https://bsky.app/profile/dannyhinduk.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/dannyhinduk.bsky.social/post/3mlqu4vdtrs2xPaging @orbooks.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 May 2026 17:43 +0000at://did:plc:kqpgryf74egelf2cu7ql5fau/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqu4vdtrs2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/dannyhinduk.bsky.social/post/3mlpyqrfuxc2jBritain's university system, built in large part after WW2, was one of most important elements in a state project to modernise the UK economy. From Thatcher onwards successive governments have tried out various kinds of market-mimicking governance and now the sector seems to be in full-blown crisis.13 May 2026 09:33 +0000at://did:plc:kqpgryf74egelf2cu7ql5fau/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlpyqrfuxc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/dannyhinduk.bsky.social/post/3mlnxkrzb7s2nThey will be as loudly and confidently wrong in future as they have been in the past: they have no incentive to change, and I am afraid their foolish fans will love them for it. Because the message is always, you're OK, the world is as it should be, and what you feel is true, is true. [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 May 2026 14:07 +0000at://did:plc:kqpgryf74egelf2cu7ql5fau/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlnxkrzb7s2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/dannyhinduk.bsky.social/post/3mlky75kacs2vA group of very rich people have realised that they can mobilise non-voters through targeted ads, platform influencer subsidies, and a paid-for ground game: the hope is relatively modest investments can be turned into massive payouts via preferential access to policy-making after the 2029 election. [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 May 2026 09:40 +0000at://did:plc:kqpgryf74egelf2cu7ql5fau/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlky75kacs2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/dannyhinduk.bsky.social/post/3mlgbt24hfs2aMainstream discourse about the right-wing media refuses to explain this to audiences in plain terms, because that would be to admit that the media aren't simply in the business of making money or serving the public: they also aspire to wield power through their influence over voters. [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 May 2026 12:49 +0000at://did:plc:kqpgryf74egelf2cu7ql5fau/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlgbt24hfs2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/dannyhinduk.bsky.social/post/3mlgadtlwu22sThis is by far the most interesting post-mortem of the local elections. 1. The panellists don't find time to discuss the Green Party's showing. 2. Finkelstein suggests that Labour and the Conservatives should give up trying to win outright in FPTP https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-7ma49-2d8f3ba2 …09 May 2026 12:23 +0000at://did:plc:kqpgryf74egelf2cu7ql5fau/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlgadtlwu22shttps://bsky.app/profile/dannyhinduk.bsky.social/post/3mj6hszvkbc23 [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Apr 2026 23:25 +0000at://did:plc:kqpgryf74egelf2cu7ql5fau/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj6hszvkbc23https://bsky.app/profile/dannyhinduk.bsky.social/post/3mirdkfi4n22lOr if you have journalistic ambitions. [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Apr 2026 18:04 +0000at://did:plc:kqpgryf74egelf2cu7ql5fau/app.bsky.feed.post/3mirdkfi4n22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/dannyhinduk.bsky.social/post/3mh46pydwes24We can look forward to some extraordinary contortions by the liberal centrist wing of the Thatcherite uni-party, as they explain at the next election why they cannot in good conscience support the Green Party, and must, reluctantly, recommend voting for Reform. https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/reform-plans-ideological-purge-of-whitehall15 Mar 2026 14:46 +0000at://did:plc:kqpgryf74egelf2cu7ql5fau/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh46pydwes24https://bsky.app/profile/dannyhinduk.bsky.social/post/3mgzbn7huas24I had a fun conversation with @alanrenwick.bsky.social of the UCL Constitution Unit about the horizon of constitutional reform in the UK, which explored the subject from the perspective of Hobbes' account of sovereignty and its implications for popular rule ... 1/2 https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-ewyq8-2be1cac914 Mar 2026 11:00 +0000at://did:plc:kqpgryf74egelf2cu7ql5fau/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgzbn7huas24https://bsky.app/profile/dannyhinduk.bsky.social/post/3mgrzwi6tbs2dIt's very welcome that the leading body promoting cooperative values is calling for "mutual features" to be introduced at the BBC, including a randomly selected Members' Council, which will be empowered to create bodies to oversee other aspects of its operations and governance. [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Mar 2026 13:54 +0000at://did:plc:kqpgryf74egelf2cu7ql5fau/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgrzwi6tbs2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/dannyhinduk.bsky.social/post/3mgqbv2xtpk2dStop saying a new party is impossible, and build a new party. In the UK we have the same godawful voting system and, sure, maybe the federal level is shut off, but don't tell me you can't take over a single state and use it to tell the rest of the country exactly how they're being scammed. [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Mar 2026 21:11 +0000at://did:plc:kqpgryf74egelf2cu7ql5fau/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgqbv2xtpk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/dannyhinduk.bsky.social/post/3mghogxo5js2wFeels like this is something that the Green Party should go in on hard: elements of the ancestral constitution are good and worth preserving, and the Green Party should embrace and defend them. [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Mar 2026 11:02 +0000at://did:plc:kqpgryf74egelf2cu7ql5fau/app.bsky.feed.post/3mghogxo5js2whttps://bsky.app/profile/dannyhinduk.bsky.social/post/3mg5ozf3gqk2iIt's amazing the contortions that the supposedly progressive and sensible sections of the mainstream media will put themselves through, in order to exonerate and excuse the reactionary, racist and duplicitous sections of the same industry. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2026/feb/25/how-rightwing-rhetoric-has-risen-sharply-in-the-uk-parliament-an-exclusive-visual-analysis03 Mar 2026 11:45 +0000at://did:plc:kqpgryf74egelf2cu7ql5fau/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg5ozf3gqk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/dannyhinduk.bsky.social/post/3mfp26h5tzs2vVote Green, whenever you can.25 Feb 2026 15:55 +0000at://did:plc:kqpgryf74egelf2cu7ql5fau/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfp26h5tzs2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/dannyhinduk.bsky.social/post/3mfjpto4kt224This is a very serious blow to the Charter renewal process. It isn't too late for the Department of Culture Media and Sport to work with the BBC on a consultation that is public, both in the sense of having adequate publicity, and of being open to us all. [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Feb 2026 13:07 +0000at://did:plc:kqpgryf74egelf2cu7ql5fau/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfjpto4kt224https://bsky.app/profile/dannyhinduk.bsky.social/post/3mfjlt2tb7c24Feels quite urgent that (at a minimum) we look at individuals and institutions with significant influence over politics and public opinion and ask if they (1) democratic (2) anti-democratic or (3) trying to pretend that everything is fine, actually. Keep (1) and drop (2) and (3) immediately. [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Feb 2026 11:55 +0000at://did:plc:kqpgryf74egelf2cu7ql5fau/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfjlt2tb7c24https://bsky.app/profile/dannyhinduk.bsky.social/post/3mfhptz42mc2pThe major media won't move decisively against Farage et al. The urgent questions become: 1. How do we build an information infrastructure that can reach large audiences, with a post-Thatcherite, anti-fascist programme? 2. What does it look like, what institutional actors can and will create it? [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Feb 2026 18:02 +0000at://did:plc:kqpgryf74egelf2cu7ql5fau/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfhptz42mc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/dannyhinduk.bsky.social/post/3mfhdmiwjy22pAs it happens I wrote a commentary on this in 2016 - pointing out that Corbyn's Labour Party had to make the choice Tawney set out. Now it's for the Greens to decide: administrators of the system, or creators of Tawney's (long delayed) socialist commonwealth? https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/choice-before-labour-party/ [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Feb 2026 14:23 +0000at://did:plc:kqpgryf74egelf2cu7ql5fau/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfhdmiwjy22phttps://bsky.app/profile/dannyhinduk.bsky.social/post/3mf5enbx4y22hI've written something on Lisa Nandy's rhetoric of popular empowerment and her record in office. It speaks to a broader problem on the contemporary centre left: politicians seem to think they can say whatever they like, and act completely differently. https://modernmediatheory.wordpress.com/2026/02/18/rhetoric-and-reality-in-labour/18 Feb 2026 15:14 +0000at://did:plc:kqpgryf74egelf2cu7ql5fau/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf5enbx4y22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/dannyhinduk.bsky.social/post/3mf5ejdl3sc2hThis by @martinoneill.bsky.social is a damning indictment of Labour's degeneration at the hands of the Labour Together clique. https://tribunemag.co.uk/2026/02/smears-and-lies-glue-together-starmers-government/18 Feb 2026 15:12 +0000at://did:plc:kqpgryf74egelf2cu7ql5fau/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf5ejdl3sc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/dannyhinduk.bsky.social/post/3meydn2uokk2xIf Labour Together had limited their intelligence gathering to anti-corruption campaigners and independent journalists the major media wouldn't have batted an eyelid. But they went after People Who Matter, when it's already open season on the Labour Together crew, and well, here we are.16 Feb 2026 15:13 +0000at://did:plc:kqpgryf74egelf2cu7ql5fau/app.bsky.feed.post/3meydn2uokk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/dannyhinduk.bsky.social/post/3meqbpj2vh224Stirring stuff from Nandy here. But as Culture Secretary she has dropped her commitment to mutualise the BBC, which would have empowered ordinary people in the way she claims to want. In 2020 BBC mutualisation was a central plank of her leadership campaign. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/feb/12/lisa-nandy-on-epstein-mandelson-and-labour-torrid-week13 Feb 2026 10:17 +0000at://did:plc:kqpgryf74egelf2cu7ql5fau/app.bsky.feed.post/3meqbpj2vh224https://bsky.app/profile/dannyhinduk.bsky.social/post/3meoe2ta32c24The confusion and drift in Labour in 2018 and 2019 makes more sense if the leadership were trying desperately to prevent a big chunk of their appalling MPs from running for the exits to a new party, a British En Marche, no less. (On Marsh in the AI transcription, which is probably accurate.) [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 Feb 2026 15:54 +0000at://did:plc:kqpgryf74egelf2cu7ql5fau/app.bsky.feed.post/3meoe2ta32c24https://bsky.app/profile/dannyhinduk.bsky.social/post/3megloa3f4s2cThis is true: Starmer was going to go, regardless. But as usual the political journalists are doing everything in their power to obscure the politics of the situation by focussing relentlessly on tragic flaws, surprise resignations, dramatic interventions, all of SW1's moth-eaten stagecraft. [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Feb 2026 13:49 +0000at://did:plc:kqpgryf74egelf2cu7ql5fau/app.bsky.feed.post/3megloa3f4s2c