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New fun pub - The Authentic A**hole (particularly proud of getting title accepted) ✅ Politicians viewed as authentic when they stick to their positions despite pressure ✅ True even when voters disagree with those positions ✅ Authenticity translates to electoral advantage tinyurl.com/25us7y7z

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The call for papers for #EPOP2025 is now open. Happening 4-6 September at the University of Exeter, this is not to be missed! See the thread below for the conference website and details on how to apply. @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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🚨 EPOP 2025 Call for papers now open! 🚨 Please fill out this form before the end of April to submit your paper proposal forms.office.com/e/4wBNMq4qwi Accepting presentations on all aspects of elections, public opinion and parties using all methods.

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Local government consultations are fascinating. This one included loaded questions, got 91% negative response - and yet still the officers are advising to go ahead. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Excellent post from @jamesbreckwoldt.bsky.social on Con to LD switchers - we all need heuristics to make sense of complex results, but when simplifying sketches curdle into misleading stereotypes then they do more harm than good. A great corrective: jamesbreckwoldt.substack.com/p/2019-conse...

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Wait, you're telling me economists take ideas that have been established in other disciplines for years and present them with the claim of novelty? Say it ain't so!

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Genuinely you will be well-served for news by any of the UK's major music stations or if Serious Talk is your thing, the BBC World Service is right there.

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This piece, on the scandal that is the Ebbsfleet development, is well worth a read: www.politicshome.com/thehouse/art...

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Who Do You Think You Are Kidding? My SKETCH of Today in our leaders still not really rising to the challenge. thecritic.co.uk/who-...

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From the archive, 4 years ago: #Top10 things people are remembered for that they didn’t actually do independent.co.uk/voices/top-1...

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Have filed under "no shit". It really is rampant. Most academics well aware of the issues and on top of ideas about how to deal with it. Some have their heads firmly in the sand.

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Written this. Is it unfair?

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Get it in your inbox at www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics

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Good piece by young @stephenkb.bsky.social in his FT newsletter about rail nationalization. Includes this great quote:

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Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all? Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left at even higher rates.

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This is one of the best panels we've hosted: Sam Freedman: writes GB's biggest politics substack. Theo Bertram: head of the Social Market Foundation & former advisor to Gordon Brown. Kate Shaw: political economy giant. Colm Murphy: author of Futures of Socialism. Morgan Jones: genius. Do come!

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Event later today.

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From about 47mins in you can hear @sarahwagner.bsky.social and myself commenting – in fluent Japanese – on the German election and the far left and right.

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I am surprised to see these comments from the Lady Chief Justice. The PM’s remarks about the Gaza judgment last week were hardly intemperate. Moreover, while the Government may well take the view that it should appeal, it is also open to it to change the law. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

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The poisoning of minds through Higher Education, huh? www.politicshome.com/thehouse/art...

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The full @politicalquarterly.bsky.social special collection on the 2024 UK General Election is now available: a formidable group of historians, political scientists, and analysts. Very glad to have co-edited it with @pjsloman.bsky.social and Ben Jackson. politicalquarterly.org.uk/collections/...

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The poisoning of minds through Higher Education, huh? www.politicshome.com/thehouse/art...

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Our recent article with Sofia Collignon just came out at (PRX @ecpr.bsky.social): Local media, local candidates and preference formation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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The government has just announced a new statutory public inquiry into the Nottingham attacks in 2023. If you think you've been hearing more about public inquiries recently...it's because you have, there are now 20 ongoing (including the 2 announced this year) more than ever before.

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Whatever else we think about it, I hope we can at least all agree that the Leadbeater bill is a gift to those of us who teach parliament... "And that, class, is the why you have both a Second and a Third Reading..."

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A weird thing about present day politics is we have a very Blue Labour government where the party's intellectuals have convinced themselves in fact needs to be more Blue Labour, while the opposition, which really has lost its heartlands, doesn't talk about it at all.

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“Starmer’s effective majority in the Commons is larger than Blair’s because the opposition is so fractured. His Government’s average majority is 238, compared to 214 for Blair. This is explained by the record low number of Tories – 121 – in the Commons.”

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Majorities. It's about majorities.

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“It’s even more massive in reality than it seems on paper.“ @philipjcowley.bsky.social writes for @thehousemag.bsky.social on majorities

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This just reads like "I don't understand and can't be bothered to think". Not only is a logistics manager obviously useful, it's just a newish name for a role that has probably existed for millenia.

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