Alan Wager
@dralanwager.bsky.social
Politics, public opinion and public policy at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.
Email: a.wager@institute.global
Email: a.wager@institute.global
Good on Ed Davey – speaking up for and defending Britain’s institutions in the face of nefarious actors.
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The first step towards saving our precious BBC: remove Robbie Gibb from the board | Ed Davey
The BBC belongs to all of us, and it is under attack as never before. The government must defend it from its enemies, within and without, says Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Good on Ed Davey – speaking up for and defending Britain’s institutions in the face of nefarious actors.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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😂
I do like how, in the bit of Prescott's memo where he criticises the BBC for editing together different parts of Trump's speech, his own quote of "what Trump actually said" is... edited together from different parts of his speech.
November 10, 2025 at 9:54 AM
😂
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This is the most abysmal, pathetic thing. The BBC head resigning because the corporation is not supine *enough* to the far-right.
🔴 Breaking I Davie faced mounting criticism that a Panorama documentary misled viewers by editing a speech by Donald Trump
➡️ Read more: trib.al/I0iw7aP
➡️ Read more: trib.al/I0iw7aP
November 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is the most abysmal, pathetic thing. The BBC head resigning because the corporation is not supine *enough* to the far-right.
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New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
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Prime minister confident social media ban will work and will empower Australia’s parents - ABC News www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
'The world is watching': PM says he's confident social media ban will work
Anthony Albanese says he is confident Australia's social media age limit will be a success when it begins next month.
www.abc.net.au
November 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Prime minister confident social media ban will work and will empower Australia’s parents - ABC News www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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Glasman is an absolute weirdo.
With Maurice Glasman and Dominic Lawson calling for the return of the stocks, we find most Britons opposed - although Reform voters are divided
All Britons: 21% support / 72% oppose
Lib Dem: 12% / 85%
Labour: 12% / 83%
Green: 13% / 82%
Con: 28% / 64%
Reform: 43% / 48%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
All Britons: 21% support / 72% oppose
Lib Dem: 12% / 85%
Labour: 12% / 83%
Green: 13% / 82%
Con: 28% / 64%
Reform: 43% / 48%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
November 7, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Glasman is an absolute weirdo.
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"Far from draining our welfare system, migrants are supporting the British state’s solvency."
New analysis by @lgilbert.co
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
New analysis by @lgilbert.co
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
November 7, 2025 at 8:17 AM
"Far from draining our welfare system, migrants are supporting the British state’s solvency."
New analysis by @lgilbert.co
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
New analysis by @lgilbert.co
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
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The Thick of It 2025 edition.
Where would the characters of The Thick of It be in 2025? @dmk1793.bsky.social gives his take.
Full episode here 👉 linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...
#thethickofit #thickofit #malcolmtucker
Where would the characters of The Thick of It be in 2025? @dmk1793.bsky.social gives his take.
Full episode here 👉 linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...
#thethickofit #thickofit #malcolmtucker
November 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The Thick of It 2025 edition.
Where would the characters of The Thick of It be in 2025? @dmk1793.bsky.social gives his take.
Full episode here 👉 linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...
#thethickofit #thickofit #malcolmtucker
Where would the characters of The Thick of It be in 2025? @dmk1793.bsky.social gives his take.
Full episode here 👉 linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...
#thethickofit #thickofit #malcolmtucker
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For anyone still tempted to take Dominic Cummings at all seriously, he's now an advocate of Donald Trump-style open racism.
November 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
For anyone still tempted to take Dominic Cummings at all seriously, he's now an advocate of Donald Trump-style open racism.
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I wanted to do this 15 years ago but only got support to create the option for schools to do this voluntarily. Would make a big difference.
A quota of 15% of school places should be given to pupils eligible for free school meals to ensure they have an equitable chance of attending an effective school, @bristoluni.bsky.social research suggests
Call for schools to have FSM pupil places quota
Giving pupils who receive free school meals priority for 15 per cent of places in schools could create a more equitable admissions system, researchers suggest
www.tes.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:51 AM
I wanted to do this 15 years ago but only got support to create the option for schools to do this voluntarily. Would make a big difference.
Superb stuff from @nickanstead.bsky.social.
The Celebrity Traitors are behaving like a more fragmented and volatile electorate. Perhaps because they have less on the line?
The Celebrity Traitors are behaving like a more fragmented and volatile electorate. Perhaps because they have less on the line?
November 6, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Superb stuff from @nickanstead.bsky.social.
The Celebrity Traitors are behaving like a more fragmented and volatile electorate. Perhaps because they have less on the line?
The Celebrity Traitors are behaving like a more fragmented and volatile electorate. Perhaps because they have less on the line?
Hell of a line up assembled by m’former colleagues here.
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🌎 Join us for a discussion on foreign policy and the challenge to multilateralism
With leading experts @anandmenon.bsky.social, Fiona Hill, Margaret MacMillan, Rana Mitter and @fromtga.bsky.social
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UKICE Lunch Hour: Confronting foreign policy challenges - UK in a changing Europe
UK in a Changing Europe has assembled a panel of some of the world's top experts to analyse on the key foreign policy challenges we face.
ukandeu.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Hell of a line up assembled by m’former colleagues here.
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The patterns by neighborhood rent look quite different, and the relationship with education level is also more nuanced. A small 3% gap to Cuomo in precincts with incomes above $200,000 indicates that Mamdani performed relatively well in these areas.
November 6, 2025 at 8:25 AM
The patterns by neighborhood rent look quite different, and the relationship with education level is also more nuanced. A small 3% gap to Cuomo in precincts with incomes above $200,000 indicates that Mamdani performed relatively well in these areas.
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We campaign in TikTok, we govern in Excel.
As the older Cuomo didnt say.
As the older Cuomo didnt say.
The bad news for Zohran Mamdani is that now he has to actually be mayor of New York, which is a truly *horrible* job.
November 6, 2025 at 7:24 AM
We campaign in TikTok, we govern in Excel.
As the older Cuomo didnt say.
As the older Cuomo didnt say.
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The lessons of Mamdani’s victory for progressives:
1. Tell compelling stories
2. Identify clear enemies
3. Create policies that address voters’ problems
4. Mix modern online campaigning with face to face conversations
5. Mobilise
1. Tell compelling stories
2. Identify clear enemies
3. Create policies that address voters’ problems
4. Mix modern online campaigning with face to face conversations
5. Mobilise
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The lessons of Mamdani’s victory for progressives:
1. Tell compelling stories
2. Identify clear enemies
3. Create policies that address voters’ problems
4. Mix modern online campaigning with face to face conversations
5. Mobilise
1. Tell compelling stories
2. Identify clear enemies
3. Create policies that address voters’ problems
4. Mix modern online campaigning with face to face conversations
5. Mobilise
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Australia to introduce power cuts... no, wait, free power for 3 hours a day, as the solar boom has reached its, what's the new word?, abundance phase.
HT @volts.wtf www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
HT @volts.wtf www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Australian households to get free electricity three hours a day
Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, the federal government will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.
www.abc.net.au
November 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Australia to introduce power cuts... no, wait, free power for 3 hours a day, as the solar boom has reached its, what's the new word?, abundance phase.
HT @volts.wtf www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
HT @volts.wtf www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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New substack: how the government can raise economic growth: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/increasing...
Increasing economic growth: some modest proposals
Commodify, enshittify, skillify.
chrisdillow.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM
New substack: how the government can raise economic growth: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/increasing...
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Digital ID
It will make your life easier. And it will be free.
Here is Josh Simons, Cabinet Office Parliamentary Secretary explaining just a few of potential uses.
I personally cannot wait for it. Most people will wonder what the fuss is all about when we get it.
www.instagram.com/p/DQb9v_igdEa/
It will make your life easier. And it will be free.
Here is Josh Simons, Cabinet Office Parliamentary Secretary explaining just a few of potential uses.
I personally cannot wait for it. Most people will wonder what the fuss is all about when we get it.
www.instagram.com/p/DQb9v_igdEa/
November 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Digital ID
It will make your life easier. And it will be free.
Here is Josh Simons, Cabinet Office Parliamentary Secretary explaining just a few of potential uses.
I personally cannot wait for it. Most people will wonder what the fuss is all about when we get it.
www.instagram.com/p/DQb9v_igdEa/
It will make your life easier. And it will be free.
Here is Josh Simons, Cabinet Office Parliamentary Secretary explaining just a few of potential uses.
I personally cannot wait for it. Most people will wonder what the fuss is all about when we get it.
www.instagram.com/p/DQb9v_igdEa/
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In defence of digital ID: timharford.com/2025/10/in-d...
October 30, 2025 at 5:50 PM
In defence of digital ID: timharford.com/2025/10/in-d...
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Last Friday, new English Indices of Deprivation were released for the first time since 2019, measuring relative deprivation in 33,755 areas of England across multiple domains. How do these geographic disparities relate to voting patterns in the UK’s last General Election? A short thread 🧵
November 3, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Last Friday, new English Indices of Deprivation were released for the first time since 2019, measuring relative deprivation in 33,755 areas of England across multiple domains. How do these geographic disparities relate to voting patterns in the UK’s last General Election? A short thread 🧵
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Delighted to announce we are advertising our first academic post in the Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM). The position is Associate Professor in Politics, Technology and Computational Social Science and is joint with Politics, the Oxford Internet Institute, and Reuben College 1/n
Job Details
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November 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Delighted to announce we are advertising our first academic post in the Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM). The position is Associate Professor in Politics, Technology and Computational Social Science and is joint with Politics, the Oxford Internet Institute, and Reuben College 1/n
Painful comparison for UK Labour.. Incumbency and centre left governing doesn’t *have* to be quite so painful with the right strategic choices.
HT @drjennings.bsky.social
HT @drjennings.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Painful comparison for UK Labour.. Incumbency and centre left governing doesn’t *have* to be quite so painful with the right strategic choices.
HT @drjennings.bsky.social
HT @drjennings.bsky.social
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Oof. Look at those Coalition numbers (and One Nation)...
November 2, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Oof. Look at those Coalition numbers (and One Nation)...
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Nigel: I agree with Nick!
November 3, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Nigel: I agree with Nick!
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Unrelated to this post, but: talking about 'class' is the single most effective, cost-free change Labour could make to improve their support.
'Alarm clock Britain' is remarkably hackneyed, cliched and - frankly - dull - phraseology from someone who is meant to be good at this stuff.
November 3, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Unrelated to this post, but: talking about 'class' is the single most effective, cost-free change Labour could make to improve their support.