Not unlike the Derbyshire budget meeting in where a 4.9% increase was unveiled as a tax cut (max is 4.99%)
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Not unlike the Derbyshire budget meeting in where a 4.9% increase was unveiled as a tax cut (max is 4.99%)
What's the point of a Local Public Accounts Committee? More bureaucracy, meetings, reports...? See some thoughts on the gaps that a body of this kind could fill at www.lgcplus.com/politics/dev...
New paper:
Mass Observing British Politics
On what Mass Observation might contribute to political studies (and what political studies might contribute to Mass Observation). With @jmoss88.bsky.social and Alex Hill. Also paging @massobsarchive.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The famous images of T.E. Lawrence in Arab robes in the second decade of the 20th century reveal a radical act of solidarity with another culture.
Building on my General Election Prediction App, I thought it might be fun to build an app that allows you to look at UK constituencies in a bunch of cool ways. So this app doesn't turn polls into seats. It looks at seats as they are.
livedataoxford.shinyapps.io/Constituency...
Quick thread 1/n
A picture of all-time badass Stagecoach Mary Fields, holding her rifle.
Happy International Women's Day!
Remember, when in doubt, do as Stagecoach Mary Fields did, and either headbutt, shoot it, set it on fire, or let your horses trample it.
"She broke more noses than any other person in central Montana."
"None of that fits in a victory video, no matter how many totally badass clips from movies and video games you include. And none of it can be resolved by having your press secretary announce that you’ve decided you’ve won:" - terrific piece by @eliasisquith.blog:
"it is becoming increasingly hard to avoid the conclusion that the Trump administration has embarked on this operation without a plan, and is making it up as it goes along, as if they killed enough of the right people and destroyed enough Iranian assets everything would fall into place"
It felt odd to write about the bad qualities of the founders of the magazine I work for, but they *really* didn’t like Ramsay MacDonald
We asked people in Scotland and Wales what they want to see from their own governments and Westminster. Ahead of possibly seismic elections Dewi has shared his thoughts with PQ 👇.
Really enjoying seeing all of the ways people are building on top of the financial disclosures project. projects.propublica.org/trump-team-f...
That Trump repeats calls for Iran's unconditional surrender on same day he's got the defence industrial chiefs round for an emergency meeting on military supplies perfectly sums up his grasp of ends & means.
US allies in the Arab world have been plunged into a conflict they neither wanted nor consented to. Historian Eugene Rogan unpacks what this means for the Middle East: ft.trib.al/gBfGy2M
The Standards Committee proposal to redact the names of MPs' staff on the register is back in the news
An unsatisfactory result for transparency especially as it isn't being accompanied by anything else e.g. a full list of all job titles that all MPs employ
But it's a difficult balance...
We've published the 2025 local elections handbook in collaboration with the University of Exeter's Elections Centre. This includes ward- and candidate-level results from last year's locals. commonslibrary.parliament.uk/2025-local-e...
“The body is the primary subject of Trumpian politics. This is true both in the affirmative sense of right-wing aesthetics and in the punitive sense of managing the bodies of others to display power and contempt.” www.liberalcurrents.com/pervert-poli...
🚨 My first solo preprint is out!
I study Grok's fact-checking on X and show:
📌 Professional fact-checkers are a major source of Grok.
📌 Grok becomes more accurate as more articles from fact-checkers become available.
🔗 ssrn.com/abstract=626...
FULLY FUNDED PHDs IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
I'm looking for *two* PhD students to join my ERC project on refugee-led approaches to displacement justice. The positions are funded for four years, and you get to join our lovely community in Bristol. Please share widely!
philjobs.org/job/show/30997
love to see it
bsky.app/profile/wyde...
Awesome database published by my @propublica.org colleagues where you can look up financial disclosures of over 1,500 of Trump's appointees. #NICAR26 data nerds will appreciate this one! projects.propublica.org/trump-team-f...
if i was Kristi Noem i simply would not quote Orwell
The Constitution Unit. How will the 2026 Senedd election change Welsh politics? 5 March 2026, 1:00pm–2:00pm. Jess Blair (Director of Electoral Reform Society Cymru). Prof Laura McAllister (Professor of Public Policy and Governance of Wales at Cardiff University). Sir Paul Silk (former Clark to the National Assembly of Wales). Chair: Prof Alan Renwick (Deputy Director of the Constitution Unit).
How will the 2026 Senedd election change Welsh politics?
In 15 minutes join @jessblair.bsky.social, @lauramcallister30.bsky.social and @paulsilk.bsky.social to discuss the Senedd's possible makeup, new voting system and expansion.
Sign up for this free online event 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo....
The Constitution Unit. How will the 2026 Senedd election change Welsh politics? 5 March 2026, 1:00pm–2:00pm. Jess Blair (Director of Electoral Reform Society Cymru). Prof Laura McAllister (Professor of Public Policy and Governance of Wales at Cardiff University). Sir Paul Silk (former Clark to the National Assembly of Wales). Chair: Prof Alan Renwick (Deputy Director of the Constitution Unit).
How will the 2026 Senedd election change Welsh politics?
At 1pm join @jessblair.bsky.social, @lauramcallister30.bsky.social and @paulsilk.bsky.social to discuss the Senedd's possible makeup, new voting system and expansion.
Sign up for this free, online event 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo....
Donald Trump has said Keir Starmer is ‘no Churchill’, but his dismissal is based on a simplified version of history.
My thoughts on the poll showing the Greens have overtaken Labour following the Gorton and Denton by-election, whether this could be a "bandwagon effect", and what that means, for The Conversation: theconversation.com/how-to-under...
📢 Call for papers!
We are organizing the 6th Early Career Workshop in Quantitative Political Economy on 14-15 May 2026 at King’s College London!
Keynote: Shanker Satyanath (NYU)
No fee, travel grants might become available!
Submit at: tinyurl.com/qpe2026
New piece from w/ @hannahbunting.bsky.social & @jess-smith.bsky.social on the Gorton & Denton byelection, and what it might tell us about British politics.
We cover turnout, late-deciding voters, gender gaps & the continuing fragmentation of the party system 🧵
theconversation.com/late-decider...
‘Only A Northern Song’ ~ The Most Subversive Song in The #Beatles’ Catalogue?
oldgodsmadenew.blogspot.com/2026/03/only...
3 things you need to know:
Videos from #FOIFest are now online and can be seen at youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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