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chrisgrey.bsky.social
Emeritus Prof of Organization Studies, Royal Holloway University of London, ex-Prof Warwick & Cambridge. FAcSS, FRHistS. Now mainly analysis of Brexit including Brexit & Beyond Blog. Author Brexit Unfolded (Biteback, 2021, 2023). Elsewhere @chrisgreybrexit
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I wrote about David Goodhart's confused, contradictory complaints about immigrants and London (too skilled and too unskilled, too rich and too poor, all at the same time) in 2013. What's changed? His writing has got worse and his racism has got *much* worse. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

submitted 10 hours ago • 8 comments

Farage and the far right in general come from a grievance culture. If you do what they want, even maximally – Brexit – they’ll move the goalposts and keep moaning. If you engage seriously with their concerns, they’ll find new ones. You will never satisfy them, because they don’t want to be satisfied

submitted 19 hours ago • 80 comments

Why are Tories suddenly using the term "white british" in debates on immgration and citizenship? www.ft.com/content/aceb...

submitted 14 hours ago • 102 comments

The UK-EU summit last month was an important step towards closer co-operation & a strategic partnership. Both sides now need to turn that ambition into detailed sectoral negotiations with a clear timescale. 🆕 @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social‬ insight by Sir Martin Donnelly Read here: buff.ly/29acrsi

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Times' Scoop: secret agent is a really rather secretive.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Latest news in an unfolding self-inflicted disaster, not just for UK universities but for the UK itself. One of our genuinely world-class sectors is being trashed, with all that means for UK economy, soft power, scientific & cultural life. 'World-class' isn't, for once, blimpish hyperbole ... 1/2

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Someone should ask Kemi Badenoch what she would have done.

submitted 1 day ago • 43 comments

Former Conservative and UKIP MP and Boris Johnson government appointee here calling for the mass deportation of British Pakistanis Islamophobia is absolutely rampant in conservative politics now and almost nobody even acknowledges it

submitted 2 days ago • 77 comments

American fascism.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Interesting piece on "Looking for Growth" - the Dominic Cummings inspired right wing "youth movement" that performatively cleaned underground carriages last week www.londoncentric.media/p/looking-fo...

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

Gibraltar CM personally fact-checking the bad actors.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

A really enjoyable, serious, well-argued & intelligent analysis. (Personally, I'd argue that the conclusion, that we need ECHR in an age of populism, whilst true, doesn't go far enough: we need ECHR + a whole swathe of new international institutions.) 1/2

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Shockingly: "Many were openly picnicking, eating food they had brought from home with some even using saucepans as makeshift serving dishes ... As someone proud to promote English values and heritage, I felt embarrassed to witness this happening ..." complained Karl Taylor, 58, from Ruislip. 1/2

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

🔴Kemi Badenoch’s Right Wing Unpopulism The Conservative party leader appears determined to search for voters that don't actually exist, while alienating whatever remaining support her dying party still has www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/kemi-baden...

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

Reeves Spending Review heralds a more social democratic economy - credit where it’s due. Good piece by @josiah.writes.news via @bylinetimes.bsky.social. bylinetimes.com/2025/06/13/r...

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

It'll be two years, this Monday night. Time, at last, to write about Agnes.

submitted 5 days ago • 219 comments

If (like me) you've lost track of what's going on with 'Trump Tariffs', then @samuelmarclowe.bsky.social's guide is invaluable. And it contains his best ever diagram - 5 colours no less! (But also a typo: 'veichle' should be 'vehicle')

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

"Leicestershire County Council's new Reform leadership has scrapped the authority's flag flying policy in its first cabinet meeting" Honestly, it really seems like the *only* thing Reform councils are doing is banning flags www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

The British government had one credible option on Gibraltar and took it. The only people this deal upsets is people in Britain who probably never plan to visit the territory lukemcgee.substack.com/p/some-quick...

submitted 7 days ago • 16 comments

Interesting and insightful profile of Starmer

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Sound familiar? …”the PVV is still hardly a political party in the conventional sense. Exploiting a loophole in Dutch electoral law, Wilders chose not to allow any formal members into his party. As a result, neither PVV ministers nor parliamentarians are actual members of the party.”

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

The entire board of the Fulbright program reportedly resigned today after accusing the Trump administration of illegal interference www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

submitted 8 days ago • 11 comments

FT scoop by Demetri Sevastopulo: The Pentagon has launched review of Aukus to decide if should continue with US-UK-Australia submarine deal. www.ft.com/content/4a93...

submitted 8 days ago • 16 comments