Dr Joseph Dunne-Howrie
@drjdunnehowrie.bsky.social
Theatre academic. Currently writing two books on free speech culture wars and digital performativity of extreme and far-right sub-cultures.
Gaming Democracy Project
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Gaming Democracy Project
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Through his life and extraordinary talent, the immigrant and refugee child Tomáš Sträussler who became known to us all as Tom Stoppard made British theatre and this country a better place to be.
You might even argue that he helped redefine Englishness through his astonishing legacy of work.
You might even argue that he helped redefine Englishness through his astonishing legacy of work.
November 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Through his life and extraordinary talent, the immigrant and refugee child Tomáš Sträussler who became known to us all as Tom Stoppard made British theatre and this country a better place to be.
You might even argue that he helped redefine Englishness through his astonishing legacy of work.
You might even argue that he helped redefine Englishness through his astonishing legacy of work.
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Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
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November 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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🚨Now on 86,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 90,000 tonight!
If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
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November 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
🚨Now on 86,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 90,000 tonight!
If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
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November 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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My article 'Different Times, Same Culture War: Performing Otherness and the War on Woke' is published in the latest edition of Contemporary Theatre Review: Backpages 1/
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November 26, 2025 at 7:14 AM
My article 'Different Times, Same Culture War: Performing Otherness and the War on Woke' is published in the latest edition of Contemporary Theatre Review: Backpages 1/
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Truly appalling albeit unsurprising coming for a government which always consciously chooses to mainstream far-right politics
Racist violence has been fuelled by top-down discourses which have normalised and legitimised far-right moral panics for years. It is not predominantly a bottom-up issue
Racist violence has been fuelled by top-down discourses which have normalised and legitimised far-right moral panics for years. It is not predominantly a bottom-up issue
The Home Secretary explaining that the rise in racist violence is, actually, the natural response to higher levels of immigration is a state of affairs that can't exist without the government having largely decided that racist violence is, if not legitimate, at least understandable.
November 22, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Truly appalling albeit unsurprising coming for a government which always consciously chooses to mainstream far-right politics
Racist violence has been fuelled by top-down discourses which have normalised and legitimised far-right moral panics for years. It is not predominantly a bottom-up issue
Racist violence has been fuelled by top-down discourses which have normalised and legitimised far-right moral panics for years. It is not predominantly a bottom-up issue
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There has now been 9 episodes of #BBCQT since it returned from its summer break
A Reform representative/mouthpiece has appeared on 5 of them:
Kruger - Nov 13
Goodwin - Oct 30
Dorries - Oct 23
Yusuf - Oct 9
Tice - Sept 25
But please tell me more about the BBC’s left wing bias
A Reform representative/mouthpiece has appeared on 5 of them:
Kruger - Nov 13
Goodwin - Oct 30
Dorries - Oct 23
Yusuf - Oct 9
Tice - Sept 25
But please tell me more about the BBC’s left wing bias
November 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
There has now been 9 episodes of #BBCQT since it returned from its summer break
A Reform representative/mouthpiece has appeared on 5 of them:
Kruger - Nov 13
Goodwin - Oct 30
Dorries - Oct 23
Yusuf - Oct 9
Tice - Sept 25
But please tell me more about the BBC’s left wing bias
A Reform representative/mouthpiece has appeared on 5 of them:
Kruger - Nov 13
Goodwin - Oct 30
Dorries - Oct 23
Yusuf - Oct 9
Tice - Sept 25
But please tell me more about the BBC’s left wing bias
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Let's not forget that Tim Davie drew up a plan to change the BBC's output to specifically target and appease nativist sentiment. And the BBC is the single biggest contributor to the creation of Farage as a media personality.
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...
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BBC Bosses Draw Up Plans to Win Over Reform Voters by Changing News and Drama Output
The Director General Tim Davie and other executives discussed altering BBC “story selection” in order to secure the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage’s party
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November 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Let's not forget that Tim Davie drew up a plan to change the BBC's output to specifically target and appease nativist sentiment. And the BBC is the single biggest contributor to the creation of Farage as a media personality.
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...
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Staying above the culture wars was a striking & surprising feature of 2014, 2016 and 2018 given the coincidence of the key centenary moments with the Scottish and EU referendums, and the 2016-19 stalemate
November 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Staying above the culture wars was a striking & surprising feature of 2014, 2016 and 2018 given the coincidence of the key centenary moments with the Scottish and EU referendums, and the 2016-19 stalemate
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We must note that all the condemnation of Tucker Carlson platforming Nick Fuentes has been about anti-Semitism and there has been an alarming and revealing silence around his anti-Black racism and white supremacy. When the head of the Heritage Foundation apologized, he only cited anti-Semitism.
November 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
We must note that all the condemnation of Tucker Carlson platforming Nick Fuentes has been about anti-Semitism and there has been an alarming and revealing silence around his anti-Black racism and white supremacy. When the head of the Heritage Foundation apologized, he only cited anti-Semitism.
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THIS IS SO GOOD
November 6, 2025 at 4:42 AM
THIS IS SO GOOD
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Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
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November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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The far-right and its centrist enablers are grossly overestimating the resistance to a Mamdani-type candidate in the 2026 Midterms. Their Trump Stockholm Syndrome prevents them from seeing how unpopular he is. Most people will accept almost any alternative to the current GOP!
November 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The far-right and its centrist enablers are grossly overestimating the resistance to a Mamdani-type candidate in the 2026 Midterms. Their Trump Stockholm Syndrome prevents them from seeing how unpopular he is. Most people will accept almost any alternative to the current GOP!
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There were 115 prisoners mistakenly released in the final year of the last Conservative Government alone.
Interesting that it only becomes a major national scandal the second these releases can be blamed on a Labour government
Interesting that it only becomes a major national scandal the second these releases can be blamed on a Labour government
November 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
There were 115 prisoners mistakenly released in the final year of the last Conservative Government alone.
Interesting that it only becomes a major national scandal the second these releases can be blamed on a Labour government
Interesting that it only becomes a major national scandal the second these releases can be blamed on a Labour government
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It's obviously a bad thing if any prisoner is released by mistake, but why is it worse if it's an asylum-seeker?
It seems just to be taken for granted now that someone is more dangerous because they're an asylum-seeker than because they're a criminal.
Something very dangerous is building here.
It seems just to be taken for granted now that someone is more dangerous because they're an asylum-seeker than because they're a criminal.
Something very dangerous is building here.
Well, that was a very weird deputy PMQs. James Cartlidge asking the same question five times – could David Lammy guarantee no other jailed asylum seekers have been accidentally released rather than deported – and Lammy each time instead condemning the Tories' record on prisons and justice.
November 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
It's obviously a bad thing if any prisoner is released by mistake, but why is it worse if it's an asylum-seeker?
It seems just to be taken for granted now that someone is more dangerous because they're an asylum-seeker than because they're a criminal.
Something very dangerous is building here.
It seems just to be taken for granted now that someone is more dangerous because they're an asylum-seeker than because they're a criminal.
Something very dangerous is building here.
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Today‘s a good day to pick up NK Jemisin’s The City We Became, a wonderful urban fantasy novel about the living avatars of New York.
The City We Became
'A glorious fantasy, set in that most imaginary of cities, New York' Neil Gaiman on THE CITY WE BECAME
'The most celebrated science fiction and fantasy wr...
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November 5, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Today‘s a good day to pick up NK Jemisin’s The City We Became, a wonderful urban fantasy novel about the living avatars of New York.
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FAO Matt Goodwin and all the other racist filth who tried to exploit this incident
November 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
FAO Matt Goodwin and all the other racist filth who tried to exploit this incident
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Matthew Goodwin, who is still welcomed by the BBC and other mainstream media outlets, now explicitly promotes a white supremacism identical to Enoch Powell's ("the West Indian or Indian does not, by being born in England, become an Englishman ... in fact he is a West Indian or an Asian still")
November 3, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Matthew Goodwin, who is still welcomed by the BBC and other mainstream media outlets, now explicitly promotes a white supremacism identical to Enoch Powell's ("the West Indian or Indian does not, by being born in England, become an Englishman ... in fact he is a West Indian or an Asian still")
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Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC
November 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC
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This is how ideology functions today: ideology tells the truth but creates conditions which guarantee that the truth itself will be perceived as a lie.
▫️Slavoj Žižek, 2023
▫️Slavoj Žižek, 2023
November 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This is how ideology functions today: ideology tells the truth but creates conditions which guarantee that the truth itself will be perceived as a lie.
▫️Slavoj Žižek, 2023
▫️Slavoj Žižek, 2023
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Jeremy Vine, "Andrew Windsor has been buried alive.. They want him humiliated"
No he hasn't. He was accused of raping a child three times and for that:
➡️ Victim received £12 million
➡️ Andrew is moving from one big house to another
➡️ Andrew getting 6 figure £ from the King
No he hasn't. He was accused of raping a child three times and for that:
➡️ Victim received £12 million
➡️ Andrew is moving from one big house to another
➡️ Andrew getting 6 figure £ from the King
November 2, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Jeremy Vine, "Andrew Windsor has been buried alive.. They want him humiliated"
No he hasn't. He was accused of raping a child three times and for that:
➡️ Victim received £12 million
➡️ Andrew is moving from one big house to another
➡️ Andrew getting 6 figure £ from the King
No he hasn't. He was accused of raping a child three times and for that:
➡️ Victim received £12 million
➡️ Andrew is moving from one big house to another
➡️ Andrew getting 6 figure £ from the King
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Just took a deep breath & went to look at X. It's an absolute cesspit of hatred & glee: one huge account after another blaming the Huntingdon attacks on immigration, with total disregard for information, evidence or the safety of those at whom they're pointing. The yearning for violence is palpable.
November 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Just took a deep breath & went to look at X. It's an absolute cesspit of hatred & glee: one huge account after another blaming the Huntingdon attacks on immigration, with total disregard for information, evidence or the safety of those at whom they're pointing. The yearning for violence is palpable.
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Anyone who will lie unapologetically about mass violent attacks to push their own profile and political cause is beneath contempt.
There’s no need to book such people, to platform them, or to listen to them. That’s not because of their politics, or their views: it’s because of their dishonesty.
There’s no need to book such people, to platform them, or to listen to them. That’s not because of their politics, or their views: it’s because of their dishonesty.
Matt Goodwin attributes a crime that he now knows appears to have been committed by people born in Britain in the early 1990s to "mass uncontrolled immigration"
November 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Anyone who will lie unapologetically about mass violent attacks to push their own profile and political cause is beneath contempt.
There’s no need to book such people, to platform them, or to listen to them. That’s not because of their politics, or their views: it’s because of their dishonesty.
There’s no need to book such people, to platform them, or to listen to them. That’s not because of their politics, or their views: it’s because of their dishonesty.
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The buses bill also became law this week, allowing councils in England to finally take control of local services used by millions of people.
Almost nothing from No 10 or Govt Comms as a whole. It's beyond woeful.
Meanwhile Reform are holding multiple press conferences a week.
Almost nothing from No 10 or Govt Comms as a whole. It's beyond woeful.
Meanwhile Reform are holding multiple press conferences a week.
Great read from @iandunt.bsky.social on whether Starmer should stay or go, including the mystery of how, if you’re launching a popular climate, energy, and growth strategy, why wouldn’t you stage a press conference on it?
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October 31, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The buses bill also became law this week, allowing councils in England to finally take control of local services used by millions of people.
Almost nothing from No 10 or Govt Comms as a whole. It's beyond woeful.
Meanwhile Reform are holding multiple press conferences a week.
Almost nothing from No 10 or Govt Comms as a whole. It's beyond woeful.
Meanwhile Reform are holding multiple press conferences a week.