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Elite welfare and the good fortune of just being there | Journal of Social Policy | Cambridge Core

📢 New co-authored article out today examining executive remuneration & developing the concept of elite welfare 🧵 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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The concept of elite welfare invites researchers & analysts to look ‘upwards’ & consider how the public money & policy-created advantages flow to the most economically privileged in society.

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There’s been extensive political debate about whether we can afford to provide state support to those e.g. out of work, facing long term health problems, or struggling to make ends meet. Our article turns that debate on its head.

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Elite welfare and the good fortune of just being there | Journal of Social Policy | Cambridge Core

📢 New co-authored article out today examining executive remuneration & developing the concept of elite welfare 🧵 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is the late phase of the project “burning everything to the ground to protect the Thatcherite consensus and the people and organisations that impose it”. There’s a fair bit left to burn yet, and everything I’ve seen suggests we will gladly set all that on fire also.

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Tom Mills @tommills.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yeah. But I wanted an interactive graph where every data point would show the donor and donee.

Tom Mills @tommills.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There isn't one. I just spread the data points horizontally.

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Tom Mills @tommills.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There is a fundamental choice facing the BBC & the political class to which it currently answers: democratises or die. Pre-order our new book, ‘The BBC: From Corporation to Cooperative’, from @orbooks.bsky.social here: orbooks.com/catalog/the-...

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Tom Mills @tommills.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is a major breakthrough. The Greens are the only political party to have addressed head on fundamental problems with the BBC's politicised governance model. Most policy discussion amounts to tinkering round the edges, debating funding mechanisms & charter renewal periods.

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Tom Mills @tommills.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It is now official Green policy to mutualise the BBC, creating 'democratic & representative forums of BBC members with guaranteed powers to oversee & shape BBC operations in key areas'. greenparty.org.uk/2026/10/03/g...

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Greens adopt policy of mutualising the BBC - Green Party

Green Party Conference passed a landmark motion today to shift media away from corporate control towards public participation, including mutualising the BBC. Under this policy, the BBC would be mutua...

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I like the way she’s willing to believe in endless multi-tentacled globe-spanning conspiracies, but “Labour are corrupt and they work for millionaires, against the public interest” immediately explodes her brain.

Carole Cadwalladr Y @carolecadwalla
X.com
I'm still reeling from the @tom_watson / Palantir news. But I also think it will blow up in both their faces. It's so transparently desperate.
@andyburnham is going to have to respond to people's disgust & anger at Palantir's role in the
UK state.
Read the thread
THE NERVE @thenerve_news • 1d
Good morning @tom_watson
Your journey from MP who most understood the Cambridge Analytica scandal to paid-up Palanti...

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Your Ed Sheeran is downstream of politics, thats all I'm saying.

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So even with the control they exercise over algorithmic media there's a great chasm now between popular & elite culture, & repressive measures create these political-cultural flashpoints.

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That's one way of reading what's happening now. The political-economic system & its media aren't capable of reflecting the interests of broad publics. Somethings got to give.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

When I first researched the Israel lobby over a decade ago I argued they had largely given up on the 'battle of ideas' in the conventional sense & were focused on shoring up elite opinion.

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I appreciate people were squeamish about sending George Bush II and Tony Blair to prison but straight up, that might actually have been a deterrent that might have prevented (waves hand at half the planet ablaze)

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Tom Mills @tommills.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New post: 'Reform’s Donations are not Normal'. Plotted every donation in the Electoral Commission donations register in grey - and Reform's recent mega donations in red.

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Tom Mills @tommills.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

As you can see from the graph there were already some mad outliers. We absolutely need a cap on individual donations.

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Tom Mills @tommills.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Here's the link. With some summary stats & a nice interactive plot. tamills1981.github.io/society-from...

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Reform’s Donations are not Normal – Society From the Top Down

Tom Mills @tommills.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New post: 'Reform’s Donations are not Normal'. Plotted every donation in the Electoral Commission donations register in grey - and Reform's recent mega donations in red.

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Tom Mills @tommills.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

'...having left the Today programme, perhaps I can now asseverate opinions that a fortnight ago would have got me sacked.... Today is no den of wokeness, trust me.' Think we can agree on that much. spectator.com/article/now-...

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Now I’ve left Today, I can finally say what I really think…

Hello, what’s this I see before me? A blank page; and a pen unencumbered by the heavy weight of BBC News impartiality. I still present University Challenge, it’s true; but having left the Today progra...

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Sending me to prison won’t unembezzle the company pension fund, your honour

Britain's West Bank
sanctions will do nothing to help Palestinians
The measures do not match the theatrical rhetoric, may be hugely counter-productive and risk feeding the fire of antisemitism in this country
The Times View
Tuesday September 08 2026, 9.00pm BST, The Times

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Tom Mills @tommills.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Lovely interview with a far right activist on BBC radio this lunchtime.

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Tom Mills @tommills.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Been listening to Culture, Power, Politics on neoliberalism. Does v good job synthesising different perspectives. Inspired me to resurrect a lost article I wrote years ago for New Left Project (anybody?) on neoliberalism, freedom & rational choice theory. tamills1981.github.io/society-from...

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Strange Freedom – Society From the Top Down

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Tom Mills @tommills.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Thanks for mentioning. We have a new book coming out on BBC this year with OR books. Also I wrote a book that covers all this called 'Myth of a Public Service'.

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tamills1981.github.io

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Will Stronge @wstronge.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

You really need to be become a supporter of Culture Power Politics. Keeps your political instincts sharp and gives you substantial theory deep dives too: www.patreon.com/culturepower...

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Tom Mills @tommills.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A really useful summary of research on genetics & 'race' from @sashagusevposts.bsky.social inc. a detailed section on 'The heritability of IQ test performance' (linked). Quite technical, but you should be able to get the gist of it with a bit of persistence. gusevlab.org/projects/hsq...

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A downloadable pdf version is available: [ 📄 here ]

OR Books @orbooks.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

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DEMOCRATISE OR DIE A bold plan to save the BBC by democratising it. In this intervention, three leading media policy experts (inc. @tommills.bsky.social) warn the BBC will not survive its fast-approaching Charter Review unless its popular legitimacy is reinvigorated.

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Tom Mills @tommills.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

DEMOCRATISE OR DIE A bold plan to save the BBC by democratising it, coming soon from @orbooks.bsky.social.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

We can nutshell this one: the Conservative Party fucked everyone in Britain. It should’ve destroyed them as a party, but it didn’t: it wrecked all of us instead and they got away with it because Britain has no meaningful systems of accountability that apply to our ruling class.

Revisited - Brexit: an oral history
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Revisited: This year marked 10 years since the
UK chose to leave the EU. In a series of interviews with key players from both sides, Kiran Stacey looks back on the Brexit vote that changed the country for ever.

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Tom Mills @tommills.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The British media hounded a man to his death claiming it was in the public interest. Is investigating that story in the public interest?

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Tom Mills @tommills.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Nice throwaway comment from Adam Tooze on new Postscripts podcast: 'Hegemony doesn't just consist of offering people treats and telling them good stories. It consists in breaking your enemies.' 🎯

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Tom Mills @tommills.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Wow. Do update us on any more incontrovertible observations he makes.

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Tom Mills @tommills.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Good read. Really like Tim Mitchell's stuff & will def get to this soon. Glad to hear Capital as Power paradigm being acknowledged. newleftreview.org/issues/ii159...

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Jack Copley, Rentier Regimes, NLR 159, May–June 2026

Jack Copley on Timothy Mitchell, The Alibi of Capital. Capital re-conceptualized as terraforming expropriation of the future.

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Tom Mills @tommills.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Thought long & hard about this & have decided, no. It is not.

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Thanks for taking the time to explain this to me.

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Under no delusions about the state of things currently!

No one should be accused of crimes until they are convicted of them. Its outrageous.

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Why have Iranians seen Britain as a threat to their sovereignty? It's a total mystery. Just a bit mad I guess.

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Later on the show: the BBC's Business Editor interviews the CEO of BAE Systems about the threats we face & how BAE is deterring war by developing high tech weapons.

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Amol Rajan: ‘There is a long history here if you go back to the Revolution of ’79, even 20 years before that, or 25 years before that to Mohammad Mosaddegh... Britain was often seen by very powerful Iranians as a nasty piece of work that had a toxic influence on their history.’

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