Fraser McQueen
@frasermcqueen.bsky.social
Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies, University of Leeds. Islamophobia & cultural production in France. Retired ex-Thai boxer. Co-convener @psafrenchpol.bsky.social He/him.
This reproduction of far-right policies and discourses, while at the same time claiming to embody 'openness, tolerance and generosity' is Labour's current approach in microcosm: legitimate the far right, make them your main opponent, then posture as the only barrier keeping them out of power.
"Mahmood said a raft of tough immigration controls were designed to unlock “the inherent openness, tolerance and generosity” of the British people."
Such nauseating shamelessness.
Such nauseating shamelessness.
Mahmood’s new asylum plan: when home is ‘safe’, we’ll send you back | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This reproduction of far-right policies and discourses, while at the same time claiming to embody 'openness, tolerance and generosity' is Labour's current approach in microcosm: legitimate the far right, make them your main opponent, then posture as the only barrier keeping them out of power.
Spending my research time filling in the document that explains how I've been spending my research time 👍👍👍
November 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Spending my research time filling in the document that explains how I've been spending my research time 👍👍👍
made it to reading week lads
November 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
made it to reading week lads
A socialist Muslim elected as mayor of New York - if only Dick Cheney had been there to see it 💔
November 5, 2025 at 10:40 AM
A socialist Muslim elected as mayor of New York - if only Dick Cheney had been there to see it 💔
I know I'm not the first or the most insightful to say this, but it's endlessly fascinating to me how reactionary centrists are incapable of seeing that the problem isn't the style or the delivery method but the (lack of) content.
A former adviser to Keir Starmer and Tony Blair has urged the Prime Minister to reinvent himself as a 'social media star', warning that his cautious communication style is leaving voters cold
Keir Starmer told to ‘be a social media star’ in bid to win back voters
www.thenational.scot
November 4, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I know I'm not the first or the most insightful to say this, but it's endlessly fascinating to me how reactionary centrists are incapable of seeing that the problem isn't the style or the delivery method but the (lack of) content.
I would easily win at a spelling bee, it's only three letters long ffs
November 4, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I would easily win at a spelling bee, it's only three letters long ffs
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Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care
Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickers
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Workshopping a new bit where I ask people if they've heard of a Netflix show called "Tiger King"
November 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Workshopping a new bit where I ask people if they've heard of a Netflix show called "Tiger King"
A top tip if you don't want to look like a sadact who sends emails on Friday night is not only to schedule them, but to do it for times like 10:27 am on Monday morning so it isn't obvious. This is how I maintain my air of effortless cool.
October 31, 2025 at 7:48 PM
A top tip if you don't want to look like a sadact who sends emails on Friday night is not only to schedule them, but to do it for times like 10:27 am on Monday morning so it isn't obvious. This is how I maintain my air of effortless cool.
6 years (!!!) today since this poster dropped. Remember looking at it and thinking the guy looked kind of skinny. What wasn't apparent is that he's about 9 feet tall and I ended up looking like Scrappy Doo on the night. What a world. Can confirm this is still how I look, no I won't prove it
October 29, 2025 at 11:52 PM
6 years (!!!) today since this poster dropped. Remember looking at it and thinking the guy looked kind of skinny. What wasn't apparent is that he's about 9 feet tall and I ended up looking like Scrappy Doo on the night. What a world. Can confirm this is still how I look, no I won't prove it
Enough slop on my for you feed
October 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Enough slop on my for you feed
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The UK studiously ignores the war in Sudan because its strategic allies have vested interests in the conflict and continue to profit from it. Then the UK refuses safe routes to Sudanese refugees, forcing them to make potentially lethal channel crossings, and attempts to deny them asylum on arrival.
This is the first time that I have even seen a death toll for Sudan.
“More than 150,000 people have died across the country and about 12 million have fled their homes, creating one of the worst humanitarian crises.”
This is a genocide in Sudan.
This is a genocide in Sudan.
October 28, 2025 at 8:40 AM
The UK studiously ignores the war in Sudan because its strategic allies have vested interests in the conflict and continue to profit from it. Then the UK refuses safe routes to Sudanese refugees, forcing them to make potentially lethal channel crossings, and attempts to deny them asylum on arrival.
never apologise for cross-posting. always double down
October 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
never apologise for cross-posting. always double down
Me when i'm saying 'spring forward, fall back'
October 25, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Me when i'm saying 'spring forward, fall back'
When, despite somehow working as a political journalist, you got your understanding of all the terms involved from op-eds written 2016-2019.
October 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
When, despite somehow working as a political journalist, you got your understanding of all the terms involved from op-eds written 2016-2019.
Impossible to concentrate on anything when you know Spongebob is bob l'éponge but squidward is called carlo
October 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Impossible to concentrate on anything when you know Spongebob is bob l'éponge but squidward is called carlo
I actually love to teach language because, even as a Woke academic, it's one of the few opportunities you get to be like 'hello everyone, today we're learning about pronouns'
October 21, 2025 at 10:26 AM
I actually love to teach language because, even as a Woke academic, it's one of the few opportunities you get to be like 'hello everyone, today we're learning about pronouns'
Reposted by Fraser McQueen
You'd have to say "let our clearly violent hard right hooligans, who the last time they were allowed to come to a foreign city were caught on camera in multiple videos being violent hard right hooligans, come to your city or it's like the holocaust" is really up there as a classic UK media moment
October 18, 2025 at 11:27 AM
You'd have to say "let our clearly violent hard right hooligans, who the last time they were allowed to come to a foreign city were caught on camera in multiple videos being violent hard right hooligans, come to your city or it's like the holocaust" is really up there as a classic UK media moment
Recycling some old first-year grammar slides for this year and I regret to say they're from the year when I thought it'd be funny to reference Nicolas Cage at least once in every class.
October 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Recycling some old first-year grammar slides for this year and I regret to say they're from the year when I thought it'd be funny to reference Nicolas Cage at least once in every class.
I think there is a joke to be made about Russell Martin as Prime Minister of France/Lecornu as manager of Rangers, but it's so hyper-niche that the target audience might literally just be me.
October 12, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I think there is a joke to be made about Russell Martin as Prime Minister of France/Lecornu as manager of Rangers, but it's so hyper-niche that the target audience might literally just be me.
Thursday 9am seminar gang let's gooooo
October 9, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Thursday 9am seminar gang let's gooooo
Many thousands of people will have both fought in World War Two and known about Shrek
you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones
October 8, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Many thousands of people will have both fought in World War Two and known about Shrek
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Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'
Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 5, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...