Until the left understands that "immigration" is a "concern" created in a top down manner to divert from other issues, it will continue to fight the (far)right on its turf This is what I explored here at length journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

As the Reform hype is dealt another blow, the mistake would be to think far-right politics have been defeated While the far right only really appeals to 20/25% of the electorate even in fertile circumstances, its politics can be mainstreamed without them winning as Starmer woefully demonstrated 1/

1/5.📢 New Article We're thrilled to announce the publication of "Make Britain Great Again: The Morphology of Restorationist Re-politics", by Georgios Samaras. @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @sagepub.com @glasgow.ac.uk

I have a new paper out in Critical Studies on Terrorism 🚨 I argue that Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota turned Trump’s immigration crackdown into state terror. ICE raids spread fear beyond those arrested, forcing whole communities to change how they lived: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Oh FFS, Politico! 'Hard-right'. What do these people have to say and do before you call them what they are? 🤬

My maybe not so hot take is that all the blue circles here are still here because they care much more about civil engagement and outreach to people who probably follow active neonazi Catturd than they do about building something different to this.

The right in this country have totally lost it, a complete and utter collapse of any kind of cordon sanitaire with the far right in favour of gutter racism. It's been slow, but the grinding move from "anti-white racism is real" from far right agitprop to Times leader is complete.

I have written for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social on Tsipras’ return to Greek politics and the damage he has inflicted on the Greek left. His new party is being sold as renewal, but many on the Greek left will see the same familiar pattern of betrayal www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

I have written for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social on Tsipras’ return to Greek politics and the damage he has inflicted on the Greek left. His new party is being sold as renewal, but many on the Greek left will see the same familiar pattern of betrayal www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

Tony Blair. What the billionaire class have paid for.

"Save our women and children" from asylum seekers, they said. And yet again, it was projection. They hunt what they see in the mirror. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Tony Blair is a fascist www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It’s not just the guardian. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

NEW: How the far right embraced the Cultural Marxism conspiracy @gsamaras.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social reviews A. J. A. Woods's new intellectual history of a conspiracy theory integral to the New Right in the US and beyond @versobooks.bsky.social @reacpolrn.bsky.social

The Guardian uses "far-right" for Spain's Vox but uses "hard-right" for UK's Reform. No idea why

Excellent from @gsamaras.bsky.social "The normalization of hate and the vilification of the anti-genocide movement reveal a deep disconnect from public sentiment" jacobin.com/2026/05/brit...

I don't recall seeing the reaction of the other defeated candidates in Gorton and Denton... It must be a coincidence that only the far right gets this kind of hyped coverage across all the media

speaking about the book at Goldsmiths in London on June 2nd with Larne Abse Gogarty, @annieknk.bsky.social, and @gsamaras.bsky.social cpct.uk/2026/05/11/b...

I'm kind of sick and tired of seeing privileged (mostly male) senior scholars take advantage of their own privileged positions to mainstream and normalise the far right, seemingly without any shame (or consequences). Your work is harming us all (collectively, societally, and within the discipline).

"The fact that Orbán lost doesn’t mean a return to liberal democracy is guaranteed, because Fidesz is literally everywhere..." @gsamaras.bsky.social on #ViktorOrban the far-right and more @goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/7uZJ...

'Orbánism Survived for 16 Years - It Won't Disappear Overnight'. My latest for @bylinetimes.bsky.social with @gsamaras.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/bylineti...

“Orbanism survived for 16 years. It is a political ideology that is not going to go away anytime soon.” @goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social talks #ViktorOrbán with @gsamaras.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/7uZJ...

NEW: #ViktorOrbán defeat - and what comes next for the far right... @goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social in conversation with @gsamaras.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/7uZJ...

Watch my interview with @gsamaras.bsky.social for the truth about Orban's defeat 👇

📣New interview📣 'The ecology produces ideological effects that exceed and outlast the intentions of any individual actor within it' Benjamin Nangle discusses the affective-discursive ecologies of the far right. reacpol.net/affective-di...

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

🌷March Issue 🔍 Research @gsamaras.bsky.social presents the first systematic study of how major English-language outlets used the term “Hard-Right”. 👉 buff.ly/GrCdjE5

Excellent statement from @reacpolrn.bsky.social on hegemonic defeatism in academic circles regarding the resurgence of the far right "HEPI’s Preparing for Populism is a profoundly unhelpful document that mistakes capitulation for strategy" reacpol.net/populism-hepi/

Political Science's academic job market having its worst post-Covid year -- almost 20% fewer jobs than at the same point in the previous cycle (which itself was bad!) Data scraped from APSA ejobs pdfs.

THIS WEEK: Solidarity Symposia: Keeping democracy strong Join @florianfoos.bsky.social, @gsamaras.bsky.social, @joeysherlock.bsky.social & like-minded researchers to explore how we can tackle developing risks to democracies Attend as a non-speaker: ➡️ wumarketing.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

I look grumpy but it was such a pleasure chatting to @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social about polarisation hype In particular, we took our cue from the paper @juanroch.bsky.social @daniel-balinhas.bsky.social and I co-authored link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I can't even find the words to express how repugnant and despicable this post is. People who spew such Islamophobic bile don't belong in the United States Congress. The job of elected officials is to combat hate, not fan its flames. (1/2)

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

EVENT: Solidarity Symposia: Keeping democracy strong Join Prof Peter John, @gsamaras.bsky.social, Dr Joseph Sherlock & like-minded researchers to explore how we can tackle developing risks to democracies ➡️ Attend as a non-speaker: wumarketing.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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...