And for more on the work of the UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition, which is co-chaired by FPC together with @indexoncensorship.org and @clidef.bsky.social see antislapp.uk and sign up to its newsletter for updates.

The UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition was co-founded by our ED @skcoughtrie.bsky.social, in light of our 2020 research that pointed to the UK being the leading international source of legal threats against journalists investigating financial crime and corruption. For more info - fpc.org.uk/programmes/u...

📢 Update: More than 160 editors, lawyers, academics, journalists, publishers and civil society representatives, have now called on Keir Starmer to bring forward anti-SLAPP measures in the next Kings Speech. antislapp.uk/2026/02/13/s...

I am happy to share that my article: Family Feelings: affective ties and the reproduction of wealth in super-rich families was among the five most read articles in Emotions and Society in 2025! @bupjournals.bsky.social Here you can access the collection:

New Swingometer! With nominations now closed, and a few surprises in candidate selection, here's my first update on the Gorton & Denton by election. Also featuring a polling spat, dodgy bar charts, and Jason Momoa swingometer.substack.com/p/gorton-and...

These pieces by @robtoes.bsky.social are well worth reading

The paper on the class politics of Reform UK, which I've been working on with @aaronreeves.bsky.social for the last year and a half, is now available as a pre-print on SSRN. These are our main findings. Any feedback is more than welcome. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

❌ Wealth should not be able to be used to silence legitimate scrutiny. Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) have been used to intimidate journalists and others for far too long. 👍 We strongly support calls for universal anti-SLAPP legislation. pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/an...

New Swingometer post now out - my look at the Gorton and Denton by-election, taking place down the road from me swingometer.substack.com/p/the-gorton...

Great new paper! A similar study in the U.K. is long overdue. A lot of elite employers in the U.K. have begun to take class background seriously, but universities remain woefully behind

400 jobs at risk. A campus set to close. This film explains what’s happening at the University of Essex and why staff, students and the local community are organising to stop it. 📍 Southend rally | 5 February

From June 14th to 19th 2026 the 3rd edition of the summer school on "Elites, Power and Inequality" will take place at the University of Lausanne. Program and registration here: www.unil.ch/unil/en/home... Deadline is 1st April 2026.

Well that’s me locked out. No pay for the foreseeable future, all because I refuse to reschedule lost teaching, for which I have already lost pay as part of the strike. Please donate to support @sheffielducu.bsky.social members like me at www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...

It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals. Please share widely.

ASA member Cristobal Young (Cornell University) says data show that the rich generally stay put, countering warnings that millionaires would flee NYC if Mamdani were elected. @us.theconversation.com

Masters scholarships of £10,000 at Sussex: www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...

Mine and @dvandebroeck.bsky.social’s paper on ‘The Labor of Distinction’ is out now in ASR. Drawing from an ethnography that involved training and working as a butler, we tell a larger story about elites and inequality (1/18) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"It is important to emphasise that such groups ultimately lock in wealth, advantage and connections between their (predominantly male) class-advantaged members." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Absolutely fantastic new paper from @katiehiggins.bsky.social "CEO peer groups reveal without a doubt that therapy culture has reached the top tiers of the business class. In fact, their version of self-help is in many ways more cooperative and less individualistic than the mainstream" but... 1/2

📣 Trinity College Dublin is hiring 2 #tenuretrack Assistant Professors in Sociology. 👉 Environmental Sociology. Closing Dec 1 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH703/a... 👉 Gender and Sexuality. Closing Dec 2 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI055/a... @tcdsociology.bsky.social @isa-rc28.bsky.social @eaps.bsky.social

Drawing on 41 semi-structured interviews with wealthy members of the business class living in and around Manchester, this paper explores how therapy culture has travelled upwards, to the executive and owning class, through CEO peer groups. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/3nhvM3M

My article on the tv hit Succession and its media reception finally out. Keywords Schadenfreude, fantasy, dynasties. My argument being that it is a fantasy-driven construct appealing to a middle class desire to see the rich as miserable people destined to fall. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New article out now 🚨 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @sheffielduni.bsky.social While researching the wealthy business class in and around Manchester, I stumbled upon CEO peer advisory groups — little-known but powerful sites of elite cohesion. 🧵

Another excellent article on families and wealth, this time by @cassandracotton.bsky.social and Raphaël Charron-Chénier!

Excited to finally share my new paper (w/Raphaël Charron-Chénier) out in BJS! Staying Apart for the Kids looks at how older adults consider preserving family wealth in their new relationships. Drawing on my interviews with mid/late-life daters, we show how accumulated wealth shapes dating decisions.

Highly recommend this fantastic article from @shayobrien.bsky.social!

I am soo excited to share my newest article, “Unnatural Wills.” It’s about inheritance disputes!!! Murder, gold diggers, sex work, racial passing, secret lesbian lovers…WOW this was fun to write, and I hope it’s fun to read, too.

1/10 🚨Why do women accumulate less wealth than men across countries and time? I had the privilege of co-directing the latest Special Issue of #SER @sasemeeting.bsky.social with @celinebessiere.bsky.social on gender and wealth accumulation. 🧵 ⤵️ academic.oup.com/ser/article/...

First draft of a new book sent to the publisher. (And already noticed two typos in the table of contents!)

My first paper of my dissertation 'Patrimonial Relations. Kinship, capital and conflict in super-rich Families' is out now on open access! Here I discuss how super-rich families use relational work on affective family ties as an economic resource. @bupjournals.bsky.social

It was brilliant to present at the Institute of Sociology @tuberlin.bsky.social and to learn more about the important research happening there -thanks for the invitation @isabellstamm.bsky.social!

In this year’s annual British Journal of Sociology lecture, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva will review the basics of his “racialized social system” with a focus on explaining how he has improved the theoretical apparatus over the years. 📆 Wednesday 19 March ⏰ 6.30pm to 8pm 📍 In person at LSE and online

Another plug for my new @bjsociology.bsky.social article with Narzanin Massoumi examining the appointment of corporate elites to the boards of charities. No paywall btw! 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Tonight. I’m at the @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social launch of Isaac Rose’s “The Rentier City - Manchester and the making of the Neoliberal Metropolis”. @repeaterbooks.bsky.social @urbaninstitute.bsky.social @invisiblemapper.bsky.social

UK's regressive tax system. Poorest 10% of households paid 48% of income in tax; richest 10% paid 39%. Poorest 10% paying 12% of income in VAT; richest 10% pay 3%. Council tax: Poorest 10% paying 7%; richest 10% pay 1.2%. No govt plans to end inequity. equalitytrust.org.uk/news/press-r...

#16 in the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social critical theory Xmas countdown is one of the books of the year. @aaronreeves.bsky.social discussing “Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite” coauthored with @samfriedman.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/born-to-rule

Save the date for our Annual British Journal of Sociology Lecture! Eduardo Bonilla-Silva will review the basics of his “racialized social system” with a focus on explaining how he has improved the theoretical apparatus over the years. 📆 Wednesday 19 March

This is a really interesting and important piece of work

Very excited to share the details for the 2025 @bjsociology.bsky.social Annual Lecture, featuring Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, "On white normativity, racial habituation, and cracks in racial teams." 19 March, 6:30pm, at the LSE. More info here: www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...

Calling everyone concerned with ‘elite takeover’ driven by excessive concentrations of wealth: don’t miss this LSE event next Wednesday evening!

A blog on our new article 'City fortunes: The sources of wealth and international homeownership of the world’s urban wealth elite' by Rowland Atkinson, Jonathan Bourne and me - link here: speri-blog.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/blog/2024/ci...