Joseph Haigh

Palestine Action ban is an attack on fundamental freedoms | Letter A letter from 47 scholars including Tariq Ali, Judith Butler, Angela Davis, Naomi Klein and Avi Shlaim

Proud to see my former PhD supervisor Gilbert Achcar here, alongside some of the biggest names in progressive academia. Every one of us needs to raise our voice in this moment. Its a matter of basic moral obligation and civic duty.

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The EU will keep warning Israel until the last Palestinian in Gaza is either killed by Israeli’s military or by its starvation policy.

You will not see a more tangible encapsulation of the genocide. A war of utter annihilation waged as a joint enterprise between the Israeli state on the ground and its allies in consistent support. The debt of reparations that the West owes to the Palestinian people at this point is incalculable.

As I read somewhere else recently, it's only a murder of crows if you can establish probable caws

UK will recognise Palestinian state in September unless Israel agrees to Gaza ceasefire and other conditions - live updates Starmer says the UK will take the step at a UN meeting unless Israel makes

Or, and here's an idea, why not just recognise the Palestinian state? I understand the strategy of targeting Israel's pressure points.

But why must the rights and sovreignty of Palestinians always be dependent on Israeli approval or cooperation?

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So the reward offered to Israel merely for *partial* compliance with international law is that the UK will continue to deny recognition to a Palestinian state? This is the great Peace Plan that Starmer has served up?

The instinctive No 10 response: well, public opinion seems to be turning, but we really need to wait until Morgan McSweeney has run a focus group to find out what former BNP/Reform voters in Barking think about this

YouTube video by Veganic ♾ Mark Thomas - UK Arms Trade

In times like these, I'm always reminded of the Mark Thomas arms trade sketch youtu.be/O2JxhhqbAD0?...

Police arrest 55 protesters in London for holding signs supporting Palestine Action The force has already arrested 70 people for taking part in similar protests in the past fortnight

In pink, the very sweet and peaceful Anna, 80-year-old with serious health issues, well loved in our South East London community for her generosity and kindness, being arrested as a terrorist!
@elliereeves.bsky.social, my MP, what is your government doing??
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Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?

What's the point in having a Labour government when it behaves like authoritarian tyrants?

Labour won the election, but never escaped the opposition mindset.

This is a great article, and really captures many of my frustrations with the Starmer government - not least the way that Starmer has spent more time telling many of those who supported labour why they're wrong than he has making a positive case for progressive politics.

When Moderation Becomes Appeasement If your chief goal is to find a middle ground with the far right on social issues, you’ll end up condoning its values—just ask Keir Starmer.

"Because reactionary centrists do not really have values, they struggle to understand the motivations of those who do."

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watching live footage from the West Holts stage at Glastonbury

Microsoft needs to stop trying to make me get the authenticator app. It's not going to happen.

🚨New Publication🚨I'm thrilled to share my latest article on the emotional (de)politicisation of the ‘Oxford’ COVID-19 vaccine and its impact on EU-UK relations, now available on @iajournal.bsky.social's website. 🇬🇧🇪🇺

As always, it has been a joy to work with @ngellwitzki.bsky.social on this project.

The BSL during Finland was sensational #Eurovision

I wrote about this phenomenon in the context of the First World War Centenary a while ago in an article for the Review of International Studies which you can read here:
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'Winston Churchill is my great-great grandfather'

With today being #VEDay80, there’s lots of vicarious militarism in the air, with many examples of people being encouraged to live vicariously through their military ancestors. I present to you Exhibit A
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Help! My parents are normies: family friends, GPS, and the World Economic Forum Many of us know we can never understand everything, but for some this is unacceptable and solutions must be found; for two of my parents’ friends, the world makes sense, but the globalists try to h...

Have your parents accidentally gone on holiday with conspiracy theorists? Mine have and they let me write about it in Critical Studies on Security!

Help! My parents are normies: family friends, GPS, and the World Economic Forum

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Fantasy and the figure: ideological bodies in the Nordic Resistance Movement - Charlie W. Price, 2025 In recent years, the concept of fantasy has been afforded increased attention in psychoanalytic IR. While this scholarship does address bodies and fantasy, the ...

You know how the far-right is pretty big right now? Well I've got a 🚨New Publication🚨 on interpreting far-right ideologies!

Fantasy and the figure: ideological bodies in the Nordic Resistance Movement is #OpenAccess in
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Happy pancake day everyone! Here’s a brand new recipe that I’ve spent months working on. Please download and tell your friends! It’s called:

Fantasy and the figure: ideological bodies in the Nordic Resistance Movement

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The article’s main arguments will hopefully be of interest to scholars of #militarism, #ontologicalsecurity, and commemoration of the First World War in Britain (especially the 2014-18 #WW1Centenary). Thanks again to the @risjnl.bsky.social team!

Delighted to see my article out in the latest issue of @ris.

I explore how during the 2014-18 Centenary, the Royal British Legion encouraged Britons to vicariously identify with military ancestors as a way of helping them to emotionally buy into militarised revisionist narratives about WW1.

In his article in the latest RIS issue @josephhaigh.bsky.social introduces the concept of "vicarious military subjectivity" as he discusses the way in which WWI is commemorated in Britain. It is free to read now!

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"Manifest destiny."

Take back the Panama Canal.

Rename the Gulf of Mexico.

Hey, it's the antiwar president! It's the guy who is gonna bring down grocery prices, on his way to Mars (!)

The 'is Trump a believer in exceptionalism' plot thickens. And 'expanding territory' - that's definitely going in tomorrow's US foreign policy lecture.

Also relieved to report that the pingu from my childhood still keeps my 1 year old (and, let's be honest, me) happily entertained. Stop motion animation is brilliant!

Thought I'd make a thread of all of my publications, for easy access! First up is 'Army recruitment video advertisements in the US and UK since 2002: Challenging ideals of hegemonic military masculinity?' in Media, War and Conflict doi.org/10.1177/1750...