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Will Jennings📉🗳️
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I research and write about politics, public policy, public opinion, polls, elections, geography, place, trust. I run on espresso.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · May 12

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FT Visual & Data Journalism @data.ft.com · 4h
Introducing the FT ‘geopolitical mood’ index on.ft.com/4oAy4Rs
Introducing the FT ‘geopolitical mood’ index
Crunching 40-plus years of FT articles for a useful measure of geopolitical risk
on.ft.com

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 17h
"judge not lest you be judged" ... In which I argue that everyone has a little bit of exaggeration in their CV, so it's not a good idea to throw stones (featuring Rachel Reeves and Alex Edmans)
www.ft.com/content/81b8...
The résumé inflation report
The older you get, the better you used to be
www.ft.com

Reposted by Will Jennings, Steve Peers

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 18h
ITV are now asking Farage about his schoolboy comments and Farage is talking over the correspondent and instead ranting about Bernard Manning and how Manning appeared on ITV in the past. This is all quite odd.

Reposted by Will Jennings, Leigh Sparks, Steven Fielding

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 18h
At his press conference, Nigel Farage is ranting about the Black and White Minstrel Show, Alf Garnett and It Ain't Half Hot Mum in - as far as I can tell – an attempt to justify his "banter" when a schoolboy. He is very much not going down the Richard Tice, "lies" route.

drjennings.bsky.social
Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 19h
'Who remembers the poll tax riots...?'
a dirt road going through a desert landscape with mountains in the background
ALT: a dirt road going through a desert landscape with mountains in the background
media.tenor.com

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 21h
This is hate speech.

Reposted by Will Jennings, José Pina-Sánchez

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Political Quarterly @politicalquarterly.bsky.social · 23h
Britain has lost over 75% of its informal meeting spaces since 1980, pushing people into isolation, more time spent online, and towards the far right.

Can new policy 'Pride In Place' turn it around?

politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/what-is...

By Sam Taylor Hill
What is Labour’s Pride In Place Programme, and will it be Enough to Build a Good Society?
Why Labour must also connect local efforts under the Pride In Place programme to a national story of renewal.
politicalquarterly.org.uk

drjennings.bsky.social
Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 23h
Sorry, how is it December already?

Reposted by Ben H. Ansell, Will Jennings, Martin Paul Eve

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Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 23h
“If there is a Conservative government, I can sleep at night.” A right-wing populist Reform UK government, however, “is a different proposition”.

Starmer speaks to @zannymb.economist.com; note by @duncanrobinson.bsky.social

www.economist.com/britain/2025...
Our interview with Sir Keir Starmer
Britain’s prime minister understands the size of the moment. He just does not know how to meet it
www.economist.com

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 1d
Hoooooooo boy

www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Exclusive | Survivors of Boat Strike Were Actively Continuing Drug Mission, Admiral to Tell Lawmakers
Adm. Frank “Mitch” Bradley, the commander of the September attack, is set to provide an account of his role for the first time in a closed briefing.
www.wsj.com

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d
Remember, the UK is a country which has been paying a £10 Christmas bonus to pensioners since the 1970s, and yes, it was £10 in the 1970s and is still £10 today, and no, obviously it would be political suicide to take this increasingly meaningless sum away.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Trump worked hard to conceal the back of his right hand today but Chip Somodevilla of Getty got a shot of it
a photo of Trump's bandaged and discolored hand

Reposted by Will Jennings, Steve Peers

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 1d
So one of the most viral British aggregators @PolitlcsUK (the second “i” is an L) is actually run by a former Tory MP turned lobbyist and Andrew Rosindell’s office manager? And they interview Rosindell? Such a great era.

Reposted by Ben H. Ansell, Will Jennings, Andrew Scott

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 1d
Lobbyist / ex Tory MP Ben Howlett has been done by an undercover sting. As ever, the most revealing thing is how very very cheap it is buy access in British media/politics — and especially how Howlett controls one of the biggest UK pol Twitter accounts!
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-o...

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 1d
He remembers the 20s!

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 1d
Tom Harwood?

Reposted by Will Jennings, Andrew Scott

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 1d
The right wing British politics twitter reaction/the policy.

I wish I was making this up.

Reposted by Ben H. Ansell, Steve Peers, Stuart White

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 1d
The normalisation of extremism in British politics and parts of the media is shocking - as is the complacent response of so many supposed anti-racists.
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d
GB News now broadcasting calls to remove the ethnic minority MPs from parliament

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d
MORE Breaking on MS NOW: Pete Hegseth refused an interview request for the Pentagon Inspector General's investigation into Signalgate, according to two sources who read and were briefed on report.

Hegseth would not turn over his phone, a source who read the report told MS NOW.
kylegriffin1.bsky.social Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d
Breaking on MS NOW: The Signalgate report contradicts Pete Hegseth's claims he did nothing wrong. It shows he "violated policy by using a non-approved device," a source who read the report says.

Hegseth failed to preserve records. The report says he put the operations and service people at risk.

Reposted by Will Jennings, Steve Peers, Jonathan Hopkin

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 1d
1) What the actual fuck how did this just get normalised in the space of three years…. Oh yeah everyone just hanging out on Twitter like boiling frogs

2) not broadcast, as they aren’t quite ready to push Ofcom on this. This is the “good stuff” for unregulated YouTube.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d
GB News now broadcasting calls to remove the ethnic minority MPs from parliament

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 1d
I've been saying for the better part of a year that Trump is on a mission to decriminalize corruption. To make it the legal equivalent of jaywalking.

I feel that more strongly now than I ever had.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Trump announces a pardon of Henry Cuellar: "I am hereby announcing my full and unconditional PARDON of beloved Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar, and Imelda. Henry, I don’t know you, but you can sleep well tonight — Your nightmare is finally over!"
Trump announces a pardon of Henry Cuellar: "The Radical Left Democrats are a complete and total threat to Democracy! They will attack, rob, lie, cheat, destroy, and decimate anyone who dares to oppose their Far Left Agenda, an Agenda that, if left unchecked, will obliterate our magnificent Country. Because of these facts, and others, I am hereby announcing my full and unconditional PARDON of beloved Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar, and Imelda. Henry, I don’t know you, but you can sleep well tonight — Your nightmare is finally over!"

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Kiran Stacey @kiranstacey.bsky.social · 1d
This post by @samfr.bsky.social on the new book by @robfordmancs.bsky.social, @timbale.bsky.social, @drjennings.bsky.social and @psurridge.bsky.social is as good as everyone says.

Especially this point busting the myth of the Red Wall and the "hero voter".

samf.substack.com/p/six-lesson...

Reposted by Will Jennings, Efrén O. Pérez

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 1d
Friday brought good news and bad news. Today I am now allowed to share the good.

Via the generous donation of the Wallenberg Foundation and the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, I now have a few million euros to help understand more about the selective inclusion of LGBTQ+ citizens

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Trump announces a pardon of Henry Cuellar: "I am hereby announcing my full and unconditional PARDON of beloved Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar, and Imelda. Henry, I don’t know you, but you can sleep well tonight — Your nightmare is finally over!"
Trump announces a pardon of Henry Cuellar: "The Radical Left Democrats are a complete and total threat to Democracy! They will attack, rob, lie, cheat, destroy, and decimate anyone who dares to oppose their Far Left Agenda, an Agenda that, if left unchecked, will obliterate our magnificent Country. Because of these facts, and others, I am hereby announcing my full and unconditional PARDON of beloved Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar, and Imelda. Henry, I don’t know you, but you can sleep well tonight — Your nightmare is finally over!"

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d
if you still use twitter you support white supremacy
Twitter retweet by Elon Musk reading: "If current trends continue, Whites will go from being a small minority of world population today to virtually extinct!" above a meaningless fake graphic pushing great replacement lies.

drjennings.bsky.social
Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 1d
Field experiments in Portsmouth are more exotic, right?

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 1d
Truly shocking that Rachel Reeves had the audacity to call herself the U14 girls chess champions when she won the U14 girls chess championship but some bloke thought she was talking about something else.

Reposted by Will Jennings, Steve Peers, Dave O’Brien

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 1d
This is brilliant analysis. The main takeaway is that Labour strategists do not understand why they won the 2024 election or who voted for the party. The leak leftwards was well underway before the country went to the polls. A major wake-up is required. I won't bet on it happening.
samfr.bsky.social Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 2d
New post just out:

Six lessons from the 2024 election.

And what they mean for the next one.

Covering: Labour's fatal misunderstanding about why they won; effects of a more fragmented system; changes in media/polling.

(£/free trial)

samf.substack.com/p/six-lesson...
Six lessons from the 2024 election
And what they mean for the next one
samf.substack.com

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 2d
It's based on the brilliant new book covering the 2024 election by @robfordmancs.bsky.social @timbale.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social and @psurridge.bsky.social - which I was lucky enough to get an early look at.