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Martin O'Neill

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Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of York

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Nick Harkaway's avatar Nick Harkaway @harkaway.bsky.social
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Someone on the other site said this summed up Starmer. If true, that's sort of dazzling. But it also makes the point - again - that FPTP is wildly volatile and weird and we should throw it away.

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Martin O'Neill's avatar Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social
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Delighted to see the fall of the Tories, but this is a very strange election. Labour 🌹votes in UK general elections: 2017 — 12,877,918 2019 — 10,269,051 2024 — 9,650,254 Keir Starmer votes in his constituency, Holborn & St Pancras: 2017 — 41,343 2019 — 36,641 2024 — 18,884

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Kieran Healy's avatar Kieran Healy @kjhealy.bsky.social
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+210 seats gained on a +2% increase in vote share. FPTP Democracy truly a miracle of representation.

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Martin O'Neill's avatar Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social
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Agreed entirely. They have one parliamentary term now to make real change a reality. No chance of repeating that result without concrete substantive achievements on which to build a case to the electorate next time.

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Richard Bellamy's avatar Richard Bellamy @rbellamy.bsky.social
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I hope Labour get the message that they need to win the next election by tackling some of the manifold problems of a broken Britain- and paying for that means taxation, immigration, alignment with the EU, and public spending- namely all of the things they say they won’t do …

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Martin O'Neill's avatar Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social
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Wonderfully succinct summary of what’s happened in the British general election, from the incisive John Curtice on the BBC News website. In short — Labour support in England static from 2019, but Reform surge, and Tory & SNP support collapse. A record night for the Lib Dems, Greens, & Independents.

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Martin O'Neill's avatar Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social
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It sends a clear message that the Labour “Get Out the Vote” card gives pride of place to Sunak, Truss and Johnson. The expected outcome of this election is down to those three much more than to the positive appeal of Starmer as PM. (I realise I’m stating the obvious!)

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Martin O'Neill's avatar Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social
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At the Brussels Eurostar terminal, heading back to Britain for what I’m choosing to hope will be the very last day of the Tory era.

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JW Mason's avatar JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social
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Glad to see this piece on the New Popular Front from Piketty and CagĂŠ. While almost all the attention has been on the gains by the right, the success of a unified left with an ambitious program seems like just as an important story from the French elections. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Jo Wolff's avatar Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social
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For most of my adult life there’s been a Tory cabinet minister or front bencher or two that I’ve respected for their wisdom or public spirit, even while hating their politics. Boris Johnson may have ensured their permanent absence.

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Jo Wolff's avatar Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social
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I'm sure I'll grow out of it one day, but whenever I see 'Young Hegelians', in my head I sing it David Bowie style.

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Martin O'Neill's avatar Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social
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The rule of law was a great idea; you’ll miss it when it’s gone.

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Jo Wolff's avatar Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social
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Rawls has the concept of ‘the well-ordered society.’ Used to sound a bit dull; now a utopian fantasy.

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Olúfẚ́mi O. Tåíwò's avatar Olúfẚ́mi O. Tåíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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it's a deep betrayal when you cannot trust the people whose job it is to interpret the rules. America has been let down today, and we will not forget

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Jo Wolff's avatar Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social
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For the 37th year in a row I find myself explaining that academics don’t stop working just because it’s the end of the academic year for undergraduates.

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Martin O'Neill's avatar Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social
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Delighted to be back visiting Frankfurt, at Goethe Universität @NormativeOrders, taking part in this excellent conference on "Varieties of Democratic Corporate Governance: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives", organised by Hannah McHugh and Peter Giraudo. A great set of discussions!

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Martin O'Neill's avatar Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social
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Imagine the societies we could choose to build, where there is an abundant social infrastructure, with democratic public spaces and support for the development of all. Public libraries are both remnants of what we've lost and signs for a better future.

www.theguardian.com/news/article...

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Martin O'Neill's avatar Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social
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Amazing to see the turnout, in the huge Makeba Auditorium at @hkw-pluriverse.bsky.social, for @leaypi.bsky.social's
three lectures on 'Moral Socialism'.
Lecture 3 -- on "What Can We Hope?" is this evening.
Proof that there is an audience for intellectually serious, radical political thinking!

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Blain Neufeld's avatar Blain Neufeld @neufeld.bsky.social
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Special issue of the Journal of Social Philosophy:
"Rawls at 100; Theory at 50."

Contributors: David Reidy, Derrick Darby, Catherine Audard, Hannes Kuch, J. Donald Moon, Samuel Freeman, Blain Neufeld, Erin I. Kelly, Rex Martin.
Edited by David Reidy, Rex Martin.

#PolTheory #philosophy #philsky

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Martin O'Neill's avatar Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social
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Optimistic Berlin graffiti - 20 June 2024.

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Martin O'Neill's avatar Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social
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Yeah, and we wouldn’t disagree with that. Our primary cases there were those we know best — the US, UK and EU.

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Olúfẚ́mi O. Tåíwò's avatar Olúfẚ́mi O. Tåíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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official Teamsters account over on Twitter says the ratification vote has been counted and gone through

x.com/Teamsters/st...

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Martin O'Neill's avatar Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social
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Thanks, Nikhil. Joe and I certainly took ourselves to be in close agreement with Táíwò’s essay; we took ourselves to be exploring some issues prompted by reading his piece. It’s an important set of issues for sure.

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Martin O'Neill's avatar Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social
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Outstanding essay by Alex Niven in the Guardian, on the limits and longer-run dangers of an electoral strategy that underestimates the political complexities of the North and Midlands, brilliantly picking up and running with my idea of Labour's "spectral voters".

theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Boston Review's avatar Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social
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@joecguinan.bsky.social and @martinoneill.bsky.social observe that “decarbonization ultimately requires a sustained and deliberate act of capital destruction on a scale about twice that of the end of slavery”—so there is simply no substitute for winning state power:

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Martin O'Neill's avatar Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social
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👏👏👏
Congratulations to our our brilliant PPE PhD student Virginia De Biasio on her appointment to a 3-year postdoc in the Department of Political Economy @kcl.ac.uk, working on Steven Klein's ERC/ UKRI project on "Systemic Risk and the Transformation of Democracy (DERISK)"! @ycpt.bsky.social 👏👏👏

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Martin O'Neill's avatar Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social
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Back home in York after an amazing week visiting universities in Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay. Political philosophy is flourishing in Latin America, and it's been a delight to see it in reality, and to have so many wonderful conversations with brilliant colleagues and students.

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Martin O'Neill's avatar Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social
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My department is keen to develop our international links, esp (but not only!) with colleagues outside the Anglophone academic world. For anyone interested in applying for British Academy funding for a research visit with us, please drop me a line!

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/visi...

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Martin O'Neill's avatar Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social
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Today in Montevideo I’m talking on “Limiting Markets: Democracy, Equality, and the Sense of Justice” to the research groups on ‘Ética, Justicia y Economía’ and ‘Desigualdad y Pobreza’ at the Universidad de la República. My thanks to Prof Agustín Reyes for hosting me in Uruguay!

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Martin O'Neill's avatar Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social
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At the demo outside Congress in Buenos Aires, among the crowds protesting against Javier Milei’s deliberate destruction of every aspect of the Argentinian social state.

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At the MALBA - Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires.

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Jo Wolff's avatar Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social
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Really tragic that the government doesn’t recognise the competitive advantage of UK universities. We’re one of the most open countries for faculty recruitment. Top universities in the US recruit primarily from each other and European universities close their markets. We should build not cut.

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Martin O'Neill's avatar Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social
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Today (Tues 11 June), as part of my British Academy MCF project on economic democracy, I’ll be talking about La Construcción Comunitaria de la Riqueza, at SADAF in Buenos Aires. Talk is in English with consecutive translation into Spanish. Really looking forward to it!

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Martin O'Neill's avatar Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social
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Busy day today in Santiago! 🇨🇱 I’ll be taking about “The Idea of Community Wealth Building” (1200 at PCUC) and about “Democratic Socialism and the Case for Collective Capital Institutions” (1630 at UC). Both talks open to all!

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Martin O'Neill's avatar Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social
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Back in Santiago for the first time in seven years. First things first: paying my respects to a political hero, Salvador Allende.

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Martin O'Neill's avatar Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social
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Back in Santiago for the first time in seven years. First things first: paying my respects to a political hero, Salvador Allende.

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Joel Morris's avatar Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social
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The awful truth is that Ed Davey playing drums on an exercise ball and falling off a balance board and dressing as Mr Blobby or whatever he’s doing today is still more dignified and grown-up than saying “we will solve the collapse in public services by cutting your taxes and stopping migration.”

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Martin O'Neill's avatar Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social
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I'm giving five talks in the next week (!). The first of these will be tomorrow, on Community Wealth Building, as part of this excellent Joseph Rowntree Foundation event in York on 'Reimagining Wealth', alongside a great group of other speakers, as part of the York Festival of Ideas. 👇

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