Thomas Prosser

The standard in the Welsh league isn't *quite* as good as the Premiership... but we still love it 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚽️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Hehe, there have been rather a lot of these pieces!

Congratulations!

Why bother with Chelsea v Liverpool when you can watch Colwyn Bay v Caernarfon?!? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚽️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Really hope things get better with your dept asap

The Hertie School community mourns the passing of Professor Claus Offe Offe was a distinguished political sociologist and a founding member of the Hertie School.

Rest in peace, Claus Offe! Great, critical, inspiring scholar.

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The 'progressive cat lady' is a staple of culture war discourse; J. D. Vance once dismissed Democrats as 'a bunch of childless cat ladies with miserable lives'.

But I can’t find any evidence for them…

Almost 200 Cardiff University staff left in limbo as they face losing jobs Cardiff University confirmed it cannot rule out compulsory redundancies as it also apologised to students for problems with a new timetabling system as the academic year begins

Modern Languages; Music; and History, Archaeology & Religion remain in scope.

Compulsory redundancy is a red line.

It is time to vote in the consultative ballot on industrial action NOW - the deadline is tomorrow.

Can someone ask Farage or Zia Yusuf why, if they're so concerned about incitement to violence, they had Lucy Connolly as a guest star at their conference?

Assessing the degree and drivers of sensitivity in political science Michael Ganslmeier and Tim Vlandas have developed a new approach to measure the fragility of findings in political science. Showing that empirical results can change substantially when researchers var...

super refreshing to see this taken seriously by political scientists who work quantitatively theloop.ecpr.eu/assessing-th...

Yes, that's certainly a danger! Yet institutions such as universities/literacy tend to be more resilient than many credit...

Over the past week, I've enjoyed reading about the James Marriott 'post-literacy' thesis and there's definitely something to it. But are proponents overstating things? Literacy in modern society has profound stabilizing mechanisms, not least mass higher education!

Reform UK’s ex-leader in Wales Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges Gill admits to eight counts of bribery relating to pro-Russia statements made in the European parliament and articles

Nathan Gill, Reform's leader in Wales at the last Welsh parliament election, has pled guilty to 8 bribery charges, taking Russian cash while he was one of Nigel Farage’s MEPs to speak in favour of Putin's Russia in that parliament
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If/when Reform get serious numbers of representatives in the UK and devolved parliaments, I worry profoundly for the quality of our legislators. Time and time again, Reform's personnel have shown that they're not up to it.

No, that won't happen. On the bright side, it's very unlikely they'll get into government here.

Dreadful

Former Reform leader in Wales admits bribery charges over pro-Russian statements The former leader of Reform UK in Wales has admitted making pro-Russian statements in the European Parliament for cash. On Friday, Nathan Gill, 52, of Anglesey, North Wales, pleaded guilty at the Old ...

Another indication of the quality of Reform's personnel - the problem seems even more acute in Wales
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Repeat after me - partisan influences on inequality are secondary

Yet the question is asked more broadly, to bothsidesists like me without large platforms! And I've reflected on it quite a lot recently and do think it should be asked back.

Yet it's certainly worth reflecting on priorities. I've been thinking about this recently, albeit from a different perspective than most on this site.

Progressives ask the heterodox an important question about priorities; why fixate on problems with progressives in an age in which radical right populism is ascendant? But the same question can be asked of progressives; at the present moment, why fixate on figures like Ezra Klein and Nate Silver?

The comments are absurd overreactions to a very reasonable point

Managing the Global Discourse Care, Content Moderation, and Cultural Imperialism

New essay. From triumphal 1990s ideas about an American century underpinned by Internet power, to the mid-2010s belief that social media was a “global conversation,” to mid-2020s anxieties about communication breakdowns and civil war. open.substack.com/pub/paroxysm...

Look forward to it!

This is very good. Alas, I'm sceptical of the potential for coordination on the left!

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Social investment—A (mis)leading paradigm? Why we need to distinguish different types of social investments - Julian Garritzmann, Silja Häusermann, Bruno Palier, 2025 Social investment has become a buzzword among social policy-makers and welfare state scholars alike. Social investments seem to be the natural social policy res...

Can we have 8 min of your time please?

@siljahausermann.bsky.social @bpalier.bsky.social & I wrote a very brief reflection on why social investment might be a misleading paradigm. Way forward: please distinguish different types of social investments!

More here journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

First day of new term and always have a mild existential crisis - I've been in the sector for quite a few of these 😬😬😬