Holger Nehring

BJPolS abstract discussing the dynamics of mainstream and radical political rhetoric regarding anti-immigrant policies, highlighting differences in societal responses and enforcement norms based on the source of the rhetoric.

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How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - cup.org/4lfeHvD

"we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians"

- @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

What strange times, when the commander of RAF Greenham Common is coming out as a liberal supporter of the right to protest

Starmer’s NHS reforms thrown into chaos by ‘£1bn layoff bill’ Patients could be put at risk as the one-off cost of redundancies, estimated at between £600 million and £1 billion, puts staff and services in limbo

Sir Keir Starmer’s plan to overhaul the NHS has been thrown into chaos after no money has been set aside to cover the costs of making thousands of redundancies at ICBs www.thetimes.com/article/14b7...

University to be turned into student housing A UNIVERSITY’S campus is to be entirely converted into student living accommodation, it has announced.

A bit too close to the bone to be all that funny if I'm honest. www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/busines...

A spiral staircase in a lovely concrete carpark. Out the top of the stair you can see the sky, Edinburgh Castle, and the Red Arrows.

Haha! It worked!

I scoped out the angle this morning and figured I’d be very lucky to pull it off, but it was surely worth a try, eh?

#Edinburgh #RedArrows #Photography

'The other KKK'

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Wer Gaza rettet, rettet Israel Es ist proisraelisch, sich Israels Regierung entgegenzustellen.

www.profil.at/meinung/wer-...

Sharing link for this excellent piece of journalism on.ft.com/3URP09L

Brian Bond obituary Military historian whose books, notably on the two world wars, helped to establish the subject as a serious field of academic endeavour

My obituary of my late colleague Brian Bond in the Guardian. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Actually not because it doesn't do much. It raises hardly any money and if we follow Sam has made almost no difference in terms of education provision; it was just a symbolic token. What should have happened: raise income tax, introduce land tax etc. Politically much harder...

All this assumed that there was a rationality of the private schools policy beyond party management. I don't think that existed.

Looks like Weimer is cosplaying the Trump admin.

English universities face hit from overseas student levy Proposed tax will deal £621mn-a-year blow to higher education sector, says think-tank

In the end, it's not a levy on universities, but a tax that international students have to pay...in addition to the already eye-watering visa fees.

English universities face hit from overseas student levy - on.ft.com/45iK18l

Militärgeschichte Militärgeschichte - Das Bundesarchiv online: Ihre zentrale Anlaufstelle für historische Dokumente, digitale Sammlungen und Informationen zur deutschen Geschichte. Besuchen Sie uns!

Das #Bundesarchiv hat auf seiner Website eine sehr umfassende Sammlung militärgeschichtlicher Rechercheleitfäden zu seinen Beständen bereitgestelt.

how the fuck do you take a job as homelessness minister and not think "hmm, maybe I should disclose my buy to rent property portfolio"

Streit über Kandidatin für Verfassungsgericht Diese Akteure stehen hinter der Netzkampagne gegen Brosius-Gersdorf Die vorerst gescheiterte Richterwahl hat die Koalition beschädigt. Vorausgegangen war dem Eklat eine orchestrierte Aktion von Abtreibungsgegnern, rechtspopulistischen Medien und dem Umfeld der AfD. Hatten sie Einfluss auf die Union?

Was viele nicht zu verstehen scheinen: Hier wurde ein Drehbuch durchgespielt, mit dem Ziel, eine für die AfD und damit für die schwarz-blaubraunen Träume gewisser Kreise bedrohlich wirkende Richterin zu verhindern und ein nur der AfD nützendes Kulturkampfszenario nach US-Vorbild durchzuziehen.

AfD-Verbot: „Das wäre der sichere Weg in den Bürgerkrieg“, warnt Historiker Rödder - WELT Der renommierte Historiker Andreas Rödder meldet sich in der Debatte über ein mögliches AfD-Verbotsverfahren zu Wort. Ein Verbot der Partei würde „flächendeckend zu rot-rot-grünen Parlamentsmehrheiten...

Die Kampagne gegen Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf war auch Testlauf für eine in den USA schon lange praktizierte Taktik:

Activists denounce scholars as activists...

Und besonders die Taktik, einen Bürgerkrieg heraufzubeschwören - auch schon aus der Weimarer Republik bekannt.

Important post

Agree! There are few, if any, people who know the sources better than Alex Wellerstein.

Timestamping this so I look like a genius when it happens:

Within months if not weeks, Trump will recognize the Taliban and sign a deal for US mining companies to develop Afghanistan's mineral reserves.

Ukrainian support for war collapses. Just 24% want to fight until victory, vs. 73% in 2022.

news.gallup.com/poll/693203/...

The rise and fall of Ukraine's Kursk gambit As Ukraine's seven-month-long incursion into Russia's Kursk Oblast came to what appears to be its end, Ukrainian soldiers and military experts are questioning the operation's goal and the long-term ef...

Aug. 6 marked one year since Ukraine launched a surprise incursion into Russia's Kursk Oblast, using the initial momentum to divert Russian attention from Ukraine's east.

Ukrainian soldiers and military experts are questioning the operation's goal and the long-term effect it will have on the war.

Sorry, lieber @larsklingbeil.bsky.social
lese gerade:
„Klingbeil: "So ein Vorfall darf sich nicht wiederholen" - mir
platzt gleich der Kragen.
Warum hat denn die @spdbundestag.de zugelassen, dass die CDU/CSU sich mit dieser ungeheuerlichen Weigerung am Ende durchsetzt?#bundesverfassungsgericht

UK/France: Agreement on the Prevention of Dangerous Journeys [CS France No.2/2025] This treaty was presented to Parliament in August 2025.

Noting a few oddities in respect of the U.K./France migration treaty published on 5 August and already operationalised today. (Short 🧵)
www.gov.uk/government/p...

Anlässlich Jupp Darchingers 100. Geburtstag hat Laura Valentini sich in unserem neuen Blogpost tiefer seinem Nachlass gewidmet, der u.a. 1,6 Millionen Bildnegative umfasst: Er wird bei uns bewahrt, erschlossen und zugänglich gemacht.

www.fes.de/feshistory/b...

Bit puzzled how this is a Guardian exclusive. This was reported locally a few days ago, if not even last week...

You’d have hoped that ministers would have seen the political problem here.

Hey, but Edinburgh got the supercomputer, so that they were probably told it's all going to be fine.