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@nasarmeer.bsky.social
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Professor in SPS, Glasgow University. PI Nuffield; PI @GLIMER_Research. co-Editor @IDjnl. FBA FRSE FAcSS. Writing in personal capacity.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“With births barely exceeding deaths, and likely to fall, idea UK faces inexorable immigration-driven population growth is detached from reality. The long-term challenge is how we sustain the workforce, public services and tax base as the population ages.” www.thetimes.com/article/uk-p...
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UK population grows at slowest rate since 1998, ONS figures show
The slowdown is largely due to the ongoing fall in net migration
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As allegories come... tech-bro confidence revealed as recursive stupidity bsky.app/profile/jjvi...
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New issue from #Identities, out now! Vol 32 No 5 Explore the issue: www.tandfonline.com/... #LatestIssue @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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Sociological and Cultural Studies, University of Glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Delighted to announce that the latest Racial Justice Lecture will be given by @drpauliancampbell.bsky.social, on Wed 21st Oct from 19.00. The lecture will ask: 'How do sports videogames contribute to the reproduction of racial and gendered stereotypes in late modern Britain'? Book a place below.
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University of Glasgow - Explore - University of Sanctuary - University of Sanctuary: Events
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Sociological and Cultural Studies, University of Glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Our latest Sociological & Cultural Studies blog is now available. In 'Welcome to Glasgow’s four corners' @susanabatchelor.bsky.social considers the way in which certain urban spaces - and those who frequent them - come to be constructed as problematic.
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Welcome to Glasgow’s four corners: making a ‘problem’ place.
Susan Batchelor considers the way in which certain urban spaces - and those who frequent them - come to be constructed as problematic.
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@nasarmeer.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Still time to join us online today for this event at 3pm GMT 👇🏾 bsky.app/profile/iden...
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
To mark #BlackHistoryMonth, #Identities is offering #FreeAccess to our curated article collection illuminating Black histories and lived experiences. Read our Black History Month Special Collection: www.tandfonline.com/... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'Choosing hybridity: the possibilities and limits of #belonging among young adults from mixed Serb–Hungarian families in #Serbia' New from #Identities, with #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1080/1070... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
'Religification, racialization and romantic partners' New on the #IdentitiesBlog, by Tahseen Shams Read the blog post ⬇️ identitiesjournal.co... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Still time to register for this week's #IdentitiesEvent! 'Working to Breaking Point: Una Marson’s Broadcasting Career at the BBC' www.eventbrite.co.uk... #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social
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Working to Breaking Point: Una Marson’s Broadcasting Career at the BBC
Identities online lecture with Dr Anthony Frampton and Yvette Rowe, University of the West Indies, Jamaica
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@nasarmeer.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
LFC remain in your seats. The VAR checks are ongoing...
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@nasarmeer.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
1/ A slightly strange and lovely thing to be able to say, my book The Social Life of Justice is published tomorrow... www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The BBC has long given up even pretending to be interested in who these people are, why they are coming or how they might feel, in favour of acting as a kind of shop window for the parties to display their wares of violence and cruelty
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Most migrant small boat arrivals in single day of 2026
A total of 781 migrants arrive on Wednesday, but the yearly total is below the same point in 2025.
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
'Theorizing diasporic sociology' by Elisabeth Becker New from #Identities, now online: doi.org/10.1080/1070... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social #diaspora
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David Timoney @fromarsetoelbow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"The incident fits a broader pattern in the discourse around ‘free speech’ and ‘cancel culture’: whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship." www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
'Reclaiming the frame: digital self-representation of migrant women in Estonia' New from #Identities, with #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1080/1070... #migration #intersectionality @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Have you read the latest #IdentitiesBlog? '#Race, #gender and the city' by Mélodine Sommier Read the blog post ⬇️ identitiesjournal.co... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social @m3lodine.bsky.social @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social
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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I mean, any time now would be good. If it's not too much trouble
Headline: "‘Outright racist’ Daniel Thomas will face full force of law over any crimes, says home secretary"
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UofG Centre for Public Policy @uofgpolicy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW insights from @ianelliott.bsky.social on the Scottish Government's Programme for Government, announced on 1 Sept, and taking a strategic approach to public service reform 📝💡 Read: www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/... #PublicPolicy #Research
Public Service Reform in Scotland: Time for a Strategic Approach, Dr Ian C. Elliot, University of Glasgow, Centre for Public Policy, photo of the Scottish Parliament
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@nasarmeer.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Tax avoider has opinions". bsky.app/profile/tom-...
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Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The BBC has decided that this constitutes news… A man who left for Monaco several years ago declaring he’s ’lost confidence’ in the UK His qualification for making the headlines? Owning £15bn Broadcasting like democracy already died! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
'The brown/desi girl scape: diasporic young Bangladeshi women on social media' New from #Identities, with #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1080/1070... #diaspora #migration @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
'#Race, #gender and the city' New on the #IdentitiesBlog, by Mélodine Sommier Read the blog post ⬇️ identitiesjournal.co... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social @m3lodine.bsky.social @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social
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@nasarmeer.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Talking in veiled speech... (somewhat quaint for this publication)
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Sociological and Cultural Studies, University of Glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Below the start of a thread from our own @nasarmeer.bsky.social, reflecting on the first findings from a Nuffield funded project exploring how devolution shapes policies on racial equality and belonging, produced with Dr. Mahnoz Illias.
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Policy Insights: Race equality after devolution: Reversing the constitutional telescope?
30 July 2026: Professor Nasar Meer and Dr Mahnoz Illias introduce the first outputs from their project which is examining how race quality policy has developed differently across England, Scotland and...
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@nasarmeer.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
1/ A question our @NuffieldFound REDUK project explores is how devolution makes national difference more politically salient, and when and how it can also reshapes policies on racial equality, belonging and minority incorporation. www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...
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University of Glasgow - Research - Research units A-Z - Racial Equality Since Devolution
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hearing a lot of 'what can be done?' to stop mega donors buying British democracy So I asked a real expert- former Electoral Commissioner David Howarth - to explain how we can fix our broken system Would recommend reading his piece: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/stop-billi...
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Stop billionaires buying our politics
Ex-Electoral Commissioner David Howarth on Reform's £72m crypto donation, the loopholes that allow big money to buy our democracy – and three ways to close them
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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
BitMEX, the cryptocurrency exchange co-founded by Ben Delo in 2014, is being sued for stealing customers’ bitcoin ahead of its 23 September 2026 shutdown.
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Lawsuit claims BitMEX used server freezes and internal trading to seize 622 Bitcoin ahead of its September closure
BitMEX customers seek 623 BTC in a lawsuit alleging rigged liquidations as the exchange winds down before its September closure.
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I’m baffled when people try to suggest that the BBC News is left wing or ‘woke’. Can you imagine someone presenting their flagship radio news programme who so brazenly exhibits and pushes left-wing views and talking points as much as Justin Webb does with those from the right?
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Stella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It’s not too late to stop this madness - the government has said the uk mega donors are a problem. The lords can bring in a cap on UK donors to stop any attempt to buy the next election. Share this and ask your MP to join us protecting British democracy.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A reminder that Delo previously pled guilty in the US to violating money laundering protections and agreed to pay a $10 million fine for "willfully” breaking the law with his BitMex platform, which was described as "in effect a money laundering platform.” This is who owns Farage now
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Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“The idea that you could be here for the next 10, 15 years and you’d still have no legal right to remain in the country … how the hell do you plan?..It cuts across any effort to integrate at all.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘Fundamentally unfair’: Burnham must overhaul migration reforms, says TUC general secretary
Paul Nowak says changes to immigration rules risk overstretching social care and fuelling far-right sentiment
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.
Ruby Bridges, age 6Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her schoolNorman Rockwell’s painting depicting the event, “The Problem We All Live With,” originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964 issue of Look magazine. Ruby Bridges talking with President Obama as they look at Rockwell’s painting while it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.
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@nasarmeer.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"Professor Jason Atta Kwei Arday will be missed as a brilliant scholar, dear father, son and friend, prolific athlete, and anti-racist disruptor, among so many other great things that composed his life and character as a human being" 💔 www.race.ed.ac.uk/blog/2026/st...
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Statement on Professor Jason Arday | RACE.ED
RACE.ED showcases teaching, research and KEI in race and decolonial studies at the University of Edinburgh
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“My profession smiles at hard-right figures when they walk into a TV studio and are given a disproportionate amount of air time to make their fact-free assertions while nodding along to their scapegoating of the weak.” ✍️ Patrick Howse
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The BBC Is Just Nodding Along
The corporation's news coverage has lost its soul as a bulwark against unaccountable power and extremism, writes a former BBC News producer
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Ryan Bridge - Founder of "Raise the Colours" flag protests - charged with 14 offences including common assault. Danny Thomas - ringleader of Dover/Portsmouth thuggery - an ex-con jailed for attempted kidnap at knifepoint. Almost like they're not "ordinary people with concerns" but criminals.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This BBC claim that Mr Thomas "drummed up support for 'mass resistance' but without violence" seems like an editorialisation of the news that lacks context/accuracy Firstly, Mr Thomas was clearly very pro-violence in summer 2024 + 2026 Secondly, Mr Thomas calls for disruption + threat
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@nasarmeer.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
By avoiding this broadcast...
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Electoral Commission appears to be straightforwardly wrong about its role and responsibilities in law as the regulator when it says publicly "Information about any potential attempt to evade the controls on donations is for the police to consider". It is the core job of the Electoral Commission
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Nigel Farage and Reform foreign donations scandal excluded from all but one national newspaper front page this morning. No sign of it at all on the front pages of the two papers which splashed the polls secretly funded by a Reform donor earlier this year
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 04/09/2026
With all respect to the BBC, the reason this story "matters" is not about whether it distracts from Reform's conference. It "matters" because it is important our leaders are not conspiring to break the law.
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Hannah Barker @historyhannahb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I look forward to reading the results of the University of Cambridge’s review into these allegations and the ones that surfaced yesterday
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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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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Many thanks to Dr Angéline Escafré-Dublet who joined us yesterday in Edinburgh for a co-badged #Identities, @uofgsps.bsky.social Political and International Studies, & @uoe-sps.bsky.social CMRN seminar on her new book, 'A Political History of Immigration in France'. Recording available soon!
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"Democracy for Sale will continue scrutinising money and influence in our politics, wherever we find it. "Reform can stop us going to their conference. But Farage and his friends can’t stop our journalism." New by me, on being banned by Reform democracyforsale.substack.com/p/ive-been-b...
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I’ve been banned by Reform. But this isn’t really about me.
My press accreditation for Reform’s conference was revoked. This should concern us all.
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UofG Centre for Public Policy @uofgpolicy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Centre Director Professor Nicola McEwen @profnicolamcewen.bsky.social appeared on BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime yesterday discussing the Scottish Government's Programme for Government and local government reform 🎧🎙️ Listen from 01:37:49 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... @uofgnews.bsky.social 1/2
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Drivetime - 02/09/2026 - BBC Sounds
Breaking down the day's talking points with comment and opinion.
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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Prof Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Bank holiday listening! @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social talks to @mthumala.bsky.social about the wonderful “The Love of Books: Attachment to a Changing Cultural Object” newbooksnetwork.com/the-love-of-...
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Ioana Cerasella Chis @cerasellachis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Many thanks to Harriet Clarke for this testimonial for 'Disabling Capitalism: A Critical Inquiry Into Work, Productivism and Disablement' - due to be published with @brisunipress.bsky.social in early 2027 & can be preordered now. #Capitalism #Disability #DisabilityResearch #NewBook
''Disabling Capitalism offers compelling research underpinning a vital political analysis of how 'welfare' policies and economic structures and practices organise work, work that can be unseen, unpaid and unequally valued. 

By centring the lived experiences of disabled people navigating on-demand labour, Chis challenges the persistent (and harmful) belief that work-centric policy is inherently benign. Her bold contribution opens up new ways of understanding work and disability, and invites us to imagine more hopeful futures.''
- Harriet Clarke, Associate Professor in Social Policy, University of Birmingham
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