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Claire Burchett

@cburchett.bsky.social
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PhD from KCL. Researching far right, victimhood & antisemitism in DE, FR, AUT. she/her

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Luis Sattelmayer @luissattelmayer.bsky.social · 20h
Today, @malojan.bsky.social and I are launching the PartySOME website at partysome.org, an open, interactive platform for exploring how much political parties communicate online and what they talk about 🎤💻📊
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It was completely predictable that there would be more far right disturbances on the streets in summer 2026 - just as there were in 2024 and 2025 - the government should have been much better prepared in its operational and political response.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Claire Burchett @cburchett.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Looking forward to the @ecpr.bsky.social General Conference this week in Kraków, where we fittingly have a section on extremism and resilience in Central and Eastern Europe. There'll be a fascinating selection of panels all throughout the week so do come along. 🏙️ #ecprgc26 ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Or, in fact, not really a news story at all. I don’t believe at all that this was nationally important and certainly not “third on the BBC 6 o’clock news” important as a story. Cofnas started all of this because he’s a racist and the media ran with it.
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 15/08/2026
I am not sure I can deal with the truly grim exploitation of Jason Arday's tragic death beyond reactionary circles There are urgent political lessons to be drawn but I expect that will instead be used to fuel the same toxic environment that led us here in the first place
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel is stoking anti-Muslim prejudice with juvenile trolling of Britain as "an Islamic Republic", that plays mainly to the American far right www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Benjamin Netanyahu describes UK as ‘first Islamic republic to get a nuclear weapon’
Israeli PM criticised by political rival for attacking an international ally and overseeing ‘horrific diplomatic failure’
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
‘Afghanistan is the only place on Earth where girls are banned from high school and university. Women are banned from parks, gyms and most jobs and not allowed outside without a male guardian’ Important reminder from the great @christinalamb.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/article/83bb...
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Taliban are cheering five years in power while Afghan women starve
Global aid cuts mean malnourished families — already suffering under ‘gender-based lockdown’ — are being turned away from barren clinics
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Leading climate scientists have written to broadcast editors to express concern about recent UK heatwave coverage "The letter urges news organisations to better inform the public [about the climate crisis]...It argues that news coverage “increasingly overlooks the fundamental ‘why'' of heatwaves
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Climate scientists say news coverage ignores cause of UK heatwave
Connection between greenhouse emmissions and extreme heat in UK 'indisputable'.
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Claire Burchett @cburchett.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
My 2nd PhD publication is out today in @pop-jrnl.bsky.social ! 🎉 We know the far right largely claims to be "anti"-antisemitic, but this paper looks at how a party's online community responds when it encounters these narratives. Do individuals agree? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I open X and I see you are all back at posting there. Seriously, what would it take for you to stop posting on that platform? How are the facts that it is owned by a Nazi who constantly uses it to incite violence and that it promotes abuse of children not enough? What would it take?
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Reactionary Politics Research Network @reacpolrn.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
🟥Red Lines🟥 'How is this cordon sanitaire supposed to survive if it is undermined from within?' @uselesssimo.bsky.social and @cburchett.bsky.social examine the mainstreaming of the far right in Germany under Friedrich Merz. reacpol.net/merz-farrigh...
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Red Lines: Sch-Merz-haft! Friedrich Merz’s Culturalist, Reactionary Perspectives and the Mainstreaming of the Far Right (Mohamed Salhi and Claire Burchett) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This article by Mohamed Salhi and Claire Burchett discusses the mainstreaming of the far right in Germany under Friedrich Merz.
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Claire Burchett @cburchett.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Great to work with @uselesssimo.bsky.social on this Red Lines piece on the mainstreaming of far-right discourse by German chancellor Friedrich Merz, and how this was foreseeable from Merz's early days as a politician reacpol.net/merz-farrigh...
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Red Lines: Sch-Merz-haft! Friedrich Merz’s Culturalist, Reactionary Perspectives and the Mainstreaming of the Far Right (Mohamed Salhi and Claire Burchett) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This article by Mohamed Salhi and Claire Burchett discusses the mainstreaming of the far right in Germany under Friedrich Merz.
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UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
"The UK would be well advised to reflect on how to develop its own democratic resilience... The local elections will be a good time to start this process." ✍️ @cburchett.bsky.social reflects on the rising influence of Reform UK ahead of this week's elections 🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/reform-uk-in...
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Reform UK in power: what we can (and can’t) learn from Western Europe - UK in a changing Europe
Claire Burchett asks how can UK institutions and parties adapt to Reform UK gaining more power at a national and local level and considers what can be learned from countries in Western Europe where fa...
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Claire Burchett @cburchett.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I resuscitated my Substack to share some thoughts on the debate over antisemitism in UK politics (how else do you spend a bank holiday weekend?): open.substack.com/pub/theright...
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Empathy, victimhood, and antisemitism
Disentangling the political war over antisemitism in the UK
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Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
This time next week there's going to be a lot of hot takes and spin knocking around, especially re: Reform. I've written a short primer for @politicshome.bsky.social on how to stay sane and navigate the immediate post-election chaos. Thread here too. 🧵 www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
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Misunderstood, over interpreted, unrepresentative: How to read the local election results
The internet will be teeming with hot takes as soon as the first declarations come in on Friday morning. To help you navigate a weekend of noise, h...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
The Green Party has complained to the Times' editor about this cartoon which they say pushes antisemitic tropes against Zack Polanski by portraying him with a hooked nose. "Zack faces daily anti-semitism, and in the past six weeks two people have been arrested for anti-semitic actions towards him."
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Steve Fisher @stevefisher.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Excellent interview with @robfordmancs.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
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Will Reform dominate the local and devolved elections?
Podcast Episode · Politics Weekly UK · 30 April · 34min
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Runnymede Trust @runnymedetrust.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
We’re sending our solidarity and support to Jewish communities after a frightening series of targeted antisemitic attacks. Jewish people, like everyone else, have the right to safety and belonging where they worship, work and live.
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Mariia Tepliakova @mtplk.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
and that's a wrap on our @ecpr.bsky.social Joint Sessions workshop that brought together incredible scholars applying quant and computational methods to politics and gender topics! for @maarja.bsky.social (who graciously came down from the mountains for this ⛷️) and I, this was a dream come true ✨
Participants of our Joint Sessions workshop on gender and quantitative methods in Innsbruck, with beautiful mountains in the background Me and Maarja smiling proudly, with Innsbruck mountain background ✨
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Claire Burchett @cburchett.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Grateful to @reacpolrn.bsky.social for the chance to present some early post-PhD research on how UK, German, and French far-right parties' approach to (anti-)antisemitism has changed - or not - since 7 October at #psa26. Even better w good friends @mikebankole.bsky.social @salomeietter.bsky.social
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Claire Burchett @cburchett.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
If you are in London next week (24/3), I'll be speaking at this event at King's College London on how democratic institutions (try to) respond to far-right populism in Germany. And in very good company!
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
As the analysis starts of the Gorton and Denton result, I wanted to flag some aspects that my experience yesterday suggests are being over or under-played (Caveats - I went to Longsight, Gorton and Denton town centres and spoke to as many people as I could, but it was mostly during the working day)
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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
If you want to defeat the far right, you need a real alternative, not a more moderate version that panders & parrots but offers nothing to address real issues. Congratulations @greenparty.org.uk, Hannah Spencer, @zackpolanski.bsky.social & the people of Gorton & Denton www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...
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Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform
Hannah Spencer, a 34-year-old plumber, also becomes the first Green Party candidate to win a Westminster by-election.
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WZB Berlin @wzb.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Das WZB-Projekt „Wirksam gegen Rechtsaußen" hat Strategien von zivilgesellschaftlichen Institutionen in der Auseinandersetzung mit #Rechtsextremismus untersucht und systematisiert. Den neuen Policy Brief dazu gibt es hier: www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10... @chjncke.bsky.social @tevoelker.bsky.social
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Policy Brief
Wirksam gegen RechtsauBen
Eine systematische Analyse zivilgesellschaftlicher
Strategien gegen die extreme Rechte
Christin Janicke
Hans Jonas Gunzelmann
Teresa Volker
Swen Hutter
Zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen spielen in der Auseinandersetzung mit Rechts
extremismus eine zentrale Rolle. Sie setzen auf eine Vielzahl von Strategien, die von
unterschiedlichsten Organisationen genutzt werden - von Gewerkschaften iiber Sport-
vereine und Kultureinrichtungen bis zu Feuerwehren und Naturschutzverbénden. Das
Projekt ,Wirksam gegen RechtsauBen" hat diese Strategien auf Basis von 191 Praxis-
Handreichungen und 56 wissenschaftlichen Studien analysiert und fiinf iibergeord-
nete Typen identifiziert: 1. organisationale Strategien, 2. Netzwerkarbeit, 3. politische
Bildung, 4. Proteste und 5. Offentlichkeitsarbeit. Doch wihrend das Praxiswissen um-
fangreich ist, bleibt die wissenschaftliche Evidenz zur Wirkung der Strategien be-
grenzt. Daher braucht es einen systematischen Wissenstransfer zwischen zivilgesell-
schaftlichen Handlungsfeldern, eine praxisnahe Forschung, Kooperationen zwischen
Wissenschaft und Praxis sowie eine langfristige finanzielle und politische Unterstützung-
zung für zivilgesellschaftliche Akteur*innen.
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 02/02/2026
Germany's #AfD is now openly courting an international right-wing extremist (with whom they have been playing footsie for years). The whole radical/extreme distinction is moot at this point, and so far, it doesn't make a dent in their support
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Germany's AfD bonds with Austrian far-right extremists
Officials from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party have been openly rubbing shoulders with Austrian right-wing extremist Martin Sellner. This, despite reservations over his Identitarian Movement.
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
For the FES, I wrote a short brief about how mainstream party strategies have fueled far-right success. They move toward more anti-immigration positions to win voters back. This does not work, but shifts public opinion to the right. Parties then react to shifts in public opinion. A vicious cycle.
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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Sage advice from @sathnam.bsky.social on how to read for pleasure again, I’d also add bookending (sorry, couldn’t resist) the day with a half hour of reading a physical book first thing and again before bedtime. www.thetimes.com/culture/book... 📚
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Sathnam Sanghera: Help! I’ve fallen out of love with reading
The writer stopped picking up a book for pleasure some time ago, choosing box sets and social media instead. Here’s how he got over his reader’s block
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 28/01/2026
Legitimately a feat of carefully calculated writing to issue a Holocaust Remembrance Day statement of this length without mentioning either (1) the people who perpetrated the Holocaust or (2) the people against whom they perpetrated it
JD Vance @JDVance
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Today we remember the millions of lives lost during the Holocaust, the millions of stories of individual bravery and heroism, and one of the enduring lessons of one of the darkest chapters in human history: that while humans create beautiful things and are full of compassion, we're also capable of unspeakable brutality. And we promise never again to go down the darkest path.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The defection of Suella Braverman, who was sacked twice from Government in disgrace, spent £700m of taxpayers' money to send four volunteers to Rwanda on a deportation scheme that was then scrapped and has a public approval rating of minus 32 is currently being described as a "major coup" for Reform
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raeuberhose / Karolin Schwarz @karolinschwarz.de · 26/01/2026
Wenn der Faschismus wiederkehrt, spaziert er entspannt und ohne Probleme in den Thüringer Landtag.
Ein Post auf X von Martin Sellner, der ihn im Thüringer Landtag zusammen mit AfD-Abgeordneten zeigt.

Dazu der Text:
"Thanks to @DanielHaseloff
 from the AfD for inviting me to the state parliament in Erfurt. 

The party holds 32.8% there and has a strong remigration policy. We had a very fruitful exchange.

Remigration is inevitable."
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Manès Weisskircher @manesweisskircher.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Our first joint article with the PhD researchers of my research group @rexklima.bsky.social has just been published! 🎉 "Explaining Attitudes Towards #Climate #Action in Germany: AfD vs. the Greens, the East vs. the West, Wind vs. Solar Energy" is now out. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... (1/4)
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Explaining Attitudes Towards Climate Action in Germany: AfD vs. the Greens, the East vs. the West, Wind vs. Solar Energy
This article analyses the drivers of individual-level support for – and opposition to – renewable energy in general, as well as wind and solar power specifically. We focus on the crucial case of Ge...
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Jack Dean @jackddean.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Much of what we know of Irredentism is based on it in practice. Much also assumes a logical consistency. Yet how do we explain the use of Irredentism in discourse but not practice, and with inconsistent application? In my first paper, I attempt to tackle this: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Selective Irredentism in Populist Radical Right Discourse in Romania
This article introduces selective irredentism to explain why Romanian populist radical right actors emphasize some territorial claims but not others. Romania’s history involves both territorial gai...
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Theodore Tallent @theodoretallent.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
🎉 NEW PUBLICATION🎉 Our paper on "the effect of symbolic policies on climate policy support" has just been published in the APSR ! @apsrjournal.bsky.social (open access) The end of a long and rewarding journey with the best co-authors @malojan.bsky.social @luissattelmayer.bsky.social (1/6)
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 16/01/2026
Jenrick didn't need to join Reform to mainstream reactionary politics, just like Badenoch and Starmer haven't needed to either We can't keep exceptionalising the far right and instead make accountable all of those who mainstream its politics, regardless of their affiliation in politics or the media
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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Can the impact of economic crises on political trust be mitigated? @charlotteboucher.fr studies the effect of different measures of social support on trust during the #COVID19 pandemic in Europe. More: buff.ly/htbkwaP @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social @eurofound.europa.eu @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
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Political Trust in Crisis: Can Social Protection Make a Difference? - Charlotte Boucher, 2026
How do economic crises harm political trust? And can their impact be mitigated? Using data from Eurofound’s Living, working, and COVID-19 survey conducted acros...
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Claire Burchett @cburchett.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Back to work and thinking ahead to future conferences? This week is the last chance to apply to our (+ @joncollins.bsky.social ) section at ECPRGC in Krakow! Deadline: 9 January As always, feel free to reach out with any comments/questions. :) More details here: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
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Jürgen Zimmerer @juergenzimmerer.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
It's out!🍾 I am delighted to announce the publication of our "Germany's History Wars. Contesting Memory and Identity Today" It is Open Access! 👇 You can download it here for free. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
📣 Call for #ecprgc26 Panels & Papers 🛡️ CEE Extremism and Resilience 🪑 @cburchett.bsky.social & @joncollins.bsky.social ⌛ Deadline: 5 Jan buff.ly/Qji5iTa #PoliSky #CallforPapers #ComparativePolitics #Europe
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CEE Extremism and Resilience
European Consortium for Political Research
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Claire Burchett @cburchett.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Are you working on extremism (defined broadly) and/or democratic resilience in CEE? If so, @joncollins.bsky.social and I are organising a section at ECPR's General Conference in Krakow and we'd love to receive your submission. Deadline is 5 January 📝 Don't hesitate to contact us w any questions!
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Will Allen @williamlallen.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Pre-empting @epssnet.bsky.social #epss2026 notifications that are scheduled to go out later this week, thought I'd bump a few things about conferences and acceptances/rejections to put them into perspective (mainly as reminders to myself, but might benefit other early-career folks):
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Claire Burchett @cburchett.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Highly recommend the below article by Omran Shroufi on the key narratives behind Geert Wilders' pro-Israelism. It was a pleasure to interview Omran for the @reacpolrn.bsky.social blog, if you'd like a quicker read: reacpol.net/wilders-proi...
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 28/11/2025
Focusing on extreme events such as the reports of Farage’s teenage past can exceptionalise the nature of far-right politics and make it harder to call out Some thoughts @theconversation.com on the mainstreaming of far-right politics theconversation.com/nigel-farage...
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Nigel Farage’s alleged teenage comments are a distraction from the damage of his politics
Reports of such appalling behaviour – and Farage’s reaction – give us an insight into the leader of the UK’s rising far-right party.
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Claire Burchett @cburchett.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Are you working on extremism (defined broadly) and/or democratic resilience in CEE? If so, @joncollins.bsky.social and I are organising a section at ECPR's General Conference in Krakow and we'd love to receive your submission. Deadline is 5 January 📝 Don't hesitate to contact us w any questions!
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Pavlos Vasilopoulos @pavlosvas1.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Today marks 10 years since the 2015 Paris terror attacks. Le Monde published the life stories of 112 of the victims. It is such an overwhelming, heartbreaking read www.lemonde.fr/attaques-a-p...
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Attentats du 13-Novembre : le mémorial du « Monde » aux victimes
En 2015, « Le Monde » avait publié les portraits des hommes et des femmes tués dans les attaques afin de conserver la mémoire de ces vies fauchées.
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Claire Burchett @cburchett.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
It was great to share some of my PhD research on the National Rally and victimhood identity at the conference « Identités, fluidité et altérité : Perspectives pluridisciplinaires » at Université Bourgogne Europe last week. Thank you for the invitation @theoaiolfi.bsky.social !
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Normalising ideas which just a few years ago would have been regarded as career ending extremism but now are seen as legit, because they are constantly in every centre right MP and journalist's X replies, may end being Elon Musk's most lasting, and most destructive, impact on British politics.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
What an admirably clear statement from the Jewish Leadership Council, especially when all of those involved must surely have been dealing with so many other urgent challenges in safety, security and grief + shock today before having this further divisive and distracting intervention to address too.
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Political Studies Association @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
*NEW PSA FILM* Why does #Equality, #Diversity & #Inclusion matter in academia? Find out with Dr Michael Bankole @mikebankole.bsky.social how to help champion #EDI how and where you teach. ➡️ buff.ly/rYu9KAq Supported by @acadsocsciences.bsky.social @ukri.org #PoliticalStudies #BHM2025
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PSA’s Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Video Series | The Political Studies Association (PSA)
The Political Studies Association is proud to share our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Video Series, bringing together EDI voices from across our community.
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Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Uni Innsbruck @polsciuibk.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Mit Anton Pelinka (1941–2025) verliert Österreich eine Stimme des kritischen Denkens. Ein Nachruf seines langjährigen Kollegen am Institut für Politikwissenschaft Günther Pallaver: www.uibk.ac.at/de/politikwi...
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† Univ. Prof. Dr. Anton Pelinka (1941–2025)
Ein Nachruf von Univ.-Prof. DDr. Günther Pallaver.
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