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Maria Sobolewska
@profsob.bsky.social
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Professor of Political Science at Manchester University. British politics, race and ethnicity, representation.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 5d
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@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12
‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem
Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 5d
New from Institute of Jewish Policy Research: most comprehensive study of Jewish attitudes
> Rising experience + perception of antisemitism:feel less safe
> Growing (now majority) criticism of military campaign in Gaza; rising attachment to Israel
(July 2025 fieldwork)
www.jpr.org.uk/reports/two-...
Two years after the October 7 attacks: British Jewish views on antisemitism, Israel and Jewish life
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 6d
This Israeli government decision to host Tommy Robinson will widen the growing gulf between the Netanyahu government and the British public, including the broad majority of Jews in Britain (3/4 of whom dsapproved of Netanyahu, before this new link to this anti-Muslim racist UK far right convict).
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 6d
Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment
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Sky News @news.sky.com · 6d
Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first
Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first
Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.
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Maria Sobolewska @profsob.bsky.social · 6d
I know, prize winning terribleness. I feel bad enough!
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Sky News @news.sky.com · 6d
Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first
Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first
Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.
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Maria Sobolewska @profsob.bsky.social · 6d
Agh sorry 😱
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Maria Sobolewska @profsob.bsky.social · 6d
It seems to me that OUP going through something as I had the same experience earlier this year

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Sam Friedman @samfriedman.bsky.social · 6d
Interesting but not me, the superior @samfr.bsky.social
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Maria Sobolewska @profsob.bsky.social · 6d
Symbolic aspects of it all and communication seems entirely out of control for them.
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Maria Sobolewska @profsob.bsky.social · 6d
When and how they lost the ability to talk to the working class without sounding like RUK is an interesting q, but I suspect it all sounds like cos play to those voters and persuades no one while definitely alienated the rest of their electoral coalition. Again why they can’t see it is curious 3/
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Maria Sobolewska @profsob.bsky.social · 6d
All values we hold dearly form an identity, and being a liberal cosmopolitan can be as strong an identity as being working class. This is why language around policy matters so much more than Lab seems to realise.
Mimicking RUK language is not enough on one side and unacceptable on the other side 2/
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Maria Sobolewska @profsob.bsky.social · 6d
This is excellent from @samfriedman.bsky.social explaining why Lab seems to ignore that they’re losing more votes on left than right. Identity is SUCH a strong motive for them I agree- but, as the now old chestnut Brexitland shows- identity is SUCH an important motive for voters on their left too. 1
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 7d
New post:

"Identity Crisis"

Labour keeps trying to appeal to a lost white working class vote + alienating middle-class grads / ethnic minority voters that are a much bigger part of their coalition.

Why? And how can they rebuild their coalition more effectively?

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/i...
Identity Crisis
How Labour can rebuild their voter coalition
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 6d
Polling commissioned by POLITICO shows wide public support for Labour’s EU reset

www.politico.eu/article/uk-w...
Brits want Nigel Farage to step away from the Brexit shredder
Polling commissioned by POLITICO shows wide public support for Labour’s EU reset.
www.politico.eu
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 7d
On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.

As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.

At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
To everyone in Britain's Jewish Community: you are not alone. We will not let hate or those who spread it win. We stand with you.
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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 7d
Part of the burden of Jewish history is being touched, and proud, that the British police rushed to the site of this atrocity and that the reaction of the British prime minister was to send police reinforcements to synagogues. For millennia, this was not so. It is not taken for granted.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 7d
Two victims have been killed in this attack.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer says British authorities have ordered additional police presence at synagogues around the country.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 7d
My wife is supposed to be doing synagogue security duty on Saturday. It's terrifying.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 7d
Manchester synagogue attack latest: police say suspect shot after four people injured by vehicle and stabbings
Manchester synagogue attack latest: police say suspect shot after four people injured by vehicle and stabbings
Police say they are responding to an incident in Crumpsall, Greater Manchester Greater Manchester Police said a suspect has been shot and four people have suffered injuries caused by a vehicle and stabbings at a synagogue in Crumpsall north of the city. The force said: Police were called to the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, on Middleton Road, Crumpsall, at 9.31am by a member of the public, stating he had witnessed a car being driven towards members of the public, and one man had been stabbed. GMP declared PLATO and a major incident at 9.37am. Shots were fired by Greater Manchester Police firearms officers at 9.38am. One man has been shot, believed to be the offender. Continue reading...
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Maria Sobolewska @profsob.bsky.social · 7d
An important new paper from my talented, but BlueSky-less PHD Jose Lopes

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The unfulfilled promises of upward mobility and support for radical left parties in Western Europe
In recent decades, educational expansion has produced a large swathe of university graduates which labour markets are increasingly less able to absorb…
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 7d
Manchester synagogue attack latest: police say suspect shot after four people injured by vehicle and stabbings
Manchester synagogue attack latest: police say suspect shot after four people injured by vehicle and stabbings
Police say they are responding to an incident in Crumpsall, Greater Manchester Greater Manchester Police said a suspect has been shot and four people have suffered injuries caused by a vehicle and stabbings at a synagogue in Crumpsall north of the city. The force said: Police were called to the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, on Middleton Road, Crumpsall, at 9.31am by a member of the public, stating he had witnessed a car being driven towards members of the public, and one man had been stabbed. GMP declared PLATO and a major incident at 9.37am. Shots were fired by Greater Manchester Police firearms officers at 9.38am. One man has been shot, believed to be the offender. Continue reading...
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Maria Sobolewska @profsob.bsky.social · 7d
Really enjoyed this one!
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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 7d
OUT NOW: More Jam Tomorrow MILTON KEYNES

It’s built for cars. The buses are baffling. But it’s got the most energy efficient housing in Britain. What did it take to build a city from almost nothing?

Listen now at

morejamtomorrow.com/episode/milt...
Milton Keynes
It’s built for cars. The buses are baffling. But it’s got the most energy efficient housing in Britain. What did it take to build a city from almost nothing?...
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Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · 7d
🚨 Our new investigation out today reveals how thousands of people who've taken their bosses to employment tribunals & won, never got paid, even after they approached the government for help.

This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Thousands of rogue bosses get away with not paying tribunal awards
The government scheme ‘enforcing’ money owed to workers has been unsuccessful in a staggering three-quarters of cases
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 7d
New post:

"Identity Crisis"

Labour keeps trying to appeal to a lost white working class vote + alienating middle-class grads / ethnic minority voters that are a much bigger part of their coalition.

Why? And how can they rebuild their coalition more effectively?

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/i...
Identity Crisis
How Labour can rebuild their voter coalition
open.substack.com
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Maria Sobolewska @profsob.bsky.social · 7d
Every time this man opens his mouth nowadays something extremely unpleasant and largely misleading comes out. What fresh hell is a ‘golden ticket’ - it’s a basic human right to family reunion you [redacted]
Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights
People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’
www.theguardian.com
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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 7d
OUT NOW: More Jam Tomorrow MILTON KEYNES

It’s built for cars. The buses are baffling. But it’s got the most energy efficient housing in Britain. What did it take to build a city from almost nothing?

Listen now at

morejamtomorrow.com/episode/milt...
Milton Keynes
It’s built for cars. The buses are baffling. But it’s got the most energy efficient housing in Britain. What did it take to build a city from almost nothing?...
morejamtomorrow.com
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 7d
People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children.

This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights
People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’
www.theguardian.com
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 7d
Tory party’s long journey away from science, reason, responsibility, common sense and truth is complete
Kemi Badenoch vows to repeal Climate Change Act
Tory leader says she would replace it with ‘cheap energy’ strategy, ending decades-long consensus on climate
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 7d
My essay on stupidology (originally published in N+1) is in today's Guardian www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...
A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0
If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might th...
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 8d
Just as a point of reference, fewer people, on average, are provided with asylum, per year, under family reunification routes as attend an average Birmingham City home game. It really isn't a lot, but it is a vital route, and it isn't "automatic" as the routes are already restrictive. 2/
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Maria Sobolewska @profsob.bsky.social · 9d
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