• The Defensiveness of Elites

• How depoliticisation and political polarisation co-exist in American politics 

• The Internal Immigration of the American Elite

• The defensiveness of contemporary elites 

• The Political Socialisation of Presidents and Politicians

• Franklin Roosevelt on threats to democracy 

• The performative pressures posed by presidency 

• Cognitive triage in politics

• Richard Rorty predicted Trumpism

• ‘Slow walking’ as a post-democratic tactic

• An Introduction to Asexuality by the BBC

• Market liberalism and the foreclosure of politics

• Imagining the paramilitarization of Trumpism

• The Republican elite are now openly declaring their contempt for the American white working class 

• A pleasing pile of books 

• music I find inexplicably conducive to writing #23

• Violence as the expression of Trump’s nascent ideology

• The Accleration of Political Rhetoric

• New Racisms II: Neoliberalism and its Others

• defensive elites and the actions they’re willing to take

• Henry Rollins was on BBC Hard Talk!

• The advice given by W.E.B. Dubois to his teenage daughter

• “Let Me Stay”: Exhibition on Housing Insecurity in Manchester

• Protest and Performance Week @WarwickUni

• On Subculture

• John McDonnell’s New Socialism

• The Sex Myth

• There are no strings on me

• The Pathology of the Super-Rich

• CfP: Contemporary Political Youth Culture and Communication

• Turn Those Clapping Hands Into Angry Balled

• Say More Fire

• Call for Papers: Political Citizenship and Social Movements

• The Skilled Demagoguery of Donald J. Trump

• the inanity of post-democratic political leaders

• modern life has let me down

• Sing, Sing, Sing

• About Today

• No Surrender

• Love, Ire & Song

• CfP: Manchester Social Movements conference

• Wed, Jan 27, LSE: Emergencies of Peace: The Exceptional State of (Academic) Affairs in Contemporary Turkey

• Rocky V + Rock II = Rocky VII, Adrian’s Revenge

• the failed promise of ‘cyber politics’, the empowerment of defensive elites and the death of liberal democracy

• What does punk mean?

• the practical mastery of animals

• Perhaps having deconstructed everything, we should be thinking about putting everything back together?

• don’t let the fuckers get you down

• the political economy of outsourcing

• “You will grow to be something dynamic and impressive; You are patient, you are gallant, you are festive”

• Call for Papers: Political Citizenship and Social Movements

• the ultimate Rocky training montage

• Violent Abandonment: researching the Calais Refugee Camp – @SocioWarwick Seminar Wednesday 20 January

• will capitalism die? or merely trundle on in an ever more authoritarian way?

• On Fire

• songs from Brian Fallon’s new solo album

• Devil’s Medicine

• “now listen you queer!”: the origins of contemporary political punditry

• the political psychology of the super rich

• the best description of Corbynism I’ve encountered 

• I’ve never had a contract with @VirginMedia, yet they’re sending me details of my ‘spending’

• the most read posts on my blog in 2015

• imagining an academy in which academics were paid not to write

• killer mike from run the jewels interviews bernie sanders

• ever wondered how to drink beer properly?

• the geopolitics of phone sex

• music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#22)

• music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#21)

• Deadline Jan 8th: Mapping Alternative Routes out of Capitalism

• Ann Oakley on the psychology of the academic male

• CfP: From Global Justice to Occupy and Podemos: Mapping Three Stages of Contemporary Activism

• music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#20)

• Donald Trump: The Reluctant Fascist

• the idiocy of defensive elites

• What will the Millennial Fascist look like?

• six ways till sunday

• Found in Nigel Thrift’s book from the Warwick library

• the appalling state of @crosscountryuk trains

• animals being amazed by magic tricks

• buzzfeed explain #asexuality and it’s surprisingly good

• Inside the Lives of the 1% – How Power and Inequality Operate in Britain

• CfP: Political Theory on Refugees

• the early music of brian fallon

• mapping the post-capitalist paradigm and its thinkers

• the palestinian solidarity campaign and the growing climate of political repression in the uk

• new songs from brian fallon’s impending solo album

• a question about cultural globalisation

• the liquid warfare of ISIS

• reflections on six years spent studying asexuality 

• I’m talking about asexuality at this book launch on Friday 

• digital dilemmas: transforming gender identities and power relations in everyday life

• the right-wing plot to overthrow FDR and install a dictator in the US (and more on the potential for fascism in the united states)

• cyber war between non-state actors 

• the future of transparency in the civil service?

• the ascendancy of the quants 

• the politics of stupidity

• the old world of banking 

• BSA Sociology and Feminism Event

• from risk to resilience: responsible citizens for uncertain times

• large environmental protest in paris banned