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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 1h

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‘A great awakening of men of action’: What does the ‘right-wing Davos’ represent? - Huw Crighton Davies, 2025

The Financial Times called the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship’s 2025 conference the ‘right-wing Davos’. The Alliance involves academics from elite univers...

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 13h

I've spent *weeks* working on this special report for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social on GB News co-owner Paul Marshall – and the astonishing, unprecedented influence network he's built on the UK's right. There's never been anything like it before. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-p...

Paul Marshall, the man who owns the right

The multimillionaire controls a network of news channels, publications and think tanks that the left could only dream of. If Reform or the Tories win the next election, he will become the country’s mo...

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 4h

It’s crushingly ironic that ARC and Marshall are diametrically opposed to Islam, yet ARC’s financial patrons are based in UAE.

Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 4h

Excellent article. I wanted to focus on Marshall’s ideology for my analysis but to get into this journal I had to use a corpus (not 1 person). I found that ARC reflects different aspects of his ideology back at him. Much as his outlets & think tanks do. journals.sagepub.com/overview-met...

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 4h

TL/DR the marketplace of ideas or public sphere don’t exist in any meaningful form. It’s billionaires using their money to bend the world to their ideology.

Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 4h

Excellent article. I wanted to focus on Marshall’s ideology for my analysis but to get into this journal I had to use a corpus (not 1 person). I found that ARC reflects different aspects of his ideology back at him. Much as his outlets & think tanks do. journals.sagepub.com/overview-met...

Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 4h

Excellent article. I wanted to focus on Marshall’s ideology for my analysis but to get into this journal I had to use a corpus (not 1 person). I found that ARC reflects different aspects of his ideology back at him. Much as his outlets & think tanks do. journals.sagepub.com/overview-met...

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 10h

It’s striking how much of ‘new right’ ‘revolutionary’ thinking is a bastardised (in)version of old school leftism - Big Oil is now Big Green, the Military Industrial Complex is the Censorship Industrial Complex, the Establishment is the Matrix, The Cathedral, etc.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 11h

Yes, it’s something invented by ‘Big Green’ (their inversionism imo is understudied and under appreciated)

Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 12h

The young educated women who want society organised so that wealth is fairly distributed and the natural environment is saved from pollution won’t want to date young men who think pissing on beggars is a hilarious expression of their political outlook.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 6d

New paper - "Brokering the brain: neuroscientific knowledge, technologies, and the translation of neuro-expertise into educational practice" - led by @dimiktz.bsky.social w Martyn Pickersgill, Jess Pykett and me from our bio-edu-data-sci project funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk doi.org/10.1080/0159...

Brokering the brain: neuroscientific knowledge, technologies, and the translation of neuro-expertise into educational practice

Educational neuroscience has expanded its influence since the 1990s, positioned as advancing new forms of intervention in educational policy and practice. Simultaneously, the gap between the neuros...

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 13h

Yet, Reform, Conservatives, all their junk tanks and the media outlets that represent them oppose net zero.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 23h

More grossly irresponsible distortion from GBNews intended to incite outrage that Ofcom is somehow powerless to prevent.

Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 23h

🚨Christian children were told they'd "be Muslim by year 6"!🚨

😱Sounds outrageous?

You know the drill…

If it sounds outrageous and designed to trigger you into being angry with “other” people, then you need to do some 🪏

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 1d

This is a scenario lifted out Jesse Armstrongs’s satire of the broligarchy.

Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 1d

Yet we are told society’s main problem is all young people to left of these guys refusing to be their friends and date them and calling them racist and Nazis.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 1d

The Original Grift.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 1d

God is so week he needs the Trumps to save him?

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 1d

Hence net zero being described as a ‘luxury belief’.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 1d

I think in the UK have realised there’s no room for out right denial so they claim the solutions are hurting the poor & w/c - in a way trying to build that coalition by attempting to draw in voters who care about self serving elites and economic inequalities

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 1d

One of the world’s most prominent and effective platforms for edtech investors here supporting ‘anti-woke’ ‘conservative leaning’ campaigners. Far from neutral.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 1d

The Prosperity Institute, ARC, Legatum, GBNews, Spectator are all conduits for aspects of Marshall’s ideology that synthesises Christian nationalism, regressive neoliberalism & the mythology of the far-right. Same sources of funding, operating in plain signt. journals.sagepub.com/home/das

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 1d

excellent paper thanks for sharing - completely different methodology but you may interested in my paper as I found an elite moralising their climate obstruction and denial - claiming fossil fuels are for the poor's benefit, even a humanitarian cause
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

‘A great awakening of men of action’: What does the ‘right-wing Davos’ represent? - Huw Crighton Davies, 2025

The Financial Times called the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship’s 2025 conference the ‘right-wing Davos’. The Alliance involves academics from elite univers...

journals.sagepub.com

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 1d

Wanting to switch to renewables to replace ecocidal and increasingly expensive fossil fuels is another ‘luxury belief’ - such a thought terminating shibboleth.

Tom Powdrill @tompowdrill.bsky.social · 1d

Right-wing policy wonk retweeting a union event to have a dig at Net Zero.

A straw in the wind

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 2d

That kicked in the head comment is completely unnecessary.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 2d

I agree his influence his hugely problematic and should be studied but everyone needs to know what he represents and not sanitise it in any way. I’m not saying that’s what you are doing btw. This feels like a collective failure.

Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 2d

Neither is being a thought leader. My point is he’d like to be called a philosopher and that helps legitimise what he represents.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 2d