@wallgareth.bsky.social
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“We argue that norms do not collapse overnight. They erode through identifiable mechanisms"
✍🏻 From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2365
✍🏻 From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2365
Development Cooperation at a Tipping Point: How do Policy Norms Break?
By Stephan Klingebiel and Andy Sumner The global system of development cooperation is entering uncertain territory. For decades, multilateralism and global solidarity shaped the expectations of how…
www.developmentresearch.eu
October 12, 2025 at 9:04 AM
“We argue that norms do not collapse overnight. They erode through identifiable mechanisms"
✍🏻 From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2365
✍🏻 From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2365
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Be the first to hear about London’s New Year’s Eve fireworks.
Tickets go on sale on Friday 17 October at 12 noon and are expected to sell out quickly.
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London New Year's Eve 2025
Get the latest updates on New Year's Eve in London.
www.london.gov.uk
October 12, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Be the first to hear about London’s New Year’s Eve fireworks.
Tickets go on sale on Friday 17 October at 12 noon and are expected to sell out quickly.
Sign up to get an email reminder when the first batch of tickets goes on sale:
Tickets go on sale on Friday 17 October at 12 noon and are expected to sell out quickly.
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a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes'
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my keynote happening in a few mins. registration here to stream it
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July 8, 2025 at 9:58 AM
a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes'
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Part of our current series of posts on how to go about making successful partner visa applications. Check this and the others out on our website!
Demonstrating that you are a "partner" is an essential part of obtaining a partner visa.
Joseph O'Connor looks at this part of the requirements for a partner visa in more detail.
luqmanithompson.com/news/partner...
Joseph O'Connor looks at this part of the requirements for a partner visa in more detail.
luqmanithompson.com/news/partner...
Luqmani Thompson
luqmanithompson.com
February 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Part of our current series of posts on how to go about making successful partner visa applications. Check this and the others out on our website!
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New in LGS@50: in 'Reflections on three decades of digital transformation in local governments'
@milagasco.bsky.social argues for a shift founded in the understanding that technology is an unavoidable tool for local government reform www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@milagasco.bsky.social argues for a shift founded in the understanding that technology is an unavoidable tool for local government reform www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
January 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
New in LGS@50: in 'Reflections on three decades of digital transformation in local governments'
@milagasco.bsky.social argues for a shift founded in the understanding that technology is an unavoidable tool for local government reform www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@milagasco.bsky.social argues for a shift founded in the understanding that technology is an unavoidable tool for local government reform www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Unsurprisingly, complaints about public services have increased significantly since COVID-19:
December 2, 2024 at 9:24 AM
Unsurprisingly, complaints about public services have increased significantly since COVID-19:
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NEW: Keir Starmer has appointed Chris Wormald, a career civil servant who currently heads the health department, to become new cabinet secretary
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Keir Starmer appoints Chris Wormald as new cabinet secretary
Wormald will take over from Simon Case on 16 December as the most senior official in the country
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2024 at 1:53 PM
NEW: Keir Starmer has appointed Chris Wormald, a career civil servant who currently heads the health department, to become new cabinet secretary
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Spoke to the #PeoplePowerPolitics podcast about bureaucratic politics in #Pakistan & how it stalled the country's transition to #democracy 🇵🇰
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6f2iJ31...
New Books Network: newbooksnetwork.com/how-have-bur...
#PoliSky
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6f2iJ31...
New Books Network: newbooksnetwork.com/how-have-bur...
#PoliSky
People, Power, Politics
Politics Podcast · @@episodeCount@@ Episodes
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October 12, 2024 at 10:37 AM
Spoke to the #PeoplePowerPolitics podcast about bureaucratic politics in #Pakistan & how it stalled the country's transition to #democracy 🇵🇰
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6f2iJ31...
New Books Network: newbooksnetwork.com/how-have-bur...
#PoliSky
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6f2iJ31...
New Books Network: newbooksnetwork.com/how-have-bur...
#PoliSky
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Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students.
**Tell Everyone**
www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...
**Tell Everyone**
www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...
Gazan Humanitarian Scholarship
We offer scholarships for citizens of Gaza who have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict in the region and are living in a different country (outside of the UK).
www.leeds.ac.uk
November 21, 2024 at 10:42 PM
Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students.
**Tell Everyone**
www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...
**Tell Everyone**
www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...
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The Podcast Pod is out, featuring @jacktshaw.bsky.social on his astonishing investigation into the national scandal of temporary accommodation. Plus: A banger and dud inspired by the woke sandwich-filling culture war
If you like the pod, subscribe, follow, leave us a review! (etc)
If you like the pod, subscribe, follow, leave us a review! (etc)
🎧: The government is spending billions on a temporary accommodation system that harms those it is designed to protect. What can be done? Jack Shaw joins the Prospect Podcast to discuss.
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The Prospect Podcast: Temporary accommodation: a national scandal
Families are spending years living in hotels, households are being moved miles across the country, and government is spending billions on a system that harms those it is designed to protect. What c...
podfollow.com
November 20, 2024 at 11:21 AM
The Podcast Pod is out, featuring @jacktshaw.bsky.social on his astonishing investigation into the national scandal of temporary accommodation. Plus: A banger and dud inspired by the woke sandwich-filling culture war
If you like the pod, subscribe, follow, leave us a review! (etc)
If you like the pod, subscribe, follow, leave us a review! (etc)
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"Coloniality of power conceals the blood, tears and sweat of societies producing our daily consumables. If our pursuit of knowledge through international research collaboration takes this for granted, we are culpable either by omission or commission."
From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=1966
Decolonising International Research Collaborations Requires us to go Beyond the “Ts and Cs Apply” Approach
By Eyob Balcha Gebremariam In February 2024, I found myself at a pivotal moment in the academic landscape, attending a regional network launching event of “Africanist researchers” at one of the UK …
www.developmentresearch.eu
November 19, 2024 at 8:28 AM
"Coloniality of power conceals the blood, tears and sweat of societies producing our daily consumables. If our pursuit of knowledge through international research collaboration takes this for granted, we are culpable either by omission or commission."
From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=1966
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Thanks for your patience as we navigated some technical difficulties today! Moving forward, the performance issues you may have noticed should hopefully be resolved.
TL;DR we're so back
TL;DR we're so back
November 20, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Thanks for your patience as we navigated some technical difficulties today! Moving forward, the performance issues you may have noticed should hopefully be resolved.
TL;DR we're so back
TL;DR we're so back
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NEW: MHCLG opens consultation on sweeping right to buy changes
🏠Council tenants to live in home for approx 10yrs (up fr 3) to qualify
🏠New-build social homes exempt
🏠1-for-1 replacement target for councils
🏠Discounts to fall further - to max of 20%
🏠Repaid if tenants sell w/in 10yrs, up from 5
🏠Council tenants to live in home for approx 10yrs (up fr 3) to qualify
🏠New-build social homes exempt
🏠1-for-1 replacement target for councils
🏠Discounts to fall further - to max of 20%
🏠Repaid if tenants sell w/in 10yrs, up from 5
November 20, 2024 at 4:30 PM
NEW: MHCLG opens consultation on sweeping right to buy changes
🏠Council tenants to live in home for approx 10yrs (up fr 3) to qualify
🏠New-build social homes exempt
🏠1-for-1 replacement target for councils
🏠Discounts to fall further - to max of 20%
🏠Repaid if tenants sell w/in 10yrs, up from 5
🏠Council tenants to live in home for approx 10yrs (up fr 3) to qualify
🏠New-build social homes exempt
🏠1-for-1 replacement target for councils
🏠Discounts to fall further - to max of 20%
🏠Repaid if tenants sell w/in 10yrs, up from 5
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What is the emerging new political landscape in the UK after the General Election as well as wider changes in the world? I'm chairing this event with John Curtice, @claire-ainsley.bsky.social & @benansell.bsky.social on 28 Nov. Register to watch online
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/we-ar...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/we-ar...
Ask the Experts: A new political landscape?
An exceptional panel of experts with Sir John Curtice FBA, Claire Ainsley and Professor Ben Ansell FBA answer your questions about the new political landscape.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
November 20, 2024 at 5:19 PM
What is the emerging new political landscape in the UK after the General Election as well as wider changes in the world? I'm chairing this event with John Curtice, @claire-ainsley.bsky.social & @benansell.bsky.social on 28 Nov. Register to watch online
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/we-ar...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/we-ar...
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Welcome reforms to begin to stem the immoral profiteering by children’s homes providers. Acknowledgment that social work requires much better resourcing - just need the resources now!
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Biggest overhaul in a generation to children’s social care
New powers handed to Ofsted to crack down on exploitative children's care providers and transparency to be increased around their finances.
www.gov.uk
November 18, 2024 at 6:34 PM
Welcome reforms to begin to stem the immoral profiteering by children’s homes providers. Acknowledgment that social work requires much better resourcing - just need the resources now!
www.gov.uk/government/n...
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I've co-authored a discussion paper on the cultural, creative and heritage sectors and their relationship with devolution with Eliza Easton and Trevor MacFarlane as part of Culture Commons' programme of work on the future of local decision-making.
November 19, 2024 at 8:33 AM
I've co-authored a discussion paper on the cultural, creative and heritage sectors and their relationship with devolution with Eliza Easton and Trevor MacFarlane as part of Culture Commons' programme of work on the future of local decision-making.
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Shocking news. 36% of UK children are living in poverty according to the latest Social Metrics Commission research (I am one of the Commissioners)
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
November 18, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Shocking news. 36% of UK children are living in poverty according to the latest Social Metrics Commission research (I am one of the Commissioners)
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
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So proud of London Councils and borough colleagues for the way they have come together to boost our collective efforts to tackle #climatechange. Learn more about their work here: www.linkedin.com/posts/london... Or ask @zakbond.bsky.social whom I know would be happy to share more detail.
London Councils on LinkedIn: London boroughs stand front and centre, innovating and championing…
London boroughs stand front and centre, innovating and championing initiatives, to tackle climate change.
One year ago, the boroughs came together to…
www.linkedin.com
November 19, 2024 at 7:06 PM
So proud of London Councils and borough colleagues for the way they have come together to boost our collective efforts to tackle #climatechange. Learn more about their work here: www.linkedin.com/posts/london... Or ask @zakbond.bsky.social whom I know would be happy to share more detail.
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My new study (N=913) finds 30 identity factors as basis for discrimination against women leaders. Women leaders are “never quite right” as almost any facet of their identity can be declared problematic for a specific woman in a specific context.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
November 19, 2024 at 6:52 PM
My new study (N=913) finds 30 identity factors as basis for discrimination against women leaders. Women leaders are “never quite right” as almost any facet of their identity can be declared problematic for a specific woman in a specific context.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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The starter pack you have been waiting for: the local government policy and practice crew 🥳
This list of folk engaged in local innovation, ideas & commentary includes people in non-political roles both in and broadly “adjacent” to the sector…
go.bsky.app/VBM66q7
This list of folk engaged in local innovation, ideas & commentary includes people in non-political roles both in and broadly “adjacent” to the sector…
go.bsky.app/VBM66q7
November 14, 2024 at 6:52 PM
The starter pack you have been waiting for: the local government policy and practice crew 🥳
This list of folk engaged in local innovation, ideas & commentary includes people in non-political roles both in and broadly “adjacent” to the sector…
go.bsky.app/VBM66q7
This list of folk engaged in local innovation, ideas & commentary includes people in non-political roles both in and broadly “adjacent” to the sector…
go.bsky.app/VBM66q7
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✨Co-conveners of #U20 Rio UCLG and C40Cities recall the goals of the Summit, proposing cross-border solutions through the collective voice of united cities and through:
✅Multilevel collaboration
✅Dedicated funding
✅Influencing national governments
#Listen2Cities
✅Multilevel collaboration
✅Dedicated funding
✅Influencing national governments
#Listen2Cities
November 15, 2024 at 1:28 PM
✨Co-conveners of #U20 Rio UCLG and C40Cities recall the goals of the Summit, proposing cross-border solutions through the collective voice of united cities and through:
✅Multilevel collaboration
✅Dedicated funding
✅Influencing national governments
#Listen2Cities
✅Multilevel collaboration
✅Dedicated funding
✅Influencing national governments
#Listen2Cities