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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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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 1h
This is a positive development, full stop. Anti-racism norms matter, elite cues on anti-racism norms matter, a broad political consensus on anti-racism norms matter so a strong signal from the leader of a party which has been blurring red lines lately is good news.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1h
As American democracy backslides, fundamental principles of constitutional government give way. Here, we see a dictatorial administration freezing out congressional oversight *of the military*, which represents a major step in an autocratic revolution of US-style civilian-military relations.
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Friends Journal @friendsjournal.org · 18h
Bayard Rustin played a key role in the Civil Rights Movement, but was an equally passionate advocate for economic justice throughout his life. In every struggle against the principalities and powers of his time, Rustin was guided by his commitment to nonviolence, grounded in his Quaker upbringing.
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The Gay Quaker Civil Rights Organizer That History Forgot - QuakerSpeak
Bayard Rustin was almost certainly the most famous American Quaker of the twentieth century—even before he became the subject of…
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Sophie Cardin @sophiecardin.bsky.social · 22h
After almost a year in the works, you can now register to attend the Utopia Now! Conference: www.schwarzmancentre.ox.ac.uk/whats-on/uto... Tickets are only £10 standard/ £5 students and U25
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Utopia Now! Conference — part of the Utopia Now! Conference
This international conference sets out to explore the possibility of utopian imagining today, at a time when many of our social, political and environmental conditions are in crisis. The conference br...
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Bruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · 06/10/2026
Paperback of Citizen Marx published today. Now available for the (slightly) more reasonable price of $29.95/£25.00 (+30% off with code PUP30) 🙂
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Latest from me: social care was this big thing at Labour conference. So why did neither Andy Burnham nor Yvette Cooper mention disability? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Social care for disabled adults is in as much crisis as support for elderly people – so why is the government silent about it? | John Harris
Working-age adults such as my son, who is autistic, face an unreliable system, yet ministers talk only of a national care service for older people, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just resigned from the @greenparty.org.uk . A pity, they could have been a force to make a serious challenge on Labour’s left. As it is, they’ve actually made it harder to defeat Israeli ethnonationalism. ime, of course. Don’t @ me
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Stuart White @stuartgwhite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Thanks, Ben. I'm very glad that some people like you are staying and fighting the good fight. I will give support I can from outside.
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Stuart White @stuartgwhite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
With great sadness, I have decided to resign my membership of the Green Party of England and Wales.
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is just indefensible. I think Greens will discover as much soon, question is how quickly they can retreat, and how much damage will be done by the time they do.
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Paul Pettinger @paulpettinger.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If fellow Greens can't see how utterly toxic yesterday's “Zionism is Racism” motion was, here's another signal: Vivien is a deeply compassionate, longstanding activist who wouldn't ever speak out like this lightly. The Party has a problem with sectarianism and needs to push back against it.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A new trade union has just been officially registered, the UK Hospitality Union It's a v under-represented part of the workplace re. unions: "Members include...baristas, hotel staff, restaurant staff, chefs, event caterers, bar staff, housekeeping." Be interesting to see how they fare
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UK Hospitality Union | trade union
At the UK Hospitality Trade Union, we are the united voice for workers across the UK's hospitality sector. Our mission is simple: to advocate for fair treatment, safe working conditions, and equitable...
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My speech from the conference debate on 'Zionism is Racism’ motion
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I will be resigning my membership of the Green Party, as this motion has passed unamended. I’m absolutely heartbroken.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts,
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Clare Bonetree @blooyonder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I ask and hope that fellow Greens attending conference will heed Carla Denyer, and support the work of Green Parliamentarians who strongly & consistently speak up for Gaza and Palestinians 🍉💚✊
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My thoughts on tomorrow's conference motion 'Zionism is Racism’
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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 03/10/2026
🎃 I’m back behind the decks for Disco Divas Halloween Spooktacular on Sat 24th Oct at CADS Queer dancefloor magic, killer tunes & sapphic spooky-season joy await LGBTQ+ women & nonbinary sapphics tag your coven & grab tickets now 👻 www.outsavvy.com/event/38684/... #SheffieldIsSuper #SheffEvents
Event poster - full details in link
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Club Announcement Spurs 🤦‍♂️ @markscrivens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is why you don’t allow authoritarian foreign states to put you in a position where blackmail is an option.
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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We're going to get a lot of this. And we should take the numbers with an enormous dollop of salt. The negotiations would be tough, the terms less favourable than those we rejected in 2016. These numbers will move ' however 'mega' the poll! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Half of UK wants to rejoin EU and backing it could drive up Labour vote, megapoll finds
Exclusive: Findings will bolster those in No 10 who want to negotiate on re-entry but some senior figures remain wary
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Prof David Farrell, UCD @davidfarrell-ucd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Depressing to see the lack of serious engagement with this, yet again.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Time and time again when I'm knocking on doors people tell me they've still got their kids living at home with them. The extreme cost of housing is putting lives on hold across this country. We need an emergency brake on rents. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Zack Polanski to call for three-year cap on private rent rises
In his speech to his party's conference, the Green leader will frame housing as a key issue of generational fairness.
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Prof Ruth Patrick @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Here’s hoping this is not the ‘new philosophy of social security’ Burnham trailed in Liverpool. A generation of young people are being failed by our threadbare public realm. Invest in fixing that and in supporting them. Axing social security is not the answer www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Key disability benefit for young people may be axed under major welfare changes
Exclusive: Plan under discussion involves intensive support to help young people into employment
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Trump 45 administration was arranged around protecting Trump's ability to do crimes. The Trump 47 administration is much more aggressively committed to delegitimizing the whole *ideas* of crime and corruption for politicians. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Trump team is looking to see if DOJ committed misconduct in investigating Watergate
A burglary at the Watergate complex in June 1972 would ultimately lead to a corruption scandal in Washington and the resignation of President Richard Nixon
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
OK now I'm back at work I want to talk about GB Grid. I think the govt did the best it could at communicating this announcement but it's quite technical and you need to understand the energy system to fully get it, so it's almost impossible to sum up in a soundbite. Let me explain as far as I can:
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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 · 30/09/2026
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 · 30/09/2026
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.
independent.co.uk
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 · 30/09/2026
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 · 30/09/2026
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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Stuart White @stuartgwhite.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ben, this is one of the nicest things anyone has ever said to me! (I think.)
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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"
productiongap.org
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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