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Brutal from Barça fans: "Your king, our cup" :)

Why does Nigel Farage want me to lose my job?

Only 12% of journalists are from a working class background. Only 9% of those in management positions are from a working class background. "If journalists are found to belong to a privileged elite they are less likely to be trusted by the general public" theconversation.com/new-survey-sho…

Labour’s defeat in Runcorn was entirely avoidable — and is the direct result of the party leadership’s political choices. By pushing policies like cuts to disability benefits and scrapping the winter fuel allowance, the leadership is driving away our own voters — and letting

With turnout around 30%, the results in the news must be divided by 3 to see the actual support of parties across the whole electorate And that doesn't account for those not registered The big news, as always, should be the crisis of democracy but who cares about that?

Happy Liberation Day! Never forget who backed the fascists or collaborated with them. It wasn't the left. And never forget who led the popular resistance to fascism in each and every European country. It wasn't the liberal centrists.

Incredible. The UK left the EU only to cede some of its sovereignty to the US but without any of the benefits or sway.

It was really interesting speaking to William BOUCHARDON from Le Vent Se Lève for his comprehensive and critical analysis of the Romanian elections. He summed it up quite well: this far-right populism is Poujadism at core. lvsl.fr/en-roumanie-la…

🚨New article on far-right libertarianism. I trace the intellectual and political history of paleo-libertarianism from the past into the present and show its relationship to post-fascism. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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"Both [candidates] share an allegiance to the business class, just different parts of it ... This is common practice for the far right. Despite capitalizing on popular anger against elites, it is itself an elite project for state power." nytimes.com/2025/05/16/opi… Vladimir Bortun

Ancora oggi la notizia più randomica del 2025.

In 10 years of academia, I can count on one hand the Marxists I've met, at least in political science. Sure, many academics may privately hold Marxist beliefs but without informing their academic activity. There's a difference between Marxist academics and Marxists in academia.

Today between 6pm and 7pm UK time I'll speak about the Romanian elections on the Amanpour show, which can be watched on CNN International, CNN.com and on social media. Later, between 8:10pm and 9pm UK time I'll be on The Debate talk-show on France24.

🇷🇴"Both #NicusorDan and #GeorgeSimion are right-wing, offering little to the 45% of #Romanians living in or near poverty." 👉University of Oxford's Vladimir Bortun 📺Full show: france24.com/en/tv-shows/de… FRANCE 24 English #RomanianElections

My intervention last night on CNN about the Romanian elections. I start by clarifying that the winner is not 'centrist' but pretty right-wing. Calling him otherwise normalises the neoliberal right and, by extension, also normalises the far right. edition.cnn.com/2025/05/19/Tv/…

14,000 babies.