@timbale.bsky.social
Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London & author of The Conservative Party after Brexit: Turmoil and Transformation (now out in paperback). The bits and pieces I do for websites and newspapers turn up eventually at https://proftimbale.com
Irony is dead (and buried, and dug up again, and then cremated).
there’s a lot of people that want you to spend your time debating them and in fact you can just choose to ignore them and do something fun instead
God, he's shameless.
Irony is dead (and buried, and dug up again, and then cremated).
They should put a picture of a £10 note on the £10 note.
After all, conformity and enforcement of culture are core British values.... That or tolerance and individual liberty... I always get those mixed up.
Yeah, alright. No need to rub it in! 😂
To be fair, I'm not sure why that should be their responsibility. They just make cards with pictures of cars and things on them.
New Bluesky bio
Very happy to have been able to contribute to the latest Commons Library briefing paper on private members’ bills. commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...
I think that overstates what US students actually have to pay
www.update.news/p/why-all-th...
FAO House of Commons researchers, I guess!
Seems to be missing Ireland*
Maximum fees of €2,500 p.a. which are dressed up as a "student contribution".
(* English spoken there. Sort of.)
I'm trying to think who this idiocy is for, who would say: I wasn't going to vote Labour but now they've blocked a clearly exceptionally bright Sudanese woman from doing a postgraduate course in computational biology at Cambridge, I'm all in?
www.ft.com/content/4493...
Anglosphere agony vs Nordic nirvana.
(PS Can't believe I'd never seen this graph before, so grateful to @stephenkb.bsky.social for sharing in his fab morning newsletter (www.ft.com/inside-polit...)
'When I debated with the Earl of Devon this week on the Nicky Campbell show, he said his crusader ancestry was especially valuable now, with “what’s going on in Israel and in Gaza”.' @pollytoynbee.bsky.social
😂 but also 😱
I've even come across a case where a guy completely f*cked an economy by pursuing counterproductive austerity policies only to be got rid of and then given a whole bunch of really lucrative jobs in the financial sector.
“No more Ms Nice Guy” has been the posture for a while. But still striking to read the rejection of “Nice” made explicit. (Someone should ask the opposite of the usual Q: what is your LEAST favourite biscuit?)
It's wild how much of this is echoing French debates of the last decade, from Goodwin's "Islamo-gauchisme" jibes now to the "communautaurisme" canard. There's a pretty clear example over the Channel of how well this will defend the centre right's distinctive positions
“The other Taco problem. This takes place when he wants to chicken out but is unable to. This is probably the most dangerous possible scenario. It’s the one we’re in right now. Trump cannot chicken out of Iran because he is not the only actor participating in it.” open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
"Do we care about hypocrisy? Is it just ingrained in our system so deeply that we are now immune to it?", asks Kiran Moodley
Crikey (Source: reporting from the Tories' Spring Conference in Harrogate - www.thenewworld.co.uk/patience-whe...)
Another day, another stupid Excel chart.
Friday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
Wot, no 'Lunch with the FT' bill?
Kemi is so terminally online I dread to think where she got the idea that enforcing culture is what people want.
Crikey (Source: reporting from the Tories' Spring Conference in Harrogate - www.thenewworld.co.uk/patience-whe...)
