'll be hosting Alex Gourevitch (Brown University) to talk about "Strikes and the Ideological Bind of the Fair Contract". Hosted by @uoyphilosophy.bsky.social, the Department of Politics, and @ycpt.bsky.social

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