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dannyrye.bsky.social
Associate Prof in Politics. Londoner in Liverpool. Writing a book about power. Also researching activism, political organisation, UK parties (esp. Labour Party). Otherwise, walking, cricket, music. Views are either mine or someone else's.
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Blogged: we should criticize systems, not individuals: stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_an...

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Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..

submitted 3 days ago • 81 comments

Worth noting that literally every other leader is preferred to Nigel Farage as PM. This could become quite important if/when a general election approaches with polling suggesting Farage has a real shot at being PM

submitted 3 days ago • 48 comments

www.skysports.com/share/13373222 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

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I am begging for a Hollywood movie or TV writer to make something that features realistic 'artificial intelligence'

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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!

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

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. 👇👇

submitted 11 days ago • 11 comments

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

submitted 12 days ago • 218 comments

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.

submitted 11 days ago • 183 comments

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.

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

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

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

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]

submitted 19 days ago • 23 comments

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

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

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

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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.

submitted 22 days ago • 125 comments

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...

submitted 22 days ago • 21 comments

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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