Aurelien Mondon
@aurelmondon.bsky.social
Researching the mainstreaming of reactionary/far-right politics
Co-convenor of @reacpolrn.bsky.social
Reactionary Democracy w. @aaronwinter.bsky.social and co-editor of The Ethics of Researching the Far Right
Full profile:
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Co-convenor of @reacpolrn.bsky.social
Reactionary Democracy w. @aaronwinter.bsky.social and co-editor of The Ethics of Researching the Far Right
Full profile:
https://shorturl.at/CiYKm
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Aurelien Mondon
@aurelmondon.bsky.social
· Sep 24
Article: On reactionary politics (Aurelien Mondon) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This article by Aurelien Mondon explores the meaning of reactionary politics and its use in our current context
reacpol.net
Core to reactionary politics is a cowardly project that aims to protect and restore privilege and hierarchies of oppression
Some thoughts on terminology and the term reactionary @reacpolrn.bsky.social
reacpol.net/on-reactiona...
Some thoughts on terminology and the term reactionary @reacpolrn.bsky.social
reacpol.net/on-reactiona...
Covering what is going on based on what the Home secretary is saying or highlighting the moral panic she is whipping up is an editorial choice
The Guardian as often when it comes to this government chooses to follow power over scrutiny. Doing so, it also chooses to mainstream far-right politics
The Guardian as often when it comes to this government chooses to follow power over scrutiny. Doing so, it also chooses to mainstream far-right politics
November 16, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Covering what is going on based on what the Home secretary is saying or highlighting the moral panic she is whipping up is an editorial choice
The Guardian as often when it comes to this government chooses to follow power over scrutiny. Doing so, it also chooses to mainstream far-right politics
The Guardian as often when it comes to this government chooses to follow power over scrutiny. Doing so, it also chooses to mainstream far-right politics
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When the government accuses asylum seekers of being given "golden tickets" and "tearing the country apart" and the media cheers them on, you know the mainstream elite has accepted fascism as a valid alternative to the radical change needed to address the many crises this country is facing
Shabana Mahmood has vowed to end Britain’s “golden ticket” for asylum seekers by forcing people arriving illegally to wait 20 years before they can apply for permanent settlement
Shabana Mahmood: ‘Illegal migration is tearing Britain apart’
The home secretary is planning to introduce a 20-year wait for permanent stay to end a ‘golden ticket’ for asylum seekers
www.thetimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:09 AM
When the government accuses asylum seekers of being given "golden tickets" and "tearing the country apart" and the media cheers them on, you know the mainstream elite has accepted fascism as a valid alternative to the radical change needed to address the many crises this country is facing
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I really can't get over how good of a turn out this was. Oxford really showed up in solidarity today!
November 16, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I really can't get over how good of a turn out this was. Oxford really showed up in solidarity today!
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This rancid trash understands the significance of Labour's anti-refugee policies.
November 16, 2025 at 10:43 AM
This rancid trash understands the significance of Labour's anti-refugee policies.
If you prefer your rants about the mainstreaming of far-right and reactionary politics on Instagram, I have rejoined (probably against my better judgement)
There will also be cat pictures 🐈⬛🐈⬛
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There will also be cat pictures 🐈⬛🐈⬛
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November 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
If you prefer your rants about the mainstreaming of far-right and reactionary politics on Instagram, I have rejoined (probably against my better judgement)
There will also be cat pictures 🐈⬛🐈⬛
www.instagram.com/aurelmondon?...
There will also be cat pictures 🐈⬛🐈⬛
www.instagram.com/aurelmondon?...
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"illegal immigration is tearing Britain apart"
November 16, 2025 at 8:56 AM
"illegal immigration is tearing Britain apart"
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Fascists feeling fully emboldened
Kids at the windows were being abused by them and would have been absolutely terrified if it weren't for counter protestors
Kids at the windows were being abused by them and would have been absolutely terrified if it weren't for counter protestors
November 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Fascists feeling fully emboldened
Kids at the windows were being abused by them and would have been absolutely terrified if it weren't for counter protestors
Kids at the windows were being abused by them and would have been absolutely terrified if it weren't for counter protestors
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Just one example of that abuse. The girl he was aiming at was probably ten or eleven.
November 16, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Just one example of that abuse. The girl he was aiming at was probably ten or eleven.
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To reiterate, this is about making life immeasurably more miserable and stressful for some of the most vulnerable people, in the almost certainly vain hope of winning over the votes of racists.
Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.
Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.
Asylum in UK to be made temporary under Home Secretary’s plans
Shabana Mahmood will lay out reforms modelled on the Danish system on Monday.
www.independent.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM
To reiterate, this is about making life immeasurably more miserable and stressful for some of the most vulnerable people, in the almost certainly vain hope of winning over the votes of racists.
Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.
Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.
When the government accuses asylum seekers of being given "golden tickets" and "tearing the country apart" and the media cheers them on, you know the mainstream elite has accepted fascism as a valid alternative to the radical change needed to address the many crises this country is facing
Shabana Mahmood has vowed to end Britain’s “golden ticket” for asylum seekers by forcing people arriving illegally to wait 20 years before they can apply for permanent settlement
Shabana Mahmood: ‘Illegal migration is tearing Britain apart’
The home secretary is planning to introduce a 20-year wait for permanent stay to end a ‘golden ticket’ for asylum seekers
www.thetimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:09 AM
When the government accuses asylum seekers of being given "golden tickets" and "tearing the country apart" and the media cheers them on, you know the mainstream elite has accepted fascism as a valid alternative to the radical change needed to address the many crises this country is facing
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The normalisation, nay, emboldenment of the far right by the Labour government continues at pace
Shabana Mahmood has vowed to end Britain’s “golden ticket” for asylum seekers by forcing people arriving illegally to wait 20 years before they can apply for permanent settlement
Shabana Mahmood: ‘Illegal migration is tearing Britain apart’
The home secretary is planning to introduce a 20-year wait for permanent stay to end a ‘golden ticket’ for asylum seekers
www.thetimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:29 AM
The normalisation, nay, emboldenment of the far right by the Labour government continues at pace
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Le cynisme, chez beaucoup de gens qu'on retrouve à l'extrême droite, est le mode d'être au monde qui leur sert de morale, d'outil de compréhension des faits et de relation à autrui.
La misanthropie,qu'elle en soit la cause ou la conséquence, les inscrit dans une antipolitique excluante & complotiste
La misanthropie,qu'elle en soit la cause ou la conséquence, les inscrit dans une antipolitique excluante & complotiste
"Les islamistes ont dû bien rigoler". Des élus RN dont Julien Odoul se moquent de la chorale du 13 novembre, composée de rescapés des attentats de Paris, le même avait déjà ironisé sur le suicide des agriculteurs. C'est quel niveau de dégueulasserie? www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...
Le Rassemblement national tourne en dérision la commémoration des dix ans du 13-Novembre
Plusieurs élus du parti d’extrême droite ont moqué la cérémonie d’inauguration du jardin du 13-Novembre-2015, à Paris. Leurs quolibets ont plus particulièrement visé un chant entonné par une chorale f...
www.lemonde.fr
November 16, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Le cynisme, chez beaucoup de gens qu'on retrouve à l'extrême droite, est le mode d'être au monde qui leur sert de morale, d'outil de compréhension des faits et de relation à autrui.
La misanthropie,qu'elle en soit la cause ou la conséquence, les inscrit dans une antipolitique excluante & complotiste
La misanthropie,qu'elle en soit la cause ou la conséquence, les inscrit dans une antipolitique excluante & complotiste
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#OpenAccess from the new issue of @journalrep.bsky.social -
Researching and Understanding Far-Right Politics in Times of Mainstreaming - https://cup.org/47ddwt9
- @georgenewth.bsky.social, @k8ebrown.bsky.social & @aurelmondon.bsky.social
#JREP10
Researching and Understanding Far-Right Politics in Times of Mainstreaming - https://cup.org/47ddwt9
- @georgenewth.bsky.social, @k8ebrown.bsky.social & @aurelmondon.bsky.social
#JREP10
November 16, 2025 at 12:40 AM
#OpenAccess from the new issue of @journalrep.bsky.social -
Researching and Understanding Far-Right Politics in Times of Mainstreaming - https://cup.org/47ddwt9
- @georgenewth.bsky.social, @k8ebrown.bsky.social & @aurelmondon.bsky.social
#JREP10
Researching and Understanding Far-Right Politics in Times of Mainstreaming - https://cup.org/47ddwt9
- @georgenewth.bsky.social, @k8ebrown.bsky.social & @aurelmondon.bsky.social
#JREP10
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Someone should ask Starmer and Mahmood whether they think the Kindertransport, for example, should have been a return ticket. Whether Alf Dubs, rather than becoming a Labour MP and now Lord, ought to have been sent back with his family to Czechoslovakia once it was liberated from German rule.
This contribution to the volume of human misery is yet another policy from Labour based on a false premise, in this case that refugees are overly attracted to Britain. It will increase bureaucratic limbo, thus making worse the problem of "cohesion" it purports to solve.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Someone should ask Starmer and Mahmood whether they think the Kindertransport, for example, should have been a return ticket. Whether Alf Dubs, rather than becoming a Labour MP and now Lord, ought to have been sent back with his family to Czechoslovakia once it was liberated from German rule.
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No, I'd say it's racists and those pandering to them.
November 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
No, I'd say it's racists and those pandering to them.
If Reform is seen as a threat to democracy because of their far-right politics, then it is impossible to see this Labour government as an alternative to it
Their discourse and policy either mimic Reform's or legitimise it and pave the way for it
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Their discourse and policy either mimic Reform's or legitimise it and pave the way for it
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
No 10 tells Labour MPs it expects support for tough new asylum policies
Some backbenchers already opposing planned immigration crackdown seen as ‘economically and culturally illiterate’
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:43 PM
If Reform is seen as a threat to democracy because of their far-right politics, then it is impossible to see this Labour government as an alternative to it
Their discourse and policy either mimic Reform's or legitimise it and pave the way for it
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Their discourse and policy either mimic Reform's or legitimise it and pave the way for it
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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"There are many many more of us than you!"
A handful of fascists turned up in Bristol again. They were outnumbered massively again.
We are the people, they are the tiny fascist minority that has our mainstream media and politicians' attention
A handful of fascists turned up in Bristol again. They were outnumbered massively again.
We are the people, they are the tiny fascist minority that has our mainstream media and politicians' attention
November 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"There are many many more of us than you!"
A handful of fascists turned up in Bristol again. They were outnumbered massively again.
We are the people, they are the tiny fascist minority that has our mainstream media and politicians' attention
A handful of fascists turned up in Bristol again. They were outnumbered massively again.
We are the people, they are the tiny fascist minority that has our mainstream media and politicians' attention
This is still relevant I guess:
'For our elite, the far right acts as a distraction away from the inability of our current system to bring justice to the many, something which would require radical change'
medium.com/@aurelmondon...
'For our elite, the far right acts as a distraction away from the inability of our current system to bring justice to the many, something which would require radical change'
medium.com/@aurelmondon...
November 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This is still relevant I guess:
'For our elite, the far right acts as a distraction away from the inability of our current system to bring justice to the many, something which would require radical change'
medium.com/@aurelmondon...
'For our elite, the far right acts as a distraction away from the inability of our current system to bring justice to the many, something which would require radical change'
medium.com/@aurelmondon...
"There are many many more of us than you!"
A handful of fascists turned up in Bristol again. They were outnumbered massively again.
We are the people, they are the tiny fascist minority that has our mainstream media and politicians' attention
A handful of fascists turned up in Bristol again. They were outnumbered massively again.
We are the people, they are the tiny fascist minority that has our mainstream media and politicians' attention
November 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"There are many many more of us than you!"
A handful of fascists turned up in Bristol again. They were outnumbered massively again.
We are the people, they are the tiny fascist minority that has our mainstream media and politicians' attention
A handful of fascists turned up in Bristol again. They were outnumbered massively again.
We are the people, they are the tiny fascist minority that has our mainstream media and politicians' attention
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The guardian strikes again
How about: ‘lack of government funding causes councils to sell off social centres’
But no, blame disabled people instead! And the next article will be:
‘Increased hostility to disabled people - how could that possibly have happened?’
How about: ‘lack of government funding causes councils to sell off social centres’
But no, blame disabled people instead! And the next article will be:
‘Increased hostility to disabled people - how could that possibly have happened?’
November 15, 2025 at 7:28 AM
The guardian strikes again
How about: ‘lack of government funding causes councils to sell off social centres’
But no, blame disabled people instead! And the next article will be:
‘Increased hostility to disabled people - how could that possibly have happened?’
How about: ‘lack of government funding causes councils to sell off social centres’
But no, blame disabled people instead! And the next article will be:
‘Increased hostility to disabled people - how could that possibly have happened?’
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I am honestly a little shocked that I haven't heard more pundits and interview subjects pointing back to the Trump/Miss Teen USA stuff from 2016, in light of all the once-again-increased Epstein scrutiny. I mean, it's right there. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
A Timeline of Donald Trump's Creepiness While He Owned Miss Universe
From walking into a teen dressing room to joking about his obligation to sleep with contestants, Donald Trump is a storied pageant creep.
www.rollingstone.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I am honestly a little shocked that I haven't heard more pundits and interview subjects pointing back to the Trump/Miss Teen USA stuff from 2016, in light of all the once-again-increased Epstein scrutiny. I mean, it's right there. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Reform has hired loony-right ex-academic Matthew Goodwin as head of its new student organisation.
I take it the BBC and others will no longer be describing him as merely a "commentator" or (wrongly) an "academic"?...
leftfootforward.org/2025/11/refo...
I take it the BBC and others will no longer be describing him as merely a "commentator" or (wrongly) an "academic"?...
leftfootforward.org/2025/11/refo...
Reform hires hard-right figure with ‘unpleasant views on race’ as head of its student organisation
Matt Goodwin has argued that UK-born people from ethnic minority backgrounds are not automatically British
leftfootforward.org
November 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Reform has hired loony-right ex-academic Matthew Goodwin as head of its new student organisation.
I take it the BBC and others will no longer be describing him as merely a "commentator" or (wrongly) an "academic"?...
leftfootforward.org/2025/11/refo...
I take it the BBC and others will no longer be describing him as merely a "commentator" or (wrongly) an "academic"?...
leftfootforward.org/2025/11/refo...
In news that will surprise no one expect those who conveniently fall for far-right conspiracy theories to avoid looking at power
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon during 2018 pro-Trump media campaign
Text messages released by US House show convicted sex offender coaching Maga influencer on political messaging
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
In news that will surprise no one expect those who conveniently fall for far-right conspiracy theories to avoid looking at power
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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People INCLUDING TRANS FRIENDLY MEDIA keep writing news stories on exclusions of trans people from women's sport while never talking to trans women athletes involved in women's sports.
November 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
People INCLUDING TRANS FRIENDLY MEDIA keep writing news stories on exclusions of trans people from women's sport while never talking to trans women athletes involved in women's sports.