New post: The Consequences of Tolerating the Far Right mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-... The rise in the far right is not a result of changes in people’s attitudes, but is due to the political elite eroding the social norms we used to have against racism and dehumanising minorities.

PRESS RELEASE: UCU Hallam secures major win as Sheffield Hallam University drops plans for subsidiary company. See ucuhallam.org/ezm8 for more info.

Expert on extremism here: In 2025, there were 1798 right-wing extremism referrals to Prevent, the UK counter-extremism programme. This is *double* the amount of Islamic extremism referrals (870). And yet, the government is incapable of seeing far-right extremism as a threat. Why? 1/

“Someone who is rioting doesn’t know that the person they are targeting is actually looking after their mother or their granny” Until our leaders acknowledge & celebrate what migrants bring to the UK, they cannot expect the general public to understand this. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

do i tell my wife that it's safer to stay indoors for a few days as is now the tradition? so goddamn sick of this, but I'm sure another useless speech by someone in government will make up for it

This is what a pogrom looks like: men in masks coming to drive you from your home. This is a collective failure of our political and media class because we did not have the courage to say no, and because too many were allowed to embrace this without shame

Starmer’s X account found time to call the original knife attack “sickening” and to say he had “no tolerance” for it (in case you thought he did), but he’s made no comment there about mobs of racists driving people from their homes, bar RTing a watery “legitimate concerns but” post by Hilary Benn

'Northern Ireland's First Minister Michelle O'Neill says "groups of masked men" were "burning families out of their homes"' This would be a good time for the PM and other senior leaders to show solidarity with the children and families under attack.

Again and again and again researchers, activists and people who work to enable communities to live well and peacefully together had warned and offered clear, practical steps. *Last year* I spoke at length of this with @neilmackay.bsky.social It will get worse without action

Mahmood, Starmer, Cooper; Sunak, Cleverly, Braverman, Patel, Johnson & all those working in comms & campaign strategy teams of the last several governments-don't go pointing the finger at Musk, Yaxley-Lennon or outside influence thinking you can absolve yourselves for shifting the Overton window

In fact I can’t see any evidence as of first thing this morning that Starmer has said anything anywhere about these race riots, which can’t be due to a lack of opportunity, since other politicians have. Unbelievably lacking in leadership and backbone.

Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement. Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences. Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else. Enough.

The chart we all needed to see. But how to give politicians and media a bridge out of their negative, racist frames dictated by far right talking points? Why are they so scared of (re) building a pragmatic language of tolerance and inclusion?

We are pleased to report that last year, we helped our clients receive £328,430 in compensation. Compensation for survivors can be life-changing; it can offer them closure and support to rebuild their lives after exploitation. Read out the annual report here: www.atleu.org.uk/about#annual...

This was a groundbreaking piece of work. A work so good it means a life well spent. Millions of people understand Iran, the diaspora and the weird bittersweet details of the immigrant experience through the work she did.

'Deterrence without a legal alternative is not a serious asylum policy. It is theatre, and expensive theatre at that' www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/net-mi...

The way the entire British media is suddenly discussing 'two tier policing' as if it is a real thing worth seriously debating, rather than the obvious far-right white supremacist fantasy it has always been, is very alarming

What does it actually take to get your work out there and make an impact? Karen O’Reilly will share practical strategies, tips and lessons from communicating sociology across different mediums. 📅 17 June | 9:30am–1:00pm BST 💻 Online Find out more and register: buff.ly/89oeiBr

VACANCY: Lecturer in Sociology (focus on race, ethnicity, intersecting inequalities) @uomsociology.bsky.social 4 years from 1 Oct 2026, £42,254 p.a., full time Closing date: Weds 17 June 2026 www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Can Spain's regularization process help tackle labor exploitation? #Refugees

If you took strike action or have been locked out by management, you can claim financial support from UCU national or the local branch. Apply now at ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/industrial-a...

Here's a free version of the same article gcaptain.com/drowning/

Great to see a public statement like this after the events of last weekend which affect Muslims everywhere, every day of the year.

Handing over data analytics of the police force which brought us a widely influential definition of institutional racism to Palantir AI - what could possibly go wrong? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Today staff in the School of Creative Arts, including the Humanities department, were called to a redundancy consultation meeting. We were informed that 23 posts were to go by August this year, with further redundancies as the Humanities programmes are taught out over 2 years.

So he is sticking to fiscal rules, not changing the EU position and is endorsing the current immigration policy. What exactly is the change he is promoting?

Pretty shocked by these figures as I’d assumed it was still the case that Labour members are more liberal than the leadership. But here we are, and this is the party, still described by some as a party of the left, which the Greens are supposed to be making common cause with

Plans to reduce staff numbers in the University of Sheffield’s famed chemistry department risk causing “lasting damage”, @sheffielducu.bsky.social warns www.timeshighereducation.com/news/sheffie... via @jgro-the.bsky.social

How it's going for us at Sheffield where we again face double penalty for strike action, except I have 28 UG dissertations + 33 essays not being marked, due 4 working days after I return to work. I face 5 days of no pay for missing three hours of teaching. My wage supports three real humans.

Latest data due tomorrow but your regular reminder: net migration is *plunging* without these plans being enacted.

Wake up! The House of Commons Education Committee says fifty - yes fifty - Higher Education Institutions are at risk of insolvency within the next three years. Wake up! committees.parliament.uk/work/9012/hi...

Most of the German establishment sided with Hitler and the Nazis. Respectable people. Leaders of charities. Newspaper columnists. They didn’t agree with Hitler on everything. But he “spoke for ordinary German workers”. He would “change things”.

"Our cities are workplaces": riders, drivers, carers + app-based workers are everywhere, but you rarely hear their voices. Thought-provoking series from @workersobservatory.org on improving work in the gig economy open.spotify.com/show/2xiI0V1...

I’m on my 8th Home sec in as many years - one a year since I began as Chair of Scotland’s Refugee Strategy. It’s impossible. Policy hasn’t time to be evidenced - it’s all knee jerk panic and gimmick and a constant race to the bottom with no time to do the serious work it needs.

A high emotional labour week as final year students reach UG dissertation deadline. Lots of anxiety but also this: 'Thank you for being supportive & helping me find new angles to take on new ideas :)'. Unsolicited, personal feedback is so valuable always, but more so as our institutions attack us.

In a new report published today by the Government’s independent anti-slavery commissioner, #ModernSlavery in the UK has reached record levels and is likely to worsen over the next decade. 📋Read the report: report-anticipating-exploitation_a-futures-analysis_final.pdf

Debbie from AFRUCA and the BME Anti-slavery Network highlights how the Modern Slavery Act needs to be applied. Prosecution is low. Let's focus on this today #PECconference

V pleased to be at the @modernslaverypec.bsky.social’s conference on “A human rights-centred approach to addressing modern slavery and human trafficking” today. Murray Hunt gives an excellent intro contesting polarizing HR framings that pits the rights of individuals against those of the majority.

Analysis of MAC data shows any fiscal savings of the settlement reforms would be a small fraction of the billions cited by ministers. Research from FoI request by @jdportes.bsky.social The govt must now show its own workings to inform MPs on policy choices www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

MAGA loyalty isn’t about policy, it’s about belonging. Guest writer Jordan Gonsalves explores how loneliness and identity keep the movement intact, even as Trump's coalition collapses.

Péter Magyar victory speech: "We want to make a country where no one is persecuted because they think differently or because someone loves in a different way to others." He may not have campaigned as a liberal. But this is a huge change of direction and rhetoric from Orbán’s anti-LGBTQ+ crusade.

Salek Ali Mohamed Elabd & Maria Carrion will discuss “Improvisation in contexts of infrastructural violence: a physician practising medicine in Sahrawi refugee camps.” Improvisation becomes key to effective medical care without electricity or standard supplies, such as gloves, bandages, or splints

Hoy viajamos hasta @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social para acompañar al doctor Salek Ali Mohamed Elabd en la presentación del trabajo publicado en @nature.com sobre la atención sanitaria en los campamentos de población refugiada saharaui. events.berkeley.edu/bph/event/31...

In a scary world there's someone at a local cafe who has learned how to make a snail with latte art. Every kind of art can be a salve for the soul in dark times.

"All of these deaths are preventable through the creation of safe routes. "We're sending hundreds of millions of pounds to France to fund the policing operation there, and this policing operation includes the snatching of life vests from people.

The big hole in the new Employment Rights Act is that some workers still have to risk deportation to report labour abuses. So pleased that Baroness Hamwee is supporting our call for migrant workers to be able to report bad employers without fear: bills.parliament.uk/bills/3929/s...

1/3 Huge evidence burdens stop survivors getting help "I had little control...there was limited documentation or proof" explains lived experience campaigner We told @sianushka.bsky.social @opendemocracy.net "Survivors should be met with support not suspicion" www.opendemocracy.net/en/epstein-s...

“Even for the minority of survivors able to overcome all the hurdles needed to be recognised as a victim by the Home Office, the support is not guaranteed,” said Esslemont. www.opendemocracy.net/en/epstein-s...

The report of the Commission on Ethnic and Racial Disparities (the "Sewell Report") was published 5 years ago today. I wrote this then: "It is almost impossible to find a topic on which someone with acknowledged expertise has not demolished the report’s analysis" bylinetimes.com/2021/04/09/r...

2nd Day of #SLSA2026 Labour Law and Society - Migrant workers! Starting, Jack Beadsworth @bonavero.bsky.social 'Forced Labour Indicators in Immigration Control: Legal Structures of State-Sanctioned Wage Deprivation Against Migrants'