Dr Martin Goodhead

Writer. PhD English Literature @Keeleuniversity. Contemporary British working-class literature and spectrality; Sessional Tutor.

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@SeanKGriffiths @soldierpaypig Corbyn's Labour (even '19) won amongst non-retirement age voters. If Anything, JC and surrogates didn't emphasize the 'green new jobs' element enough, but that was always baked in as policy. Did JDB's 'old miner' think it was 'woke' to implement masks or other gear in the mines?

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Thesis 'Three Types of Egress: Working-Class agency in British Fiction' now published https://t.co/v3EpgyK3vJ (monograph & accompanying projects in process...)

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https://t.co/I25ADMRKbp New post where I give something of an overview of Acid Comm in relation to my project. More to come

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New blog post up. Some initial thoughts (expanding on Thesis) on the relation between Egress and Lacan. https://t.co/0KgIdV3HhF

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https://t.co/KfZXs2r6VU

My first research blog - providing an overview of class and the project. More to come soon!

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Launching my research hub & blog on contemporary class & literature, movements, exits etc @ https://t.co/1OTHtMHm4W. Posts on close-readings, egressal-formations and overview of AC to come in Nov'25 +

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@AaronBastani I've read many revealing things in Katy Balls' columns, but never a purposeful insight...

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@AaronBastani Even with media's ideological bent, re-packaged& revised (where applicable) program containing 80% of '19 'domestic' manifesto could have been sold (as 'growth') in '24 by real operators: if they weren't pathologically fixated on 'breaking the Left', share would have ≥ 40%

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@AaronBastani Starmer team=infinitely less impressive than early New Labour re. building consent as part of a broad coalition (assimilating dem-Left with discipline but also diverse cab; establishing rather than trading upon existing media-sympathy) under overall more fortuitous circumstances

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@JamesDAustin @AaronBastani 'Hard left' doesn't exist within British parliamentary politics, and the (often) cynically propounded fiction that it does has exercised deeply deleterious effect upon British political discourse (and by extension upon most disadvantaged within society)...

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@AaronBastani Was Mandelson great when he advised abandoning N Mid/Northern w/class communities because they'd never switch; or when he further toxified Labour brand with open corruption; or advocated for light-touch regulation and staking growth on asset-infl; or when he gave cover to Epstn?

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@AaronBastani Two men who've never achieved anything professionally that didn't involve toadying to entrenched interests (whether as courtier-commentator or a 'political operator' carried to power by a) 90s Cons self-delegitimiztn & b) giving Murdoch everything)- still fancy themselves great

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@British_Ideas @AaronBastani Wilson understood the difference between national capital and international capital, for one, when he was talking about using investment & creating partnerships. He also understood profit-motive's capture of institutions if you let it. Starmer cares to understand neither aspect.

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@trevgoes4th @AaronBastani Also, you might need to read up on a) what constitutes a planned economy- and b) on longer histories of classical liberalism, 19th century conservatism And contemporary neoliberalism. 'State' is always there and 'intervening' - it's just a question of 'for whom' and 'what ends'

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@trevgoes4th @AaronBastani Got the stats for that? 'Most' is doing a AWFUL lot of heavy lifting. Even majority of red-wall Lab to Con'19, voters when polled/examined in sociol. literature, wanted policy return to 'stable' social democracy with public utilities&secure jobs matched with degree of mobility

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@AaronBastani It could have been Penny Mordaunt, parachuted in post-LT to do analogously (to Rishi) wretched job for 18 months, but in natty dress and inspiring deeply-conflicted affects in millennial left podcasters comparable with those Thatcher circa '80 weirdly inspired in certain Lab MPs

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@MikeTho04795078 @AaronBastani Why don't you read his book? Might also think to look into how the Chinese state maintains political sovereignty (rather than capital parasitic upon, or co-opting political functions) whilst utilizing select state-market mechanisms And regulated private forms...

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@AaronBastani Such a deeply odd creature; not like Davey's some kind of Westminster outsider or deviating from economic orthodoxies she clings to religiously; she's attending parties with Libs and Blairite MPs/SAs as well as Tories - whilst latter are busted brand. Why implicitly defend them?

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@antonhowes Right now, you have programme essentially trading off rejection of Conservatives as overseeing specific&ambient decline and Labour standing in for the only feasible 'Not-Tory', but with maj. blackmailed into accepting set of commitments that do v. nothing to alleviate concerns..