Philip Cowley
@philipjcowley.bsky.social
Professor of Politics.
And to think some people are disdainful of quantitative political science...
This brilliant piece of work comes from here:
hardboardscrookedtimbers.org/yes-celebrit...
This brilliant piece of work comes from here:
hardboardscrookedtimbers.org/yes-celebrit...
November 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
And to think some people are disdainful of quantitative political science...
This brilliant piece of work comes from here:
hardboardscrookedtimbers.org/yes-celebrit...
This brilliant piece of work comes from here:
hardboardscrookedtimbers.org/yes-celebrit...
I was lookin for the Hansard text of this exchange, which I think was the last time I saw someone - as today, a stand in - walk so obviously into a trap at PMQs.
(I can't find it. Am sure it's not me hallucinating. But I wonder if it was Business of the House questions, rather than PMQs...)
(I can't find it. Am sure it's not me hallucinating. But I wonder if it was Business of the House questions, rather than PMQs...)
November 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I was lookin for the Hansard text of this exchange, which I think was the last time I saw someone - as today, a stand in - walk so obviously into a trap at PMQs.
(I can't find it. Am sure it's not me hallucinating. But I wonder if it was Business of the House questions, rather than PMQs...)
(I can't find it. Am sure it's not me hallucinating. But I wonder if it was Business of the House questions, rather than PMQs...)
Was searching for something else, and found the most on brand debate contribution from 1990...
November 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Was searching for something else, and found the most on brand debate contribution from 1990...
Caption competition...
November 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Caption competition...
The potential research agenda here is huge.
October 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The potential research agenda here is huge.
Obviously very funny.
October 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Obviously very funny.
There should be a word - maybe the Germans have one? - for when politicians get caught up on pettifogging rules they happily imposed on the rest of the population.
October 30, 2025 at 8:15 AM
There should be a word - maybe the Germans have one? - for when politicians get caught up on pettifogging rules they happily imposed on the rest of the population.
That piece is the 50th article for that column, and the first time I have ever worried about the consequences of promoting a piece of academic work...
October 29, 2025 at 9:18 AM
That piece is the 50th article for that column, and the first time I have ever worried about the consequences of promoting a piece of academic work...
From @stephenkb.bsky.social's newsletter. Made me laugh, anyway.
October 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
From @stephenkb.bsky.social's newsletter. Made me laugh, anyway.
Unless I'm misreading it, this is a case of Home State Disadvantage! Quite an incredible finding...
October 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Unless I'm misreading it, this is a case of Home State Disadvantage! Quite an incredible finding...
The email that Peter Kellner sent to circulate this article had the much better, Ecclesiastes-inspired, title: "A time to moan and a time to choose".
October 21, 2025 at 8:56 AM
The email that Peter Kellner sent to circulate this article had the much better, Ecclesiastes-inspired, title: "A time to moan and a time to choose".
From an event yesterday. Made me laugh anyway and yes, I am 56.
October 21, 2025 at 8:21 AM
From an event yesterday. Made me laugh anyway and yes, I am 56.
Latest from our politics of impatience project - some excellent analysis by @mbarnfield.bsky.social showing Labour is losing the jam today voters.
Labour sheds support from impatient Britons: on.ft.com/48EaX4h
Labour sheds support from impatient Britons: on.ft.com/48EaX4h
October 20, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Latest from our politics of impatience project - some excellent analysis by @mbarnfield.bsky.social showing Labour is losing the jam today voters.
Labour sheds support from impatient Britons: on.ft.com/48EaX4h
Labour sheds support from impatient Britons: on.ft.com/48EaX4h
Good breakfast. Nice Smallest Room.
October 16, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Good breakfast. Nice Smallest Room.
Breakfast event talking about the book in The Ivy today. It was a long way from this...
October 16, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Breakfast event talking about the book in The Ivy today. It was a long way from this...
This brutal drive-by is in young @stephenkb.bsky.social's FT newsletter...
October 14, 2025 at 8:40 AM
This brutal drive-by is in young @stephenkb.bsky.social's FT newsletter...
Have I mentioned I've got a book out? Slips my mind occasionally.
Anyway, that's from there, and there are a further ten mentions of Mrs T in it, if that's the sort of thing you like.
And here's the book and Milk Street united.
Anyway, that's from there, and there are a further ten mentions of Mrs T in it, if that's the sort of thing you like.
And here's the book and Milk Street united.
October 13, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Have I mentioned I've got a book out? Slips my mind occasionally.
Anyway, that's from there, and there are a further ten mentions of Mrs T in it, if that's the sort of thing you like.
And here's the book and Milk Street united.
Anyway, that's from there, and there are a further ten mentions of Mrs T in it, if that's the sort of thing you like.
And here's the book and Milk Street united.
Have I mentioned I've got a book out? Slips my mind occasionally.
Anyway, that's from there and there are a further ten mentions of Mrs T in there, if that's the sort of thing you like.
And here's the book and Milk Street united.
Anyway, that's from there and there are a further ten mentions of Mrs T in there, if that's the sort of thing you like.
And here's the book and Milk Street united.
October 13, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Have I mentioned I've got a book out? Slips my mind occasionally.
Anyway, that's from there and there are a further ten mentions of Mrs T in there, if that's the sort of thing you like.
And here's the book and Milk Street united.
Anyway, that's from there and there are a further ten mentions of Mrs T in there, if that's the sort of thing you like.
And here's the book and Milk Street united.
Lots of Thatcher stuff coming today, to mark her 100th birthday. Here's one of mine.
October 13, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Lots of Thatcher stuff coming today, to mark her 100th birthday. Here's one of mine.
Production standards were clearly low.
October 10, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Production standards were clearly low.
It's-a-me, Mario!
October 10, 2025 at 8:22 AM
It's-a-me, Mario!
I am fairly sure that is from the same campaign as this one, which I always think is one of the best political posters I've ever seen...
October 8, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I am fairly sure that is from the same campaign as this one, which I always think is one of the best political posters I've ever seen...
Friends have started to send me photos of it in the room for which I had intended it to be read...
October 8, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Friends have started to send me photos of it in the room for which I had intended it to be read...
Opening sentences of the pitches from the two deputy leadership candidates writing in @thehousemag.bsky.social. This is not the time for subtlety.
October 5, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Opening sentences of the pitches from the two deputy leadership candidates writing in @thehousemag.bsky.social. This is not the time for subtlety.
How Henry Drucker's 1979 book helps explain why Labour's electoral strategy seems so misplaced...
September 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM
How Henry Drucker's 1979 book helps explain why Labour's electoral strategy seems so misplaced...