Reposted by Andrew GlazzardScott Wortley @scottwortley.bsky.social · 29/09/202610/10. No notes. 036480
Reposted by Andrew GlazzardThe Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Redwood, the spy who sold out the Soviets Ben Macintyre spins the astonishing true story of the KGB major who defected to the British during the violent early days of post-revolution Iran, writes Andrew Glazzard. bit.ly/4yGDYWLbit.lyRedwood, the spy who sold out the Soviets | The ObserverBen Macintyre spins the astonishing true story of the KGB major who defected to the British during the violent early days of post-revolution Iran 022
Reposted by Andrew GlazzardAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I have some thoughts on AI and national security. I started writing this prior to the panic over the weekend, but it seemed important to finish part 1 quickly in light of the chaos. Unlocked for everyone: www.patreon.com/AWHSBlog/pos...patreon.comAI and National Security: Part 1 | Angry StafferI started writing this prior to the AI panic explosion over the last couple of days, but in light of recent information, it seemed more impo 781872659
Reposted by Andrew GlazzardStanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Anthropic, OpenAI and co have underpinned a major capex spree with macroeconomic repercussions. Are they calling time on it over safety fears? Or is this concealing a business model malfunction? If you fear you've invested into a bubble, creating a cartel is one obvious way to limit your losses. 27222
Reposted by Andrew GlazzardJames Khalil PhD @jameskhalil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026🚨New publication 🚨 Check out my latest collaboration with @andrewglazzard.bsky.social, @johnhorgan.bsky.social and Alastair Reed: ctc.westpoint.edu/the-case-for...ctc.westpoint.eduThe Case for Exit Comms: Raising Disengagement Rates from Violent Extremism - Combating Terrorism Center at West PointAbstract: ‘Exit comms’ are communication campaigns designed to promote individual or group-level disengagement from violent extremist (VE) organizations or movements during active conflicts. Despite r... 036
Reposted by Andrew GlazzardDavid Anderson @bricksilk.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Govt response to my report on Prevent www.gov.uk/government/p...gov.ukResponse to Lord Anderson's report: Lessons for PreventThe Home Secretary’s response to Lord Anderson’s ‘Lessons for Prevent’ report. 112
Reposted by Andrew GlazzardJohn Horgan @johnhorgan.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Our latest: advances.in/psychology/1...advances.inWhy the ‘salad bar of ideologies’ does not help us understand contemporary violent extremismIs 'salad bar' extremism really new? Experts unpack the FBI's viral analogy, the explosion of competing labels, and what mixed ideologies actually mean. 064
Andrew Glazzard @andrewglazzard.bsky.social · 16/06/2026This is a very useful response to common objections to the uk social media ban for under 16s. I think it overstates the research findings on routine harms though. 000
Reposted by Andrew GlazzardIain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 16/06/2026The social media ban doesn’t have to stop every under 16 from using social media - if it stops most of them using it, and causes those who still do to use it less, that's a big win. 10 responses to common objections to the ban. www.edrith.co.uk/p/social-med...edrith.co.ukSocial Media Ban: Responses to 10 common objectionsAnd six ways in which we could tackle broader social media harms. 9017044
Reposted by Andrew GlazzardAaron Y. Zelin @azelin.bsky.social · 11/06/2026New analysis from me on tracking the Islamic State through the Worldwide Activity Map over the past 3+ years www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analy...washingtoninstitute.orgTracking the Islamic State: Activity Trends, African Shifts, and U.S. DormancyAs a landmark tool for tracking the group’s activity hits another sobering milestone, U.S. officials cannot let regional crises completely overshadow important shifts in jihadist threats around the wo... 0156
Reposted by Andrew GlazzardMatthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 08/06/2026We love you: that’s why we’re here. My celebration of 40 years of A Very Peculiar Practice - with contributions from Peter Davison, Andrew Davies, Barbara Flynn and Davids Tucker and Troughton. www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/71b8b80...telegraph.co.ukThe radical brilliance of A Very Peculiar Practice has never been betteredAndrew Davies’s defining TV series was a surreal parable starring Peter Davison, Barbara Flynn and David Troughton 2416145
Reposted by Andrew GlazzardStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Good piece - contains a link to a Police Professional piece by Tony Thompson that is really worth your time also:policeprofessional.com Police Professional | First lie wins First lie wins – Police Professional 46421
Reposted by Andrew GlazzardTorsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Blair putting on full display what is in many ways his special ability - to lay out a political argument grounded in his own view of global trends (globalisation in the 2000s, tech in the 2020s). But… institute.global/insights/pol...institute.globalThe Labour Party Is Playing With Fire Over Its Future and the Future of the CountryIn this essay, Tony Blair sets out the need for a new agenda for Britain. 34496174
Reposted by Andrew GlazzardPetter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 23/04/2026Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers 392984946
Reposted by Andrew GlazzardOdd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 06/04/2026It was on this day 92 years ago that W. B. Yeats got ‘Steinached’ — a partial vasectomy, carried out by Austrian endocrinologist Eugen Steinach to reinvigorate the 69-year-old poet... 🧵 55615
Reposted by Andrew GlazzardC-REX @crexuio.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Yesterday marked 10 years since C‑REX was founded. This thread highlight what the center has done — research, PhDs, datasets, events, policy engagement and international partnerships. THREAD 🧵 www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/english/sv.uio.noHome - C-REX – Center for Research on ExtremismRead this story on the University of Oslo's website. 13318
Reposted by Andrew GlazzardIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...news.sky.comElon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows howElon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how 23163123527
Reposted by Andrew GlazzardCarl Rosman @carlrosman.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Exactly: he wrote to Michael Kennedy “For actual coda, see end of Wells’ Tono-Bungay”. 001
Reposted by Andrew GlazzardJohn Horgan @johnhorgan.bsky.social · 21/10/2025An expert, thorough takedown of that shoddy and grossly misleading CSIS report from a few weeks back. www.justsecurity.org/122278/corre...justsecurity.orgCorrectly Assessing U.S. Left-Wing Terrorism and Political ViolenceA recent published report suffers from fatal analytic flaws and risks feeding false narratives about political violence and polarization. 35631
Reposted by Andrew GlazzardJohn Horgan @johnhorgan.bsky.social · 26/09/20251/n A few days ago, an article appeared in The Atlantic with a bold headline “Left-wing terrorism is on the rise.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...theatlantic.comLeft-Wing Terrorism Is on the RiseFor the first time in more than 30 years, attacks by the far left outnumber those by the far right. 29479223
Reposted by Andrew GlazzardPhillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Very interesting. Trump seems to finally be getting intelligence that Russia is not doing well and Ukraine has actually started to gain an upper hand in some areas. The narrative of Ukraine failure, which was always overblown, might be ending in Washington. 5134758
Reposted by Andrew GlazzardCiaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 09/09/2025On my hobby horse on the today programme at 1hr18 saying that in the light of the jaguar Land Rover cyber attack we need to stop obsessing about what are sometimes relatively trivial personal datasets when hackers are shutting down factories www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...bbc.co.ukToday - 09/09/2025 - BBC SoundsNews and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. 72715
Andrew Glazzard @andrewglazzard.bsky.social · 21/08/2025This scene had me in floods of tears when I saw it as a 7 year old. In fact I’m welling up now just thinking about it 020
Andrew Glazzard @andrewglazzard.bsky.social · 22/07/2025This is an excellent analysis of the situation in al-Suwayda’ that should be read by anyone interested in the situation in Syria. 010
Reposted by Andrew GlazzardJo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 17/07/2025We can discuss what appropriate custodial sentences are, but I cannot understand how we have tariffs that allow someone who did this to drive again, let alone do so this decade. You’ve been permitted to operate a potentially deadly machine under sufferance! You’ve proved you can’t use it safely! 811341
Reposted by Andrew GlazzardDr. Marc-André Argentino @maargentino.com · 11/07/2025In 7 days (July 18), my book "QAnon: From Conspiracy Theory to New Religious Movement" is going to be published. It's grounded in 5 years of digital ethnographic work in QAnon milieus. I never thought my PhD research would be relevant 8 years after QAnon emerged. www.routledge.com/QAnon-From-C... 711131
Reposted by Andrew GlazzardGregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Official photo from the Trump-Sharaa meeting. Imagine going back in time to 2010 and trying to explain this to someone. Surreal 58213
Reposted by Andrew GlazzardAlexander Kustov @akoustov.bsky.social · 09/05/2025🚨 What is the "Great Replacement Theory" & who believes it? 🚨 In our forthcoming IMR paper, @jamesrdennison.bsky.social and I treat GRT as layered narratives, from demographic change to the elite plot. A representative German survey shows broad public agreement with several of these layers. 815752
Reposted by Andrew GlazzardOdd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 17/04/2025So, happy 50th anniversary to this entry from Peter Hall’s diary describing rehearsals for Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land with Ralph Richardson and John Gielgudmulberryhall.medium.comOdd this day17 April 1975 4146
Reposted by Andrew GlazzardRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 10/04/2025This is a lovely piece by David Runciman, of @ppfideas.bsky.social. At a time when universities are running away from the lecture, the podcasting boom shows the appetite for serious, long-form and, yes, didactic content by people with specialist understanding. www.theideasletter.org/essay/podcas...theideasletter.orgPodcast University - The Ideas LetterThe popularity of podcasts evinces a strong public appetite for traditional academic content—belying concerns that universities’ pedagogical methods are outdated. Runciman contends that podcasting pre... 1020563
Reposted by Andrew GlazzardAnton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 08/04/2025Russian internet users searched for “Michael Stürzenberger stabbed” before the knife attack on him in Mannheim, Germany, in May 2024. 1/5 8245126
Andrew Glazzard @andrewglazzard.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Adolescence is an amazing drama but its social commentary is just plain wrong: @ianleslie.bsky.social explains: open.substack.com/pub/ianlesli...open.substack.comWhat 'Adolescence' Doesn't Tell Us About BoysImpressive Entertainment, Not Sure About the Social Commentary 161
Reposted by Andrew GlazzardTom Calver @tomcalver.bsky.social · 23/03/2025🧵 NEW: Why is Britain so skint? We pay huge amounts of tax, yet the chancellor is expected to make widespread cuts. Where is all our money going? My column, and a primer ahead of Wednesday @thetimes.com 1/10 www.thetimes.com/article/e1a6... 116928
Reposted by Andrew GlazzardCas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Blown away by this erudite book by @valentimvicente.bsky.social 🤯 An exceptional combination of theoretical sophistication and empirical breadth and depth. His theory of normalization not just helps explain recent rise of far right but also warns for overestimating strength of democracy. 9629173
Reposted by Andrew Glazzard29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Here is how the White House “condemned” the threats 1022380723
Reposted by Andrew GlazzardJames Khalil PhD @jameskhalil.bsky.social · 19/02/2025With all the recent discussions about communications campaigns in the PCVE space, I thought it would be a good time to re-up a study by myself, Yahye Abdi, @andrewglazzard.bsky.social, Abdullahi Ahmed Nor & Martine Zeuthen www.resolvenet.org/research/rea...resolvenet.orgReaching Behind Frontlines: Promoting Exit from al-Shabaab through Communications Campaigns 113
Reposted by Andrew GlazzardCiaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 31/01/2025A 🧵on this article (£) and its connection to the University of Oxford Modern History: World History 1941-73 module’s finals exam paper in the year 1996. Bear with me 1/ www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01... 13308119
Reposted by Andrew GlazzardLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 31/01/2025‘The question Trump’s opponents want answered is whether he can get away with it. But there is another question. What happens when he does get away with it?’ David Runciman on America’s new president: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukDavid Runciman · Feeding Time at the Trough: President $TrumpThe question Trump’s opponents want answered is whether he can get away with it. But there is another question. What... 0277
Reposted by Andrew GlazzardKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 30/01/2025"Rhiannon Evans, 25, is believed to be the first person to ever face charges for cyber-farting over Christmas." 😂😂😂 Who will be the first to face charges over Easter? metro.co.uk/2025/01/29/w...metro.co.ukWoman in court for aggressively farting at her boyfriend's ex 12308
