Martin O'Neill

Thanks for sharing this, Barry. Hope all is well with you!

blog.apaonline.org/2025/12/02/l... new post from @jkandiyali.bsky.social and @martinoneill.bsky.social

We Cease to be Mere Fragments: Justice, Alienation, Liberalism and Socialism What is the relationship between liberalism and socialism? Partisans of each political tradition often focus on the shortcomings of the other, with socialists charging liberals with defending merely f...

And here's a link to the underlying article to which this short essay connects:

Jan Kandiyali and Martin O'Neill, "We Cease to be Mere Fragments: Justice, Alienation, Liberalism and Socialism," Political Philosophy, 2 (1), 204-37
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Liberalism and Socialism: Allies or Opponents? | Blog of the APA The victory of Zohran Mamdani in the 2025 New York City Mayoral election has propelled discussion of socialism to the front of the political agenda. Mamdani identifies his political outlook as a form ...

Here @jkandiyali.bsky.social and I start with the election of Zohran Mamdani as Mayor of New York City, and from there talk about justice, alienation, Rawls, Marx, and why we only *partially* agree with Joe Heath ...
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Liberalism and Socialism: Allies or Opponents? | Blog of the APA The victory of Zohran Mamdani in the 2025 New York City Mayoral election has propelled discussion of socialism to the front of the political agenda. Mamdani identifies his political outlook as a form ...

The American Philosophical Association @apaphilosophy.bsky.social blog asked Jan Kandiyali @jkandiyali.bsky.social & me to write a short piece that connects with our recent article on the relationship between liberalism & socialism.
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Here's that short essay:

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The King of the UK, should serve the vicitims and compel his brother to attend and tell congress and the world what he knows. Otherwise it looks like King is protecting him.

Thanks for the re-post @tomshakespeare.bsky.social !

Win-Win-Win Taxing wealth for fairness, revenue and growth

And here's a link to our report, which was published by the Fairness Foundation @fairness.bsky.social:

Martin O'Neill & Howard Reed, "Win-Win-Win: Taxing Wealth for Fairness, Revenue and Growth"
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fairnessfoundation.com/win-win-win

Ahead of the Budget, good to see this briefing from @acadsocsciences.bsky.social & @fairness.bsky.social, looking at how high levels of inequality hold back the UK economy. The briefing draws on the report on wealth taxes that Howard Reed and I published last month. 1/2👇

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Do you feel lucky? Why acknowledging our own good fortune would make the world a better place | Julian Richer I have been fortunate, and I know it. Now I’d like more successful people to admit that meritocracy is a myth, says Julian Richer, founder of Richer Sounds

A welcome & wise intervention from Julian Richer, making the simple & important point: success in life is often down to sheer good fortune. Those who have found success in their own lives should acknowledge this, and what follows from it. @fairness.bsky.social

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The first page of Martin O'Neill's essay on philosophy and community wealth building.

Martin O'Neill (@martinoneill.bsky.social) has just published a piece that reflects on the experience of bringing together philosophy and the practice of community wealth building, in an important new volume on public philosophy. Read the whole thing, here: www.nuffieldfoundation.org/research/our...

Mahmood furious over asylum seeker taxi bills.

Overton window has been obliterated

The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right.

There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture

join.greenparty.org.uk

This is just a Michael D. Higgins appreciation post. A truly wonderful President of Ireland, and a man with great taste in books. Wishing him all health and happiness (and time to read) in his retirement! @communitywealth.bsky.social

Reminder: York Centre for Social Justice and Democracy (formerly known as York Centre for Political Theory) 2026 BOOK MANUSCRIPT WORKSHOP (DEADLINE Friday, 19 December 2025)

Information can be found here:
www.york.ac.uk/politics/cpt...

APPLY and, please, circulate widely! @martinoneill.bsky.social

The truth about impartiality at the BBC And the hysteria of the current "crisis"

‘Is it institutionally biased? No. Is it institutionally unimaginative and insufficiently curious to all radical political ideas? Yes.’ @lewisgoodall.com on you know what goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-truth-...

Some experts are worried about the changes. While the British Council is supportive, Professor Charles Forsdick, lead fellow for languages at the British Academy, said: "We are concerned about the implications for language education and the need for breadth in the curriculum for all learners. The recommendation to abandon the EBacc at GCSE would eliminate one of the few remaining safeguards for language provision in England's schools and risk narrowing education for the next generation."

Coverage in The Times of our concerns about how languages will fare under the proposed changes to the national curriculum
www.thetimes.com/article/9b0f... @britishacademy.bsky.social @cforsdick.bsky.social

Things are looking good for both Arsenal *and* democratic socialism now!

Things are looking good for both Arsenal *and* democratic socialism now!

YouTube video by Guardian News Zohran Mamdani's full victory speech following New York mayor election

Zohran Mamdani’s victory speech is a truly great political speech. Socialist commitments front and centre (inc. a shoutout to Eugene Debs!) — he’s secure in his political tradition and his values, and is pushing them forward into the future with confidence and optimism. ✊👍😊

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😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

Good political news is a very rare and precious commodity at the moment. The way ahead won’t be easy, but for now it’s wonderful to be able to celebrate @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s win in New York City — a big victory for a practical but principled socialist politics.

Thanks to Dr Google (and we’d just been in Harlem!)

My son Joe has come up with what would be a brilliant pub quiz question:

What do the following people have in common:
Henry Kissinger, Bob Hope, Whoopi Goldberg, Nelson Mandela, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Pope John Paul II, Jesse Jackson, and Pope Francis?

Fingers crossed that today we’ll see a socialist elected as Mayor of New York City. Zohran Mamdani’s campaign shows there’s a huge appetite for practical socialist policies, building public infrastructure and addressing the cost of living. There’s political hope for the future! #VoteZohran #Mamdani

“The point is to change it”: Essays on philosophy in public life - Nuffield Foundation This volume is focused on how philosophers might help us to think about big public themes.

Very glad to be part of this volume on public philosophy — “The Point is to Change It”: Essays on Philosophy in Public Life — edited by David Archard and Matt Davies for the @nuffieldfoundation.org, and with a great cast of contributors.

Available here:

www.nuffieldfoundation.org/research/our...

“The point is to change it”: Essays on philosophy in public life - Nuffield Foundation This volume is focused on how philosophers might help us to think about big public themes.

New book supported by the @nuffieldfoundation.org on what philosophy can contribute to public life. Contributors include @jowolff.bsky.social @tariqmodood.bsky.social @lornographic.bsky.social @martinoneill.bsky.social @profclarechambers.bsky.social
www.nuffieldfoundation.org/research/our...

Essays on philosophy in public life - Nuffield Foundation

"The point is to change it" — a volume of new essays from 21 leading academics exploring the role of philosophy in public life — launches today!

Contributors include @tariqmodood.bsky.social, @martinoneill.bsky.social, @jowolff.bsky.social, @elkeschwarz.bsky.social and more.

Click below to read 👇🦉

Huge thank you to our contributors, including:
🔹 @tariqmodood.bsky.social
🔹 @martinoneill.bsky.social
🔹 @jowolff.bsky.social
🔹 @elkeschwarz.bsky.social

And to @halcyene.bsky.social and Professor David Archard for editing the collection.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor? Pshaw: they should go for the full Andrew Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg-Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

How Britain’s Political Class Enabled Genocide In Gaza From Rishi Sunak to Keir Starmer, Britain’s political class has supported Israel’s atrocities in Gaza to the hilt while attempting to supress protests against genocide on the home front. They’ll never...

Very good interview by Oliver Eagleton with Peter Oborne, discussing Oborne’s new book on the complicity of the British state — and of the current British political class — in Israel’s genocidal crimes in Gaza. @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social

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