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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This would put Trump comfortably ahead of Pol Pot, Tojo and Leopold II.

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Roque Junior. Perhaps the widest gap between expectation and reality.

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Unless, of course, by ‘poll test’ he means ‘race test’, in which case …

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If enacted, this would not go well for the Republican Party. A large chunk of its voter base would be disenfranchised on the spot.

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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

Perhaps the most important effect of the invention of the automatic washing machine was to enable women (pretty much all of them) to enter the labour market - a point made by Ha-joon Chang. When you bear that in mind, the actual politics of this ‘nostalgia’ become crystal clear.

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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

This is straight out of the transnational far right playbook - questioning the very idea that all citizens should have equal political rights and asserting that democratic choices can only be valid when they reflect the will of the ‘native’ people. 5/end

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In other words, they express disgust that citizens have dared to exercise their democratic right to vote against parties that have consistently demonised them in both rhetoric and legislation. 4/

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

They express disgust that 97.6 per cent of the vote in the Malmö district of Rosengård voted for opposition parties. 3/

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Åkesson, quoted in this piece: ’This could be the first election in Sweden where Muslim immigration …will decide a parliamentary election.’ 2/

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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

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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 · 16/09/2026

Better still, there seem to be six current members operating as two trios. Are these rival claimants to bring the *real* Three Degrees or do they work shifts as two branches of the same entity?

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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

Acknowledged the SD drop compared to '22, but regards it as successful result as more Swedes are now happy to declare that they are Sweden Democrats. Made a point of congratulating the Liberals on a 'fantastic' result (of course, had L fallen out of the Riksdag, then SD in govt would be a no no).

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This one seems to have slightly underestimated the Moderates’ vote share, which alters the current seat projections to ‘very close indeed’.

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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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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

At the same time, the exit poll reports a clear right —> left shift in voting amongst young men …

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Breakdown by gender, according to the exit poll. Big gender gap in far right voting - predictable, but striking …

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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

They’re wearing camouflage instead.

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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 · 11/09/2026

And the idea has serious intellectual provenance going back (in its modern guise) to Loewenstein’s concept of ‘militant democracy’, first articulated in the 1930s.

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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 · 08/09/2026

Legend has it that, after hearing a visiting speaker give a long paper on Foucault, the head of a quite prominent UK Politics department piped up: ‘This is all very well, but what’s it got to do with the end of history?’

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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

It’s brazen, but now so common that you barely notice. Cf Farage’s absurd claim that the people of Clacton rather than the designated regulatory authority should adjudicate on his guilt.

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

… free from the distortions of algorithmically-driven content that skews ‘debate’ toward the prejudices of highly resourced bad faith actors. 2/2

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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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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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