I've started a Substack where "translate" political science concepts and theories. I also lean heavy on reading recommendations. My latest newsletter is a 3-minute read defining "fascism", a word that modern fascists unironically reject. #politicalscience #science open.substack.com/pub/theopenb...

Eight Questionably-Fun Facts about women's health and legal rights since I was born (nearly) 33 years ago. Here's the image and the first "fun" fact, can you guess the rest based on this? In my lifetime, women in the UK have had to fight: 1. For marital rape to be counted as a crime.

Who should I be following on here? I care about holding people in public office accountable, protest rights, freedom of information and how authoritarianism functions within otherwise-democratic regimes. Hit me with the recommendations.

Got quoted in the @FT today saying it's not easy to be a local government official in China right now. www.ft.com/content/f197...

Apparently I've tricked social media algorithms into giving me all the cute, nerdy linguistic content for the two and a half languages I speak. This one's from Middle English:

This isn't a "social media isn't always awful" account... But sometimes it just hits in all the right places: "Indian police clear a suspected Chinese spy pigeon after 8 months in bird lockup."

Social media isn't always awful.