And they complain that Zack Polanski is against NATO….

🔊 Calling all Cardiff UCU members: get your vote in by next Monday! ⏰ The countdown is on: www.cardiffucu.org.uk

In the 1980s, a monster was assembled in the pharmaceutical world that pitted patients' interests against those of pharmaceutical investors: the neoliberal pharma model. In PEAK PHARMA w/ @susigeiger.bsky.social, out today @academic.oup.com, we show that this monster is entering a crucial phase...

This is the biggest question I have about university management.

Latest episode of “Rich people don’t think they’re rich”. Sequel to Question time guy on 80 grand a year thinking he was on “average income www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Huge COPs are an equity issue. We don't hear marginalised voices above the din of who can afford the pavilions, flights, comms teams, or hosting. theconversation.com/the-un-clima...

Even more petitions popping up. Doesn't make for a great endorsement, does it? Please sign, spread the word, and help us push back against the constant undermining of our university: c.org/MwqdpHLCnZ c.org/Q6pTJXz87F c.org/sGNYk5yGpM

With just a few weeks until publication, it's possible to pre-order my book in time for Xmas! For anyone who wants to read a decolonial approach to populism and understand why we are still so attached to the idea of 'populism' bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/europes-popu... @brisunipress.bsky.social

I’m really sorry to say that I don’t think these people are scared, but that they quietly agree with what Trump is doing, and see opportunities for themselves going forward. There is no other explanation.

This is outrageous. The amount of time that we spend on these apparently futile applications is clearly not reasonable.

Amazing, under these conditions the would definitely kick me out. Thanks Britain.

Idk, I’m increasingly uncomfortable with this narrative that Reform represent some kind of anti-politics when their narrative has been absolutely dominant for more than 10 years and seems to be seamlessly adapted by all mainstream actors.

This cannot be emphasised enough. But also, there is something cruel and morally corrupt to limiting welfare benefits, which is one of the most direct transfers of wealth to those who need it the most.

Idk, I thought the point of representative democracy was that parliament was seen as legitimate based on electoral results, not based on polling.

Thank god for this

You do not need the far right in power to have far-right politics implemented and far-right discourse normalised This should be clear by now and yet those responsible keep being given the benefit of the doubt

It’s just so blatantly obvious.

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People. There is basic decency between PEOPLE. I know this is just headline nonsense but that this is seen as local to these isles is part of the problem.

Reposting this as the deadline is coming closer! Cardiff POLIR is a lovely place to work with amazing colleagues.

This is one of the worst illnesses I’ve ever had (at age 32), still have bad scars, so we vaccinated our son privately. Thank god it will be available for everyone.

We are hiring in my department at Cardiff! Three positions available, closing date September 7th. I’m happy to talk with anyone interested!

Happy to share my first published article based on my PhD in Party Politics with @journals.sagepub.com in open access! doi.org/10.1177/1354...

Attention #Zeitenwende and #security nerds: My newest article on "German 'pacifism' and the Zeitenwende" is about to be published online in Defense & Security Analysis. In the article I try to assess to what extent the reorientation of German security policy after the

I don’t know if these cool kids have heard of labour unions or paid vacation? It’s a thing

Thrilled to share this (apparently controversial) piece with @theoaiolfi.bsky.social digging into how the French left imagines “the people.” From LFI’s shifting tactics to Ruffin–Mélenchon frictions, creolisation, and the stakes of radical democracy — we go there!

Absolutely incredible misunderstanding of what free speech is. We do not, and never had, the inalienable right to say whatever we want. If what you are advocating is directly contributing to exclusion and discrimination, then this is not something you have a right to proclaim in the public sphere.

A must-read by @cburchett.bsky.social

❗Yesterday Cardiff University Senate, the body responsible for upholding academic standards, voted to NOT recommend management’s toxic 'Academic Futures' cuts plan to Cardiff University Council.❗ The ball is now in Council’s court at its meeting next Tuesday, 17th.

Just over a month to go until applications for our summer school close! Apply below to develop your skills in researching reactionary politics.

Just sent the final manuscript for my new book to @brisunipress.bsky.social! So happy that it will be reaching the world bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/europes-popu...

It’s that time of year again! Please join us in sunny Bath for our annual summer school, meet likeminded scholars studying reactionary politics.

I was asked to do a review for Routledge and this was my response. I can’t get over the hypocrisy Make everything open access, now.

What is it we mean when we talk about "social democracy"? Here, Renewal editors past and present reflect on the meaning of social democracy, and what it means to be a social democrat. renewal.org.uk/blog/renewal...

📣New interview📣 @georgenewth.bsky.social discusses how to research, understand, and resist far-right politics in times of mainstreaming. reacpol.net/far-right-ma...

Can populist parties produce a Robin Hood Effect by bringing new emphasis to welfare? Are they a corrective to liberal democracy in terms of political representation? [SPOLIER] No! Very proud of this paper for @jeppjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1350...

Look, if you want to discuss changes to intellectual property rights then may I suggest that we start with all pharmaceutical patents? Would be lovely if we just paid manufacturing costs for all medicines…

📣New interview📣 Reid Kleinberg discusses the history of the paleo-libertarian movement and its influence on contemporary reactionary politics in the USA. Check it out below! reacpol.net/paleo-libert...

They’re publishing stuff like this just to troll us, surely?

This is the 2nd paper I’ve contributed to with data from Spain showing that the centre-right, rather than being a guardian of pro-democracy norms, is complicit in normalising Spain’s far-right party, VOX First was this descriptive paper on views on cordon sanitaire doi.org/10.1177/1354...

Threatening Redundancies is just cruel tactics to justify restructurings that benefit the careers of VCs. www.change.org/p/end-unnece...

Nothing exemplifies the crisis of democracy better than the state of punditry and the total lack of consequences for utterly and consistently terrible takes...

This bodes well for the introduction of assisted dying 🤦‍♀️

Israel belongs in Eurovision because it’s genocide embodies “European values” @aljazeera.com

This is an interesting attempt to justify Labour’s current policy direction. I just don’t get how you can say with a straight face that Labour is, currently, about protecting the people ‘most ravaged by free market economics’. Everything that I can see is a sign of the opposite

I’ve seen a lot of posts on here lately from senior academics on how to handle professional adversity and still keep going. What is lacking from most of these account is a recognition of the immense privilege which many senior academics possess. 1/

I sound like a broken record, but I’m more and more convinced that Labour is doing this not out of strategic utility but out of ideological conviction. No one is this clueless.

Of course we have to wait for clear numbers from last week, but there is no justification, strategic or otherwise, why Labour should copy reform policies

Great comments here, repeating the core claim that none of the redundancies are necessary since the financial situation is not that dire.

Bittersweet win for us at Cardiff UCU this week. The fight will go on, but at least we have some more time to organise.