"Has anybody seen Nigel? Speculation swirls as Farage performs disappearing act" The Guardian Let us pray....

If in London TODAY (Wed 20 May) Tim Monteath & I are launching our new OA book “Doing Open Social Science” at 16.00 in LSE’s Alumni theatre (in Cheng Kin Ku Building, Lincoln’s’ Inn Fields). All welcome & free drinks at 5pm. (NB corrected times)

If in London tomorrow Wed 20 May I’m launching my new OA book with Tim Monteath “Doing Open Social Science” at 16.00 in LSE’s Alumni theatre (in Cheng Kin Ku Building on Lincoln’s’ Inn Fields). All welcome & free drinks at 5pm. press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3... Hope you can come! (NB corrected times)

Andy Burnham has endorsed the Supplementary Vote as his preference for reforming UK elections in our multi-party age after SV’s in decades of English mayoral elections always created legitimate outcomes. This free chapter explains how it works from p.62. press.lse.ac.uk/chapters/e/1...

Andy Burnham has endorsed the Supplementary Vote as his preference for reforming UK elections in our multi-party age after SV’s success in decades of English mayoral elections always created legitimate outcomes. This free chapter explains how it works from p.62. press.lse.ac.uk/chapters/e/1...

Out now & free to download by chapters or whole text, my @LSEPress book with Tim Monteath, Denisa Kostovicova and Hannah Boroudjou *Doing Open Social Science* press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3... helps qualitative & quantitative researchers make their work more reproducible & robust

Andy Burnham has endorsed the Supplementary Vote as his preference for reforming UK elections in our multi-party age after SV’s success in decades of English mayoral elections always created legitimate outcomes. This free chapter explains how it works from p.62. press.lse.ac.uk/chapters/e/1...

SV has a major downside: it's not a proportional system. It avoids the situation where any one constituency elects the most disliked candidate, but it completely fails to create a Parliament that reflects the votes cast. This isn't an issue for Mayors where only one person is being elected.

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Andy Burnham has endorsed the Supplementary Vote as his preference for reforming UK elections in our multi-party age after SV’s in decades of English mayoral elections always created legitimate outcomes. This free chapter explains how it works from p.62. press.lse.ac.uk/chapters/e/1...

Didn't he say this was after the next election when Reform gets in and stitch it up forever like Trump?

Is this the most proportional/democratic version?

Have you evidence that Burnham specifically supports the Supplementary Vote? This isn't PR. Indeed in the past he has spoken positively about ranked voting, ie preferential voting.

Excited to see this! I've recently built my first couple of RAPs and think it's great to build more discipline into analysis, full documentation and scrutiny of assumptions etc. Results often depend on layering of analytic judgements which individually look small/defensible, but which can add up.

🤞🤞🤞what's more, it is easy to understand

A marginal improvement on FPTP, inasmuch as it would hamper the likes of Reform, but not proportional at all. Would often boil down to a binary choice of "shit sandwich" and "shit sandwich with sugar on" rather than "nice things" being on the menu.

Finding it hard to get very excited about a non-proportional voting system designed for three parties being used for five/seven party politics.

Brilliant, in his ITV News interview Burnham backs the Supplementary Vote to reform Commons elections. SV was used for London & all Mayor elections 2000-22 & now restored for future. SV means every MP is one of top 2 candidates locally & has local majority support. & We know it works in UK politics

Why might Burnham be keen on electoral reform using the Supplementary Vote? Answer - Australia’s recent experience, where Labor got 35% support in first preference votes, and 55% in run off with Trumpist rightwing Liberal leader. See my free 2024 blogpost blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

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Out now & free to download by chapters or whole text, my @LSEPress book with Tim Monteath, Denisa Kostovicova and Hannah Boroudjou *Doing Open Social Science* press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3... helps qualitative & quantitative researchers make their work more reproducible & robust

This looks fantastic

Brilliant, in his ITV News interview Burnham backs the Supplementary Vote to reform Commons elections. SV was used for London & all Mayor elections 2000-22 & now restored for future. SV means every MP is one of top 2 candidates locally & has local majority support. & We know it works in UK politics

You can also download the whole book for your mobile or cell phone using this QR code. It reads great in this format too. Image

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Published today & free to download by chapters or whole text, my @LSEPress book with Tim Monteath, Denisa Kostovicova and Hannah Boroudjou *Doing Open Social Science* press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3... helps qualitative & quantitative researchers make their work more reproducible & robust

How oligarchs dominate our democracies and preserve inequality blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

Reform’s rise is a productivity warning, not a culture war victory blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

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Almost all the neo-racist stuff on the internet about the UK comes from paid agents of overseas interests www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Another case showing the Environment Agency is unfit for its role and needs urgent redirection and new leadership news.sky.com/video/waste-...

Gita Gopinath writes “A painting of the end of meritocracy: A meeting of the two largest economies and not one woman at the table.”

UK economy grows at rapid annualised rate of 2.4% in first quarter 2026 - despite partisan media gloom merchants constantly running down Britain www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Time to close GBNews biased slop channel www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

Published today & free to download by chapters or whole text, my @LSEPress book with Tim Monteath, Denisa Kostovicova and Hannah Boroudjou *Doing Open Social Science* press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3... helps qualitative & quantitative researchers make their work more reproducible & robust

Where’s the fury about rightwing antisemitism? The newspapers that call out leftwing antisemitism publish antisemitic cartoons and champion politicians with a record of antisemitic statements. So who is holding *them* to account? This week’s column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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If you’re in London on Wednesday 20 May I’m launching my new OA book with Tim Monteath “Doing Open Social Science” at 16.00 in LSE’s Alumni theatre (in Cheng Kin Ku Building on Lincoln’s’ Inn Fields). All welcome & free drinks at 5pm too. Hope you can come! (Please note corrected times)

Imagine yourself in Tehran. What would *you* do, or settle for — especially given your familiarity with the levels of competence and patience possessed by your antagonists? 🗺️ (8/n)

“Iran now knows without doubt it needs a nuclear weapon to survive and will probably threaten the Strait of Hormuz in perpetuity,” the Nato source added. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

Delighted to collaborate with @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social & Tim Monteath and contribute to shaping discussions about Open Social Science: its significance, forms and challenges drawing on JUSTINT @erc.europa.eu research @lse-ei.bsky.social @lselibrary.bsky.social press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3...