What happens to Britain's radical right if Orbán loses? Inside the money, power and patronage connecting Hungary and the British right

From Roger Scruton cafes to paying Matt Goodwin $10k a month, Viktor Orban has built a network of populist right think tanks, journalists and activists

Today Democracy for Sale delves into Orban’s allies on the British right

Well worth a read
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits

Programme and registration is now live!

Trust, Mistrust and Community

St Mary’s University 12th-13th June

Keynote: Yasmin Gunaratnam

Conference programme: www.conftool.net/aps-2026/ind...

Registration and further information: www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/conference-2...

How terrible!

Save Essex: Stop the Cuts, Save Southend, Protect Education These proposed cuts mean people losing their livelihoods in a higher education sector already facing a jobs crisis, where alternative employment is scarce and careers built over many years can be dest...

The University of Essex plans to close their Southend campus and cut up to 400 jobs — around one in five staff! But the staff and students are fighting back. Sign their petition to stop the cuts, save Southend, and protect education www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Excellent! Thanks for this.

Why Sigmund Freud is making a comeback in the age of authoritarianism and AI Freud’s insights into trauma, repression and the unconscious are finding new relevance and millions of followers.

Freud’s insights into trauma, repression and the unconscious are finding new relevance and millions of followers.

A picture of bad bunny with the word love

Bad Bunny understood the assignment…

Moriarty: "A police officer of color who was off duty was boxed in by ICE - she's a citizen - they demanded to know who she was & see her papers. She was going to try to record it & they ripped the phone out of her hand. That happened to a cop. That's what's happening here on the streets of MN."

Jenrick’s incredible journey – from self-centred halfwit to self-centred halfwit | John Crace Reform’s latest defector from the Tories is a politician whose eye has only ever been on his own ambition

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tuition fees are rising again and nobody is happy – it’s time to actually fix our broken university sector | Zoe Williams The figures simply don’t add up for higher education in England and Wales. Yet delusional politicians from all parties seem intent on avoiding the issue, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

MPs and peers make awkward small talk during wait for box-office hit Macron French president fills seats for stylish Royal Gallery speech, after snubbing Farage and meeting the king

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

John Crace on brilliant form here

South Korea election: Lee Jae-myung takes over a country split by gender politics Gender conflict subtly but powerfully shaped South Korea’s election.

theconversation.com/south-korea-...

Uncanny Shakespeare: Distance and Reconciliation in 'Pericles' - Freud Museum London A special theatre workshop, organised by The Freud Museum in partnership with Bournemouth University’s Centre for the Study of Conflict, Emotion and

Join us on Thursday 12 June at the beautiful garden of the Freud Museum in London for a very special theatrical workshop (rehearsal and live analysis + Q&A) on Shakespeare's Pericles: Prince of Tyre - a manual of reconciliation in a fractured world.
www.freud.org.uk/event/uncann...

Congratulations to the editors of this exciting new collection, which interrogates psychosocial studies as a scholarly praxis of “creative disruption”. Including a playful piece of my own about Brexit, drawing on @profcand.bsky.social work on political culture: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

What Farage's fashion choices tell us about his politics The Reform leader's penchant for country cosplay is designed to reassure people that he isn’t a threat

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/698...

Mrs Dalloway It’s 100 years this week since Virginia Woolf published her novel, Mrs Dalloway.

Mrs Dalloway
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This sums the whole situation up quite nicely.

A reminder for the next @assocpsychosocial.bsky.social reading group - 6pm tonight! Please join us to discuss the allure of fascism in liberal societies, with Alasdair Cannon and @profcand.bsky.social

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Uncanny Shakespeare: Distance and Reconciliation in 'Pericles' - Freud Museum London A special theatre workshop, organised by The Freud Museum in partnership with Bournemouth University’s Centre for the Study of Conflict, Emotion and

Delighted to be taking part in this international theatre workshop in the beautiful garden at The Freud Museum London, 12 June. Come and join us! www.freud.org.uk/event/uncann...

The Allure of Fascism: Infinite Discontent with Alasdair Cannon Join us for our next APS online reading group, with Alasdair Cannon on the allure of fascism in contemporary societies.

Please join us for our next reading group! Writer and podcaster Alasdair Cannon will be presenting a psychosocial perspective on fascism, based on his timely new book. Thursday 1 May, 6pm.
@profcand.bsky.social @tjfielder.bsky.social @heidis-ann.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-allure...?

Zombie politics: how Dead Man dominates British politics — The Economist Britain’s parties are catering to a voter who is, often literally, dead

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Awful

22 of my publications are listed on that website

I’m in the same boat. Please keep us informed

How fragile we are: Why Netflix drama Adolescence is essential viewing for everyone Debbie Ging says the new Netflix drama series is a call to liberate boys from toxic gender scripts.

With reference to the film Adolescence, Debbie Ging’s excellent article on the gender scripts of patriarchal masculinity and the contradictions between the exp of male fragility and the performance of toughness- leading to violence www.thejournal.ie/readme/adole...

So shocking and destructive

Thanks Jenny! Very helpful!