Tom Howe
@tomhowe.bsky.social
Doing a PhD at @PAISwarwick and @MonashPolsIR. Interested in geopolitics, critical security studies, British politics, and the Anglosphere.
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1/4. New article alert!
"The crown in crisis? Britain’s royal ontological (in)security in the post-Brexit age", by Christopher S. Browning & Tom Howe is out now.
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"The crown in crisis? Britain’s royal ontological (in)security in the post-Brexit age", by Christopher S. Browning & Tom Howe is out now.
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
@sagepub.com
August 19, 2025 at 9:08 AM
1/4. New article alert!
"The crown in crisis? Britain’s royal ontological (in)security in the post-Brexit age", by Christopher S. Browning & Tom Howe is out now.
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
@sagepub.com
"The crown in crisis? Britain’s royal ontological (in)security in the post-Brexit age", by Christopher S. Browning & Tom Howe is out now.
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
@sagepub.com
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"More than others, the UK and Australia have staked out global roles as appendages of the US-led order – its lieutenant and sergeant. They must now ask themselves if they’re fighting for the same cause as their major."
🖊️ @tomhowe.bsky.social & Ben Wellings on AUKUS
ukandeu.ac.uk/australias-e...
🖊️ @tomhowe.bsky.social & Ben Wellings on AUKUS
ukandeu.ac.uk/australias-e...
Australia’s election and the unspoken dilemma between the US and China - UK in a changing Europe
Following Australia’s recent election that saw Anthony Albanese’s liberal party win an unexpected majority, Tom Howe and Ben Wellings discuss the prospects...
ukandeu.ac.uk
May 9, 2025 at 7:47 AM
"More than others, the UK and Australia have staked out global roles as appendages of the US-led order – its lieutenant and sergeant. They must now ask themselves if they’re fighting for the same cause as their major."
🖊️ @tomhowe.bsky.social & Ben Wellings on AUKUS
ukandeu.ac.uk/australias-e...
🖊️ @tomhowe.bsky.social & Ben Wellings on AUKUS
ukandeu.ac.uk/australias-e...
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Reading the just released “War and Peace” by General Sir Richard Barrons, who is currently co-writing the UK’s strategic defence review.
December 2, 2024 at 10:44 PM
Reading the just released “War and Peace” by General Sir Richard Barrons, who is currently co-writing the UK’s strategic defence review.
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Before & After: I don’t think people realize the extent to which parked cars degrade public space.
November 25, 2024 at 5:25 AM
Before & After: I don’t think people realize the extent to which parked cars degrade public space.
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34% of Australians have a negative attitude towards Muslims, up from 27% last year. Not surprising but consider how little you’ve heard politicians or media grapple with the fact one-third of the population is hostile to Muslims (as opposed to encouraging hostility) www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
The issue dividing Australians more than ever
Roughly half of Australians believe immigration is too high, although their attitudes appear to be driven by record levels of worry about housing and the economy rather than a surge in anti-migrant se...
www.smh.com.au
November 18, 2024 at 9:07 PM
34% of Australians have a negative attitude towards Muslims, up from 27% last year. Not surprising but consider how little you’ve heard politicians or media grapple with the fact one-third of the population is hostile to Muslims (as opposed to encouraging hostility) www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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New divergence tracker is out - the first since Labour took office. Key take-aways:
1) Labour is continuing a trend of pausing plans for 'active' divergence from EU, due to costs to biz.
2) But - crucially - Lab is also setting plans to actively *align* with EU rules. This is a big policy change
1) Labour is continuing a trend of pausing plans for 'active' divergence from EU, due to costs to biz.
2) But - crucially - Lab is also setting plans to actively *align* with EU rules. This is a big policy change
📣 The latest UK-EU Divergence Tracker has landed!
🚨 It finds that Labour is leading the UK towards closer regulatory alignment with the EU in what "amounts to a step-change in UK policy".
Read the full tracker from @jreland.bsky.social now 👇
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ukandeu.ac.uk/reports/uk-e...
🚨 It finds that Labour is leading the UK towards closer regulatory alignment with the EU in what "amounts to a step-change in UK policy".
Read the full tracker from @jreland.bsky.social now 👇
1/5
ukandeu.ac.uk/reports/uk-e...
UK-EU Divergence Tracker Q2-Q3 2024 - UK in a changing Europe
This edition of UK in a Changing Europe’s Regulatory Divergence Tracker covers developments from April-October 2024.
ukandeu.ac.uk
November 20, 2024 at 10:27 AM
New divergence tracker is out - the first since Labour took office. Key take-aways:
1) Labour is continuing a trend of pausing plans for 'active' divergence from EU, due to costs to biz.
2) But - crucially - Lab is also setting plans to actively *align* with EU rules. This is a big policy change
1) Labour is continuing a trend of pausing plans for 'active' divergence from EU, due to costs to biz.
2) But - crucially - Lab is also setting plans to actively *align* with EU rules. This is a big policy change
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David Lammy on his dinner with Donald Trump: “He wanted to find out from the Prime Minister how he had won; I think he was taking notes in relation to his own campaign.” www.newstatesman.com/politics/pol...
David Lammy: Trump doesn’t want Putin to win
The Foreign Secretary on why the president-elect won’t accept a Russian victory in Ukraine.
www.newstatesman.com
November 20, 2024 at 9:40 AM
David Lammy on his dinner with Donald Trump: “He wanted to find out from the Prime Minister how he had won; I think he was taking notes in relation to his own campaign.” www.newstatesman.com/politics/pol...
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Keep seeing references to UK food security.
Since the mid-19th century UK food security has meant the ability to keep the sea lanes open and imports flowing in. Not the ability to produce domestic needs at home.
Since the mid-19th century UK food security has meant the ability to keep the sea lanes open and imports flowing in. Not the ability to produce domestic needs at home.
November 18, 2024 at 9:32 AM
Keep seeing references to UK food security.
Since the mid-19th century UK food security has meant the ability to keep the sea lanes open and imports flowing in. Not the ability to produce domestic needs at home.
Since the mid-19th century UK food security has meant the ability to keep the sea lanes open and imports flowing in. Not the ability to produce domestic needs at home.
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This month's #ACFM is on Disruption! Nadia Idle, Jeremy Gilbert, and I contrast the anger at the protest disruption of @JustStop_Oil with acceptance of the climate change disruption seen in Valencia. And the 'creative disruption' celebrated by the tech sector.
novaramedia.com/2024/11/17/a...
novaramedia.com/2024/11/17/a...
Trip 47: Disruption | Novara Media
Why are so many people so angry at Just Stop Oil? The ACFM gang explore the political uses and abuses of disruption.
novaramedia.com
November 17, 2024 at 10:43 AM
This month's #ACFM is on Disruption! Nadia Idle, Jeremy Gilbert, and I contrast the anger at the protest disruption of @JustStop_Oil with acceptance of the climate change disruption seen in Valencia. And the 'creative disruption' celebrated by the tech sector.
novaramedia.com/2024/11/17/a...
novaramedia.com/2024/11/17/a...
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Following the recent trend on Bluesky and in the hope that more of us will soon join the "good place," I’ve created a starter pack for those studying ontological (in)security in global politics 🤓
go.bsky.app/9v5z4jX
go.bsky.app/9v5z4jX
November 18, 2024 at 2:08 PM
Following the recent trend on Bluesky and in the hope that more of us will soon join the "good place," I’ve created a starter pack for those studying ontological (in)security in global politics 🤓
go.bsky.app/9v5z4jX
go.bsky.app/9v5z4jX
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Alright, last bit of posting, i wrote a few pieces for the New Statesman since i was last on social media properly. The first, on the new British right www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2024/0...
Britain’s new Powellites
With the Conservative Party intellectually exhausted, a very-online vanguard is trying to refresh right-wing thought – but how much of it is actually new?
www.newstatesman.com
November 16, 2024 at 12:47 PM
Alright, last bit of posting, i wrote a few pieces for the New Statesman since i was last on social media properly. The first, on the new British right www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2024/0...
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On Trump and the mythical, and actually existing, 1945 orders: unherd.com/2024/11/welc...
Welcome back to 1945
unherd.com
November 12, 2024 at 2:55 PM
On Trump and the mythical, and actually existing, 1945 orders: unherd.com/2024/11/welc...