Paul Kelly

The dissenters are all for executive supremacy but the others (apart from liberals) are plan old constitutional conservatives who quite like the separation of powers

That will now be a new catch phrase - to sweat like a Prince…

Goodwin heading to be the David Icke of UK political science - people (but not me) will write book chapters on how did this happen …👆👆👆

Ha ha - Goodwin …

The David Icke of UK pol sci …👆👆👆

Agreed - turns out that ‘hate Obama/Biden’ coalition turns out to be a far less stable future for the US right. Packing a SCOTUS with conservative justices has unintended consequences if you assume that equals executive supremacy 👆👆👆

Congratulations - I will read it and what’s more I will buy a physical copy when return to Uk. Good luck- no doubt more to say when I’ve had a read…👆👆👆

FT exclusive:

Global Counsel, the advisory firm founded by Lord Peter Mandelson, is set to go into administration as soon as Friday in the wake of revelations about the former peer and Jeffrey Epstein, its staff have been told.

www.ft.com/content/ad5d...

Impact Case Study: *Advancing* the Understanding of Aquinas Towards Mass Detention Infrastructure

British political science has a dog in this fight …👆👆👆

Wow.

Happy Lunar / Chinese new year of the Fire Horse to all my students and colleagues …

Belting start to the week. My Aim is True plus strong fresh coffee

Looks interesting…👆👆👆

Re-litigating the charge of deicide against the Jews tells you something about the state of conservative Catholicism in America (cit. from a friend)

Will the Epstein files tarnish the reputation of Jamie Dimon, America’s banker? The final stretch of the JP Morgan Chase chief’s career is a bumpy one, as Trump himself demands prosecutors investigate Epstein’s ties to Dimon’s bank

www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...

Tarnish his reputation? I thought that had happened years ago …👆👆👆

Well done #BBCR4Today for inviting a climate denier on to justify Trump…

Love Temu Corbynism …

… and so indicates that she actually does give a stuff. 👆👆👆

People asking him to do his job ie see his students etc (I was one of those bullshit job people in this instance - I otherwise quite liked David) - he was of course a Professor of Anthropology a job others might question..👆👆👆

Ah yes but it’s necro-imperialist Zionist settler colonialism - and not of course the other variants… (I’m pretty sure there ought to be a ‘neoliberalism’ in there somewhere…

I wouldn’t read too much into Reform’s response as policy - it’s more populist talking point stuff. Kill high skill employment in a smallish north Wales town is not an obvious vote winner…

… It might also be Pochin thing. As I understand it the ‘Reform’ student societies want Tice, Yousuf or Bull as these are the guys to get close to if you want party roles. Farage wouldn’t do society events, Lowe and the other guy don’t count not sure how well Goodwin is regarded or what he is up to.

As far as I can tell this is not a ban but the denial of a request for a platform. Our LSE conservative student society (which has basically gone Reform) has no problem getting a platform for Reform speakers, I event chaired one such event with David Bull … 👆👆👆

Quite epically wrong - nearly two decades after Blair’s departure there are no Blairites (except @rentouljohn.bsky.social) only those whose politics has been shaped for good or ill by Blair and Brown. The real dead end was the Blue Labour populism of Glasman etc and that needs p urging…

Speccy is not quite sure how to deal with Mandelson - they hated him because he was the Labour Party they wanted …

Line chart showing that confidence in President Donald Trump's ethics has declined among several U.S. religious groups over the past year. The chart is based on Pew Research Center surveys of U.S. adults.

% of White evangelicals who are extremely/very confident that Donald Trump acts ethically in office 📉

55% in early 2025
40% in early 2026

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Nice piece from Theo Hobson - (now read the books @pjthinker.bsky.social Against Post-Liberalism and @mattsleat.bsky.social Post-Liberalism) @politybooks.bsky.social

The trouble with post-liberalism You might suppose that sensible mainstream theologians have been calmly refuting such reactionary posturing. If only

For about fifteen years now, the term has attracted academics and pundits who want to sound edgy.

✍️ Theo Hobson spectator.com/article/the-...

It’s very good of Prince William to distance himself from his horrific uncle Andrew, while on a visit to hang out with journalist-murdering bastard Mohammed bin Salman. I