🔥New FotL issue with intro from Tobias Phibbs on Arsenal, and response to Blair by Jonathan Rutherford🔥
Includes:
@TomMcTague on 1840s
@DantonsHead and @MarkMcvitie on 🇬🇧's economic future
@jamesbreckwoldt on Manchester
Sam Kriss on AI writing
@skulthorp on the English
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Interested in Blue Labour? Join us at Britons Protection in Manchester on Thursday 25 June.
@connor_naismith@Jonathan_Hinder@DespoticInroad
and Frances Foley will talk about where we go after Makerfield. Come along.
https://t.co/7oOR9JJc7I
What were they thinking? Former police officer @Jonathan_Hinder writes for @FutureLeft1 on the Henry Nowak killing and the police response.
Read it here: https://t.co/QpFL2SEsXx
The armchair critics, dug into their opposing positions, seize on any individual incident to support their sweeping conclusions about the motivations and performance of 140,000 officers. So are the police now “woke”, or racist? It is hard to keep up as the pendulum wildly swings.
"Watching the body-worn camera footage as a former officer, I cannot understand why the officers were not quicker in treating this as a medical emergency, but the ensuing public debate has been woefully ill-informed." writes @Jonathan_Hinder
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The long shadow of Tony Blair has once again cast itself over the Labour party.
Jonathan Rutherford writes the definitive response.
"What Labour politicians called progress, was experienced by many as the destruction of their way of life and of their country."
Also includes @richardmarcj and @LeeDavidEvansUK on General Strike, Jason Cowley on Arsenal, Frances Foley on Blue Labour and Soft Left, and @andrewsgeoff on his excellent new book Radicals: The Working Classes And The Making of Modern Britain
https://t.co/Feiq1Gj12h
🔥New FotL issue with intro from Tobias Phibbs on Arsenal, and response to Blair by Jonathan Rutherford🔥
Includes:
@TomMcTague on 1840s
@DantonsHead and @MarkMcvitie on 🇬🇧's economic future
@jamesbreckwoldt on Manchester
Sam Kriss on AI writing
@skulthorp on the English
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What unites Blue Labour and the soft left?
What unites the old right and the Socialist Campaign Group?
I've written for @NewStatesman on how reindustrialisation can unite Labour - and what that means for 'Manchesterism'.
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Also includes @RianCFFWhitton on reindustrialisation, @_SiobhanCT on Half Man Half Biscuit, @bukesisback on why everyone is a British nationalist now, and @bureaucatliu's new Palm Springs School for Social Research.
https://t.co/ooKxowgEU3
Dispatches from a discontented country.
First up, @_SiobhanCT on the two faces of Margate.
"Someone tried to open a jazz bar opposite Elsewhere a few years ago. It closed within a year. You can’t put a jazz bar in a Shoe Zone, we said. Now they’ve put the Greens in Margate."
@DespoticInroad@martha_dacombe@dai_alectic@Jackpeacock21 And finally, Jason Cowley writes the PM's political obituary: "Increasingly when he speaks nothing occurs to me. He repeats his key words – change, renewal, working people, hardworking people – but you have the sense that no one is listening. There is only the echo of the void."