200K views · 3.8K reactions | "This daughter of immigrants needs no lectures from the north London, metropolitan, liberal elite." Home Secretary Priti Patel says she will "end the free movement of people once and for all". | Channel 4 News "This daughter of immigrants needs no lectures from the north London, metropolitan, liberal elite." Home Secretary Priti Patel says she will "end the free movement of people once and for all".

Also a bit of a rehash of Priti Patel's line from 2019...

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Looks great!

Why do Public Debates Escalate? Trigger Points and the Moral Dynamics of “Hot Politics” Escalating, emotionally charged, and moralized forms of controversy are a central feature of contemporary politics. Our study develops a framework for understanding how political debates between ordi...

Knife crime! Pronouns! Meat bans! Some political issues lead to "hotter", more emotional and polarizing debates than others. We show how these "trigger points" reveal a contested structure of moral expectations and how they get weaponized by polarization entrepreneurs. OA @bjsociology.bsky.social 🧵

Wonderful to see this in print! I wrote the chapter on decolonisation in Interrogating the Global Social Challenges, a collective effort by @uomsociology.bsky.social showcasing the breadth of our research and its political urgency.

Thanks to amazing editor @rebeccabrennan.bsky.social for support, funding from @leverhulme.ac.uk amazing colleagues at @ethnicityuk.bsky.social for helping me sharpen arguments, especially @bridgetbyrne8.bsky.social & countless others who chatted to me about it, read chapters etc.

Cancelled Futures How race, class, gender, and place shape the ways working-class young people in Britain envision their transition from education to work

My new book Cancelled Futures is out with @princetonupress.bsky.social September 8th

Based on 62 interviews with working-class youth living in East London, Rochdale & Morecambe it examines how race, class, gender and place shape how young people envision their transition to work

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Management consultants are ruining UK universities Relentless off-the-peg commercial rewiring has undermined British higher education

It's me in the Financial Times, detailing the deep and pernicious influence of one-size-fits-all management consultancy in our universities... Take a look! 👇
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Sparked by Richard Tice's plans for fracking as 'our patriotic duty', I wrote something with George Edwards of @zetkincollective.bsky.social about the appeal of Reform's fossil nationalism for @the-breakdown.bsky.social

Water colour illustration of The Bartons Arms pub.

📢 New case study alert!
We’ve just published the latest long read case study for the After Last Orders project — exploring the closure of the famous Birmingham pub the Bartons Arms👉 after-last-orders.lboro.ac.uk/the-bartons-...

My biggest takeaway from all of this is how he can walk around in a gilet-shirt combo, like an extra from Succession and claim to be, in any way, anti-elite, or of the people... bizarre!

G’wan, give it a pre order: shop1.camra.org.uk/product/manc...

yeah and I suspect he thinks that, combined with not getting jobs - and his annoyance at not being made Chelsea caretaker on Maresca being sacked - is a result of woke culture gone mad, which has made him yesterday's man (he only ever talks about the past, his former greatness etc).

I've suspected for a while an outward rightward turn was imminent... Seems very, very bitter about not getting any managerial appointments (and no ability to reflect on why not...). Obviously much worse player, but Barton's overt right-wing turn work through feeling ignored/overlooked... unloved?!

Image text relates to the list of nominees for the 2026 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize, which has been announced

The list of nominees for the 2026 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize has been announced. The prize is for the best first and sole-authored book within the discipline of Sociology
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Good to hear James Esson of @statesofprecarity.bsky.social presenting on precarious employment in UKHE to a packed seminar at @uclgeography.bsky.social

Nearly 1/3 of UK Geography academic staff are on fixed term contracts, UK as a whole 21%.

Resources / detail here: www.statesofprecarity.co.uk

Sivamohan Valluvan et Amit Singh - Pubs for the people

The fight for the pint and the nation

À paraître en octobre aux Manchester UP

Really looking forward to this!

Will send you a copy when we eventually get some! Doing the edits atm...🥱

Ah I knew @robertdeakin.bsky.social was here, I just couldn't find the bloody tag!

My kind of research! That said, I have not been to a pub in 5 years now because of infection risk and also that kidney failure means I cannot drink a whole pint of any fluid.

But the pub as a space, and place for conversation. Nothing beats it in my mind.

Your last orders project with Rob gets a lot of coverage in the rural pub chapter!

Might be of interest @academicdiary.bsky.social @will-davies.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social @tcru-ucl.bsky.social @solgamsu.bsky.social @sachahilhorst.bsky.social @trillingual.bsky.social

Thanks mostly to @jameskneale.bsky.social our pub + drink shaman, as well as others who chatted to us + drank with us, + whose words have helped our arguments @davidjesudason.bsky.social @totalcurtis.bsky.social @boakandbailey.bsky.social @philmellows.bsky.social @thurnellreadsoc.bsky.social

We visited pubs across the country, from the desi pubs of the West Midlands to a Rochdale Wetherspoons with pitstops at rural pubs and many more.

It includes a family story taking us from my Great-Granddad's pub in Tanzania to my Dad's pub in Southall and back to the Midlands via the Punjab.

Pubs for the People by me & Vallu is out with @manchesterup.bsky.social in October. On how the pub can be salvaged as a space for the Good Life that goes beyond boring ideas of White England.

A bargain at £18.99 in hardback (cant even get 3 pints for that!)

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I'm very pleased to have just received my copy of this funky new sociology textbook! I've written the appendix for this innovative volume, which offers a practical exploration of what it means for the social sciences to take colonialism seriously. bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-modern-w...

Manchester University Press - Islamophobia, anti-racism and the British left Islamophobia, anti-racism and the British left - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Islamophobia, anti-racism and the British left by Scarlet Harris

Advance notice of this seminar - Islamophobia and anti-racism: ongoing lessons for the ‘British left - taking place next Friday 13th with @scarletharris.bsky.social. Scarlet's book has just been published by MUP (below). 11-1 in Room 416 in the Gilbert Scott building, East Quadrangle. All welcome.

Chairing this online event next Wed. Come one, come all

We introduce our new book The Modern World After Colonialism on 4the March at 11am GMT registration link below

🍻 needs to happen!