Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026'[T]he requirement ... would be policed through Ofsted inspections and by parents reporting their children’s schools to the party.' A chilling sentence. Would practicing Buddhists (like Braverman herself) or those raised in the Jewish faith (like her children) have dispensation to remain mute? 1134
Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026What next? The King Herod Professorship of Obstetrics and Paediatric Medicine? 050
Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Complete with its own daisywheel printer and 3-inch diskettes. It's so ancient that I sourced this image from a museum website. Wrote my PhD on it. 020
Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This is how the relevant legislation defines ‘criminal damage’. 000
Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This is all very well, but the US relies heavily on the EU for chemical and pharmaceutical products, machine tools and electrical goods. He must have missed the week on international trade at Wharton. 010
Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The RNLI is popular, cherished even. This feels like a mis-step, the kind that follows from being marinated in the toxic cesspool that is X and assuming that it reflects majority public sentiment. 051
Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Good piece, this (in Swedish). It shows how the far right and even the centre-right has developed a narrative that treats immigrant citizens as second class or non-valid voters. 1/ www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/d4e...aftonbladet.seSD:s välputsade fasad krackelerade i valetSD:s välputsade fasad krackelerade i valet 110
Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It would be a start if someone, anyone, in government would so much as raise an eyebrow in the direction of the unfolding crisis in the UK’s HE sector. 0137
Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The Swedish far right is blaming immigrants for its electoral defeat. But it can hardly be a surprise that the very people that the Sweden Democrats routinely demonise should mobilise in numbers against the party at the ballot box. As Ulf says here, they could equally blame women … or young men. 011
Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026But obviously Nigel doesn’t know him, right? Right? 000
Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Reform has a ’compliance team’? Up there with Monsanto’s ethics department, I guess. 000
Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Excellent thread. US focused, but the lessons are generic. 000
Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026A very helpful thread on the latest in the Swedish election. The current prognosis is showing a seat distribution of 176-173 in favour of the opposition. 042
Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Just short of half of the districts declared in Sweden. Exit poll not far wrong, but the allocation of seats by bloc is looking v. close. Bear in mind that a govt of S+MP+V+C is very unlikely. An M-led govt would prob require inclusion of SD. More creative coalition permutations not impossible. 010
Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The modelling is currently suggesting a very tight result - currently a one seat majority for the opposition bloc. SD are still expected to significantly underperform vs their 2022 result. 010
Reposted by Ben RosamondErik Angner @erikangner.com · 13/09/2026The story may be young men. They leaned strongly right four years ago but according to polls now tilt left. This is an extraordinary shift over the course of only four years www.svt.se/nyheter/inri... 19325
Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026SVT’s exit poll projects a clear opposition victory over the governing centre-right coalition. The stand out is the far-right Sweden Democrats projected to lose 3% of their vote compared to 2022. 15617
Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This six-year old image from @coldwarsteve.bsky.social is more apt than ever. 010
Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This is true. A party funded by billionaires and led by millionaires cannot objectively be ‘anti-establishment’, but this is not what they or their supporters mean by ‘the establishment’. Rather ‘the establishment’ is woke, pro net-zero, anti-white and actively accelerating the ‘great replacement’. 021
Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026A short thread offering a concise and precise capture of the state we’re in. 010
Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 10/09/2026'Hampshire Police said officers found no offences had been committed, and the crowd dispersed by about 21:00 BST'. Oh come on! This is a clear prima facie breach of Section 33 of the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act. www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/3...legislation.gov.ukCrime and Disorder Act 1998An Act to make provision for preventing crime and disorder; to create certain racially-aggravated offences; to abolish the rebuttable presumption that a child is doli incapax and to make provision as ... 0129
Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026We should always be cautious about drawing parallels between our current predicament and the 1930s. However ... 000
Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The framing here is grotesque. The law (judicially adjudicated distinctions between legal and illegal) is presented as an underhand tool of the nefarious elite, which in turn runs away from the ‘marketplace of ideas’ as if the latter is a domain of purity … 1/2 110
Reposted by Ben RosamondPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Nigel Farage resigns when he shouldn't, but doesn't resign when he should. 432626533
Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Details of James Orr’s teaching duties at Cambridge. Mmhm … 011
Reposted by Ben RosamondJames Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Free Speech Union gonna be doing a big petition and mass letter any moment now. Any. Moment. Now. 26918
Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026A club that I’m very happy to join. Honoured acss.org.uk/news/the-aca...acss.org.ukThe Academy of Social Sciences welcomes outstanding social scientists to its Fellowship in autumn 2026 – Academy of Social Sciences 1100
Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026This is an exceptional, must-read piece (and thread). 2198
Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The Times? The newspaper that - by some distance - published the most pieces on Jadon Arday? theconversation.com/jason-arday-...theconversation.comJason Arday press coverage: analysis of the volume and type of articlesNew analysis of articles about Arday show the volume of coverage he faced in the final weeks of his life. 052
Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 31/08/2026This messaging is almost certainly not directed at London voters - the direct beneficiaries of ULEZ and high-end public transport. It's a direct pitch to Reform-curious, petro-centric types outside of the capital. 100
Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 26/08/2026A mighty thread that makes a very important contribution to understanding the academic freedom issues surrounding the Cofnas case. Do read to the end. 032
Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Informative thread on the emergence of the latest iteration of race ‘science’. The worrying thing is that there are people with deep pockets who will happily fund this BS. 000
Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Journalism and due diligence should never be separated. Of course, and as @monkemma.bsky.social shows here, standard journalistic practice is often discarded - especially in cases where guilt is pre-determined. 020
Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Excellent nuanced deep dive by @sundersays.bsky.social on Cofnas. 🧵 010
Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 20/08/2026So basically, everything* in the UK should be made worse just to keep migrants out? *except anything that benefits crypto-bros and offshore venture capitalists. 001
Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Something the market … something the long run … something equilibrium … 020
Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Oh come on! This is stenography, not political reporting. Some actual journalism from BBC News would be appreciated from time to time. 051
Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026As Margot puts it at the end of this excellent thread: ‘when you conflate "DEI" and "EDI", ask yourself whose political work you're doing, and why’. 001
Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Clacton is probably one of a handful of places in the UK where Farage would be ahead of Binface in a head to head contest. I’m pretty sure I know which way my constituency (Edinburgh S) would lean on this matter and it is categorically not Farage > Binface. 010