Dr Nick Dickinson
@nickdickinson.bsky.social
Political Scientist | British Politics and History | PhD on political salaries (Exeter) | Mst. Modern British and European History (Oxford) | DMs closed, so email me @ n.dickinson3@exeter.ac.uk
Guess we finally know what was happening here, and why King Salman was looking a little concerned.
November 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Guess we finally know what was happening here, and why King Salman was looking a little concerned.
This is only one of the good reasons Watto should be edited out of The Phantom Menace but at least he eventually got what was coming to him.
November 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
This is only one of the good reasons Watto should be edited out of The Phantom Menace but at least he eventually got what was coming to him.
What the liberal media won’t tell you
November 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
What the liberal media won’t tell you
One reason for this is that Labour's vote was absurdly stable in raw terms (with a steadily declining trend). So who won an election was mainly a function of how the Conservatives were doing.
November 15, 2025 at 11:36 AM
One reason for this is that Labour's vote was absurdly stable in raw terms (with a steadily declining trend). So who won an election was mainly a function of how the Conservatives were doing.
I just asked Claude to turn one of my lectures into the script for an Adam Curtis documentary and I am not sorry
November 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I just asked Claude to turn one of my lectures into the script for an Adam Curtis documentary and I am not sorry
Cravendale tastes so good…
November 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Cravendale tastes so good…
Good peice. But for some reason just thought of this.
October 31, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Good peice. But for some reason just thought of this.
Really excelled myself with uplifting titles this year 🤦♂️
October 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Really excelled myself with uplifting titles this year 🤦♂️
Here's a cool use of AI tools. I wanted a visualisation for a lecture of educational backgrounds of US Supreme Court Justices. Wikipedia has a good list page but no graphs. Using just the page URL @anthropic.com Claude generated an interactive graph I took these from.
October 16, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Here's a cool use of AI tools. I wanted a visualisation for a lecture of educational backgrounds of US Supreme Court Justices. Wikipedia has a good list page but no graphs. Using just the page URL @anthropic.com Claude generated an interactive graph I took these from.
We didn't. It's why our comedy is better than Americans
October 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We didn't. It's why our comedy is better than Americans
Another thing on this: it's right to say Reform have activated more non-voters since 2024 than others, but also that Reform are about as uninteresting to the majority of the politically disengaged as any other party. There's no surge of politicisation of the 'left out' going on here.
September 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Another thing on this: it's right to say Reform have activated more non-voters since 2024 than others, but also that Reform are about as uninteresting to the majority of the politically disengaged as any other party. There's no surge of politicisation of the 'left out' going on here.
They did it better then
September 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
They did it better then
Come see the most intractable geopolitical conflict in the world. This Sunday! Sunday! SUNDAY!
September 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Come see the most intractable geopolitical conflict in the world. This Sunday! Sunday! SUNDAY!
In which I read Danny Kruger's 'On Fraternity' (2007) so you don't have to, and get unreasonably mad about a social policy debate from two decades ago. via @theconversation.com theconversation.com/the-latest-t...
September 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
In which I read Danny Kruger's 'On Fraternity' (2007) so you don't have to, and get unreasonably mad about a social policy debate from two decades ago. via @theconversation.com theconversation.com/the-latest-t...
For the avoidance of doubt, monocle-in-the-champagne dropping gentry who want Tory men with Whig measures are some of my favourite people, and they want their party back.
September 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
For the avoidance of doubt, monocle-in-the-champagne dropping gentry who want Tory men with Whig measures are some of my favourite people, and they want their party back.