Will Davies (@will-davies.bsky.social)

@will-davies.bsky.social Aug 5, 2026, 12:13 PM Pinned

I've written about Neets for the LRB. It is odd listening to recent debates about this completely ignore the overwhelming fact of this current crisis, that it is one of inactivity, disability, mental ill-health and neurodevelopmental disorders (as I discuss) www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

lrb.co.ukWilliam Davies · Young People Are Different: What do Neets need?The majority of Neets are not looking for work, but living outside of the labour market and the education system,...

@will-davies.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 10:27 AM

you have to wonder... www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

@will-davies.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 10:13 AM

it was never much of a secret that Russia tried to influence elections. It was those on the losing side of a couple in 2016 that then turned that into the *explanation* for their results

@will-davies.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 9:29 AM

@will-davies.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 9:26 AM

One problem with home UG is that the league table logic means that as soon as an institution further up has a financial panic, they scoop lower into clearing, defeating even the best marketing strategy of those further down

@will-davies.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 9:03 AM

Hope the Premier League will learn from the judicial tradition, that a punishment is gauged partly by whether the defendant (or maybe just *a single one of their representatives*) shows any acceptance of guilt or sense of contrition

@will-davies.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 8:08 PM

An incisive reading of the Fonagy report from @johnharris1969.bsky.social that worries about weakening the priority of diagnosis at a time of fiscal tightening. That is unfortunately how things stand in the UK right now www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

@will-davies.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 5:09 PM

“I wish they couid both lose”. Well, for once they can

@will-davies.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 12:31 PM

The Home Office is now responsible for research funding (aka overseas students) in the UK.

@will-davies.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 11:42 AM

Your eyes are deceiving you. There was no fifth child. Please don’t go in the cellar.

@will-davies.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 11:39 AM

Misery

@will-davies.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 8:03 PM

And Polanski now less popular even than Farage…

@will-davies.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 1:01 PM

🙄

@will-davies.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 12:48 PM

Declan Rice needs to play 180 minutes of competitive football every single week or he turns into this

@will-davies.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 12:45 PM

Not seen Rice this weak for a while

@will-davies.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 12:44 PM

Bruno too

@will-davies.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 11:59 AM

2025-era Odegaard is back

@econsocjournal.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 2:44 PMReposted by @will-davies.bsky.social

We're delighted to announce the winner of our inaugural Early-Career Paper Prize is Oda Eide www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Oda will receive £1000 from the journal.
We're also delighted to announce that our Prize will now run on a biennial basis, with the next competition due to open shortly

@lseinequalities.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 2:20 PMReposted by @will-davies.bsky.social

Join the @lsesociology.bsky.social & the III for the launch of the Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Global Elites, with speakers
@will-davies.bsky.social, @urbanmorph.bsky.social, María Luisa Méndez, Annette Lareau, & @mikesavagelse.bsky.social, chaired by @aaronreeves.bsky.social.

@will-davies.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 8:43 AM

Blair wins in terms of most rapid transition from total tech ignoramus to big $$ koolaid drinker

@will-davies.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 8:09 AM

Now that the Fonagy report is making headlines, re-upping these reflections on the social conditions that might drive neurodevelopmental diagnoses upwards substack.com/@willd10/p-2...