Jon Tonge
jontonge.bsky.social
Jon Tonge
@jontonge.bsky.social
Professor of Politics
Are steps 10,11, 13, 14, 17 and 18 secret then or can the Sunday Times not count?
October 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Even the demonstrators haven’t turned up #CPC25
October 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Kemi Badenoch re the NI Act 1998 and the ECHR. ‘That’s the assembly, that’s not national law’. I’m no lawyer but ….
October 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM
September 28, 2025 at 8:20 AM
When you get the meetings calendar for the new academic year and it manages to outweigh your teaching hours.
September 10, 2025 at 10:37 PM
September 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Could a party to the left of Labour really have a chance at the ballot box?

@goldbergradio.bsky.social hears from activist Alan Story and politics expert @jontonge.bsky.social

From @bylinetimes.bsky.social

pod.fo/e/312320
Byline Podcast: The Battle For The Soul Of Your Party
Should the fledgling and provisionally titled 'Your Party' be controlled by a centralised grouping at the top? Or should it be run by grassroots activists? It's a question which lies at the heart o...
pod.fo
August 14, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Thanks to the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social (PSA) for allowing me to say thanks to them for being a very supportive organisation for Politics academics.
July 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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We're also delighted to see the Founding Fellows featured, including @livunipol.bsky.social's own @jontonge.bsky.social and the key point from Prof Fiona Mackay that the study of politics is for all, not just for the elite institutions!
July 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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🌟PSA 75th Anniversary🌟Celebrating 75 years of the PSA being the home of #PoliticalStudies: advancing, supporting & promoting the global study of #politics & #InternationalRelations since 1950.
🎬 Watch this 3 min film to learn more. buff.ly/WaObGCF
July 23, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Teaching timetable release day: the equivalent of the arrival of the football fixtures, down to the inevitable “oh no, I’m away then” stuff.
July 23, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Worth checking out the whole special edition of Parliamentary Affairs on the #votesat16 debate in the UK, co-edited by @jontonge.bsky.social, Thomas Loughran and Andy Mycock:

academic.oup.com/pa/issue/74/3
July 18, 2025 at 11:04 AM
July 10, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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To learn more about some of the survey results discussed by our director, Prof Peter Shirlow, and our Politics colleague @jontonge.bsky.social at this @arinsproject.bsky.social event, please go to www.ria.ie/2025/07/04/n...
July 7, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Research leave for the first time in a while and the out of office is on.
June 30, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Shot while strapped to a chair??
June 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM
June 27, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Our director Prof Peter Shirlow during today's @arinsproject.bsky.social event, where he discussed the 2024 Northern Ireland General Election Survey with our @livunipol.bsky.social colleague @jontonge.bsky.social.
Topics considered included immigration, voting and constitutional issues.
This afternoon’s event is underway with Profs Pete Shirlow & @jontonge.bsky.social discussing “The 2024 Northern Ireland General Election Survey”

@ria.ie @ndirishstudies.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Next Wednesday, June 25th!

Join us at the Royal Irish Academy for “The 2024 Northern Ireland General Election Survey” with Professors Peter Shirlow & @jontonge.bsky.social

The event is free, but registration is required🎟️
Still some tickets left: www.ria.ie/events/arins...
June 16, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Ensuring football club owners are not going to bankrupt a club or run it into the ground with a view to turning the ground into houses - both happened at Bury - isn’t “bureaucratic whim”. Astonishingly complacent arguments against a regulator from Oliver Dowden.
May 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
What does Reform’s by-election success in Runcorn & Helsby herald? theconversation.com/reform-wins-...
Reform wins Runcorn byelection by just six votes – what the result means for Labour and the Tories
Nigel Farage is now claiming to be the official opposition after overturning Labour’s 14,700-majority.
theconversation.com
May 2, 2025 at 11:44 AM
William Hague in today’s Times
April 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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All finished-up for another year. Thanks to convenors, @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social team, panel chairs, presenters, delegates, exhibitors, & everyone else involved in making it happen, for 3 great days of analysis and discussion #PSA25
#PSA25 *Day 3* Our final jam-packed day of panels, roundtables, closing keynote and workshops.
🎉 Bag yourself a limited edition 75th anniversary tote and pen to take home. buff.ly/ayeRuaG
April 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Tomorrow’s Irish Politics panels #psa25
April 14, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Great turnout for Rosie Campbell’s plenary! #PSA25
April 14, 2025 at 10:46 AM