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OK, here's a different way of looking at the #Labour problem: labourlist.org/2025/05/labo...

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Lord North looses the 13 colonies Mountbatten presides over 1 million deaths on the partition of India Eden humiliates Britain and reveals the true depths of our post-imperial fantasy at Suez. Nothing, nothing compared to making it easier to export to our largest market and use e-passport gates!

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Good thinking on writing style and AI / LLMs. Worth reflecting on for those of us setting and assessing writing based assignments. We need to encourage individuality and experiment in written student assessments. #HE #AI #LLMs

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What a mess. The Supreme Court ruling has not brought clarity at all. It appears to have just created problems where there previously were none.

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“The Conservatives are not our principal opponent. Reform are our main rivals for power,” he told MPs. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Very good post on the UK-EU deal

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If you are tired of the performative hysteria of parts of the British press and would like to know how Europe sees today's 'Reset'- Summit, here's my take. Spoiler alert. It's mostly good news for Britain. 👇👇

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Corgis have an extremely low center of gravity and the density of a dead star. PERFECT for skateboarding! 😇

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I'm so tired of this crappy, lazy, so-called journalism.

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The unbelievable condescension we’re already seeing today towards working class people- suggesting they don’t travel to Europe or their kids might not want to go to university and study in Europe- is quite something to behold.

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In Romania, the pro-EU candidate Nicușor-Daniel Dan has won the presidential election. He defeated the pro-Russia, extreme right candidate George-Nicolae Simion.

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just got this ad on duolingo and wow store this one in the time capsule https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlzTEG4D5n0&pp=ygUKYWxzZXQgYXV0bw%3D%3D

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#COYD

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Yess!!!! #comeonyoudons www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

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Same.

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Amazing the stuff you forget! This, which relates to Oct 2020, is from a draft chapter from "The British General Election of 2024", tells you something about the 'Boriswave' (or as Keir Starmer would put it, the 'one-nation experiment in open borders conducted on a country that voted for control').

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@giwlkings.bsky.social @caitlinschmid.bsky.social a packed room at the King’s science gallery for the launch of the gender equality index uk. Gender equality is not a zero sum game- it flourishes where both women and men do well

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Something Starmer has lacked so far is a defining moment. Whether intentional or not, this could be it.

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A core feature of the Trump regime is its embrace of "authoritarian democracy", as a battering ram with which to demolish any obstacle to its power. The very notion of "authoritarian democracy" can sound contradictory. But it's an old & dangerous idea, that needs to be better understood. [THREAD]

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Political scientists are obligated to repost news of elections decided by single votes. I'm sorry, but I don't make the rules.

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A really good analysis for those sympathetic but bewildered by the current government.

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Magnificent.

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i will never get past this. the collapse of the global trade system because one guy does not understand what a trade deficit is.

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Which potential coalitions have the most support from Britons? Lab-LD: 38% support Lab-LD-Grn: 38% Lab-Grn: 37% Con-Ref: 27% Con-LD: 23% Con-Grn: 20% Lab-SNP: 20% Con-Lab: 15% LD-Ref: 15% Lab-Ref: 10% yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

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There it is…

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Very much looking forward to this. I'll be there too talking about small 'c' conservatism in Labour's politics...

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"Starmer: Year One. A conference organised by the Labour History Research Unit at ARU. Talks from (e.g.) Tim Bale, Jonathan Portes, Patrick Diamond. I'll be talking about the inherent (and possibly fatal) contradictions of anti-perfomative political performances. store.anglia.ac.uk/product-cata...

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Currently Conservatives are losing about 70% of their incumbent councillors and Labour are losing about 75% of their incumbents. Reform have hit an overall vote share where first past the post shifts from foe to friend, almost everywhere.

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Social movements are more likely to have success when three factors are present: elite conflict, shifting public opinion, and elite blunders. Mass collective action can create the conditions for these factors to emerge and deepen.

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Not a single international cargo ship at the Port of Seattle. The port is dead. The last ship from China will dock at a West coast port on the 29th, and the last Chinese ship will dock on the East coast around May 10th. After that, there will be no more shipments arriving from China. We’re screwed.

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The Supreme Court would have upheld Thatcher’s Section 28, as that was the law at the time. It takes politicians and parliament to change and define the law, not just throw three hands up in the air and tell people to suck it up.

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Charles Kynard - Name The Missing Word [USA, Funk] (1972) -- Stir together brass with organs, add a dash of pedal guitar and set to simmer until soulful. https://redd.it/98n8by https://youtu.be/kz20_gPtJpA

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More in No, Other People: New poll: “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory

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Brilliant economic analysis by Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com

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Alright. I see a lot of analysis which is essentially “what is our theory of mind about Trump? Does he love the stock market? Is he a protectionist?” I will give you my theory of mind for him which has not failed me yet in explanatory power: he is a man whose greatest success was a reality TV show

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