Why not put up a banner "mission accomplished" on an air craft carrier and wear some military fatigues.

Crazy exit polls - and a historical disaster for the FDP and the SPD.

I am quite sure the poll does not show that. inews.co.uk/news/politic...

If this MRP is right and the SNP win a majority on a mere 35% of the constituency vote (by winning 67 of the 73 constituencies), it would really show how awfully disproportionate the Scottish AMS can be. Not quite as bad as FPTP in Westminster, but still. www.thetimes.com/article/c5e4...

Reform not winning constituencies is not curious at all. Reform take votes away from the Tories, but not all, and surely won't get any tactical votes from other unionist parties. Their appearance makes it much easier for the SNP to sweep the constituency seats. 1/ www.thetimes.com/article/c5e4...

"Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas" sounds more like from a shitty fantasy movie than a reshuffle.

This party attracts not just racists but primarily extreme racists. If only Reform were treated as the extremists they are in our public discourse in this country. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Imagine the US and Iran go to war and you can't be sure which one is the religious fundamentalist regime. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Some call it bet, others call it insider trading.

For a sport to remain fit for 21 century purposes, you need to get rid of the sporty aspects of the sport, like actually winning things or qualifying. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-...

If you are a fan of German compound words, and don't lose fascination just because one is describing uncivilised practices, here is a new one for you: "Sekundärmigrationszentren". Secondary migration centres. Places where the EU wants to incarcerate those seeking asylum. fascinating.news/r/1oivmOYD

Anti-voting activists. What would democracy be without them? www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Someone is having a wee bit of fun with Goodwin's Wikipedia page.

Betfair has certainly gotten more bullish about a Green win in Gorton and Denton. I'll just sleep over that then.

I read the article and I just cannot find the argument for manufacturing a majority for a party that wins 30% of the vote.

I don't think British people have a right to voice opinions about bread.

We all instinctively know that sentiment towards immigrants has reached new lows in the UK. Well this proves it. Labour and Conservative MPs are speaking in a more hostile way about immigration than at almost any other time in the last century... www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

Scottish weather forecast: "the rain clears off, to be followed by showers."

This may come as a massive blow to the Royal Correspondent of the BBC, but I doubt that I'll remember for years to come where I was and what I was doing when Andrew was arrested.

The headline should be "Reform candidate wants his own wife penalised because she doesn't let him breed enough for Britain."

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The interesting thing about the ice dancing at the Olympics is that most competitors are coached by the same people, and a good number are not competing for their own country, or have competed for a multitude of countries, with a healthy overlap between the two groups. It's basically a racket.

5/5 PMs with approval ratings of measles isn't just a feature of failed leadership. It's Brexit Britain. There's no money for anything people want and were promised they would have, and no one can blame the people who got us into this mess because they got 52% of the vote (let alone reverse it).

Sure. Why not castigate a then 91 year old for having slacked off in his reading.

Read open access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 New paper by @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social & @maarja.bsky.social on women in politics. Drawing from Germany (1976–2025), they show that local party control over nominations means even mixed electoral systems struggle to get women elected, especially in rural or safe seats.

If you just try hard enough you can make Gordon Brown the bad guy in this story.

Does the Guardian review system not allow for zero stars? Because the review itself leaves no room for awarding a star. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...

Not so much a party but a shuttle service for Reform defectors.

They could just as well merge. But what would they call their joint venture? Conform? Reservatives? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Minneapolis is a place that means a lot to me, so I wrote a short Substack about the city, its people, and what we all owe them. benansell.substack.com/p/my-minneap...

Hard-right is still a meaningless term, but this is still better than the BBC labeling him an academic.

Really happy this work with @fraraffaelli.bsky.social found a home at EJPR. We show that growing up at times of high salience of immigration produces cohorts of voters who are more likely to vote for parties that they agree with specifically on immigration. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Let's just hope they don't use them at the Biathlon. Given how they respond to people holding phones imagine the massacre when they see dozens of people with rifles.

Three years running now in my political behaviour class, when, during the session on political socialisation, I ask students about their earliest political memory, there is always one who says it was their dad hugging family members and being elated on the day that Margaret Thatcher died.

The new Terminator franchise is going to be a politically idiotic mind-bender.

So the Tories spend years purging themselves of everyone not quite willing to go radical right in order to have those most enthusiastically embracing the new radical-right curious Toryism to abandon it for the real thing. What does that make the remaining Tory party?

Since I generally excel at going unnoticed on Bluesky, I am embarking on this new series "quips aimed at exceedingly niche audiences".

Burns scuppered.

Ironically, the history of agenda-setting theory is a perfect example of framing: McCombs and Shaw, coining the term agenda-setting: 21,793 citations on google scholar Funkhouser, having the cooler name and studying the thing in better fashion: 1,023 citations on google scholar

Very liberal use of "real".

"We democratically arrived at authoritarianism whereas those not yet autocratic did so by being illiberal" is not as great a selling point of the US as the author might think. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...

Ever wondered why Germany, in 2001 only the seventh country in the world after the Nordic ones and Netherlands to have more than 30% of MPs female, has since completed stagnated and been overtaken by 50-odd countries? In this newly published paper, @maarja.bsky.social and I try to explain that.

We've tried everything else. Let's go for pathetic.

Working tirelessly for his constituents.

I think we need a division by nation within the UK. Surely, the Scottish don't get up earlier than the Irish. And if they are, I blame protestantism.

But until Ofcom do so, government will still prioritise the deepfake porn site as their favourite social medium on which to communicate.

2025 has set a low bar.

It’s important to be at the Nazi Nonce club to provide a counter-narrative to all the nazis and nonces.