Jon Tonge

I’m fearful of being stuck in a REF meeting whilst the PM resigns.

‘Quietly, subtly, the outsider’: Andy Burnham’s dress sense decoded Ditching the traditional suit and tie for understated all black ‘is as calculated as any Westminster suit, just aimed at a different audience’

‘Quietly, subtly, the outsider’: Andy Burnham’s dress sense decoded

Are steps 10,11, 13, 14, 17 and 18 secret then or can the Sunday Times not count?

Even the demonstrators haven’t turned up #CPC25

Kemi Badenoch re the NI Act 1998 and the ECHR. ‘That’s the assembly, that’s not national law’. I’m no lawyer but ….

a) Full financial checks on any new owner and b) Full financial disclosure from existing boards to see that a club is being run in a sustainable manner.

When you get the meetings calendar for the new academic year and it manages to outweigh your teaching hours.

Byline Podcast: The Battle For The Soul Of Your Party Should the fledgling and provisionally titled 'Your Party' be controlled by a centralised grouping at the top? Or should it be run by grassroots activists? It's a question which lies at the heart o...

Could a party to the left of Labour really have a chance at the ballot box?

@goldbergradio.bsky.social hears from activist Alan Story and politics expert @jontonge.bsky.social

From @bylinetimes.bsky.social

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Thanks to the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social (PSA) for allowing me to say thanks to them for being a very supportive organisation for Politics academics.

We're also delighted to see the Founding Fellows featured, including @livunipol.bsky.social's own @jontonge.bsky.social and the key point from Prof Fiona Mackay that the study of politics is for all, not just for the elite institutions!

🌟PSA 75th Anniversary🌟Celebrating 75 years of the PSA being the home of #PoliticalStudies: advancing, supporting & promoting the global study of #politics & #InternationalRelations since 1950.
🎬 Watch this 3 min film to learn more. buff.ly/WaObGCF

Teaching timetable release day: the equivalent of the arrival of the football fixtures, down to the inevitable “oh no, I’m away then” stuff.

To learn more about some of the survey results discussed by our director, Prof Peter Shirlow, and our Politics colleague @jontonge.bsky.social at this @arinsproject.bsky.social event, please go to www.ria.ie/2025/07/04/n...

I am on research leave from 1 July 2025. This does not mean that there will be a delayed response to your message, which would suggest a self-discipline and an ability to avoid checking email which I lack. It does mean that emails about certain responsibilities should be directed elsewhere, as follows:

Research leave for the first time in a while and the out of office is on.

Shot while strapped to a chair??

Our director Prof Peter Shirlow during today's @arinsproject.bsky.social event, where he discussed the 2024 Northern Ireland General Election Survey with our @livunipol.bsky.social colleague @jontonge.bsky.social.
Topics considered included immigration, voting and constitutional issues.

Next Wednesday, June 25th!

Join us at the Royal Irish Academy for “The 2024 Northern Ireland General Election Survey” with Professors Peter Shirlow & @jontonge.bsky.social

The event is free, but registration is required🎟️
Still some tickets left: www.ria.ie/events/arins...

Ensuring football club owners are not going to bankrupt a club or run it into the ground with a view to turning the ground into houses - both happened at Bury - isn’t “bureaucratic whim”. Astonishingly complacent arguments against a regulator from Oliver Dowden.

Reform wins Runcorn byelection by just six votes – what the result means for Labour and the Tories Nigel Farage is now claiming to be the official opposition after overturning Labour’s 14,700-majority.

What does Reform’s by-election success in Runcorn & Helsby herald? theconversation.com/reform-wins-...

William Hague in today’s Times

All finished-up for another year. Thanks to convenors, @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social team, panel chairs, presenters, delegates, exhibitors, & everyone else involved in making it happen, for 3 great days of analysis and discussion #PSA25

Tomorrow’s Irish Politics panels #psa25

Great turnout for Rosie Campbell’s plenary! #PSA25