It's also worrying how many people are fine with him receiving money for peddling unscientific woo-woo. Even if you ignore the misogyny, it's deeply unethical to take someone's money when they could put it to much better use, say, getting therapy. See also their position on 'natural birth'.
Maybe the market's afraid of what will happen if Reform come into power
The germanic equivalent of 'liberty' is 'freedom'. The germanic equivalent of 'fraternity' is 'brotherhood', or maybe 'friendship' if we're not being sexist. But what's the germanic equivalent of 'equality'? Fairness? Evenness?
'Freedom, fairness, friendship' isn't too bad, and it's alliterative!
Yes, but that’s great if you want to make a contribution!
I’m not an IR person, but there’s an interesting angle here: if we treat states as actors, then, like any other actor, we should expect them to care about self preservation and reproduction
There you go, that’s your PhD proposal!
Incidentally, also the logo of the Aliança Catalana who totally did not steal it
Norwegian new passenger cars sales by type: Monthly
US new light-duty vehicle sales by type: Monthly
Tale of two petrostates.
Data from @robbieandrew.bsky.social: robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/
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If you stop to think about it, it's hilarious how many politicians have opinions about survey methodology. What exactly is it about YouGov's quota-based sampling methodology or weighting schema that you disagree with Mr Farage?
On Lords reform, important to have a clear idea of the goal alexparsons.co.uk/blog/posts/s...
5.6 effective parties in this dammed two-party system
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We explain political change using totally different causal models if we approve of outcome of not:
1. Change we like is organic, bottom-up genuine expression of public demand
2. Change we dislike is artificial, top-down result of manipulative elite
I’m calling this Motivated Causal Attribution
And so we write to brilliant postgraduate students from Sudan, withdrawing the offers and scholarships they won in open competition with the best in the world. A sad day for the University of Oxford.
(In all seriousness, I think MMP is probably the easiest sell in the UK, even if I agree with the hat)
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Maybe I need to sell merch
I got it made!
In other words, agree with the hat and then read David's article!
As a member of team PR, I appreciate the provocation. But, genuinely, it's great to see this sort of debate emerge. Electoral reform feels closer than it has for ages, even if it's still some way off.
Every second of free time you have ever had in your life was subsidized by the existence of the combine harvester.
Sandy Sandilands, the UK Defence Attaché to the United Arab Emirates
Sorry, but I just learned about the UK defence attaché to the United Arab Emirates, then I had to spend ages verifying that instance of nominative determinism
Tbf, if we can use AI to make the cost of some forms of labour ≈0 then neoliberalism falls apart anyway. So maybe everyone's using it that way?
In the UK it's also doing our work
Anthropic have this cool "Anthropic Economic Index" thing. But kinda bleak that the most common topic in most US states is "Complete academic assignments". We have our work cut out for us.
As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy
Well done!
Equally surprised and delighted to win this!
