@tariqmodood
Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy, University of Bristol Leading author on multiculturalism, secularism, Islamophobia and cultural racism RTs are not endorsements and may be sent while I print it to read later.
Of course Sunder is correct. There is no logical/principled *argument* behind this hypocrisy.
But IMO there is indeed a logic to it.
The reason the Spectator/Telegraph want to crack down on antisemitism is not because they care about Jews, but because they want to legitimise anti-Muslim bigotry.
Sam Hill, @johndenham.bsky.social and I are doing a talk at the LSE on Thursday, 6.30pm. The theme of the talk as well as the venue details are in this blog:
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
A much more positive vision from @johndenham.bsky.social than that coming out of the Home Office today:
www.ippr.org/articles/rec...
Includes some good points about the smearing of Muslims with charges of 'sectarianism'
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/starmer-wa...
Book launch webinar: bristol-ac-k.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
I am pleased to have a chapter in this book which has just been published:
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-modern-w...
I will put details of the book launch webinar in the Comments below.
Starmer government has no anti-racism or hate crime strategy (this last existed under May in 2016-2020) though its been drafting up a cohesion plan for some months
This govt has more anti-racism rhetoric (since Sept). I still see no strategy/policy beyond conference speech + ad hoc media comments
Matt Goodwin's candidacy in Denton & Gorton "illuminates the balance of risks & rewards for Reform, presenting itself as a potential govt, in embracing the sharper edges of the online right." Our @sundersays.bsky.social for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social
www.thenewworld.co.uk/sunder-katwa...
Nus Ghani MP - the Deputy Speaker - moved to the UK as a small child. She has been elected by the voters in Wealden in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2024
More outright racism from the regular GB News & Talk TV contributor Lucy White - who previously called (on GB News) for all Muslims to leave Britain
"The collision of a multiparty electorate with a voting system designed for two parties is creating new risks for Britain".
I signed this letter. It's not about blocking Reform;it's about the danger to democracy of a system that can't cope with multiparty voting
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
I am talking about how we talk about immigration - the numbers & being "colonised" - on the World Tonight, BBC Radio 4 after 10pm tonight
More opportunities to come and join us at the @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk!
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
In today’s episode David and Paul Sagar explore the ideas of two late-twentieth-century thinkers - Bernard Williams and Judith Shklar. Is the fundamental political question about how to achieve the best or is it about how to avoid the worst?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
1 postdoc position on ERC Advanced Grant project IDEO-YEMEN. Focus on Yemen under Ansar Allah (Houthis). The position starts September 1, 2025 and runs for 56 months.
www.oeaw.ac.at/jobs?jh=ul2v...
Our February issue is now out! 📘
Read the latest research findings in all areas of #politics & #IR in @polstudies.bsky.social: buff.ly/3Q7MYjF
The journal publishes rigorous and original work significant to the whole discipline.
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polsci #polsky @uoypolitics.bsky.social
25 years passed in a blink! "Ethnicities 25th Anniversary Symposium: Current reflections on the field",
contributions from @craigcalhoun.bsky.social Geoffrey Braham Levey, Gurpreet Mahajan, Varun Uberoi, Nira Yuval-Davis & @triandafyllidou.bsky.social
Here: journals.sagepub.com/page/etn/25_...?
Missions, the state and the common good. What's missing in Labour's industrial policy. With James Silverwood. buff.ly/7BMDUUv
Latest odds on Gorton & Denton by-election
Green 52% chance of winning
Reform 39%
Labour 10%
(Sums to 101% bc of rounding)
www.oddschecker.com/politics/bri...
Palestine Action activists cleared of aggravated burglary at Israeli defence firm site
It is quite striking that Konstantin Kisin simply denied (falsely) on BBC1 that he had said what he said, word for word, on his podcast.
The BBC coverage is absolutely terrible.
It leads on "sharply contested narratives"
It has a dramatic skew to the US government
It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue
Interesting. How many lablels could people choose and were the rankings interesting. It would be helpful for those not familiar with the School or similar Schools to know something about the gender balance. Sociology is, I would guess, 10%-15% male. Politics is somewhat different.
I'm not British Born Mr @Nigel_Farage I am as British as u r. Yr comments r offensive&racist. I wld b frightened 2live in country run by U.
Nadhim Zahawi and family fled to the UK from Saddam Hussein's Iraq as a child refugee in 1978. Unable to speak English when he arrived, he became a hugely successful businessman and an MP before serving as Chancellor of the Exchequor.
His origin story is the very antithesis of the Reform narrative.
👀 Our line up is out!
We're thrilled to have such an insightful set of speakers for our first ever summit, Challenging the War Machine.
Tickets are selling out (low cost tickets available still) if you haven't already, grab your place now 🔗 secure.declassifieduk.org/events
News for bibliophiles outside Australia:
The Adelaide Writers Week board just removed Palestinian-Australian author & scholar, Randa Abdel-Fattah, from the program.
Many dozens of authors & institutions have now (rightly) left the festival in protest.
Story: www.artshub.com.au/news/news/ad...
