Riveting discussion about wars in our lifetime, then/now/next, on #BBCRadio4 #StartTheWeek.😬🫣 @naomialderman.bsky.social @gideonrachman.bsky.social #DavidRunciman #KimGhattas www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Clues to understanding Trump:
4. #DavidRunciman takes on political films (Colonel Blinp, Grand Illusion, Kane, Manchurian Candidate, Mr. Smith) describes our election as the death (again) of Romanticism. Brilliant. #PPF

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See also #DavidRunciman 's superb history of 1945, the how, what & what-ifs of what shaped British politics and social history over the last 80 years. #Postwar still on #BBCSounds & omnibussing on Friday nights in lieu of #BBCFreeThinking during the summer www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...

In lieu of an actual #StartTheWeek, caught up with this discussion of #AI #democracy & #TheState which now (18 months on) seems more than prescient. @tds153.bsky.social @naomialderman.bsky.social #DavidRunciman #MikeWooldridge
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@newsagents.bsky.social Fascinating discussion between @lewisgoodall.com and #davidRunciman about why the current parlous state of our politics is actually pretty normal. Worth a good long listen. Not to mention the best advocation of changing our bonkers electoral system.

A reading long overdue, since I bought these books almost a year ago… 2024 surpassed in the left lane at high speed, and took the world beyond what my fears were warning me about…

#yanisvaroufakis #technofeudalism #davidrunciman #howdemocracyends

Excellent evening @regentstcinema.bsky.social for a screening of #Rope, followed by @ppfideas.bsky.social live podcast recording with #DavidRunciman and @niccifrench.bsky.social 👏

Excellent evening @regentstcinema.bsky.social for @ppfideas.bsky.social live event. A showing of #Network, followed by discussion between #DavidRunciman and @helenlewis.bsky.social Good fluent discourse that makes you think about the world, both past, present and future is to be valued! 👏👏👏

Looking forward to seeing #Network tomorrow @regentstcinema.bsky.social as part of a live @ppfideas.bsky.social event with #DavidRunciman and @helenlewis.bsky.social

"It might in the US seem impossible that a society based on 'American freedoms' could turn into this kind of repressive theocracy overnight."

#davidrunciman, August, 2024

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Jeremy Paxman takes on the great David Runciman and can only come up with alternatives to improve democracy which aren't anything like as good as the Prof's "votes for children" idea. https://play.acast.com/s/paxman/davidrunciman

There's a nice primer on this idea by #DavidRunciman here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfBN...