Clinical and really quite damning from @geoffmulgan.bsky.social geoffmulgan.substack.com/p/hollowed-o...

Those who say "Trump is taking us back to the Gilded Age" are thinking way too small: He's taking us back to a pre-Magna-Carta world. For all their talk about borders, Trump & the broligarchs & the autocrats of the world don't care abt nations: they aim to rule as warlords over personal empires.

AI is shit.

Awesome that every search engine and major social media site is forcing AI news summaries onto everyone // Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

Possible lesson here for Labour?

we should bring back shame actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

This is my new favourite analogy for mainstream parties' problem with the radical right! If you're a mainstream party, you can talk about other things! If you're the government, you can talk about *and do* other things *and* you get to set the agenda, at least to some extent, much of the time!

Another one for the vicarious militarism file

Omg Remembrance Day this year

It’s official - “Nigel Farage is right, don’t vote for him” is a demonstrably awful strategy for Labour. Boosts salience of immigration, costs votes on the left, doesn’t persuade any voters on right (why would they accept a crap knock-off when they can have the original?)

We have a paper on how Labour's strategy is disastrous. There's an exclusive coverage in @newstatesman.com www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

Deftly done

@adambienkov.bsky.social is spot on www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-failur...

The BBC has apologised for Radio 4 broadcasting a critique of Robert Jenrick MP saying "I certainly don't want my daughters to live in a neighbourhood with men from a backward country" which said "these words echo a fear many people have - fear of a stranger .. the technical word is xenophobia"

'Honest Bob' Jenrick, a politician obviously & deliberately embracing xenophobia, does some weapons grade xenophobia & the BBC *apologises* for a Thought For The Day contributor calling it xenophobic. Licence fee payers need to know who makes these decisions & why. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Proud to see my former PhD supervisor Gilbert Achcar here, alongside some of the biggest names in progressive academia. Every one of us needs to raise our voice in this moment. Its a matter of basic moral obligation and civic duty. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

The EU will keep warning Israel until the last Palestinian in Gaza is either killed by Israeli’s military or by its starvation policy.

You will not see a more tangible encapsulation of the genocide. A war of utter annihilation waged as a joint enterprise between the Israeli state on the ground and its allies in consistent support. The debt of reparations that the West owes to the Palestinian people at this point is incalculable.

Or, and here's an idea, why not just recognise the Palestinian state? I understand the strategy of targeting Israel's pressure points. But why must the rights and sovreignty of Palestinians always be dependent on Israeli approval or cooperation? www.bbc.com/news/live/cd...

So the reward offered to Israel merely for *partial* compliance with international law is that the UK will continue to deny recognition to a Palestinian state? This is the great Peace Plan that Starmer has served up?

In pink, the very sweet and peaceful Anna, 80-year-old with serious health issues, well loved in our South East London community for her generosity and kindness, being arrested as a terrorist! @elliereeves.bsky.social, my MP, what is your government doing?? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?

What's the point in having a Labour government when it behaves like authoritarian tyrants?

This is a great article, and really captures many of my frustrations with the Starmer government - not least the way that Starmer has spent more time telling many of those who supported labour why they're wrong than he has making a positive case for progressive politics.

"Because reactionary centrists do not really have values, they struggle to understand the motivations of those who do." www.thebulwark.com/p/when-moder...

watching live footage from the West Holts stage at Glastonbury

Microsoft needs to stop trying to make me get the authenticator app. It's not going to happen.

🚨New Publication🚨I'm thrilled to share my latest article on the emotional (de)politicisation of the ‘Oxford’ COVID-19 vaccine and its impact on EU-UK relations, now available on @iajournal.bsky.social's website. 🇬🇧🇪🇺 As always, it has been a joy to work with @ngellwitzki.bsky.social on this project.

The BSL during Finland was sensational #Eurovision

With today being #VEDay80, there’s lots of vicarious militarism in the air, with many examples of people being encouraged to live vicariously through their military ancestors. I present to you Exhibit A www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Have your parents accidentally gone on holiday with conspiracy theorists? Mine have and they let me write about it in Critical Studies on Security! Help! My parents are normies: family friends, GPS, and the World Economic Forum www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

You know how the far-right is pretty big right now? Well I've got a 🚨New Publication🚨 on interpreting far-right ideologies! Fantasy and the figure: ideological bodies in the Nordic Resistance Movement is #OpenAccess in @ejir.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Happy pancake day everyone! Here’s a brand new recipe that I’ve spent months working on. Please download and tell your friends! It’s called: Fantasy and the figure: ideological bodies in the Nordic Resistance Movement journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Delighted to see my article out in the latest issue of @ris. I explore how during the 2014-18 Centenary, the Royal British Legion encouraged Britons to vicariously identify with military ancestors as a way of helping them to emotionally buy into militarised revisionist narratives about WW1.

In his article in the latest RIS issue @josephhaigh.bsky.social introduces the concept of "vicarious military subjectivity" as he discusses the way in which WWI is commemorated in Britain. It is free to read now! buff.ly/4gCKgy0

"Manifest destiny." Take back the Panama Canal. Rename the Gulf of Mexico. Hey, it's the antiwar president! It's the guy who is gonna bring down grocery prices, on his way to Mars (!)

The 'is Trump a believer in exceptionalism' plot thickens. And 'expanding territory' - that's definitely going in tomorrow's US foreign policy lecture.

Thought I'd make a thread of all of my publications, for easy access! First up is 'Army recruitment video advertisements in the US and UK since 2002: Challenging ideals of hegemonic military masculinity?' in Media, War and Conflict doi.org/10.1177/1750...

"What does it say about society that such a figure should be considered 'one of the most important public intellectuals today'? Probably nothing good....and perhaps an ominous portent of things to come." @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social on Douglas Murray www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/philos...

Excellent LSE blog post by @jessunderwood.bsky.social on how 'the economy' serves as a racialised concept in US political discourse

Apropos of nothing, since when did 'transformative' become the neoliberal buzzword of choice? I thought we were supposed to be 'innovative', but that no longer seems to be enough - did I miss a meeting or something?

🚨New paper alert!🚨 What is the relationship between fear, agency, and the unconscious in securitisation processes? @charlieprice.bsky.social and I discuss this in our new #OpenAccess article. Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #polisky #IRsky