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Ben Rosamond

@benrosamond1.bsky.social
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Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of Edinburgh. Anglo-Swede, would-be leg spinner, new elite (if only). Political economy and assorted other obsessions.

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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?
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What next? The King Herod Professorship of Obstetrics and Paediatric Medicine?
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Complete 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.
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is how the relevant legislation defines ‘criminal damage’.
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Good point; well made. 👇
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This 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.
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The 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.
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Good 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.se
SD:s välputsade fasad krackelerade i valet
SD:s välputsade fasad krackelerade i valet
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It 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.
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The 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.
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
But obviously Nigel doesn’t know him, right? Right?
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Reform has a ’compliance team’? Up there with Monsanto’s ethics department, I guess.
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Excellent thread. US focused, but the lessons are generic.
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A 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.
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Just 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.
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The 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.
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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 13/09/2026
The 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...
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
SVT’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.
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This six-year old image from @coldwarsteve.bsky.social is more apt than ever.
Nigel Farage pointing at drowning refugees to distract attention from a nearby billionaire’s yacht.
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This 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’.
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A short thread offering a concise and precise capture of the state we’re in.
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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.uk
Crime and Disorder Act 1998
An 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 ...
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Hard agree.
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
👇👇👇
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We should always be cautious about drawing parallels between our current predicament and the 1930s. However ...
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The 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
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Thread 👇
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Quite.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Nigel Farage resigns when he shouldn't, but doesn't resign when he should.
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Details of James Orr’s teaching duties at Cambridge. Mmhm …
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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Free Speech Union gonna be doing a big petition and mass letter any moment now. Any. Moment. Now.
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A club that I’m very happy to join. Honoured acss.org.uk/news/the-aca...
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The Academy of Social Sciences welcomes outstanding social scientists to its Fellowship in autumn 2026 – Academy of Social Sciences
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is an exceptional, must-read piece (and thread).
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Words matter, it seems.
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The Times? The newspaper that - by some distance - published the most pieces on Jadon Arday? theconversation.com/jason-arday-...
theconversation.com
Jason Arday press coverage: analysis of the volume and type of articles
New analysis of articles about Arday show the volume of coverage he faced in the final weeks of his life.
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This 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.
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A mighty thread that makes a very important contribution to understanding the academic freedom issues surrounding the Cofnas case. Do read to the end.
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Informative 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.
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Journalism 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.
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Excellent nuanced deep dive by @sundersays.bsky.social on Cofnas. 🧵
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
So basically, everything* in the UK should be made worse just to keep migrants out? *except anything that benefits crypto-bros and offshore venture capitalists.
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Something the market … something the long run … something equilibrium …
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Very much so.
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Oh come on! This is stenography, not political reporting. Some actual journalism from BBC News would be appreciated from time to time.
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Thread👇🎯
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
As 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’.
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
As expected.
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Mighty thread. 🎯
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Clacton 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.
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
💯👇🎯
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