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Hilde Stephansen

@hildestephansen.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Westminster.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 21/01/2026
Nearly 400 millionaires and billionaires have signed a letter calling for increased taxes on the super-rich. Extreme wealth means extreme power - over our politics, our media, and our lives. When even the super-rich know it's time to tax them more, will Labour finally listen?
REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.

"TAX THE SUPER-RICH"
The Super-Rich

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 15/10/2025
The Rafah crossing is expected to re-open. Alongside the desperately needed aid, journalists must be allowed into Gaza. Over 200 journalists have been killed in Gaza - but the crimes of the Israeli government and military must not go undocumented. Let the journalists in.
Graphic with an image of a press photographer among rubble in Gaza.

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REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 09/10/2025
“Why is it always hard choices for working-class communities — not for multimillionaires and billionaires?” Zack Polanski calls for a tax on the super-rich on #BBCQT
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Ed Had @ed1900and86.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Many thanks to my brilliant supervision team @hildestephansen.bsky.social @adameldridge.bsky.social and Paulina Tambakaki and examiners @benpitcher.bsky.social and @gypjh2000.bsky.social
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Hilde Stephansen @hildestephansen.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Huge congratulations to @csjresearch.bsky.social doctoral researcher Ed Hadfield @ed1900and86.bsky.social who successfully defended his PhD thesis “Place and publics: the role of social media in resistance to gentrification in London” today!
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Hilde Stephansen @hildestephansen.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Today, I've closed my Barclays account with hundres of others in protest at the bank's complicity in Israel's genocide against Palestinians. Join the campaign to #BoycottBarclays: palestinecampaign.org/boycott-barc...
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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Now is the time for lawful sanctions. When thousands of our babies are looking death in the eye because the Israeli occupation is denying all goods from entering Gaza, including baby formula and essential medical supplies, NEVER AGAIN IS NOW! #SanctionIsrael loom.ly/mJggH_s
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Never Again Is RIGHT NOW – The World Must Act
The livestreamed genocidal horror of rolling massacres and induced starvation inflicted by apartheid Israel on millions of Palestinians in the illegally occupied Gaza Strip has reached a breaking poin...
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UCU Westminster @ucuwestminster.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
UCU Westminster notes with dismay that two senior professors from the University of Westminster delivered keynote addresses to a conference at Tel Aviv University last November. Read out full statement on Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DGK3ZMStqYU/ or here: westminsterucu.craft.me/YTKHiJYOa8r0OG
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Hilde Stephansen @hildestephansen.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
On 22 January, GB News presenter Josh Howie repeated a homophobic slur linking the LGBTQ+ community to paedophilia. This is offensive, wrong and unlawful. Join me and @GoodLawProject to file a complaint to Ofcom :point_down: action.goodlawproject.org/ofcom-stop-g...
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Ofcom, stop GB News broadcasting hate
*CW: Homophobia, hate speech GB News is no stranger to spouting hatred and toxic lies. They take pride in it, and pretend the rules don’t matter. But they do. And they must be enforced. On 22 January,...
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Hilde Stephansen @hildestephansen.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Hot off the press - the Westminster Sociology Dissertation Anthology 2023-24! sociologyatwestminster.wordpress.com/2025/01/31/2...
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2023-2024 Westminster Sociology Anthology
The Sociology team at Westminster are delighted to annouce that we’ve just published the seventh edition of the Westminster Sociology Dissertation Anthology! This is a double issue, bringing …
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