Tomorrow Wes Streeting will remove trans minors ability to access, and doctors to prescribe, cross-sex hormones. Try as it might Labour will never eradicate trans people. They cannot, and should not, change who they are. All Labour will do is make trans lives harder - with more harm and more death.

"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." "And how some media are no longer just covering the far right but helping it speak."

Excellent critique of the media’s normalization of the far right.

OPINION: Every uncritical mention of far-right rhetoric is an editorial choice with political consequences. Here’s how some media outlets are no longer just covering these forces — but amplifying them.

Media must stop normalizing the far right Every uncritical mention of far-right rhetoric is an editorial decision with political consequences www.politico.eu/article/medi...

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...

I published a new op-ed in @politico.com on how the media is mainstreaming the far right. It blurs ideology, sanitises extremist actors and quietly shifts the centre of gravity of public debate onto far-right terrain. It’s free sanitisation. www.politico.eu/article/medi...

Political journalism in this country is so unserious... Imagine how cut off from society you have to be to come up with something so arrogantly ignorant and careless... (Via @gsamaras.bsky.social)

So the Telegraph is taking this well

On the "hard right" as a euphemism, check out @gsamaras.bsky.social's excellent article www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It's a real shame that this otherwise refreshing article based on the actual views of the local people in their diversity euphemises the far right as "hard right" through misguided editorial choices while showing clearly the threat should not be taken lightly... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

"[Advocacy for free speech on the far right] was never a neutral commitment to open debate. It is a claim to special permission" @gsamaras.bsky.social spoke to the Guardian about deepening connections between the Trump administration & far right European parties

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Claims of neutrality are an admission of bias in and of themselves No research is undertaken in a neutral space as funding, hierarchies, job perpectives, privileges, power and hegemony all come into play when deciding what will be research and how

Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

Excellent article but stark reminder that for all the perceptions of universities as ivory towers for elites, they are actually vital hubs in towns n cities supporting local businesses and providing key services as well as education….

“…linguistic ambiguity... helps far-right parties rebrand themselves as moderate" @gsamaras.bsky.social's new paper in @epsjournal.bsky.social warns of the dangers of imprecise journalistic language that blurs the line between mainstream conservatism and extremism ➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/media-m...

Another morning, another article mentioning the "hard right"... This may seem trivial but the use of terms that euphemise far-right politics and deflect from the threat they pose matters a lot See @gsamaras.bsky.social 's brilliant article on the "hard right" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

❇️ FirstView – 🔍 Research @gsamaras.bsky.social presents the first systematic study of how 7 major English-language outlets used the term “Hard-Right”. 👉 buff.ly/WdoSNLx @theguardian.com The BBC @politico.com @newstatesman1913.bsky.social @economist.com @reuters.com @financialtimes.com

Abolish ICE and prosecute everyone who stays in it from this day forward as members of a criminal conspiracy to commit murder.

"Downplaying the threats coming out of the White House as bluster does not reduce the risk – it in fact lowers the political cost of escalation on the US’s part" 💬 @gsamaras.bsky.social writes in the @theconversation.com about Europe's response to Trump pushing limits of the international order.

#OpenAccess from @epsjournal.bsky.social - Misuse, mislabelling, and the broken path of the ‘hard-right’: Challenging nonscientific political discourse - https://cup.org/45kNxP2 - @gsamaras.bsky.social#OpenAccess

Jenrick didn't need to join Reform to mainstream reactionary politics, just like Badenoch and Starmer haven't needed to either We can't keep exceptionalising the far right and instead make accountable all of those who mainstream its politics, regardless of their affiliation in politics or the media

The u-turn on mandatory digital ID was incredibly predictable. I v much doubt scrapping jury trials will survive either. Less positively prob not votes at 16 either. If the far right oppose something, Starmer wont do it. Farage is already the Prime Minister rly #r4today

What journalistic failure looks like

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"What Mitsotakis sells as a “success story” is a classic regime of accumulation: EU money, cheap labor, and privatized public goods generate healthy returns for banks, construction conglomerates, and hotel chains, while the social wage is stripped back even further." Spot on @gsamaras.bsky.social

Excellent piece by @gsamaras.bsky.social @jacobinmag.bsky.social on the dramatic decline of democracy, the economy and the rule of law in Greece. Greek citizens are paying the price for corruption, crime and authoritarianism. Yet @eppgroup.bsky.social shields Mitsotakis as they did Orbàn

European authorities promote Greece as a postcrisis success story. Yet Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s right-wing government relies on spyware and the opaque use of EU subsidies — and is now overseeing a brutal cost-of-living crisis.

#Greece’s Broken Democracy Is a Warning for Europe jacobin.com/2025/12/gree...

Ep.4 - @gsamaras.bsky.social, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Public Policy at the School for Government, discusses the far-right radicalisation of young men

As Seán Binder goes on trial in Lesvos tomorrow for helping people in distress, @amnestyvl.bsky.social's director Wies de Graeve reflects on why people who save lives should be supported, not criminalized #HumanityMustWin www.politico.eu/article/sean...

RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started

🎉 New publication 🎉 Why do #youngpeople vote for the #AfD? This question has kept our research project busy for quite some time, so I'm beyond excited that our first article - co-authored with @timonscheuer.bsky.social - is now out in #GermanPolitics! 🤩 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Good, short interview with @gsamaras.bsky.social #farright #radicalright

The issue is not populism, it never was Anti-populism serves a purpose though as it limits the domain of the possible in politics between the status quo and anything beyond that is painted as "populist"

📣New Interview📣 'Moving from an immaterial feed to a poster on a street furnishes AfD’s claims with context and permanence.' @gsamaras.bsky.social discusses the mnemonic normalisation of the German far right through its visual politics. reacpol.net/mnemonic-nor...

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Populism was never the issue The issue was calling far-right politics "populism" which was not only inaccurate but euphemised and legitimised them as a so-called alternative to the status (while they aim to take the worst of it and push it further) Yes, I'll keep banging on about this

This BBC panorama episode is a frustrating watch It makes clear that the way the issue is covered is wrong (factually and politically) and fuelled by racism rather than "legitimate concerns" And yet they still end up on the fence somewhat www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

🔊 "They find the idea of an open society quite difficult to understand, and that pushes them to extreme positions." 🎧 On the next episode of the School for Government podcast, @gsamaras.bsky.social discusses the far-right radicalisation of young men ➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/the-sch...

I went on @channel4news.bsky.social to stress that migration is a top-down construct, weaponised by the state to target the vulnerable. Far-right marches, driven by hatred of minorities, are being normalised and the government's complicity risks violence. Full vid: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxhB...

Fascists demonstrating yesterday pretend to be an alternative to the system while having the unwavering support of the nominally centre left and right parties in this country, the sympathetic ear of the mainstream media and the back up of tech billionaires But sure, they're "left behind" rebels...

Good to see my colleague @gsamaras.bsky.social on Channel 4 News discussing the dangers posed by the far-right racists marching through London today - and the need for the government to push back on their hatred and lies. [about 8 minutes in] www.channel4.com/programmes/c...

Our @reacpolrn.bsky.social summer school starts tomorrow and it feels again far too timely While our research deals with utterly grim issues in utterly grim contexts, I hope this will again be an opportunity to create a sense of community and solidarity ❤️ reacpol.net/summer-schoo...

How Nigel Farage’s biopolitics captured Westminster

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

New article out! @luke-shuttleworth.bsky.social, @k8ebrown.bsky.social & I teamed up to explore whether the concept of 'cordon sanitaire' remains useful in the current stage of mainstreaming of far right politics Read the full article, open access, here 1/ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....