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What do you mean "It was dangerous", Professor? That the mobile signal may somehow interfere with the self-driving AI of the vehicle?

Former first minister Vaughan Gething blocked from voting from car Vaughan Gething was stopped from taking part in a Senedd vote on Wednesday because he was in a car.

I suspect that, in a hundred years, "Members cannot vote whilst on a vehicle" is going to be one of those archaic parliamentary rules that political scientists introduce to amusing students in parliamentary study modules

2026 World Cup: Fifa likely to schedule matches featuring European nations after midnight UK time Fifa are likely to schedule World Cup matches involving major European nations after midnight UK time next year in an effort to combat heat issues that affected the recent Club World Cup.

Growing up in Hong Kong, waking up in the middle of the night to watch the world cup is kinda normal

Look! PR is the clear winner under FPTP😜

I fear I can just keep reposting this until the end of the season/whenever he has been sacked 🤦🤦🤦

Said the person who required us to show our photo ID before we could cast our vote

Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

German MP makes history with baby at the lectern The German Green MP Hanna Steinmüller gave her speech on the budget of the Ministry of Construction with her baby in a baby carrier. According to the Bundestag, she made history with this premiere.

"For the first time today, a member of parliament stood at the lectern of the German Bundestag with her baby," the parliament announced on its Instagram account.

Permanent residency for Hongkongers may be worth £4bn to UK economy, says thinktank Analysis finds value of moved pensions savings could raise similar revenue by 2029 as a year’s air passenger duty

“There is not only a strong moral case for the UK to keep its word to those who are already in the UK under various visa schemes awaiting permanent residency, but in the case of Hongkongers, a significant economic rationale as well.”

So we're all in agreement that copy-editing is dead, right?

He should invite Eminem to perform Without Me in his first show 😂

Maybe those who have been complaining about pronouns do have a point 🤦🤦🤦

Just out at JOP (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....) : Why do so few working-class people hold office? It's not lack of interest. Noam Lupu and I ran 10 surveys in 8 countries and found no evidence of a social class gap in how often qualified people consider running.

Superhappy to see this paper out in Politics & Governance. Together with Gijs Jan Brandsma (Radboud University) I show that size of PPG staffs increases parliamentary activity but decreases social media activity www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

I want my country back. The country that welcomed my Grandfather fleeing from the Armenian genocide. That welcomed the Polish grandfather of our political editor, who then fought against Hitler. That welcomed the Indian parents of our editor-in-chief, as citizens of the British Empire. That country

Either way, I fear this has huge implication on research of parliamentary speech forward. Could we still infer speeches is reflective of what ever qualities of MPs we are interested in if they are/might be AI generated?

Not that I doubt the impact of AI on MPs speeches, but some of the examples here seem to show a)Gradual increasing trend on either side of the treatment, and b)Delayed explosive growth post-treatment. Could some of these be partly explained by high turnover from GE24?

The Hong Kong Legislative Council has just rejected the second reading of the same-sex partnership registration bill proposed by the govt.

This is a rare occurrence of a govt defeat in LEGCO, especially since the purging of any meaningful opposition in the chamber after the 2021 electoral "reform".

Thanks for taking part……

Who wants to bet that these are the same people who decried recorded lectures and demand immediate return of in-person teaching during COVID?

But if the last seat is won by a party with only one seat, would that be the case?

It's more than that, from what I understand, it appears that "Threshold" is in fact the number of votes won by the party that got the last seat in a district. Wouldn't this mean that there must be at least one party in each district that won exactly the same number of vote as the "Threshold"?

Radical right accommodation really does not work.

New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk

doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Or we could train separate AI on the corpus of speeches from different parliaments and have them respond to each other 😂

I wonder if it is possible to conduct a comparative study of the 'parliamentary skills' of legislators across countries? And what are the factors that contribute to good 'parliamentary skills' among them? 🤔

It's a bit daunting, not knowing where you are going next, but I would be open to new challenges. If you know any positions or opportunities that might fit my profile, in or out of academia, please feel free to reach out. /2

#OpenToWork

After three wonderful years, it is time to move on. Yesterday was my last day at the University of Reading. I would like to thank the assistance and kindness of everyone I've met in the past years. I will miss all of my colleagues and students. /1

To paraphrase Enoch Powell: All football managerial careers end in failure

Explaining Physical Violence in Parliaments - Moritz Schmoll, Wang Leung Ting, 2023 Why do lawmakers resort to physical violence in some parliaments but not in others? Brawls not only constitute a stark break with democratic norms and ideals, t...

For those who are interested in our dataset and factors that contribute to the outbreak of violence in parliament, me and @moritzschmoll.bsky.social has a paper that introduce our dataset and findings in the Journal of Conflict Resolution

Fight breaks out in Mexican Senate, following debate on US military intervention | CNN A meeting of the Mexican Senate descended into violence Wednesday, after one of its members apparently became enraged at not getting a chance to speak.

Fight breaks out in the Mexican Senate between an opposition senator and the President of the Senate when the former tries to storm the podium.

According to our FISTS dataset of physical violence in parliaments, this would be the first incident in the Mexican parliament since 2014