Keir Milburn

That feeling when you get physical copies of your new book. Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future. Written with @kaiheron.bsky.social and @bertrussell.bsky.social for @plutopress.bsky.social. Available for pre-order now: www.plutobooks.com/978074535135...

Our current patterns of consumption aren't sustainable but we can become deeply attached to the commodities we're used to. This problem is the fuel for much culture war reaction. My review of the film Sex and Death in Camp Miasma examines this dilemma. keirmilburn.substack.com/p/the-utopia...

I have been detained by Israeli security forces all day. Along with with MPs Clive Lewis, Lara Bird, MSP Kate Nevans, former MP Sam Tarry and campaigners from across the world, we were turned back because they don’t want anyone seeing their ethnic cleansing.

Our current patterns of consumption aren't sustainable but we can become deeply attached to the commodities we're used to. This problem is the fuel for much culture war reaction. My review of the film Sex and Death in Camp Miasma examines this dilemma. keirmilburn.substack.com/p/the-utopia...

Hugely consequential election results in Brazil and Serbia last night. With the mid-terms also looking disastrous for Trump the global Fascist wave might be ebbing. And with youth uprisings exploding across Europe room is opening for a left response to 2027's accelerating crises.

I’ve written a piece on the search for new mythical resources to ground a more progressive sense of Britishness now that the post-Victorian ruling class myths around royalism and imperialism have become unsustainable. It’s part travelogue, part analysis. open.substack.com/pub/keirmilb...

Dungeons & Dragons, Duel Masters, and Magic: The Gathering teams unionize at Hasbro aftermath.site/magic-the-gath...

I’ve written a piece on the search for new mythical resources to ground a more progressive sense of Britishness now that the post-Victorian ruling class myths around royalism and imperialism have become unsustainable. It’s part travelogue, part analysis. open.substack.com/pub/keirmilb...

@kmilb.bsky.social, @kaiheron.bsky.social developed an excellent framework for how socialisation can be achieved through Public–Common Partnerships, with the vision of “setting in motion a self-expanding circuit of radical democratic self-governance.” www.in-abundance.org/reports/publ...

An #ACFM reading session special. Join Nadia Idle, @jemgilbert.bsky.social, and I as we read and discuss Guy Debord’s classic Situationist text Society of the Spectacle. novaramedia.com/2026/09/27/a...

In 2021 the Japanese group Posse published the translation of my Generation Left book. Late last year they interviewed me for their eponymously named journal on how the thesis in the book had fared in the years since publication. I've just published an extract on my Substack.

In 2021 the Japanese group Posse published the translation of my Generation Left book. Late last year they interviewed me for their eponymously named journal on how the thesis in the book had fared in the years since publication. I've just published an extract on my Substack.

A genuinely exhilarating conversation on Pep Guardiola and how football tactics evolve which moves through the ideas of Hegel, Koselleck, Marx, Mark Fisher, and Derrida to do so. All delivered in a warm, funny and unpretentious manner. Superb. Listen to this and buy Jon's book!

Here's Amazon's two new planned fossil-fuelled AI data centres next to the ENTIRE POWER GRIDS OF SEVERAL LARGE COUNTRIES Together, the two gas-burning data centres will emit more than Spain's entire grid, if built

The first hint from the government that this climate change driven, world-historic heat wave is a crisis comes with an alert on everyone’s phones that doesn’t mention climate change but merely asks for alertness against starting fires. 🔥 A 'cones hotline’ style of emergency response.

I was feeling left out so I started a Substack. It’ll bring together my practice and thinking on ecosocialist transition with my weird left preoccupations with what games, films, comics, and fiction can tell us about the conjuncture. Sign up below.

I was feeling left out so I started a Substack. It’ll bring together my practice and thinking on ecosocialist transition with my weird left preoccupations with what games, films, comics, and fiction can tell us about the conjuncture. Sign up below.

The Rod Liddle biography suggests a certain post-1968 'type' who was just idiotically drawn to norm-breaching, moving via adolescent rebellion, punk, revolutionary socialism, and eventually ending up at racism, because by the 21st century that was the most efficient transgression still on offer

Approval of east London datacentre labelled ‘slap in the face’ for local democracy. Datacentre prioritised over building affordable homes. Little attention to environmental issues. Govt overturning local council refusal is not devolution or democracy. Big business always wins.

Enjoying the peace of the Mediterranean Sea and reading this fantastic, stimulating book on alternatives to capitalism that go beyond the liberal concept of ‘abundance’. It’s by @kaiheron.bsky.social, @kmilb.bsky.social and Bertie Russell

I’m glad we still have space on Novara media for a reading session on a 2000 year-old self-help book written by a Roman Emperor. This one was fun to record. novaramedia.com/2026/07/12/w...

This was a brilliant listen, like all the acfm shows - been listening for 3 years or so and i really appreciate what you do. Always informative, interesting, and containing a million different signposts to other cool ideas ❤️

I’m glad we still have space on Novara media for a reading session on a 2000 year-old self-help book written by a Roman Emperor. This one was fun to record. novaramedia.com/2026/07/12/w...

Generation Left is getting on a bit

A new #ACFM on Resilience. Nadia Idle, @jemgilbert.bsky.social, and I discuss the use of resilience in neoliberal management speak, the problems with using resilience and collapse as a framing for climate change, and ask if the sense you're part of a wider, ongoing movement can form left resilience.

A new #ACFM on Resilience. Nadia Idle, @jemgilbert.bsky.social, and I discuss the use of resilience in neoliberal management speak, the problems with using resilience and collapse as a framing for climate change, and ask if the sense you're part of a wider, ongoing movement can form left resilience.

Also working-class autodidacts didn't just read alone - they read in groups, set up libraries and reading rooms, and battled for Mechanics' Institutes (many long ago merged into unis) to teach music, history, and politics. They built the public adult education infrastructure that's being destroyed

"It’s an old story: the finger on the monkey’s paw curls, the wish is granted. It’s a good metaphor for capitalism too a machine, the workings of which are completely opaque but gives you more of what you want without ever requiring you to confront the humanity of the people affected"

An #ACFM episode reading Walter Benjamin's classic essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Giving @jemgilbert, @NotJustYouHere, and I an angle into modern debates around the nature of Fascism, LLMs, NFTs, and how we might democratise art. novaramedia.com/2026/06/07/w...

An #ACFM episode reading Walter Benjamin's classic essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Giving @jemgilbert, @NotJustYouHere, and I an angle into modern debates around the nature of Fascism, LLMs, NFTs, and how we might democratise art. novaramedia.com/2026/06/07/w...

With less than a week to go before the 2026 World Cup, we’ve unlocked this classic bonus episode on the iconic 1990 tournament. @kmilb.bsky.social joined us to talk about the cultural impact of Italia 90. www.patreon.com/posts/italia...

EasyJet in takeover sights of US private equity (PE) firm. PE has no long-term interests in businesses. A successful buyout would be followed by high debt, staff/wage cuts, asset-stripping, profit shifting, tax abuse. How long before PE will find new ways of fleecing travellers? archive.ph/WHJLb

An #ACFM on Shock. With energy and food price shocks on the way, and a Trump presidency ruling via chaos and shock @jemgilbert.bsky.social, Nadia Idle, and I examine the political uses of shock on both an individual and societal level while asking how we can build shock absorbers into Left strategy.

An #ACFM on Shock. With energy and food price shocks on the way, and a Trump presidency ruling via chaos and shock @jemgilbert.bsky.social, Nadia Idle, and I examine the political uses of shock on both an individual and societal level while asking how we can build shock absorbers into Left strategy.

I'm speaking at this day-long event of talks and discussions in Todmorden tomorrow (Saturday 16th May). Looks like a really interesting day. Come along if you can. www.eventbrite.com/e/common-kno...

Great podcast on boredom from @jemgilbert.bsky.social @kmilb.bsky.social and nadia idle (is she on here?)... loving that my main experience of boredom is doing housework, which listening to podcasts such as this one whilst doing it totally alleviates that boredom: share.google/BHSATHlfnLwx...

An #ACFM on New British Weird. With renewed interest in megaliths, folklore, and seasonal festivities, @jemgilbert.bsky.social and I discuss the history of British weird asking if its revival is a search for a mythological grounding for a non-imperial/royalist England novaramedia.com/2026/05/10/a...

An #ACFM on New British Weird. With renewed interest in megaliths, folklore, and seasonal festivities, @jemgilbert.bsky.social and I discuss the history of British weird asking if its revival is a search for a mythological grounding for a non-imperial/royalist England novaramedia.com/2026/05/10/a...

“The pursuit of radical abundance lies at the heart of the communist tradition” Radical Abundance by @kaiheron.bsky.social, @kmilb.bsky.social and @bertrussell.bsky.social reviewed in @bellacaledonia.bsky.social: bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/04/07/r...

An #ACFM on Hobbies. @jemgilbert.bsky.social, Nadia Idle, and I discuss the history of hobbies, how they've been increasingly colonised by Platform Capitalism and whether they retain a utopian dimension. novaramedia.com/2026/04/12/w...

An #ACFM on Hobbies. @jemgilbert.bsky.social, Nadia Idle, and I discuss the history of hobbies, how they've been increasingly colonised by Platform Capitalism and whether they retain a utopian dimension. novaramedia.com/2026/04/12/w...

Good morning comrades. Our radical bookshop fund is now at 40%! But we still have a long way to go so please do donate if you mean to. And if you're unable to donate, please share it with any friends who might. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

Pleased to see our work on Popular Asset Commissions included in the @greensorganise.bsky.social pledge for the upcoming elections. We need a new approach to local government if we’re to escape the austerity trap that 40 years of neoliberal reform has placed us in.

A great event at @lighthousebks.bsky.social yesterday. I got interviewed by @bellacaledonia.bsky.social about Radical Abundance. It turned into a pretty wide ranging and enjoyable conversation. A link to a video of the discussion below. lighthousebookshop.com/events/radic...

Pleased to see our work on Popular Asset Commissions included in the @greensorganise.bsky.social pledge for the upcoming elections. We need a new approach to local government if we’re to escape the austerity trap that 40 years of neoliberal reform has placed us in.

We're excited to welcome @kmilb.bsky.social to the bookshop to celebrate RADICAL ABUNDANCE: HOW TO WIN A GREEN DEMOCRATIC FUTURE tonight at 7pm. We're sold out in-person but you can still join us online, or email for the waiting list! lighthousebookshop.com/events/radic...

A lot wrong in the world today, but can we all congratulate 84 year old British wrestling legend Kendo Nagasaki who has described Nigel Farage as: "a really hateful man ...got this terrible history of racial and right wing abuse - and still doing it to this day, but now he camouflages it a little."

I'm discussing Radical Abundance with bellacaledonia.bsky.social at @lighthousebks.bsky.social, Edinburgh this Wednesday, April 8, 7pm. Get yourself a ticket and come along. lighthousebookshop.com/events/radic...