Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @mlorimer.bsky.social and @mgmessmer.bsky.social on Trump's crackdown on the menace of late-night chat show hosts and the day's other stuff, plus @warmatters.bsky.social on his terrific new book "War In The Smartphone Age". monocle.com/radio/shows/...

I'm getting my 15 pages of fame. Awkward. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2474736X.2025.2549079

Always worth listening to what @mlorimer.bsky.social has to say 👇

France has organised yet another governmental crisis while I am on holiday, so if I sound very quiet on Monday, you know why.

PRX Editor @mlorimer.bsky.social discusses the rise of the far right in this LSE blog. Check it out 👇

"I’m not sure there is a single country in Europe that is resistant to the rise of the far right.” @mlorimer.bsky.social @lse-ei.bsky.social spoke to @jobale.bsky.social about Europe's radical right. Read more @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social 👇

I had a lovely chat with the LSE IQ podcast. You can listen to the podcast here: www.lse.ac.uk/lse-player?i... or read the extended transcript of my part of the interview on the Europp blog.

My favorite week in the academic calendar has arrived - it's the @ecpr.bsky.social General Conference! From this afternoon/tomorrow, you'll find me lurking in the corridors of Aristotle University in Thessaloniki.

Action shot of my presentation from earlier today. Find out more about the project here: eupoplink.eu

📣 Super excited to be in Thessaloniki for the @ecpr.bsky.social General Conference with the Extremism & Democracy @ecpr-ead.bsky.social team. On Tuesday, we kick off with a panel on far-right mobilization. I'll be presenting work in progress with Iris Beau Segers. ecpr.eu/Events/Event... #ECPRgc25

New article out! @luke-shuttleworth.bsky.social, @k8ebrown.bsky.social & I teamed up to explore whether the concept of 'cordon sanitaire' remains useful in the current stage of mainstreaming of far right politics Read the full article, open access, here 1/ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Arrived in Thessaloniki for a full week of conferencing! Day 1 is now in full swing. Excited to be co-leading a WP in this project on populism and Euroscepticism.

Headed to #ecprgc25? 🇬🇷☀️📝💻 Please join us for this roundtable on open science featuring editors from @prxjournal.bsky.social @mlorimer.bsky.social @stevenhauwert & from @ejprjournal.bsky.social @alessandronai.bsky.social @isabelleborucki The roundtable doesn’t overlap with any research panels 👏

At PRX we are all about💡big ideas & 🍊 fresh insights 🔶Check out panels featuring our Editors & Assoc Eds at #ecprgc25 @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social @mlorimer.bsky.social @steven-vanhauwaert.bsky.social @yulengzeng.bsky.social @paologerbaudo.bsky.social 🧵A thread 👇

This morning I was on monocle discussing the news. And a lot of far right stuff. Catch the recording here: monocle.com/radio/shows/...

📣 Calling all publishers, editors and leading scholars attending #ecprgc25 📚 Publishing & Profession session Open Science in Political Research: Promises and Challenges 📆 28 Aug buff.ly/xSvXWbU @irobo.bsky.social @mlorimer.bsky.social @alessandronai.bsky.social @steven-vanhauwaert.bsky.social

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @alexvont.bsky.social and @mlorimer.bsky.social on the Gaza hostages and the day's other stories, plus @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social on his fine new book "Lost Boys". monocle.com/radio/shows/...

📙 Hello from PRX 🔓 We are @ecpr.bsky.social's ECPR's original Gold #OpenAccess journal 🏠 Home for innovation in #PolSci 🌱 Looked after by Editors @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social @mlorimer.bsky.social @steven-vanhauwaert.bsky.social #AcademicSky #Polisky #IRsky

What do the Fratelli stand for, actually? @mlorimer.bsky.social & Matteo Cavallaro paint a complex picture of continuity and change

Can mainstreaming of the far right help normalise undemocratic practices? @mlorimer.bsky.social & Matteo Cavallaro explore the case of Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy, showing how the party still displays elements of continuity with its neofascist predecessor. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/5kBHwSt

Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy is the successor of the post-fascist National Alliance & the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement. But does the party share meaningful similarities with its predecessors? @mlorimer.bsky.social & Matteo Cavallaro @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social @polstudies.bsky.social

💥New: What Brothers of Italy shares – and does not share – with its neo-fascist and post-fascist predecessors ✍️ @mlorimer.bsky.social & Matteo Cavallaro blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

Looking for a short summary of our paper on continuity and change between Brothers of Italy, National Alliance and the Italian Social Movement? Instead of asking ChatGPT, you can find a handy blog post right here: blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

Can mainstreaming of the far right help normalise undemocratic practices? @mlorimer.bsky.social & Matteo Cavallaro explore the case of Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy, showing how the party still displays elements of continuity with its neofascist predecessor. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/5kBHwSt

New article w Elena Cossu : How terror attacks shape political agendas on #multiculturalism in France. 👉 We show how terror events push mainstream parties toward far-right rhetoric on #diversity & #Islam. @cogitatiopag.bsky.social @authlibeu.bsky.social @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social

If you are interested even a tiny bit in #farright politics in #Italy 🇮🇹 (and who isn't?), have a look at this 🧵

It's Friday, so I thought I could do a little thread on the findings of our article in @polstudies.bsky.social. When we started writing this article (summer 2022!), the question on everyone's mind was whether a possible win for Meloni would present a danger for democracy in Italy.

‘The Crisis of Long-Termism: Time and Independence in the European Union’ – my new article with Antoine Vauchez www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @wepsocial.bsky.social @lse-ei.bsky.social @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social @lsepoltheory.bsky.social

I do rather feel that if legislative/media attention's going to paid to reactionary academics who've been targeted by student campaigners, some should also be given to their progressive colleagues who've been targeted by, er, newspapers, media channels, supine regulators and the government

📣 New piece out in @jcms-eu.bsky.social with the great @mlorimer.bsky.social & Marianna Griffini! We compare the 2023 🇳🇱 & 2024 🇫🇷 snap elections: different systems, but shared patterns: ➡️ Gov’t instability ➡️ Continued rise and mainstreaming of the far right 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

There are weeks where nothing happens, and others where by Wednesday you have 2 publications. Pleased to see this Annual Review piece (OA), co-authored with the splendid Marianna Griffini & @leoniedejonge.bsky.social : onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 1/3

Discover our Visiting Fellow @mlorimer.bsky.social's latest journal article in @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social 🎉👇

Delighted to finally see this piece out! Around 3 years ago, Matteo & I started thinking about whether Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy REALLY resembled its neo-fascist predecessor in any meaningful way. The results are now published in @polstudies.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Delighted to finally see this piece out! Around 3 years ago, Matteo & I started thinking about whether Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy REALLY resembled its neo-fascist predecessor in any meaningful way. The results are now published in @polstudies.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Our book is out and available to read open access online: academic.oup.com/book/60532. It is dedicated to Niko.

Congrats to @nenaoana.bsky.social, Marcello Natili and his moustache for new smarticle in @jeppjournal.bsky.social on public support for the EU during crises. A short 🧵: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Had a wonderful time at the inaugural conference of the E&D group in London. Congratulations and many many thanks to the organisers for putting this event together - already looking forwards to the next one (once everyone has had a chance to rest).

The PVV has left the Dutch coalition. What does this mean? Will there we be new elections? When? Who will win? Which government will form? 🧵

CPAC in CEE highlights a growing far-right transatlantic alliance. Democratic forces must too strengthen their networks, compete on culture, and reclaim patriotism & sovereignty to safeguard a democratic EU & transatlantic alliance. My latest for @euobserver.com euobserver.com/eu-political...

Work today takes me to an indoors beach in Helsinki. I’ll be barefoot on stage and I am here for it.

About three years after Matteo Cavallaro and I first started thinking about this babe, it will finally see the light of publication. Stay tuned for the answer to the question 'But is Fratelli d'Italia really THAT close to the Movimento Sociale Italiano, and does it matter?'

Given the local election results in the UK, a short #thread - based on much of our own research - on the vicious cycle of radical right support that we have seen in many countries. 1) When radical right parties (such as Reform) are electorally successful established parties move right on immigration

... but @mlorimer.bsky.social told me she thinks that might not always be the case, as Reform learns from other populist right parties.

Lates Daily on Monocle Radio. @mlorimer.bsky.social and Theo Underwood on the day's stuff, plus the former Ukrainian MP Lesia Orobets on Sky Shield, a proposed European air defence operation for Ukraine. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

My School @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social invites expressions of interest for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (by 20th May). Please get in touch if interested. Info: www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/res...

📢 Reminder: SGEU Online Seminar ‼️ Join us this afternoon at 16:00 CET for an insightful discussion on ideologies in European integration with @mlorimer.bsky.social and Fabio Wolkenstein 🇪🇺 🔗 ecpr.eu/Events/297

We're organizing another round of the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology 🎉 summerschoolwpm.org Our super-cool speakers include msands.bsky.social @allisonwkoh.bsky.social @melinscribe.bsky.social @rebeccakittel.bsky.social @fabiennelind.bsky.social & @indiiigo.bsky.social 📆01/05

Happening today!

Join us next week Tuesday at 4 pm (CET) for the @ecprsgeu.bsky.social online seminar @mlorimer.bsky.social will present her research : "Ideologising Europe and Europeanizing Ideology: Political Party Ideologies and The European Union" more info: ecpr.eu/Events/297