Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 06/08/2026The far right agenda is not a grievance that can ever be settled. That is why we are where we are now, a place where there is a live conversation about who is a 'white Briton' as per below. I am not clear what it will take for people to understand the seriousness of the situation because ... 17449189
Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 20/07/2026Unless this “honesty” involves the recognition that immigrants are *not* the root cause of the UK’s problems *but* actually a part of the solution to them, this will be completely pointless. I cannot stress this enough. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comBurnham to say UK must be honest about its challenges as he prepares to become PMLabour leader will visit king to accept role on Monday and will start making cabinet appointments that afternoon 592058656
Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 24/06/202624 June 2016. The day after when EU citizens across the UK were told to ‘go home’; when the then PM said he would not protect our rights. Stories largely forgotten. BLEA - Brexit Lived Experience Archive - which I am launching today, is here to preserve this history. #Brexit brexit.migravox.orgbrexit.migravox.orgHome - BLEABLEA. Brexit Lived Experience Archive Documenting experiences. Personal experiences provide valuable insights into how Brexit is lived and understood by those directly affected. Recording these accoun... 13269140
Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 10/06/2026There are, in my view, 25 things everyone needs to understand in light of recent events: 1) Those out in our communities last night were not protestors, but organised far right extremists. 2) Their actions align with fascist ideologies. 3) So yes: these are fascist practices on our streets. 🧵 311164642
Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 22/05/2026Most importantly: as a cis woman; a feminist; a historian - this will *never* be in my name. Then: an equalities body that chooses to exclude a specific group; chooses to limit human rights of one community - it is an equalities body that has already dismantled itself and any legitimacy with it. 423579
Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 04/10/2025It’s easy to say that this is the last desperate hurrah of a dying party, but can we be clear: Trump’s ICE agents are literally kidnapping people, detaining them without due process in concentration camps (yes, this is the right term) and 1000s have disappeared. These are fascist practices. 20896389
Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 29/09/2025When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵 22874404
Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 12/05/2025My letter to the Prime Minister. #immigration 801046450
Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 12/05/2025You are a "citizen of nowhere", they said. A "queue-jumper", they said. Now I am a "squalid chapter", they say. A risk as I might make this an "island of strangers", they say. I am "pulling the country apart", they say. 38770264
Reposted by Tanja BueltmannDr Chris Noone @chris-noone.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1... 12756002842
Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 08/05/2025As a German I will forever be grateful to all who fought for the liberation of Europe. But as a historian I am looking at front pages today and must wonder: What is the point of remembering #VEDay 80 years on, what is the point of our thanks, when we are failing to protect the sacrifices made? 🧵 318114503003
Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 03/05/2025Essentially *all* research and expert assessments show that this does not work. It will not counter Farage, but literally push votes towards Reform. It genuinely is impossible to overstate how profoundly stupid and strategically illiterate this decision is. You cannot out-Reform Reform. 691162434
Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 28/03/2025While so many continue to pretend that it’s not fascism that we’re seeing in the US, here’s Trump continuing his policies of Gleichschaltung. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukTrump targets 'anti-American ideology' at Smithsonian museumsThe order says that 14376160
Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 23/02/2025I know we all love a dose of hopium, especially now. But the take, which I see all across here, that the far right was defeated in Germany tonight because 80% of Germans voted for other parties is very misleading and unhelpful. Understanding this really matters. 🧵 11568247
Reposted by Tanja BueltmannMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 21/02/2025This isn’t some rant saying “Germany has learned nothing from its past” - the reality is more subtle than that. Middle-class Germans live and travel with an incredible amount of ease and comfort, and they just got…sleepy. Many of them dismissed the far-right’s rage as just another set of complaints. 302200276
Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 06/02/2025As an immigrant who chose to make my home in the UK—but also as someone who is a migration historian and researches the impact of dog-whistle politics—there is no way for me to overstate how wrong and disgusting these ads by the UK Labour Party are. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comLabour launches ads in Reform-style branding to boast about deportationsExclusive: Some MPs and activists upset at tone of party’s Facebook campaign aimed at countering Farage 40762324
Reposted by Tanja BueltmannJoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 30/11/2024If you don’t think this is exactly what we’re up against, then you haven’t been paying attention. 1332384477476
Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 30/11/2024It is not an overstatement when I say that I could genuinely weep: this is 100% the *exact opposite* of what they need to do: you cannot out-Reform the Reform Party. The only thing this will do is drive more voters to Reform: voters always choose the original. *Every* bit of research shows that. 🧵 54853344
Reposted by Tanja BueltmannPeter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 30/11/2024"You are an abuser of women": The searing email that Pete Hegseth's own mother sent him in 2018 accusing him of sleeping around, cheating on his wife and debasing and belittling women. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/u...nytimes.comText of the Email That Pete Hegseth’s Mother Sent HimPenelope Hegseth sent the email to her son in 2018 as he was in the middle of divorcing his wife, Samantha. 386104762727
Reposted by Tanja BueltmannSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Let me state this is bluntly as I can, as a biographer of both Donald Trump and Elon Musk: Vladimir Putin is now inside the U.S. government, with visibility into absolutely everything. He has that access through Trump, Musk, and David Sacks. We are fully infiltrated. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/u...nytimes.comElon Musk Puts His Imprint on the Trump Transition at Mar-a-LagoHe’s on the patio. He’s on the golf course. Everywhere Donald Trump looks, there is the world’s richest man. 637111974935
Reposted by Tanja BueltmannThe Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 12/11/2024A quick social experiment. The same tweet, posted at the same time on here and on Twitter, commenting on @joannahs.bsky.social’s brilliant piece on the exodus of criminal barristers. Bluesky replies on the left. Twitter on the right. 1432569681
Reposted by Tanja BueltmannSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 12/11/2024I cannot tell you how truly bizarre it feels to not have crypto ads and porn bots and foreign trolls and people who hate Jews in any of my comment fields here And also, simultaneously, to not to feel like political content is being throttled Bluesky is feeling very breath-of-fresh-air-y right now 1242661246
Reposted by Tanja BueltmannSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 12/11/2024The rate at which Bluesky is growing is absolutely astonishing 2536694499
Reposted by Tanja BueltmannGlen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 11/11/2024What's gonna happen, if they really believe that unis have no quality audit, that they 'bank' money, that the lack of a general numbers cap is the problem, is that they'll crash the entire system and then go 'wail wail why is this happening no-one told us'. (2/2) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comEngland's universities flex their muscles to hike fees, while students get a bum deal | Sonia SodhaCanny PR suggests critics are against aspiration but who is policing the spread of poor-quality degrees? 092
Reposted by Tanja BueltmannGlen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 11/11/2024Still appalled by this piece from the w/end. If civil servants and Ministers believe this funhouse mirror version of reality, topsy-turvey, upsy-downy and almost wholly false, they are going to get into deep, deep trouble. You can't help some people, but 😬. (1/2) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comEngland's universities flex their muscles to hike fees, while students get a bum deal | Sonia SodhaCanny PR suggests critics are against aspiration but who is policing the spread of poor-quality degrees? 3184
Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 07/11/2024I posted a last thread on Twitter which I think is worth sharing an adapted version of here: ❗️ Democracy does not actually die in darkness: it dies in broad daylight because of the choices people make. Historians have been telling you that since forever. FFS: Listen more to your historians! 391239364
Reposted by Tanja BueltmannMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 22/02/2024They’re not even bothering to hide it now: Jack Posobiec at CPAC: “Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely. We didn’t get all the way there on Jan. 6, but we will endeavor to get rid of it.” America, please don’t treat this election as normal politics. 391058469
Reposted by Tanja BueltmannChris Kendall @ottocr.at · 17/02/2024It would be a good use of five minutes of your time to read the speech given by Daria Navalnaya to the European Parliament in December 2021 when she received the Sakharov Prize on behalf of her father, Aleksei Navalny. Note the date, two months before Russia invaded Ukraine.europarl.europa.euVerbatim report of proceedings - Award of the Sakharov Prize (formal sitting) - Wednesday, 15 December 2021 22618
Reposted by Tanja BueltmannThomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 10/02/2024Weekend reading: I wrote about Republicans lusting for civil war or “national divorce.” It’s a manifestation of the Right’s radical rejection of pluralism. They’ll have their “real America” - or none. Short thread, based on the piece below: 🧵/1thomaszimmer.substack.comDomination or Dissolution, Rule or RuinThe Right is fantasizing about secession, “national divorce,” and civil war – because they will not, under any circumstance, accept pluralism. 17625
Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 05/02/2024I wasn’t going to swear here but bloody hell what the actual f and all that … Depraved. Completely rotten to the core. Who even thinks of betting on the lives of people??? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...independent.co.ukSunak accused of ‘new low’ after betting £1,000 on Rwanda flightsPM slammed over ‘crude and depraved’ bet during Piers Morgan interview – and reported to officials over potential breach of ministerial rules 34414
Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 18/01/2024No anti-migrant policy—not in the UK, not anywhere else in Europe—will benefit the local population. If anything, the opposite is true. And yet, politicians keep pursuing anti-migrant policies because it’s easy to do: ‘the other’ is always a great distraction. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/j...theguardian.comCrises have split European voters into five ‘tribes’, survey suggestsAttitudes to climate, migration, global economic turmoil, Ukraine and Covid will dominate this year’s elections, research indicates 32711
Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 16/01/2024If you understand German: I highly recommend this new documentary. One of the contributors told me that it might be made available in English too — hopefully, as it’s very important history. “Forbidden Love - Queer Victims of the Nazi Dictatorship”. 🔗 www.zdf.de/dokumentatio...zdf.deVerbotene Liebe - Queere Opfer der NS-DiktaturWarum wurden Schwule, Lesben und Transpersonen im Nationalsozialismus verfolgt? Die Dokumentation zeigt, wie die Nazis queere Menschen terrorisierten. 0106
Reposted by Tanja BueltmannHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 05/01/2024At last some coverage of the major cyber attack at the British Library and the impact this has had on researchers. It is a critical piece of national infrastructure. Worrying if they will have to spend 40% of their reserves on rebuilding their digital services on.ft.com/48FCP4Ton.ft.comBritish Library to burn through reserves to recover from cyber attackLondon-based institution faces spending millions of pounds to rebuild most digital services 9216163
Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 04/12/2023The Conservatives — limiting your future further every single day. 86634
Reposted by Tanja BueltmannJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 02/11/2023I wrote about Policy Exchange's laughable and error-ridden "report" on academic freedom (which claimed among other nonsense that someone was sacked for "failing to approve" of a photo of Jeremy Corbyn) here www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe rightwing defence of 'academic freedom' masks a McCarthyite agenda | Jonathan PortesAre rightwing academics being silenced? The Policy Exchange thinktank says they are – and has plans for cracking down, says professor of economics Jonathan Portes 12312
Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 01/11/2023This morning I wrote to UKRI to inform them of my resignation from the UKRI Talent PRC with immediate effect. My decision to resign is a direct result of the letter from the UKRI CEO published here www.ukri.org/news/respons... yesterday. I attach my resignation letter for information. 314350
Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 23/10/2023Still ‘living’ in the alternate universe that is book writing, so not much from me here yet. But this wee robin (no hidden nod to birdsite!) I managed to capture is too lovely not to share. Birds are of course also a great symbol of migration, so very fitting. Anyway: hello folks …more coming soon! 3336