Andrew Glazzard
@andrewglazzard.bsky.social
Professor of National Security at Coventry University
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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.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
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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Exactly: he wrote to Michael Kennedy “For actual coda, see end of Wells’ Tono-Bungay”.
November 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Exactly: he wrote to Michael Kennedy “For actual coda, see end of Wells’ Tono-Bungay”.
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An expert, thorough takedown of that shoddy and grossly misleading CSIS report from a few weeks back.
www.justsecurity.org/122278/corre...
www.justsecurity.org/122278/corre...
Correctly Assessing U.S. Left-Wing Terrorism and Political Violence
A recent published report suffers from fatal analytic flaws and risks feeding false narratives about political violence and polarization.
www.justsecurity.org
October 21, 2025 at 6:46 PM
An expert, thorough takedown of that shoddy and grossly misleading CSIS report from a few weeks back.
www.justsecurity.org/122278/corre...
www.justsecurity.org/122278/corre...
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1/n A few days ago, an article appeared in The Atlantic with a bold headline “Left-wing terrorism is on the rise.”
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Left-Wing Terrorism Is on the Rise
For the first time in more than 30 years, attacks by the far left outnumber those by the far right.
www.theatlantic.com
September 26, 2025 at 10:56 AM
1/n A few days ago, an article appeared in The Atlantic with a bold headline “Left-wing terrorism is on the rise.”
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Very interesting. Trump seems to finally be getting intelligence that Russia is not doing well and Ukraine has actually started to gain an upper hand in some areas. The narrative of Ukraine failure, which was always overblown, might be ending in Washington.
September 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Very interesting. Trump seems to finally be getting intelligence that Russia is not doing well and Ukraine has actually started to gain an upper hand in some areas. The narrative of Ukraine failure, which was always overblown, might be ending in Washington.
This is indeed a great read.
This is a great read. My three favourite Redford films are Jeremiah Johnson, Three Days of the Condor and Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid. Plus, Reagan’s use of the CIA to fight proxy wars was a central theme of The Americans, one of my all time favourite series open.substack.com/pub/mattcarr...
Three Days of the Condor Revisited
Robert Redford’s lost America
open.substack.com
September 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
This is indeed a great read.
Good thread
I’ve read The Verge’s story about the alleged killer of Charlie Kirk scratching Helldivers 2 references onto bullets.
And I think it is worth taking a moment here to explain why video games don’t cause violence, but they keep appearing with alarming regularity in killings/mass shootings 🧵
And I think it is worth taking a moment here to explain why video games don’t cause violence, but they keep appearing with alarming regularity in killings/mass shootings 🧵
September 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Good thread
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On my hobby horse on the today programme at 1hr18 saying that in the light of the jaguar Land Rover cyber attack we need to stop obsessing about what are sometimes relatively trivial personal datasets when hackers are shutting down factories
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Today - 09/09/2025 - BBC Sounds
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 9, 2025 at 10:37 AM
On my hobby horse on the today programme at 1hr18 saying that in the light of the jaguar Land Rover cyber attack we need to stop obsessing about what are sometimes relatively trivial personal datasets when hackers are shutting down factories
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
This scene had me in floods of tears when I saw it as a 7 year old. In fact I’m welling up now just thinking about it
RING OF BRIGHT WATER (1969): Charming family film about one man's friendship with his cute little otter, Mij. Featuring the stars of Born Free, it's innocuous enough, until this scene, which comes like a bolt from the blue...
August 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
This scene had me in floods of tears when I saw it as a 7 year old. In fact I’m welling up now just thinking about it
This is an excellent analysis of the situation in al-Suwayda’ that should be read by anyone interested in the situation in Syria.
I have done a general, open access piece on the common misconceptions about the fighting in al-Suwayda'. Too many crude, inaccurate talking points are being circulated among analysts and observers and contributing to the tensions. This needs to stop now
www.aymennaltamimi.com/p/misconcept...
www.aymennaltamimi.com/p/misconcept...
Misconceptions on the Fighting in al-Suwayda'
Amid the ongoing fighting between pro-Syrian government tribal militias and local Druze factions in the primarily Druze province of al-Suwayda’ in southern Syria, it has become clear to me that miscon...
www.aymennaltamimi.com
July 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
This is an excellent analysis of the situation in al-Suwayda’ that should be read by anyone interested in the situation in Syria.
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We can discuss what appropriate custodial sentences are, but I cannot understand how we have tariffs that allow someone who did this to drive again, let alone do so this decade.
You’ve been permitted to operate a potentially deadly machine under sufferance! You’ve proved you can’t use it safely!
You’ve been permitted to operate a potentially deadly machine under sufferance! You’ve proved you can’t use it safely!
speeding uninsured driver kills a child crossing the road, gets 16 months(!) in prison and will be free to drive again within three years. there is simply no deterrent to doing whatever you want, killing whoever you want with a car
Cardiff driver jailed for 16 months for killing teenager
Christopher West hit Keely Morgan on 1 May 2023 and she died at the scene.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
We can discuss what appropriate custodial sentences are, but I cannot understand how we have tariffs that allow someone who did this to drive again, let alone do so this decade.
You’ve been permitted to operate a potentially deadly machine under sufferance! You’ve proved you can’t use it safely!
You’ve been permitted to operate a potentially deadly machine under sufferance! You’ve proved you can’t use it safely!
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In 7 days (July 18), my book "QAnon: From Conspiracy Theory to New Religious Movement" is going to be published. It's grounded in 5 years of digital ethnographic work in QAnon milieus. I never thought my PhD research would be relevant 8 years after QAnon emerged.
www.routledge.com/QAnon-From-C...
www.routledge.com/QAnon-From-C...
July 10, 2025 at 11:47 PM
In 7 days (July 18), my book "QAnon: From Conspiracy Theory to New Religious Movement" is going to be published. It's grounded in 5 years of digital ethnographic work in QAnon milieus. I never thought my PhD research would be relevant 8 years after QAnon emerged.
www.routledge.com/QAnon-From-C...
www.routledge.com/QAnon-From-C...
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I’m very sad to learn of the death of Professor Simon James. He was a lovely person, a good friend to @backlisted.bsky.social and a wonderful guest. I send my condolences to his friends and family, and I’ll miss his warmth and the breadth of his knowledge. RIP. newwritingnorth.com/journal/a-tr...
A tribute to Professor Simon J James - New Writing North
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June 24, 2025 at 7:22 AM
I’m very sad to learn of the death of Professor Simon James. He was a lovely person, a good friend to @backlisted.bsky.social and a wonderful guest. I send my condolences to his friends and family, and I’ll miss his warmth and the breadth of his knowledge. RIP. newwritingnorth.com/journal/a-tr...
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Official photo from the Trump-Sharaa meeting. Imagine going back in time to 2010 and trying to explain this to someone. Surreal
May 14, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Official photo from the Trump-Sharaa meeting. Imagine going back in time to 2010 and trying to explain this to someone. Surreal
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🚨 What is the "Great Replacement Theory" & who believes it? 🚨
In our forthcoming IMR paper, @jamesrdennison.bsky.social and I treat GRT as layered narratives, from demographic change to the elite plot. A representative German survey shows broad public agreement with several of these layers.
In our forthcoming IMR paper, @jamesrdennison.bsky.social and I treat GRT as layered narratives, from demographic change to the elite plot. A representative German survey shows broad public agreement with several of these layers.
May 9, 2025 at 6:32 AM
🚨 What is the "Great Replacement Theory" & who believes it? 🚨
In our forthcoming IMR paper, @jamesrdennison.bsky.social and I treat GRT as layered narratives, from demographic change to the elite plot. A representative German survey shows broad public agreement with several of these layers.
In our forthcoming IMR paper, @jamesrdennison.bsky.social and I treat GRT as layered narratives, from demographic change to the elite plot. A representative German survey shows broad public agreement with several of these layers.
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So, happy 50th anniversary to this entry from Peter Hall’s diary describing rehearsals for Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land with Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud
Odd this day
17 April 1975
mulberryhall.medium.com
April 17, 2025 at 8:14 AM
So, happy 50th anniversary to this entry from Peter Hall’s diary describing rehearsals for Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land with Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud
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This is a lovely piece by David Runciman, of @ppfideas.bsky.social.
At a time when universities are running away from the lecture, the podcasting boom shows the appetite for serious, long-form and, yes, didactic content by people with specialist understanding.
www.theideasletter.org/essay/podcas...
At a time when universities are running away from the lecture, the podcasting boom shows the appetite for serious, long-form and, yes, didactic content by people with specialist understanding.
www.theideasletter.org/essay/podcas...
Podcast University - The Ideas Letter
The popularity of podcasts evinces a strong public appetite for traditional academic content—belying concerns that universities’ pedagogical methods are outdated. Runciman contends that podcasting pre...
www.theideasletter.org
April 10, 2025 at 9:30 AM
This is a lovely piece by David Runciman, of @ppfideas.bsky.social.
At a time when universities are running away from the lecture, the podcasting boom shows the appetite for serious, long-form and, yes, didactic content by people with specialist understanding.
www.theideasletter.org/essay/podcas...
At a time when universities are running away from the lecture, the podcasting boom shows the appetite for serious, long-form and, yes, didactic content by people with specialist understanding.
www.theideasletter.org/essay/podcas...
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Russian internet users searched for “Michael Stürzenberger stabbed” before the knife attack on him in Mannheim, Germany, in May 2024. 1/5
April 8, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Russian internet users searched for “Michael Stürzenberger stabbed” before the knife attack on him in Mannheim, Germany, in May 2024. 1/5
Fascinating
NEW: The circumstances surrounding the deaths of British tycoon Mike Lynch, his daughter and five others on a luxury yacht are fraught with improbable coincidences, writes Floriana Bulfon for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
newlinesmag.com/reportage/th...
newlinesmag.com/reportage/th...
The Mysterious Sinking of the Bayesian
The circumstances surrounding the deaths of British tycoon Mike Lynch, his daughter and five others on a luxury yacht are fraught with improbable coincidences
newlinesmag.com
March 31, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Fascinating
Adolescence is an amazing drama but its social commentary is just plain wrong: @ianleslie.bsky.social explains: open.substack.com/pub/ianlesli...
What 'Adolescence' Doesn't Tell Us About Boys
Impressive Entertainment, Not Sure About the Social Commentary
open.substack.com
March 29, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Adolescence is an amazing drama but its social commentary is just plain wrong: @ianleslie.bsky.social explains: open.substack.com/pub/ianlesli...
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🧵 NEW: Why is Britain so skint?
We pay huge amounts of tax, yet the chancellor is expected to make widespread cuts. Where is all our money going?
My column, and a primer ahead of Wednesday
@thetimes.com
1/10
www.thetimes.com/article/e1a6...
We pay huge amounts of tax, yet the chancellor is expected to make widespread cuts. Where is all our money going?
My column, and a primer ahead of Wednesday
@thetimes.com
1/10
www.thetimes.com/article/e1a6...
March 23, 2025 at 10:10 AM
🧵 NEW: Why is Britain so skint?
We pay huge amounts of tax, yet the chancellor is expected to make widespread cuts. Where is all our money going?
My column, and a primer ahead of Wednesday
@thetimes.com
1/10
www.thetimes.com/article/e1a6...
We pay huge amounts of tax, yet the chancellor is expected to make widespread cuts. Where is all our money going?
My column, and a primer ahead of Wednesday
@thetimes.com
1/10
www.thetimes.com/article/e1a6...
A very informative and sensible thread.
Peter Kyle using ChatGPT to test his policy ideas is such a non-story.
I run most of my bad ideas through it, and you should too before inflicting them on my colleagues/clients/the world.
Here's how to do it - and why it helps.
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I run most of my bad ideas through it, and you should too before inflicting them on my colleagues/clients/the world.
Here's how to do it - and why it helps.
A 🧵
March 14, 2025 at 12:24 PM
A very informative and sensible thread.
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Blown away by this erudite book by @valentimvicente.bsky.social 🤯 An exceptional combination of theoretical sophistication and empirical breadth and depth.
His theory of normalization not just helps explain recent rise of far right but also warns for overestimating strength of democracy.
His theory of normalization not just helps explain recent rise of far right but also warns for overestimating strength of democracy.
March 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Blown away by this erudite book by @valentimvicente.bsky.social 🤯 An exceptional combination of theoretical sophistication and empirical breadth and depth.
His theory of normalization not just helps explain recent rise of far right but also warns for overestimating strength of democracy.
His theory of normalization not just helps explain recent rise of far right but also warns for overestimating strength of democracy.
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Here is how the White House “condemned” the threats
March 5, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Here is how the White House “condemned” the threats
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I think Russian intelligence services cannot believe their good fortune at everything that is happening right now. This is a bonanza across the board. The vicious attack on Ukraine, nutters at the FBI, Gabbard at DNI, shredding of CI capabilities. A monumental tragedy for the West.
This is incredible. Knock yourself out, Russian intel services. “A person familiar with the matter …said analysts at the agency were verbally informed that they were not to follow or report on Russian threats, even though this had previously been a main focus for the agency.” Cc @ciaranm.bsky.social
March 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I think Russian intelligence services cannot believe their good fortune at everything that is happening right now. This is a bonanza across the board. The vicious attack on Ukraine, nutters at the FBI, Gabbard at DNI, shredding of CI capabilities. A monumental tragedy for the West.