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Stuart White

@stuartgwhite.bsky.social
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I am an academic interested in political theory, anti-oligarchic political economy, and democracy. I post in a personal capacity and reposting does not necessarily mean agreement. He/him.

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 11h
He is not burning cash. He is investing money to shape political discourse and public opinion in line with his ideology and interests. And it's a successful strategy. Also, for a billionaire losing 10 million is like losing 1000 pounds for a middle class person.
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Nick Pearce @iprnickp.bsky.social · 11h
Peter Hall’s major new work on growth regimes is out: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
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Governing Growth
A groundbreaking account of how politics and economics have interacted in Western democracies over the past eighty years
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 14h
Andy Burnham has said the new water bill will “start a 10-year journey to a very different water system". He has an open goal with Thames Water. The company is insolvent. The legislation already exists to effect the transition to public ownership. Don't kick the can down the road - start now.
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PM announces new law to allow public ownership of water firms
Mayors will also be given new powers to hold failing water firms to account.
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Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social · 18h
Burnham gave the speech that I'd been calling for for nearly a decade....does that mean anything? Idk, but it's interesting: thisconjuncture.substack.com/p/forty-year...
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Forty Years of Failure
The article I published nine years ago, arguing that the Labour leader should give exactly the speech that Andy Burnham gave yesterday...
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 17h
You can just do things
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sadly there was a climate & nature shaped hole at the heart of Burnham’s speech. Nothing on the benefits of nature restoration & same old words on a “pragmatic” approach to N Sea drilling. There’s nothing pragmatic about pouring fuel on a scorching earth - he should rule out Rosebank & Jackdaw now
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Naomi Waltham-Smith @auralflaneur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When I attended a broadly CoE secondary school after Catholic primary school, I (backed by my Irish family!) was a conscientious objector to the nationalist/imperialist hymns or ones with Berengarianist heresies!
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Helen Barnard @helenbarnard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The weird thing about the whole ‘dementia tax/death tax’ stuff is it implies we don’t already have one. Surely we basically do, we just don’t tell people about it in advance and it’s totally unpredictable and random.
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Andrew O'Neill @andrewoneillcomedy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NOTTINGHAM! I'm doing this wonderful fundraiser tonight! A great cause, cheap tickets, good comedy! Also me! www.eventbrite.com/e/disabled-c...
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Disabled Cants Fundraiser
Jamie Green Wheelchair Fundraiser
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Not wanting to rain on the current Marr love-in parade, but... substack.com/home/post/p-...
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The meaning of Johnny Marr
And of not talking about Morrissey
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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Labour Party’s women’s conference on 26/9/26 was an embarrassing farce, with only 200 delegates of the 1,000 normal attendance (no major unions) in protest of the Labour Party’s shameful abandonment of trans people following the legally absurd ruling of the Supreme Court in FWS in April 2025.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Labour are planning to extract more oil and gas from the North Sea despite the thousands of deaths from excess heat this summer. We cannot allow them to win in Holborn & St Pancras and think that they can get away with this. Vote Green. For our communities and our planet.
Labour are planning to extract more oil and gas from the North Sea despite the thousands of deaths from excess heat this summer.

We cannot allow them to win in Holborn & St Pancras and think that they can get away with this.

Vote Green. For our communities and our planet.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
to keep functioning, society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🔴 BREAKING: BP, Uber, Amazon and more paying Tony Blair's think tank $25,000 for “networking” opportunities with politicians and policy makers at party conferences Experts say "looks and smells like cash for access" Full story on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
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BREAKING: Tony Blair Institute’s $25,000 corporate network “smells like cash for access”
Exclusive documents show Tony Blair's think tank offers corporate members such as BP and Uber "networking" at party conferences and "a stronger voice" in policy debates.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: In a major loss for voters, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow the Trump administration to initiate voter roll purges using a flawed database involving Americans' private data. The ruling will disproportionately impact naturalized citizens who've been wrongly flagged in the system.
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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Something interesting here: success of local projects (e.g., @londoncentric.media @millmedia.bsky.social) suggests strong appetite for deeply reported local news. Yet BBC withdrawing (even further) from the space.
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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 25/09/2026
Queen's Park (Brighton & Hove) Council By-Election Result: 🌍 GRN: 50.1% (+1.8) 🌹 LAB: 35.3% (+4.2) ➡️ RFM: 7.0% (-3.1) 🌳 CON: 4.3% (+0.8) 🔶LDM: 3.7% (-0.9) No Ind (-2.7) as previous. Green GAIN from Labour. Changes w/ 2025 By-Election.
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Cori Crider @coricrider.com · 25/09/2026
SHOTS FIRED: Clive Lewis MP says what needed saying about Palantir’s naked bid to buy access to HMG thru Tom Watson. “Now, the former scourge of mass surveillance finds a surveillance company “the most interesting … on the planet”. It’s quite a journey” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics | Clive Lewis
When a former Labour deputy leader joins a firm built on surveillance and military targeting, it deepens public cynicism – and democracy depends on trust, says Labour MP Clive Lewis
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Cowleyforniadreaming @holybollards.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Don’t you love it when there’s a public awareness campaign about how we can individually save water by taking shorter showers when our water companies lose 25% of freshwater to leaks and the government says data centres are Critical National Infrastructure?
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LGBT+ Liberal Democrats 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @pluslibdems.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Liberal Democrat Conference votes overwhelmingly to oppose the EHRC guidance and restore trans rights! 🎉🏳️‍⚧️
Lib Dem Conference
Motion Passed
Restoring Trans Rights
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New oil and gas projects are incompatible with the Paris Agreement. End of story. "governments plan to produce about more than double (120%) the volume of fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5°C, and 77% more than would be consistent with 2°C"
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2025 Press - Production Gap
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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 23/09/2026
"When people are under the most pressure to act against their beliefs, their right to refuse matters most." @quakerunoffice.bsky.social reminds the UN Human Rights Council that the right to conscientious objection to military service must be protected in wartime. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
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"Conscience does not end when war begins", Quakers tell UN | Quakers in Britain
The Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) has reminded the UN Human Rights Council that the right to conscientious objection to military service must be protected in wartime.
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Arrest and prosecute “Danny Tommo” or lose the country to the Fascists. That’s the choice here
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It is probably right to make it the headline. To omit it entirely while finding space for "organised recent protests" looks like bowlderising the news out of some curiously skewed idea that being even handed means out leaving out the facts www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard
Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 22/09/2026
What are we becoming?
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026
- Jason Arday was a Cambridge professor accused of plagiarism. In the week after he resigned, fifteen national outlets wrote 163 articles about him. - In the week after the Channel 4 film, the same fifteen outlets wrote 14 about Orr.
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LGBT+ Liberal Democrats 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @pluslibdems.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Lib Dem conference votes overwhelmingly in favour of the motion "Restoring Trans Rights" 🎉🏳️‍⚧️
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Motion passes by miles in the hall, and online. The motion is carried - the Lib Dems are the first major party* to explicitly reject the EWRC guidance. *The Greens oppose it but I more meant the big three in parliament
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/09/2026
‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn
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‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn
New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms The planetary life support systems relied upon by humans have deteriorated to their worst levels ever recorded amid ongoing pollution and habitat destruction, according to a key yet grim annual update by scientists. Of the nine “planetary boundaries” that help determine whether life can flourish on Earth, seven are being breached at their highest ever levels of transgression, according to the latest planetary health check, a process that was established in 2009. Continue reading...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Tax the rich. Break up big banks. Primary corporate Democrats. Get Big Money out of politics. The message of the Occupy Movement is as important today as it was 15 years ago.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Absolutely horrifying. How can our government be planning to drill for new oil and gas when we know these are the consequences? We have to keep the pressure on this Labour Government to keep all fossil fuels in the ground and secure a safe future for our children and grandchildren.
Babies will face almost twice as much extreme fire weather in Europe that great grandparents
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Patriotic Millionaires UK @patmillsuk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Lib Dem conference just voted to name the super-rich's grip on money and media a threat to our democracy. We're off to Brighton today to push the conversation further at our fringe event with @bobbywdean.bsky.social @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and Tanya Park libdemvoice.pulse.ly/dzpv1oktrf
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Drawing a line on Britain’s extreme wealth problem
This Autumn Conference, join us for A Just Society’s first fringe event, held jointly with Patriotic Millionaires UK. We’ll be asking what that concentration of wealth does to our politics, our media and our society, and where t...
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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
People struggling financially have voted predominantly for the AfD in recent elections. Not in Berlin. The Left put socializing corporate landlords on the ballot, and won the election and this group.
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It does say a lot about the current and previous government that they have been less willing to clearly state this than Sunak. Quite why is a mystery for the ages.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Time is long overdue that the political mainstream in Britain vigorously re-asserts its longstanding anti-racism norms... these have been allowed to be significantly eroded the last few years.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Funny how nobody ever talks about the “legitimate concerns” people have about the extreme concentration of wealth among a small number of billionaires.
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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
God I hate this 'people who create wealth' nonsense. Let's see how much wealth we have in a society without teachers, nurses etc......
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Farage and Reform despise the characteristics that make a civilised society. The RNLI have a mission to save lives irrespective of who the person is, their background & where they are from. The RNLI saved enemy forces in the seas around the UK in WW1 & WW2 but such humanitarianism is beyond Farage.
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Ruthi Brandt @ruthibrandt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Some thoughts from Jewish Greens for Yom Kippur, coming this Monday. An easy fast for those who will be fasting! jewishgreens.greenparty.org.uk/2026/09/18/s...
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Some thoughts as we approach Yom Kippur 5787 - Jewish Greens
For religious Jews, Yom Kippur is a day of divine reckoning, when God judges humankind, punishes those who have sinned and considers whether we have proven ourselves worthy of continued life in the wo...
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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Repeat after me, the legal definition of redundancy is that the work has "substantially ceased or diminished". This is not that.
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 19/09/2026
Also don't think we talk enough about Gen Zers like me who are estranged from their parents but still having to negotiate the same economic conditions which have forced my peers to live at home.
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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
RNLI teatowels are a bargain. So much information! And a reminder the organisation covers the entire coastlines of both these islands.
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Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The BBC has decided that this constitutes news… A man who left for Monaco several years ago declaring he’s ’lost confidence’ in the UK His qualification for making the headlines? Owning £15bn Broadcasting like democracy already died! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I remember when polio put my friends into iron lungs. We lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives. Now, two MORE unvaccinated people have died from measles. What RFK Jr. is doing to public health in America is a disgrace.
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Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 18/09/2026
My book has a subsection about property-owning democracy called ‘Escape POD’, but I should have gone with ‘Equity Punks’.
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Labour’s savage disability benefit cuts could hit older people hardest, despite their reduced chances of finding work - a third of those potentially affected are aged 50+, according to FOI data Older disabled people face both labour market ableism and ageism By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social
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Exclusive: Over a third of disabled people at risk from Labour’s benefit cuts are 50+
New figures obtained by The Lead show more than one third of people at risk from cuts to universal credit disability payments are over 50 – a group facing some of the highest barriers to finding work
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’m delighted to say that Constitutionalising Anarchy is finally available on Cambridge Core! Huge thanks to the CUP team for this, to the LSE International Studies editorial team as well, and of course to all our generous reviewers! It’s open access! So download to your heart’s content!!
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Constitutionalising Anarchy
Cambridge Core - Political Theory - Constitutionalising Anarchy
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Every Green voice is one that will hold this Labour government to account and push them to do better.
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised"
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