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PoliSci PhD student @ Harvard / 🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈 / Creator of MyLittleCrony.com
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It's so cool to see this paper in print! Relevant if you're interested in: - The domestic politics of stopping global warming - How voters understand their changing economic circumstances - The erosion of working-class support for Democrats www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/HBDCS...

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The veteran Tory and City lobbyist advising Starmer’s business team

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proud daughter moment: watching my Dad get an honorary degree from @qmul.ac.uk for his Levelling Up: STEM program, supporting A Level students from underserved groups

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The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

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🔴 NEW 🔴 EU Defends Hiring Trump-Linked Oil Lobby Group The delegation has revealed the value and length of contract with a PR company that has a history of undermining climate science. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social & @phoebecooke.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/02/14/e...

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Shout out to @laurakyrkesmith.bsky.social (Aylesbury's first Labour and female MP!) for making time to talk with one of her younger constituents today — and doing so with genuine warmth and curiosity. A nice contrast after watching PMQs! 😅

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God gives his toughest battles (protecting US democracy) to his strongest soldiers (AARP Special Ops + Big Corn)

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Thames Water's chair was ­suspected by government officials of ­holding a potentially “conflicted ­position” when his company made an “unjustified” dividend payment of £37.5m to shareholders Cracking @lucasamin.bsky.social story on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/thames-wat...

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we don't talk enough about how SICK and DERANGED the NYT was when they came up with the Connections colors. yellow-green-blue-purple for ordered categories?? degenerate behavior.

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I found and mapped every London pub almost shut by council noise complaints last year for @londonermag.bsky.social Often only one neighbour would complain about issues as small as "faint giggles" but they'd still succeed. www.the-londoner.co.uk/noise-compla...

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Conservatives value "taking risks" over "living in security", says famous conservative nepo baby Harvey C. Mansfield, who spent *70 YEARS* at Harvard @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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Conservatives value "taking risks" over "living in security", says famous conservative nepo baby Harvey C. Mansfield, who spent *70 YEARS* at Harvard @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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For months I’ve been hearing behind the scenes that Labour won’t act on money in politics because donors oppose it (I wrote this in @londonreview.bsky.social) Now we can see the full scale of what’s happened. Big money Labour donors changing party policy. This is incredibly serious

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New paper on the most disproportionate UK election: how Labour doubled its seat share with a 1.6 point increase in vote share in 2024! With @profjanegreen.bsky.social Out now in @politicalquarterly.bsky.social Link: doi.org/10.1111/1467... Short thread below🧵

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"One of the positive characteristics attributed to presidentialism is accountability and identifiability. The voter in casting his ballot knows whom he or she is voting for and who will govern should this candidate win." - Linz, The Failure of Presidential Democracy, 1994 nymag.com/intelligence...

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"A presidential cabinet is less likely than its parliamentary counterpart to contain strong and independent-minded members." -- Linz, The Perils of Presidentialism, 1990

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New from me: Musk and his allies seem to be doing another thing common with tech startups in their government takeover--hiring very young technical talent. We identified several those young people who appear to have very high access. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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"Given his unavoidable institutional situation, a president bids fair to become the focus for whatever exaggerated expectations his supporters may harbor." - Juan Linz, The Perils of Presidentialism, 1990

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"The conviction that he possesses independent authority and a popular mandate is likely to imbue a president with a sense of power and mission, even if the plurality that elected him is a slender one." - Juan Linz, The Perils of Presidentialism, 1990 news.gallup.com/poll/655955/...

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"all [presidential] systems are based on dual democratic legitimacy: no democratic principle exists to resolve disputes between the executive and the legislature about which of the two actually represents the will of the people" - Juan Linz, 1994 www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...

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tired: "Juan Linz was right" wired: tweeting excerpts from the Perils of Presidentialism (1990), one constitutional crisis at a time @presidentialperils.bsky.social

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"Among the oft-cited advantages of presidentialism is its provision for the stability of the executive." - Juan Linz, The Perils of Presidentialism, 1990 edition.cnn.com/2025/01/29/p...

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