Narzanin Massoumi

Sociologist. Researching political repression, racism, counter-terrorism. Senior Lecturer @UniofExeter

[Narzanin Massoumi @Narzanin]

What do the powerful get up to behind closed doors? Here, @_Marcus_Morgan and I outline a new research agenda for how we might study this. Out now with @sociologyjnl Open access. https://t.co/lt6PiidSzU

[Tom Mills @ta_mills]

Btw, this is how the interviewee was introduced:

'Let us talk to Tim Jakes Jacques who is on the line. Who's the newly appointed Independent Prevent Commissioner who previously spent years in charge of the UK's counter terrorism operations.'

[Tom Mills @ta_mills]

New post on 'Society From the Top Down' in which I revisit work by Marxist economist Paul Sweezy on corporate interest groups, comparing his results to those of a community detection algorithm.
https://t.co/n2AFs3qDv8

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

BBC attributes attacks to Israel only 50% of the time; The Guardian also just 54%.

By contrast, Al Jazeera explicitly names the perpetrator in 89% of cases.

Devastating new report from @newscord_org on the UK media's failure to accurately report Israel's genocide in Gaza.

[Tom Mills @ta_mills]

The Director General is Going. Who Will Now Run the BBC?

My piece on the crisis and future of the BBC for @BylineTimes.
https://t.co/FzUp86Zwtw

[Narzanin Massoumi @Narzanin]

Congratulations @_Marcus_Morgan Looking forward to reading this!

[Marcus Morgan @_Marcus_Morgan]

New book, Performing Power, on the role of social performance in mobilising power.
Out now with Polity Press: https://t.co/XzPEhZMYbp

[Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown]

Today @declassifiedUK revealed that govt advisors told Yvette Cooper that proscribing Palestine Action would be “unprecedented” bc unlike the 81 others on the list PA mainly damaged property.

It was unprecedented. It was also foreseeable. A thread on UK counter-terror history 🧵

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Not even 24 hours and 180,000 of you have now signed up.

Billionaires already have three parties fighting for them. It’s time the rest of us had one.

Join us: https://t.co/g0Ua1vOsEI

[Tom Mills @ta_mills]

A lot of people in public life will be nervously checking the index come September.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

The Freedom Flotilla sailing toward Gaza is not just carrying life-saving aid. It is carrying solidarity, hope and our shared humanity.

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Here's how it works:

1⃣ Starmer frames migration as a “problem” — culturally, economically, etc.

2⃣ Debate stays locked on that illusionary "problem" and not real issues like inequality or regional decline.

3⃣ Reform continues to fight on its preferred terrain — and wins.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Did Nigel Farage write this speech?

Dehumanising and divisive. We deserve better than this.

[Joe Guinan @joecguinan]

There needs to be a documentary length exposition of Starmer’s lies. No other format can do justice to their breadth and depth. A pathological liar the like of which we’ve never seen in frontline British politics.

[Taj Ali @Taj_Ali1]

'They found themselves made strangers in their own country'

— Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech (1968)

'We risk becoming an island of strangers'

— Keir Starmer (2025)

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Between 2010 and 2019, austerity policies led to an estimated 335,000 excess deaths. Nearly every expert agrees that deepening austerity will cause more.

Politicians now talk endlessly about defending us from Russia, while enacting policies that kill citizens at home.

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

British press: “oh didn’t Starmer do such a bloody great job sucking up to that man who wants to ethnically cleanse Gaza? Wasn’t it simply marvellous how he didn’t mention the ICJ/ICC cases? The adults are back. International law? Student politics”

[Narzanin Massoumi @Narzanin]

New article by @ta_mills and I on ‘Elite Status-Seeking & Class Reproduction in Civil Society’ in @BJSociology. Nice thread by Tom below explaining the article

[Tom Mills @ta_mills]

New article with @Narzanin in the @BJSociology: 'Elite Status-Seeking & Class Reproduction in Civil Society.' Thread.👇 https://t.co/zcXnppkce0

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

A man who believes in nothing is profoundly dangerous.

[Bristol Counterfire @CounterfireBriz]

1 week to go - don’t forget to book your tickets!

https://t.co/90TMAMieEe

With @dannydorling @LindseyAGerman , @ShabbirLakha @davidrrandall @SusanNewman @Narzanin & Lama Qidan

📆 Sat 1 March 12-5pm
📍Hamilton House BS1 3QY

Book now: https://t.co/90TMAMieEe

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

We are appalled by the Foreign Secretary’s failure to condemn President Trump’s deplorable call for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.

A statement from the Independent Alliance.

[Ben Sellers @MrBenSellers]

I haven’t been in the Labour Party for for over two & a half years now, but disappointed to see the Socialist Campaign Group allow itself to be divided by Starmer’s tactics once again. We’ve seen this several times since @jeremycorbyn lost the leadership of the party. 1/2