Nick Hubble

Prof Nick Hubble - project account now completed with publication of Culture Wars in Britain (Emerald Publications, May 2026), £16.99.

[Nick Hubble @SocialHums]

My new book Culture Wars in Britain is out today from @EmeraldGlobal. Details here (discount code EME30): https://t.co/EG5H2KfXsf
This draws on my 2023-24 @LeverhulmeTrust Research Fellowship, 'Self-reflexivity, Class Consciousness, Culture Wars and Social Change in Britain'. 1/

[Adam Ramsay @AdamRamsay]

I knew Lara as a child in the Angus glens. Her cousin was one of my best friends growing up. Many Scots find our accents blend and shift depending on context.

[Nick Hubble @SocialHums]

into hard authoritarian positions that neither could have imagined ten years ago. More importantly, the UK is being driven by this cultural dynamic, which most of the established media and political establishment don't understand and can't control. There will be more like Starmer

[Nick Hubble @SocialHums]

10 years on from the referendum, the pre-existing divide between social 'conservatives' and 'liberals' that it revealed and heightened is governing British political and social life. The career & resignation of Starmer is just the latest manifestation of that cultural dynamic. 1/

[Nick Hubble @SocialHums]

Ch 4, ‘The Brexit Divide’, shows how the rise of English nationalism drove the vote to leave EU and has created a permanent schism between socially conservative authoritarian nationalism and socially liberal cultural progressives, which has collapsed the old 2-party politics. 5/

[Nick Hubble @SocialHums]

Politicians don't shape the culture wars (even if they sometimes inflame and profit from them). Rather, the dynamic of the schism forces them into positions. In their different ways both Matt Goodwin and Keir Starmer show how people can be swept almost against their volition 2/

[David Edgerton @DEHEdgerton]

'I inherited a Labour party that was politically, financially and morally bankrupt' said Keir Starmer. It shows he has hated not just the Left, but the whole party. Far from saving it, he has led it to its worst results for more than one hundred years.

[Nick Hubble @SocialHums]

@SionJobbins Not Lab either but he had already alienated Lab left. The high expectations of a Lab govt were immediately undermined by bad decisions. Starmer deliberately went for authoritarian sound bites and positions. Mandelson affair was a disaster because they knew when they appointed him

[Nick Hubble @SocialHums]

@richardmarcj @politicshome I think it will be impossible for Labour to pursue the old-style politics of 'class, solidarity, community, nation, social obligation' without being dragged into increasingly authoritarian positions as under Starmer. The value split is now fundamental to Britain.

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Recent riots targeting Muslims and immigrants have often centered on Britain’s poorest areas.

Their hatred is directed not against deprivation but against minorities accused of being unjustly favored. https://t.co/d18sc7SCHw

[Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs]

Now also sharing the contents page for An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class due to popular demand!

[Working Class History @wrkclasshistory]

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[Working Class History @wrkclasshistory]

#OtD 7 Jun 1968 women workers at Ford's Dagenham plant in England walked out on strike for equal pay with men. The strike led to the Equal Pay Act of 1970, although pay equality at Ford was only achieved after a later strike in 1984 https://t.co/fBEKW5uBab

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

We have less than 40 days before this code of practice passes into law.

https://t.co/1kmGcrcw6n

[Nick Hubble @SocialHums]

'The latest British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey found Reform voters were most distinguished by their cultural attitudes, suggesting support for the party was more than a “protest” vote.'

It's not economic. It's a culture war.

[The National @ScotNational]

NEW: John Curtice has given his verdict on why voters are continuing to support Reform UK

[Nick Hubble @SocialHums]

When Adam delved and Eve span, 
Who was then the gentleman?

[Working Class History @wrkclasshistory]

#OtD 30 May 1381 tax collector John Bampton attempted to collect Poll Tax in Brentwood, Essex (UK) and ended up sparking the Peasants' Revolt. The mass uprising took until November for the government to suppress https://t.co/IIGIpwyZ17

[Working Class History @wrkclasshistory]

#OtD 30 May 1381 tax collector John Bampton attempted to collect Poll Tax in Brentwood, Essex (UK) and ended up sparking the Peasants' Revolt. The mass uprising took until November for the government to suppress https://t.co/IIGIpwyZ17

[Laura Webster @LauraEWebsterr]

🧵Something historic is happening. Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland are all governed by parties that want to leave the UK.

So, to dig deeper into this new Celtic Alliance phenomenon, The National is heading to Belfast and Cardiff next week!

[Dr Nafeez Ahmed @NafeezAhmed]

1/ Tony Blair's new essay wants Britain to drill the North Sea, bet everything on AI, and tie itself to Trump's America.
Each one is a bet against the actual future - and the Blair never notices. It's a Victorian answer to a 21st-century crisis 🧵https://t.co/vy1Zp0ujJJ

[Working Class History @wrkclasshistory]

#OtD 29 May 1830 Paris Communard, anarchist Louise Michel was born. After the Commune, she was deported to the prison colony of New Caledonia, where she supported an uprising of the Indigenous people, and later returned a national hero https://t.co/nRIAlRKTiC

[Nick Hubble @SocialHums]

Therefore, the way to break Britain out of its current doom loop would be to end the disastrous myth of British exceptionalism once and for all by radical constitutional change. The example of Disraeli is an argument for Nairn and Barnett. (5/5)

[Nick Hubble @SocialHums]

I've been thinking about this article and its framing of the 'British question' while reading and very much enjoying so far McTague's book, Between the Waves: The Hidden History of a Very British Revolution 1945-2016. McTague draws on Disraeli's framing of the 'Irish question' 1/

[Tom McTague @TomMcTague]

On the same territory as Blair - the Britain’s painful refusal to face up to its reality https://t.co/muZu8IDffp

[Nick Hubble @SocialHums]

... of its exceptionalism - its refusal to be an ordinary member of Europe. Whereas, Scotland and Wales would be as happy an ordinary country in Europe as any other (and maybe even England given a chance). It's Britain itself which is the cause of the current misery of Britain 4/