New article out now 🚨
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@sheffielduni.bsky.social

While researching the wealthy business class in and around Manchester, I stumbled upon CEO peer advisory groups — little-known but powerful sites of elite cohesion. 🧵

Looking for summer activities in London and keen to learn more about its history through migration? The Migration Museum Walking Tour: Migration and the City of London can be booked for up to 20 people. Duration approx 90 mins. And you'll be helping the team build Britain's missing museum too. 1/2

Great reading for anyone interested in SLAPPs - which should be everyone interested in press and academic freedom 😉 courtingenglishlaw.substack.com

Looking forward to joining the UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies as a Visiting Fellow next year!

In Berlin wurde diese Woche zweimal eine Veranstaltung mit der UN-Sonderberichtserstatterin @franceskalbs.bsky.social abgesagt. Zusammen mit @amnesty-de.bsky.social warnt medico international vor dem Angriff gegen internationale Institutionen des Völkerrechts.

‘Expatriate: Following a migration category’ is now out in paperback 🎉 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182579/

Working on creative methods around urban protest and resistance from a geography perspective? If so consider submitting to our CfP - "Making space for protest" for #RGS2025. More info 👇 Deadline - 28th February 2025. With Architecture colleagues Goran Vodick and Stany Babu ✊

Abramovich’s companies were registered offshore but we’ve uncovered evidence they were being run from the UK – meaning they should have been paying UK taxes

Der Mann, der gegen den Straftatbestand der Vergewaltigung in der Ehe gestimmt hat, will die Migration mit der Begründung von „täglichen Gruppenvergewaltigungen“ aus dem „Asylmilieu“ beschränken.

“Witnessing the German public sphere in recent months, it was hard to resist a similarly damning conclusion: that self-righteous hypocrisy had been normalised enough to turn into a mode of governance and thought. …“ www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ja...

Heute Abend um 17 Uhr in München zeigen, was wir von der CSU/CDU nach ihrem Pakt mit der AfD halten!

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Merz ist auf den Spuren von Orban und Meloni. Er gefährdet Europa, rüttelt an den Grundfesten von Rechtsstaatlichkeit und Demokratie, er wirft zentrale Lehren des Nationalsozialismus' über Bord. 1/3 www.medico.de/blog/trumpis...

⚜️ Born to rule: the making & remaking of the British elite

Don't miss next week's Max Weber Programme February Lecture featuring @lsesociology.bsky.social Prof. @aaronreeves.bsky.social on the evolution of the elite class in the UK.

📆 5 Feb.
⏰ 17:00-18:30
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Register✍️ buff.ly/4jAHZpa

It's one week until Indulging Kleptocracy (@oxunipress.bsky.social @tenaprelec.bsky.social Tom Mayne) is released worldwide. We're launching the book in parliament on Feb 10th and at Frontline Club on Feb 11th. More launch events in UK, US, EU planned. Join Us!
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So excited about this amazing panel next Tuesday run by @lseinequalities.bsky.social talking on the politics of social class in 2025 Britain.

A group of cross-party MPs has launched an inquiry into the state of asylum housing – and we are submitting a mountain of evidence for it.

Will you take action and sign your name to show the government that we’ll be counting on them to act on it?
act.refugee-action.org.uk/page/164567/...