Jon Tonge

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.

Worth checking out the whole special edition of Parliamentary Affairs on the #votesat16 debate in the UK, co-edited by @jontonge.bsky.social, Thomas Loughran and Andy Mycock:

academic.oup.com/pa/issue/74/3

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

Delighted that the Department of Politics at #Liverpool - @livunipol.bsky.social - can offer a PhD studentship (fees) from this coming academic year. Details here: www.liverpool.ac.uk/histories-la... #PSA25

Ireland’s Ambassador to the UK, Martin Fraser, stressing the value of good UK-Ireland relations and NW England’s contribution, in a difficult global context, at tonight’s @irishinstitute.bsky.social dinner

Think Hugo Boss my favourite but a close call (Private Eye)

Yesterday’s Irish Times asking a few useful questions…

Looks like The Times or Sunday Times might have a decent shout of winning the, er, Times and Sunday Times Sports Journalism Awards…

We're gonna need a very strong bridge....

I know a few political journalists who have tried! Times obit on why Henry Kelly switched from journalism to gameshows.

Written this. Is it unfair?

🚨 NEW 🚨 Updated list of all the UK MPs on Bluesky 👇

Labour – 248
Liberal Democrats – 40
Conservative – 4
Green – 4
Independent – 3
SNP – 2
Alliance, Plaid Cymru, SDLP – 1 each

And Commons Speaker @commonsspeaker.parliament.uk

A Presidency with much to answer for

Is the PM planning to remove the legal ban on 16 and 17 year olds undertaking frontline service? Or just unaware?

New report uncovers popularity of Politics and International Relations degrees, with graduates outearning national averages A new British Academy report on Politics and International Relations (PIR) provision in UK higher education shows a 20 per cent increase in first degree enrolments and a 41 per cent rise in postgradua...

A new British Academy report on Politics and International Relations provision in UK higher education has found that it remains a popular subject, with graduates out-earning national averages. Read the report in full:
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/new-rep...