heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social
Political scientist, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
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Of course any album is art. But if an artist sells 100,000 copies he or she has not produced 100,000 separate pieces of art. Just one.
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I don't count tourist installations.
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Can we be a bit more inclusive, please. Most parts of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland look also a bit shite.
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Well, industrially produced cereal bowls are surely not art. Otherwise, we'd have to consider prints of painting to be art in themselves and not just reproductions of art.
Same with your ringtone. Just a reproduced sample.
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Can't get no satisfaction, those leave voters.
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I don't think having Westminster work on your behalf can count as completely ignored.
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And, possibly why people are - in a very British middle class polite way - avoiding discussing the particulars of the place is that it is difficult to do without being frankly snobby: the area is depressed post-industrial working class and a hive of Orange Order militant unionism… liberal it is not.
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And with that comes probably the thought that British democracy cannot possibly be seriously undermined by an authoritarian. Which I think is naive.
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Are we going to restructure the entire EPOP quiz as a conjoint experiment?
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Well, it is not really a resurgence of the SNP. More a lesser evil than all the other mainstream party kind of flocking back to them, with reluctance, because their poor governance has not gone unnoticed.
And 40% is way above the Plaid ceiling.
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Quite the long weekend for all kinds of Dons.
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No, Philippines had that in the 1990s and India pretty much always. But those are very regionalised party systems, not comparable at all with the UK.
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Yes, Denmark did. Almost to the decimal the same level of fragmentation in 1909 as UK had in 2024.
And they did draw some conclusions from that.
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But India, Malawi and the Philippines are the only countries with FPTP that have ever experienced the level of fragmentation we are now seeing in the UK.
So for a Western democracy, we are in entirely unchartered territory.
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That's one hell of a quick marathon time.
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I reckon we could all try to be a bit more boldly neutral on things.
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And having constituencies, why do you need another level of geographical representation?
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We've had enough of this elitist anti-moron bias.
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I am just thinking it was exploiting the rules rather than for example the British viewers being on average so pro-Israel that they would be given 12 points.
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How are these non-political reasons?
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You were allowed to vote 20 times, so I think it was more an intensely organised campaign than a pro-Israeli audience in many countries.