Liam Stanley
@liamstanley.bsky.social
Teach and research politics and political economy at the University of Sheffield. Currently researching global culture wars, the radical right, and neurodiversity identity politics.
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This is by some distance the best thing out there on this subject
New: for @equatormag.bsky.social I spent months talking to BBC journalists, from front-line reporters to the former head of the World Service, about how the corporation came unstuck over Gaza. But as I was working on the story, it collided with something... bigger... www.equator.org/articles/ins...
Inside the BBC’s Gaza Fiasco • Articles • EQUATOR
How the world’s most trusted media organisation fell apart
www.equator.org
November 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
This is by some distance the best thing out there on this subject
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This book is now out: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b.... A successor to the very much liked book of the same name edited by Andrew Leftwich. very pleased to be in the new one, edited by Colin Hay, with a chapter on 'politics as crisis management'.
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This book is now out: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b.... A successor to the very much liked book of the same name edited by Andrew Leftwich. very pleased to be in the new one, edited by Colin Hay, with a chapter on 'politics as crisis management'.
It’s now clear that there is no going back to “normal” democracy in the US. Even a post-MAGA democratic restoration will likely need a protracted and toxic process analogous with post-WWII denazification
on.ft.com/49pPufE
on.ft.com/49pPufE
The Trump Supremacy
Opponents in disarray, allies in line, followers enthralled — the US president is already on his way to building a new world order
on.ft.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
It’s now clear that there is no going back to “normal” democracy in the US. Even a post-MAGA democratic restoration will likely need a protracted and toxic process analogous with post-WWII denazification
on.ft.com/49pPufE
on.ft.com/49pPufE
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A thread of inspirational quotes from two of my idols: Kemi Badenoch and Ange Postecoglou
(uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??)
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(uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??)
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October 6, 2025 at 9:11 AM
A thread of inspirational quotes from two of my idols: Kemi Badenoch and Ange Postecoglou
(uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??)
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(uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??)
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This is such a weird article that mixes up the kind of bombastic exaggeration that is a core part of Trump’s personality with genuinely unhinged examples of odd behaviour.
October 6, 2025 at 7:00 AM
This is such a weird article that mixes up the kind of bombastic exaggeration that is a core part of Trump’s personality with genuinely unhinged examples of odd behaviour.
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There's at least one consistent pattern with this government: announcing a big policy before they've worked out any details, or planned its implementation & sending people out to defend it who've got no arguments. E.g.
1) Welfare reform: no plans for actually getting people into work (1/x)
1) Welfare reform: no plans for actually getting people into work (1/x)
October 2, 2025 at 9:37 AM
There's at least one consistent pattern with this government: announcing a big policy before they've worked out any details, or planned its implementation & sending people out to defend it who've got no arguments. E.g.
1) Welfare reform: no plans for actually getting people into work (1/x)
1) Welfare reform: no plans for actually getting people into work (1/x)
Anyone interested in the green transition ought to check out this brilliant new article by Chris Saltmarsh, published today in @ripejournal.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
September 18, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Anyone interested in the green transition ought to check out this brilliant new article by Chris Saltmarsh, published today in @ripejournal.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Quote of the day courtesy of Bismarck.
September 17, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Quote of the day courtesy of Bismarck.
One of the strangest things about my time in HE is how REF has gone from universally loathed by academics to seemingly our best hope for justifying (and therefore maintaining) the research component of our jobs.
Ministers ‘want to shift funds away from low-quality research’ .
Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Ministers ‘want to shift funds away from low-quality research’ - Research Professional News
Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
September 12, 2025 at 10:59 AM
One of the strangest things about my time in HE is how REF has gone from universally loathed by academics to seemingly our best hope for justifying (and therefore maintaining) the research component of our jobs.
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“Electric cars can be remotely controlled. Again, not a conspiracy theory. These cars can be shut down… There’s a reason why this neo-Marxist, communist, shambolic government wants us in electric cars. It’s so that we have no freedom whatsoever…" (sic) hopenothate.org.uk/2025/09/10/i...
Inside Reform's conference: conspiracy theories galore – HOPE not hate
Walking around Reform UK’s conference on Friday 6 and Saturday 7 September, one thing was clear: the party is utterly unfit to govern. Most peculiar...
hopenothate.org.uk
September 11, 2025 at 9:09 AM
“Electric cars can be remotely controlled. Again, not a conspiracy theory. These cars can be shut down… There’s a reason why this neo-Marxist, communist, shambolic government wants us in electric cars. It’s so that we have no freedom whatsoever…" (sic) hopenothate.org.uk/2025/09/10/i...
A question about Mandelson: if Starmer sacks him, then does that risk pissing off Trump by implying that fraternising with Epstein represents a red line that should not be crossed?
September 11, 2025 at 8:52 AM
A question about Mandelson: if Starmer sacks him, then does that risk pissing off Trump by implying that fraternising with Epstein represents a red line that should not be crossed?
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the free press trying to make a scandal out of reading robert dahl is very funny (shoutout to dahl, one of the best to ever do it)
One of Bari Weiss’s reporters over at the Free Press was shocked to discover what Columbia students are reading in class:
lol wat
lol wat
September 9, 2025 at 11:52 AM
the free press trying to make a scandal out of reading robert dahl is very funny (shoutout to dahl, one of the best to ever do it)
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Updated theory of British political decision making
September 2, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Updated theory of British political decision making
As a frequent reader of kids books, I wouldn’t have guessed frog as the most he/him gendered animal
August 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
As a frequent reader of kids books, I wouldn’t have guessed frog as the most he/him gendered animal
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It's happening! My book on financial nihilism is set to be published in March next year with Stanford UP. It has been many years in the making and I look forward to seeing it in print soon. www.sup.org/books/politi...
August 15, 2025 at 9:06 AM
It's happening! My book on financial nihilism is set to be published in March next year with Stanford UP. It has been many years in the making and I look forward to seeing it in print soon. www.sup.org/books/politi...
I found this Panic World podcast on Sydney Sweeney to be insightful for what this moment means for political culture: far right vibe shifts, outrage cycles on a dying social media platform, and just the bare cynicism of the whole episode.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
BONUS: Sydney Sweeney and rage bait
Podcast Episode · Panic World · 08/08/2025 · Bonus · 23m
podcasts.apple.com
August 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I found this Panic World podcast on Sydney Sweeney to be insightful for what this moment means for political culture: far right vibe shifts, outrage cycles on a dying social media platform, and just the bare cynicism of the whole episode.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
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The University of Warwick has paid a lot of money, I'm guessing, for their internet banner ads on the Guardian and elsewhere.
But they can't spell "curiosity". This isn't a US-UK variant. They just, genuinely, have a massive spelling error in their banner ads.
But they can't spell "curiosity". This isn't a US-UK variant. They just, genuinely, have a massive spelling error in their banner ads.
August 8, 2025 at 8:22 AM
The University of Warwick has paid a lot of money, I'm guessing, for their internet banner ads on the Guardian and elsewhere.
But they can't spell "curiosity". This isn't a US-UK variant. They just, genuinely, have a massive spelling error in their banner ads.
But they can't spell "curiosity". This isn't a US-UK variant. They just, genuinely, have a massive spelling error in their banner ads.
This Kafka quote is like a punch to the gut
August 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
This Kafka quote is like a punch to the gut
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One of the right's most popular fascists is revolting against Trump's economics www.vox.com/on-the-right...
Trump’s tariffs have pissed off the right’s favorite “pervert”
Bronze Age Pervert is an influential voice on the extreme right. Now he’s trying to change the administration’s economic approach.
www.vox.com
August 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
One of the right's most popular fascists is revolting against Trump's economics www.vox.com/on-the-right...
There's a conference next week on "Liberalism for the 21st Century: A Global Convening to Defend and Reimagine Liberal Democracy". The programme offers insight into who is considered liberal: Francis Fukuyama, David Goodhart, Daniel Drezner, Derek Thompson, Steven Pinker... conference.ismaglobal.org
Liberalism for the 21st Century - ISMA
Join some of the world’s leading liberal thinkers, journalists, and advocates for two days dedicated to countering the rise of illiberalism and charting a course forward for a liberalism that can answ...
conference.ismaglobal.org
August 6, 2025 at 11:16 AM
There's a conference next week on "Liberalism for the 21st Century: A Global Convening to Defend and Reimagine Liberal Democracy". The programme offers insight into who is considered liberal: Francis Fukuyama, David Goodhart, Daniel Drezner, Derek Thompson, Steven Pinker... conference.ismaglobal.org
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So this allotment story is absolutely blowing up everywhere and the government will prob U-turn soon due to UNEXPECTED VIRALITY IN THE BAGGING AREA.
But because I'm a sad git I spent 5mins chasing the aggregated Nottinghamshire Live story back through the Telegraph and the Express and found....
But because I'm a sad git I spent 5mins chasing the aggregated Nottinghamshire Live story back through the Telegraph and the Express and found....
This sounds bad. Allotments are a form of municipal socialism. Rayner should be all for them.
If they *have* to raise more money from them, surely raising the very low rents would be a compromise? Flog them and they're gone forever
www.nottinghampost.com/news/uk-worl...
If they *have* to raise more money from them, surely raising the very low rents would be a compromise? Flog them and they're gone forever
www.nottinghampost.com/news/uk-worl...
August 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
So this allotment story is absolutely blowing up everywhere and the government will prob U-turn soon due to UNEXPECTED VIRALITY IN THE BAGGING AREA.
But because I'm a sad git I spent 5mins chasing the aggregated Nottinghamshire Live story back through the Telegraph and the Express and found....
But because I'm a sad git I spent 5mins chasing the aggregated Nottinghamshire Live story back through the Telegraph and the Express and found....
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American Eagle is actually very "woke." They have DEI and donate to "woke" causes. They also produce their synthetic-blend jeans offshore, sometimes in factories associated with labor abuse.
But all is forgiven if buying their jeans pisses off libs.
But all is forgiven if buying their jeans pisses off libs.
August 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
American Eagle is actually very "woke." They have DEI and donate to "woke" causes. They also produce their synthetic-blend jeans offshore, sometimes in factories associated with labor abuse.
But all is forgiven if buying their jeans pisses off libs.
But all is forgiven if buying their jeans pisses off libs.
Normal people: this paper is divided into four sections
Academics: this paper is divided into four substantive sections
Academics: this paper is divided into four substantive sections
August 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Normal people: this paper is divided into four sections
Academics: this paper is divided into four substantive sections
Academics: this paper is divided into four substantive sections
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“kitchen table issues”
This anecdote about David Duke’s 1991 run for Louisiana governor might as well just be lifted directly from the Simpsons
August 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
“kitchen table issues”