Some thoughts below in The Conversation on Starmer's feeble attempt at a 'progressive fightback' against the far right theconversation.com/starmer-has-...

A generous, well-written, and thorough review of 'Fathers of the Lega' by @amycking.bsky.social 'Richly researched and grounded in scholarly debates [...] Newth’s book reminds us that ideological strands thought to be dormant may yet re-emerge in new contexts' www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

My review of Yannis Stavrakakis' 'Populist Discourse: Recasting Populism Research' has been published by Perspectives on Politics. The book is a great read for anybody interested in populism, and politics in general. Review is not Open Access so let me know if you would like a copy lnkd.in/eJxRYe9E

This is of course the logic behind the ban. Proscribing not just a direct action protest group, but the very cause of a free Palestine itself

Section 28 all over again. Shameful beyond belief

They never wanted to just proscribe Palestine Action, they want to turn everyone who supports the liberation of Palestine from Zionist settler colonialism into being designated as terrorists

Starmer legitimising the most recent far right mobilisations around Asylum Hotels is a new low, but honestly the frequency at which he sinks to new depths is breath-taking. This is why his claim to 'regret' his 'islands of strangers' comments should be immediately discarded

💥New: What Brothers of Italy shares – and does not share – with its neo-fascist and post-fascist predecessors ✍️ @mlorimer.bsky.social & Matteo Cavallaro blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

How could he, when he is parroting the same hateful rhetoric which adds fuel to the fire?

More than 50 protesters across UK arrested for allegedly holding signs supporting Palestine Action www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

This comes on the same day as the Health Secretary doubles-down on a refusal to to restore doctor's pay. Whether keeping streets clean or treating patients, workers are only part of Labour's 'Working People' if they play by the rules of Securonomics www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Exactly. Which is why further to being an inhumane and morally bankrupt policy, it is incredibly stupid. When it fails, Reform and Farage will be able to claim they have the answer, and Starmer will inevitably lurch even further to the right... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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...

There is undoubtedly a lot of truth in this thread, but I would also highlight more structural problems in academic publishing. Not least gatekeeping and/or overly zealous peer-review which, in the “publish or perish” environment of neoliberal academia reinforce many academic writing norms

My full and final PhD thesis can now be accessed online. This is an alt format thesis that explores safety in queer spaces, LGBTQ+ experiences in women's prisons and the concept of 'queering' the prison researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/studentTh...

Every. Time

Musk really turned his AI into a Hitlerbot. Wild.

Racism, misinformation and self-serving agendas are a terrible basis for child protection, victim support and justice for survivors. Important interview with @louiseraw.bsky.social for @beyondslavery.bsky.social

Had an amazing time today discussing some of the key findings from my research project on AI and the far-right riots in the UK at #STR2025. Thanks for having me @royalholloway.bsky.social @lizzypearson.bsky.social @ashkingdon.bsky.social @socterres.bsky.social

At Pride in London security came on stage to stop someone from waving a Palestine flag during Chaka Khan's performance on the main stage.

27 people — including a priest, professor and health workers — were arrested today under terrorism laws. Their crime? Peacefully holding signs opposing genocide. This is how we sleepwalk into fascism.

Today the order banning #PalestineAction as "terrorists" came into effect. But they are not terrorists. They are protesters trying to stop a genocide. This is a "first they came for ..." situation. Unless we stand in solidarity against this assault on our freedom, they will pick us off one by one.

An increasingly rotten society

Know that this Home Secretary would have banned the Suffragettes. End arms sales to Israel. End the genocide. Free Palestine. 🇵🇸

I published a piece in @uk.theconversation.com on Starmer's use of the term 'working people', his pitting of this demographic against 'non-working people', and what this can tell us about the chaos and confusion of his Labour government's first term. See below theconversation.com/in-search-of...

Mine and @k8ebrown.bsky.social's article on normalisation strategies of the far right in Italy has been assigned an issue in @critdiscstuds.bsky.social Sadly, the normalisation/legitimation strategies we identify are certainly not unique to Italian politics... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

'History teaches us that restricting resistance to reactionary politics to the electoral arena is a fundamentally flawed strategy, encouraging a circumvented view of democracy which can be weaponised by the far right.' Important point from @georgenewth.bsky.social reacpol.net/far-right-ma...

A man shouted Britain First as he shot an MP dead and Britain First are not proscribed.

The BBC cancelled another docu on a similar theme but this one from Sky can be seen and should be shared widely. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bycL...

Today I made a video on: The Return of Ethnic Cleansing in Europe Please share we all need to speak out right now. Never again is now, stand the fuck up.

Another death knell for democracy in the UK and a further example of the Islamophobia which underpins UK anti-terror legislation. We have entered a very dark place. This is setting the ground for a far right government in the UK

Again: one of these groups espouses very extreme views on the use of massive violence against entire civilian populations, and the other does not.

Confirmed that ICE is staying at the Cambria Hotel in Burbank. Address: 3501 N San Fernando Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505. Phone: 818-351-7157

“in terms of the specific actions that I want us to take together, as I did with Giorgia Meloni, slightly more upstream with her, which is where she’s shown some success in reducing her own numbers,” This is a lie, Meloni has not achieved this at all, and Starmer keeps saying it over and over.

This is so, so grim. And a combination of increasingly racist immigration and citizenship laws with Starmer’s AI drive means we will see a lot more of this fascist bullshit www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Honestly think we've reached a point where Netanyahu could order airstrikes on parts of the UK in response to the UK government calling for 'de-escalation' (whatever the fuck that means), and Starmer and Reeves would rehearse the same bullshit line of 'Israel having the right to defend herself'

With the increasingly toxic, racist, and highly misleading discourse on 'grooming gangs' in light of the Casey Report, it is worth reposting this (and reading any of Ella's work on this topic)

According to this fucked up logic, Israel cannot stop starving kids in Gaza because Iran is bombing Tel Aviv…this is not serious analysis… www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

One can only assume the reason is because he’s a massive racist! In a recent letter opposing Trump’s calls to ban foreign students from Harvard, Pinker still found room to equivocate and push the long discredited idea of race being rooted in biology…

This is also happening with worrying frequency. Sunak attended this conference in 2023 and spouted Great Replacement narratives amongst other racist tropes

Keir Starmer can find billions for weapons factories, drones and a submarine but not for disability benefits or the two child limit. One more time for those at the back: Poverty Is A Political Choice.

The British Labour government going on a massive militarisation drive while paving the way for the far right to gain power and demonising already marginalised communities What could go wrong?

Actually went to look at some of Forstater's old threads and she was pretty clear that she sees period activism as a front for advancing the trans agenda. 🤷🏻‍♀️

" @natashalennard.bsky.social , a contributing writer to The Intercept, told Al Jazeera there is a great liberal centrist tradition of standing on the right side of history only when the relevant moment to do so has significantly passed"

Now in paperback! My book on the Lega Nord www.routledge.com/Fathers-of-t...

Great interview with @georgenewth.bsky.social, explaining key points in our co-authored article with @aurelmondon.bsky.social: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

You can find George's research article (co-authored with @k8ebrown.bsky.social and @aurelmondon.bsky.social), which this interview is based on, here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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

New @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org article out in Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics with @georgenewth.bsky.social and @aurelmondon.bsky.social: 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐚𝐫-𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 Short 🧵 on the key ideas 1/