Huw C. Davies
@huwcdavies.bsky.social
Lecturer Education Futures & Digital Education based at Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh. Own views.
Excellent article on the racism at the heart of the British establishment. Its conclusion echoes my analysis of Paul Marshall’s ARC where Farage spoke. ‘Globalist’ neoliberalism but only for the wealthy white ‘Christian’ in-group. Hypocrisy = expression of power. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
November 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Excellent article on the racism at the heart of the British establishment. Its conclusion echoes my analysis of Paul Marshall’s ARC where Farage spoke. ‘Globalist’ neoliberalism but only for the wealthy white ‘Christian’ in-group. Hypocrisy = expression of power. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A government that refuses to face down the forces of ignorance and tell a section of the public that it can’t have its fantasy of a homogeneous backward looking culture and a thriving economy funding public services.
They remain the only government in my lifetime without a theory of how economic growth happens and a determination that it definitely not be through universities, immigration, high skilled services, tax simplification, trade relations etc
November 24, 2025 at 9:44 AM
A government that refuses to face down the forces of ignorance and tell a section of the public that it can’t have its fantasy of a homogeneous backward looking culture and a thriving economy funding public services.
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By mimicking Reform to win back support, the Labour government is making a serious mistake. This race to the bottom emboldens Farage, punishes vulnerable people, amplifies racism, and undermines those working to hold communities together.
November 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
By mimicking Reform to win back support, the Labour government is making a serious mistake. This race to the bottom emboldens Farage, punishes vulnerable people, amplifies racism, and undermines those working to hold communities together.
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I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it. We’re in a 1945/1979 moment when the pre-existing economic model has broken down. The difference between now and then is that there is no alternative model waiting in the wings, even if there were politicians who could sell it.
November 24, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it. We’re in a 1945/1979 moment when the pre-existing economic model has broken down. The difference between now and then is that there is no alternative model waiting in the wings, even if there were politicians who could sell it.
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They remain the only government in my lifetime without a theory of how economic growth happens and a determination that it definitely not be through universities, immigration, high skilled services, tax simplification, trade relations etc
November 24, 2025 at 8:34 AM
They remain the only government in my lifetime without a theory of how economic growth happens and a determination that it definitely not be through universities, immigration, high skilled services, tax simplification, trade relations etc
Reform is the party for denialist cranks, obstructionists and the fossil fuel industry that contributes to its coffers. Forcing people to ‘adapt’ is about as anti-human as you can get.
November 22, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Reform is the party for denialist cranks, obstructionists and the fossil fuel industry that contributes to its coffers. Forcing people to ‘adapt’ is about as anti-human as you can get.
Whelan was on BBCQT last night riding the Spiked cult hobby horses about lockdowns & climate change. She attacked net zero & claimed it was unpopular within the public, not because it is but because the cult wants it to be. Why do the show’s producers think this worldview needs more airtime?
November 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Whelan was on BBCQT last night riding the Spiked cult hobby horses about lockdowns & climate change. She attacked net zero & claimed it was unpopular within the public, not because it is but because the cult wants it to be. Why do the show’s producers think this worldview needs more airtime?
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Just an absolute joke of a newspaper these days
Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Just an absolute joke of a newspaper these days
Reform activists are calling criticism of its policies Project Fear 2.0. Yet, post-Brexit UK, with its huge predicted loss in GDP, is so rubbish they all want to leave now.
November 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Reform activists are calling criticism of its policies Project Fear 2.0. Yet, post-Brexit UK, with its huge predicted loss in GDP, is so rubbish they all want to leave now.
My paper was rejected by reviewers for the BSA's conference next year. Therefore I'll: be on GBNews later to denounce the whole of social science, start supporting Reform, present work at the Heterodox Academy, and join a dark money think tank to make a career out of externalising this failure.
November 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
My paper was rejected by reviewers for the BSA's conference next year. Therefore I'll: be on GBNews later to denounce the whole of social science, start supporting Reform, present work at the Heterodox Academy, and join a dark money think tank to make a career out of externalising this failure.
Also, David Starkey, who claimed that the slave trade wasn’t that bad because there are so many “damn blacks” around today, was the discussant for this lecture. Apart from anything else, this illustrates that the bar for being a conservative intellectual is horrifically low.
An absolute disgrace that @ox.ac.uk hosted this celebration of murdering a journalist.
See also Curtis Yarvin's remarks in a recent Oxford lecture:
"Say what you want about MBS, he's quite an effective king I think in a lot of different ways. Um love the Ritz thing, the whole Saudi embassy thing, I don't know, but I mean he was a journalist". [Giggles]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXYl...
"Say what you want about MBS, he's quite an effective king I think in a lot of different ways. Um love the Ritz thing, the whole Saudi embassy thing, I don't know, but I mean he was a journalist". [Giggles]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXYl...
November 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Also, David Starkey, who claimed that the slave trade wasn’t that bad because there are so many “damn blacks” around today, was the discussant for this lecture. Apart from anything else, this illustrates that the bar for being a conservative intellectual is horrifically low.
In 1975, we were inhaling lead from petrol fumes, child molesters had their own tv shows, it was legal for a man to rape his wife, drink driving was normal, 260 people were murdered in Northern Ireland…
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 14, 2025 at 9:34 AM
In 1975, we were inhaling lead from petrol fumes, child molesters had their own tv shows, it was legal for a man to rape his wife, drink driving was normal, 260 people were murdered in Northern Ireland…
Goodwin’s racism shouldn’t be a matter of opinion. Even Grok agrees.
November 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Goodwin’s racism shouldn’t be a matter of opinion. Even Grok agrees.
If the Nobel Committee gave prizes for understatement...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
If the Nobel Committee gave prizes for understatement...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Reform’s position on racism isn’t an open question.
November 13, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Reform’s position on racism isn’t an open question.
‘Woke right’ tells everyone that you belong to small, intellectually incestuous, community that takes the words of James Lindsay and Konstantinos Kisin seriously.
Anti-racism is of course welcome but the nonsensical phrase “woke right” is a very clear sign that a writer as lost it
"This week the woke right took to saying that people who are black aren't properly British" complains Danny Finkelstein.
No, Danny, Douglas Murray, who you patronised, promoted and admired, has been saying *exactly this* for over a decade.
archive.ph/2025.11.12-0...
No, Danny, Douglas Murray, who you patronised, promoted and admired, has been saying *exactly this* for over a decade.
archive.ph/2025.11.12-0...
November 12, 2025 at 9:32 AM
‘Woke right’ tells everyone that you belong to small, intellectually incestuous, community that takes the words of James Lindsay and Konstantinos Kisin seriously.
Right wing accusations of BBC pro-trans bias based on claims such as this: independent production teams coordinating in secret to allow trans people to participate in quizzes that are broadcast on the same night.
November 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Right wing accusations of BBC pro-trans bias based on claims such as this: independent production teams coordinating in secret to allow trans people to participate in quizzes that are broadcast on the same night.
Interesting debate. I can’t see how Labour reconciles its growth ambitions & promised improvements in public services with throttling immigration. It needs to be honest with the electorate & say we can slash immigration but we will have to significantly increase income tax & forget about growth.
new episode (2/2) - i've argued giving ground on cultural issues is a horrible strategy
@prossertj.bsky.social thinks labour have it right
we debate
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/ukdebate
@prossertj.bsky.social thinks labour have it right
we debate
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/ukdebate
Should we compromise with the right on immigration?
A debate with Thomas Prosser
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Interesting debate. I can’t see how Labour reconciles its growth ambitions & promised improvements in public services with throttling immigration. It needs to be honest with the electorate & say we can slash immigration but we will have to significantly increase income tax & forget about growth.
The guy who subsidises the survival of GBNews and The Spectator doesn’t want the BBC to survive either. There is nothing can or should be doing to appease this lot - they believe Attenborough documentaries are biased towards the ‘green lobby’.
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The guy who subsidises the survival of GBNews and The Spectator doesn’t want the BBC to survive either. There is nothing can or should be doing to appease this lot - they believe Attenborough documentaries are biased towards the ‘green lobby’.
The irony of a Reform politician arguing an EU member working within the constraints of the EU has better control of its boarders than the UK.
"You, like Nigel Farage, are simply lying about what the ONS says."
I somewhat lost my patience with Reform Councillor Bill Piper here.. (from about 1h 27 min in)
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I somewhat lost my patience with Reform Councillor Bill Piper here.. (from about 1h 27 min in)
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Stephen Nolan - 08/11/2025 - BBC Sounds
The day's main news stories, topical debate and interviews.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The irony of a Reform politician arguing an EU member working within the constraints of the EU has better control of its boarders than the UK.
A new student society for students who hate universities, and everyone in them, and still went to one for some reason.
November 10, 2025 at 11:38 AM
A new student society for students who hate universities, and everyone in them, and still went to one for some reason.
Imagine the intensity of the backlash if the BBC had booked a political scientist who suggested Trump’s behaviour on Jan 6th was ‘closer to fascism than populism’. Trump would be livid and would want him sacked.
4 years ago Goodwin was calling what he now stands for fascism. He should be asked to explain why on every mainstream show he’s invited on.
November 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Imagine the intensity of the backlash if the BBC had booked a political scientist who suggested Trump’s behaviour on Jan 6th was ‘closer to fascism than populism’. Trump would be livid and would want him sacked.
A MAGA company owning our defence infrastructure doesn’t seem prudent or ethical.
November 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
A MAGA company owning our defence infrastructure doesn’t seem prudent or ethical.
FFS, the Alliance of Responsible Citizenship's climate denialist pseudo-expert is getting money from Bill Gates now to flood the zone with more shit.
Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
By @rtakver.bsky.social @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
By @rtakver.bsky.social @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.
www.desmog.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
FFS, the Alliance of Responsible Citizenship's climate denialist pseudo-expert is getting money from Bill Gates now to flood the zone with more shit.
I’ve yet to find a use for AI that doesn’t produce a poor substitute for what I could’ve done with more time available. I feel like it’s my fault rather than the limitations of the technology. Which is a successful outcome for this form of capitalism.
November 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I’ve yet to find a use for AI that doesn’t produce a poor substitute for what I could’ve done with more time available. I feel like it’s my fault rather than the limitations of the technology. Which is a successful outcome for this form of capitalism.