My wish for 2026 is that politicians and political analysts realize that public opinion is endogenous to elite behavior, that polling single issues tells us nothing about electorally successful strategies, that politics means shaping public opinion and that popularism is the death of progressivism.

"The Trump administration view of “western civilisation” is based on race, Christianity and nationalism. The European version is a liberal view founded on democracy, human rights and the rule of law, including international law." That might be what EUrope says, but not what EUrope does!

Amazing how blind centrists are to the foundational nativism of European politics. There is more outcry over the U.S. Southern border than over the European Mediterranean border. How about the actual treatment of non-white citizens and non-EU immigrants or LGBTQIA+ community in many EU states?

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

Far-right agenda setting: How the far right influences the political mainstream doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 far right; mainstream parties; political communication; agenda setting; automated text analysis @dasalgon.bsky.social · @tevoelker.bsky.social @ejprjournal.bsky.social

Will be speaking at this a week today along with the brilliant @minakshidahal.bsky.social! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/periods-ar...

New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

FreeKoulchi! ✊

Doing critical research in academia can be lonely and alienating, particularly when it's about an already grim topic like reactionary politics The engagement with the network so far shows how spaces for solidarity are needed

As ever so incredibly proud to be working with the RPRN team ❤️

That's a wrap! The second edition of the Reactionary Politics Summer School is over! Once again, it was incredibly energizing to share this space with critical, committed researchers from all over the world ❤️‍ More info about the RPSS below 1/ reacpol.net/summer-schoo...

My chapter, Zwischen Unsichtbarkeit und Externalisierung, explores pedagogical perspectives on Jewish life and antisemitism in kindergartens. BOOK OPEN ACCESS: www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

✨Thrilled to announce the publication of our edited volume Antisemitismus in der Kindheit. The book concludes the research project RelcoDiff (Religiös codierte Differenzkonstruktionen), initiated by Prof. Dr. Isabell Diehm (✝). @sabanurcheema.bsky.social

"Das extremistisch-arabische 'Nakba'-Vokabular" - die deutsche Verzerrung palästinensischer Geschichte findet kein Ende.

NEW - Media Platforming and the Normalisation of Extreme Right Views - cup.org/4mmVIAL "exposure to uncritical interviews increases agreement with extreme statements and perceptions of broader support in the population" - @dianebolet.bsky.social & @florianfoos.bsky.social #OpenAccess

NEW - How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - cup.org/4lfeHvD "we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians" - @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Most read three months in a row in JLP journal; 9th most read on JB. Last few months were full of professional disappointments so Ill take this as a little win 🙆

‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza

You can find Mohamed's research article, which this interview is based on, here: brill.com/view/journal...

📣New interview📣 @uselesssimo.bsky.social discusses reactionary digital cultures in Morocco and their links to the global far right. Check it out below! reacpol.net/right-morocco/

While the threat of the far right gets euphemised (populism, left behind etc) and their politics legitimised, any alternative left of centre gets exaggerated and ridiculed so that we are left with the bad and the worse as alternatives

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...

Finally out! "Reinventing the Right in Morocco" now appears in the Special Issue on Populism in the Arab World. 😍 doi.org/10.1163/18763375-20251449

This is a real—yes real—post for the One Big Beautiful Bill by the official White House account on Instagram It’s giving MAGA makeover

This picture 💔 #Gaza ( 📷 The Guardian )

Delighted to be part of this @critdiscstuds.bsky.social SI dedicated to work of Phil Graham! We contributed with a paper (written jointly w. D.Johnson & H.Ekström) on ‘proxy discourses’ in contemporary illiberal, exclusionary reframing of the imaginary of society www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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....

Delighted to finally see this piece out! Around 3 years ago, Matteo & I started thinking about whether Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy REALLY resembled its neo-fascist predecessor in any meaningful way. The results are now published in @polstudies.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Racists are losing their minds, and hopefully more elections! #ZohranMamdani

Looking forward to this webinar tomorrow: AI and the Far-Right Riots in the UK Beatriz Lopes Buarque (LSE) Aaron Winter (Lancaster) Allysa Czerwinsky (Manchester) Ashton Kingdon (Soton) Julia Ebner (Oxford) Meropi Tzanetakis (Manchester) Robert Topinka (BBK) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai-and-the...

Applications for our Reactionary Politics Summer School are still open. The sessions will focus on how to understand, study, and disseminate research on reactionary politics. Sign up below!

'Being nominally a mainstream actor does not mean that one cannot support or implement far-right politics, espouse and promote far-right discourse or legitimise and embolden far- and extreme-right actors' reacpol.net/far-right-ma...

Grew up just enough pennyroyal for one small Moroccan teapot to make on 30.07, the last day of my book project ✨️

Thrilled that my article on women's activism in PRR parties has been published open access today in @cpsjournal.bsky.social 💫 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... This is my favourite article from my PhD thesis. I love the topic, its findings, and the literature it draws on. A quick 🧵:

Finally out! "Reinventing the Right in Morocco" now appears in the Special Issue on Populism in the Arab World. 😍 doi.org/10.1163/18763375-20251449

Flirts?! It's a long term relationship And how is nativism worse than/an implication of racism when it's a barely concealed articulation of it which is totally mainstreamed already! This is absolute nonsense that describes what has been going on backwards. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Time for some folks to pick their favorite false idol.

This is interesting in terms of mainstreaming: What is mainstream in France is seen as beyond the pale in the UK, even on the far right It shows clearly that you don't need the far right in power to have far-right politics in practice or in mainstream discourse www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

💻 | NEW BLOG POST Mohamed Salhi gives a flavour of what you can expect from his recently published JLP article: bit.ly/4mNbXaZ @uselesssimo.bsky.social

I see Liz Truss is having a very normal Weekend.

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

*PSA OPPORTUNITY* - New Excellence & Impact Fund available for PSA Specialist Groups. 📆 Application deadline 30 June. ➡️ Full details online.

No thoughts just fluff.

🐀 Just launched Peripheral Politics with @lanihart.bsky.social Our new Substack explores the political stories that don't make headlines - from semi-peripheral countries to the absurd moments that reveal deeper truths. Subscribe! peripheralpolitics.substack.com

For reactionary centrists the “fight against woke” was always a grift. They knew universities weren’t really woke and that “woke” faculty hold little power. They gave the far right an excuse for their attack on higher ed… and now they whine in the media, ignoring their own crucial role.

There is a genocide going on & the far right is in gov't in many places, having been mainstreamed on their watch, but terrorism & extremism researchers are too busy applying, parsing & policing 'nihilism' as the new trendy type/concept (replacing accelerationism & the now closed salad bar) ... 1/

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

Since it’s taking forever to see the light of day, might as well drop this #NewPublication 💥 Forthcoming in MELG on the rise of right-wing, hypernationalist discourse in Moroccan digital spaces, with focus on the mimicry of global far right language use and visual aesthetics.