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The focus on the "white working class" and their "legitimate concerns" about immigration is always about splitting the working class to prevent radical change to the economic system This has been going on for two centuries

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By contrast, working class immigrants and their working class families are clearly not worthy of this respect. Hence this gaslighting that the wide-ranging hostility they have faced for decades from many sectors of British society is no more than the "concerns" of primarily working class people.

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As always, no mainstreaming without enabling: "The motion to restrict immigration was nonbinding. What mattered was that the centre-right opposition CDU, which brought it forward, and the libertarian FDP, who supported it, relied on additional AfD votes to pass it" www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

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I don’t understand how there’s any debate about whether to characterize them as Nazis when they’re out here sieg heiling. It’s an absolute failure of messaging not to name and condemn this behavior, and build a narrative around it.

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If you're happy to indulge transphobes and unwilling to denounce transphobia and stand with trans people, your opposition to Trump and the wider fascist turn is not serious You can't pick and choose. Fascist harm to some is harm to all.

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L’Alternative pour l’Allemagne (AfD) prospère sur un discours complotiste et raciste assumé, sur fond d’accointances avec les milieux néonazis. Avant les élections fédérales du 23 février, décryptage en quatre épisodes. www.mediapart.fr/journal/doss...

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Since Labour, the Tories and Reform are all working towards, and planning on benefitting from, the privatisation of the NHS, I guess everything is going great for them as they'll even be able to blame "the people" and their "legitimate grievance" for it www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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The same happened in France where between 3 and 5 million letters were sent during the Nazi occupation and French collaboration to denounce neighbours, relatives etc So much for the myth of France as resisting when only a small minority did...

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I'm begging people to remember that 'meritocracy' was coined for a work of satirical fiction. It is not a real thing, and, as the satire suggested, defining 'merit' as a standalone measurable individual quality is impossible.

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Oh I see you think the rise in overt racism has nothing to do with you as former editor of the Spectator that loved to publish Douglas Murray, Rod Liddle and Lionel Shriver

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The UK's anti-protest laws pre-legitimise far right authoritarianism. Labour must repeal them now. My column today. www.theguardian.com/global/comme...

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“What have I done wrong? I’ve advocated for people who have been harmed, and now I’ve been harmed in the process” Women at a top London university face disciplinary action after criticising the university for keeping a predatory professor in post: goodlaw.social/hcu5

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Unbelievable, from the man who did more than anyone else to give Douglas Murray's explicit white ethnonationalism a platform and a bridge to the UK mainstream. archive.ph/LMDiX

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I'm on the lookout for a talented reporter to come and work with the team at @bylinetimes.bsky.social as we continue to grow. Please get in touch at [email protected] if you're interested

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And we got finger-wagged by a New England journo "expert" for not staying in our lane and sticking to our knitting (his words) and leaving hard stuff to (paywalled) NYT and Wapo. So we were right, and we did the right thing, and we didn't need anyone's permission to make our own news decisions.

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Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University, by an anonymous academic. This is truly shocking read. The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame. voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

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Last week, JD Vance gave Europe an ultimatum: it can align with the Trump administration, or face its wrath. To comply, Europe needs to embrace the extreme right, repeal tech rules the US “will not accept,” and allow Silicon Valley to dominate its market. It should tell the US to take a hike.

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The volume I co-edited on The Ethics of Researching the Far Right is now out in a much more affordable paperback version manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526173881/

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This is a key part of the mainstreaming process For decades now, the reconstructed far right has used the extreme right to legitimise itself by comparison We should focus on politics primarily and then look at the role performance plays to hide them www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Since this still seems to be going on, this article from 2015 was already pointing out why the "left behind" argument was problematic and legitimising far right narratives You might disagree with it but it was there unless you choose not to read obviously... link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Glad to pick up this book today! 📖 looking forward to reading contributions from Gary Younge, @hannahhamad.bsky.social, @aaronwinter.bsky.social , @k8ebrown.bsky.social and @aurelmondon.bsky.social

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Love being told to compromise with people who disagree with my very existence.

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The prime minister has failed to produce any evidence to back up “baseless” and “poisonous” claims in a newspaper article that large numbers of young disabled people are pretending they are not fit enough to work.

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Trust in the press is falling in part becays of this refusal to plainly state what we can all see. This is a Nazi salute. It’s embarassing how much threats from the world’s worst people have cowed the mainstream media.

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To clarify, UK politicians are looking at what's happening in Washington DC right now and saying "that is good, we should do that"

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I’m literally trans. I can’t work with people who want me to not exist

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you shouldn't be able to say this is "provocative" without saying what exactly it provokes

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Good and truly scary article Hopefully, it's going to wake up some editors that the threat to women in on the fascist misogynist right and not trans people and their allies... And if you think my point is irrelevant, look at the processes of exclusion www.theguardian.com/news/2025/fe...

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Centrists: why can’t you lefties co-operate with others? Soft left Labour cllrs: here’s us running a council with Lib Dems & Greens, to do good stuff in a town in the shires, how’s that? Centrists (aka Starmer’s Labour HQ): Not like that! Stop that now!

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This is also the logical conclusion of decades now of slow mainstreaming of far-right talking points Islamophobia, transphobia, anti-immigration discourses were never "legitimate grievances" that deserved to be aired. Their purpose was to prepare the way for this

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