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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Right wilfully ignore the fact that culture changes. We no longer speak English like Shakespeare or court our future wives like Sense and Sensibility.

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

1979 is 34 years from the end of World War II but 47 years before today. The Right keep saying Britain is broken, maybe even the sick man of Europe. Conditions have changed, some self-inflicted. But the current system is not working for the vast majority of this country.

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This has been the BBC headline for since Rubio said it. It makes it seem that the words are fact rather than a political statement from someone in another state trying to make political capital. The BBC, in this case, are actively contributing to the disinformation.

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This man was a lawyer yet clearly knows nothing about the law. He’s a legislator yet clearly know nothing about the law. And he wants his party to govern despite knowing nothing about the law.

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Who would think that a club that tried to sell its environmental credentials by getting people to pollute more through its partner airline could possibly be trying to decieve people over their financial arrangements?

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Thought this would be the headline from the Mail

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We mustn’t let Rod Liddle’s death put feelings before facts. The reaction to the former Guardian/Sunday Times/Sun/Spectator journalist’s death reflects some pretty alarming trends in our media.

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Apparently, racists have freedom of speech, and we should engage with them. But if you have a different opinion, it’s ideological conformity and name-calling. So much for engaging with people with whom you disagree.

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Brillo’s spectacular intellect is on display again. Apparently, governments don’t make laws that the lawyers have to check against 🙄. Funny how he doesn’t see the racism, anti-intellectualism, hatred of foreigners, & clampdown on protest as fascism.

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Today’s moral dilemma: The US government lies and the Telegraph journalists repeat the lie and the editors put it as the front page headline. Should they now be hounded to their death?

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Allison Pearson - The Telegraph journalist is proof that stupid journalists are poisoning Britain.

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command”. The denial industry has kicked into overdrive to gaslight the public in the middle of an unprecedented heatwave. They pay various egotists and crackpots to push their agenda.

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This is literally the definition of bigoted.

I got: a person who has strong, unreasonable beliefs and who does not like other people who have different beliefs or a different way of life

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

What is your evidence for this? The modules on my course explicitly provides a grade for critical thinking, alongside knowledge, reading and presentation. It was the same at my previous institution. But thanks for keeping on proving why these skills are necessary.

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

It’s raining in June. Luckily, the right wing don’t think the climate is changing 🙄

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Perfect for Robert "share or shaft" Kilroy-Silk

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

How the narcissists have fallen

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

This is his tweet. Gracious and non-conspiratorial as ever

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Who looks at Reform and thinks “you know what? The Greens are the ones threatening British liberal democracy”. These people think they are liberals and therefore anything that doesn’t fit their world view to the left is extreme, but strangely anything to the right is still liberal.

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

And some of us thought that Goodwin was an arrogant narcissist but here he is downplaying his own sense of self-importance 🙄

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

We’re doomed because the right wing are toddlers. They’re doing it, so why can’t we? Because someone has to be the adults, Tim. But we keep pandering to the toddlers.

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

We have to stop migration to curb the far right. We have to lock migrants in camps to curb the far right. We have to reduce human right to curb the far right. We have to deport people to curb the far right. We have to clamp down on protest to curb the far right. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

A textbook case of the psychological concept of projection

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

One of the hardest things to do in academia is to try new skills and make yourself uncomfortable. We tried new creative methodologies with football fans and, for me at least, fear of looking stupid was a big thing. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

It was incredible to attend the Hummingbird Refugee Project’s ten year celebration. It seems the blink of an eye since we started in the Jungle, and it’s amazing how it has grown and evolved into the vital service it is now. In the face of the current far-right onslaught, this is real community.

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Reminds me of an interaction I had in 2020 with my constituency MP, Peter Kyle, about how appeals to patriotism have been shown to lead to far-right hate. He didn’t believe the research; probably ignores the reality on the streets as it doesn’t fit his ideology.

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Reading Octopussy and saw a surprising ’footballers names in things’ @footballcliches.bsky.social

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Clearly the way you build community is telling some of them that they’re strangers. Funny how Starmer & Labour always come down on the side of the right wing reactionaries. They’ve not healed the wounds of Austerity, Brexit or Covid but blame those deemed ‘foreign’. It’s as if that’s the strategy 🤮

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Compare the description of a man that used his car as a weapon to the description of a woman who was murdered by a man using his car as a weapon

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Labour’s strategy to increase patriotism and detoxify the Union flag is clearly working well in stopping the far right 🙄

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

It’s interesting that he uses the word “lying” when in a recent post he claims the Greens controlled Brighton & Hove; yet it’s easy to find that the only party to have controlled B&H Council have been Labour. The Greens have only been minority administrations, with Labour support.

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Wonderful to see Sociologists’ Tales still out there for its tenth anniversary. A passion project on the reflections & insights of a range of sociologists; with @ktwamley.bsky.social & Andrea Scott, with huge support from @britsoci.bsky.social & @brisunipress.bsky.social.

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Great to see James Esson, Paul Darby and Christian Ungruhe’s book from the GlobaliIng Sport Studies series from @manchesterup.bsky.social at the @britsoci.bsky.social Annual Conference

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

We were told that Labour needed to jettison all its principles to get in power. They won a massive majority. And this is what they’re doing with it. Horrific

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Starmer wants to appeal to racists and shows no understanding of the economics of wages. Has years of wage suppression in HE been caused by illegal migration? Evil politics

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

It’s almost as if the focus on growth is the problem. Growth benefits the wealthy. Cuts hit the poor. Inequality weakens communities. The focus is always capital, not people. Rather than focus on growth that’s affected by global issues outside of the chancellor’s control, start building communities

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

When Trump was attacking people of colour and trans people, Andrew Neil gave him the benefit of the doubt. Now Trump has put us all in danger, he is a problem for Neil.

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Braverman will never be truly human: here is why

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Pleasatly surprised to see my book on Ultras included in @manchesterup.bsky.social 's new Gender and Sexuality series. The performance of gender, particularly masculinity, is a key part of the ultras style of fandom. More details of the series here: www.manchesterhive.com/collection/g...

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

This week Luis Rubiales is facing trial for sexual assault of Jenni Hermoso after Spain won the 2023 World Cup. Today we’ve had our paper on the incident published.

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Why aren’t Labour extending HS2 for the whole country rather than airports for London? Why boast that your whole party doesn’t care about climate change? To whom are they trying to appeal?

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Truss calling for a new British Empire. Which country does she want to colonise first in this by-imperialism? Or is it a different definition of greatness? Funny how these grifters never define what they mean by ‘great’ as if being the sixth largest economy isn’t great

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I didn’t have ‘let’s be more like Trump’ as a Labour strategy as I didn’t think they’d be that stupid. But then nothing surprises me at their desire to appeal to reactionaries

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