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Jon Bloomfield

King City

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Rooted cosmopolitan. London, Arsenal,Birmingham. Cities,EU,national populism, climate change. Little Black Book of the Populist Right & David Edgar.Byline Books

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  • 3 weeks ago | bylinetimes.com | Jon Bloomfield |David Edgar

    “In April 2011, the newly ennobled Maurice Glasman suggested that immigration ‘undermined solidarity, it undermines relationships, and in the scale that it’s been going on in England, it can undermine the possibility of politics entirely’. A week later, he suggested talking to the English Defence League, and on 18 July, he told the Daily Telegraph that ‘Britain is not an outpost of the UN. We have to put the people in this country first’.

  • 1 month ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Jon Bloomfield |Torsten Bell |Kemi Badenoch

    Great Britain? How We Can Get Our Future Back, by . Bodley Head. 304pp. £20.00. Conservatism in Crisis. Rise of the Bureaucratic Class, by . Renewal2030. Torsten Bell is a policy specialist, a former chief adviser to Labour leader Ed Miliband, then the head of the left-leaning Resolution Foundation. In 2024, he was elected as a Labour MP for Swansea West and immediately the new government made him a junior minister, firstly in the Cabinet Office and then Under Secretary of State for Pensions.

  • 1 month ago | bylinetimes.com | Jon Bloomfield

    Byline Times is an independent, reader-funded investigative newspaper, outside of the system of the established press, reporting on ‘what the papers don’t say’ – without fear or favour. To support its work, subscribe to the monthly Byline Times print edition, packed with exclusive investigations, news, and analysis.

  • Oct 22, 2024 | bylinetimes.com | Jon Bloomfield |David Edgar

    Byline Times is an independent, reader-funded investigative newspaper, outside of the system of the established press, reporting on ‘what the papers don’t say’ – without fear or favour. To support its work, subscribe to the monthly Byline Times print edition, packed with exclusive investigations, news, and analysis. Since 2000, national-populism has expanded from a small sect into a significant force in European and American politics.

  • Sep 3, 2024 | bylinesupplement.com | Byline Supplement |Jon Bloomfield

    As ugly race riots erupted across many English cities after the shocking murder of three young girls at a summer holiday dancing class in Southport, the leading commentators and ideologues of the national-populist right have hurried to build a counter-narrative to explain what they call “protests”, a narrative which has been buttressed by the once-progressive New Statesman.

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Jon Bloomfield
Jon Bloomfield @jonbloomfield2
2 Apr 25

RT @DavidBEdgar: Is there such a thing as "left" Trumpism? Is Blue Labour really Labour at all? @jonbloomfield2 and my new @BylineTimes pie…

Jon Bloomfield
Jon Bloomfield @jonbloomfield2
25 Mar 25

Badenoch dissected. The engineer could start by learning to check her bases before putting pen to paper. https://t.co/iPCwgfj183

Jon Bloomfield
Jon Bloomfield @jonbloomfield2
18 Mar 25

'This wasn't in our manifesto..'

Nadia Whittome MP
Nadia Whittome MP @NadiaWhittomeMP

I remain gravely concerned by today’s welfare announcement, to put it mildly. Cutting social security for disabled people will only deepen poverty and inequality. This wasn’t in our manifesto and it isn’t what people voted for when they elected a Labour government.