Andrew Judge

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2024 Best Learning and Teaching Article published in Politics @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @sagepub.com @uofglasgow.bsky.social: we are happy to announce that the winner is Dr Donna Smith @drdonnasmith.bsky.social for her work on student communities. Details at: journals.sagepub.com/page/pol/col...

In this sort of situation, sending a primer sounds like quite a good idea ;)

Best part of this story:

NEW CHART: Trump's "big beautiful bill" & other efforts to dismantle climate policy means the US will add an extra 7bn tonnes of emissions to the atmosphere from now until 2030, compared to meeting its former climate pledge under the Paris Agreement 🫠

www.carbonbrief.org/...

A straw man argument that entirely misses the point. It is the failure to tax wealth properly and redistribute the proceeds of innovation that is leading to resentment about capitalism.

TBF this is Morgan McSweeney's second go at tanking a Labour leader. Makes sense that he would have refined his techniques.

Blogged: why liberal centrists should mourn the decline of the left, because it led to illiberalism & irrationality: stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_an...

Don’t overthink it. The hacks coming up with this shit certainly don’t.

i think the biggest public relations coup AI boosters scored was calling it “AI.” people genuinely think it is an intelligence, and that when they query it, it is providing reasoned answers

Snippet from the Financial Times that says: “Morgan McSweeney, Starmer’s chief of staff, will pore over the results on Friday and is likely to conclude that he is right to pursue a “Blue Labour” strategy to address the populist threat — a policy which is already starting to be deployed.”

Efficiently confirming his priors and ignoring any evidence that points in other directions. Starmer will no doubt be forensic in his agreement.

You have to admire Morgan McSweeney's commitment to voter efficiency. Who else could lose so many votes so efficiently less than a year after a General Election?

It's a problem of seeing everything through the eyes of voters - who don't know/care about institutions or voting systems so it's dismissed as unimportant. But it deeply affects your ability to do the things voters do care about.

There’s a real threat to women’s safety - and it’s not trans people Let’s be clear from the start: The biggest threat to women’s safety is – and always has been – men.

Bimini Bon Boulash absolutely fucking nails it in this piece.

If you don't have the spoons, or simply don't know what to say to your MP, just send them this:

metro.co.uk/2025/04/19/a...

The joy of the teaching track: Learning and Teaching in Politics and International Studies - Cathy Elliott, Ellen Watts, Kalina Zhekova, Keith Smith, Rose Gann, Madeleine Le Bourdon, 2025 In recent years, the number of academic jobs in research-intensive universities that are described as ‘academic education route’, ‘teaching and scholarship’, or...

Really excited that our @politicsjournal.bsky.social article on the Joy of the Teaching Track ✨ is out! Co-authored with the brilliant @ellenfelicity.bsky.social, Keith Smith, Kalina Zhekova, @rosegann.bsky.social @mlebourdon.bsky.social – we advocate for enjoying our jobs!
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Shaping the discipline: the impact of QAA benchmark statements on politics and international relations - European Political Science The question ‘What is Politics and International Relations?’ often goes unasked, potentially leading to varied interpretations across universities. The review of the Quality Assurance Agency’s (QAA) S...

Just published. Paper with @rosegann.bsky.social Victoria Honeyman & Alasdair Blair explores the shape and scope of politics and IR as taught disciplines and how we engaged with this in the @qaa.ac.uk Subject benchmark review.

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Parliament has been recalled to vote on measures that may lead to the nationalisation of Britain’s last basic steelworks at Scunthorpe.

I’ve written for the FT on the history of nationalisation’s achievements, the selling off of essential industries and why public ownership should be on the table.

We are very grateful for the generous feedback and support we've received from many colleagues throughout the development of this article. This includes everyone from our first presentation at BISA/ISA 2012 joint conference in Edinburgh to the 2023 BISA conference in Glasgow, and our reviewers. Thx!

Our framework also integrates insights from research into both securitisation and ontological security. Indeed, one of the key things we explore in our second dimension - the implications - is how securitisation may produce different physical and ontological security benefits for different actors.

In Understanding Securitization Success we make several contributions:

- Cut through seven key 'faultlines' in securitization research

- Distil three dimensions of success and failure

- Construct a heuristic framework to guide rigorous empirical and normative research through comparative analysis

Understanding Securitization Success: A New Analytical Framework Abstract. Despite prolific critique, development, and refinement of securitization theory, there is still no clear understanding of what “success” means. W

For quite some time now, Georgios Karyotis, Ian Paterson and I have been working on an article on how to identify, understand and analyse securitisation success and failure. After a long gestation it has finally been published in International Studies Review.

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The UK’s academic recession is in full swing This university crisis is a grim scrabble for numbers

NEW from me in the FT today... The UK's university 'system' is now in freefall. How on Earth did the disaster unfold? Read all about it: www.ft.com/content/0ec7...

Thrilled to see my new article in @pspolisci.bsky.social, published open access on first view today: ‘Student Choice in Assessment: Is There a Subject-Specific Case for Using Assessment Optionality in Political Science Education?’

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i'm an experienced, award-winning teacher and can teach courses and/or supervise (ma and ba theses) on, among other things: popular culture and world politics, visual politics, human rights, politics of international law, and (critical) IR theory

Vienna Embraces Heat Pumps to Ditch Russian Gas The Austrian capital has a $21 billion plan to end its dependence on imported natural gas with heat pumps, boreholes and energy efficiency.

“It’s a moonshot.”

Vienna has a $21 billion plan to end its dependence on imported fossil gas with heat pumps, boreholes and energy efficiency.

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

It's been a long time since Private Eye's satire has made me audibly wince, but this is so to the point if it were a knife people would demand it be banned.

The Path to American Authoritarianism What comes after democratic breakdown.

“Worn down by harassment and threats, many of Trump’s critics will be tempted to retreat to the sidelines. Such a retreat would be perilous. When fear, exhaustion, or resignation crowds out citizens’ commitment to democracy, emergent authoritarianism begins to take root.”

Enjoying listening to the cut of the episode one of The Energy That Made Modern Scotland which I recorded with @dominicmhinde.bsky.social. We’ll be launching our new podcast series on 20 February. Come along to hear more about how oil and renewables transformed Scotland and why it’s not gone right.

So, after Nick Timothy on "How to win an election" and David Frost on "How to do a great trade deal", the Telegraph adds another to its list of star columnists...