This realisation came from seeing someone referring to MeToo as a moment of reckoning, and the wider idea that is so prevalent now that there was a backlash against it as a victory. But even if it were “successful” (and I’m not sure it was capable of “successful”) it was still bruisingly awful.

“Whatever its value to the initiated, whatever its jargon and rules, from the outside debate must appear more cultic ecstasy than ‘public speaking.’” Ben Lerner on high school debate and the demise of public speech (2012).

'The museum will double as an event space, including a Rough Trade shop and a youth club. With a 20-year lease and support from City Bridge Foundation and the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Swinstead hopes the museum will become a significant part of the UK’s cultural landscape.'

QMUL is advertising an exciting opportunity: a fully funded PhD studentship, working on European politics, ideology, and political 'myths' with @karlpike.bsky.social and @timbale.bsky.social. Details below. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRB421/p...

“This is the story of a system gradually losing the breadth and depth of expertise that national skills, research capacity and cultural understanding depend on." www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-job-...

As the UK govt advances its New Towns agenda, @thomasaubreycca.bsky.social argues current funding plans are ill-equipped to deliver infrastructure at scale. He calls for reviving long-term, bond-based financing to unlock large-scale housing & growth without straining public finances. bit.ly/41Y8VHu

"Why not admit that these luxury homes are often little more than a tradable asset? The moment Omaze admits the prize is basically money, it looks a lot more like gambling." www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

right then.

'Condé Nast shut down its internship program when it was forced to confront the cost of unpaid labor. A decade later, that same model is reappearing — not inside institutions, but through individuals with just enough power to replicate it.' wildethought.substack.com/p/plum-sykes...

'Yet still, women have been limited in the minds of historians, caught in our web of cultural assumptions and the limited space given to other possibilities. Our research on women as madhouse proprietors pushes open that space and upends historiographical myths.'

Dramatic scenes at BBC Breakfast.

This is really good - Henry Kippin on how to do good place based policy. Feels like the right mix to me.

49% are absolutely correct

'The public also sees councils as possessing a stronger ability to impact people’s everyday lives than national government, the civil service, and other sectors of society.' Useful guide to local elections - and interesting polling - from LGIU lgiu.org/publication/...

Dana Evans supremacy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Really pleased to advertise these 4 LSE postdocs in the history of popular government as part of our ERC Synergy Project "Popular Government in Global Perspective (POPGOV)"

“Seriously ill and disabled people facing years of significant difficulty are at risk of being left on a lower rate simply because recovery, however partial or distant, cannot be ruled out.”

A beautiful day for a @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk conference.

We are looking forward to a day of insightful discussion, fresh perspectives, and meaningful connections. To attend any of the sessions online, book your ticket on the Bennett School of Public Policy website: www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/conference

Philip Rycroft presented his independent review on foreign financial influence in UK politics to Parliament today. Tomorrow, he’ll discuss his findings & recommendations at the Bennett School of Public Policy Annual Conference at 17:15. Online spots still available: bit.ly/4daNHNA

"I am not pressing the panic button in this report; that would serve the purposes of those who would undermine the trust in our democratic processes. But I am ringing the alarm bell."

'Some 83% of a representative sample of 105 MPs cited social media as their primary source, up from 61% at the start of 2025.'

'These emotional bonds aren’t incidental but instead are deeply rooted in our psychological relationships with the places in which we conduct our daily lives – they anchor us in time and place, they provide security, comfort, familiarity.' www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

Really looking forward to this. Come say hello if you're attending!

Looking forward to the @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk conference on Thursday. Any BlueSkyers coming? www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/events/annua...

Additional tickets have been released for Dr Deirdre Foley's talk on Wednesday 25th March from 6-7pm in the Wood Quay Venue, 'Women and Girls in Jacob's Biscuit Factory, c.1911-1977'. Reserve your spot at the link below!🔗 @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social www.eventbrite.ie/e/women-and-...

'The consensus among the people we spoke to was that many statistics agencies are facing challenges that have rarely been as bad as they are now. The good news is that the problems can be fixed — if there is a will to do so.' www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Nothing like coming off your bike to remind you of the importance of helmets, and the kindness of strangers

"Importantly, women also say they are significantly less comfortable with several forms of online participation, for example just 23% of women are comfortable expressing political views online compared to 40% of men." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Always remember hearing Anna Burns read aloud from Milkman at Hay a few years ago, where she completely flipped my experience of reading the book on its head. She's extraordinary.

A compromise we can all get behind surely

Really interesting to hear @connectedbydata.org's @jenitennison.com talking about their work with young people's views on how they see AI shaping their worlds. connectedbydata.org/projects/202...

Tune into BBC Sounds to hear @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social talking to Chris Mann on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire this morning (11am) about our #CamFest event this evening on digital policy, plus her career, work, connection to Cambridge, & insight on current economic news. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

'Evictions are being ordered by both owners of individual homes and corporate landlords of large blocks of flats who appear to be in a “last-minute panic” about the new Renters’ Rights Act, which will stop them evicting people without a valid reason.' inews.co.uk/news/landlor...

I like this piece from @timharford.ft.com but it largely makes the case for ‘blue skies’ type research as it may become useful later. There is a different argument I think we don’t make enough: it is part of the human endeavour to understand the nature of our world www.ft.com/content/0d60...

Important, i think, to note the 'failure' of Me Too here. (I like @moiradonegan.bsky.social on this, in a US context: moiradonegan.substack.com/p/feminism-i...)

'History, as Carlo Ginzburg famously pointed out, is an evidence-based discipline... But what does the historian do when there are no sources to answer the question that they wish to ask?' This symposium sounds fantastic.

Innovation and Governance" now at econlib www.econlib.org/library/colu...

I first came across Lucia Osborne-Crowley in 2020, with her memoir I Choose Elena. It remains one of the most powerful accounts of trauma and illness I have read. Full of admiration for Lucia's ongoing work, especially with survivors of Epstein. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This looks like a brilliant resource. learn.lsbu.ac.uk/hubfs/Women%...

Atletico Madrid fan literally making sandwiches while 4-1 against Spurs

Thank you for the platform! I don't like the phrase 'money can't buy x' (for any x), it's just too vague and not true when taking literally. It was great to juxtapose the ideas abt wellbeing @markfabian.bsky.social and I have been developing with those of @lfitouchi.bsky.social and moral psychology.

A very useful resource from @rmudie96.bsky.social and the ICON team: www.neighbourhoodscommission.org.uk/pride-in-pla...

"Engaging adults in media literacy education is vital, yet challenging. Adults are time-poor, lack awareness of media literacy and often overestimate their skills in this area." publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ld...

There's lots of talk about the growth of Cambridge. But what materials will the buidings be made of? This @camglamresearch.bsky.social roundtable is focusing on the potential of local stone and the university's collections of natural materials. 📆 27 March 2026. 12.00 - 2.00 Please share! 👇👇👇👇👇

Fascinating comparison of Labour's place-based policies and rhetoric over time.

My lukewarm take is that historiography can be just as satisfying as getting in the archives, I love following a footnote.

'If outcomes cease to be politically relevant, policymaking would become a mixture of the purely technocratic on the one hand, and the purely optical on the other. Politics meanwhile would be little more than spin and spectacle – “a game of competitive storytelling.”'