Liam Stanley
@liamstanley.bsky.social
Teach and research politics and political economy at the University of Sheffield. Currently researching global culture wars, the radical right, and neurodiversity identity politics.
I found this article very illuminating on the resource geopolitics underpinning the Venezuela crisis
drilled.media/news/guyana-...
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January 6, 2026 at 11:20 AM
I found this article very illuminating on the resource geopolitics underpinning the Venezuela crisis
drilled.media/news/guyana-...
drilled.media/news/guyana-...
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👏 2025 Outstanding Reviewer Prize Winners
• Naomi Head: University of Glasgow (UK)
• Niels Spierings: Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands)
• Liam Stanley: University of Sheffield (UK)
• Sabine Volk: University of Tübingen (Germany)
• Naomi Head: University of Glasgow (UK)
• Niels Spierings: Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands)
• Liam Stanley: University of Sheffield (UK)
• Sabine Volk: University of Tübingen (Germany)
December 26, 2025 at 11:35 AM
👏 2025 Outstanding Reviewer Prize Winners
• Naomi Head: University of Glasgow (UK)
• Niels Spierings: Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands)
• Liam Stanley: University of Sheffield (UK)
• Sabine Volk: University of Tübingen (Germany)
• Naomi Head: University of Glasgow (UK)
• Niels Spierings: Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands)
• Liam Stanley: University of Sheffield (UK)
• Sabine Volk: University of Tübingen (Germany)
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This is by some distance the best thing out there on this subject
New: for @equatormag.bsky.social I spent months talking to BBC journalists, from front-line reporters to the former head of the World Service, about how the corporation came unstuck over Gaza. But as I was working on the story, it collided with something... bigger... www.equator.org/articles/ins...
Inside the BBC’s Gaza Fiasco • Articles • EQUATOR
How the world’s most trusted media organisation fell apart
www.equator.org
November 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
This is by some distance the best thing out there on this subject
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This book is now out: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b.... A successor to the very much liked book of the same name edited by Andrew Leftwich. very pleased to be in the new one, edited by Colin Hay, with a chapter on 'politics as crisis management'.
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This book is now out: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b.... A successor to the very much liked book of the same name edited by Andrew Leftwich. very pleased to be in the new one, edited by Colin Hay, with a chapter on 'politics as crisis management'.
It’s now clear that there is no going back to “normal” democracy in the US. Even a post-MAGA democratic restoration will likely need a protracted and toxic process analogous with post-WWII denazification
on.ft.com/49pPufE
on.ft.com/49pPufE
The Trump Supremacy
Opponents in disarray, allies in line, followers enthralled — the US president is already on his way to building a new world order
on.ft.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
It’s now clear that there is no going back to “normal” democracy in the US. Even a post-MAGA democratic restoration will likely need a protracted and toxic process analogous with post-WWII denazification
on.ft.com/49pPufE
on.ft.com/49pPufE
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A thread of inspirational quotes from two of my idols: Kemi Badenoch and Ange Postecoglou
(uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??)
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(uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??)
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October 6, 2025 at 9:11 AM
A thread of inspirational quotes from two of my idols: Kemi Badenoch and Ange Postecoglou
(uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??)
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(uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??)
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Article here: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘The president is unhinged’: Trump’s online behavior grows increasingly odd
The US president’s recent behavior is strange to many, from reposting a false AI video of himself to confusing comments during press conferences
www.theguardian.com
October 6, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Article here: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
These are not the same things: one is a barely intelligible ramble and the other is a coherent but bullshit political statement. If these claims of “eccentric” behaviour are going to work, politically, then it might be important to distinguish between the two.
October 6, 2025 at 7:05 AM
These are not the same things: one is a barely intelligible ramble and the other is a coherent but bullshit political statement. If these claims of “eccentric” behaviour are going to work, politically, then it might be important to distinguish between the two.
This is such a weird article that mixes up the kind of bombastic exaggeration that is a core part of Trump’s personality with genuinely unhinged examples of odd behaviour.
October 6, 2025 at 7:00 AM
This is such a weird article that mixes up the kind of bombastic exaggeration that is a core part of Trump’s personality with genuinely unhinged examples of odd behaviour.
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There's at least one consistent pattern with this government: announcing a big policy before they've worked out any details, or planned its implementation & sending people out to defend it who've got no arguments. E.g.
1) Welfare reform: no plans for actually getting people into work (1/x)
1) Welfare reform: no plans for actually getting people into work (1/x)
October 2, 2025 at 9:37 AM
There's at least one consistent pattern with this government: announcing a big policy before they've worked out any details, or planned its implementation & sending people out to defend it who've got no arguments. E.g.
1) Welfare reform: no plans for actually getting people into work (1/x)
1) Welfare reform: no plans for actually getting people into work (1/x)
I literally did a few months back!
October 2, 2025 at 10:33 AM
I literally did a few months back!
Anyone interested in the green transition ought to check out this brilliant new article by Chris Saltmarsh, published today in @ripejournal.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
September 18, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Anyone interested in the green transition ought to check out this brilliant new article by Chris Saltmarsh, published today in @ripejournal.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Quote of the day courtesy of Bismarck.
September 17, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Quote of the day courtesy of Bismarck.
How time flies!
September 12, 2025 at 11:04 AM
How time flies!
One of the strangest things about my time in HE is how REF has gone from universally loathed by academics to seemingly our best hope for justifying (and therefore maintaining) the research component of our jobs.
Ministers ‘want to shift funds away from low-quality research’ .
Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Ministers ‘want to shift funds away from low-quality research’ - Research Professional News
Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
September 12, 2025 at 10:59 AM
One of the strangest things about my time in HE is how REF has gone from universally loathed by academics to seemingly our best hope for justifying (and therefore maintaining) the research component of our jobs.
I don’t think it necessarily disproves the point because Starmer’s appearance on Football Cliches is still joked about for how terrible and stilted it was
September 12, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I don’t think it necessarily disproves the point because Starmer’s appearance on Football Cliches is still joked about for how terrible and stilted it was
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“Electric cars can be remotely controlled. Again, not a conspiracy theory. These cars can be shut down… There’s a reason why this neo-Marxist, communist, shambolic government wants us in electric cars. It’s so that we have no freedom whatsoever…" (sic) hopenothate.org.uk/2025/09/10/i...
Inside Reform's conference: conspiracy theories galore – HOPE not hate
Walking around Reform UK’s conference on Friday 6 and Saturday 7 September, one thing was clear: the party is utterly unfit to govern. Most peculiar...
hopenothate.org.uk
September 11, 2025 at 9:09 AM
“Electric cars can be remotely controlled. Again, not a conspiracy theory. These cars can be shut down… There’s a reason why this neo-Marxist, communist, shambolic government wants us in electric cars. It’s so that we have no freedom whatsoever…" (sic) hopenothate.org.uk/2025/09/10/i...
A question about Mandelson: if Starmer sacks him, then does that risk pissing off Trump by implying that fraternising with Epstein represents a red line that should not be crossed?
September 11, 2025 at 8:52 AM
A question about Mandelson: if Starmer sacks him, then does that risk pissing off Trump by implying that fraternising with Epstein represents a red line that should not be crossed?
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the free press trying to make a scandal out of reading robert dahl is very funny (shoutout to dahl, one of the best to ever do it)
One of Bari Weiss’s reporters over at the Free Press was shocked to discover what Columbia students are reading in class:
lol wat
lol wat
September 9, 2025 at 11:52 AM
the free press trying to make a scandal out of reading robert dahl is very funny (shoutout to dahl, one of the best to ever do it)
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Updated theory of British political decision making
September 2, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Updated theory of British political decision making
As a frequent reader of kids books, I wouldn’t have guessed frog as the most he/him gendered animal
August 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
As a frequent reader of kids books, I wouldn’t have guessed frog as the most he/him gendered animal
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It's happening! My book on financial nihilism is set to be published in March next year with Stanford UP. It has been many years in the making and I look forward to seeing it in print soon. www.sup.org/books/politi...
August 15, 2025 at 9:06 AM
It's happening! My book on financial nihilism is set to be published in March next year with Stanford UP. It has been many years in the making and I look forward to seeing it in print soon. www.sup.org/books/politi...
I found this Panic World podcast on Sydney Sweeney to be insightful for what this moment means for political culture: far right vibe shifts, outrage cycles on a dying social media platform, and just the bare cynicism of the whole episode.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
BONUS: Sydney Sweeney and rage bait
Podcast Episode · Panic World · 08/08/2025 · Bonus · 23m
podcasts.apple.com
August 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I found this Panic World podcast on Sydney Sweeney to be insightful for what this moment means for political culture: far right vibe shifts, outrage cycles on a dying social media platform, and just the bare cynicism of the whole episode.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
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The University of Warwick has paid a lot of money, I'm guessing, for their internet banner ads on the Guardian and elsewhere.
But they can't spell "curiosity". This isn't a US-UK variant. They just, genuinely, have a massive spelling error in their banner ads.
But they can't spell "curiosity". This isn't a US-UK variant. They just, genuinely, have a massive spelling error in their banner ads.
August 8, 2025 at 8:22 AM
The University of Warwick has paid a lot of money, I'm guessing, for their internet banner ads on the Guardian and elsewhere.
But they can't spell "curiosity". This isn't a US-UK variant. They just, genuinely, have a massive spelling error in their banner ads.
But they can't spell "curiosity". This isn't a US-UK variant. They just, genuinely, have a massive spelling error in their banner ads.