• Call for papers: the politics of identity 

• Plutocrats being absurdly defensive: please share any examples you come across!

• 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

• 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 

• 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

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

• Protest and Performance Week @WarwickUni

• John McDonnell’s New Socialism

• The Pathology of the Super-Rich

• CfP: Contemporary Political Youth Culture and Communication

• Call for Papers: Political Citizenship and Social Movements

• The Skilled Demagoguery of Donald J. Trump

• the inanity of post-democratic political leaders

• CfP: Manchester Social Movements conference

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

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

• the political economy of outsourcing

• Call for Papers: Political Citizenship and Social Movements

• 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?

• CfP: Technology and Culture – Policing Crises Now

• “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 

• killer mike from run the jewels interviews bernie sanders

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

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

• Donald Trump: The Reluctant Fascist

• the idiocy of defensive elites

• What will the Millennial Fascist look like?

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

• CfP: Political Theory on Refugees

• mapping the post-capitalist paradigm and its thinkers

• defending human rights in a digital age

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

• why dehumanisation matters 

• the liquid warfare of ISIS

• 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 politics of stupidity

• the old world of banking 

• the digital repression that a trump presidency would bring 

• from risk to resilience: responsible citizens for uncertain times

• large environmental protest in paris banned

• the ‘soft coup’ currently taking place in portugal 

• the ‘religion’ of digital elites 

• using the national gallery for public order policing

• post-capitalism: envisaging a shared future

• Manchester Social Movements Conference – Call for Papers

• the intensification of work and the competitive busyness of ceos

• why the left should not support the britain stronger in europe campaign

• the politics of discretionary effort 

• the hostage taking capacity of banks 

• reasons for the commitment of capital to the european project

• over-reach by unelected technocrats

• the capture of the political class 

• the astroturfing industry 

• ‘The UK is finished’: Owen Jones meets Peter Hitchens

• the horatio alger myth

• the threats of financial elites 

• the threats of financial elites 

• the totally weird subculture of 1980s mortgage traders 

• the masters of the universe and their delusions

• the meaning of scrounging in conservative britain 

• post-democratic political culture: how good leaders go bad

• the post-democratic judicial system

• the social expectations of the super-rich

• markets are a machine for destroying the ego

• the culture of the ‘working rich’

• the moral discourse of the ‘reasonable technocrat’

• what to do when a political party you instinctively support shows nothing but contempt for the things you believe?

• negative solidarity is here to stay: the ‘greedy’ tube workers

• oppression and self-promotion on social media

• imagining post-capitalism and techno-fascism

• the antinomies of blairism

• the war on radicalisation and where it might lead

• Thatcher Fucked The Kids

• CFP – Global Cultures of Contestation

• David Cameron Serenaded By Ukulele Player Singing ‘F**k Off Back To Eton’

• “The problem with capitalism is that it’s not capitalist enough”: Neoliberalism 2.0?

• Upper Clapton Dance (cc @Mookron)

• The Strange Transformation of Gideon Osborne

• The surprisingly vitriolic misogyny of James Bond

• What would British fascism look like?

• The omnipresent threat of violence under neoliberalism