• rough sleeper

• price of my asexuality book has dropped to £25

• karl marx’s end of year departmental assessment

• it goes boom boom boom

• the stupidity of auto-correction in the new OS X

• the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity

• expedia and communicative escalation 

• further communicative escalation from expedia (yay!)

• I only leave the territory, when there’s nothing left to be said

• more spam directed at international event organisers

• are any other event organisers getting emails like this?

• the ‘soft coup’ currently taking place in portugal 

• using the national gallery for public order policing

• post-capitalism: envisaging a shared future

• The good old days

• Manchester Social Movements Conference – Call for Papers

• a film about (a)sexuality I was in

• why the metrolink is a bit crap

• the performativity of bins

• an image I can’t get out of my mind

• the intensification of work and the competitive busyness of ceos

• german is such a wonderful language 

• upcoming bird la bird events in london

• why the left should not support the britain stronger in europe campaign

• a case of you

• must not sleep, must warn others

• the politics of discretionary effort 

• here we go, happy holidays

• the backstory to creative work

• the hostage taking capacity of banks 

• reasons for the commitment of capital to the european project

• over-reach by unelected technocrats

• aesop waits – tom shall pass (aesop rock vs tom waits)

• welcome to nerd rap

• the capture of the political class 

• good cafes in manchester to work in

• if I can’t stick around here and fight them, I’ll take my last fucking breath to my grave just to spite them

• Felix & Adelita

• the astroturfing industry 

• ‘The UK is finished’: Owen Jones meets Peter Hitchens

• upwards over the mountain

• the horatio alger myth

• this is not a pipe

• the threats of financial elites 

• the threats of financial elites 

• the totally weird subculture of 1980s mortgage traders 

• the masters of the universe and their delusions

• the meaning of scrounging in conservative britain 

• post-democratic political culture: how good leaders go bad

• the post-democratic judicial system

• the social expectations of the super-rich

• markets are a machine for destroying the ego

• the culture of the ‘working rich’

• the moral discourse of the ‘reasonable technocrat’

• what to do when a political party you instinctively support shows nothing but contempt for the things you believe?

• negative solidarity is here to stay: the ‘greedy’ tube workers

• music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#19)

• music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#18)

• music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#17)

• imagining post-capitalism and techno-fascism

• the antinomies of blairism

• but on the day I die, I’ll say at least I fucking tried, that’s the only eulogy I need

• I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel, that’s all, I don’t even think of you that often.

• the war on radicalisation and where it might lead

• and the evilest of nine’s guaranteed to shoot crooked

• fitter, happier, more productive

• I should’ve found a way out, so everyone can find a way out

• Music I find inexplicably conducive to write (#16)

• Music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#15)

• Dear England

• Music I find inexplicably conducive to write (#14)

• Conlon Nancarrow

• The Future’s Not What it Used To Be

• Who are you to wave your finger?

• “so I only stop to tell her that I love her at the red lights”

• Thatcher Fucked The Kids

• CFP – Global Cultures of Contestation

• David Cameron Serenaded By Ukulele Player Singing ‘F**k Off Back To Eton’

• “all the things I believed with all my heart when I was young are just coasters for beers & clean surfaces for drugs”

• I like the #CatManifesto

• Loner

• “The problem with capitalism is that it’s not capitalist enough”: Neoliberalism 2.0?

• Kitten Mittens

• Upper Clapton Dance (cc @Mookron)

• Cognitive Triage and Television

• The Strange Transformation of Gideon Osborne

• The reality of the ‘rapper sword dance’ does not match the image the phrase conveyed in my mind

• That time we went on a pub crawl with Karl Marx

• “I’m young enough to be all pissed off but I’m old enough to be jaded”

• When shopping is a baffling ordeal

• The surprisingly vitriolic misogyny of James Bond

• What would British fascism look like?

• “I had it all figured out then it washed away”

• Straight with a twist”: reflections on heterosexuality beyond the heteronormal

• (Re)situating Queer Theory on the Critical Left

• The omnipresent threat of violence under neoliberalism

• Academic entrepreneurship and white privilege

• The drip-by-drip erosion of our liberties in an age of austerity

• Help: need to escape from intractably useless web host

• Brian Fallon covering Oasis