Ben Rosamond

It's also a basic error made in the media - especially the broadcast media - where the prevailing (and utterly complacent) assumption is that reporting simply reflects the balance of public sentiment rather than actively shaping it.

This is the formal definition, which is definitely open to interpretation: Ext proc o/ps = 'culmination of a substantial, discrete research endeavour which, due to the nature of the approach or methodology, involved intense activity, sustained over a period of time, usually of five years or longer.'

Serious man-in-park-yells-at-clouds vibes about this.

Remind me, which stage of late capitalism is this?

‘Little evidence that the author has acknowledged previous work in the field, notably Backbeat (1994)’.

Wait until he hears about Wales.

The second one should be 'supper'.

Presumably, those book shelves contain copies of Mein Kampf and the collected works of David Irving.

The consistent lack of journalistic interest in universities and their wider significance is deeply depressing. This FT piece is something of an exception to the rule, but generally speaking, we are some permutation of 'big school', the 'free speech crisis' and immigration incubators.

Remarkably, I've yet to go out in #Whamageddon. Not sure I've ever made it into December before.

“Opportunities” 👀

Kemi Badenoch - historian and theologian.

The thesis is right up your street. You'll like it a lot, including the gentle critique of Hopkin and Rosamond (2018)!

Congratulations @galonsosimon.bsky.social! It's a superb piece of work. Guillermo's thesis 'The Limits of Fiscal Convergence: A Practice-Based Account of the Fiscal Politics of Eurozone Design, Accession and Crisis in Italy and Spain' offers a major contribution to the literature on monetary union.

I once overhead two old ladies discussing the nights drawing in: “it’s getting late earlier now”, said one to the other.

Let's see how 'great replacement' types try to spin this to their advantage. Nevertheless, the bottom line is that there has been a steep decline in net migration to the UK. Looking forward to the extensive coverage in the media. See www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

Revelations about RW social media accounts being run from Russia correspond perfectly to data already revealed by the Panama, Paradise & Pandora Papers: Russian money streamed thru offshore accounts funds virtually all right-wing "populist" parties in EU & NAmerica. Same goal: undermine democracy.

3 per cent margin of error; 5 percent ‘too bloody right is is!’

The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark | Cas Mudde This week’s local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, they’re making a mistake, says academic and author Cas Mudde

Every Labour MP, SPAD and apparatchik should read this, then read it again. @casmudde.bsky.social with a perfect distillation of why the feted 'Danish model' doesn't work. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!'

On second thoughts ...

We are moving ever-close to the singularity where all devices will resemble Eddie the shipboard computer from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Scratchy memories of 1972, but 1975 is the proper starting point for me.

Perhaps the Home Secretary needs to learn about the difference between correlation and causation.

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VCs all over the UK be like

We are being governed by people who discount robust measures of public sentiment in favour of their ‘For you’ feeds on X.

In which case, repair to the poop deck forthwith.

If you have any hatches, they should be battened down.

There's that amazing passage in Fever Pitch about Gus Caesar, which illustrates how someone - who is generally regarded as a failure in top flight football - must have been truly exceptional talent to even get close to being on Arsenal's books in the first place.

So now he wants to slash the funding of the social sciences by a mere 40%?

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It seems to have stopped