Red bluestocking. Writer, journalist and broadcaster on history, politics and culture. Co-editor @RedPeppermag.bsky.social Welsh.
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Rhian E Jones
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I think this was an urgent question in summer 2024. When we’re still having to ask it two years later, then we already have our answer.
I don't know how to make it any clearer. Every contributor to Britain's ongoing decline from the late-20th c. onwards has been the right realising precisely the political programme they've wanted: Thatcherism & free market supremacy; then austerity; then Brexit; now rising authoritarianism.
The people driving this programme at the top—wealthy, well-connected, well-educated people, who all know and are friends with each other—have been endlessly indulged, getting everything they wanted by hook or crook. And every time we reap the whirlwind, "The Princess is in another Other's house!"
Happy Barricade Day to my fellow Les Mis obsessives.
Fascinating and fantastic piece by @samfr.bsky.social on how Reform and much of the right are occupying more and more extreme positions on who is British as immigration falls:
24th June sees the launch of the latest Glasgow Media Group (@gu-mg.bsky.social) investigation, edited by @catherinehapper.bsky.social, @pauljreilly.bsky.social and Alison Eldridge. Organised with @redpeppermag.bsky.social, and with @lauraewebster.bsky.social as special guest. Sign up now!
A question for historians, what is/are your favourite book(s) of history and why? (This doesn't necessarily have to be a book in your immediate field of research; just something that comes closest to matching what you think a good work of history is or should be?) 🗃️
ICYMI - @trillingual.bsky.social on the rise of the UK far-right and how Britain's establishment institutions normalised ideas and policies that were once considered fringe and extreme:
