• Losing yourself in Westeros

• Fascism and the liberal imagination

• The meaning of Jair Bolsonaro

• Mining resonance to the point of exhaustion, or, why does this sound so shit to me now?

• Trump administration seeking permission to destroy massive amounts of existing and future records

• Films I’ve seen recently

• Will I survive a nine mile walk and make it home to Molly?

• When the populists inspire the ad men

• What is it like to be a stray dog in a city?

• The Face in the Crowd

• The epochal tetchiness of Anglo-American centrists

• Things I’ve realised in 45 days of not drinking

• The consolation of kitsch

• “Funny, you don’t know the concessions that you’re making until you catalog em. And by then they’re many and you’re battle-hardened”

• the magic in giving language to hidden things

• Post-democracy and the transformation of lobbying

• When music and fiction mingle

• The quiet revolution of deindustrialization

• How do politicians understand their own status?

• Are you interested in the political sociology of Corbynism?

• A call for sociological micro-fiction!

• One of my favourite closing scenes to a film

• The new old division at the heart of politics

• The Alt-Right and the Reactionary Politics of Transgression

• On the Rat Race

• Towards a cultural sociology of the toaster 

• Trump as a tactician of post-truth

• The outrage of billionaires about invoking the existence of billionaires

• The coming of neoliberal populism: comparing Trump and Macron

• The Simpsons on Social Justice Warriors

• Alt-america and the epistemic confusion of liberalism

• Call for Papers: Journalism in the Age of Partisan Politics, Political Protests, and President Trump

• How to trash the political rulebook

• Alastair Campbell vs Tony Blair

• The new new left meets the old new left

• Hilary Clinton: The oddly fascinating confessions of a political centrist

• An obscenity on the district line

• Sociological micro-fiction

• From a cult of youth to a cult of age

• The phenomenology of cultural bingeing

• Elites preparing for disaster

• The populist right are demotic, rather than democratic

• The notion of a ‘playbook’

• The fortress city and what it may portend

• Politico-environmental crisis

• Brand Corbyn and Brand Trump

• A playbook for merchandising doubt

• The disruptive presidency of Donald Trump

• The revenge practices of plutocrats

• Against the ‘political rulebook’

• The abuse Corbyn was subject to from Labour MPs

• How do we explain the election of Donald Trump?

• The Personal Morphogenesis of Francis Begbie

• The fortress city scenario 

• Elections cannot be allowed to change economic policy

• What will Macron be like in government?

• The technocratic oath

• Anthem for a Planet’s Children

• The Jeremy Hunt Rhyming Song

• The Conspiracy of Cars

• What is a wonk?

• Too busy to care for your cat?

• music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#25)

• CfP: Queer Studies Conference

• Collateral consequences 

• The Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine

• CFP: Alternative Facts: Constructing Truth in Civil Societies

• Donald Trump: Everyday Tactics of Post-Truth

• The knowledge economy and imagined freedom from material constraint 

• Fighting for ‘political correctness’ in an age of Trump

• The most absurd television adverts of the dot-com boom

• Cultural representations of finance 

• The Importance of Business Culture

• The Banal Bullshit of Thomas Friedman

• The epistemology of democracy’s death

• The Banal Reality of Democracy’s Death

• South Park’s theory of trolling: Trevor’s Axiom

• The Elite Roots of the Alt-Right

• The Happy Unemployment of Horses

• My 20 favourite graphic novels of 2016

• My 20 favourite books of 2016

• Communism for the few

• The Climate Agenda of Elites

• The Political Economy of the American South

• A vicious circle of reprisals and hostility

• Call for Papers: State Crime and Digital Resistance (Deadline 30 November)

• Broken Fingers

• “we need more post-ideological, budget-balancing, technocratic centrism!”

• Donald Trump’s Words of Power

• The Everyday Life of Incipient Fascism

• Perfect Government

• The Place That Sends You Mad

• How the Pentagon imagines the future of cities

• What would the European Union look like in an American context?

• A Trump Presidency and the Militarisation of America

• External economic relations and the norm of imbalance

• Three weeks, four requests and still no ballot paper 

• The cosmopolitan self vs the endurance self

• The moralisation of insecurity and exploitation

• What’s the collective noun for a group of social theorists?