I've written about Neets for the LRB. It is odd listening to recent debates about this completely ignore the overwhelming fact of this current crisis, that it is one of inactivity, disability, mental ill-health and neurodevelopmental disorders (as I discuss) www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

William Davies · Young People Are Different: What do Neets need?

The majority of Neets are not looking for work, but living outside of the labour market and the education system,...

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I have a modest proposal for a new tax. It involves a deck of cards and a monkey throwing darts. Here are the rules:

This is actually rather good.

BBC FIFA World Cup 2026 Closing Montage

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What's great about VAR is that it makes the matchday experience worse while we still have clear and obvious errors.

Jane Gingrich and I have written an essay for @ippr.org on a fundamental problem, that an age that demands more of the state also suffers from multiple state legitimation crises www.ippr.org/articles/the...

The legitimacy trap | IPPR

In many ways, the public want more government: to shape a fairer, more dynamic economy and protect ordinary people from the consequences of a turbulent wor

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"Today’s elite may see itself as more meritocratic and down-to-earth, but do its claims of progressive social change stand up?" Class privilege continues to shape who reaches the top, write @samfriedman.bsky.social & @aaronreeves.bsky.social fabians.org.uk/common-people/

Common People | Fabian Society

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‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...

📢 Exciting opportunity to join the @afsee-lse.bsky.social team! The postholder will promote the global engagement and impact of Atlantic Senior Fellows in Social and Economic Equity by providing operational, programmatic and strategic support to the programme. Apply by 30 June ⬇️ buff.ly/M8aKB7M

This was, as expected, an excellent talk!

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Militarised policing is one of the preconditions for fascist rule, but how and why would police in liberal democracies militarise? Catch up with the podcast from our recent event with @juliango.bsky.social, Dr Mahvish Ahmad and @aaronreeves.bsky.social.

This @bjsociology.bsky.social special issue brought together perspectives on Brexit and its implications. A decade on, many of the themes still resonate, from inequality and identity to political division and belonging. On the tenth anniversary of Brexit, revisit the articles ➡️ buff.ly/0JdLWLA

Special issue: The Trump/Brexit Moment: Causes and Consequences

Volume 68, Issue S1

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🎙️ Who really runs Britain? In this podcast, @samfriedman.bsky.social and @aaronreeves.bsky.social unpack the “elite within the elite”, the factions shaping the UK’s future, the importance of being “meritocratically legitimate” and the myth of being “just ordinary”. Listen now 👇

Peter York's Culture Wars House Party: Professors Sam Friedman and Aaron Reeves: Myths and Realities of the British Elite

Professors Sam Friedman and Aaron Reeves of the London School of Economics, authors of Born to Rule – a forensic, often very funny X‑ray of the British establishment, drawn from that venerable ...

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Who really runs Britain — and why do they insist they're just ordinary? Great fun convo withLSE profs @samfriedman.bsky.social & @aaronreeves.bsky.social authors of Born to Rule with @peteryork.bsky.social on his Peter York's Culture Wars House Party Podcast 🎧 podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...

📣 A new @bjsociology.bsky.social special issue on Insurance and Social Theory has just been published! The special issue examines the evolving landscape of insurance and its implications for how society navigates future uncertainty Read in the #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/q7Fmncb

Special Issue: Insurance and Social Theory

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My research note on what the sociogenomics of stratification can teach us about broad sociological theories of inequality got accepted by the @bjsociology.bsky.social. My thinking for this note started when @melindacmills.bsky.social came to present her work on status at the @eui-eu.bsky.social. >

My most recent article “A Licence to Kill: Necroeconomic Suffocation by Stealth and the Fight for Life” (co-authored with Bev Skeggs) open access @antipodeonline.bsky.social #necroeconomics #asset-classstruggle #socialsuffocation #housing #mould onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A Licence to Kill: Necroeconomic Suffocation by Stealth and the Fight for Life

Three decades of austerity in the UK have seen the deterioration of the elemental infrastructures, those that provided a basic level of security for the population. In this article, we analyse the ca...

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It's that time (once in a blue moon) where I come back on bluesky because (yes, you guessed), we have a new paper out! What do we know about hunger's impacts on young people's mental health? Some insights from our multiverse exploration, out in JCPP: acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚔 How do liberal democracies come to embrace militarised policing? Join us tonight for a public lecture at LSE on empire, race and policing with @juliango.bsky.social, @aaronreeves.bsky.social and Mahvish Ahmad 💻 In‑person & online

Professor Julian Go | Is liberal militarisation possible?

6.30pm Wed 27 May | Professor Julian Go, Dr Mahvish Ahmad, Professor Aaron Reeves | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

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Looking forward to speaking in London next week on why liberal democracies create militarized police readied for authoritarian rule (spoiler alert: the answer is not about whether you have liberal or right wing leaders but rather is about histories of colonialism).

LSE Sociology@lsesociology.bsky.social · 3mo ago

💡 How do imperial tactics return home to reshape policing, citizenship and democracy? Join us for 'From citizen to subject', a free public event at LSE with @juliango.bsky.social and @aaronreeves.bsky.social. #LSEEvents #LSESociology

My new book Cancelled Futures is out with @princetonupress.bsky.social September 8th Based on 62 interviews with working-class youth living in East London, Rochdale & Morecambe it examines how race, class, gender and place shape how young people envision their transition to work shorturl.at/hVEL7

Cancelled Futures

How race, class, gender, and place shape the ways working-class young people in Britain envision their transition from education to work

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This looks like excellent and fascinating work! Somewhat surprisingly it resonates with what @samfriedman.bsky.social and I found in the UK, i.e., access to elite positions (beyond just politicians) has been fairly stable across C20 among people born into wealth www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Born to Rule — Harvard University Press

The Economist, Best Books of 2024The Times, Best Ideas Books of 2024A uniquely data-rich analysis of the British elite from the Victorian era to today: who gets in, how they get there, what they like ...

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James Feigenbaum@jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Excited to share an updated paper from a longstanding agenda with Andy Hall, @dthompson.bsky.social, and Jesse Yoder: "Fortunate Sons: Elite Political Selection in American History" We link Members of Congress (+ their families) to the complete count census, covering congresses from 1850-the 2000s

💡 How do imperial tactics return home to reshape policing, citizenship and democracy? Join us for 'From citizen to subject', a free public event at LSE with @juliango.bsky.social and @aaronreeves.bsky.social. #LSEEvents #LSESociology

Professor Julian Go | Is liberal militarisation possible?

6.30pm Wed 27 May | Professor Julian Go, Dr Mahvish Ahmad, Professor Aaron Reeves | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

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The last time I was turned down for Arts Council funding, they sent me a model application for a project to demonstrate what they were ideally looking for. The model application was by me a year earlier. And was also turned down.

Well, that Express headline was always going to raise a few eyebrows!😳 Starmer is responsible for embracing polygamy to appease Muslims, and so he's increasing their benefits?? That's the implication. After all, this "started in April", right? Wrong! 🧵1/25

1/ New @Nature! We study how powerful institutions shape the information environment for LLMs. Commercial LLM training is opaque, so we trace a path from state-coordinated media -> training data -> model responses.

106 years ago today, on May 7th, an undergraduate at Christchurch College, Oxford, drank a glass of port then left through the main gates for a walk. I've been thinking about him, & his walk, for years now. It's taken a long time for me to figure out why - why I've kept returning, near obsessed.

FIRST! SOLE-AUTHORED! PUBLICATION! 🎊 Making myself guilty of self-promotion but my first ever sole-authored article is an Editor’s Choice... still open access for 10 days, get it while it’s hot Link doi.org/10.1332/2631...

The interdisciplinary team of lecturers includes Steven Durlauf @durlauf.bsky.social, Béatrice Cherrier, Ariel Kalil @arielkalil.bsky.social, Zachary Parolin @zparolin.bsky.social, Paola Profeta @paolaprofeta.bsky.social, and me. Details for applying here👇 email.harris.uchicago.edu/-temporary-s...

New paper with @bjoernbremer.bsky.social and @catherinedevries.bsky.social out! The Limits of Public Support for Fiscal Consolidation: Survey Evidence From Great Britain (1/7) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Reform UK politicians pit the ruling elite against "ordinary people”. But do their policy proposals actually serve working class communities? And what is the class background of their own party elite? @vladimirbortun.bsky.social & @aaronreeves.bsky.social explore #LSEInequalitiesBlog

Does Reform UK serve the interests of the working class?

Reform UK politicians contrast the ruling elite with "ordinary people”. But do their policy proposals serve - or fail - working class communities?

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Can't believe I used to go to the toilet without screaming I'M IN THE TOILET at a child every 15 seconds.