In absolutely chef’s kiss timing, Matthew Goodwin is due to speak at Orbán’s in-house propaganda group MCC *today* Badloss strikes again.

Relatively minor aspect but Orban’s removal with have big repercussions for football in Hungary I detailed Orban’s manipulation of football for his brand of far right nationalism for @novaramedia.com here: novaramedia.com/2022/11/30/h...

Get fucked Orbán

Finally done (for now). If you study elections, want to use the Constituency-Levels Election Archive, but don't like bugs, then say hello to `clean_clea`, now on GitHub: github.com/jackobailey/...

Obviously remains to be seen what this looks like in practice, but seems like a good idea and a step in the right direction?

Efforts to defeat competitive authoritarianism don't end when you beat them at the ballot box (the article is still worth a read though).

This is good!

Southampton's 5-1 win against Wrexham this evening moves them into the play-offs and extends their unbeaten run in all competitions to 16 games. They were 15th in the Championship when they lost their last game — now they're sixth and in the FA Cup semi-finals.

In honor of Vance's visit to Hungary, where he will campaign for Viktor Orban, I am reposting my article from last year. I argued that Orban's Hungary is one of the poorest countries, and certainly the most corrupt and least free country, in the entire EU. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Delightful stuff. Up the scum.

I think everyone would agree that the police and MPs shouldn’t be shoplifting.

It's the weekend in some time zones, go follow some soccer nerds

Keeping a close eye on the bananas

extremely happy to share that "Political Pundits and the Maintenance of Ideological Coalitions" is conditionally accepted at @polbehavior.bsky.social osf.io/8c3fr/files/...

Flat.

I like to laugh at fans of big clubs who act like they've got it tough because their team only won 90% of their games or didn't win the league every single year. But fair enough Spurs fans, this shit really is horrendous at every level.

Disingenuous prick. He has embedded transphobia as policy. He has denied young trans people access to medication and support. His government has brought back a version of Section 28 against trans young people. He is actively denying trans and non-binary individuals safety and respect.

I think a lot of folks underestimate the difference between the middle of the road stuff and high-end sports gear. Having trained in a pair of shitty old Venums for a while now, these are in a whole other league (and these gloves are not on a level with a pair of Winnings).

There is no better feeling than new sports gear. It is much better than actually doing the sport tbh.

It is fucking hilarious how the two women distracted them and she slips in and is under the van in no time. G'wan.

I feel like Goodwin is getting a lesson in the fact that, even in hard right politics, you can be either pleasant to work with or good at the job but you do actually need to be one of them. His cardinal error was to be a prickly, thin-skinned arsehole and then lose. No one to blame but himself.

this is very fun for me personally and might be fun to similar people, ymmv data-feature-ranker.vercel.app

As a Southampton fan who had a season ticket during the Lowe years, I can confirm that every Saints fan fucking despised him, long before anyone knew anything about his politics. Lowe was the worst thing to ever happen to the club.

Seen a bunch of this shit lately. Being responsive to the needs of your local community is obviously a good thing, what the fuck are we doing here? The English is literally right above the Bengali!

I grew up in this community and I have a few thoughts I want to share. A short thread. www.jewishnews.co.uk/breaking-hat...

Ant Middleton loves his country, but not enough to live here. Ant Middleton cares about the lives of British people, but not enough to pay his taxes. Ant Middleton cares about law and order, but not enough to have not done time for assaulting two police officers.

Goodness me

Made a pilgrimage to see the Battle of Cable Street mural round Whitechapel way yesterday. Lived in London for about a decade and only just got round to it... Also grabbed a pint by the Thames in a pub my dad used to drink in in the 60s (but I've done this one many times).

We go live to the AFCON final

I took my blind gran to vote on the new bank notes, and she very loudly said "which one to gas badgers?" and the whole place cheered.

New w/@scottclifford.bsky.social. Lots of work uses agree-disagree scales, and a lit review shows these are 1) frequently just measured in one direction (agree = higher trait) and 2) correlated with each other. This has potentially big issues for conclusions. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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what a world

A long time ago, I used to know a lot about foreign-imposed regime change (FIRC) and study them. I guess that makes me qualified to write a thread about them, especially in wake of Trump bombing Iran. So here goes nothing. 🧵

Good to see this excellent intervention from Labour MPs Becky Cooper and Tim Roca - rightly focusing on the immediate democratic risks created by FPTP, and highlighting the @appgfairelections.bsky.social's proposal for a National Commission as the way forward

The attack line on Green Drugs Policy by Reform entirely echoed and exaggerated by David Blunkett on #bbcaq Wherever you stand on drugs and legalisation, this country needs a grown-up debate on this complex subject rather than this dismissive stuff about "Polanski wanting to legalise crack".

There are no good guys

Hey, my friends saw you at the Woke Progressive and Sectarian Islamist Convention and they said you were telling everyone how to vote

If Goodwin had sat on the stage and peed his pants he'd have left with more dignity than this

Yeah the electoral system is broken in potentially irreparable ways and that is making things a lot more chaotic, but otherwise I don't think we're that much of an outlier.

Goodwin's petulance is hilarious, but it's also a warning that, for the far-right, they have no abiding commitment to democracy and value it only to the extent to which it allows them to attain power. If *we* value democracy, we must take the warning.

Charlotte embodies the new Conservative Party (she's a fucking loser)

I keep thinking of @dylandifford.bsky.social's point that everything wrong with the McSweeney-Starmer governing strategy was obvious to anyone who had done the most basic and broad of first year political science.

It’s a running joke in academia that Matt Goodwin is bad at maths. This sort of thing is why: the combined Labour/Green vote could have split in any way possible and Goodwin would have finished 2nd or 3rd. He did not lose because progressives coordinated. He lost *in spite of them not doing so*.

My timeline is almost entirely Matt Goodwin hate right now. Smashing that repost button like I'm trying to give myself RSI.

Matt Goodwin, a man so personally repellant he reversed the creeping wave of fascism sweeping the globe.

You think that’s funny do you. Well right this moment Matt Goodwin’s sitting at home eating his book again

me since 5am

MATTHEW BADLOSS IS IT

matt goodwin *will* see your jokes about him and they will gnaw away at what’s left of his soul forever and ever and ever