Mark Doidge

Delighted to have a new report out based on our book. FIFA (and football) is embedded in fossil capitalism and this undermines all suggestions they care about sustainability

Yet another "expert" review that fails to recognise that research infrastructure exists outside STEM and Medicine. Yet no rocket science is required to find studies of the infrastructure that powers SHAPE research: www.sas.ac.uk/national-rol...

something "free market" something something

Always nice when the clocks go back as now my kitchen oven is showing the correct time

me: mom, what was I like as a little girl? my mom (completely fucking braindead): hey alexa describe a human kid or something

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

Saying three good things about your child is the easiest thing in the world. Why would we trust our decisions to AI designed by these sociopaths?

What’s so moving about the election results in Brazil & Serbia & global student protests is you think you’re alone wanting things to be different & then suddenly you realise the young generation has got this . They are outmanoeuvring unhinged wealth & power , we have so much to learn from them .

🤨 From Viz 😂

The second Oakeshott lecture 2026, at Oxford's Sheldonian, will be by Carl Benjamin, AKA Sargon of Akkad, the racist white supremacist. www.sheldonian.ox.ac.uk/events/oakes...

Reform and Tories have pledged to reverse ULEZ repeatedly.

The BBC’s constant tendency to play down or ignore the true nature of the far right is a major contributor to its growth

Students leading the way. This is why right wing media and politicians are worried about youth-led movements. Historically, they’ve challenged their hegemony.

🚨They aren't in power, so not a "rival budget" 🚨Cutting foreign students means less money for unis, meaning fewer opportunities for more people, meaning worse employment outcomes later. Reform's"dead end degrees" bs aside. 🚨Reform can't balance a budget using IHS when cutting immigration, clearly

"I understand that there have been some experiments showing that LLM review may have similar outcomes to human peer review, but who cares? Either scholarship, research and publishing are human enterprises or they aren’t." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu... >>

And imagine if the Guardian hadn’t spent most of the last 30 years doing PR for the legitimate concerns faction of the Labour Party

The role of the free speech moral panic in mainstreaming far-right politics has been massively underestimated It was always clear these free speech warriors were bad faith reactionaries and yet they have been indulged by mainstream actors and media bylinetimes.com/2026/10/23/t...

Why are these fascists’ concerns legitimate in the eyes of the government, opposition, and media, but the legitimate concerns about open fascism on the streets are ignored? It’s almost as if those in power agree with the squadristi on the streets

Once again, nobody seems to be asking if the Greens should demand that local Labour parties distance themselves from racist immigration policies or support for genocide

Why are politicians and investors running to Peter Thiel, a man who loves Lord of the Rings but hasn’t worked out that Sauman, Sauron, and the orcs are the bad guys?

Two University of Leicester students speak out over ‘absurd’ and ‘Orwellian’ decision by the BBC and ITV Studios to edit out pride pins worn on University Challenge

Most academics will read this story in a very different way to how it is being reported. "So, I get caught up in a political scandal and I have my admin load reduced? Where do I sign up?"

You have to laugh at the sheer insanity of Turning Point UK being found to be organising literal contract killings and paid agitation at protests up and down the country and it barely even raises a flicker across the press. If that isn't 'terrorism' on some level I don't really know what is

And yet our government keeps giving them contracts. Aside from the fact this makes no sense (how could AI give power to working class men), it’s the billionaires who are taking power away from working class men.

Compare how the media are treating James Orr, who was Reform’s head of policy and caught trying to undermine British democracy, & how they treated Jason Arday, who was alleged to have plagiarised & lied. One is still in his Jon at Cambridge & well connected to the far-right. The other is dead.

Once again, either senior journalists are utterly incompetent or they are complicit in the mainstreaming of far right politics Anyone who paid attention to the FSU would have known it was a front for laundering far-right politics from the start

There needs to be some analysis of every commentator’s arguments and every scare headline to showcase how wrong the right wing media are on virtually everything

The final irony. Hundreds of articles ABOUT Jason Arday - fact-free, poor data analysis, often copying other people's work. A couple of articles BY Jason Arday - a few corrections, and still supported by academic publishers and peer review. Just tragic bias by our media

Currently wondering what message the UK govt thought it was sending by dressing up the Minister for Net Zero in a literal Shell logo.

These idiots think they should get credit for this ten years after every other person with half a brain got it?

Those drilling for oil and those calling for an end to Net Zero are complicit in the thousands of deaths

The Times seems surprised that racist abuse is coming from the US to challenge anti-hate campaigns. Isn’t the US where all the Times (& Telegraph/Spectator/Mail/Express) get their ideas from in order to challenge anti-hate campaigns in the UK?

Wonder how many journalists wilfully wrote articles calling for the rest of us plebs to be replaced by AI?

Who could have thought that the people who defend racists and sexists under the guise of free speech could also be racists and sexists?

Just a reminder that the science on the fundamentals of climate change isn't in doubt. news.cornell.edu/stories/2021...

You don’t fight fascists by pretending their ‘concerns’ are ‘legitimate’.

Labour seem unable to learn that in some situations there is a right side and a wrong side. Sometimes a compromise is entirely inappropriate. There’s no balance to be found between racists and non-racists. No balance between climate change deniers and reality.

Fantastic that the government is going full throttle on this social experiment that is already showing us that people are stopping talking to their friends & families, & are outsourcing thinking to AI. It’s isolating people & reducing cognition. Why would they want stupid lonely people? 🤔

The Daily Mail have promoted people like Robinson and the views they espouse since before World War II. The chickens are coming home to roost

Every stage.

Because of course. God forbid a Labour Cabinet Minister does even the bare minimum to oppose Labour's plans to fundamentally undermine human rightsa and international law, destroy lives, and create the most xenophobic and racist immigration system the UK has had. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

If only universities were a significant driver of local and national economies, significant drivers of innovation and research, and a source of global soft power. Maybe then would Labour make any policy interventions to sustain the sector.

Incredible timing too I guess the UN must be part of those "climate campaigners"

They hounded him to death, and now they pursue him beyond the grave Jason Arday Again Cleared of Plagiarism as His Attackers Launch an ‘Independent Inquiry’ bylinetimes.com/2026/10/21/j...

'Racists are damaging my racist project.'