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Ancient and loyal
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Andy Burnham is running to be MP in the Makerfield constituency in the town of Wigan. This just happens to be where I grew up. So I decided to write about my home-town and what makes it slightly different.
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WIGAN EXCEPTIONALISM
A plea to understand Wigan on its terms rather than viewing it as an extension of somewhere else
https://postliberal.substack.com/p/wigan-exceptionalism
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Stefan Schubert
4 months ago
The company that Swedes trust the most is the government alcohol monopoly. IKEA is a distant second.
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Alberto Acerbi
15 days ago
Time to repost
mybook.to/technopanic
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Ystwyth Hudson
20 days ago
somewhat bonkers Intelligence services found a Chinese tracker in the PM's car back in 2022 and we're still going ahead giving them that giant new embassy
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James Breckwoldt
21 days ago
When I put "rejoin the EU" in a vote-choice conjoint, people who disagreed were more motivated to vote against than people who agreed were to vote for. And those who said "neither agree/disagree" voted against hypothetical candidates who supported rejoin
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Jessica Elgot
22 days ago
Spent the day in parts of Ashton and Orrell where Labour canvassers are targeting the 16% of undecided voters in Makerfield by-election. A few observations (from a single day) I found surprising - A lot of people who voted Reform just weeks ago say they are prepared to vote for Burnham
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Ystwyth Hudson
26 days ago
Remember when two tier keir wanted a piece of fiction shown in schools to combat real world issues, but now there is a real world incident he's against politicizing stuff funny old world
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Andy Burnham is running to be MP in the Makerfield constituency in the town of Wigan. This just happens to be where I grew up. So I decided to write about my home-town and what makes it slightly different.
postliberal.substack.com/p/wigan-exce...
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WIGAN EXCEPTIONALISM
A plea to understand Wigan on its terms rather than viewing it as an extension of somewhere else
https://postliberal.substack.com/p/wigan-exceptionalism
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Andy Burnham is running to be MP in the Makerfield constituency in the town of Wigan. This just happens to be where I grew up. So I decided to write about my home-town and what makes it slightly different.
postliberal.substack.com/p/wigan-exce...
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WIGAN EXCEPTIONALISM
A plea to understand Wigan on its terms rather than viewing it as an extension of somewhere else
https://postliberal.substack.com/p/wigan-exceptionalism
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I wrote about how two religious revolutions inadvertently rewired how England and Ireland drink
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THE DRYING OF THE ISLES
The specific historical conditions that produced the binge-drinking cultures of England and Ireland
https://postliberal.substack.com/p/the-drying-of-the-isles
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Richard Irvine
2 months ago
This is superb. Been thinking how Scotland fits into this - there's to be a particular pathology here that comes from the intersection with a Presbyterian puritanism making drinking something to be not enjoyed & drinkers a class of people to be punished. Which paradoxically pushes harder drinking.
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I wrote about how two religious revolutions inadvertently rewired how England and Ireland drink
postliberal.substack.com/p/the-drying...
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THE DRYING OF THE ISLES
The specific historical conditions that produced the binge-drinking cultures of England and Ireland
https://postliberal.substack.com/p/the-drying-of-the-isles
2 months ago
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The binge-drinking problems of England and Ireland aren’t ancient traits, they’re the unintended consequences of religious revolutions that reshaped when, where, and how people drink.
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THE DRYING OF THE ISLES
The specific historical conditions that produced the binge-drinking cultures of England and Ireland
https://open.substack.com/pub/postliberal/p/the-drying-of-the-isles?r=8su7h&utm_medium=ios
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The binge-drinking problems of England and Ireland aren’t ancient traits, they’re the unintended consequences of religious revolutions that reshaped when, where, and how people drink.
open.substack.com/pub/postlibe...
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THE DRYING OF THE ISLES
The specific historical conditions that produced the binge-drinking cultures of England and Ireland
https://open.substack.com/pub/postliberal/p/the-drying-of-the-isles?r=8su7h&utm_medium=ios
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Did I mention that I had written about the specific historical conditions that produced the binge-drinking cultures of England and Ireland? I probably forgot to mention it.
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THE DRYING OF THE ISLES
The specific historical conditions that produced the binge-drinking cultures of England and Ireland
https://postliberal.substack.com/p/the-drying-of-the-isles?r=8su7h&utm_medium=ios
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I wrote about the specific historical conditions that produced the binge-drinking cultures of England and Ireland
open.substack.com/pub/postlibe...
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THE DRYING OF THE ISLES
The specific historical conditions that produced the binge-drinking cultures of England and Ireland
https://open.substack.com/pub/postliberal/p/the-drying-of-the-isles?r=8su7h&utm_medium=ios
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I wrote about the specific historical conditions that produced the binge-drinking cultures of England and Ireland
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THE DRYING OF THE ISLES
The specific historical conditions that produced the binge-drinking cultures of England and Ireland
https://open.substack.com/pub/postliberal/p/the-drying-of-the-isles?r=8su7h&utm_medium=ios
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Ive written about the specific historical conditions that produced the binge-drinking cultures of England and Ireland.
open.substack.com/pub/postlibe...
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THE DRYING OF THE ISLES
The specific historical conditions that produced the binge-drinking cultures of England and Ireland
https://open.substack.com/pub/postliberal/p/the-drying-of-the-isles?r=8su7h&utm_medium=ios
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Ive written about the specific historical conditions that produced the binge-drinking cultures of England and Ireland.
open.substack.com/pub/postlibe...
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THE DRYING OF THE ISLES
The specific historical conditions that produced the binge-drinking cultures of England and Ireland
https://open.substack.com/pub/postliberal/p/the-drying-of-the-isles?r=8su7h&utm_medium=ios
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Yuan Yi Zhu
2 months ago
The Scottish Parliament, which has no lords, has rejected assisted suicide. The Welsh Senedd, which has no lords, has rejected assisted suicide. David Lammy, who is not a lord, has withheld royal assent to the Isle of Man assisted suicide legislation.
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New Substack from me. Ive written about the drinking cultures of England and Ireland.
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THE DRYING OF THE ISLES
The link between religion and the drinking cultures of England and Ireland
https://open.substack.com/pub/postliberal/p/the-drying-of-the-isles?r=8su7h&utm_medium=ios
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Long read on how the English Reformation in the 16th century and Ireland’s Devotional Revolution in the 19th century changed their drinking-cultures
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THE DRYING OF THE ISLES
The link between religion and the drinking cultures of England and Ireland
https://open.substack.com/pub/postliberal/p/the-drying-of-the-isles?r=8su7h&utm_medium=ios
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Long read on how the English Reformation in the 16th century and Ireland’s Devotional Revolution in the 19th century changed their drinking-cultures
open.substack.com/pub/postlibe...
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THE DRYING OF THE ISLES
The link between religion and the drinking cultures of England and Ireland
https://open.substack.com/pub/postliberal/p/the-drying-of-the-isles?r=8su7h&utm_medium=ios
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New Substack from me. Ive written about the drinking cultures of England and Ireland.
open.substack.com/pub/postlibe...
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THE DRYING OF THE ISLES
The link between religion and the drinking cultures of England and Ireland
https://open.substack.com/pub/postliberal/p/the-drying-of-the-isles?r=8su7h&utm_medium=ios
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New Substack essay from me. Ive written about English and Irish drinking cultures and tried to explain why they are the way they are.
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THE DRYING OF THE ISLES
The link between religion and the drinking cultures of England and Ireland
https://open.substack.com/pub/postliberal/p/the-drying-of-the-isles?r=8su7h&utm_medium=ios
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New Substack essay from me. Ive written about English and Irish drinking cultures and tried to explain why they are the way they are.
open.substack.com/pub/postlibe...
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THE DRYING OF THE ISLES
The link between religion and the drinking cultures of England and Ireland
https://open.substack.com/pub/postliberal/p/the-drying-of-the-isles?r=8su7h&utm_medium=ios
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Ystwyth Hudson
3 months ago
this graph about southern ireland is something else no wonder they are having fuel protests in the roi
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Ed West
4 months ago
The case for bundling substacks
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The case for bundling substacks
No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money
https://www.edwest.co.uk/p/the-case-for-bundling-substacks
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Alberto Acerbi
5 months ago
The kids are alright
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How bad is the youth life-satisfaction crisis?
Certain groups are hurting, but overall you're creating a moral panic
https://statsandsociety.substack.com/p/how-bad-is-the-youth-life-satisfaction
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Andy Cowper
5 months ago
Labour have been in government for just over 18 months. They still have no form of vaguely achievable, credible or realistic health policy, which seems like a problem.
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Cowper’s Cut 410: The age of miracles
“This excuses culture does the centre-left no favours. If we tell the public that we can’t make anything work, then why on earth would they vote to keep us in charge? In the NHS, we have an initiative...
https://www.healthpolicyinsight.com/cowpers-cut-410-the-age-of-miracles/
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laudable Practice
6 months ago
On this Epiphany Eve, the Armenian Chapel of Dzordzor, in north-west Iran, where, over centuries, Armenian Christians looked up at the same night sky into which the magi gazed.
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Alberto Acerbi
7 months ago
So, maybe not the phones?
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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‘A Recipe for Idiocracy’
What happens when even college students can’t do math anymore?
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/math-decline-ucsd/684973/
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Sam Freedman
8 months ago
In other news look at councils projected cumulative deficit just on special needs costs over the next few years. Yikes.
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Ive written about drug-death epidemics on my new Substack. How they begin and how they end.
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A COHORT THEORY OF DRUG-DEATH EPIDEMICS - How supply shocks create them and generational turnover ends them
‘There’s a hole in Daddy’s arm where all the money goes, Jesus Christ died for nothing, I suppose’
https://open.substack.com/pub/postliberal/p/a-cohort-theory-of-drug-death-epidemics?r=8su7h&utm_medium=ios
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James Ball
8 months ago
The worst you can accuse Panorama of doing is making a misleading edit – and I’d dispute that! – to make *a point that was true*. The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.
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Rob Ford
8 months ago
I suspect being sued for a billion dollars by Donald Trump, who is about as popular as cholera in Britain, for saying something true about what Trump did (albeit with a bad edit) will probably do the BBC's public trust and approval ratings quite a lot of good in the end.
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New essay. I use the 18th century gin craze as a template to trace the trajectory of modern-day drug-death epidemics and to discern how the American opioid crises and the Scottish drug-death problems are likely to peter out eventually via generational turnover.
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A COHORT THEORY OF DRUG-DEATH EPIDEMICS - How supply shocks create them and generational turnover ends them
How supply shocks create them and generational turnover ends them
https://open.substack.com/pub/postliberal/p/a-cohort-theory-of-drug-death-epidemics?r=8su7h&utm_medium=ios
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Ive written about drug-death epidemics on my new Substack. How they begin and how they end.
open.substack.com/pub/postlibe...
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A COHORT THEORY OF DRUG-DEATH EPIDEMICS - How supply shocks create them and generational turnover ends them
‘There’s a hole in Daddy’s arm where all the money goes, Jesus Christ died for nothing, I suppose’
https://open.substack.com/pub/postliberal/p/a-cohort-theory-of-drug-death-epidemics?r=8su7h&utm_medium=ios
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Alberto Acerbi
8 months ago
Goffman in the digital age
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Attention on social media depends more on how you express yourself than on who you are - Nature Human Behaviour
This study shows that how you express yourself is more influential than who you are in attracting attention on social media. Attention is easier to acquire than to sustain.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02323-1
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Sam Freedman
8 months ago
The private sector is supposed to be better value for money because it has a profit incentive. But if not regulated properly - and often it's impossible to regulate properly - the profit incentive makes it less efficient to the state.
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Sam Freedman
8 months ago
Also highlights a point I spend a lot of time on in my book - the government is woefully bad at managing private contractors who endlessly rip us off. This is not more efficient.
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Andy Cowper
8 months ago
Unpaywalled for the next couple of hours: my latest column, which looks at why Labour’s health policy thinking is so remarkably bad.
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Cowper’s Cut 398: Only really bad ideas can save us now
My variations on the theme of Labour’s clue-deficit on health policy and politics are, alas, with us yet again this week. Sorry, innit. I’ll stop writing about it as soon as it stops being true. In ...
https://www.healthpolicyinsight.com/cowpers-cut-398-only-really-bad-ideas-can-save-us-now/
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Jamie Hanson
8 months ago
Smartphone use in a large US adult population: Temporal associations between objective measures of usage and mental well-being
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
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Jill Rutter
8 months ago
We mustn't forget the capacity of football to bridge divides in Israel. There are many sports-based peace initiatives in Israel eg Football for Peace. Hapoel Tel Aviv has had Israeli Arab players throughout its history & has a large Israeli Arab fanbase This doesn't deny racism in Israeli football
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David Ross
8 months ago
Good result for Yorkshire in the Turkish League
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Orbinho
8 months ago
67% of the goals Arsenal have scored in the Premier League this season have come from set plays - the highest proportion in the division.
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Jamie Hanson
9 months ago
Fundamental features of social environments determine rate of social affiliation
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Alberto Acerbi
9 months ago
More null results in relationship between smartphone usage and mood (US adults)
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Smartphone use in a large US adult population: Temporal associations between objective measures of usage and mental well-being | PNAS
Smartphones are essential tools in daily life yet concerns persist about their potential effects on mental health and well-being. Research on these...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2427311122
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James Kelleher
9 months ago
Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this
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Ystwyth Hudson
9 months ago
he's going to do another moronic speech isn't he
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