Must read from @gsamaras.bsky.social "Every uncritical mention of far-right rhetoric is an editorial decision with political consequences. Every headline, every clip, every click adds weight. This is how the line gets crossed" www.politico.eu/article/medi...

In honour of #InternationalWomensDay taking place on 8 March, #Identities invites you to read our International Women's Day Special Collection, with #FreeAccess until 31 March: www.tandfonline.com/... #IWD @nasarmeer.bsky.social Aaron Winter Taylor & Francis Research#InternationalWomensDay

These 'changes' include using an ‘emergency brake’ to stop sponsored study visas from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan, plus skilled worker visas for Afghans, citing ‘visa abuse’. The 'evidence' for this is patchy trend data, not proof of fraud or ‘abuse’. 1/ bsky.app/profile/news...

Reform have turned constituency elections in Caerphilly & Gorton+Denton into alternative vote contests - where the question "who is the alternative to stop Reform" has provided the path to victory www.easterneye.biz/manchester-e...

Ramadan Mubarak to all our UofG students, colleagues, alumni and friends observing the holy month of #Ramadan. 🌙 #OneTeamUofG

The Black Scottish Adventurers are set to visit UofG today! The group has become one of Scotland’s most dynamic outdoor communities. One of the founders Enoch Adeyemi will be in conversation tonight at 6pm. The event is free and open to all 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jms-networ...

Four CoSS research projects have been recognised in the 2025 Autumn Research Awards. Congratulations, Ning Zhang, Abraham Zhang @uofgasbs.bsky.social Diego Pajarito Grajales @uofgsps.bsky.social and Arjunan Subramanian @uofgdumfries.bsky.social 🥳 www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

I do enjoy these sort of charts. Somewhere between boom and recession. But probably quite similar to now. Thanks OBR.

The aftermath of the by-election revealed much about how ethnic minority participation is talked about. "Media discourse about ethnic minority voting struggles to grasp the foundational point that community “bloc voting” has never been weaker" www.easterneye.biz/manchester-e...

We are very pleased to let you know that the latest entry in the Sociological & Cultural Studies blog series has just been published. In 'Away From the Faeries' @fergusmcneill.bsky.social asks what an old Scottish folktale might have to tell us about the meaning of rehabilitation. Please share.

"From Gaza to Iran, Children Have Always Been Sacrificed by Western Imperial Aims" A US-Israeli strike on an elementary school in Minab reportedly killed at least 165 – mostly young girls who were only trying to learn, writes Fatima Bhutto for Zeteo:

'Thinking about repair' Reply to the contributors of our symposium on Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism, by Catherine Hall: With #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1080/1070... @nasarmeer.bsky.social Aaron Winter Taylor & Francis Research

“The Anthem Press Companion to Henri Lefebvre" a new edited book by our own Tilman Schwarze and Matt Dawson explores the sociology of Lefebvre including rural sociology, everyday life, the urban, utopia, space and its continuing relevance for the discipline today. anthempress.com/books/the-an...

Telegraph is forced - finally - to publish a proper apology for simply inventing a story. Of course they continue to do this about immigrants/immigration pretty much every single day... www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/teleg...

Next week! #Identities online event, in collaboration with Stuart Hall Archive Project at University of Birmingham The Asian Gang Revisited: Race, Youth Culture, Policing, and the Afterlives of Community www.eventbrite.co.uk... Stuart Hall Foundation @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgcp.bsky.social

Farage is today calling "for a change of the law to ensure millions of people never can have their vote taken away again" (the local elections) And ALSO for a change in the law to take away the votes of almost a million current voters (Commonwealth nationals; migrants who are mostly not white)

Out now on the Sociology Staffroom podcast, @academicdiary.bsky.social discusses his work and his role as this year's @britsoci.bsky.social president.

"quite curious" is commendably polite. I would say "utterly divorced from reality, signalling an ignorance of actual British Muslims that is astonishing even by the standards of a Tory leader"

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

Very clear that for Starmer, 'sectarian voting' is when British Muslims don't vote Labour, and for many others, it is just when British Muslims vote.

“To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.” Judgment of the international Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, Germany.

Two deeply unpopular political leaders are bombing a deeply unpopular regime… none of them care about their citizens.

The first deaths announced from the US-Israeli strikes on Iran: dozens of school girls. They hit an elementary school in Hormozgan.

Like pretty much everything on their list implies ordinary things like poor literacy or numeracy skills, or English language comprehension or a disability, as "family voting". Which is considered illegal under the 2023 Ballot Secrecy Act, it's insidious as fuck designed to suppress turnout

As Democracy Volunteers are the source of the claim of "Family Voting" in the Gorton & Denton by election, I got curious about their claims and thanks to @joenoonan.bsky.social I came across this claim about "Family Voting" during the 2020 Irish General Election. A brief 🧵

A consistent recurring theme of Farage byelection losses over a decade - Oldham 2015 with Ukip, Peterborough 2019 with Brexit Party, Gorton & Denton 2026 - is to talk loudly about electoral challenges about minority voters. But never to actually put the case to authorities. Media should spot pattern

Tickets are like gold dust But this film is medicinal It heals at a cellular level It is an unromantic experience of love #EveryoneToKenmureStreet

Since we are going there again... much of the below still stands! Who’s afraid of the ‘Muslim vote’? share.google/d4YWgJ8QTlVe...

All political journalism is a footnote to Spartacus Mills...

@sundersays.bsky.social always keeps the receipts 👇🏾 bsky.app/profile/sund...

Truly horrifying. A very difficult read. [& the BBC at its best] www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'Mapping racial capitalism in 18th century Jamaica: debts and disavowals' Book Review of Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism, by Sarah Bufkin From our latest symposium: doi.org/10.1080/1070... @nasarmeer.bsky.social Aaron Winter Taylor & Francis Research

Far-right authoritarian tactics to socially marginalize, intimidate, and disenfranchise a group. The oppression of one group signals to others you could be next. This goes far beyond bigotry. The authoritarian playbook enabled and empowered by anti-trans and anti-woke actors.

Register to attend our upcoming #Identities online event! The Asian Gang Revisited: Race, Youth Culture, Policing, and the Afterlives of Community In collaboration with the Stuart Hall Archive Project at the University of Birmingham www.eventbrite.co.uk... Stuart Hall Foundation

Have you read the latest #IdentitiesBlog? 'Reimagining #identity and #belonging in Ireland' by Malgosia Machowska-Kosciak and Maria Barry Read the blog post ⬇️ identitiesjournal.co... @nasarmeer.bsky.social Aaron Winter Taylor & Francis Research

Sharing here a recent interview in Black Histories with our own @nasarmeer.bsky.social

I've spent years studying how authoritarian regimes criminalise inconvenient knowledge. This is that playbook. If the state bans teaching about certain issues as sociological facts, it tells you exactly what it fears. This is why critical, comparative, historical sociology matters now more than ever

Fantastic new resource from @thesccjr.bsky.social that will help to have conversations around youth violence.

Really honoured to speak with friends at Black Histories, and reflect on shared experiences. Full link below www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The BBC refuses to actually quote the posts themselves, but does quote Mitula's response verbatim: "The comments in question were taken out of context, and actually defended the Jewish community." The posts in question: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Congratulations to @changingrealities.bsky.social for being named as a @bigissue.com Changemaker - a wonderful recognition of hard work by parents and carers who've been lobbying politicians to eradicate child poverty in the UK.

Great news that @adr-scotland.bsky.social was awarded 5 years of @ukri.org funding – enabling @moragtreanor.bsky.social @nickbailey37.bsky.social @serena-pattaro.bsky.social to conduct data-driven research aimed at improving lives across the UK. @ubdc.bsky.social www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

"The current system is broken" Following the publication of the schools white paper and proposed reforms to Send provision, @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social writes as a parent and social policy expert on why so much depends on getting this right. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics

"These guys are as weird as hell...." bsky.app/profile/pipp...

I wrote about what W.E.B. Du Bois' Souls of White Folks can tell us about Rubio's speech at the Munich Security Conference.

It’s only February www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

'Violent abstractions' Book Review of Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism, by Andrew Smith From our latest symposium: doi.org/10.1080/1070... @nasarmeer.bsky.social Aaron Winter Taylor & Francis Research @uofgsociology.bsky.social

A part of Akinola Davies Jr's speech the BBC decided not to air

Black filmmaker Jonte Richardson says he is stepping down as a BAFTA judge:

Next #Identities online event, open for registration! The Asian Gang Revisited: Race, Youth Culture, Policing, and the Afterlives of Community In collaboration with the Stuart Hall Archive Project at the University of Birmingham Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk... Stuart Hall Foundation