Adam Standring
@adamstandring.bsky.social
Environmental sociologist with added politics and policy.
currently ISEG, formerly DMU, ÖRU and FCSH.
currently ISEG, formerly DMU, ÖRU and FCSH.
I think we need to be wary about presenting this as a 'hard limit' but yesterday was a real opportunity for the far-right to show that it was a political force, no real chance of winning but nothing to lose. They were hammered, which puts paid to any notion that there was this silent majority.
February 9, 2026 at 9:50 AM
I think we need to be wary about presenting this as a 'hard limit' but yesterday was a real opportunity for the far-right to show that it was a political force, no real chance of winning but nothing to lose. They were hammered, which puts paid to any notion that there was this silent majority.
My 8-year-old literally has a better analysis, "Andre Ventura, blah"
February 9, 2026 at 9:28 AM
My 8-year-old literally has a better analysis, "Andre Ventura, blah"
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anyway, i’ve set this as (admittedly a bit tricky for undergrads across different degrees) reading: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Talking AI into Being: The Narratives and Imaginaries of National AI Strategies and Their Performative Politics - Jascha Bareis, Christian Katzenbach, 2022
How to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in the functioning and structures of our society has become a concern of contemporary politics and pu...
journals.sagepub.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:09 AM
anyway, i’ve set this as (admittedly a bit tricky for undergrads across different degrees) reading: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
They come in threes...
February 9, 2026 at 9:21 AM
They come in threes...
Chega managed barely 300,000 more votes than they got just last year but this time in a two horse race that was seen as a test of popularity for Ventura.
He failed, Chega was roundly rejected by the vast majority of the Portuguese. That is the headline.
He failed, Chega was roundly rejected by the vast majority of the Portuguese. That is the headline.
February 9, 2026 at 9:20 AM
Chega managed barely 300,000 more votes than they got just last year but this time in a two horse race that was seen as a test of popularity for Ventura.
He failed, Chega was roundly rejected by the vast majority of the Portuguese. That is the headline.
He failed, Chega was roundly rejected by the vast majority of the Portuguese. That is the headline.
Choosing to laud the result for the far-right, "Chega’s result far exceeds the 22.8% it won at last May’s general election" when most of the in-country analysis has seen this as a huge failure for Chega who failed to get close to the psychologically important 40% mark.
February 9, 2026 at 9:20 AM
Choosing to laud the result for the far-right, "Chega’s result far exceeds the 22.8% it won at last May’s general election" when most of the in-country analysis has seen this as a huge failure for Chega who failed to get close to the psychologically important 40% mark.
Which is interesting because both technologies (AI and the lobotomy) reflect social ideas about what it is the think, to think 'correctly' and how humans might develop mechanistic procedures for ordering (and controlling) thinking.
February 9, 2026 at 8:32 AM
Which is interesting because both technologies (AI and the lobotomy) reflect social ideas about what it is the think, to think 'correctly' and how humans might develop mechanistic procedures for ordering (and controlling) thinking.
Last week, in response to Polanski's criticism of Starmer's weak reaction to Trump, a Labour source had in interesting choice of words:
January 29, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Last week, in response to Polanski's criticism of Starmer's weak reaction to Trump, a Labour source had in interesting choice of words:
But the down side to this is that it is a lot more effort. Constantly and consistently reemphasisising boundaries and expectations is hard work
January 29, 2026 at 2:51 PM
But the down side to this is that it is a lot more effort. Constantly and consistently reemphasisising boundaries and expectations is hard work
The UK is quite capable of activating its own cruelties towards migrants, in its own way, but there aren't the same cultural, economic and institutional features at play. There may be a British ICE in the pipeline but I wouldn't expect it to look like the US version.
January 27, 2026 at 8:56 AM
The UK is quite capable of activating its own cruelties towards migrants, in its own way, but there aren't the same cultural, economic and institutional features at play. There may be a British ICE in the pipeline but I wouldn't expect it to look like the US version.
In Trump there is an ideological inchoate figure but one who liberates the basest attitudes and has a willingness to deploy these forces to intimidate and punish the population at large.
January 27, 2026 at 8:56 AM
In Trump there is an ideological inchoate figure but one who liberates the basest attitudes and has a willingness to deploy these forces to intimidate and punish the population at large.
US ICE is the result of decades of racial, carceral politics intersecting with the glorification of martial life and an economy geared to producing a human and material surplus of military-grade resources.
January 27, 2026 at 8:56 AM
US ICE is the result of decades of racial, carceral politics intersecting with the glorification of martial life and an economy geared to producing a human and material surplus of military-grade resources.
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