Dr Nick Dickinson

When the AKP was wrecking various parts Turkey in the simultaneous pursuit of aesthetically terrible projects and democratic backsliding I thought it was a coincidence. Not so sure now.

Good peice. But for some reason just thought of this.

Sad. He usually expects more respect from junior colleagues

For reasons too complicated and embarrassing to explain I saw Expend4balls in the cinema. There were four people there, including me and my partner. One walked out and the other seemed to only still be there because he was eating an entire bag of oranges and wasn’t done yet.

These guys should get together www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbea...

Anyone remember the bit where Gondor had a mad leader who did such a terrible job defending against an expansionist power to the east that it took an unlikely multi-ethnic coalition to step in and do it for him?

The Republican Party's greatest media triumph in the 2020s has been defining the Dems through the lens of fringe left-wing social media accounts and not anything the mainstream party says or does.

Democrats mostly campaign on economics.

In addition to @rachelporter.bsky.social's evidence, this is true for the national party's platforms and legislative priorities, and what Dem MCs tweet about, regardless of their district or if they are a Progressive!

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Just constant “can’t we all just get along” with a complete failure to acknowledge that armed conflicts might have any other drivers than western states and arms companies, or that level of democracy matters in who should get support.

To paraphrase Talleyrand, these people have learned nothing and forgotten nothing about what failed in the Corbyn project the first time.

There’s definitely a way in which it still makes sense. Squeeze the total right bloc with triangulation and hope everyone left of centre comes back under Reform threat. But it’s a hell of a risk.

Can Labour Take Reform UK's Voters? Why Labour's Electoral Challenges Are Being Misunderstood - Nuffield College Oxford University

Had this problem yesterday looking at this for a lecture! This link works (I think the HTML changed) www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

Call for papers for a workshop on Economic Aspects of the Constitution: www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_...

Really excelled myself with uplifting titles this year 🤦‍♂️

Sure, but you only have to submit once a year for the next century and it becomes a near certainty

The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and insane lament

Imagining this like a form of NI consociationalism where if the First Minister is going to heaven the Deputy First Minister must be going to hell. You can't form a government without both.

So the bombing of parliament indirectly contributed to the increasing division of judicial from parliamentary authority in the UK, and to the separation of powers in the constitution. It literally strengthened liberal democracy in the UK.

An interesting secondary effect of this is the Commons moved to the Lords, who moved to the Royal Robing Room. But the Law Lords, who previously used the HoL chamber, began sitting in a committee room instead. They liked it so much they more or less stayed put until the Supreme Court opened in 2009.

The Windsor Framework remains and underappreciated example of doing diplomacy with the other people actually in the room rather than constantly looking over your shoulder to domestic constituencies.

Guess it depends on what the equivalent of mass internet adoption is. Are people going to start doing something which generates long term social changes and opportunities for huge profit nestled into corners of that. Who's the Amazon of the post-AI bubble?

The AWS outage today is a good reminder that there is no "cloud", there's just somebody else's computer.

A weird tick of Trump's is he consistently talks about nations as if they can go insolvent and be liquidated in the next recession

One of those sentences which gets progressively worse with each clause

Guys I think this might be AI. The F/A-18 doesn’t have anything like this payload capacity

Did not know that former InfoWars employees have found a home at TPUSA but guess the talent pool is smaller than it seems

One way of interpreting this is just that the London bashing got worn out and they’re onto a new city. Next stop Manchester

Shades of the Jon Stewart “March for Sanity” way back. Guess we lost that fight

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