Jeremy Gilbert

We have already done an episode about t ACFM about it but we’ll try to cover in more detail on Cpp at some point.

A scene from our The Politics of Feeling book launch in London - great discussion on fascist optimisms and nihilism, left structures of feelings, AI and Stranger Things with @ajsecor.bsky.social @jemgilbert.bsky.social @will-davies.bsky.social @geogdurham.bsky.social

YouTube video by Rocksteady Freddie Jimmy Cliff You Can Get It If You Really Want

Oh, man. Rest in Peace, Jimmy. ♥️
youtu.be/U7dBMYUyRAQ

Soundtrack for a Coup D'Etat pt.3: DRC Today Podcast Episode · Love is the Message: Dance, Music and Counterculture · 20/11/2025 · 1h 28m

SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D'ETAT pt.3 : DRC Today

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@jemgilbert.bsky.social and Tim Lawrence review the music and politics of DRC from 1960 to today.../

EVENT: 'Housing, Power and Property' 🏠

Join @jemgilbert.bsky.social, @bethstratford.bsky.social, Nick Bano & more for an afternoon symposium on the politics of housing, rent, urban space and tenants' organising

Fri 12th Dec | 1pm | UEL, London (FREE) 👇

Book launch for The Politics of Feeling with @ajsecor.bsky.social and @jemgilbert.bsky.social @will-davies.bsky.social on 25.11 at 15.00 in London. Details here, last time I checked there were a couple of tickets left

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The problem is distributing free pdfs of the readings for groups of senior faculty, or for grad seminars, as if there was someone else who was buying the books, while "we" get them for free. When "we" don't buy the books, there isn't anyone else to pick up the cost of publishing them.

I've just signed a contract with @orbooks.bsky.social to write a book about the future of the BBC with @tommills.bsky.social and Thomas Chivers of @mediareformuk.bsky.social. The book, which will be published in the second half of 2026 will coincide with charter renewal.

E01: Welcome — Home Tune in, turn on, get down!

Just came across this podcast from @jemgilbert.bsky.social and Tim Lawrence. No indication of when it was made, but their discussion of the political nuances of the summer of love & the momentous influence of David Mancuso was excellent: www.loveisthemessagepod.co.uk/series1/welc...

@lovemessagepod.bsky.social

The Factional Politics of the Labour Party Podcast Episode · Culture, Power and Politics » Podcast · 16/11/2025 · 1h 35m

Nothing could be more @jemgilbert.bsky.social than the 11 minute introduction he provides to the subsequent hour & a half interview between him, Alan Finlayson and Neal Lawson of Compass, explaining what Compass is, to give listeners extra context to the ensuing discussion

Anyway great listen 🥀

Interesting post-publication addition! I wonder if Mahmood's proposals will be the final straw for many 'forever Labour' soft-leftists. FWIW, I fully agree with the article that this Labour leadership would be fine with going into coalition with the Tories post-2029.

Thanks Ian. The one qualification I would make now is that there's circumstantial evidence for a massive exit of members to the Greens even since the article was written, which might yet finally hand the husk of the party over to to Streeting. But we're not there yet.

Thanks Ian. The one qualification I would make now is that there's circumstantial evidence for a massive exit of members to the Greens even since the article was written, which might yet finally hand the husk of the party over to to Streeting. But we're not there yet.

Great to see that ‘reply to the article without reading it’ is now fully a thing here on BlueSky.

Reclaiming Labour While many socialists are rightly repulsed by the misdeeds of the Starmer government, its tenure will come to an end soon enough. When it does, we must be ready to renew the Labour Party’s radical mis...

While many socialists are rightly repulsed by the misdeeds of the Starmer government, its tenure will come to an end soon enough. When it does, we must be ready to renew the Labour Party’s radical mission.

Very good piece from @jemgilbert.bsky.social in the Tribune, if a tad overoptimistic.

Housing, Power and Property A symposium on the politics of housing, rent, urban space and tenants' organising

Housing, Power and Property - event at UEL, December 12th
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Starmer was never meant to be Labour’s prime minister – his leadership was doomed from the start | Neal Lawson His alliance with the party’s anti-Corbyn faction was a shotgun marriage that totally lacked vision. Now Labour is paying the price, says Neal Lawson of the cross-party campaign organisation Compass

Very good from Neal Lawson www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What's Feudal About 'Technofeudalism'? Join Jem and historian Eleanor Janega as they explore the links between capitalism and techno-feudalism in this insightful podcast episode.

For more on the issues I have with throwing the term "feudalism" about you can check out this discussion I had with @jemgilbert.bsky.social on his excellent show, Culture, Power and Politics share.google/ncUCJoWzj7wZ...

I'll be there talking about tenant unions and building power. Come and join us!

Housing, Power and Property A symposium on the politics of housing, rent, urban space and tenants' organising

Housing, Power and Property - event at UEL, December 12th
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/housing-po...

When we started doing this podcast I did not expect Tim to be playing tracks by East Anglian post-punk bands of which I hadn’t been previously aware. And yet here we are…

This morning I was wondering too about the impact that X has on the perceptions of mainstream journalists. These are the top 3 tweets replying to Mamdani's last campaign video. No wonder they lack true analyses, their perception is always already distorted by spending too much time over there.

Presenters of BBC Radio's flagship news show react to news from NYC. One is on repeat: 'what happens when he can't deliver his programme?' The other can't stop trying to attribute Zohran's victory to his personality, his campaign style, anything but his programme. Pure ideology.

Yes here's our @novaramedia.com #ACFM podcast about Your Party. Inevitably there were things we didn't get around to: e.g. the contentious role of the 'independent MPs'. We DO talk about historical precedents, online democracy and competing ideas of authority in a social media world.

You'll have to wait for December I'm afraid when we'll cover all that plus the budget (and who know what else? rumours are flying around Westminster that Wes will make his move before Christmas), and dedicate a whole episode to nationalism that will say everything we can think of about Plaid / SNP.

I think the real significance of Caerphilly is that once centre-left voters start accepting that they might have to vote for parties to the left of Labour in order to block Reform, then the entire basis for centrist political strategy since the 1970s is out of the window.

Please, please, please if you know anyone who even might be in Unison, encourage them to vote for Egan. This would be the biggest win for progressive forces in the UK since 2015.

An observation on language and the Caerphilly by-election result.

I’ve read that the result is the outcome of ‘tactical voting’.

I define tactical voting as this reasoning.

I support party x.
I oppose party y.
In order to achieve the latter I will vote party z (1/2)