dad of four · professor of political philosophy at the university of york · london-irish turned northerner · arsenal fan · trustee at the democracy collaborative · writing about the theory and practice of social and economic justice
Martin O'Neill
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Attn @martinoneill.bsky.social.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov on the Arsenal, saved from behind the NY Times paywall. Great reading for socialist Gooners. 😊⚽️✊
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Given the deeply damaged state of UK higher education, vacancies are few and far between these days. But here's a one-year teaching post in Political Philosophy at the University of Newcastle.
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The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.
Extremely informative visualisation of how this deeply disappointing Labour government has lost ground on both its left and right, to both Greens and to Reform. It also shows how the shape of British politics can no longer be contained within a First Past the Post system.
After the painful ruse of Starmerism, the left should be cautious about @andyburnham.bsky.social
My column on the questions he should answer 👇
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Given recent political developments in the Labour Party, I just thought I’d give this piece an airing again. Recent developments connect to it quite closely.
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Notre-Dame de Paris, from the left bank of the Seine, taken this morning.
Looking forward to this conference in Paris tomorrow, organised under the auspices of @leaypi.bsky.social 's Chair at the @college-de-france.fr - "Socialism and Liberal Egalitarianism: a necessary dialogue".
We all need a horizon of hope beyond capitalism!
www.college-de-france.fr/en/agenda/sy...
The Labour Together spying scandal shows how Britain’s mainstream press looked the other way when dirty tricks were deployed against the Left — allowing a culture of surveillance and paranoia to take ...
32 years ago today since John Smith’s heart attack and sudden death. It felt like a tragedy at the time, but the scale of the disaster only becomes fully clear in retrospect.
It’s hard to imagine that Britain would not now be in much better shape now had he lived to become Prime Minister.
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Martin O'Neill
1. London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers.
After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.
