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Professor in SPS, Glasgow University. PI Nuffield; PI @GLIMER_Research. co-Editor @IDjnl. FBA FRSE FAcSS. Writing in personal capacity.
Next #IdentitiesEvent! 'On Angéline Escafré-Dublet's A Political History of Immigration in France' 2 Sep, 12.30-13.30pm Book seminar co-organised by #Identities, University of Glasgow Political and International Studies, and CMRN at the University of Edinburgh www.eventbrite.co.uk...
Nigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him
"Today programme presenter Justin Webb, who described Liddle as brilliant, kind and funny". www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a... Naturally...
How come Farage is allowed to hold a press conference, which was broadcast on the BBC?
New issue from #Identities, now published! Vol 32 No 4 Explore the issue: www.tandfonline.com/... #LatestIssue @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
Mujahed Mofleh, one of Palestine’s finest editors, nearly died after leaving Israeli detention. When I visited him, he could barely move, yet wrote he had messages from prisoners he needed to deliver. That’s when I realized the prison never left him. mondoweiss.net/2026/06/muja...
Mujahed Mofleh: When the prison never leaves you
Mujahed Mofleh, one of Palestine’s finest editors, nearly died after leaving Israeli detention. When I visited him, he could barely move, yet wrote he had messages from prisoners he needed to…
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"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
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Nigel Farage needs to urgently explain why he welcomed Glenn Gibbins back into Reform just last month. Throwing this man out of his Party should have been the easiest call possible for Reform – but yet again Farage has proven he’s unfit for office. www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
North East Reform UK councillor Glenn Gibbins charged over social media comments
The councillor was elected to represent the Hylton Castle ward for Reform UK in May
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1/ What has devolution changed for race equality across Britain? Our new @nuffieldfoundation.org funded Policy Briefing we map the strategies, duties, action plans and accountability mechanisms developed since devolution. bsky.app/profile/uofg...
Centre for Public Policy@uofgpolicy.bsky.social · 6d agoHow has race equality policy developed differently across England, Scotland and Wales during the three decades of devolution? ❓ Read new insights from @nasarmeer.bsky.social and Dr Mahnoz Illias: www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...
How has race equality policy developed differently across England, Scotland and Wales during the three decades of devolution? ❓ Read new insights from @nasarmeer.bsky.social and Dr Mahnoz Illias: www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...
'Working to breaking point: Una Marson’s pioneering broadcasting career at the B.B.C.' New from #Identities, by Anthony Frampton & Yvette Rowe: doi.org/10.1080/1070... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social #race #racism #postcolonial
So Irish Examiner journalist Alison O’Reilly hears a solicitor, Gavin Booth say that the suspect in the car bomb case ‘spent time in Saoradh.’ She, being kind, misheard him and reports it as time in Syria. The misreporting (still up, btw) goes around the world and media shrugs. Bizarre
The Times corrects its splash story headlined "Migrant care workers bring dozens of family members." The Times got this totally wrong. It then used its own error as the basis for an editorial calling explicitly for forced expulsions of people living here legally. www.thetimes.com/comment/regi...
"There are numerous accounts of journalists in Northern Ireland facing intimidation from masked men while covering anti-immigration riots, disclosed to the UK’s National Union of Journalists" www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
UK journalists ‘self-censoring stories about Trump and the right over safety fears’
Government-backed investigation finds risks are normalised amid ‘a narrowing of the public conversation’
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The plot thickens... Now Farage's favourite convicted fraudster has written to the National Crime Agency posing as a "long-standing member" of top security think tank RUSI. RUSI's response? He isn't a member. You couldn't make it up - except apparently he can. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
George Cottrell falsely claimed think tank membership in banking complaint
The fraudster, who has donated to Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, said he was a member of the Royal United Services Institute, which it denied
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Phil Brickell MP@philbrickellmp.bsky.social · 2w agoFake passports. A money laundering conviction. A mystery casino fortune in Montenegro... There's yet more revelations about who Farage chooses to surround himself with. Let’s start with George Cottrell. A man Farage describes as "like a son," and his former chief of staff 👇
Great stuff here from @petergeoghegan.bsky.social who's one of those journalists that's kept our focus on the issues while so many others danced to the Farage tune: bsky.app/profile/pros...
Prospect Magazine@prospectmagazine.co.uk · 2w ago🎥: Peter Geoghegan breaks down Reform UK’s donations scandals, from ‘Posh George’ to Thailand-based crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne
The latest issue of The #Identities Newsletter is now published! Spotlighting the journal's latest activities, including events, blog posts & more: sh1.sendinblue.com/a... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social @uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social
🎥: Peter Geoghegan breaks down Reform UK’s donations scandals, from ‘Posh George’ to Thailand-based crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne
Nigel Farage’s crypto donation problem—with Peter Geoghegan
As Nigel Farage continues to face scrutiny over his finances and undeclared donations, is big money hurting our democracy? This week, Alona and Imaan are joined by Peter Geoghegan, investigative journalist and founder of Democracy for Sale. Peter unpacks the scandal and introduces a cast of Reform
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🚨 Major Investigation: George Cottrell, the convicted fraudster and long-time Farage ally, has influenced Reform UK’s finances through an apparent act of identity fraud. Thread on the key findings below 👇 bylinetimes.com/2026/07/23/p...
‘Posh George’, Two Passports, and a Fraudulent Identity: Convicted Fraudster and Nigel Farage Funder's Connections to Reform UK’s Murky Financial Structures
Why did Reform UK change from being a privately-owned company to a non-profit company limited by guarantee in 2025? Nafeez Ahmed investigates a fraudulent identity used by George Cottrell – and how hi...
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"Spectator and its broader universe constitute what is now mostly a low-brow media attempting to dress up racist audience-baiting as high-end journalism, all of which is met not with alarm and objection by establishment politics, but a “cheers” in the sunshine." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Why has Britain’s oldest political magazine become such a rabid cheerleader for Islamophobia? | Nesrine Malik
A report on the Spectator’s coverage of Muslims makes for grim reading. Conservatism is now focused on this minority to the exclusion of everything else, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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The latest issue of The #Identities Newsletter is now published! Spotlighting the journal's latest activities, including events, blog posts & more: sh1.sendinblue.com/a... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social @uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social
George Cottrell is a convicted fraudster who was jailed after offering money-laundering services for drug trafficking. That's whose money Farage et al have been playing the distraction game about. bsky.app/profile/step...
Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 3w agoAmazing that Farage thought (still thinks?) that “Don’t worry. thr people of Clacton think this fine, and who are you to argue, you peasant” was a good firewall on this stuff:
'Patriot News' reporter Chris Atkins (scatatkins.bsky.social) was just kicked out of Liz Truss' CPAC conference for asking the wrong questions. So much for free speech.
I'm old enough to remember when the entire British right had a month long meltdown about "foreign interference" when Obama said something mildly disobliging about Brexit. The Trump administration pouring millions of dollars into far right political groups in the UK? Not a peep
Our former Prime Minister still wreaking havoc...
Traders at Brixton market fight back against private equity takeover of the site, want community ownership. PE will kill the market, currently owned by a Texas billionaire. Once it is gone, it's gone forever. Solidarity for resistance to big business, PE and financialisation of everything.
‘It’s like home’: Brixton market traders fight to stop site being sold to big business
Campaign hopes to buy site for community, fearing it could go same route of corporate gentrification as Camden and Old Spitalfields
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Threatening to murder an MP...or indeed anyone online should be an arrestable offence. But as always, Nigel Farage does have a history of inciting violence. Remember this from 2017?
