📣🏆We are honoured to be awarded the PSA Specialist Group of the Year 2025/26! Many thanks to the jury at @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social for their trust, our convenors and executive committee members for their work, and all our members for their active contribution!

Monday 15:30. Panel “Visuals in populist and reactionary politics” (St Catherine’s – Aramugam 1.1) with @populismpsa.bsky.social @dbonansinga.bsky.social Voutyras Veneti Poulakidakos @lauramontecchio.bsky.social Griffini @theoaiolfi.bsky.social @ngellwitzki.bsky.social Scanlon

Our final #PSA25 panel—held in partnership with Italian Politics SG—wraps up with a sharp discussion on populism and economic elites. Chaired by Vladimir Borden, with papers by Adam Dinsmore, @lauramontecchio.bsky.social, @alexyates2000.bsky.social, Reid Kleinberg & Lorenzo Ghiduci.

Still on Wednesday 16 April, we'll explore "Economic elites and populism" in a joint panel with @populismpsa.bsky.social - with Bortun Dinsmore @lauramontecchio.bsky.social Yates @aurelmondon.bsky.social Kleinberg and Ghiduci

📢 New #SpecialIssue online! 👉 Right move? #Populist Radical #RightParties and #Europe 🔗 shorturl.at/gItlp @leogoretti.bsky.social @anselmkuesters.bsky.social @stellamorgana.bsky.social @ananyash.bsky.social @lauramontecchio.bsky.social

The normalisation of ideas espoused by the radical right - I.e., we need to reduce immigration - based on the electoral ‘threat’ that not endorsing them poses, is now particularly concerning as even the centre-left are partaking in it.

I keep seeing this reference to public bathrooms as women's "private spaces" and I just do not understand it. Strangers are strangers even when they're women! We're not communing in there for hours at a time, talking about perimenopause and who's getting divorced and shaving our legs.