Tariq Modood

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Religion Unmuted: Principled Pluralism Tariq Modood is Professor of Sociology, Politics, and Public Policy at the University of Bristol and recipient of the Boniuk Institute’s 2025 Senior Scholar Award. Modood joined Religion Unmuted to di...

Last April, on my visit to @boniukinstitute.bsky.social @riceuniversity.bsky.social and spoke on evoloving nature of religion and multiculturalism in Britain, with some biographical background. Its been uploaded in Religion Unmuted today:

Ex-Reform UK Leader In Wales Sentenced To Ten-And-A-Half Years In Prison For Taking Russian Bribes Nathan Gill, the former leader of Reform UK in Wales, has been sentenced to 10-and-a-half years in prison for taking bribes from a pro-Russia campa...

The ex-Reform leader in Wales has been sentenced to ten-and-a-half years in prison for taking pro-Russia bribes

Nathan Gill's "sophisticated" activity was a "grave betrayal" of public trust, a judge said on Friday

Lib Dem leader Ed Davey said Nigel Farage's party is a "danger to national security"

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood made more explicit her argument that when ethnic minorities face racism, "we have no choice but to ask: what is the cause of our division"

Her answer is the level of net migration, 2019-23 causes racism. (She on Monday said it was caused by the scale of asylum)

How can Labour see off Reform? Both Andy Burnham and Shabana Mahmood offer clues | Julian Coman A moral crusade won’t work. To defeat Faragism, Labour must revive a vision of social cohesion and collective responsibility, says Guardian associate editor Julian Coman

A germ of a vision here
@John Denham @staylorish.bsky.social @johndenham.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

One hundred ways to thwart Reform How tactical voting could stop Nigel Farage becoming prime minister

Peter Kellner has done the crunching of those YouGov numbers on tactical voting: Reform lose about 100 seats, half to Tories, half to Lab kellnerp.substack.com/p/one-hundre...

We did pretty well, won the motion 75 - 45.

This is the link to my Monday evening talk:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tariq-modo...

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Only a few days left before these two hybrid events on the groundbreaking work of the Bristol School of Multiculturalism. A symposium with emerging scholars around the world, and a public lecture by Professor Tariq Modood FBA. Register now on Eventbrite!

Ed Davey blasts Nigel Farage for teaming up with Trump to attack the BBC "I think people need to see through Nigel Farage, and see through Donald Trump and realise what they’re trying to do to our great country."

The Lib Dem leader denounced Farage's attacks on the BBC, calling them "shocking, unpatriotic and wrong"

leftfootforward.org/2025/11/ed-d...

Hybrid symposium on the Bristol School of Multiculturalism Join us for a mix of virtual and in-person discussions on the Bristol School of Multiculturalism!

Next Monday online and at @swanseauni.bsky.social @swanseaunippir.bsky.social
with @bristoluni.bsky.social
on the Bristol School of Multiculturalism www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hybrid-sym...
and a lecture by me in the evening on Islamophobia, Antisemitism and the Struggle for Recognition

Grok admits spreading Islamophobic disinformation about UK train stabbings Like a James Cameron movie, Grok appears to have become self-aware - just not self aware enough to apologise for spreading disinformation

www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

Looking forward to reading it and to the launch at the British Academy tonight

MPs urge minister to adopt definition of Islamophobia amid rise in hate crime Forty Labour and independent MPs call on Steve Reed to take ‘important step’ of defining anti-Muslim hatred

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

Farage protecting women

Reminder of the company he keeps

(James McMurdock was a Reform UK Ltd MP in 2024)

The value of public R&D

Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...

Net migration to the UK is falling rapidly. But how far will it fall? A new, detailed estimate by @jamesbowes01.bsky.social projects net migration in 2026 will be 70K to 170K.

This will have significant consequences, both economic and political.

ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...

Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.

'Concerned' footie fan actually ex-army disinfo expert honoured by World Zionist Organisation Andrew Fox - 'Honorary' head of a Jewish Aston Villa fan group, was recognised by the World Zionist Organisation in 2024

Sky News platforms a fake Jewish Villa fan claiming he received death threats. The same routine was played out on GBNews and TalkTV. Andrew Fox is not Jewish neither is he the honorary head of the Jewish AVFC fan club. He's a far-right propagandist and Palestinian genocide denier. #SkyNews #FakeNews

Don’t give an inch, don’t show weakness, stand your ground.

Thanks to @sunelaegaard.bsky.social and Nils Holtug for organising this book debate and to Brian Arly Jacobsen and Lisbet Christoffersen for participating at Copenhagen University on 31st Oct:
comm.ku.dk/calendar/202...

What was the UN Partition Plan for Palestine and why did the Zionist leadership accept it whilst the Arab Higher Committee rejected it?
linktr.ee/empirepoduk

Tommy Robinson receives warm reception in Tel Aviv The British far-right activist was invited to Israel by a government minister

observer.co.uk/news/interna...

After Racist Texts, New York G.O.P. Is Set to Disband Young Republicans State party leaders are expected to eliminate the charter of the Young Republicans group, allowing them to reconstitute the organization with new leaders.

Breaking News: The New York chapter of the Young Republicans is set to be disbanded by the party's state leaders after racist texts among the groups across the U.S. were exposed.

What to Know About ‘Hate Speech’ and the First Amendment

I don't think there is any doubt that the US Constitution first amendment protects holocaust denial, is there?
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...

"We should protect all the free speech that is or would be protected by the European Convention of Human Rights" and "we should protect all of the free speech that is or would be protected by the US first amendment" are substantively different positions