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Forgive me if I'm wrong, I can't think of a single politician who campaigned hard for Brexit who has since come out and said that they think it was a mistake. Surely, in their heart of hearts, literally one or two of them must know that. So is it that they can't admit it to themselves or just to us?

No BBC bias latest! I cannot think of a more twisted way of reporting what's happening in brussels between EU & UK. 1/2

Net migration IS coming down quite fast, and we will soon know who was right about whether it was a good or a bad idea economically and politically.

St George's flags are creating 'no-go zones' for NHS staff, health bosses warn A trust leader hails the "bravery" of black and Asian healthcare workers for continuing to treat patients in areas "designed to exclude them". news.sky.com/story/st-geo...

#UK folks, support a #London institution! Make your way to New Beacon Books, 76 Stroud Green Road to get a copy of my book, #Reckoning. Let’s create change! @brisunipress.bsky.social @policypress.bsky.social

This is indeed a big moment for workers rights across Europe. www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...

Life in London #321

👏 police and also the families. But will the police be able to cope with the riots this weekend? 🤔 www.kent.police.uk/news/kent/la...

This is from good 5 years ago. I would still recommend all five books, even if even more rxcellent books on the far right have been published since.

Great win for the students today to go top of the league.

Excited to have this paper on social networks as a mechanism for cleavage stabilization with @dpzollinger.bsky.social out! If we have you intrigued, also pairs with (and empirically engages) our theoretical piece on puzzles of contemporary cleavage research: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Ethnonationalism just keeps on accidentally happening in British politics these days…

@andrewpgeddes.bsky.social writing to the Times(?). Desperate times call for …

By my reading, it's hard to remember a more scandalous example of a social media company being negligent in their responsibility to users. It's so so bad, and deeper investigation and regulatory action must surely follow.

Says it with research, which is refreshing these days.

Interesting lecture by @anandmenon.bsky.social. How politics have shaped the narrative over the last 10-20 years. He talks about people wanting change, but doesn't go into what change they want - maybe citizens don't know. If we need a sense of direction what's it to be ? Ending child poverty ?

Today we’re celebrating the actions of a brave man who happens to be from an ethno-religious minority. Maybe that’s the way we should view it rather than imposing fixed positive or negative attributes. Or is that not a definition of #racism?🤞 for #SamirZoutani

Seems like evidence for the neo-liberal university label - when the market triumphs over principle (academic freedom) - except that we are opposed. The reactions will be revealing China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show www.bbc.com/news/article...

How on earth can Rachel Reeves balance the books? Well, maybe there is a bit of room for taxes to go up, given the vast majority of OECD countries have higher - and in some cases much much higher - taxes on average incomes www.oecd.org/content/dam/...

I do like precise concepts😎

Our Director, @surveyprof.bsky.social, was a guest on the latest episode of the Kohli Foundation for Sociology podcast. The episode covers the origins of our survey, the methodology employed, and some of the results from collecting data in over 30 countries for more than 20 years.

Lewis is absolutely right here

⚽️ Law of TV football punditry: ‘it’s not a red’ - back the player against dismissal and the ref wherever reasonably possible.

Another instance of border control extending beyond borders. The change is the increased targeting of employers - something govs are reluctant to do. #immigration news.sky.com/story/bosses...

Rob Jetten beats out Geert Wilders

This is shocking news. I played representative football with Ambie McMullen many years ago - a wonderful athlete and footballer who always led by example. It was a huge loss when he emigrated to Australia in late 1980s. #GAA www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I’m crying www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

“In my work with the (Nuremberg Trial) defendants, I was searching for the nature of evil, and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy... a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” - Captain G.M. Gilbert, US Army

Net migration to the UK is falling rapidly. But how far will it fall? A new, detailed estimate by @jamesbowes01.bsky.social projects net migration in 2026 will be 70K to 170K. This will have significant consequences, both economic and political. ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...

Brum Bin Strike has gone on far too long but there are signs that the council is running out of options.

"We would all be better off if child poverty was reduced. And the most efficient, the quickest, the easiest, and the most politically, morally and socially justified way of doing that would be to lift the cap. We would all be better off as a consequence of that." www.lbc.co.uk/article/grou...

This includes our pioneering MSC International Migration and Public Policy.

🧵 1/ 🚨 New paper out in PLOS ONE! w/ @caropradier.bsky.social @benzpierre.bsky.social @natsush.bsky.social @ipoga.bsky.social @lariviev.bsky.social We studied 43k authors and 264k citation links in U.S. economics to ask: 👉 Why do some papers cite others? 🔗 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

‘When scholarship is judged by its political usefulness as opposed to its empirical rigor, it is hardly surprising that practices demanding transparency and causal precision are treated as secondary’ - Ok but ‘viewpoint diversity’ is hardly the answer! www.chronicle.com/article/left...

Angry about this tbh. My home town temporarily disfigured by ‘Tommy Robinson’ and his louts. Glad there were counter-protests. My parents have been living near the asylum hotel for years with no problems until the far right stuck their oar in. www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/2557253...

It’s just not on. Either we hold the line or we are no longer in a place of education. Yes, even for former members of the IDF. res.org.uk/royal-econom...

Some good local news from the auld country. www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

The Green Party's proposal for a wealth tax on 1% of assets above £10m and 2% on assets above £1bn comes top of our list of tax reforms that Britons would support, with 75% giving it their backing yougov.co.uk/economy/arti...

Politicising Commodification: book review of Erne et al, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2025/07/poli...

I somehow doubt that the search for justice over Bloody Sunday will end like this: "The two witnesses are themselves, on the basis of the Crown case guilty of murder as, in essence, accomplices with a motivation to name F as a participant in their murderous activities. www.rte.ie/news/ulster/...

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

Starmer is trying to give notorious football thugs banned in Israel itself a free ticket to inflame community tensions in Birmingham - what a mis-call for a responsible PM. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Yessss

The British voted for Brexit because of immigration. But now, they want to turn back the clock in favor of the pre-2021 border system.

Of all the stupid things they’ve said, this is the stupidest. And the most dangerous.

My conversation with Jane Bradley about how US anti-abortionists are supporting Reform - and why we need to talk about Russian influence - is also available in full on the Democracy for Sale YouTube channel Do sign up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5p0...