Professor Daniele Albertazzi
@dralbertazziuk.bsky.social
Professor of Politics, Research Community Lead (School of Social Sciences) @UniOfSurrey. #populism, #EuropeanPolitics, #partyorganisation. Posts=my views.
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Our brand new monograph, discussing the findings of our work together during the last seven years, is now out for @oxfordacademic.bsky.social and free to read and download!
Finishing this book wasn't exactly easy, but it's out there now and I can hardly believe it...
Anyone and everyone can read it and download it, as it is Open Access.
We are happy to come to your institution and present the findings in the Autumn, just drop us a line!
Anyone and everyone can read it and download it, as it is Open Access.
We are happy to come to your institution and present the findings in the Autumn, just drop us a line!
Reposted by Professor Daniele Albertazzi
A country condemned to spend the next 20 years trying to re-gain, bit by bit, a few of the advantages it enjoyed for decades...
Labour can win political argument for closer EU ties, says Rachel Reeves
Labour can win political argument for closer EU ties, says Rachel Reeves
Chancellor says stronger alignment with Europe is ‘biggest prize’ for trade and economic growth
Rachel Reeves has insisted Labour can win the political argument for a closer relationship with the EU, calling it the “biggest prize” for UK economic growth.
Some Labour strategists have been wary of making the case for stronger alignment with the EU, believing it could alienate pro-Brexit voters. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 9:48 PM
A country condemned to spend the next 20 years trying to re-gain, bit by bit, a few of the advantages it enjoyed for decades...
A country condemned to spend the next 20 years trying to re-gain, bit by bit, a few of the advantages it enjoyed for decades...
Labour can win political argument for closer EU ties, says Rachel Reeves
Labour can win political argument for closer EU ties, says Rachel Reeves
Chancellor says stronger alignment with Europe is ‘biggest prize’ for trade and economic growth
Rachel Reeves has insisted Labour can win the political argument for a closer relationship with the EU, calling it the “biggest prize” for UK economic growth.
Some Labour strategists have been wary of making the case for stronger alignment with the EU, believing it could alienate pro-Brexit voters. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 9:48 PM
A country condemned to spend the next 20 years trying to re-gain, bit by bit, a few of the advantages it enjoyed for decades...
Reposted by Professor Daniele Albertazzi
Vannacci's parliamentarians (all three of them!) backing Meloni's govt in today's vote of confidence (despite their alleged opposition to proving futher assistance to Ukraine) tells you everything you need to know about Vannacci's empty threats today (which are also often Salvini's)...
February 11, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Vannacci's parliamentarians (all three of them!) backing Meloni's govt in today's vote of confidence (despite their alleged opposition to proving futher assistance to Ukraine) tells you everything you need to know about Vannacci's empty threats today (which are also often Salvini's)...
Vannacci's parliamentarians (all three of them!) backing Meloni's govt in today's vote of confidence (despite their alleged opposition to proving futher assistance to Ukraine) tells you everything you need to know about Vannacci's empty threats today (which are also often Salvini's)...
February 11, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Vannacci's parliamentarians (all three of them!) backing Meloni's govt in today's vote of confidence (despite their alleged opposition to proving futher assistance to Ukraine) tells you everything you need to know about Vannacci's empty threats today (which are also often Salvini's)...
Surprise!
Or maybe not.
Or maybe not.
Further working on my analytical tool for EU-Analytics. If you look at the (just 11) main votes in the European Parliament on migration in this legislature, the EPP now votes more often together with the ECR, PfE and ESN than with its 'von der Leyen' platform partners:
February 11, 2026 at 8:10 AM
Surprise!
Or maybe not.
Or maybe not.
I'll be forced to re-up this so many times this winter that my finger will start hurting...
Domino effect in the UK following release of more Epstein's files... political career after political career going down in flames...
While in the US in the meantime:
While in the US in the meantime:
a man in a tuxedo and bow tie singing into a microphone
Alt: A man in a tuxedo and bow tie singing into a microphone and gesturing: "no big deal..."
media.tenor.com
February 8, 2026 at 3:39 PM
I'll be forced to re-up this so many times this winter that my finger will start hurting...
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"I only wish I’d ever held a role where I could try to influence voters and parties on the right and steer them away from their current slide toward overt racism. Sadly, such power was never bestowed upon me".
There, I fixed it.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
There, I fixed it.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘I’m British, English and British Asian’, says Rishi Sunak in riposte to racially charged debate over identity
Podcaster claimed former prime minister not English because he is ‘brown-skinned Hindu’
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 12:15 PM
"I only wish I’d ever held a role where I could try to influence voters and parties on the right and steer them away from their current slide toward overt racism. Sadly, such power was never bestowed upon me".
There, I fixed it.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
There, I fixed it.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Going to be bleak when we find his name in the files
Dominic Dyer: @number10cat.bsky.social Larry the Cat will have been in Downing Street 15 years next week, he is the most stable thing about British politics these days
February 7, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Going to be bleak when we find his name in the files
Reposted by Professor Daniele Albertazzi
I doubt Vannacci's moves are going to have much of an impact on Meloni's strategy. If anything, they will convince her to strengthen her "Christian Democratic" alliance with Minister of Foreign Affairs and Forza Italia leader Tajani, to look even more pro-EU, pro-NATO, pro-Ukraine.
February 7, 2026 at 9:36 AM
I doubt Vannacci's moves are going to have much of an impact on Meloni's strategy. If anything, they will convince her to strengthen her "Christian Democratic" alliance with Minister of Foreign Affairs and Forza Italia leader Tajani, to look even more pro-EU, pro-NATO, pro-Ukraine.
"I only wish I’d ever held a role where I could try to influence voters and parties on the right and steer them away from their current slide toward overt racism. Sadly, such power was never bestowed upon me".
There, I fixed it.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
There, I fixed it.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘I’m British, English and British Asian’, says Rishi Sunak in riposte to racially charged debate over identity
Podcaster claimed former prime minister not English because he is ‘brown-skinned Hindu’
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 12:15 PM
"I only wish I’d ever held a role where I could try to influence voters and parties on the right and steer them away from their current slide toward overt racism. Sadly, such power was never bestowed upon me".
There, I fixed it.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
There, I fixed it.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
I doubt Vannacci's moves are going to have much of an impact on Meloni's strategy. If anything, they will convince her to strengthen her "Christian Democratic" alliance with Minister of Foreign Affairs and Forza Italia leader Tajani, to look even more pro-EU, pro-NATO, pro-Ukraine.
February 7, 2026 at 9:36 AM
I doubt Vannacci's moves are going to have much of an impact on Meloni's strategy. If anything, they will convince her to strengthen her "Christian Democratic" alliance with Minister of Foreign Affairs and Forza Italia leader Tajani, to look even more pro-EU, pro-NATO, pro-Ukraine.
Reposted by Professor Daniele Albertazzi
Salvini's problem is not General Vannacci - the 6,754th political nonentity who, in post-90s Italy, is trying to cash in on media exposure by relying on a couple of catchy slogans & free publicity by public service broadcaster RAI.
There have been many before him, also (but not only) on the right.
There have been many before him, also (but not only) on the right.
February 6, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Salvini's problem is not General Vannacci - the 6,754th political nonentity who, in post-90s Italy, is trying to cash in on media exposure by relying on a couple of catchy slogans & free publicity by public service broadcaster RAI.
There have been many before him, also (but not only) on the right.
There have been many before him, also (but not only) on the right.
Salvini's problem is not General Vannacci - the 6,754th political nonentity who, in post-90s Italy, is trying to cash in on media exposure by relying on a couple of catchy slogans & free publicity by public service broadcaster RAI.
There have been many before him, also (but not only) on the right.
There have been many before him, also (but not only) on the right.
February 6, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Salvini's problem is not General Vannacci - the 6,754th political nonentity who, in post-90s Italy, is trying to cash in on media exposure by relying on a couple of catchy slogans & free publicity by public service broadcaster RAI.
There have been many before him, also (but not only) on the right.
There have been many before him, also (but not only) on the right.
Reposted by Professor Daniele Albertazzi
In Dublin, @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social and @adrianfavero.bsky.social will present the monograph published by Oxford University Press in which the main findings of our research are discussed (Free to read and download here):
academic.oup.com/book/60532/c...
academic.oup.com/book/60532/c...
Populist Radical Right Parties in Action: The Survival of the Mass Party
Abstract. This book investigates why and how several contemporary populist radical right parties (PRRPs) in Western Europe adopt the supposedly outdated ma
academic.oup.com
February 5, 2026 at 4:32 PM
In Dublin, @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social and @adrianfavero.bsky.social will present the monograph published by Oxford University Press in which the main findings of our research are discussed (Free to read and download here):
academic.oup.com/book/60532/c...
academic.oup.com/book/60532/c...
Reposted by Professor Daniele Albertazzi
Starmer's reported condition - incredibly unpopular, shorn of authority, probably un-reelectable and yet will stagger on for want of an alternative - is just the new normal of how Britain is governed. It was also true for two-thirds of May's premiership, half of Johnson's and all of Sunak's.
February 6, 2026 at 11:36 AM
Starmer's reported condition - incredibly unpopular, shorn of authority, probably un-reelectable and yet will stagger on for want of an alternative - is just the new normal of how Britain is governed. It was also true for two-thirds of May's premiership, half of Johnson's and all of Sunak's.
Reposted by Professor Daniele Albertazzi
Good explanation by Hannah Roberts of Politico of the importance of Milan Cortina Winter Olympics for Italy's Infrastructure Minister Salvini (yes, same one who wants to build a bridge btw Sicily & mainland & who's just been "betrayed" by his deputy leader Vanbacci).
With comments by yours truly.
With comments by yours truly.
For Italy’s Deputy PM Matteo Salvini, the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics are not about sport.
They are about survival.
They are about survival.
How Italy’s most polarizing politician hitched his comeback to the Winter Olympics
Matteo Salvini is betting on the infrastructure boost the Games will provide to reassert himself on the national stage, but it may not be that simple.
www.politico.eu
February 6, 2026 at 9:23 AM
Good explanation by Hannah Roberts of Politico of the importance of Milan Cortina Winter Olympics for Italy's Infrastructure Minister Salvini (yes, same one who wants to build a bridge btw Sicily & mainland & who's just been "betrayed" by his deputy leader Vanbacci).
With comments by yours truly.
With comments by yours truly.
Good explanation by Hannah Roberts of Politico of the importance of Milan Cortina Winter Olympics for Italy's Infrastructure Minister Salvini (yes, same one who wants to build a bridge btw Sicily & mainland & who's just been "betrayed" by his deputy leader Vanbacci).
With comments by yours truly.
With comments by yours truly.
For Italy’s Deputy PM Matteo Salvini, the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics are not about sport.
They are about survival.
They are about survival.
How Italy’s most polarizing politician hitched his comeback to the Winter Olympics
Matteo Salvini is betting on the infrastructure boost the Games will provide to reassert himself on the national stage, but it may not be that simple.
www.politico.eu
February 6, 2026 at 9:23 AM
Good explanation by Hannah Roberts of Politico of the importance of Milan Cortina Winter Olympics for Italy's Infrastructure Minister Salvini (yes, same one who wants to build a bridge btw Sicily & mainland & who's just been "betrayed" by his deputy leader Vanbacci).
With comments by yours truly.
With comments by yours truly.
Reposted by Professor Daniele Albertazzi
Members of our @populisminaction.bsky.social team will be presenting our work at 2 conferences in the near future:
The Political Studies Association 2026 Annual Conference in Oxford (30th March-1st Apr) and the 32nd International Conference of Europeanists in Dublin (16-18 June).
Details below.
The Political Studies Association 2026 Annual Conference in Oxford (30th March-1st Apr) and the 32nd International Conference of Europeanists in Dublin (16-18 June).
Details below.
February 5, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Members of our @populisminaction.bsky.social team will be presenting our work at 2 conferences in the near future:
The Political Studies Association 2026 Annual Conference in Oxford (30th March-1st Apr) and the 32nd International Conference of Europeanists in Dublin (16-18 June).
Details below.
The Political Studies Association 2026 Annual Conference in Oxford (30th March-1st Apr) and the 32nd International Conference of Europeanists in Dublin (16-18 June).
Details below.
Reposted by Professor Daniele Albertazzi
Domino effect in the UK following release of more Epstein's files... political career after political career going down in flames...
While in the US in the meantime:
While in the US in the meantime:
a man in a tuxedo and bow tie singing into a microphone
Alt: A man in a tuxedo and bow tie singing into a microphone and gesturing: "no big deal..."
media.tenor.com
February 5, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Domino effect in the UK following release of more Epstein's files... political career after political career going down in flames...
While in the US in the meantime:
While in the US in the meantime:
Reposted by Professor Daniele Albertazzi
It will be great to meet some of you in Oxford and/or Dublin before too long! Come and say hello to us if you are there...
Members of our @populisminaction.bsky.social team will be presenting our work at 2 conferences in the near future:
The Political Studies Association 2026 Annual Conference in Oxford (30th March-1st Apr) and the 32nd International Conference of Europeanists in Dublin (16-18 June).
Details below.
The Political Studies Association 2026 Annual Conference in Oxford (30th March-1st Apr) and the 32nd International Conference of Europeanists in Dublin (16-18 June).
Details below.
February 5, 2026 at 4:36 PM
It will be great to meet some of you in Oxford and/or Dublin before too long! Come and say hello to us if you are there...
Domino effect in the UK following release of more Epstein's files... political career after political career going down in flames...
While in the US in the meantime:
While in the US in the meantime:
a man in a tuxedo and bow tie singing into a microphone
Alt: A man in a tuxedo and bow tie singing into a microphone and gesturing: "no big deal..."
media.tenor.com
February 5, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Domino effect in the UK following release of more Epstein's files... political career after political career going down in flames...
While in the US in the meantime:
While in the US in the meantime:
It will be great to meet some of you in Oxford and/or Dublin before too long! Come and say hello to us if you are there...
Members of our @populisminaction.bsky.social team will be presenting our work at 2 conferences in the near future:
The Political Studies Association 2026 Annual Conference in Oxford (30th March-1st Apr) and the 32nd International Conference of Europeanists in Dublin (16-18 June).
Details below.
The Political Studies Association 2026 Annual Conference in Oxford (30th March-1st Apr) and the 32nd International Conference of Europeanists in Dublin (16-18 June).
Details below.
February 5, 2026 at 4:36 PM
It will be great to meet some of you in Oxford and/or Dublin before too long! Come and say hello to us if you are there...
Reposted by Professor Daniele Albertazzi
Starmer finding that place in a Venn Diagram where he manages to annoy allies without defeating enemies
Keir Starmer attacks the racism of Reform and Matt Goodwin but then adds that "Britain has also been let down by a mindset on the left of politics that is too slow to defend core British values"
February 5, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Starmer finding that place in a Venn Diagram where he manages to annoy allies without defeating enemies
Reposted by Professor Daniele Albertazzi
.@amykazmin.bsky.social (Financial Times) on General Vannacci leaving Salvini's League yesterday. Includes comments by yours truly and other commentators about the damage this development will inflict on Salvini's credibility and authority within the party.
as.ft.com/r/a2f5163d-3...
as.ft.com/r/a2f5163d-3...
Far-right hardliner poses challenge to Italy’s Matteo Salvini
[FREE TO READ] Retired army general Roberto Vannacci splits from the League to form his own National Future party
as.ft.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:06 AM
.@amykazmin.bsky.social (Financial Times) on General Vannacci leaving Salvini's League yesterday. Includes comments by yours truly and other commentators about the damage this development will inflict on Salvini's credibility and authority within the party.
as.ft.com/r/a2f5163d-3...
as.ft.com/r/a2f5163d-3...
Reposted by Professor Daniele Albertazzi
Our principal investigator, @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social, spoke to the Financial Times about the troubles affecting the League in Italy.
The link below should still be non-paywalled, hopefully.
The link below should still be non-paywalled, hopefully.
.@amykazmin.bsky.social (Financial Times) on General Vannacci leaving Salvini's League yesterday. Includes comments by yours truly and other commentators about the damage this development will inflict on Salvini's credibility and authority within the party.
as.ft.com/r/a2f5163d-3...
as.ft.com/r/a2f5163d-3...
Far-right hardliner poses challenge to Italy’s Matteo Salvini
[FREE TO READ] Retired army general Roberto Vannacci splits from the League to form his own National Future party
as.ft.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Our principal investigator, @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social, spoke to the Financial Times about the troubles affecting the League in Italy.
The link below should still be non-paywalled, hopefully.
The link below should still be non-paywalled, hopefully.