Interregnum - Labour's Death Spiral
Podcast Episode Β· Politics Theory Other Β· February 21 Β· 46m
ICYMI - @leninology.bsky.social on the the ongoing crisis within the Labour Party. We talked about McSweeney, Mandelson, Labour Together, and the broader crisis of legitimacy facing the British state and its key institutions:
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Listen to the episode here:
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Richard Seymour on Peter Mandelson and his erstwhile friends in the media:
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"Much like the guff about Keir Starmer being a thoroughly decent man, you really have to wonder at the strategic blind spots and the implicit value judgments of anyone describing Peter Mandelson as charming." - @leninology.bsky.social
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Interregnum - Labour's Death Spiral
Podcast Episode Β· Politics Theory Other Β· February 21 Β· 46m
ICYMI - @leninology.bsky.social on the the ongoing crisis within the Labour Party. We talked about McSweeney, Mandelson, Labour Together, and the broader crisis of legitimacy facing the British state and its key institutions:
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Officers have arrested a 72-year-old man on suspicion of misconduct in public office and for wearing a jacket that appears to involve a finance bro vest being fused to the rest of the garment.
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Interregnum - Labour's Death Spiral
Podcast Episode Β· Politics Theory Other Β· February 21 Β· 46m
Latest episode of Interregnum - PTO's show within a show with @leninology.bsky.social - we talked about McSweeney, Mandelson, and the broader crisis of legitimacy facing the British state and its key institutions:
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Interregnum - Labour's Death Spiral
Podcast Episode Β· Politics Theory Other Β· February 21 Β· 46m
π» Sunday listening π» -@leninology.bsky.social on the ongoing crisis within the Labour Party. We talked about McSweeney, Mandelson, and the broader crisis of legitimacy facing the British state and its key institutions:
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A clip from the latest episode of Interregnum (PTO's show-within-a-show with @leninology.bsky.social):
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Listen to the full episode here:
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"NATO is over. The US empire is in a process of irreversible decay... A new set of alliances is going to be necessary. It would be necessary for a left-wing government representing working class interests. It's necessary probably for the bourgeoisie..." - @leninology.bsky.social
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Interregnum - Richard responds to listener questions | Politics Theory Other
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π» Weekend listening π» - @leninology.bsky.social responds to questions from PTO patrons on topics including: What a left defence policy should look like, why Mark Carney called time on the "rules-based order", Marxist theorisations of war, and resistance in Minnesota.
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Interregnum - Richard responds to listener questions | Politics Theory Other
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π’π₯NEW PTO EXTRA! π’π₯ - @leninology.bsky.social responds to questions from PTO patrons on topics including: What a left defence policy should look like, why Mark Carney called time on the "rules-based order", Marxist theorisations of war, and the situation in Minnesota:
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Homeland Empire w/ Nikhil Pal Singh
Podcast Episode Β· Politics Theory Other Β· 01/28/2026 Β· 44m
ICYMI - Nikhil Pal Singh on Donald Trump's 'Homeland Empire'. Nikhil talks about how the Trump administration has collapsed the distinction between foreign and domestic policy, creating a single zone where violence and impunity reign:
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Truly excellent interview with Nikhil Pal Singh here - a wide ranging discussion of the ways that the Trump project has collapsed the distinction between the US's domestic and international projects - drawing from, and re-working decades of policy in both of these arenas.
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Homeland Empire w/ Nikhil Pal Singh
Podcast Episode Β· Politics Theory Other Β· 01/28/2026 Β· 44m
π’π₯NEW EPISODEπ’π₯ - Nikhil Pal Singh on Donald Trump's 'Homeland Empire'. Nikhil talks about how the Trump administration has collapsed the distinction between foreign and domestic policy, creating a single zone where violence and impunity reign:
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"Obama helped to put what was still in some ways a fledgling agency (ICE) and built it up into the institutional node that it is now. Obama is extremely important as a fulcrum between the origins of Homeland Security... and its hypertrophy and abuse in Trump." - Nikhil Pal Singh
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This is such a great podcast. So much to think about. I also love the point that Nikhil makes about Mamdaniβs project of civic renewal.
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A clip from my interview with Nikhil Pal Singh - on his recent essay in @equatormag.bsky.social
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A clip from my interview with Nikhil Pal Singh - on his recent essay in @equatormag.bsky.social
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"Obama helped to put what was still in some ways a fledgling agency (ICE) and built it up into the institutional node that it is now. Obama is extremely important as a fulcrum between the origins of Homeland Security... and its hypertrophy and abuse in Trump." - Nikhil Pal Singh
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ICE, resistance, and 'capitalism without humans' w/ Sarah Jaffe
The Minnesota general strike demonstrated the leading place the labour movement is playing in opposing ICE. @sarahljaffe.bsky.social's interview @poltheoryother.bsky.social provides a history of the current moment through exploring the central role of migrant workers in American trade unionism.
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"Increasingly the distinction between the foreign and the domestic, doesn't really hold up... We have something like military action in US cities to round up immigrants, and then we have a kind of police action to kidnap or arrest a foreign head of state..." - Nikhil Pal Singh
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Homeland Empire w/ Nikhil Pal Singh
Podcast Episode Β· Politics Theory Other Β· 01/28/2026 Β· 44m
I interviewed Nikhil Pal Singh about his recent essay in
@equatormag.bsky.social in which Nikhil talks about how the Trump administration has collapsed the distinction between foreign and domestic policy, creating a single zone where violence and impunity reign:
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Listen to the full episode here:
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ICE, resistance, and 'capitalism without humans' w/ Sarah Jaffe
Podcast Episode Β· Politics Theory Other Β· 01/20/2026 Β· 59m
@sarahljaffe.bsky.social on the political and social background to ICE's violent escalation in Minnesota (and the centrality of the Somali community to union organising and resistance):
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