Mike Bankole 🍉
@mikebankole.bsky.social
I research and write about race, racism, representation and British politics
Usually on @novaramedia.com and @theanfieldwrap.bsky.social
https://substack.com/@mikebankole
Usually on @novaramedia.com and @theanfieldwrap.bsky.social
https://substack.com/@mikebankole
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Reform UK: A Monster Made by Labour and the Conservatives
Attempts to present Reform as an aberration miss the point: it’s the natural conclusion of eighty years of regressive immigration politics in Britain.
mikebankole.substack.com
My first piece is out now: I argue Reform are the natural conclusion of 80 years of regressive immigration politics in Britain
Check it out, subscribe, and let me know what you think 😄: mikebankole.substack.com/p/reform-uk-...
Check it out, subscribe, and let me know what you think 😄: mikebankole.substack.com/p/reform-uk-...
Looking forward to being on stage for TAW Live this Thursday evening in London with @knoxharrington.bsky.social, @johngibbons.bsky.social, @craighannan.bsky.social, and Dan Morgan
Still a few tickets left. 7pm at 21Soho. Be there or be square xxx
theanfieldwrap.com/tawlive
Still a few tickets left. 7pm at 21Soho. Be there or be square xxx
theanfieldwrap.com/tawlive
November 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Looking forward to being on stage for TAW Live this Thursday evening in London with @knoxharrington.bsky.social, @johngibbons.bsky.social, @craighannan.bsky.social, and Dan Morgan
Still a few tickets left. 7pm at 21Soho. Be there or be square xxx
theanfieldwrap.com/tawlive
Still a few tickets left. 7pm at 21Soho. Be there or be square xxx
theanfieldwrap.com/tawlive
Hey peeps. I’ve started a Substack.
I’ll be writing about politics and my research (with the odd piece on football)
I’ll be writing about politics and my research (with the odd piece on football)
November 7, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Hey peeps. I’ve started a Substack.
I’ll be writing about politics and my research (with the odd piece on football)
I’ll be writing about politics and my research (with the odd piece on football)
What a night 🥰🥰🥰
November 4, 2025 at 10:34 PM
What a night 🥰🥰🥰
Reform often make their racism explicit, but racism isn’t just a Reform problem. From Jenrick’s complaints about a “lack of white faces” in Handsworth to Starmer’s “island of strangers” speech, racism is being mainstreamed across British politics
Me on @lbc.co.uk earlier
Me on @lbc.co.uk earlier
October 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Reform often make their racism explicit, but racism isn’t just a Reform problem. From Jenrick’s complaints about a “lack of white faces” in Handsworth to Starmer’s “island of strangers” speech, racism is being mainstreamed across British politics
Me on @lbc.co.uk earlier
Me on @lbc.co.uk earlier
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🚨 NEW: "Rising autocracies know to pressure schools, universities, corporations and government institutions into silence. Together, these tactics do more than harm Black communities – they hollow out our democracy itself." - Stacey Abrams
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
US leaders are erasing Black history. That threatens our future | Stacey Abrams and Esosa Osa
DEI is being used as a smokescreen to roll back progress and consolidate power. The goal is to rewrite our nation’s story
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
🚨 NEW: "Rising autocracies know to pressure schools, universities, corporations and government institutions into silence. Together, these tactics do more than harm Black communities – they hollow out our democracy itself." - Stacey Abrams
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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*NEW PSA FILM* Why does #Equality, #Diversity & #Inclusion matter in academia?
Find out with Dr Michael Bankole @mikebankole.bsky.social how to help champion #EDI how and where you teach.
➡️ buff.ly/rYu9KAq
Supported by @acadsocsciences.bsky.social @ukri.org
#PoliticalStudies #BHM2025
Find out with Dr Michael Bankole @mikebankole.bsky.social how to help champion #EDI how and where you teach.
➡️ buff.ly/rYu9KAq
Supported by @acadsocsciences.bsky.social @ukri.org
#PoliticalStudies #BHM2025
PSA’s Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Video Series | The Political Studies Association (PSA)
The Political Studies Association is proud to share our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Video Series, bringing together EDI voices from across our community.
buff.ly
October 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
*NEW PSA FILM* Why does #Equality, #Diversity & #Inclusion matter in academia?
Find out with Dr Michael Bankole @mikebankole.bsky.social how to help champion #EDI how and where you teach.
➡️ buff.ly/rYu9KAq
Supported by @acadsocsciences.bsky.social @ukri.org
#PoliticalStudies #BHM2025
Find out with Dr Michael Bankole @mikebankole.bsky.social how to help champion #EDI how and where you teach.
➡️ buff.ly/rYu9KAq
Supported by @acadsocsciences.bsky.social @ukri.org
#PoliticalStudies #BHM2025
We’ve gone from being ‘cancelled’, to doing Press Conference Extra without the press conference @andyheaton.bsky.social @4hundredblows.bsky.social 😂👇🏾
www.theanfieldwrap.com/2025/09/live...
www.theanfieldwrap.com/2025/09/live...
Liverpool v Southampton: Press Conference Extra
IIt's Press Conference Extra ahead of Liverpool's first fixture of the season in the competition to reflect on Arne Slot's insightful...
www.theanfieldwrap.com
September 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
We’ve gone from being ‘cancelled’, to doing Press Conference Extra without the press conference @andyheaton.bsky.social @4hundredblows.bsky.social 😂👇🏾
www.theanfieldwrap.com/2025/09/live...
www.theanfieldwrap.com/2025/09/live...
“You're choosing to be complicit. You're choosing to step back while a crime is happening and do nothing about it and not take a principled stance.”
Shared some thoughts on Trump’s state visit and “neutrality” re: the genocide in Gaza on @novaramedia.com last night 👇🏾
Shared some thoughts on Trump’s state visit and “neutrality” re: the genocide in Gaza on @novaramedia.com last night 👇🏾
September 18, 2025 at 9:23 AM
“You're choosing to be complicit. You're choosing to step back while a crime is happening and do nothing about it and not take a principled stance.”
Shared some thoughts on Trump’s state visit and “neutrality” re: the genocide in Gaza on @novaramedia.com last night 👇🏾
Shared some thoughts on Trump’s state visit and “neutrality” re: the genocide in Gaza on @novaramedia.com last night 👇🏾
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"It feels odious having this man paraded around Windsor castle, who's not just complicit, playing a central role in this genocide"
Mike Bankole on @novaramedia.com
Mike Bankole on @novaramedia.com
September 18, 2025 at 4:55 AM
"It feels odious having this man paraded around Windsor castle, who's not just complicit, playing a central role in this genocide"
Mike Bankole on @novaramedia.com
Mike Bankole on @novaramedia.com
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Let me elaborate my disagreement with @zackpolanski.bsky.social in a 🧵. The scenes on our streets are not "the consequences of decades of austerity" but of centuries of racism propagated by the British ruling classes to rationalise the social order they have constructed at home and abroad.
I'm genuinely grateful for the solidarity, irrespective of how rare this is from a politician. But fascism can't be reduced to displaced economic concerns. It doesn't stand up analytically, it won't help politically or strategically, and I really wish the left (of which I'm part) wouldn't do this.
The scenes on our streets are shameful consequences of decades of austerity - government after government fanning the flames of anti migration instead of tackling inequality.
We can & must make different choices. Solidarity to all communities under attack. We stand together.
We can & must make different choices. Solidarity to all communities under attack. We stand together.
September 14, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Let me elaborate my disagreement with @zackpolanski.bsky.social in a 🧵. The scenes on our streets are not "the consequences of decades of austerity" but of centuries of racism propagated by the British ruling classes to rationalise the social order they have constructed at home and abroad.
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I’m a little bummed that the Press Conference Extra was cancelled by @theanfieldwrap.bsky.social but it was great to hear @andyheaton.bsky.social @mikebankole.bsky.social and @4hundredblows.bsky.social back together on Sunday Best today! Dearth of tech fleece chat but so it goes. 😄
City Stutter, West Ham Suffer & Burnley Victorious: Sunday Best
We enter match week two with West Ham suffering a thumping defeat, City lose at home to Tottenham and Burnley secure their first victory...
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August 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I’m a little bummed that the Press Conference Extra was cancelled by @theanfieldwrap.bsky.social but it was great to hear @andyheaton.bsky.social @mikebankole.bsky.social and @4hundredblows.bsky.social back together on Sunday Best today! Dearth of tech fleece chat but so it goes. 😄
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*NEW* PSA #EDI film now live!
Learn what #Equality #Diversity & #Inclusion means, the challenges within #academia and how the PSA is supporting change. Special thanks to @anandmenon.bsky.social @mikebankole.bsky.social @jtlabarca.bsky.social & Manjeet Ramgotra.
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Learn what #Equality #Diversity & #Inclusion means, the challenges within #academia and how the PSA is supporting change. Special thanks to @anandmenon.bsky.social @mikebankole.bsky.social @jtlabarca.bsky.social & Manjeet Ramgotra.
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PSA’s Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Video Series | The Political Studies Association (PSA)
The Political Studies Association is proud to launch a new EDI video bringing together EDI voices from within our community.
buff.ly
August 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
*NEW* PSA #EDI film now live!
Learn what #Equality #Diversity & #Inclusion means, the challenges within #academia and how the PSA is supporting change. Special thanks to @anandmenon.bsky.social @mikebankole.bsky.social @jtlabarca.bsky.social & Manjeet Ramgotra.
➡️ watch & share
Learn what #Equality #Diversity & #Inclusion means, the challenges within #academia and how the PSA is supporting change. Special thanks to @anandmenon.bsky.social @mikebankole.bsky.social @jtlabarca.bsky.social & Manjeet Ramgotra.
➡️ watch & share
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Happy to share my first published article based on my PhD in Party Politics with @journals.sagepub.com in open access!
doi.org/10.1177/1354...
doi.org/10.1177/1354...
July 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Happy to share my first published article based on my PhD in Party Politics with @journals.sagepub.com in open access!
doi.org/10.1177/1354...
doi.org/10.1177/1354...
“Britain is a country that, in many ways, was built on acts of political dissent.”
Dissent is essential to any functioning democracy. Whatever your views on Palestine Action, proscribing them as terrorists is a dangerous overreach.
Was good to be back on @novaramedia.com yesterday to unpack this 👇🏾
Dissent is essential to any functioning democracy. Whatever your views on Palestine Action, proscribing them as terrorists is a dangerous overreach.
Was good to be back on @novaramedia.com yesterday to unpack this 👇🏾
July 4, 2025 at 10:33 AM
“Britain is a country that, in many ways, was built on acts of political dissent.”
Dissent is essential to any functioning democracy. Whatever your views on Palestine Action, proscribing them as terrorists is a dangerous overreach.
Was good to be back on @novaramedia.com yesterday to unpack this 👇🏾
Dissent is essential to any functioning democracy. Whatever your views on Palestine Action, proscribing them as terrorists is a dangerous overreach.
Was good to be back on @novaramedia.com yesterday to unpack this 👇🏾
Press Conference Extra on tour @4hundredblows.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Press Conference Extra on tour @4hundredblows.bsky.social
Enjoyed speaking at the @londongreenparty.bsky.social conference on Saturday about diversity in politics
Key takeaway: diversity matters, but it must be part of a deeper critique of power and structural inequality. Without that, change risks being cosmetic
Key takeaway: diversity matters, but it must be part of a deeper critique of power and structural inequality. Without that, change risks being cosmetic
May 12, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Enjoyed speaking at the @londongreenparty.bsky.social conference on Saturday about diversity in politics
Key takeaway: diversity matters, but it must be part of a deeper critique of power and structural inequality. Without that, change risks being cosmetic
Key takeaway: diversity matters, but it must be part of a deeper critique of power and structural inequality. Without that, change risks being cosmetic
Liverpool are champions, got to watch it with the main man @ro-kalli.bsky.social after he completed his *8th* London Marathon, and my sister crushed her first London Marathon. Unbelievable scenes. What a day! 😍😍😍😍
April 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Liverpool are champions, got to watch it with the main man @ro-kalli.bsky.social after he completed his *8th* London Marathon, and my sister crushed her first London Marathon. Unbelievable scenes. What a day! 😍😍😍😍
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Additional Conference speakers announced!
- @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social: Australian Greens deputy leader and New South Wales state senator
- @mothinali.bsky.social Leeds Green Party Councillor
🗓 Saturday 10th May
🎫 Free tickets available
✅Open to non-members
actionnetwork.org/ticketed_eve...
- @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social: Australian Greens deputy leader and New South Wales state senator
- @mothinali.bsky.social Leeds Green Party Councillor
🗓 Saturday 10th May
🎫 Free tickets available
✅Open to non-members
actionnetwork.org/ticketed_eve...
April 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Additional Conference speakers announced!
- @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social: Australian Greens deputy leader and New South Wales state senator
- @mothinali.bsky.social Leeds Green Party Councillor
🗓 Saturday 10th May
🎫 Free tickets available
✅Open to non-members
actionnetwork.org/ticketed_eve...
- @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social: Australian Greens deputy leader and New South Wales state senator
- @mothinali.bsky.social Leeds Green Party Councillor
🗓 Saturday 10th May
🎫 Free tickets available
✅Open to non-members
actionnetwork.org/ticketed_eve...
Another PSA conference in the books! Really enjoyed presenting my research, chairing some great @psa-race.bsky.social panels and catching up with old friends. Till next year! #psa25
April 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Another PSA conference in the books! Really enjoyed presenting my research, chairing some great @psa-race.bsky.social panels and catching up with old friends. Till next year! #psa25
Thrilled to be speaking at the Green Party’s London Conference in May alongside some pretty cool peeps! Come down if you can — it’s free, open to everyone, and shaping up to be a fun day 😄
Book here: actionnetwork.org/ticketed_eve...
Book here: actionnetwork.org/ticketed_eve...
April 16, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Thrilled to be speaking at the Green Party’s London Conference in May alongside some pretty cool peeps! Come down if you can — it’s free, open to everyone, and shaping up to be a fun day 😄
Book here: actionnetwork.org/ticketed_eve...
Book here: actionnetwork.org/ticketed_eve...
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Pints and prizes last night 🍻 ⭐
Honoured to receive the Joni Lovenduski Prize for outstanding professional achievement as an early career scholar at the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social AGM last night
AND thrilled that @psawomenpol.bsky.social won Specialist Group of the Year! 💥 💫
Honoured to receive the Joni Lovenduski Prize for outstanding professional achievement as an early career scholar at the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social AGM last night
AND thrilled that @psawomenpol.bsky.social won Specialist Group of the Year! 💥 💫
April 15, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Pints and prizes last night 🍻 ⭐
Honoured to receive the Joni Lovenduski Prize for outstanding professional achievement as an early career scholar at the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social AGM last night
AND thrilled that @psawomenpol.bsky.social won Specialist Group of the Year! 💥 💫
Honoured to receive the Joni Lovenduski Prize for outstanding professional achievement as an early career scholar at the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social AGM last night
AND thrilled that @psawomenpol.bsky.social won Specialist Group of the Year! 💥 💫
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Planning your #PSA2025 agenda? Be sure to add the Race, Migration and Intersectionality panels to your agenda! All of our sessions will be @ Library of Birmingham Room 102 - head that way to meet up with other RMI members and co-convenors @mikebankole.bsky.social & @jessunderwood.bsky.social!
April 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Planning your #PSA2025 agenda? Be sure to add the Race, Migration and Intersectionality panels to your agenda! All of our sessions will be @ Library of Birmingham Room 102 - head that way to meet up with other RMI members and co-convenors @mikebankole.bsky.social & @jessunderwood.bsky.social!
Looking forward to this!
5th panel: Unmasking 'mainstream' politics--Tues @ 15:30 with @franamery.bsky.social, @aurelmondon.bsky.social, @mikebankole.bsky.social and
@selinsivis.bsky.social. Themes:
@selinsivis.bsky.social. Themes:
April 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Looking forward to this!
Being disabled, or living in a household where someone is disabled, is one of the strongest predictors of poverty in the UK—yet Labour has chosen to cut £5bn from disability benefits, stripping support from 1 million people
A cruel, regressive move that will likely deepen inequality and poverty
A cruel, regressive move that will likely deepen inequality and poverty
March 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Being disabled, or living in a household where someone is disabled, is one of the strongest predictors of poverty in the UK—yet Labour has chosen to cut £5bn from disability benefits, stripping support from 1 million people
A cruel, regressive move that will likely deepen inequality and poverty
A cruel, regressive move that will likely deepen inequality and poverty
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Review is out now on @TheAnfieldWrap.bsky.social with Dan Mike & me
Liverpool approach
Liverpool build up phase vs man to man marking
1st half corners dissected
Poor half time
2nd half plan(?) & changes
Elliot & Chiesa
Last 10 games & the forwards
Liverpool approach
Liverpool build up phase vs man to man marking
1st half corners dissected
Poor half time
2nd half plan(?) & changes
Elliot & Chiesa
Last 10 games & the forwards
March 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Review is out now on @TheAnfieldWrap.bsky.social with Dan Mike & me
Liverpool approach
Liverpool build up phase vs man to man marking
1st half corners dissected
Poor half time
2nd half plan(?) & changes
Elliot & Chiesa
Last 10 games & the forwards
Liverpool approach
Liverpool build up phase vs man to man marking
1st half corners dissected
Poor half time
2nd half plan(?) & changes
Elliot & Chiesa
Last 10 games & the forwards