Lecturer Education Futures & Digital Education based at Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh. Own views.
Huw C. Davies
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Re-upping this work-in-progress that attempts locate the British Right's centre of gravity in one handy diagram. For example, I haven't, yet, managed to accommodate Orr and Kruger's anti-abortion stance or their creationism.
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📄 New paper: people choose AI models partly on political grounds
This is joint work with @pettertornberg.com @chrisbail.bsky.social @michelleschimmel.bsky.social and led by @michaelheseltine.bsky.social
Please read @stephenkb.bsky.social’s piece on the absurd claim that the Henry Nowak murder is a result of Black Lives Matter. The facts should make the stupidity of the claim obvious. Yet, half of the country is following the agenda setting of the far right
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Kemi Badenoch says his killing needs to be seen as a ‘Stephen Lawrence moment’ but the failures in both cases differ
Members of the far-right organised this in real-time on various channels online for journalists to watch, made a series of speeches at the event denouncing their 'Marxist' enemies, then occupied the lines opposing the police, yet somehow, the violence is being treated a something else entirely.
Nothing like cycling in the Highlands for a psychic cleanse.
Got to be one of the most inflammatory statements ever broadcast on the BBC, let alone a current affairs show. Apparently, there’s a ‘regime’ that for ‘30 years’ has been operating against the interests of whites.
“Put the gun down, I’m not going to hurt you. I just want to discuss my legitimate concerns”
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Not sure the majority of the public believes that the vaccination program that ended the pandemic deliberately ‘killed millions of people’ during the ‘plandemic’ and was ‘the greatest crime against humanity in history’.
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News/current affairs avoidance is the only rational response b/c you don’t really have any agency, the news is unrelenting grim, & its antagonistic debate format & epistemic agnosticism (one side said this, the other this) privileges bad faith actors who grift their way to power.
Huw C. Davies
Huw C. Davies
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"The fact that the party which is leading in all of the national opinion polls is now using the sort of rhetoric previously reserved for the very fringes of the far-right is deeply alarming – as is the fact that this rhetoric is being publicised and normalised by Reform’s media supporters."
The Reform leader's descent into explicitly far-right rhetoric is the mark of a politician and party which fears its time at the top of British politics may soon come to an end, argues Adam Bienkov
