Stephen Davies

So, about a week and a half ago my X account (@SteveDavies365) was hacked - it’s been taken over by an Elon Musk parody account. So I have booted up this alternative account I had on the books, for the moment at least.

For generations, political divides were grounded in economics, that framework has been replaced by a sharp conflict between nationalism and post-national globalism. Happening now: CEI is hosting a book forum with author @StephenDav56378 on "The Great Realignment." Moderated by CEI's own @ismurray

@StephenDav56378 Get your copy here: amazon.com/Great-Realignm…

Finally, I should let people know Steve’s old account (@SteveDavies365)—which many of you follow—was hacked & stolen. He’s working to get it back, but these things take time (as plenty of us have discovered), so please follow him at his new (temporary) digs: @StephenDav56378. 3/3

This month’s essay for @LawLiberty is on Stephen Davies’s (@StephenDav56378) The Great Realignment: Why the New Right is Here to Stay. It’s the best explanation yet for our current bonkers politics, both in the UK & other major nations. As always, link in reply tweet. 1/3

@MarkJLittlewood Depends on whether your partner spends it on the kinds of things that (a) you'd be interested in and hence notice and (b) know the cost of. If mine spent it all on things like incredibly expensive designer stuff I wouldn't have a scooby.

If your partner embezzled £400,000 and spent it over a 12 year period on a wide range of luxury items would you…

Another interview about my book, on New Culture Forum. (Link in replies)

@andrew_lilico Pretty much. Also, they don't believe in a blood and soil definition of nationality - hence the wishy washiness.

What is the Restore thesis? That Reform are a bunch of wishy-washy sell-outs who won't ultimately be willing to deport nearly as many people as they ought to?

@carlgomb @PositivFuturist @Peter_Turchin My former account (@SteveDavies365) got hacked and hijacked by a parody account and then frozen. I’m trying to get X to unlock it and reinstate it but no luck so far.

@PositivFuturist @Peter_Turchin @StephenDav56378 PS, not sure why Stephen's account seems to have haemorrhaged followers. Something odd going on there.

If the left concede on mass immigration and asylum.. we'll quickly find that we agree on many things; > We should stop endlessly supporting Israel > We should stop intervening in foreign wars > We should stop endlessly chasing GDP growth and focus on per-capita instead > We should stop reducing humans to fungible economic units > We should accelerate nuclear power to allow cheap, abundant energy while protecting the environment > We should nationalise water, rail - anything where competition is impossible > We should stop endlessly pumping the population to drive house building/prices > We should get Palantir out of our public sector and foster British tech alternatives Politics can converge - if the left will JUST concede that native Europeans aren't evil and do not deserve to be demographically replaced.. and that endless asylum seekers and economic migrants are making things worse, not better.

@eNeecie Every other day a new motorhome appears in my mother-in-law's drive and Neil hands me another bucket full of jewellery and cosmetics. I can only assume he's got himself a part time job I'm too busy to ask about.

@RPakeman @post_liberal The true GOAT for me because he completely changed the way the game was played in response to the 1925 offside change.

@post_liberal Totally forgotten Herbert Chapman who built Arsenal winning two titles after two at Huddersfield Town. Probably the first great English Football Manager.

Arsenal is the most successful London club and London has huge cultural reach globally. Arsenal have also changed their image by successfully memory-holing bits of their history that do not align with their current brand identity as cosmopolitan and culturally fashionable.

@ItsTaz1989 Yes, chartered companies like the Hudson’s Bay or the EIC. That was a Dutch invention originally. However everything they did depended on naval power. The navy was built to fight France but it enabled colonial competition via the chartered companies as a downstream effect.

@StephenDav56378 The national debt enabled the navy, but the vast majority of empire building was done by private corporations and not the navy.

The thing which really made the British Empire possible was the advent of the joint stock company and the stock market.

@PhilWMagness Agreed but I do know people who fit into some of those other categories (I think the socialism = badly understood Marxism thing is much more prevalent in the US than the U.K.).

This is not to say that these other schools of socialist thought are "correct." They often end up on deeply mistaken paths. But several of the others I named are more intellectually rigorous than Marxism, and far less disposed to violence.

If Marx was not the dominant figure of academic socialism by far, you could reasonably expect to see several other prominent non-Marxian socialist schools of thought represented in academia. And yet...

@themagic_tophat @JoshLFC1909 Also the main post is incorrect - what about Napoleon? Ok, he was an Emperor but even so

@JoshLFC1909 A king doesn’t have a 60pt PL season.

A king doesn’t crown himself, others crown him

@SimonMagus The slowdown needs to be unpacked. What you find if you disaggregate national figures is that what productivity growth there was all happened in two regions (London &SE) and in the FIRE sector. Everywhere else stayed flat or went backwards.

Problem with all this is that it doesn't tell us what caused the stagnation in productivity growth. Just that this slowdown is a big factor in our woes. What changed sometime around 2001?

@Louise_Rowntree You’re a liberal. Also politically homeless in the new alignment of politics (for now).

The Left tell me I’m Right. The Right tell me I’m Left: what should you identify as if you think taxes should be massively slashed but you also like immigrants, the European Union and city pedestrianisation schemes?

@JamesWHankins1 They can be useful. The thing is to draw on Marx’s political and social commentary in his journalism, which is perceptive and insightful, while ignoring the economics and, particularly, the theory of history (which he shares with most of his contemporaries and others (eg Smith).

Most historians I know believe that Marxism provides some useful intellectual tools but are not dogmatic. The question to me is whether you can use the 'tools' without buying into the metaphysical assumptions that support them.

@robinhanson @So8res Unless you read Jerry Pournelle that is.

@So8res Sci-fi has long been fantasies of sci being the center of power and status. It is in fact neither.

In sci-fi books and movies, AI solving a bunch of math problems that stood open for decades would've been a big deal. Why isn't the mainstream media turning this into a bunch of sensational stories?

Along with noticing the 'Condition of England' outside their circles, If the pundit class read @SteveDavies365's recent book, The Great Realignment, they'd stop being continually shocked and surprised at Reform's rise. But that would mean actually reading a book...