David Klemperer
@dmk1793
Historian, researcher, and co-editor of @renewaljournal.bsky.social
A characteristically generous and thoughtful review of our discussion from @aveek18.bsky.social aveekbhattacharya.substack.com/p/readwatche...
It tickles me that back in 1970 two of the animating causes of Burnhamism today were punchlines about the most boring political issues imaginable
a sample of the kind of thing that I'm consistently shown without asking for:
Tuchel and his tactics were specifically endorsed by Maurice Glasman ... yet another outcome for which we can blame Blue Labour
Great to see @pollycurtis.bsky.social choose my proposals on compulsory voting as her top idea for Burnham's premiership! www.arguably.uk/p/20-ideas-f...
Pleased to have played a part in putting together this issue. In my editorial, I offer a brief assessment of Starmerism, and set out why I see as the major challenges that social democrats now face:
Good analysis here from Paul Mason: www.socialeurope.eu/labours-coal...
Really striking graphic from @samfr.bsky.social's substack this morning
Just arrived in the post, whole household delighted! @patrickfreyne.bsky.social
Pleasingly, Sandu favourably contrasts our special issue (composed of essays from the Tribune Group of Labour MPs) with the "anti-intellectualism" of the Blair essay, and suggests it represents the kind of thinking and writing Labour needs
I often think about how Taylor Lorenz and her phone (a single composite organism) come with a 15 foot charging cable so that you can plug them in at the wall but still allow them to roam around in a little zone. Must be a real tripping hazard though. www.wired.com/story/user-b...
I’ve been amused to see how polling firms are tailoring their ads to try to attract them
I think the aggregate negative effect of social media is if anything far greater than that of smoking
Look, nothing can make today alright. But maybe we can take some comfort from the brutal reality that the old politics must make way for the new. Realignment marches on. The scythe is remorseless. I hope the scythe's remorseless swing can bring some comfort to you all.
The turnout point here is important, and perhaps explains why (as I set out in a new report for Labour Together) recent polling/modelling suggests that Labour would be the primary beneficiary of compulsory voting: www.labourtogether.uk/all-reports/...
He could have saved us!! And it's very unfair that people STILL hold the whole ""fascism"" thing against him :(
But you see, Mosley had to become a fascist as a form of self-care, because being "uprooted from the land" had been damaging for his Men's Mental Health:
Lord Robert Skidelsky (rip)'s biography of Oswald Mosley was often criticised for being overly-sympathetic, and even a bit in love with its subject. But I ask you, does this line seem anything other than studiously neutral?
The report also contains polling looking at what the partisan impact of compulsory voting might be: