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The gender gap among the young is not about economics.
It is about culture, identity, and how these issues are framed and politicised. Great piece by @jonwheatley.bsky.social
It is about culture, identity, and how these issues are framed and politicised. Great piece by @jonwheatley.bsky.social
January 26, 2026 at 8:05 AM
The gender gap among the young is not about economics.
It is about culture, identity, and how these issues are framed and politicised. Great piece by @jonwheatley.bsky.social
It is about culture, identity, and how these issues are framed and politicised. Great piece by @jonwheatley.bsky.social
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My book on New Labour and the Blair years is out in just over two weeks... And it's now **ON SALE** for just £12! Come on, you can't say fairer than that when it comes to the bargains. Roll up and/ or repost! It's just twelve quid!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526146328/
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526146328/
Manchester University Press - New Labour, New Britain?
New Labour, New Britain? - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of New Labour, New Britain? by Glen O'Hara
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
January 25, 2026 at 3:58 PM
My book on New Labour and the Blair years is out in just over two weeks... And it's now **ON SALE** for just £12! Come on, you can't say fairer than that when it comes to the bargains. Roll up and/ or repost! It's just twelve quid!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526146328/
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526146328/
January 25, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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Remember that the UK has far, far weaker protections against state power than did the US. And the latter folded up like a pack of cards. The US is a warning from the British future.
January 24, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Remember that the UK has far, far weaker protections against state power than did the US. And the latter folded up like a pack of cards. The US is a warning from the British future.
If that is the case, the Gorton and Denton by-election risks becoming a two-horse race - between Reform UK and the Greens.
Keir Starmer allies have told PolHome that Andy Burnham won't be allowed to stand as Labour's candidate in the by-election in a newly vacated Greater Manchester seat
Sources have suggested to Sienna Rodgers that the party NEC could draw up a list of female candidates only, or an all-BAME shortlist
Sources have suggested to Sienna Rodgers that the party NEC could draw up a list of female candidates only, or an all-BAME shortlist
Starmer Allies Say Burnham Will Not Be Allowed To Stand For Manchester Seat
Allies of Keir Starmer have told PoliticsHome that Andy Burnham will not be allowed to stand as the Labour candidate in the upcoming by-election in...
www.politicshome.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:06 PM
If that is the case, the Gorton and Denton by-election risks becoming a two-horse race - between Reform UK and the Greens.
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Please watch PM Carney's speech. Powerful, and in my view as a political scholar, 100% accurate. We must stop living within the lie.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=fV5f...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=fV5f...
Canadian PM Mark Carney Declares the End of US Empire and Old Global Rules at WEF 2026 | AC1G
YouTube video by DRM News
m.youtube.com
January 22, 2026 at 9:13 AM
Please watch PM Carney's speech. Powerful, and in my view as a political scholar, 100% accurate. We must stop living within the lie.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=fV5f...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=fV5f...
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So it was Badenoch *personally* who stabbed Britain in the back during the Greenland crisis! Simply unbelievable. Ought to be a resignation matter.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
How Badenoch’s meeting with Mike Johnson led to Trump’s Chagos deal rant
A brief encounter set off a chain of events that culminated in a public rebuff to the US president from Keir Starmer
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 9:58 AM
So it was Badenoch *personally* who stabbed Britain in the back during the Greenland crisis! Simply unbelievable. Ought to be a resignation matter.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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in the present context the South Caucasus is less important for Russia’s imperial idea than it used to be. Russian imperialism today focuses on the Slavic core and on geopolitical competition with the West www.balcanicaucaso.org/en/cp_articl...
Russia in the South Caucasus: two factors explaining what has changed - Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso Transeuropa
Russia’s influence in the South Caucasus has decreased in recent years. Well beyond Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and long-term trends, two factors in particular help understanding why things have chan...
www.balcanicaucaso.org
January 21, 2026 at 5:15 PM
in the present context the South Caucasus is less important for Russia’s imperial idea than it used to be. Russian imperialism today focuses on the Slavic core and on geopolitical competition with the West www.balcanicaucaso.org/en/cp_articl...
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Also this by Scarlett Maguire
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
And this by Gaby Hinsliffe
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
And this by Gaby Hinsliffe
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Young women are radicalising
Britain's young women are sad, alienated and increasingly left-wing
www.newstatesman.com
January 20, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Also this by Scarlett Maguire
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
And this by Gaby Hinsliffe
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
And this by Gaby Hinsliffe
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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"Trump is so deeply unwell that it's time to stop blaming [him]..responsibility rests with his enablers."
As Krugman says, some are monsters, some narcissists, some amoral opportunists, some just cowards.
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/its-sundow...
As Krugman says, some are monsters, some narcissists, some amoral opportunists, some just cowards.
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/its-sundow...
It’s Sundowning in America
A presidential mind is a dangerous thing to lose
paulkrugman.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 11:50 AM
"Trump is so deeply unwell that it's time to stop blaming [him]..responsibility rests with his enablers."
As Krugman says, some are monsters, some narcissists, some amoral opportunists, some just cowards.
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/its-sundow...
As Krugman says, some are monsters, some narcissists, some amoral opportunists, some just cowards.
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/its-sundow...
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Wow! 🔥 No punches pulled by President Steinmeier of Germany in his scathing analysis of the Trump administration.
"Today it's about preventing the world from turning into a den of thieves in which the most unscrupulous take what they want."
#c4news
"Today it's about preventing the world from turning into a den of thieves in which the most unscrupulous take what they want."
#c4news
January 9, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Wow! 🔥 No punches pulled by President Steinmeier of Germany in his scathing analysis of the Trump administration.
"Today it's about preventing the world from turning into a den of thieves in which the most unscrupulous take what they want."
#c4news
"Today it's about preventing the world from turning into a den of thieves in which the most unscrupulous take what they want."
#c4news
The ideological gender gap among young voters in the UK is confined to issues of culture and identity. Read more. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:39 PM
The ideological gender gap among young voters in the UK is confined to issues of culture and identity. Read more. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Still astonished and horrified by yesterday's intervention from the Leader of the Opposition. In a normal country, at any normal time, it would be a resigning matter - immediately. Yet it just blows past, like everything else. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Kemi Badenoch: Don’t blame boys for misogyny
The Conservative leader said Labour had the wrong priorities and should stop ‘people who come from cultures that don’t respect women’ from entering the country
www.thetimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Still astonished and horrified by yesterday's intervention from the Leader of the Opposition. In a normal country, at any normal time, it would be a resigning matter - immediately. Yet it just blows past, like everything else. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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When Farage uses his millions to promote hate, we all pay the price.
December 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
When Farage uses his millions to promote hate, we all pay the price.
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UK politics followers, these graphs are in a paper by @jamesdgriffiths.bsky.social and co (inc. me).
There's so much useful info in them.
The long-term context for the politics of our time, how the 'Brexit elections' differed, though note the Y axes may need to be bigger for the next election!!
There's so much useful info in them.
The long-term context for the politics of our time, how the 'Brexit elections' differed, though note the Y axes may need to be bigger for the next election!!
November 28, 2025 at 9:29 AM
UK politics followers, these graphs are in a paper by @jamesdgriffiths.bsky.social and co (inc. me).
There's so much useful info in them.
The long-term context for the politics of our time, how the 'Brexit elections' differed, though note the Y axes may need to be bigger for the next election!!
There's so much useful info in them.
The long-term context for the politics of our time, how the 'Brexit elections' differed, though note the Y axes may need to be bigger for the next election!!
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Net migration IS coming down quite fast, and we will soon know who was right about whether it was a good or a bad idea economically and politically.
November 13, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Net migration IS coming down quite fast, and we will soon know who was right about whether it was a good or a bad idea economically and politically.
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Lots of stuff here that you won't read in most of the legacy media which seems completely uninterested in the backgrounds, associations and possible motivations of those behind the BBC crisis.
Why was the BBC having its homework marked by a lobbyist who hasn't worked as a journalist for 20 years?
Why was the BBC having its homework marked by a lobbyist who hasn't worked as a journalist for 20 years?
🧵On our revelations today about the BBC Coup and the Prescott Dossier.
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants
The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President
bylinetimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Lots of stuff here that you won't read in most of the legacy media which seems completely uninterested in the backgrounds, associations and possible motivations of those behind the BBC crisis.
Why was the BBC having its homework marked by a lobbyist who hasn't worked as a journalist for 20 years?
Why was the BBC having its homework marked by a lobbyist who hasn't worked as a journalist for 20 years?
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Brilliant to speak with so many residents during my advice surgery on Friday. Thank you to Oxford Brookes for hosting me!
✍️ If you ever need my support, please contact me and my team at anneliese.dodds.casework@parliament.uk
✍️ If you ever need my support, please contact me and my team at anneliese.dodds.casework@parliament.uk
October 21, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Brilliant to speak with so many residents during my advice surgery on Friday. Thank you to Oxford Brookes for hosting me!
✍️ If you ever need my support, please contact me and my team at anneliese.dodds.casework@parliament.uk
✍️ If you ever need my support, please contact me and my team at anneliese.dodds.casework@parliament.uk
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October 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley. Perfection.
October 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley. Perfection.
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Agree. While the parties themselves (and their activists) are obviously different in various ways, at the level of voters the main difference between Lab and LD, particularly post 2024, is electoral geography - there's a sizeable LD/Lab vote which votes LD in Con-LD seats and Lab in Con-Lab seats
All of the above is also true of Conservative-to-Labour 2024 losses, but frankly I think one of the biggest misreads in politics is to sweat the difference between a Labour and a Liberal Democrat voter all that much. Most Labour and Liberal Democrat voters don't!
October 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Agree. While the parties themselves (and their activists) are obviously different in various ways, at the level of voters the main difference between Lab and LD, particularly post 2024, is electoral geography - there's a sizeable LD/Lab vote which votes LD in Con-LD seats and Lab in Con-Lab seats
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🚨Who will win the #Caerphilly by-election next week? @robfordmancs.bsky.social joined us on the Horse Race Politics podcast to talk the upcoming contest on this week's episode and the state of national British politics on the next one. We hope you enjoy!
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_JK...
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_JK...
Rob Ford on Caerphilly By-Election and Labour's Decline (Part 1) | Horse Race Politics #14
YouTube video by Horse Race Politics
www.youtube.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:35 AM
🚨Who will win the #Caerphilly by-election next week? @robfordmancs.bsky.social joined us on the Horse Race Politics podcast to talk the upcoming contest on this week's episode and the state of national British politics on the next one. We hope you enjoy!
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_JK...
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_JK...
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Show this to a flagshagger. They’ll hate it.
Reform isn’t a party. It’s a pyramid scheme. Farage and his billionaire donors aren’t patriots. They’re con men up to their BALLS in foreign money.
This explains how they do it.
Stop believing the bullshit.
youtu.be/e4CrfRpjvCY?...
Reform isn’t a party. It’s a pyramid scheme. Farage and his billionaire donors aren’t patriots. They’re con men up to their BALLS in foreign money.
This explains how they do it.
Stop believing the bullshit.
youtu.be/e4CrfRpjvCY?...
The Farage Con Explained: Send This To A Flagsh*gger. They’ll Hate It
YouTube video by Supertanskiii
youtu.be
October 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Show this to a flagshagger. They’ll hate it.
Reform isn’t a party. It’s a pyramid scheme. Farage and his billionaire donors aren’t patriots. They’re con men up to their BALLS in foreign money.
This explains how they do it.
Stop believing the bullshit.
youtu.be/e4CrfRpjvCY?...
Reform isn’t a party. It’s a pyramid scheme. Farage and his billionaire donors aren’t patriots. They’re con men up to their BALLS in foreign money.
This explains how they do it.
Stop believing the bullshit.
youtu.be/e4CrfRpjvCY?...
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PM of Albania having a good laugh with President of Azerbaijan and Macron about Trump repeatedly claiming that he ended the war between their two countries which were not at war with each other.
October 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
PM of Albania having a good laugh with President of Azerbaijan and Macron about Trump repeatedly claiming that he ended the war between their two countries which were not at war with each other.