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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps there’s a missing paragraph where he talks about paying his taxes?

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 1d

Ratcliffe's non-apology apology...

Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 1d

The unremitting bleakness of Threads - not least its devastating final scene - is the whole point. To even think about remaking it is misconceived. To turn it into a story of human resilience is unforgivable.

Empire Magazine @empiremagazine.bsky.social · 4d

Threads director Mick Jackson has expressed worry over the upcoming remake’s focus on finding “hope even in the most challenging of times.”

“That one phrase worried me,” he tells Empire. “Hope is not part of nuclear war.”

Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 1d

Ratcliffe's non-apology apology...

Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 2d

This excerpt - just five lines - contains two unsubstantiated assertions and two misleading citations that actively undermine the point the author - an Oxford DPhil student - is trying to make about political science. Let hope that his doctoral thesis is rather more robust in its scholarship.

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 2d

This is frankly bizarre. In my experience (and OK it's only my experience) the vast majority of PolSci people who've worked on the 2016 Referendum have done so not to delegitimize it but to *explain* it. It may or may not be significant that the two academics cited are a lawyer and an economist.

The task of political scientists during the 2010s was to spin a mythology in which the elites could cocoon themselves. “The extent of Russian-backed fraud means the referendum is invalid,” said one social scientist; Brexit was a “tsunami of bile” vomited up by the Murdoch press “that has downed and drowned a once great nation”, said another. All this was par for the course in Goodwin’s old milieu.

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 2d

This is frankly bizarre. In my experience (and OK it's only my experience) the vast majority of PolSci people who've worked on the 2016 Referendum have done so not to delegitimize it but to *explain* it. It may or may not be significant that the two academics cited are a lawyer and an economist.

Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 3d

Delighted to publish this excellent special issue of @compeurpol.bsky.social

CompEurPol @compeurpol.bsky.social · 4d

Take a look at Ramona Coman, @nathaliebrack.bsky.social & @miscoiu.bsky.social special issue

"Liberal Democracy under Debate: Dissensus and Competing Conceptions in the European Parliament". With @manesweisskircher.bsky.social @alvarooleart.bsky.social and more.

link.springer.com/collections/...

Liberal Democracy under Debate: Dissensus and Competing Conceptions in the European Parliament

This Special Issue examines how democracy is being redefined and contested across the European Union. Moving beyond narratives of democratic backsliding, it ...

link.springer.com

Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 3d

This is basically the National Front circa 1974 on steroids.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4d

Nick Buckley sets out Advance UK immigration policy of Ben Habib's party

- bsn ILR & revoke aıı post-2018 grants
- encourage all settled migrants to leave
- bsn all work visas from India & all other majority non-white countries
- ban foreigners becoming citizens
- invade French waters

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4d

Nick Buckley sets out Advance UK immigration policy of Ben Habib's party

- bsn ILR & revoke aıı post-2018 grants
- encourage all settled migrants to leave
- bsn all work visas from India & all other majority non-white countries
- ban foreigners becoming citizens
- invade French waters

CompEurPol @compeurpol.bsky.social · 4d

Take a look at Ramona Coman, @nathaliebrack.bsky.social & @miscoiu.bsky.social special issue

"Liberal Democracy under Debate: Dissensus and Competing Conceptions in the European Parliament". With @manesweisskircher.bsky.social @alvarooleart.bsky.social and more.

link.springer.com/collections/...

Liberal Democracy under Debate: Dissensus and Competing Conceptions in the European Parliament

This Special Issue examines how democracy is being redefined and contested across the European Union. Moving beyond narratives of democratic backsliding, it ...

link.springer.com

Empire Magazine @empiremagazine.bsky.social · 4d

Threads director Mick Jackson has expressed worry over the upcoming remake’s focus on finding “hope even in the most challenging of times.”

“That one phrase worried me,” he tells Empire. “Hope is not part of nuclear war.”

Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...

Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 5d

Stripped of the GB News-y vocab, these are EXACTLY the policy preferences of actual core Labour voters.

Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 5d

"Full speed ahead to uber-woke, net-zeroist rejoinerism" is the funniest thing a Labour MP has said for some time I'll give it that. It's like a Jordan Peterson quote about Elmo.

Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 5d

Yes, god help we risk a floundering government that feels like no one is in charge.

Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 5d

"Full speed ahead to uber-woke, net-zeroist rejoinerism" is the funniest thing a Labour MP has said for some time I'll give it that. It's like a Jordan Peterson quote about Elmo.

Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 5d

Yes, god help we risk a floundering government that feels like no one is in charge.

Morgan McSweeney does have some fans in the Parliamentary Labour Party, of course.
One MP says they are "devastated" he has left.
Another warns it represents "full speed ahead to uber-woke, net-zeroist, rejoinerism".
An MP who has been through several general elections when the tide was against Labour says of colleagues: "Good luck to all these careerists when they face an election without someone like Morgan at the helm.
"Some of us are old enough to remember the Corbyn era with no one in charge and the party floundering."

Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 6d

👀

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 7d

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.

Great work everyone.

The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None.
Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law?
Zachary: Correct.
Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...

Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 6d

Entirely predictably, the costs of blanket social media bans for under-16s are borne by disabled and neurodivergent children.

Prof Deborah Lupton, MPH PhD @dalupton.bsky.social · 6d

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The impacts of locking under 16 yos from their social media networks are now beginning to bite for those young people who relied on them for social connection

‘I’ve lost my friends’: advocacy groups warn Australia’s social media ban risks isolating kids with disabilities

Despite the ban’s aim to protect young people, experts are concerned that those in marginalised communities or living with disabilities could lose vital support networks

www.theguardian.com

Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 6d

This 👇💯

Sarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 6d

So as I struggled with miscarriage after miscarriage before having my 🌈 baby, Reform would seriously think I should pay more tax during that agony.

This policy isn’t just a slippery slope to a handmaids tale dystopian future - it’s a deliberate step towards it
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Reform by-election candidate suggested people who don’t have kids should pay more tax

Exclusive: The Reform politician’s suggestion would ‘punish millions of women and strip them of their basic dignity to choose’, Labour’s deputy leader has warned

www.independent.co.uk

Sarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 6d

So as I struggled with miscarriage after miscarriage before having my 🌈 baby, Reform would seriously think I should pay more tax during that agony.

This policy isn’t just a slippery slope to a handmaids tale dystopian future - it’s a deliberate step towards it
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Reform by-election candidate suggested people who don’t have kids should pay more tax

Exclusive: The Reform politician’s suggestion would ‘punish millions of women and strip them of their basic dignity to choose’, Labour’s deputy leader has warned

www.independent.co.uk

Prof Deborah Lupton, MPH PhD @dalupton.bsky.social · 6d

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The impacts of locking under 16 yos from their social media networks are now beginning to bite for those young people who relied on them for social connection

‘I’ve lost my friends’: advocacy groups warn Australia’s social media ban risks isolating kids with disabilities

Despite the ban’s aim to protect young people, experts are concerned that those in marginalised communities or living with disabilities could lose vital support networks

www.theguardian.com

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 7d

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.

Great work everyone.

Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 7d

This is very good. Clear, succinct, anchored in scholarship and crystal-clear in its recommendations.

Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 7d

For the FES, I wrote a short brief about how mainstream party strategies have fueled far-right success. They move toward more anti-immigration positions to win voters back. This does not work, but shifts public opinion to the right. Parties then react to shifts in public opinion. A vicious cycle.

Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 7d

For the FES, I wrote a short brief about how mainstream party strategies have fueled far-right success. They move toward more anti-immigration positions to win voters back. This does not work, but shifts public opinion to the right. Parties then react to shifts in public opinion. A vicious cycle.

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 8d

Clevedon South (North Somerset) Council By-Election Result:

🌹 LAB: 29.0% (-25.4)
➡️ RFM: 27.7% (New)
🌳 CON: 18.6% (-27.0)
🌍 GRN: 16.3% (New)
🔶 LDM: 8.3% (New)

Labour HOLD.
Changes w/ 2023.

Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 8d

Is this from Leviticus or Deuteronomy? I can never remember.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Trump at National Prayer Breakfast: "They rigged the second election. I had to win it. I needed it for my own ego. I would've had a bad ego for the rest of my life. Now I really have a big ego. Beating these lunatics was incredible ... The first time they said I didn't win the popular vote. I did"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Trump at National Prayer Breakfast: "They rigged the second election. I had to win it. I needed it for my own ego. I would've had a bad ego for the rest of my life. Now I really have a big ego. Beating these lunatics was incredible ... The first time they said I didn't win the popular vote. I did"

Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 9d

cc @edinburghpir.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social

Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 9d

Why has the populist radical right failed in Scotland? @davidevampa.bsky.social, Alan Convery & @frasmcm.bsky.social examine how symbiotic polarization between SNP and Conservatives blocked PRRPs, until recently. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/WeHXRFw

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polsky #PartyPolitics

Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 9d

Why has the populist radical right failed in Scotland? @davidevampa.bsky.social, Alan Convery & @frasmcm.bsky.social examine how symbiotic polarization between SNP and Conservatives blocked PRRPs, until recently. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/WeHXRFw

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polsky #PartyPolitics

Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 9d

Two points. 1. There was Epstein merch? 2. This seems to have been taken in 2009. Epstein was first convicted in 2008, meaning that Mandelson is sporting convicted paedophile merch.

Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 9d

"My Jeffrey Epstein-branded sweatshirt has people asking a lot of questions which, now I come to think of it, are entirely reasonable."

Peter Mandelson wearing a Jeffrey Epstein -branded sweatshirt in New York in 2009.

Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 9d

"My Jeffrey Epstein-branded sweatshirt has people asking a lot of questions which, now I come to think of it, are entirely reasonable."

Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 9d

@peterjukes.bsky.social has been joining the dots in light of the latest Epstein releases. It's an extraordinary story about moves to deregulate crypto, centring a new financial order on Russia and - to deliver on those aims - the strategic de-stablisation of liberal democracies (incl. Brexit).

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 10d

Thread starting with 🚨 TWO SHOCKING FACTS: Epstein was in direct contact with Putin, boasting of personal invites to St Petersburg. He co-owned Thiel’s Valar Ventures w/ Ehud Barak, backing Israeli surveillance firm Carbyne. 1/12
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/03/i...

In Putin’s Orbit: The Crypto Politics of Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel

The web of ties between Epstein, Moscow and Silicon Valley leads back to Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage

bylinetimes.com

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 10d

Thread starting with 🚨 TWO SHOCKING FACTS: Epstein was in direct contact with Putin, boasting of personal invites to St Petersburg. He co-owned Thiel’s Valar Ventures w/ Ehud Barak, backing Israeli surveillance firm Carbyne. 1/12
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/03/i...

In Putin’s Orbit: The Crypto Politics of Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel

The web of ties between Epstein, Moscow and Silicon Valley leads back to Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage

bylinetimes.com

Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 10d

Reform pivoting to plunging children back into poverty for the sake of a slightly cheaper pint.

Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 10d

fucking _hell_

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