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🚨Job alert! 🚨 Come work with us on the British Election Study! We are looking for a postdoc to join the new BES team: 5 year contract, starting in Jan 2027. Happy to chat if you've got any questions. Applications close 12 Nov, for details see: jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

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Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: British Election Study Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Full-Time, Fixed-Term for 5 yearsThe Department of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy at Royal Holloway seeks to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to work on the British Election St...

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Marcos Echevarria-Eirea @marcoseche.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Announcing Round 1 of the 𝐌𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐢𝐤𝐓𝐨𝐤 (𝐌𝐏𝐏𝐓𝐢𝐤𝐓𝐨𝐤) dataset! It provides manually collected TikTok handles for MPs and parties in 17 Western democracies (elected as of December 2025). Dataset: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/mp... Preprint: doi.org/10.31235/osf... 1/3

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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Harder to think of a clearer example of normalization of far-right discourse. The idea of remigration is now something that can be argued should be a priority of what might very well be the next Spanish government. elpais.com/espana/elecc... 1/2

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Abascal pone condiciones a un futuro gobierno con el PP: “Prioridad nacional, desregulación y remigración”

El partido ultra, que aún no ha sufrido desgaste por volver a los gobiernos autonómicos, espera pescar en el electorado xenófobo de Aliança Catalana

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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don't think we're talking enough about how members of Netanyahu's government are coming to the defense of the president of France's far-right party (founded by Waffen SS veterans & Vichy collaboriationists) after revelations that he wrote antisemitic screeds www.liberation.fr/politique/el...

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«Personne ne me convaincra que Jordan Bardella déteste le peuple juif» : le pacte tacite noué entre les extrêmes droites française et israélienne

Après les révélations de «Mediapart», Jordan Bardella a reçu le soutien d’un ministre du Likoud. Le RN ferme les yeux sur les crimes du gouvernement israélien et reçoit en échange le blanc-seing de so...

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Chris Phip's war with France is in #CPC26 (h/t @thebelovedaunt.bsky.social)

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Green Party conference just voted in favour of this motion, and this time, in the hall itself, specifically voted against an amendment which would have removed the element about “Zionist Synagogues”. As a result, for most Jews the Green Party will now be considered to have a policy of antisemitism.

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

re "Zionism is racism" - it's a cornerstone of British equality law that discrimination need not be intentional for it to be discriminatory I'm not making *legal* claims about the Green Party motion - but a policy that would render the vast majority of Jews as personae non gratae is flatly racist

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Astropierre @astropierre.com · 03/10/2026

L'escalade des violences policières lors de la répression de manifestations ces 15 dernières années n'est pas juste une question d'opinion ou de bord politique. Il existe, ici aussi, tout un corpus de recherche qui suit, recense et analyse l'évolution, en France, de la "gestion de l'ordre public".

image extraite d'une caméra-piéton d’un policier de la CDI (Compagnie départementale d’intervention), montrant un syndicaliste de 60 ans se faire matraquer lors d'une charge de police le 7 mars 2020 lors d'une manifestation à Lyon.

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Elodie Fabre @elofabre.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A National Rally mayor cancels the programmation of a play about a warehouse worker's struggle against Amazon. Ah, yes, the RN, great defenders of working class

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Renaud Epstein @renaudepstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ligne de défense osée des amis de Bardella... S1E02

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Elodie Fabre @elofabre.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Je ne regrette pas un seul centime de mon abonnement

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Centre for Cross Border Cooperation @crossborder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

31st Beyond Borders debate - "Skills Portability Initiative: Easing labour mobility across borders" Exploring skills and qualifications recognition for cross-border workers. Organised by @ec.europa.eu's Border Focal Point Network. 📅 8 October 🕓 9am 💻 Online futurium.ec.europa.eu/en/border-fo...

Promotional flyer on the Beyond Borders Breakfast Debate.

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

‼️ A new paper with Patrick Fournier and @zeynsom.bsky.social is now out in @wepsocial.bsky.social! We examine citizens’ perceptions of parties that combine left/progressive stances on some issues with right/conservative stances on other issues - which we refer to as ideological inconsistency. 🧵

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Voters’ perceptions of ideologically inconsistent parties

There is a growing consensus in party politics that new fault lines are emerging, and scholars increasingly characterise competition as multidimensional. In a multidimensional space, parties can ad...

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Markus Kollberg @markuskollberg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Do you want to understand whether investments in public services can make democracies more resilient? Come and do your PhD with @heikekluever.bsky.social and me! We offer great conditions, a supportive team, and lots of room to develop your own ideas. Any questions? Please, do reach out!

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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The story of how Nestle and Auchan refused to leave Russia in 2022, only for Putin to eventually seize their businesses with a single stroke of the pen, deserves to be told by sages as a biblical parable.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

There has been a noticeable lack of serious reaction over Turkish persecution of LGBTQIA+ community from the global community. As in many other countries, Türkiye tries to mask persecution by claiming being LGBTQIA+ isn't illegal and then using "obscenity laws". www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Turkey detains dozens in crackdown on LGBTQ+ activists and journalists

Protesters teargassed as minister claims widespread raids and arrests under obscenity laws were to ‘protect families’

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Elodie Fabre @elofabre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Now imagine being French and following election news

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Elodie Fabre @elofabre.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

After speaking in Urdu, a language spoken by about 100 people on his constituency, Polanski addresses a much larger group: French-speakers. The French, famously relaxed about their language (For pedants, yes I know that we're not the only French speakers)

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

quite something this paragraph.

After meeting with delegates from the two sides in South Florida, Kushner and Witkoff emerged with a peace plan that would have required Ukraine to accept nearly all of Russia’s demands: ceding territory, promising never to join NATO, and drastically shrinking its army. Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s press secretary, hailed the proposal as “a good plan for both Russia and Ukraine.” But, when the plan became public, it collapsed under a wave of outrage. Even Rubio reportedly derided it as “Russia’s wish list.”
Some observers suspect that Russia has effectively offered the Americans business deals in exchange for a favorable peace agreement. “This is the generally held view,” the former U.S. official in the region told me. A classified report produced by a European intelligence agency states that Trump and people around him have discussed several potential contracts in Russia. The report is not dated, but the European official who gave it to me said that the details were first discussed sometime after Trump invited Putin to Anchorage, in August, 2025. Twice that year, Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, was allowed to enter the U.S., where he talked about investment opportunities. “The privatization of American foreign policy is quite far along,” the official who gave me the report said. (A spokesman for Kushner denied that U.S. officials would profit from the deals under discussion.)
The document lists ten potential ventures, which it says appear to “have been originally designed by the Kremlin’s political and business elites.” They include reopening the Nord Stream 2 pipeline under American control, resuming ExxonMobil’s operations in Sakhalin, and drilling for oil in the Sea of Okhotsk. According to the report, there was discussion of unfreezing Russian assets that are held under American sanctions. The document mentions people who might participate, including Trump, Witkoff, and Kushner. It also names Richard Grenell, the former Presidential en…

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Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The motion: congress.tuc.org.uk/motion-17-op...

Motion 17 Oppose the EHRC Code of Practice (Services, Public Functions and Associations)
carried motion
Carried motion
Received from: TUC LGBT+ Conference

This Conference notes the issuing of new guidance on the implications of the Supreme Court judgement of April 2025 on Thursday 21 May 2026.

Conference unequivocally condemns the EHRC’s proposed Code of Practice as a direct attack on LGBT+ equality.

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mathieu gallard @mathieugallard.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

🇫🇷📊 Dans le détail, ce sont les jeunes femmes qui portent le plus la gauche, mais elle domine aussi largement chez les jeunes hommes. Le "gender gap" en faveur de l'extrême-droite est surtout fort chez les jeunes et les seniors, alors qu'il y a peu d'écart chez les 35-59 ans.

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Elodie Fabre @elofabre.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Donation caps go hand in hand with public funding. If you like these low caps, you need to accept that lost income must be compensated by the public purse, and that means for all parties with parliamentary representatives, whether you like them or not

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Elodie Fabre @elofabre.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

And now that idiot agrees with you. Congratulations

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Elodie Fabre @elofabre.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Hard to imagine that many Irish nationalists who think of themselves as progressives will be delighted to see their project supported by a white nationalist

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Elodie Fabre @elofabre.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Trump's pro-united Ireland comment will disappoint pro-Trump unionists (#notallunionists) and simultaneously embarrass progressives in favour of a UI who will hate supporting something that he does (annoying the Brits & a nationalist project - pick your order of preference)

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This story is a perfect example of how broken reporting of the mobs roaming Britain's streets now is - and the political response. What would have been the appropriate response if this hadn't been a sports team? Trash the hotel? Force them out into the street? What about other people staying there?

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Group entered hotel of Pakistan cricketers mistaken for migrants

Protesters congregated at a Portsmouth hotel after false rumours that a coach of migrants had arrived.

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Emmanuelle Chaze @emmanuellechaze.com · 09/09/2026

This summer, Moscow destroyed more than half of Ukraine's annual book production—approximately 13 million volumes, including over 1 million textbooks. For Ukrainians, the goal is clear: to erase their culture, language, and identity. 📽️ Report for @france24.com 👇 www.france24.com/en/video/202...

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FRANCE 24 report reveals Russia’s war on Ukraine’s books and cultural identity

In Ukraine, the war is not being fought solely on the battlefield. This summer, Russian strikes severely affected the publishing industry, destroying dozens of warehouses and logistics centres. Millio...

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Well, we were talking about this the other day, @aphclarkson.bsky.social... What's in it for Bardella being seen as Farage's gendarme? Turns out that that bit of the "agreement" does not feature in the French version of the document...

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Elodie Fabre @elofabre.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

None of them are in power, BBC! And given who we're dealing with, it's probably not worth the (large piece of) paper it's printed on BBC News: Farage unveils small boats deal with French National Rally party www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Nigel Farage unveils small boats deal with Jordan Bardella at Reform conference

Reform says it would use the Navy to intercept boats and return migrants to France, if the party wins power.

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Elodie Fabre @elofabre.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

'Fled political persecution'? Perhaps not in this case

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Elodie Fabre @elofabre.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

They'll even deport the dead (love that the new republic was like 'nah, you liked him? You can keep him' when he died)

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Elodie Fabre @elofabre.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Interesting that it's Bardella, though, as he's more aligned with Farage on the economy than Le Pen, but also less keen on absolutely blatant discrimination than Le Pen (see his reaction to Le Pen's proposed ban on hijabs in all public spaces). Farage and Le Pen never liked each other

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

What should a university do when their guy is deliberately using his position to recruit students into the organisation for whom he seemingly does electoral crime?

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI

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Rob Mullins @robertmullins.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Stop asking me questions about my secret postgraduate farm. It's a normal thing all academics have.

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We’re hiring! Poli Sci & IR department at IE University in Madrid is hiring three tenure-track Assistant Professors, starting 1st of September 2027, in: Comparative Politics: lnkd.in/ePDfwjJB International Relations: lnkd.in/eDu5vGTf Political Economy: lnkd.in/eciDukTA 1/3

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.

Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.

The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”

Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.

“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.

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Simon Usherwood @simonusherwood.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

An all-too-common example of British HE and how it treats staff these days

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Elodie Fabre @elofabre.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

'Under no circumstances should you make a deal with people like me'

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Fascinating insight into how the ideological centre of gravity has moved lately. By any standard definition, Meloni is a far right politician, yet here she's effectively presented as the leader of a sister party to Badenoch's Conservatives. Which party (leader) that says more about is a moot point.

One question for Farage: What he makes of an intervention by Italy’s Giorgia Meloni. The Italian PM advised Kemi Badenoch not to do a deal with Reform, telling her Tory pal on a visit to Rome: “Be your own woman and stand your ground,” according to the Times.

A familiar tale: Meloni, like Farage, is also facing a big challenge from the further right, in the form of a former army general. It’s well worth reading Steven Swinford’s story for the full readout of the hour-long chiacchierata in a Roman coffee shop on Monday. Tory Chair Kevin Hollinrake’s on the morning round, so may have a few more thoughts on questions of a pact.

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Elodie Fabre @elofabre.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Nice to see some things don't change: Russian press hope that Le Pen will win next year's presidential election to bring the 2 countries closer. They expect that she'd be more supportive of Russia's war on Ukraine

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This is the quality of online discourse behind inventing "Yookay" as a pejorative for Britain & ethnic minorities who think they are British. But we now have peers & MPs starting to use it bsky.app/profile/sund...

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Elodie Fabre @elofabre.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

When I saw the term 'Yookay' for the first time earlier, used by a Tory MP, I knew that as a new Brit, I wouldn't like what it meant. Frost's idea that the term UK is somewhat new is stupid from a historical perspective and shows that Brexit has taught him absolutely nothing about his own country

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Elodie Fabre @elofabre.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Bouke de Vries is the guy who hired Cofnas at Ghent, which led to a 19-page report by his colleagues questioning the fairness of a hiring process that they concluded had been biased in favour of Cofnas

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