Murray Leith
@murrayleith.bsky.social
Prof of Pol Sci & Director of Centre for Migration, Diaspora, Citizenship and Identity @ UWS. Interest in all things Nationalism, Identity & Diaspora, and Scotland/UK/USA Pol. Fan of Space Opera. Ex-matelot.
The President of the United States of America, everyone. How proud they must be…
When asked if there was anything "incriminating" in Epstein's emails, Trump pointed a finger in a female reporter's face and snapped. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.'
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Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
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November 18, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The President of the United States of America, everyone. How proud they must be…
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What a photograph.
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
November 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
What a photograph.
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...
October 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...
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🇺🇸 “A federal prosecutor who resisted Trump’s demands to bring charges against Letitia James was fired along with her deputy Friday evening…”
As @saletan.bsky.social says: Authoritarianism is here.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
As @saletan.bsky.social says: Authoritarianism is here.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
October 18, 2025 at 3:39 AM
🇺🇸 “A federal prosecutor who resisted Trump’s demands to bring charges against Letitia James was fired along with her deputy Friday evening…”
As @saletan.bsky.social says: Authoritarianism is here.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
As @saletan.bsky.social says: Authoritarianism is here.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
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Political Science at Western University, Canada is searching for three tenure track assistant professors. There are two ads, one in International Politics (IR or comparative) and one in Comparative or Canadian. Ads are here: www.uwo.ca/facultyrelat...
Faculty (UWOFA)
Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.
www.uwo.ca
July 28, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Political Science at Western University, Canada is searching for three tenure track assistant professors. There are two ads, one in International Politics (IR or comparative) and one in Comparative or Canadian. Ads are here: www.uwo.ca/facultyrelat...
Preach!
Makes me so angry to see UK's newer universities attacked - institutions laden with awards, doing all the regional economic work, engagement and world-leading research they were asked to and more. Would be seen as unimaginable successes in the 1980s. At root it's just snobbery and prejudice.
July 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Preach!
Firstly, this is a really great thread on history, and a period that many Brits live to talk about in very general terms. I learnt a lot! Thanks @lvhicks.bsky.social. Secondly, the lesson inherent also seems so very applicable to politics today. #historyedu #politicsedu
For the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, 1066, here is thread on why 'who was the rightful king?' is the wrong question to ask, why we don't know the complete story and why that makes things more interesting. 1/ #medievalsky #skystorians #historyedu #historyteachers
July 6, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Firstly, this is a really great thread on history, and a period that many Brits live to talk about in very general terms. I learnt a lot! Thanks @lvhicks.bsky.social. Secondly, the lesson inherent also seems so very applicable to politics today. #historyedu #politicsedu
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3 July 1923 | A Polish woman, Helena Grzelec, was born in Porąbka.
In #Auschwitz from 28 January 1943.
No. 32034
She perished in the camp on 8 March 1943.
In #Auschwitz from 28 January 1943.
No. 32034
She perished in the camp on 8 March 1943.
July 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
3 July 1923 | A Polish woman, Helena Grzelec, was born in Porąbka.
In #Auschwitz from 28 January 1943.
No. 32034
She perished in the camp on 8 March 1943.
In #Auschwitz from 28 January 1943.
No. 32034
She perished in the camp on 8 March 1943.
I think we need to say it louder for people in the back of the room, some of them clearly haven’t been paying attention!!
Not sure why I need to continue repeating this. Rule of law? Dead. Rights? Gone. Executive power? Entirely unchecked by Congress, subject to a judiciary with a corrupt top court. State sanctioned kidnappings and renditions. What democracy?
American democracy no longer exists.
June 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I think we need to say it louder for people in the back of the room, some of them clearly haven’t been paying attention!!
Hey - one for you all the women of Bluesky! Are you politically engaged online? We would love to hear about your experiences for our study!
May 19, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Hey - one for you all the women of Bluesky! Are you politically engaged online? We would love to hear about your experiences for our study!
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📣 Excited to launch our Vice-Chancellor's Studentships 2025! Eight funded #PhD studentships are available for an October 2025 start across our four academic schools.
Find out more and and apply: www.uws.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-research-at-uws/vice-chancellors-studentships-at-uws/
Find out more and and apply: www.uws.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-research-at-uws/vice-chancellors-studentships-at-uws/
April 24, 2025 at 10:04 AM
📣 Excited to launch our Vice-Chancellor's Studentships 2025! Eight funded #PhD studentships are available for an October 2025 start across our four academic schools.
Find out more and and apply: www.uws.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-research-at-uws/vice-chancellors-studentships-at-uws/
Find out more and and apply: www.uws.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-research-at-uws/vice-chancellors-studentships-at-uws/
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You're invited!
➡️ First 100 Days of the Trump Presidency
📅 14 May, 4-5.30pm
Join Professor Murray Leith as he looks back over the first 100 days of the Trump Presidency 2.0.
Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uws-lecture-first-100-days-of-the-trump-presidency-tickets-1291229234399
➡️ First 100 Days of the Trump Presidency
📅 14 May, 4-5.30pm
Join Professor Murray Leith as he looks back over the first 100 days of the Trump Presidency 2.0.
Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uws-lecture-first-100-days-of-the-trump-presidency-tickets-1291229234399
April 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
You're invited!
➡️ First 100 Days of the Trump Presidency
📅 14 May, 4-5.30pm
Join Professor Murray Leith as he looks back over the first 100 days of the Trump Presidency 2.0.
Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uws-lecture-first-100-days-of-the-trump-presidency-tickets-1291229234399
➡️ First 100 Days of the Trump Presidency
📅 14 May, 4-5.30pm
Join Professor Murray Leith as he looks back over the first 100 days of the Trump Presidency 2.0.
Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uws-lecture-first-100-days-of-the-trump-presidency-tickets-1291229234399
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Bear in mind that this (perhaps partial) intelligence cut off occurs AFTER Zelensky issued a de facto apology to Trump, which Trump publicly accepted. If Trump wanted Ukraine to lose and Russia to win, it would be hard to see how his actions would be much different right now.
March 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Bear in mind that this (perhaps partial) intelligence cut off occurs AFTER Zelensky issued a de facto apology to Trump, which Trump publicly accepted. If Trump wanted Ukraine to lose and Russia to win, it would be hard to see how his actions would be much different right now.
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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
January 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
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ALABAMA: “A state autopsy has ruled that a Black man found hanging in an abandoned Alabama home in late September died by suicide — a conclusion that contradicts a private autopsy commissioned by Dennoriss Richardson’s family.” newschannel9.com/news/local/2...
January 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
ALABAMA: “A state autopsy has ruled that a Black man found hanging in an abandoned Alabama home in late September died by suicide — a conclusion that contradicts a private autopsy commissioned by Dennoriss Richardson’s family.” newschannel9.com/news/local/2...
Whaddya mean ‘not a healthy breakfast’? #holiday #breakfast
December 29, 2024 at 11:22 AM
Whaddya mean ‘not a healthy breakfast’? #holiday #breakfast
December 29, 2024 at 10:59 AM
Whaddya mean ‘not a healthy breakfast’? #holiday #breakfast
Well, not that I’m encouraging anything other than full engagement for this vote… I do love to see these media bubbles burst.
The right-wing Daily Express asks its readers to vote on whether Nigel Farage should be the US ambassador.
My left-of-centre friends, take the poll and upset their desired outcome.
www.msn.com/en-gb/news/u...
My left-of-centre friends, take the poll and upset their desired outcome.
www.msn.com/en-gb/news/u...
MSN
www.msn.com
December 21, 2024 at 1:48 PM
Well, not that I’m encouraging anything other than full engagement for this vote… I do love to see these media bubbles burst.
As a director of a centre called CMDCI, I endorse this message.
Pro-tip for academics:
Creating a Backronym to a common word for your research project or team may sound fun, but it pretty much guarantees no one can ever search for you by it.
Do think about that. Sometimes a semi-random set of letters is better.
Creating a Backronym to a common word for your research project or team may sound fun, but it pretty much guarantees no one can ever search for you by it.
Do think about that. Sometimes a semi-random set of letters is better.
December 17, 2024 at 8:14 PM
As a director of a centre called CMDCI, I endorse this message.
This one will have some fighting comments, but he isn’t wrong!
I have to speak my truth though howls of outrage batter me like a hurricane:
The Muppet Christmas Carol is just okay.
If you love it, great! I want you to love it! I celebrate your love of it. Enjoy.
But it's, you know... fine. Not the worst Christmas Carol, not the best. Just adequately felty.
The Muppet Christmas Carol is just okay.
If you love it, great! I want you to love it! I celebrate your love of it. Enjoy.
But it's, you know... fine. Not the worst Christmas Carol, not the best. Just adequately felty.
December 12, 2024 at 7:34 PM
This one will have some fighting comments, but he isn’t wrong!
I always warn first year students ‘if you study social science then you will never look at the world the same way again’ and usually move onto ‘I did warn you’ two or three years later…
Was asked why so many social scientists are left wing. Could it be this? If you look at the world of inequality and poverty and think ‘we need to understand this and do better’ you might become a social scientist. But if you think ‘this is basically all ok’, you won’t.
December 11, 2024 at 9:57 PM
I always warn first year students ‘if you study social science then you will never look at the world the same way again’ and usually move onto ‘I did warn you’ two or three years later…
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Covid corruption commissioner starts fraud probe
Well I hope he gets a lot of our money back after the Tories and their PPE corruption..
And I also hope some of the profiteering wrong 'uns go to jail
Let's see.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Well I hope he gets a lot of our money back after the Tories and their PPE corruption..
And I also hope some of the profiteering wrong 'uns go to jail
Let's see.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Covid corruption commissioner gets to work
Tom Hayhoe's first task will be reviewing the £8.7bn of pandemic PPE that had to be written off.
www.bbc.com
December 3, 2024 at 8:00 AM
Covid corruption commissioner starts fraud probe
Well I hope he gets a lot of our money back after the Tories and their PPE corruption..
And I also hope some of the profiteering wrong 'uns go to jail
Let's see.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Well I hope he gets a lot of our money back after the Tories and their PPE corruption..
And I also hope some of the profiteering wrong 'uns go to jail
Let's see.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Been there, done that!
In your 20s, you wake up with your friends sleeping on your floor because they passed out there. In your 40s, you wake up with your friend in the floor because she threw her back out and that’s the only place she has slept for two weeks. Life comes at you quickly.
November 29, 2024 at 4:14 PM
Been there, done that!
To my US colleagues and friends, have a great Thanksgiving. As holidays go, it has always been one of my favourites, with the emphasis on family, friends, and general togetherness! Probably not so popular with the non-turkey lovers though…
November 28, 2024 at 6:43 AM
To my US colleagues and friends, have a great Thanksgiving. As holidays go, it has always been one of my favourites, with the emphasis on family, friends, and general togetherness! Probably not so popular with the non-turkey lovers though…
I was speaking with individual business/corporate folks last week about the USA election results and what comes next. I was slightly surprised by how many that seemed to think it would be ‘same, same’ after January 2025. No
It will not be business as usual, either in the US, or dealing with the US.
It will not be business as usual, either in the US, or dealing with the US.
November 24, 2024 at 1:30 PM
I was speaking with individual business/corporate folks last week about the USA election results and what comes next. I was slightly surprised by how many that seemed to think it would be ‘same, same’ after January 2025. No
It will not be business as usual, either in the US, or dealing with the US.
It will not be business as usual, either in the US, or dealing with the US.