Tom Miller
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The Economist called UK employment tribunals a "tragedy of the commons" suffering from "too much access."
We respectfully disagree—and we’re pleased to see our CEO Dr Dora-Olivia Vicol’s reply published in today's issue. 🧵 1/3
We respectfully disagree—and we’re pleased to see our CEO Dr Dora-Olivia Vicol’s reply published in today's issue. 🧵 1/3
August 21, 2026 at 11:51 AM
The Economist called UK employment tribunals a "tragedy of the commons" suffering from "too much access."
We respectfully disagree—and we’re pleased to see our CEO Dr Dora-Olivia Vicol’s reply published in today's issue. 🧵 1/3
We respectfully disagree—and we’re pleased to see our CEO Dr Dora-Olivia Vicol’s reply published in today's issue. 🧵 1/3
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In the Files, Steve Bannon and Epstein explicitly discuss *how to evade restrictions on foreign funding in Western politics*;
the singular importance of loosening crypto regulations in Europe;
and Bannon's work supporting & advising far-right politicians throughout Europe,
including Nigel Farage.
the singular importance of loosening crypto regulations in Europe;
and Bannon's work supporting & advising far-right politicians throughout Europe,
including Nigel Farage.
August 7, 2026 at 10:35 PM
In the Files, Steve Bannon and Epstein explicitly discuss *how to evade restrictions on foreign funding in Western politics*;
the singular importance of loosening crypto regulations in Europe;
and Bannon's work supporting & advising far-right politicians throughout Europe,
including Nigel Farage.
the singular importance of loosening crypto regulations in Europe;
and Bannon's work supporting & advising far-right politicians throughout Europe,
including Nigel Farage.
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It's official! I'm *permanently* banned from X for tweeting "TLDR: Fascism." (appeal denied)
What an honor—and a sign that the Silicon Valley billionaires feel threatened by my book. (One of my final viral posts featured this cover.)
Pre-order here! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
What an honor—and a sign that the Silicon Valley billionaires feel threatened by my book. (One of my final viral posts featured this cover.)
Pre-order here! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
May 3, 2026 at 10:00 PM
It's official! I'm *permanently* banned from X for tweeting "TLDR: Fascism." (appeal denied)
What an honor—and a sign that the Silicon Valley billionaires feel threatened by my book. (One of my final viral posts featured this cover.)
Pre-order here! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
What an honor—and a sign that the Silicon Valley billionaires feel threatened by my book. (One of my final viral posts featured this cover.)
Pre-order here! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
Less worrying if it's what you always assumed...
July 8, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Less worrying if it's what you always assumed...
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💥💥💥 Today, Mainstream publishes our first major research publication, The Productive State: A Framework for Manchesterism, by Mathew Lawrence and Alex Williams.
It could not come at a more significant moment.
Read it here: www.mainstreamlabour.org/publications...
It could not come at a more significant moment.
Read it here: www.mainstreamlabour.org/publications...
June 22, 2026 at 8:03 AM
💥💥💥 Today, Mainstream publishes our first major research publication, The Productive State: A Framework for Manchesterism, by Mathew Lawrence and Alex Williams.
It could not come at a more significant moment.
Read it here: www.mainstreamlabour.org/publications...
It could not come at a more significant moment.
Read it here: www.mainstreamlabour.org/publications...
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An important constitutional reform: *if* we are to have referenda (referendums?) in the future, they should by convention always implement a specific piece of legislation that parliament has already passed.
Fundamentally, a lot of the problems in British politics comes from a political generation being forced to do something they think is a bad idea, to appease voters they think are wrong with beliefs they don't really understand.
Under Theresa May, that babytalk was a way of dancing around “the prime minister’s personal view is that Brexit is a terrible idea*, and in particular she thinks as a former home secretary she is not going to put a border on the island of Ireland, but she has to dance around this”.
May 12, 2026 at 10:38 PM
An important constitutional reform: *if* we are to have referenda (referendums?) in the future, they should by convention always implement a specific piece of legislation that parliament has already passed.
Did anyone else imagine this as hardcore slamdancing / pit action?
I wanna see Keir Starmer crowdkilling people in the front row at a Bane show
I wanna see Keir Starmer crowdkilling people in the front row at a Bane show
no idea why I find this so irritating when it’s also so unsurprising
May 12, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Did anyone else imagine this as hardcore slamdancing / pit action?
I wanna see Keir Starmer crowdkilling people in the front row at a Bane show
I wanna see Keir Starmer crowdkilling people in the front row at a Bane show
Reform UK: an echo of Brexit and a sidestep of its failures
Labour: a party in an economic and cultural prison of Brexit's failures
Conservatives: Brexit's failures
Labour: a party in an economic and cultural prison of Brexit's failures
Conservatives: Brexit's failures
May 12, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Reform UK: an echo of Brexit and a sidestep of its failures
Labour: a party in an economic and cultural prison of Brexit's failures
Conservatives: Brexit's failures
Labour: a party in an economic and cultural prison of Brexit's failures
Conservatives: Brexit's failures
Aye.
“Psychodrama” has always obscured more than it resolved- right from the start it was the way that BBC Politics in that era babbled its way around the conviction that couldn’t cover Brexit in detail without being biased and that the public needed to be talked down to.
I think the use of the word psychodrama is starting to obscure more than it reveals. Yes it's ridiculous to be about to have our 7th PM in 10 years, but each PM ran into a problem that they couldn't resolve. Getting rid of them really was necessary to solve the immediate problem and move on
May 12, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Aye.
This is the written equivalent of needing to be sick. futureoftheleft.substack.com/p/dispatches...
Dispatches from a discontented country
Postcards from a people ill at ease
futureoftheleft.substack.com
May 12, 2026 at 9:58 PM
This is the written equivalent of needing to be sick. futureoftheleft.substack.com/p/dispatches...
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As an example of everything deficient with the “focussed on winning” Starmer project, there are so many to choose from. But today’s is that they went into their first set of local elections with first past the post still in place for mayorals and went into the second with voterID still in place.
May 7, 2026 at 9:12 AM
As an example of everything deficient with the “focussed on winning” Starmer project, there are so many to choose from. But today’s is that they went into their first set of local elections with first past the post still in place for mayorals and went into the second with voterID still in place.
Great to see Renewal pieces setting the agenda. If you don't subscribe, you need to.
NEW ISSUE: In this special extra edition of Renewal, @louisehaighmp.bsky.social, @yuanfenyang.bsky.social, and other members of the Tribune Group of Labour MPs set out paths to repairing Britain's broken economic settlement.
renewal.org.uk/journal/volu...
renewal.org.uk/journal/volu...
May 12, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Great to see Renewal pieces setting the agenda. If you don't subscribe, you need to.
I've learned my lesson, and won't be supporting any programme that includes WASPI.
May 12, 2026 at 7:44 PM
I've learned my lesson, and won't be supporting any programme that includes WASPI.
If our recent Blue Labour-ish strategy had worked, we'd add socially conservative working class voters to diverse & highly educated progressive ones.
Instead, we went with tough on immigration and trans people, only to see a massive swing to Reform... and then lose progressives.
Instead, we went with tough on immigration and trans people, only to see a massive swing to Reform... and then lose progressives.
May 12, 2026 at 7:43 PM
If our recent Blue Labour-ish strategy had worked, we'd add socially conservative working class voters to diverse & highly educated progressive ones.
Instead, we went with tough on immigration and trans people, only to see a massive swing to Reform... and then lose progressives.
Instead, we went with tough on immigration and trans people, only to see a massive swing to Reform... and then lose progressives.
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The “Blue Labour” strategy still being promoted by some on Labour right is premised on being able to win social conservatives while holding on to social liberals.
Failure state for this strategy is failing to win social cons while alienating social liberals. Here is a map of that failure state:
Failure state for this strategy is failing to win social cons while alienating social liberals. Here is a map of that failure state:
May 9, 2026 at 12:54 PM
The “Blue Labour” strategy still being promoted by some on Labour right is premised on being able to win social conservatives while holding on to social liberals.
Failure state for this strategy is failing to win social cons while alienating social liberals. Here is a map of that failure state:
Failure state for this strategy is failing to win social cons while alienating social liberals. Here is a map of that failure state:
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Haigh’s essay here is well worth reading. This is not some MMT-adjacent treatise - it genuinely engages with the constraint.
May 12, 2026 at 9:26 AM
Haigh’s essay here is well worth reading. This is not some MMT-adjacent treatise - it genuinely engages with the constraint.
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Have said this repeatedly but it is *incredible* how not a single part of the conversation about the policy direction and culture of the Labour Party has considered trying to learn *anything* from Sadiq Khan
The most successful Labour politican of the last decade is the one whose entire electoral policy platform has been built on positive and friendly attitudes!
May 12, 2026 at 11:54 AM
Have said this repeatedly but it is *incredible* how not a single part of the conversation about the policy direction and culture of the Labour Party has considered trying to learn *anything* from Sadiq Khan
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Real change is possible - if we seize every opportunity to set our party on a better path.
This year’s elections to Labour's NEC and NPF are an opportunity we can’t afford to miss.
Nominate the Mainstream team in your CLPs now!
www.mainstreamlabour.org/2026-nec-and...
This year’s elections to Labour's NEC and NPF are an opportunity we can’t afford to miss.
Nominate the Mainstream team in your CLPs now!
www.mainstreamlabour.org/2026-nec-and...
May 12, 2026 at 9:59 AM
Real change is possible - if we seize every opportunity to set our party on a better path.
This year’s elections to Labour's NEC and NPF are an opportunity we can’t afford to miss.
Nominate the Mainstream team in your CLPs now!
www.mainstreamlabour.org/2026-nec-and...
This year’s elections to Labour's NEC and NPF are an opportunity we can’t afford to miss.
Nominate the Mainstream team in your CLPs now!
www.mainstreamlabour.org/2026-nec-and...
We got into government on the back of something serious that united people, then immediately defaulted to being a bunch of NPCs governing through empty platitudes and thought-terminating cliches.
May 12, 2026 at 5:12 PM
We got into government on the back of something serious that united people, then immediately defaulted to being a bunch of NPCs governing through empty platitudes and thought-terminating cliches.
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We are appalled by yesterday's terrorist incident in Golders Green and thinking of all those affected.
There is no place for antisemitism in our society. The rise of hatred and violence in all our communities must be rooted out by all of us.
There is no place for antisemitism in our society. The rise of hatred and violence in all our communities must be rooted out by all of us.
April 30, 2026 at 10:17 AM
We are appalled by yesterday's terrorist incident in Golders Green and thinking of all those affected.
There is no place for antisemitism in our society. The rise of hatred and violence in all our communities must be rooted out by all of us.
There is no place for antisemitism in our society. The rise of hatred and violence in all our communities must be rooted out by all of us.
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Thought this was an interesting little chunk. The people running this government have forgotten how to make a sincere argument for what they are doing.
April 14, 2026 at 8:37 AM
Thought this was an interesting little chunk. The people running this government have forgotten how to make a sincere argument for what they are doing.
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We're organising to elect a progressive team of Mainstream candidates to Labour's NEC.
They'll fight to bring a popular, principled and practical left politics to life within Labour.
Meet Cat, candidate for the CLP section 👇
www.mainstreamlabour.org/2026-nec-and...
They'll fight to bring a popular, principled and practical left politics to life within Labour.
Meet Cat, candidate for the CLP section 👇
www.mainstreamlabour.org/2026-nec-and...
April 14, 2026 at 3:57 PM
We're organising to elect a progressive team of Mainstream candidates to Labour's NEC.
They'll fight to bring a popular, principled and practical left politics to life within Labour.
Meet Cat, candidate for the CLP section 👇
www.mainstreamlabour.org/2026-nec-and...
They'll fight to bring a popular, principled and practical left politics to life within Labour.
Meet Cat, candidate for the CLP section 👇
www.mainstreamlabour.org/2026-nec-and...
Keep sharing lads. bylinetimes.com/2026/04/14/e...
EXPOSED: How Viktor Orbán Bankrolled the Network Around Reform UK
As Hungary’s Prime Minister suffers a historic electoral defeat, Byline Times maps out how his government’s funding arm channelled hundreds of thousands of pounds into organisations at the heart of Br...
bylinetimes.com
April 14, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Keep sharing lads. bylinetimes.com/2026/04/14/e...
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Advance UK Gorton + Denton by-election candidate Nick Buckley says his posts about many women being whores, ruined by feminism, are 'taken out of context'. Searcnlight Magazine report on the response to their posts
searchlightmagazine.com/2026/02/adva...
searchlightmagazine.com/2026/02/adva...
February 7, 2026 at 7:56 AM
Advance UK Gorton + Denton by-election candidate Nick Buckley says his posts about many women being whores, ruined by feminism, are 'taken out of context'. Searcnlight Magazine report on the response to their posts
searchlightmagazine.com/2026/02/adva...
searchlightmagazine.com/2026/02/adva...
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