Reposted by Joseph HaighMichael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Most TV is just this now. 17171611964
Reposted by Joseph HaighOlúfẹ́mi 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...powermapmag.comShitty Skynet: How the Left Should Think About AI Doom.Don’t Worry about Skynet. Worry about Shitty Skynet. 618230
Reposted by Joseph HaighSteve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026BBC report fails to mention "Tommo" slashing a dinghy (!) Not beating the Reform Party propaganda allegations www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukMigrants taken to Dover after more than 30 hours at seaProtesters gathered in Gosport after initial reports the small boat would be brought further west. 711157418
Reposted by Joseph HaighPriyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This is the way to go. 0193
Reposted by Joseph HaighPriyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Absolute disgrace 02312
Reposted by Joseph HaighWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026So who is condemning this? Will journalists be pushing politicians to explain how these are 'legitimate concerns'? 314942
Reposted by Joseph HaighPolly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Ms Rachel remains undefeated. 1284
Reposted by Joseph Haighjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/09/2026watching THE PHANTOM MENACE with my kids and i somehow forgot just how bad those trade federation aliens are…oof 2194932105
Reposted by Joseph HaighMr Singh @mrsingh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The 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. 164
Reposted by Joseph HaighCllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social · 05/09/2026What 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. 891134397
Reposted by Joseph HaighBrooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Thanks 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...brookeharrington.com 2418
Reposted by Joseph HaighNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Critics 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. 21806124
Reposted by Joseph HaighNeil Miles @neilsmiles.com · 17/08/202629th 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! 521656712
Reposted by Joseph HaighRobin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 18/08/2026So 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 402855859
Reposted by Joseph HaighPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Thanks 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. 1231688
Reposted by Joseph HaighDr Seth Thévoz @seththevoz.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Any 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. 317229
Joseph Haigh @josephhaigh.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I bloody love a bbc live science event #eclipse 000
Reposted by Joseph HaighPolitical 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 032
Reposted by Joseph HaighWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 31/07/2026The winds of British politics have changed. 37015
Reposted by Joseph HaighWill Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Lessons from an unPrime Minister willd10.substack.com/p/keir-starm...willd10.substack.comKeir Starmer, a negative political theologyWhat can we learn from the leader who wasn't? 31612
Joseph Haigh @josephhaigh.bsky.social · 14/07/2026This. 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. 010
Reposted by Joseph HaighJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 08/07/2026It 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...inews.co.ukHome 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 5510133
Reposted by Joseph HaighCambridge 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 063
Reposted by Joseph HaighLaika L. Gagarin @laikalgagarin.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Remember 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. 462039386
Reposted by Joseph HaighMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 26/06/2026More of this please.theguardian.comRemove home secretary Mahmood and rip up her asylum plans, says Alf DubsExclusive: Veteran Labour peer who fled Nazis as a child attacks ‘performative cruelty’ of Shabana Mahmood’s policies 251000302
Reposted by Joseph HaighAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Difficult 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. 333722707
Reposted by Joseph Haigh Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 04/06/2026 77106122426
Reposted by Joseph HaighThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 03/06/2026This, on the death of Henry Nowak, is an outstanding piece of journalism by @stephenkb.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/aa94...ft.comWhat Henry Nowak’s murder does — and does not — tell us about policingKemi Badenoch says his killing needs to be seen as a ‘Stephen Lawrence moment’ but the failures in both cases differ 12482220
Reposted by Joseph HaighJack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 03/06/2026Last 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... 12520285
Reposted by Joseph HaighRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 03/06/2026This 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. 17584175
Reposted by Joseph HaighJonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 02/06/2026I 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. 562595632
Joseph Haigh @josephhaigh.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Good article on hating AI and on the growing rebellion against LLM bullshit machines. 000
Reposted by Joseph HaighMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/05/2026NEW — 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:thehandbasket.coHating AI is good, actuallyLinkedIn may be awash with boosters, but shunning AI is the human choice. 12769321720
Joseph Haigh @josephhaigh.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Agreed, this is no time for empty/ambiguous signifiers! 010
Joseph Haigh @josephhaigh.bsky.social · 29/05/2026If only Nandy could bring her *ahem* energy to the Home Office... 010
Reposted by Joseph HaighLaleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Reading 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...bbc.co.ukMurder charge court appearance over Lichfield bar deathBilly Allison, 36, from Solihull, appeared at North Staffordshire Justice Centre on Wednesday. 37547
Joseph Haigh @josephhaigh.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Militarism 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.onlinelibrary.wiley.comA Family Affair: The Uses and Abuses of Vicarious Identity in Political Rhetoric During the 2024 General ElectionThe 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... 111
Reposted by Joseph HaighOl' Chef Dan @olchefdan.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Honestly, one of the funniest tweets I've ever seen. 737198313113
Reposted by Joseph HaighThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 21/05/2026NEW 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... 818066
Reposted by Joseph HaighKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 20/05/2026on 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 notkarlbode.comAI 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. 541241372
Reposted by Joseph HaighThe Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 19/05/2026In 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/...academic.oup.comPay Any Price? Measuring Americans’ Willingness-to-Pay for Sanctions on Russia and ChinaAbstract. Economic sanctions appear to be an inexpensive means for wealthy countries to punish or coerce targets. Not all sanctions are, or will be, cheap, 34318
Joseph Haigh @josephhaigh.bsky.social · 13/05/2026I don't claim to know the answer to all of Labour's problems. But I know its not Wes Streeting. 000