Ben Ansell
@benansell.bsky.social
Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, Nuffield & University of Oxford, FBA. http://benansell.substack.com. BBC Reith Lecturer 2023. Host BBC Radio 4 Rethink. Columnist for Prospect. Director, Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM).
Can't believe you go to LSE and Cambridge as a philosopher and then people have the absolute temerity to come to Soho from other countries and spoil your vision.
November 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Can't believe you go to LSE and Cambridge as a philosopher and then people have the absolute temerity to come to Soho from other countries and spoil your vision.
Going to out on a limb and say Trump suing the BBC for a billion dollars may not poll well in the UK
November 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Going to out on a limb and say Trump suing the BBC for a billion dollars may not poll well in the UK
This is absolutely begging for a @generalboles.bsky.social series of Starmer in Misery, in IT, in The Shining, etc
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This is absolutely begging for a @generalboles.bsky.social series of Starmer in Misery, in IT, in The Shining, etc
Ah well, that inopportune statement will probably never get reported… what’s that you say?
November 10, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Ah well, that inopportune statement will probably never get reported… what’s that you say?
<exasperated journalist hangs up>
November 10, 2025 at 11:36 AM
<exasperated journalist hangs up>
Good example to explain bias and validity I guess
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Good example to explain bias and validity I guess
Yeh but now do it without BBC Radio 4 Rethink
November 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Yeh but now do it without BBC Radio 4 Rethink
Good news for me that I will get even more journalists asking for comment about the massive yet strangely also non-existent turn of young people to Reform.
November 10, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Good news for me that I will get even more journalists asking for comment about the massive yet strangely also non-existent turn of young people to Reform.