Ben Rosamond
@benrosamond1.bsky.social
Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of Edinburgh. Anglo-Swede, would-be leg spinner, new elite (if only). Political economy and assorted other obsessions.
Let's see how 'great replacement' types try to spin this to their advantage. Nevertheless, the bottom line is that there has been a steep decline in net migration to the UK. Looking forward to the extensive coverage in the media. See www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
November 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Let's see how 'great replacement' types try to spin this to their advantage. Nevertheless, the bottom line is that there has been a steep decline in net migration to the UK. Looking forward to the extensive coverage in the media. See www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
'Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!'
On second thoughts ...
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!'
On second thoughts ...
November 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
'Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!'
On second thoughts ...
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!'
On second thoughts ...
Perhaps check the actual numbers before posting (see www.ukri.org/wp-content/u...).
November 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Perhaps check the actual numbers before posting (see www.ukri.org/wp-content/u...).
From the FT's morning email update. The answer to the question posed at the end is so obvious: because people who take a job stacking shelves are unlikely to end up as the kind of rent-a-quote CEOs who sounds off to the FT when the government seeks to raise the minimum wage in line with inflation.
November 3, 2025 at 10:40 AM
From the FT's morning email update. The answer to the question posed at the end is so obvious: because people who take a job stacking shelves are unlikely to end up as the kind of rent-a-quote CEOs who sounds off to the FT when the government seeks to raise the minimum wage in line with inflation.
So much for the sanctity of ‘the will of the people’.
November 1, 2025 at 8:27 PM
So much for the sanctity of ‘the will of the people’.
👀 JFC.
Who are ‘they’? To which ‘you’ is he referring?
Who are ‘they’? To which ‘you’ is he referring?
October 31, 2025 at 2:05 PM
👀 JFC.
Who are ‘they’? To which ‘you’ is he referring?
Who are ‘they’? To which ‘you’ is he referring?
Apparently, the eloquent audience member in grey wasn’t talking about the rights of the Sikh victim, since British = white, while ethnic minority Brit = (by definition) ‘illegal immigrant’. (Also the comments beneath this X post are an open sewer).
October 31, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Apparently, the eloquent audience member in grey wasn’t talking about the rights of the Sikh victim, since British = white, while ethnic minority Brit = (by definition) ‘illegal immigrant’. (Also the comments beneath this X post are an open sewer).
Indeed. And troubling given her own family’s story.
October 25, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Indeed. And troubling given her own family’s story.
Katie Lam might want to consider her own family’s story.
October 22, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Katie Lam might want to consider her own family’s story.
These people need to get their story straight. Were the protests antisemitic or should we deploy antisemitic tropes to criticise them?
October 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
These people need to get their story straight. Were the protests antisemitic or should we deploy antisemitic tropes to criticise them?
My definitive Civilization (VI) moment occurred in 540 AD, when my Spanish trans-oceanic voyage discovered the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Bradford
October 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
My definitive Civilization (VI) moment occurred in 540 AD, when my Spanish trans-oceanic voyage discovered the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Bradford
Fields Medal, surely?
October 10, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Fields Medal, surely?
ABR is not (yet) on this platform (working on it), but she makes a good point here.
October 9, 2025 at 8:27 AM
ABR is not (yet) on this platform (working on it), but she makes a good point here.
Visuals matter, often doing much more than mere words to frame stories. In this case, the image also builds on the persistently willful mis-presentation of racialised asylum seekers as ‘illegals’.
September 30, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Visuals matter, often doing much more than mere words to frame stories. In this case, the image also builds on the persistently willful mis-presentation of racialised asylum seekers as ‘illegals’.
👀. At what point will they suggest replacing the memorial in DC to that woke Lincoln guy with one to the real martyr?
September 20, 2025 at 8:55 AM
👀. At what point will they suggest replacing the memorial in DC to that woke Lincoln guy with one to the real martyr?
Today in incredibly crap data-viz, itself highly dependent on dodgy manipulation of the *actual* data, but packaged for and lapped up by gullible billionaires ...
September 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Today in incredibly crap data-viz, itself highly dependent on dodgy manipulation of the *actual* data, but packaged for and lapped up by gullible billionaires ...
A quote for our times from Milton Mayer's 'They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45' (Chicago University Press, 1955). This is from chapter 13, entitled 'But then it was too late'.
August 27, 2025 at 8:07 AM
A quote for our times from Milton Mayer's 'They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45' (Chicago University Press, 1955). This is from chapter 13, entitled 'But then it was too late'.
A very interesting pair of images when placed side-by-side.
June 25, 2025 at 11:51 AM
A very interesting pair of images when placed side-by-side.
The account of how the paper was 'written' is something else.
April 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The account of how the paper was 'written' is something else.
Can I just say how impressed I am to discover that thirteen people share ...
March 20, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Can I just say how impressed I am to discover that thirteen people share ...
;Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances'
March 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
;Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances'
Hang it in the Louvre. The headline of Danish newspaper Information tomorrow simply reads 'The collapse'.
March 2, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Hang it in the Louvre. The headline of Danish newspaper Information tomorrow simply reads 'The collapse'.
Complete and utter nonsense. The article is in The Times if you must.
March 1, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Complete and utter nonsense. The article is in The Times if you must.