David En-Griffiths
@homodavien.bsky.social
Teach social science. Research interests: homosexuality, class, kinship and contemporary intimacies. He/they. Same @ on twitter, if you're wondering how I found you. My posts are SFW but my likes might have naked men in them, so be warned.
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“Sex must be civilized and civilizing”
The Christian right is *really* aching to get into your bedroom. They’ve flooded the zone with pseudoscience and moral panics around porn, but their real missionary position is to control sexuality like the old Catholic Church.
ifstudies.org/blog/the-pro...
The Christian right is *really* aching to get into your bedroom. They’ve flooded the zone with pseudoscience and moral panics around porn, but their real missionary position is to control sexuality like the old Catholic Church.
ifstudies.org/blog/the-pro...
November 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
“Sex must be civilized and civilizing”
The Christian right is *really* aching to get into your bedroom. They’ve flooded the zone with pseudoscience and moral panics around porn, but their real missionary position is to control sexuality like the old Catholic Church.
ifstudies.org/blog/the-pro...
The Christian right is *really* aching to get into your bedroom. They’ve flooded the zone with pseudoscience and moral panics around porn, but their real missionary position is to control sexuality like the old Catholic Church.
ifstudies.org/blog/the-pro...
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Last month, @theguardian.com framed this historical event project the same way; minimizing the years of archival work, the interviews etc it took to be able to do this.
Instead ‘AI solved this historical problem!’
Instead ‘AI solved this historical problem!’
November 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Last month, @theguardian.com framed this historical event project the same way; minimizing the years of archival work, the interviews etc it took to be able to do this.
Instead ‘AI solved this historical problem!’
Instead ‘AI solved this historical problem!’
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He also had a disabled brother, and his government is constantly demonising disability benefit claimants.
I don't think Starmer actually likes his family very much.
I don't think Starmer actually likes his family very much.
Since a homophobic attack on his niece, his party has introduced multiple anti-LGBTQIA+ policies and the UK has fallen steeply in human rights rankings
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/keir-starmer-shocked-his-anti-lgbtqia-rhetoric-is-creating-anti-lgbtqia-sentiment/
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/keir-starmer-shocked-his-anti-lgbtqia-rhetoric-is-creating-anti-lgbtqia-sentiment/
Starmer "furious" at homophobic attack on his family, as if his party has nothing to do with it
Since a homophobic attack on his niece, his party has introduced multiple anti-LGBTQIA+ policies and the UK has fallen steeply in human rights rankings
www.wearequeeraf.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:52 AM
He also had a disabled brother, and his government is constantly demonising disability benefit claimants.
I don't think Starmer actually likes his family very much.
I don't think Starmer actually likes his family very much.
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Here's an idea: what if we "concentrated" the refugee population into certain locations? "Camps" if you will. We could force them to work for free too. I wonder if there's a name for this sort of thing?
Well the optics of this are certainly something
From, inevitably, the BBC
November 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Here's an idea: what if we "concentrated" the refugee population into certain locations? "Camps" if you will. We could force them to work for free too. I wonder if there's a name for this sort of thing?
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Dismal framing. Every aspect of most asylum seekers’ lives is controlled & paid for by the Home Office. They can’t work, are told where to live & have no autonomy or dignity. So they aren’t *choosing* to use taxis & don’t need to be “banned” from doing so. The HO just needs to get its act in order.
Government to ban asylum seekers from using taxis
The ban is set to come in February and any exemptions will have to be signed off by the Home Office.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Dismal framing. Every aspect of most asylum seekers’ lives is controlled & paid for by the Home Office. They can’t work, are told where to live & have no autonomy or dignity. So they aren’t *choosing* to use taxis & don’t need to be “banned” from doing so. The HO just needs to get its act in order.
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The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says
The NGO’s chief says last month’s ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal’
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Had a large mulled wine with brandy yesterday. It was very good. Really marching into festivity now.
November 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Had a large mulled wine with brandy yesterday. It was very good. Really marching into festivity now.
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This is in the West Bank, not Gaza.
Video shows Israeli forces shooting Palestinians dead moments after surrender
Video shows Israeli forces shooting Palestinians dead moments after surrender
Far-right minister defends killing of two men in Jenin, saying ‘terrorists must die’
Video of an Israeli military raid in Jenin shows soldiers summarily executing two Palestinians they had detained seconds earlier.
The shooting on Thursday evening, which was also witnessed by journalists close to the scene, is under justice ministry review, but has already been defended by Israel’s far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who declared: “terrorists must die”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
This is in the West Bank, not Gaza.
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Labour Together is a hate group mate.
Page 30.
The bigotry towards people who are transgender is not incidental.
It was and is a central plank of the Labour Party to gain and retain power. This is who our government is and every LGBT person should never forget this.
The bigotry towards people who are transgender is not incidental.
It was and is a central plank of the Labour Party to gain and retain power. This is who our government is and every LGBT person should never forget this.
November 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Labour Together is a hate group mate.
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One constant of liberal analyses of what's going wrong is, unless they're yelling at the left, nobody is involved, nobody does anything wrong, in fact nobody does anything at all.
November 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
One constant of liberal analyses of what's going wrong is, unless they're yelling at the left, nobody is involved, nobody does anything wrong, in fact nobody does anything at all.
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The arrows here are fascinating. More irregular migration just leads to support for populists. It just does. Nobody goes in the paper that they own and screams about it, nobody goes on the TV show that they host and "asks questions." And of course racists don't object to regular migration.
Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The arrows here are fascinating. More irregular migration just leads to support for populists. It just does. Nobody goes in the paper that they own and screams about it, nobody goes on the TV show that they host and "asks questions." And of course racists don't object to regular migration.
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Treating “Britain is too difficult, expensive and shit to live in” as a win is incredible
I'm not sure how much it is appreciated that there will be significant emigration coming. Those here on graduate visas coming to an end, the toughening up of skilled worker rules re. salaries/sponsorable roles and the 'earned settlement' changes to come. Lots of people are going to leave.
November 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Treating “Britain is too difficult, expensive and shit to live in” as a win is incredible
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The UK prefers racism over prosperity as Brexit proved
Today we’ll get latest net immigration figures - They’ll show immigration for work is plummeting.
Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth?
For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today
Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth?
For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today
November 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The UK prefers racism over prosperity as Brexit proved
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This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened
November 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened
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This is not *the far right* news. This is Sky, utterly mainstream, entirely and completely operating under the frame that "welfare spending is too high and needs to be cut". This is total received wisdom in the UK, even though it's not even close to true.
Ridge: "This is what I don't understand. I think you do believe we do spend too much money on welfare... I'm trying to work out why we've ended up with [this] budget"
Pressure e.g. this govt didn't want to scrap the two child benefit cap but they've been forced to
Pressure e.g. this govt didn't want to scrap the two child benefit cap but they've been forced to
November 27, 2025 at 7:52 AM
This is not *the far right* news. This is Sky, utterly mainstream, entirely and completely operating under the frame that "welfare spending is too high and needs to be cut". This is total received wisdom in the UK, even though it's not even close to true.
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Basically since austerity, a policy everyone now agrees was a disastrous mistake, we've been stuck in this mode. We're economic stagnant and culturally in disarray. Corbyn promised something different but UK establishment absolutely panicked, Truss tried something different but alas it was insane.
November 27, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Basically since austerity, a policy everyone now agrees was a disastrous mistake, we've been stuck in this mode. We're economic stagnant and culturally in disarray. Corbyn promised something different but UK establishment absolutely panicked, Truss tried something different but alas it was insane.
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This!! This!! If you tax *income* more then high earning graduates will pay it, and low earning graduates won't! As opposed to this, paid by low earning graduates and not by high earning non-graduates!!!!!!!
If graduates benefit so much from high earnings, you can simply raise the thresholds and they'll still earn enough to qualify. Ffs
How it started / How it's going
November 27, 2025 at 8:44 AM
This!! This!! If you tax *income* more then high earning graduates will pay it, and low earning graduates won't! As opposed to this, paid by low earning graduates and not by high earning non-graduates!!!!!!!
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1/🧵 He did something similar after the murder of Brianna Ghey, using the mention of a hate crime as a kind of prop. He never talks about hate crimes themselves; he only talks about how virtuous it supposedly is for him to acknowledge that they exist.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/k...
Why are we hearing about this now if it happened a few years ago?
Since coming to office AFTER the attack on his niece, Starmer's culture war anti-LGBTQ+ words and policies have got him and Labour banned from every Pride. He has personally made ...
Why are we hearing about this now if it happened a few years ago?
Since coming to office AFTER the attack on his niece, Starmer's culture war anti-LGBTQ+ words and policies have got him and Labour banned from every Pride. He has personally made ...
Keir Starmer's fury after niece and wife 'beaten by blokes for holding hands'
'I thought the days of beating up people because they were gay were well behind us.'
metro.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 8:53 AM
1/🧵 He did something similar after the murder of Brianna Ghey, using the mention of a hate crime as a kind of prop. He never talks about hate crimes themselves; he only talks about how virtuous it supposedly is for him to acknowledge that they exist.
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The Sugar Tax has ruined the taste of soft drinks. The only company that has managed to get their sweetener formulation right is sadly the evil Coca Cola corporation. Now they’re coming after milkshakes and cold coffees smh
November 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The Sugar Tax has ruined the taste of soft drinks. The only company that has managed to get their sweetener formulation right is sadly the evil Coca Cola corporation. Now they’re coming after milkshakes and cold coffees smh
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This is the point I keep making, so it's nice to actually have someone in politics say "address the most pressing issue now rather than try to massage the economy into a theoretically perfect state."
tbh Polanski seems to have avoided most of the big MMT heffalump traps (allowing that "inflation doesn't go higher" was a misspeak), I'm relatively impressed at whoever's advising him.
November 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
This is the point I keep making, so it's nice to actually have someone in politics say "address the most pressing issue now rather than try to massage the economy into a theoretically perfect state."
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"more face-to-face meetings for determining disability benefits"
Reeves wants to do MORE catastrophically costly and cruel ATOS nonsense. Its been proven to be inhumane and not make any savings, the UN called it ideologically driven harm.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy...
Reeves wants to do MORE catastrophically costly and cruel ATOS nonsense. Its been proven to be inhumane and not make any savings, the UN called it ideologically driven harm.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy...
Budget 2025 live: Rachel Reeves unveils tax rises and end of two-child benefit cap
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch calls the chancellor's Budget a
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
"more face-to-face meetings for determining disability benefits"
Reeves wants to do MORE catastrophically costly and cruel ATOS nonsense. Its been proven to be inhumane and not make any savings, the UN called it ideologically driven harm.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy...
Reeves wants to do MORE catastrophically costly and cruel ATOS nonsense. Its been proven to be inhumane and not make any savings, the UN called it ideologically driven harm.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy...
Mading my first foray into Jane Austen. Starting with Northanger Abbey. Not very far in but so far it is rather amusing. Probably would be funnier if I had a better knowledge of the literary heroines of the period in which is was written but the jokes explain themselves rather well.
November 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Mading my first foray into Jane Austen. Starting with Northanger Abbey. Not very far in but so far it is rather amusing. Probably would be funnier if I had a better knowledge of the literary heroines of the period in which is was written but the jokes explain themselves rather well.
Even when Labour manages to do something good, it is still really obvious they don't understand the scale of the problems facing the country.
November 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Even when Labour manages to do something good, it is still really obvious they don't understand the scale of the problems facing the country.
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The argument for universal benefits is empirically and theoretically bulletproof. The alternative simply does not work. The argument against is emotional, appeal to a general sense that a "rich" person should not get free childcare.
November 26, 2025 at 10:35 AM
The argument for universal benefits is empirically and theoretically bulletproof. The alternative simply does not work. The argument against is emotional, appeal to a general sense that a "rich" person should not get free childcare.
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Fundamentally what that lays out is that America has been running an experiment in the kind of "only the poor get benefits," anti-universalist politics that western liberals love, and the result seems to be severe financial distress across most of the population leading to fascism.
November 26, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Fundamentally what that lays out is that America has been running an experiment in the kind of "only the poor get benefits," anti-universalist politics that western liberals love, and the result seems to be severe financial distress across most of the population leading to fascism.