Feeling a bit smug about all this aran weight (real!) wool that I picked up at Wonderwool Wales for £20 yesterday 🧶 (the bright yellow wool in last pic is sock yarn so not part of the aran haul) 🧶

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A very happy St George's Day, to all who celebrate.

Available to pre-order from August 7th 😊🎉🪩🥂

Out in the summer, the book is about the fiction anti-fascists have written, menippean satires, feminist dystopia, Communist-modernist-activism, Judas allegories, love letters to David Bowie, detectives under Hitler, queer fantasia, and much else besides. www.routledge.com/The-Anti-Fas...

It was wonderful to be reunited with @cfieschi.bsky.social and @rosabalfour.bsky.social and to discuss the threat of the far right. The whole discussion is now online.

The latest blog is up! Following on from Prof. Paul Jackson's look at dogwhistles, Dr Dan Jones talks about how the extreme right have engaged with environmentalism - using mainstream language to cloak concept-dense narratives. www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo...

C-REX / CANSES methods and ethics webinar this week: "Researching far-right mothers as a mom" w/ @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social, University of Luxembourg Time and place: Apr. 16, 2026 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM (CET), ONLINE. Moderated by @audreygagnon.bsky.social. www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

🚨New article🚨 What if the misguided construction of 'right-wing populism' has prevented us from holding the elite accountable and rejuvenate democracy? This is what @alexyates2000.bsky.social and I explore in our new article: 'There is no such thing as ‘right-wing populism’' 1/ shorturl.at/jptiu

📣CIRAF Seminar alert!📣 Join us on 29 April at 12pm for 'Brexit, the Far Right, and Racism: 10 years on' with Brendan McGeever and Natalie-Anne Hall. FREE online seminar but registration is required: www.eventbrite.com/e/brexit-the...

The proofs are in! Youth Wings of the Populist Radical Right will be published in mid-June by OUP. Covering 10 PRR youth wings across Europe, we show how these organisations act as motors of mobilisation, socialisation, internationalisation, professionalisation, & normalisation for their parties.

Happy 8th anniversary to the tweet that changed us forever. Look at this absolute unit.

Submitted my book manuscript today and finally got to eat some fancy cake 🎉🥂🍰

Not sure what to read over the weekend? @imrobwalker.bsky.social and other brilliant RPRN members have you covered with this provocative anthology about Louis Theroux's Inside the Manosphere documentary It also includes the first ever poem published by Red Lines! reacpol.net/theroux-docu...

Book now for April 28 in Paris or online americanlibraryinparis.org/event/frfran...

Don't be afraid to self-promote!

May I suggest my "Interviewing the 'Unlovable'" book chapter? doi.org/10.7765/9781... 📚

Thank you, @alcs.co.uk 🥂❤️

I feel personally attacked rn

„Deutschland ist ein schwarzes Loch, was antifeministische Finanzierung angeht“ – so der Soziologe Andreas Kemper. Die Bedrohung durch Antifeminismus muss dringend als solche erkannt werden: Nur so können wir ihr systematisch und flächendeckend entgegenwirken. taz.de/Hass-auf-Fra...

It's a good week for soundtrack nerds:

Brisk walk down #Rhossili Bay 🌊

Book update: final read-through of manuscript impending 😱 then submission towards the end of April 😱😱 I'm already thinking about the cake I'll buy. I'm traditionally a lemon drizzle type of gal but a Costco red velvet is also living in my mind rent free 🤔

Der Report 2026 ist da! Aktuelle juristische Entscheidungen zu Rechtsterrorismus, Demokratiefeindlichkeit, Rassismus, Sexismus, LGBTQIA*Feindlichkeit sowie Antisemitismus. @maxpichl.bsky.social @ronensteinke.bsky.social @heikekleffner.bsky.social @torevetter.bsky.social @leoihssen.bsky.social 1/30

The last few days to get an abstract in for our conference on the 12th of June, run in collaboration with CST's SAFE team. Emotion, Nationalism and Extremism - Contexts and Responses. In person at Northampton, deadline for abstracts 15th March. www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo...

Our online book launch of Europe's Populist Condition is tonight! Sign up below!

My forthcoming book will also refine and expand some of the arguments I made in my thesis re: whether the AfD is frauenfeindlich ☺️ Watch this space!

17 years with my honey today. Going for an ice-cream after work 🍨

At 12 @errnetwork.bsky.social is hosting Prof. Roger Griffin, author of – among many things – Nature of Fascism. Prof. Griffin will be in discussion with @pnjackson.bsky.social , exploring how we define and conceptualise the extreme right and the dynamics that they draw upon.

What Goodwin's reaction shows is that reactionaries claim to talk for "the people" but truly hate the people and them having a say in how things should be run It shouldn't surprise us that reactionaries are elitist and anti-democracy obviously and yet this has been obscured through skewed coverage

Went for an early evening curry. My coat snagged on the corner of the neighbouring table and tipped all the glasses etc onto the floor 😱 absolute mortification. Left a £10 tip.

Finally, some good news.

CALL FOR CHAPTERS! Me and @grahammacklin.bsky.social are putting together an edited collection looking at the use of pseudoscientific ideas by extremist movements. If you are interested, please send us your abstracts at this link: forms.gle/mAUtpDGNEj9i...

If the below picture gets you thinking stats, classes, campaigns, and the incomparable joy of crit successes then please consider answering this short survey for my Folklore student's research project: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Good ol' Mark taking one for the team so the rest of us don't have to endure it.

Paraphrasing Mark Kermode's review of Melania here: "I've seen A Serbian Film, I've seen Cannibal Holocaust, but I've never been so depressed after watching a film" 🥲🤣

Yesterday marked 10 years since C‑REX was founded. This thread highlight what the center has done — research, PhDs, datasets, events, policy engagement and international partnerships. THREAD 🧵 www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/english/

Just over a week to go until our launch of The Far Right and the Media: International Trends and Perspectives. Sign up below!

Gerry Gable, long-time editor of Searchlight, sadly died last weekend. The work of Gerry and his comrades forms our Searchlight Collection, the heart of the Searchlight Archive, and we are honoured to continue his legacy in some small way. Rest well, Gerry. www.northampton.ac.uk/news/remembe...

My new book is out now! Read for an alternative view on populism in Europe, influenced by decolonial theory, feminism and psychoanalysis. I'm available to do book talks in 2026! @populismpsa.bsky.social @brisunipress.bsky.social @reacpolrn.bsky.social bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/europes-popu...

Just watching Marco Rubio on BBC News talk about Maduro playing "big boy games" and "losing" and it is completely unhinged.

And it's only the 3rd of January 🫩

Ending 2025 with three outstanding knitting projects 🧶 I don't really like the jumper but I'll finish it out of spite.

Book update: intro, methods, and 4 chapters complete. I will work on the conclusion over the coming weeks. I'm working at my day job up to and including Christmas Eve, but am excited to log off for a few days and absolutely demolish the massive Toblerone I got from Costco 😎🥂

Bloody finally.

I would call it my magnum opus but I call everything my magnum opus and it doesn't have the same impact after a while. But! I am pleased, especially with the flow of Harold Godwinson's sash. Very satisfying. Hard to see the detail when you work up close for so many hours 🧐

Nathan Gill, Reform UK’s former leader in Wales has been jailed for ten-and-a-half years for taking bribes to make pro-Russia statements. What does Nigel Farage think about this?

I should clarify that when I say "design flaws" what I really mean is "Kat didn't read the chart properly." This excellent chart was created by Roland Designs on Etsy.

The plan is to take it to the British Museum next year and take a photo with it in proximity to the tapestry exhibition. Or at least in the building. Or the sign outside. Whatever works. Just a bit of fun innit.

Mistakes have been made but I can at least claim that any design flaws are in the spirit of the real thing 😂 42 rows left 🙌😎