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Joseph Haigh

@josephhaigh.bsky.social
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PhD. Teaching Fellow @PAISWarwick. Researches pol psychology of remembrance and vicarious militarism. Should be writing. Ferociously anti-AI.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Most TV is just this now.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"This reminds me of a critical mistake made in previous generations of socialists; the idea that before any political action happens, before it’s worth contesting power, the people need to be educated." A point I pushed past on the first read but worth staring at www.powermapmag.com/p/shitty-sky...
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Shitty Skynet: How the Left Should Think About AI Doom.
Don’t Worry about Skynet. Worry about Shitty Skynet.
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oh. Oh my.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
BBC report fails to mention "Tommo" slashing a dinghy (!) Not beating the Reform Party propaganda allegations www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Migrants taken to Dover after more than 30 hours at sea
Protesters gathered in Gosport after initial reports the small boat would be brought further west.
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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is the way to go.
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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#infosec
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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Absolute disgrace
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
So who is condemning this? Will journalists be pushing politicians to explain how these are 'legitimate concerns'?
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ms Rachel remains undefeated.
Ms. Rachel post:
"Ed Sheeran had an opportunity show that we won't be bullied into punishing people for supporting Palestine. Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows. A genocide is happening in Gaza. We all need to speak out against it.

"If more than 20,000 white children were killed in another part of the world, everyone would be shouting about it at their concerts. Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/09/2026
watching THE PHANTOM MENACE with my kids and i somehow forgot just how bad those trade federation aliens are…oof
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Mr Singh @mrsingh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The world is coming back to non-STEM students. Gov is always one step behind e.g. suggesting that everyone learns coding just as AI decimates that industry.
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Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
What the fuck do they mean 'spontaneous protest'? 1000 people spontaneously taking a walk around Dover with Balaclavas? Look at the social media of every Far-Right organiser in the UK... This was so clearly planned. This tells every Far-Right thug in the country that they have utter impunity.
BBC news reporting on the Far-Right blockade of Dover in which Kent Police call the activity a 'spontaneous protest'
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Thanks for the shout-out @asanews.bsky.social -- I'm a 30+ year member. Gift link to the Economist article for those interested in my defense of Sociology contra the journalists and business people who denigrate our discipline: brookeharrington.com/wp-content/u...
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Critics of the Supreme Court’s emergency docket say it grants the executive branch too much power. But when a Democrat is president again that same docket will be used to limit the executive branch’s power.
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Neil Miles @neilsmiles.com · 17/08/2026
29th August 1985 - An excited Michael Fish gets to deploy the rarely seen red number as the temperature gets up to an incredible 26 degrees in London!
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Joseph Haigh @josephhaigh.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Make 'legitimate concerns' illegitimate again.
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
So often what are called “culture wars” are one set of people saying “please can we live without perpetual persecution” and another saying “no, f*** you” but the press considering the latter group have “legitimate concerns” and must be perpetually platformed
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Thanks for alert, HMG. Now alert yourselves that climate change is real, and stop faffing around with denial, flirting with more drilling, and all that shite.
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Dr Seth Thévoz @seththevoz.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Any serious British politician doesn’t fear being photographed next to Count Binface at an election count - indeed, for an aspiring Prime Minister, it’s a rite of passage.
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Joseph Haigh @josephhaigh.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I bloody love a bbc live science event #eclipse
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Political Studies Association @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
🧑‍🎓 Did you know... You don’t need to have studied #politics to consider doing a politics degree? #InternationalRelations, #history, #law, #Economics or #Sociology go well with politics. ➡️ Learn more about studying Politics at university buff.ly/5nxRRWS #Highers #ResultsDay #ExamResults #SQAExams
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The winds of British politics have changed.
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Lessons from an unPrime Minister willd10.substack.com/p/keir-starm...
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Keir Starmer, a negative political theology
What can we learn from the leader who wasn't?
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Joseph Haigh @josephhaigh.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
This. And also, as someone who *always* runs up to the word limit, footnotes make it so much easier to keep track of word counts. Each to their own, of course.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
It is *not* "special treatment" to apply to legal migrants the rules that were in force when they came What is "special" [ie vindictive & politically/economically counterproductive] is to retrospectively change the rules for those migrants to fulfil a deportation agenda inews.co.uk/news/politic...
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Home Office to give some migrants 'special treatment' in new ten-year rule
'Transitional arrangements' could apply to spouses, older people, those on a particular household or individual income, and children
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 08/07/2026
#OpenAccess from @poppublicsphere.bsky.social - It’s Not Polarization; It’s the Radicalization of the Political Right - cup.org/44g0718 - @pettertornberg.com #FirstView
A group of people seated together, featured beneath the title "Perspectives on Politics" in bold letters. The image is overlaid with the hashtag "#OpenAccess."
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Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
America at 250:
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Laika L. Gagarin @laikalgagarin.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Remember the scene in LOTR where Saruman tears up Isengard to support the Mordor war machine? Thats what a fuckin data center construction site feels like.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
More of this please.
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Remove home secretary Mahmood and rip up her asylum plans, says Alf Dubs
Exclusive: Veteran Labour peer who fled Nazis as a child attacks ‘performative cruelty’ of Shabana Mahmood’s policies
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Difficult really, to think of a single, more disgusting act a journalist can commit than lying to the public to justify someone being murdered by their government for activism. But this is who these people always were.
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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 04/06/2026
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
This, on the death of Henry Nowak, is an outstanding piece of journalism by @stephenkb.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/aa94...
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What Henry Nowak’s murder does — and does not — tell us about policing
Kemi Badenoch says his killing needs to be seen as a ‘Stephen Lawrence moment’ but the failures in both cases differ
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Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 03/06/2026
Last year, we shared a paper showing that Labour's accommodation of the radical right did not work. We now have a new version of the paper online: osf.io/preprints/so...
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
This episode of "Today" desperately needs a historian of policing, to explain why things like anti-racism training were introduced in the first place. This wasn't some departure from a world in which the police treated everyone the same. It was an attempt to bring that world fractionally closer.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I am once again wondering whether "no, the legitimate concerns racists don't have a point, fuck off, they're racist" might have been a better way of combating the far right.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
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Joseph Haigh @josephhaigh.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Good article on hating AI and on the growing rebellion against LLM bullshit machines.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:
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Hating AI is good, actually
LinkedIn may be awash with boosters, but shunning AI is the human choice.
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Joseph Haigh @josephhaigh.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Agreed, this is no time for empty/ambiguous signifiers!
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Joseph Haigh @josephhaigh.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
If only Nandy could bring her *ahem* energy to the Home Office...
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Reading this bland and vague "local crime" story you'd never know that the guy charged with murder, Billy Allison, is the founder of flag-shagging Raise the Colours. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Murder charge court appearance over Lichfield bar death
Billy Allison, 36, from Solihull, appeared at North Staffordshire Justice Centre on Wednesday.
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Joseph Haigh @josephhaigh.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Militarism does seem to be central to Starmer's brand. Last year, I wrote about how Starmer and many other political candidates foregrounded military themes ahead of 2024 - not least, by living vicariously through ancestors with military connections and other forms of vicarious militarism.
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A Family Affair: The Uses and Abuses of Vicarious Identity in Political Rhetoric During the 2024 General Election
The 2024 UK general election saw candidates make frequent rhetorical references to parents and grandparents. But what are the political functions and implications of such references? Drawing together...
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Ol' Chef Dan @olchefdan.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Honestly, one of the funniest tweets I've ever seen.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
NEW The extraordinary ‘settlement’ agreement between Trump and his own government A complex high-value fund is being created without legislation or oversight by a court By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
You can read the supposed “settlement” agreement here. What one would normally expect to see is that the parties agree to end a case in return for a payment from one side to the other. But here the plaintiffs say they are not accepting a payment in lieu of the civil wrongs they allege they have suffered.

Instead, the parties purport to agree to create an elaborate fund for the benefit of third parties. This is called “The Anti Weaponization Fund”. And it is to be created by the agreement of the United States attorney general. The agreement then sets out detailed provisions for the composition and operation of this fund, including its tax status and its legal powers. According to this press release, the fund will be worth $1.776bn.

Many things can be done by a contract, the legal device by which parties can agree to have obligations and rights which they otherwise would not have at law. Sometimes agreements, including those for settling litigation, can contain complex and imaginative provisions. But what is being done here is something else.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 20/05/2026
on my birthday I took to the newsletter to write about the AI commencement address backlash, and how growing anger at AI is now irreversibly tethered to justified rage at the extraction class -- whether AI boosters like it or not
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AI Rage Is Inextricably Fused With Justified Loathing Of The Extraction Class. 'Deal With It'
Commencement AI booing reflects growing class revolt now tightly tethered to AI -- whether the technology's biggest proponents like it or not.
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
In a newly published article in @fpajrnl.bsky.social , I show how rising gas prices affect Americans’ willingness to pay for victory in Ukraine and the security of Taiwan—not just directionally but in specific dollar (and cent) amounts. academic.oup.com/fpa/article/...
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Pay Any Price? Measuring Americans’ Willingness-to-Pay for Sanctions on Russia and China
Abstract. Economic sanctions appear to be an inexpensive means for wealthy countries to punish or coerce targets. Not all sanctions are, or will be, cheap,
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Joseph Haigh @josephhaigh.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I don't claim to know the answer to all of Labour's problems. But I know its not Wes Streeting.
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