Chris Yuill

They have been very weird of late!

That is a shame!

Same here! Just managed it in the last line too!

Prawn cocktail next?

They are so frustrating!

It was a toughie today!

Looking forward to reading Ben Aaronovitch’s new novel set here in the Granite City in a suitably grey dreich day!

There should be an American spelling warning 😆

Explaining Rayner Danger Angela Rayner's in the news. The Telegraph has been in receipt of documents showing that she argued for tax rises in cabinet meetings. The...

"Rayner is attacked not only because of what she is, but because she - despite her own politics - represents to them the threat of what could be."

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The Double Shift Even as the rewards of work decline and its demands on us increase, many people double-down on their commitment to wage slavery—working harder, doing overtime, and learning to hustle. To paraphrase Sp...

The Double Shift:Spinoza and Marx on work is up to 50% off in Verso book’s May Day sale.

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Congrats to Dr Billy Holzberg of Kings College London - given this year’s Philip Abrams Memorial Prize tinyurl.com/2zv23bm5 at our annual conference #britsoc25 for his book on Germany after the 2015 ‘summer of migration’ tinyurl.com/8fes47se

Very engaged audience with thought provoking questions during my presentation of my research on the Windrush Scandal at British Sociological Association conference this morning.
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Lovely few days in Manchester for @britsoci.bsky.social annual conference. #britsoc25

Enjoyed presenting prizes to Claire Alexander & Billy Holzberg 🏆

Many thanks to @unsocialtheory.bsky.social, @jkom.bsky.social & @alinecourtois.bsky.social for taking part in my symposium on the future of HE

It was tricky!

Well done - look forward to reading it!

Very nice!

Blue Labour and the Working Class With another group of (unnamed) Labour MPs urging Keir Starmer to " get tough " with immigration, it seems the party is on a doomist traject...

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"Far from being an expression of working class politics, Blue Labour is based on a simulacrum of what it means to be working class. A *middle class* idea of the lower orders as blunt and bigoted."

The most perfect of all trains

AI as an Apparatus of Capture You must have a heart of stone not to laugh. Hundreds of billions of dollars wiped off the value of leading US tech firms on Monday's market...

"Because this is capitalism, AI is more than a toy and a liberator of free time: it's the latest, and possibly the most complete means of capturing and imprisoning the soul."

AI as an Apparatus of Capture You must have a heart of stone not to laugh. Hundreds of billions of dollars wiped off the value of leading US tech firms on Monday's market...

"Because this is capitalism, AI is more than a toy and a liberator of free time: it's the latest, and possibly the most complete means of capturing and imprisoning the soul."

You must come to my next 80s indie disco. Many a top tune!

The Tories' Terrible Truth Apologies for trying the patience of everyone reading, but this is another post about Kemi Badenoch. Some might have called her Thursday spe...

"She was elected on a right wing platform, nearly all of her party are committed to the rightist strategy of renewal, but that is inadvertently feeding the Reform beast."

Comfortable in the Gutter Putting aside the small matter of election night, this has been the worst moment for the Conservative Party since the Liz Truss government v...

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"Badenoch's Tories have departed the norms of conventional conservatism for the politics of Viktor Orban, the National Rally, and AfD."

Ditto!

The Class Politics of Reform You can't move for Reform these days. Nigel Farage's mug regularly flashes up on social media feeds almost as much as he appears on Question...

Or, why the idea Nigel Farage might adopt a "pro-working class" politics isn't one worth taking seriously.

Is splitting the P on a Paulaner a thing?

The right one being? 😀

It’s only a few years so that I realised London Calling, the song, was about global warming. Uncle Joe ahead of the game way back then