Professor Daniele Albertazzi
@dralbertazziuk.bsky.social
Professor of Politics, Research Community Lead (School of Social Sciences) @UniOfSurrey. #populism, #EuropeanPolitics, #partyorganisation. Posts=my views.
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Our brand new monograph, discussing the findings of our work together during the last seven years, is now out for @oxfordacademic.bsky.social and free to read and download!
Finishing this book wasn't exactly easy, but it's out there now and I can hardly believe it...
Anyone and everyone can read it and download it, as it is Open Access.
We are happy to come to your institution and present the findings in the Autumn, just drop us a line!
Anyone and everyone can read it and download it, as it is Open Access.
We are happy to come to your institution and present the findings in the Autumn, just drop us a line!
It will be great to meet some of you in Oxford and/or Dublin before too long! Come and say hello to us if you are there...
Members of our @populisminaction.bsky.social team will be presenting our work at 2 conferences in the near future:
The Political Studies Association 2026 Annual Conference in Oxford (30th March-1st Apr) and the 32nd International Conference of Europeanists in Dublin (16-18 June).
Details below.
The Political Studies Association 2026 Annual Conference in Oxford (30th March-1st Apr) and the 32nd International Conference of Europeanists in Dublin (16-18 June).
Details below.
February 5, 2026 at 4:36 PM
It will be great to meet some of you in Oxford and/or Dublin before too long! Come and say hello to us if you are there...
Reposted by Professor Daniele Albertazzi
Starmer finding that place in a Venn Diagram where he manages to annoy allies without defeating enemies
Keir Starmer attacks the racism of Reform and Matt Goodwin but then adds that "Britain has also been let down by a mindset on the left of politics that is too slow to defend core British values"
February 5, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Starmer finding that place in a Venn Diagram where he manages to annoy allies without defeating enemies
Reposted by Professor Daniele Albertazzi
[email protected] (Financial Times) on General Vannacci leaving Salvini's League yesterday. Includes comments by yours truly and other commentators about the damage this development will inflict on Salvini's credibility and authority within the party.
as.ft.com/r/a2f5163d-3...
as.ft.com/r/a2f5163d-3...
Far-right hardliner poses challenge to Italy’s Matteo Salvini
[FREE TO READ] Retired army general Roberto Vannacci splits from the League to form his own National Future party
as.ft.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:06 AM
[email protected] (Financial Times) on General Vannacci leaving Salvini's League yesterday. Includes comments by yours truly and other commentators about the damage this development will inflict on Salvini's credibility and authority within the party.
as.ft.com/r/a2f5163d-3...
as.ft.com/r/a2f5163d-3...
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Our principal investigator, @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social, spoke to the Financial Times about the troubles affecting the League in Italy.
The link below should still be non-paywalled, hopefully.
The link below should still be non-paywalled, hopefully.
[email protected] (Financial Times) on General Vannacci leaving Salvini's League yesterday. Includes comments by yours truly and other commentators about the damage this development will inflict on Salvini's credibility and authority within the party.
as.ft.com/r/a2f5163d-3...
as.ft.com/r/a2f5163d-3...
Far-right hardliner poses challenge to Italy’s Matteo Salvini
[FREE TO READ] Retired army general Roberto Vannacci splits from the League to form his own National Future party
as.ft.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Our principal investigator, @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social, spoke to the Financial Times about the troubles affecting the League in Italy.
The link below should still be non-paywalled, hopefully.
The link below should still be non-paywalled, hopefully.
[email protected] (Financial Times) on General Vannacci leaving Salvini's League yesterday. Includes comments by yours truly and other commentators about the damage this development will inflict on Salvini's credibility and authority within the party.
as.ft.com/r/a2f5163d-3...
as.ft.com/r/a2f5163d-3...
Far-right hardliner poses challenge to Italy’s Matteo Salvini
[FREE TO READ] Retired army general Roberto Vannacci splits from the League to form his own National Future party
as.ft.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:06 AM
[email protected] (Financial Times) on General Vannacci leaving Salvini's League yesterday. Includes comments by yours truly and other commentators about the damage this development will inflict on Salvini's credibility and authority within the party.
as.ft.com/r/a2f5163d-3...
as.ft.com/r/a2f5163d-3...
Reposted by Professor Daniele Albertazzi
I very much doubt this a "widening rift", as l do not expect more than 3 or 4 MPs to follow Vannacci. Leaving an organised political machine to join a personal party led by someone who has no experience of life in the institutions, campaigning etc & has just performed poorly in regional elections...
Italian MEP Roberto Vannacci today formally broke with Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini’s far-right League party, capping weeks of internal turmoil and exposing a widening rift on Italy’s right.
Italy’s far-right League party splits as Salvini’s deputy quits
Roberto Vannacci has launched a new far-right party that’s “not moderate.”
www.politico.eu
February 3, 2026 at 7:36 PM
I very much doubt this a "widening rift", as l do not expect more than 3 or 4 MPs to follow Vannacci. Leaving an organised political machine to join a personal party led by someone who has no experience of life in the institutions, campaigning etc & has just performed poorly in regional elections...
I very much doubt this a "widening rift", as l do not expect more than 3 or 4 MPs to follow Vannacci. Leaving an organised political machine to join a personal party led by someone who has no experience of life in the institutions, campaigning etc & has just performed poorly in regional elections...
Italian MEP Roberto Vannacci today formally broke with Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini’s far-right League party, capping weeks of internal turmoil and exposing a widening rift on Italy’s right.
Italy’s far-right League party splits as Salvini’s deputy quits
Roberto Vannacci has launched a new far-right party that’s “not moderate.”
www.politico.eu
February 3, 2026 at 7:36 PM
I very much doubt this a "widening rift", as l do not expect more than 3 or 4 MPs to follow Vannacci. Leaving an organised political machine to join a personal party led by someone who has no experience of life in the institutions, campaigning etc & has just performed poorly in regional elections...
Reposted by Professor Daniele Albertazzi
And here we go: Salvini will tell League's Federal Council meeting today that Vannacci is leaving for good.
Creating one more party competing for radical right support in such a crowded environment has everything to do with personal ambition & very little with ideology & policies of course...
Creating one more party competing for radical right support in such a crowded environment has everything to do with personal ambition & very little with ideology & policies of course...
Vannacci has now registered a logo that will most likely function as the party's new symbol.
Those wishing to understand Italian politics may find re-reading this good article on Roberto Vannacci (League's deputy leader) worth their time, as Vannacci is most probably on the verge of leaving the party:
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
February 3, 2026 at 2:10 PM
And here we go: Salvini will tell League's Federal Council meeting today that Vannacci is leaving for good.
Creating one more party competing for radical right support in such a crowded environment has everything to do with personal ambition & very little with ideology & policies of course...
Creating one more party competing for radical right support in such a crowded environment has everything to do with personal ambition & very little with ideology & policies of course...
And here we go: Salvini will tell League's Federal Council meeting today that Vannacci is leaving for good.
Creating one more party competing for radical right support in such a crowded environment has everything to do with personal ambition & very little with ideology & policies of course...
Creating one more party competing for radical right support in such a crowded environment has everything to do with personal ambition & very little with ideology & policies of course...
Vannacci has now registered a logo that will most likely function as the party's new symbol.
Those wishing to understand Italian politics may find re-reading this good article on Roberto Vannacci (League's deputy leader) worth their time, as Vannacci is most probably on the verge of leaving the party:
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
February 3, 2026 at 2:10 PM
And here we go: Salvini will tell League's Federal Council meeting today that Vannacci is leaving for good.
Creating one more party competing for radical right support in such a crowded environment has everything to do with personal ambition & very little with ideology & policies of course...
Creating one more party competing for radical right support in such a crowded environment has everything to do with personal ambition & very little with ideology & policies of course...
Gosh is he feeling alright? Those millions of Reform voters who are flocking back to Labour won't be impressed.
Keir Starmer has said Nigel Farage was wrong about Brexit and said the "botched deal" created by the previous government "has caused damage to our economy"
www.itv.com/news/2026-02...
www.itv.com/news/2026-02...
February 1, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Gosh is he feeling alright? Those millions of Reform voters who are flocking back to Labour won't be impressed.
Reposted by Professor Daniele Albertazzi
[email protected] from the Financial Times on the gradual normalisation of ideas concerning "remigration" & how Meloni has tried to avoid the topic so far. With some of my comments for good measure:
www.ft.com/content/4eb1...
www.ft.com/content/4eb1...
Italian far-right activists push for ‘remigration’ law
[FREE TO READ] Extremist groups launch petition that would force parliament to debate law on mass deportations
www.ft.com
January 30, 2026 at 7:10 PM
[email protected] from the Financial Times on the gradual normalisation of ideas concerning "remigration" & how Meloni has tried to avoid the topic so far. With some of my comments for good measure:
www.ft.com/content/4eb1...
www.ft.com/content/4eb1...
[email protected] from the Financial Times on the gradual normalisation of ideas concerning "remigration" & how Meloni has tried to avoid the topic so far. With some of my comments for good measure:
www.ft.com/content/4eb1...
www.ft.com/content/4eb1...
Italian far-right activists push for ‘remigration’ law
[FREE TO READ] Extremist groups launch petition that would force parliament to debate law on mass deportations
www.ft.com
January 30, 2026 at 7:10 PM
[email protected] from the Financial Times on the gradual normalisation of ideas concerning "remigration" & how Meloni has tried to avoid the topic so far. With some of my comments for good measure:
www.ft.com/content/4eb1...
www.ft.com/content/4eb1...
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"I am going to stick to my big idea of co-opting Farage's policies. If it ain't broken..."
There, l fixed it.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
There, l fixed it.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Centrist ideas no longer wanted in Conservative party, says Kemi Badenoch
Party leader tells MPs that one-nation Tories doubting her rightward direction ‘need to get out of the way’
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 4:21 PM
"I am going to stick to my big idea of co-opting Farage's policies. If it ain't broken..."
There, l fixed it.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
There, l fixed it.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
"I am going to stick to my big idea of co-opting Farage's policies. If it ain't broken..."
There, l fixed it.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
There, l fixed it.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Centrist ideas no longer wanted in Conservative party, says Kemi Badenoch
Party leader tells MPs that one-nation Tories doubting her rightward direction ‘need to get out of the way’
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 4:21 PM
"I am going to stick to my big idea of co-opting Farage's policies. If it ain't broken..."
There, l fixed it.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
There, l fixed it.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reposted by Professor Daniele Albertazzi
On Holocaust Memorial Day, PM Giorgia Meloni has made the following statement:
"On this day, we once again condemn the Fascist regime's complicity in persecutions, roundups, and deportations. A dark page in Italian history, sealed by the ignominy of the racial laws of 1938".
"On this day, we once again condemn the Fascist regime's complicity in persecutions, roundups, and deportations. A dark page in Italian history, sealed by the ignominy of the racial laws of 1938".
January 27, 2026 at 9:39 PM
On Holocaust Memorial Day, PM Giorgia Meloni has made the following statement:
"On this day, we once again condemn the Fascist regime's complicity in persecutions, roundups, and deportations. A dark page in Italian history, sealed by the ignominy of the racial laws of 1938".
"On this day, we once again condemn the Fascist regime's complicity in persecutions, roundups, and deportations. A dark page in Italian history, sealed by the ignominy of the racial laws of 1938".
Vannacci has now registered a logo that will most likely function as the party's new symbol.
Those wishing to understand Italian politics may find re-reading this good article on Roberto Vannacci (League's deputy leader) worth their time, as Vannacci is most probably on the verge of leaving the party:
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
Who is Roberto Vannacci, Italy's favourite far-right general?
When Roberto Vannacci's controversial book came out last August, he was widely mocked and criticised for his extreme views – yet now he's the lead candidate for Matteo Salvini's far-right Lega party i...
www.euronews.com
January 27, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Vannacci has now registered a logo that will most likely function as the party's new symbol.
On Holocaust Memorial Day, PM Giorgia Meloni has made the following statement:
"On this day, we once again condemn the Fascist regime's complicity in persecutions, roundups, and deportations. A dark page in Italian history, sealed by the ignominy of the racial laws of 1938".
"On this day, we once again condemn the Fascist regime's complicity in persecutions, roundups, and deportations. A dark page in Italian history, sealed by the ignominy of the racial laws of 1938".
January 27, 2026 at 9:39 PM
On Holocaust Memorial Day, PM Giorgia Meloni has made the following statement:
"On this day, we once again condemn the Fascist regime's complicity in persecutions, roundups, and deportations. A dark page in Italian history, sealed by the ignominy of the racial laws of 1938".
"On this day, we once again condemn the Fascist regime's complicity in persecutions, roundups, and deportations. A dark page in Italian history, sealed by the ignominy of the racial laws of 1938".
"And yet 25% of House Democrats still won't impeach Kristi Noem".
There, l fixed the headline.
There, l fixed the headline.
Here’s the list of US House Democrats who want to impeach Kristi Noem.
FROM Shauneen Miranda
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/here...
FROM Shauneen Miranda
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/here...
Here’s the list of US House Democrats who want to impeach Kristi Noem
WASHINGTON — A growing number of U.S. House Democrats are pushing for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s impeachment after another fatal shooting of an American citizen by federal immigration o...
www.newsfromthestates.com
January 27, 2026 at 9:25 PM
"And yet 25% of House Democrats still won't impeach Kristi Noem".
There, l fixed the headline.
There, l fixed the headline.
Reposted by Professor Daniele Albertazzi
Those wishing to understand Italian politics may find re-reading this good article on Roberto Vannacci (League's deputy leader) worth their time, as Vannacci is most probably on the verge of leaving the party:
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
Who is Roberto Vannacci, Italy's favourite far-right general?
When Roberto Vannacci's controversial book came out last August, he was widely mocked and criticised for his extreme views – yet now he's the lead candidate for Matteo Salvini's far-right Lega party i...
www.euronews.com
January 25, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Those wishing to understand Italian politics may find re-reading this good article on Roberto Vannacci (League's deputy leader) worth their time, as Vannacci is most probably on the verge of leaving the party:
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
Those wishing to understand Italian politics may find re-reading this good article on Roberto Vannacci (League's deputy leader) worth their time, as Vannacci is most probably on the verge of leaving the party:
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
Who is Roberto Vannacci, Italy's favourite far-right general?
When Roberto Vannacci's controversial book came out last August, he was widely mocked and criticised for his extreme views – yet now he's the lead candidate for Matteo Salvini's far-right Lega party i...
www.euronews.com
January 25, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Those wishing to understand Italian politics may find re-reading this good article on Roberto Vannacci (League's deputy leader) worth their time, as Vannacci is most probably on the verge of leaving the party:
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
Reposted by Professor Daniele Albertazzi
Letting loose these individuals on the NHS is Farage's second monumental mistake this week, after failing to grasp the depth of resentment in the country about Trump's "NATO remarks".
Both pretty stupid mistakes, too.
Both pretty stupid mistakes, too.
Reform MP Andrew Rosindell tells the BBC that he "would not object" to scrapping the NHS and replacing it with private insurance
January 25, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Letting loose these individuals on the NHS is Farage's second monumental mistake this week, after failing to grasp the depth of resentment in the country about Trump's "NATO remarks".
Both pretty stupid mistakes, too.
Both pretty stupid mistakes, too.
Letting loose these individuals on the NHS is Farage's second monumental mistake this week, after failing to grasp the depth of resentment in the country about Trump's "NATO remarks".
Both pretty stupid mistakes, too.
Both pretty stupid mistakes, too.
Reform MP Andrew Rosindell tells the BBC that he "would not object" to scrapping the NHS and replacing it with private insurance
January 25, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Letting loose these individuals on the NHS is Farage's second monumental mistake this week, after failing to grasp the depth of resentment in the country about Trump's "NATO remarks".
Both pretty stupid mistakes, too.
Both pretty stupid mistakes, too.
Reform MP Andrew Rosindell tells the BBC that he "would not object" to scrapping the NHS and replacing it with private insurance
January 25, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Letting loose these individuals on the NHS is Farage's second monumental mistake this week, after failing to grasp the depth of resentment in the country about Trump's "NATO remarks".
Both pretty stupid mistakes, too.
Both pretty stupid mistakes, too.
Reposted by Professor Daniele Albertazzi
Meloni finally feels compelled to react to Trump's words about NATO soldiers in Afghanistan (with much delay):
"Statements that downplay the contribution of NATO countries in Afghanistan are unacceptable, especially if they come from an allied nation".
"Statements that downplay the contribution of NATO countries in Afghanistan are unacceptable, especially if they come from an allied nation".
January 24, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Meloni finally feels compelled to react to Trump's words about NATO soldiers in Afghanistan (with much delay):
"Statements that downplay the contribution of NATO countries in Afghanistan are unacceptable, especially if they come from an allied nation".
"Statements that downplay the contribution of NATO countries in Afghanistan are unacceptable, especially if they come from an allied nation".
Reposted by Professor Daniele Albertazzi
In further news concerning the normalisation of the extreme right, Matteo Salvini has hosted Tommy Robinson at Italy's Ministery of Transport and infrastructure today.
Almost as if he were some sort of foreign dignitary.
Almost as if he were some sort of foreign dignitary.
January 24, 2026 at 10:23 PM
In further news concerning the normalisation of the extreme right, Matteo Salvini has hosted Tommy Robinson at Italy's Ministery of Transport and infrastructure today.
Almost as if he were some sort of foreign dignitary.
Almost as if he were some sort of foreign dignitary.