Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, Nuffield & University of Oxford, FBA. http://benansell.substack.com. BBC Reith Lecturer 2023. Host BBC Radio 4 Rethink. Columnist for Prospect. Director, Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM).
"if that's the strangest thing you ever seen in your life, I'd say you haven't done much"
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Yakking. Tippy tappy typing. More yakking. Politics. Education. FT columns, Political Fix podcast and videos here https://www.ft.com/miranda-green - please check out Not Another One https://open.spotify.com/show/7u4nlhVNmzzZrLjmB7z137?si=dcf00d7580444ccb
Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal, wosoc. Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
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Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
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Eric Hobsbawm's idea that the imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people infuses my work.
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Ex-Foreign Office adviser to Robin Cook. Politics, foreign policy, football. Scottish 🏴. Firmly left. HMFC🇱🇻MUFC🇾🇪.
Creating a comprehensive account of parliamentary politics in England, then the UK, from the thirteenth century to the present day.
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Trying to find the human in the everyday, and write about it. Mission Driven Bureaucrats are all around us - and can be on you shelf (DanHonig.info/missiondrivenbureaucrats). Work London & DC.
Programme Director at the Institute for Government - interested in how government works and how it can work better
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Broadcaster. Slow eater, fast reader.
Former research assistant @instituteforgov
Parliaments | Human rights | Writing | Trapeze.
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