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Chris Hanretty

@chanret.bsky.social

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I teach politics at a university in the UK. I'm interested in electoral systems, public opinion, and the politics of non-majoritarian institutions like courts and regulators. ORCID: 0000-0002-8932-9405

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 17h

In my case, because the press release www.gov.uk/government/n... doesn't mention the CEFR equivalency (or link to the tabled documents)

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 17h

Oh, you are much more charitable than I am...

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 17h

But of course, the release is written in such a way as to make people believe this is an equivalent standard to an A-level *in English*, rather than "the standard of language competence that you would get doing an A-level in that language not having started as a native speaker"

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 17h

If someone could find the documents as laid before Parliament that would certainly be helpful...

Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 17h

This is word salad designed to sound tough. SELT is basically IELTS with extra security elements, and there's no IELTS to A-level equivalency. It would be a lot clearer -- but potentially less discouraging -- if they just gave the required IELTS score (or CEFR band)

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 19h

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 18h

Youth protests against incumbent suborned by a military unit that thinks it can seize power?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq...

Elite Madagascar military unit says it has seized power from President Andry Rajoelina

It comes after MPs voted to impeach President Andry Rajoelina.

www.bbc.co.uk

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 19h

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 23h

Hope your surgery goes well and that people close to you take away your communication devices when you're on the good stuff

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 1d

There were some odd and mostly pointless renumberings, so I think lots of people have felt this way at some point

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 1d

i fear we're heading for a fun period where countries try to copy America and quickly find out it can get away with stupid shit only because it is America, and the same rules do not apply to not-America

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 1d

I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if a thousand Wikipedia servers cried out under the load

Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 1d

google joel mokyr net worth married

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 1d

Would concept development count? "Backsliding" and "affective polarization" are now indispensable terms that don't always fit into pre existing frameworks

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 2d

Oblique approach: David Edmond's Parfit biography. At least that way no one can say that you presented just the best bits.

Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 2d

I say "in theory" because you must simultaneously account for the interaction with "executive dominance". I hate models with multiple interactions with the focal variable

Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 2d

In theory, yes scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=e...

scholar.google.com

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 2d

Thermostatic opinion is a very broad phenomenon not limited to the USA (contemporary or historical). If it does suggest something quite profound going wrong, it's been going wrong since the 1970s.

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Rich @therichjames.bsky.social · 2d

Kiplimo couldn't sustain it but wins comfortably in 2:02:30. He has to helped away at the end. He left it all out there

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 2d

Don't look now, but there's several men on pace for a marathon WR in Chicago, including Jacob Kiplimo. Might even be the first legit sub-2 hours...

Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 2d

I've phrased these as though they were alternatives, but of course they're not. Once you start winning, even by chance, you start to believe

Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 2d

It always makes me wonder: is this just a chance event? Did someone just open the box marked "one in a thousand chances", and find Vacherot's name inside? Or did something change perceptibly for Vacherot this week?

Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 2d

This has been an incredible week for Valentin Vacherot: first Monégasque to win at ATP1000 level, and lowest ranked to ever do so youtu.be/sTlHqhHIKis?...

Cousins Arthur Rinderknech vs Valentin Vacherot Historic Final 🏆 | Shanghai 2025 Final Highlights

YouTube video by Tennis TV

youtu.be

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 3d

Government does some good stuff. In this case, it seems it's solved a coordination problem by walking people up the aisle until they have to go through with it. Bad approach to matrimony, surprisingly effective for public policy

James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 3d

Here is why the National Parking Platform is cool:

takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/national-p...

The National Parking Platform is a big, exciting deal and you should know about it

How the government nearly squandered an enormous opportunity

takes.jamesomalley.co.uk

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 3d

Here is why the National Parking Platform is cool:

takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/national-p...

The National Parking Platform is a big, exciting deal and you should know about it

How the government nearly squandered an enormous opportunity

takes.jamesomalley.co.uk

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Brian Weatherson @bweatherson.bsky.social · 4d

Goodhart's Law part N.

www.transformernews.ai/p/claude-son...

Claude Sonnet 4.5 knows when it’s being tested

Anthropic's new model appears to use "eval awareness" to be on its best behavior

www.transformernews.ai

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 4d

Wonder whether the Scottish Trades Union Congress is still continuing with its campaign "condemning attempts to undermine [the Venezuelan] Government" www.stuc.org.uk/campaigns-in...

Venezuela

The STUC calls on affiliates to support the Scottish Venezuelan Solidarity Campaign

www.stuc.org.uk

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Ralph Scott @ralphscott.bsky.social · 4d

Oh to be working during the Islamic golden age

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic...

The Islamic Empire heavily patronized scholars. The money spent on the Translation Movement for some translations is estimated to be equivalent to about twice the annual research budget of the United Kingdom's Medical Research Council.[18] The best scholars and notable translators, such as Hunayn ibn Ishaq, had salaries that are estimated to be the equivalent of professional athletes today.[18] The House of Wisdom was a library established in Abbasid-era Baghdad, Iraq by Caliph al-Mansur[19] in 825 modeled after the academy of Jundishapur.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 4d

“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.”

The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 5d

This is work commissioned by the BBC, but (i) they are happy for me to put it up here and (ii) they are sharing it with other broadcasters. (This process of data-laundering means people will soon be assuming that these are "official" figures).

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 5d

NEW DATA: Notional results for the 2021 Scottish Parliament election on 2026 boundaries. Of interest to academics/pollsters/journos

Post: chrishanretty.co.uk/posts/sp2026...
Data: github.com/chrishanrett...
Source: github.com/chrishanrett...

Notional results for the 2021 Scottish Parliament Election – chris hanretty

chris hanretty’s site

chrishanretty.co.uk

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