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Steven Fielding

@polprofsteve2024.bsky.social
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Emeritus Professor of Political History. The Labour Party and other currently lost causes. “'Tis a muddle, and that's aw.”

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 6h
Is it because I is (not) black? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/o...
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Opinion | When White People Like Hannah Gann Pretend to Be Black
Rachel Dolezal is now a type.
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 21h
Discuss.
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So Conservatives are trying to educate the British public about how terrible the 1970s were and Reform is obsessed with how we think about the British Empire. The future is clearly safe in their hands.
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the kind of attitude which underpinned the cheating that led to the guilty verdict in the first place. Nice people.
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For a very long time, I’ve thought Lucy Powell to be one of the more incompetent members of the Parliamentary Labour party and her presence at its highest level levels has always been a source of puzzlement for me. This only confirms it www.lbc.co.uk/videos/2JsSf...
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Man City fan Lucy Powell takes aim at Man United fans | LBC
As Manchester City is found guilty of all charges of financial breaches, deputy Labour leader Lucy Powell took aim at Manchester United fans during her conference speech.
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yesterday I learnt that the Panama Canal is in danger of being completely shut down because the water level is so low due to climate change.
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Try again. Kill again. Kill better."
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Was stopped on my road by a neighbour who told me how enthused they’d been by the Burnham speech he’d rejoined the party: ‘At last a proper Labour leader!’
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Given Burnham is presumably trying to mobilise progressive and the centre left behind him this finding isn’t half bad.
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Bouncey bouncey.
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🤔
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 30/09/2026
Our members at Nottingham University commence strike action today over threats to hundreds of jobs and course closures. Please show them solidarity as they head onto picket lines this morning.
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 26/09/2026
The BBC is part of the problem...
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is funny. While Burnham is looking to the future with ambition, the right is talking about educating voters about their version of the past. As if the Daily Mail doesn’t regularly pay so-called historians to write up how terrible the 70s were supposed to be. But I’m sure Sandbrook is ready.
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So far, Badenoch, Corbyn and Polanski are against Burnham’s proposals re-the triple Lock. I’ve no idea what reform think if anything but they’ll be against it too. All the right people are opposed.
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Of Burnham’s speech, having been in hall, I’d say all the right people were cheering - and some of them were crying.
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Burnham has a hill to climb. I wonder what impact his speech will make?
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Of course he does.
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I will be part of this panel along with Darren Treadwell of the People’s History Museum @racheltaylormp.bsky.social @paulmason.bsky.social @nansloane.bsky.social & @harrytgtaylor.bsky.social
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Peter Sloman @pjsloman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New article! I've written about Paddy Ashdown, 'third way' politics, and the Liberal Democrats' relationship with New Labour in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/jbr....
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Paddy Ashdown’s Third Way: The Liberal Democrats and the Politics of the 1990s | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
Paddy Ashdown’s Third Way: The Liberal Democrats and the Politics of the 1990s - Volume 65
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I will be part of this panel along with Darren Treadwell of the People’s History Museum @racheltaylormp.bsky.social @paulmason.bsky.social @nansloane.bsky.social & @harrytgtaylor.bsky.social
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’ve never been convinced by the cuddly Rory Stewart persona. He’s only looked good because other Conservatives are even nastier.
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tomorrow Burnham could do worse than adapt the can-do rhetoric Kennedy used in his famous moon speech & apply it to social care and to other of Britain’s problems. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This person went on GBNews to attack Labour & call for tax cuts but it turns out her parents took out £2.5 million from the business and that is the cause of her problems. But of course, the BBC simply takes her claims at face value because it suits a certain narrative. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Bakery owner calls for Budget help for firms
Frankie Dyer has written to the prime minister urging Budget support for businesses.
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A strangely moving film.
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Shocked.
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I once had to watch every episode of Downton Abbey and all I can say is that if you think it is one of the 100 best TV shows of the 21st century you urgently need to get checked for concussion.
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Re-reading Benn’s diaries for a talk I’m going to give on a panel at the Labour conference on the 1966 and 2001 landslides and it is fascinating that at a pretty high level, to prevent the license fee from being raised, Labour figures were discussing introducing advertising to the BBC.
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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We're thrilled to be able to support six new early-career research Fellowships thanks to funding from the Wolfson Foundation. Applications open 21 October. Find out more: bit.ly/47fu2b0
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The British Academy and Wolfson Foundation launch new search for exceptional early-career researchers as funding confirmed for new Fellowships
The British Academy is delighted to announce another round of funding from the Wolfson Foundation for early career research fellowships in the humanities and social sciences.
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The newish head of my grammar school, already subject to a News of the World story for presenting his mistress as his wife in the interview, demanded those who liked coffee put their hands up & then those who liked tea do the same, condemned those who didn’t put a hand up for being indecisive. 🤷🏽‍♀️
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Why only be concerned about hostile states when it’s often hostile non-state actors like Elon Musk who provoke the most destructive narratives? 🤫 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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New UK agency to fight ‘information warfare’ from likes of Russia, Burnham tells UN
PM aims to ‘stem poisonous tide’ of disinformation and deepfakes with National Centre for Information Defence
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
US evidence that political leaders, in this case Trump, can make their supporters more racist. I don’t know what the UK evidence is, but I’d be surprised if it’s much different. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/o...
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Opinion | Trump Makes Republicans More Racist and Democrats Less So (Gift Article)
The president is recasting the U.S. government as an instrument of prejudice.
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Adam Drummond @adamdrummond.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Whining about Harry and Meghan?
Harry reveals the 'most British thing' they've done since returning
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is the same BBC that bends over backwards to be fair to Reform and Farage. But yes, let’s cut a sketch which involves people living as a tribe in a garden centre. What a mess it is.
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Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If your Fourth Estate is controlled by offshore billionaires, who do not vote in your elections, you have lost your democracy & sovereignty. @mediasovereignty.bsky.social @caspar-hughes.bsky.social
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The time has long passed for somebody in the Labour party to dust off Miliband’s predators and producers speech and to act upon it.
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I’m a Man U fan and this guy can just f*ck off back to which ever place allows him to avoid British taxes.
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Whenever anyone cites the influence of the right wing press it’s useful to remember that much of their circulation is in care homes - such as here, my dad’s - where copies are left largely unread by the residents.
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LabourList @labourlist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It is motivated by the idea that if you’re not with us, you’re against us, which means that once they’ve dealt with the refugees they’re coming for you.
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
For anybody who likes to get inside the heads of characters entering paranoia, a terminal illness diagnosis and beginning a nervous breakdown.😎
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
From the 1970 movie WUSA based on the 1966 novel Hall of Mirrors about the rise of the US far right.
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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just look at the glee on Nigel Farage’s face as he watches a Piddington resident cry about the overt racism she, her Caribbean heritage husband, and their two children have felt in the village during the referendum. Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!", continued President Lear as he slowly soiled his incontinent pants.
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
An interesting US take on Andy Burnham, Catholic PM www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/o...
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Opinion | JD Vance, Here’s a Catholic Politician You Should Get to Know (Gift Article)
Andy Burnham is in some ways a throwback to U.S. Catholic politicians of past decades. He might be a signpost for the future.
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I see a new version of Pissport to Pimlico has been released except all our heroes and heroines is either a racist or fucking stupid. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans
Piddington residents vote over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby.
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is great identifying the problem - one the UK shares with the US and other countries - although the solution remains elusive www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I wonder if Jonathan Reynolds finds this ‘uncomfortable’?
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Before vs After Coffee.
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