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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What an absolutely brilliant scorching indictment of Sheeran, the BBC, and all the assholes both-siding a genocide www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Lorna Finlayson | Public Positions

Given much of the coverage of the Ed Sheeran-Macklemore debacle, you could be forgiven for thinking that Sheeran had...

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Terribly sad news. I was on a panel with her not long ago and she was wise, impish, challenging, gracious and a delight. RIP Bonnie. ❤️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Bonnie Greer: British-American author and critic dies at 77

Her husband says the playwright and cultural and political commentator died after a brief illness.

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ed Sheeran is a fucking disgrace.

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This list of things the University of Brighton has de-recognised is insane 🤯🤯🤯

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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Now James Orr has stepped down as Reform UK's Head of Policy after C4's report, questions remain for Cambridge – where he is Associate Professor. Byline Times revealed serious concerns about his activities there months ago. We all know there won't now be 200+ articles on him and his life don't we?

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

On YouTube now, my talk for @critzstudies.bsky.social on representations of Jewishness in contemporary Britain, whiteness and compulsory Zionism, with response from #UmayyahCable. youtu.be/npNYZiioDKc?...

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Promising Land: Compulsory Zionism, Whiteness, & Cultural Reps of Jewishness in Contemporary Britain

YouTube video by Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The Pitt S2 did well to engage with ICE, health insurance & poverty, I thought, but the fact that the series is so tame compared to reality is an indictment of the capacity of cultural production to offer any serious resistance.

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

If you work in a university, went to university or think you might, have kids who are at university or might be, or have an opinion about universities, you should listen to this from @jemgilbert.bsky.social & #AlanFinalyson podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

“…the conspiracy is the necessary and required form in which dissent, opposition, or conflict has to be explained in a society which is, in fact, mesmerized by consensus.” Stuart Hall et al, Policing the Crisis

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

If you pile your furniture in the middle of your living room then set it on fire, you will have the warmest house in your street, for a few hours.

Daniel Hannan *
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Reminder that Britain went from being the slowest-growing European economy in the 1970s to the fastest-growing in the 1980s.

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

It hasn’t reached 30C in our house today and nobody has been able to cope. It’s amazing to me that this is the extent of the demand that’s being considered.

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Striking that only a few years ago we were hearing about the Preston model of localism, but the country is poised for a leader from the north west and all we’re getting is the watered-down, talked-up alternative of Manchesterism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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In 2011 Preston hit rock bottom. Then it took back control | Aditya Chakrabortty

In a new series looking at how to make the economy work for everyone, Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty finds out how Preston turned its fortunes around by spending locally

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

So Labour Right is moving to prevent any leadership contest. I hope the left gets its act together and stands a candidate for hustings with some demands that will have traction with Burnham. Currently it looks like Streeting’s cronies are swarming around him to foreclose any offer to the left.

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I’m delighted, today, to have an opportunity to say my piece about the legacy of Black theatre’s great pathfinder in Britain, Yvonne Brewster, and the anti-imperial politics of her work. www.tom6.space/blog/in-and-...

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In and against the imperial state: Talawa at the Cochrane — Tom Six

It was a pleasure today to be at ‘New Directions, Histories, and Adaptations in Black Theatre and Performance’ - thanks to the organisers Tiziana Morosetti and Lennox Goddard. The event was partl...

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Struggling to convince progressives that a Burnham who can put Reform back in its box but also has to work with them is a Good Thing. Their reason? ‘I don’t agree with him.’ Since when was that the point?! 🫠

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Good to see left populism doing what Corbynism should have done *a lot better* and beginning to take some ground back from the hot mess made by both liberal & far-right pedlars of nostalgic identitarian nonsense about THE WORKING CLASS.

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

At the risk of becoming solely a @jemgilbert.bsky.social hype merchant on here, this conversation is exactly what I needed to point students to in response to the Q ‘what do you mean by “the demise of Black British Cultural Studies”?’ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

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Black Theory in Britain

Podcast Episode · Culture, Power, Politics » Podcast · 6 June · 2h 8m

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Spot on. Excellent thread.

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

My piece on atmospheres of institutional racism available open access 👇🏼

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Second part of really excellent introduction to Stuart Hall here from @jemgilbert.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c... with a touching ending about Hall’s function as a role model for those of us doing politically engaged intellectual work.

A picture of a framed poster with the words ‘WHAT WOULD STUART HALL DO?’ In pink lettering.

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Talking on July 15 11amET/4pmBST about compulsory Zionism and whiteness in contemporary representations of Jewishness in Britain. Online and free but you need to register: criticalzionismstudies.org/2026talks/

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Fantastic archive of Stuart Hall here - essential listening for anyone interested in English culture, or who just wants to hear a brilliant teacher at the height of his powers www.mixcloud.com/genres/engli...

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Browse English Stitch

Listen to the best English Stitch

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

The archive of SH teaching here is fantastic. Conjuncture = Hegelian dialectics is an odd contribution, but that aside this is really interesting and useful.

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

If you’re listening to eg the Today programme telling you the story of the local elections is Labour losing to Reform, you might want to listen to the BBC’s polling expert… It’s not ‘better’ news exactly for the left electorally, but it is a crucially different picture.

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

All killer, no filler on the Culture Power Politics feed this weekend. This is very good on the imminent next phase of British political crisis from @jemgilbert.bsky.social & Alan Finlayson. Send it to the ‘low-information Guardian readers’ (JG) in your life. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

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Political Update: Mandelson, Starmer, Tenants’ Rights

Podcast Episode · Culture, Power, Politics » Podcast · 1 May · 57min

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

For context, this is less than what I received as a PhD student in 2009…

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Mr Trojan Horse Letter is up to it again

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Another excellent and clarifying rapid-response long view from Alan & Jem here… podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

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The Meaning of Peter Mandelson

Podcast Episode · Culture, Power, Politics » Podcast · 17/02/2026 · 1h 44m

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Lisa Tilley @tilley101.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Here's a counterpoint to this grim revival of climate eugenics at Essex (lots of other great research against populationism is available): journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Happy birthday to the big man, Bertolt Brecht! 🥳

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

‘Meat shield’ 😬😬😬

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Wild stuff from Jonathan here, contingent as it is upon everyone agreeing to pretend they don’t know him and his mates fought for years to put the Peter Mandelson wing of the party back in charge, and that their core aim in all of their careers was to be much like Peter Mandelson.

There's one argument Starmer could make to save his skin - but he won't dare do it
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Among those focusing on what the PM knew about Peter Mandelson are many who themselves knew plenty and chose to ignore it
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The first is the one you could hear on phone-in shows all week and which has an immediate, easy appeal. It says, with a world-weariness that poses as wisdom: what has happened is no surprise because that's what they're all like. All politicians are in it for themselves. Sure, Mandelson was more blatant - grovelling to billionaires, hustling for big-money jobs and seats on the board when he was barely out of the ministerial door - but the rest are no different. Starmer himself recognises how widely that belief is held. He reportedly told his cabinet:
"The public don't really see individuals in this scandal, they see politicians."
That has to be fought. Partly because, as anyone who has spent much time with actual politicians knows, most are not like Mandelson. Plenty are weird; quite a few are consumed by ambition and the desire to climb the greasy pole. But so lacking in scruples that they would not only be best pals with a convicted child abuser but pass government secrets to him at the height of a global financial crisis? No, that is the exception, not the rule.

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Really impressed by the humility and clarity of this reading of @hamayel.bsky.social from @felicitycallard.bsky.social - qualities whose absence from scholarly responses to Palestinian resistance could hardly be more prominent. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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‘Cracking History Open’: Psychic Life and Palestinian Resistance | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core

‘Cracking History Open’: Psychic Life and Palestinian Resistance - Volume 2

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Furious clarity from Jude Wanga www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

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