"Spectator and its broader universe constitute what is now mostly a low-brow media attempting to dress up racist audience-baiting as high-end journalism, all of which is met not with alarm and objection by establishment politics, but a “cheers” in the sunshine." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

German broadcast. Nailed it

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George Cottrell is a convicted fraudster who was jailed after offering money-laundering services for drug trafficking. That's whose money Farage et al have been playing the distraction game about. bsky.app/profile/step...

'Patriot News' reporter Chris Atkins (scatatkins.bsky.social) was just kicked out of Liz Truss' CPAC conference for asking the wrong questions. So much for free speech.

I'm old enough to remember when the entire British right had a month long meltdown about "foreign interference" when Obama said something mildly disobliging about Brexit. The Trump administration pouring millions of dollars into far right political groups in the UK? Not a peep

Our former Prime Minister still wreaking havoc...

Traders at Brixton market fight back against private equity takeover of the site, want community ownership. PE will kill the market, currently owned by a Texas billionaire. Once it is gone, it's gone forever. Solidarity for resistance to big business, PE and financialisation of everything.

Threatening to murder an MP...or indeed anyone online should be an arrestable offence. But as always, Nigel Farage does have a history of inciting violence. Remember this from 2017?

A comment on Palantir in the latest jam packed @bsaecf.bsky.social Network magazine www.britsoc.co.uk/media/27245/...

The shamelessness of a political party which is led by a man who just weeks ago called for "pure cold rage" on the streets, shortly before migrants were literally burnt out of their homes, now accusing their opponents of "stochastic terrorism" against them, is quite something

Scotland 2026 - who gets to belong? Mon 17 Aug 5:30pm ‐ 6:30pm - Scottish Parliament Building festivalofpolitics.citizenticket.co.uk/events/the-f...

Next #IdentitiesEvent! 'On Angéline Escafré-Dublet's A Political History of Immigration in France' 2 Sep, 12.30-13.30pm Book seminar co-organised by #Identities, University of Glasgow Political and International Studies, and CMRN at the University of Edinburgh www.eventbrite.co.uk...

The *first item* on bbc radio 4 news right now is that ‘Nigel Farage has agreed to meet the head of the independent body that organises security for MPs’ How is this news worthy of this level of amplification?

Now Open Access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... bsky.app/profile/nasa...

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The May and June heatwaves killed 2,700 people in England and Wales, new data suggests. This is a damning indictment of the climate crisis but also a warning the U.K. needs an urgent plan to keep disabled and older people and young children safe in extreme heat. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Schrödinger‘s political science: simultaneously so hackish & irrelevant that 50 years of research about how elites shape public opinion can be constantly ignored, & also so powerful that our mere papers can change politicians’ behavior & render our theories completely wrong. Pick a lane, man 🤷‍♂️

1/ Surprisingly little this morning on how the ethnic/white to be English folk appear remarkably quiet. Presumably tricky when your racially exclusive nation appears most vivid, compelling and successful through a multiracial society you seek to disavow.

“The question is whether societies can continue to ask immigrants to integrate while simultaneously making them feel like strangers in the place they call home”, writes Raza Hussain

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'Beyond the ballot box, who really counts in Turkey?' New on the #IdentitiesBlog, by Raquel Santos Fernandes & Isabel Estrada Carvalhais Read the blog post ⬇️ identitiesjournal.co... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social

Tomorrow's front page: Career politician drags UK into cynical stunt * we're not picturing the MP in question - to deny him any more of the free advertising he craves

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Times Radio was leading on this garbled nonsense. The media keeps finding ways (inc nonsense) to report "immigration still rising" yet serious outlets show little/no interest in the actual news. (Immigration has fallen fast & will fall further in 2026-27 than almost anybody realises or recognises)

"US spy tech giant Palantir paid an effective tax rate of just 8% on their £25.3m UK profits. Most companies with profits above £250,000 pay 25%. How is a company that’s won £670m in UK public contracts (including a massive £330m NHS deal) able to dodge our tax rules? " via 38 degrees

'Vigilant Whiteness: #racism, transphobia and the mainstreaming of far-right politics in Britain' From #Identities' latest Special Issue, with #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1080/1070... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social

🧵I’d rather spend my weekends doing something else than post about Nigel Farage’s murky finances, but his behaviour poses such a threat to our democratic norms that I wanted to flag a number of points in the public interest.

Ah, families...

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He might wanna pick up a book on the way: “Political language...is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable” (Orwell, 1946: 13). bsky.app/profile/seth...

Edinburgh Attacks Expose ‘Two-Tier’ Coverage of Racism in UK, New Data Shows The Edinburgh attacks on five Muslim men received seven times less coverage than a comparable antisemitic attack in London two months earlier, reports Hugh Wilkinson...

'Reversing the racism – Henry Nowak, two-tier policing and far-right riots' New commentary on The #IdentitiesBlog, by our co-editor @aaronwinter.bsky.social Cross-posted from LSE Blogs: identitiesjournal.co... @lseblogs.bsky.social @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social

'Police and racial #identity formation: thinking the Military police of São Paulo as a site of #racial socialization to Whiteness' From #Identities' latest Special Issue, with #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1080/1070... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social

This week is the Social Policy Association Conference From 1-3 July we welcome delegates to Liverpool Hope University. All conference information including programme link here: social-policy.org.uk/what-we-do/c...

We’ve opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellowships. We provide 3 years of funding to early-career researchers in the humanities and social sciences wishing to pursue an independent research project. Apply by 30th September www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

Revealed preferences suggest this 37% drop in small boat nunbers (first two quarters) is treated as ×10-x50 times less newsworthy than a 37% increase has been. Given high salience of the issue, should broadcasters try to check/balance that instinct?

EXC: A coalition of charities, campaign groups, and academics has urged Andy Burnham to strengthen online safety laws if he enters No10 47 organisations said in a statement that the govt's approach to online safety has been "fragmented and slow" and a new PM should be an opportunity for a reset

In the last month Nigel Farage has spent around eight times longer promoting gold bars for money (4 hours) than he has spent doing his supposed main job of being an MP voting in the House of Commons (just two votes, taking approximately 30 minutes)

A quarter of terror attacks in Britain over the past decade have targeted Muslims, but some have gone largely unnoticed because of delays formally declaring them terrorism Most jihadist attacks, by contrast, have been declared within hours of taking place inews.co.uk/news/uk-terr...

'The global configurations of Whiteness' Introduction to our latest Special Issue, Guest Edited by Ipek Demir & Karim Murji: #FreeAccess: doi.org/10.1080/1070... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social

#Identities Pride Month Special Collection! Our newest Special Collection of articles explores LGBTQ+ experiences and identities, and is presented in celebration of Pride Month. Read with #FreeAccess during June! www.tandfonline.com/... #PrideMonth @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social

So it turns out the massive scandal here is that Bridget Phillipson's mum bought a council house for £9k in 1990 and then sold it *33 years* later for £99k. That's the entire story

Fantastic piece this, on the photographer documenting the consequences of forced disappearances by the Hasina regime:

Recently published a study of climate adaptation + equal protection (linked below). Given the🌡, worth restating the view that any serious National Adaptation Plan should try to make society safer, healthier + more secure in a hotter, wetter + more volatile Britain. share.google/e5wQnUpzCm6t...

At half three in the morning, our dog bounded into the bedroom, jumped on the bed and proceeded to *try* to get under the covers. Meanwhile, outside... ⚡️⚡️

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The latest issue of The #Identities Newsletter is now published! Spotlighting the journal's latest activities, including events, blog posts & more: sh1.sendinblue.com/a... @nasarmeer.bsky.social Aaron Winter Taylor & Francis Research @uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social

'Representations of Lithuanian migrants in the Lithuanian media: varying degrees of Othering and claims to hegemonic Whiteness' From #Identities' latest Special Issue: doi.org/10.1080/1070... @nasarmeer.bsky.social Aaron Winter Taylor & Francis Research