It just feels absolutely mad to me that we're being asked to believe the police would have treated that poor boy any better if he were black

Stephen Lawrence was killed by six men. It took 19 years for two of them to face justice. Four never did. Henry Nowak's killer has been convicted and jailed within six months of his death. The two cases *are not the same*. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-o...

Last year, we shared a paper showing that Labour's accommodation of the radical right did not work. We now have a new version of the paper online: osf.io/preprints/so...

Another daily reminder. You can now find @doublepivotpodcast.bsky.social on YouTube at youtube.com/@doublepivot... We’ll return tomorrow with exactly the same message! But you should follow today. Number go up make Mike happy.

sick

Think this is far too much (the four points on top is just insulting haha). But also, this whole situation completely fucks Hull over.

Coming from London, I did find it quite jarring that Houston is both very diverse and still quite segregated. (Setting aside questions of the methodology behind this plot.)

DR CONGO'S STATUE SUPERFAN IS WORLD CUP-BOUND 🇨🇩 Visa issues stopped Michel Nkuka Mboladinga, the Leopards fan who stands like a statue in homage to the country's revered first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, from watching DR Congo qualify for the World Cup in Mexico...

I don't like to exaggerate (yes I do) but I don't think a single British person has ever said this. Y'all think some fucking insane shit about British proplr, especially regarding food.

Do you know how overpriced cinema snacks need to be for someone making 10M a year to look and be like “ok but £8 for a bag of M&M’s is outrageous”

Cole Palmer is right, as always.

Most soccer stats are focused on results, but at @futi.live we've been developing new ways to measure tactical context, like phases of play and team style metrics. For The Guardian, I showed off some of our Premier League data for the first time with one way every team's tactics stand out.

nice to see him being so inclusive but Wes, we call them women now

Chaos with Catherine West. Has anyone does this bit yet?

No, really, Labour’s local election results were just that bad. If you get 17 per cent in a majoritarian system you are at risk of extinction.

Also, if you wanted to highlight the skeletons in our closet, to prove we are very definitely not the good guys, we have a section on our Wikipedia page that trumps our dickhead fans and players...

Listen, you absolutely can (and should) hold two of those against us. But calling us "the club of Rupert Lowe" is some bullshit. No one hates Lowe more than the entire city of Southampton. So much so we use to sing about hanging him.

The key to Sunderland's survival on their return to the Premier League, Mr. Brobbey, is what that is.

the Streeting offer seems to be: I'm equally as uncharismatic as Starmer but instead of his impressive legal career I've been a politics weirdo since university

My favorite thing about Mr. Blobby is how whenever Americans find out about him they take psychic damage

Between Southampton & Middlesbrough and Keir Starmer & Wes Streeting, there are a lot of undignified losers in the news today.

I think the reaction to spygate was already a bit silly. Chucking Saints out of the playoffs seems very dramatic. But reporting the lad's name is fucking grim. Let the club and Eckert take all the shit, not some kid doing as he's told.

Damning indictment of Wes

quick recap for anyone who hasn't followed news for a couple of centuries:

Part of a broader trend whereby people get obsessed with fake "rules of politics" based on a tiny sample of previous events that have become mythologised. (Like Labour pols' belief they can't go into an election promising to raise tax because of 1992).

So many Labour councillors lost their seats. People who - independent of party affiliation - had often worked tirelessly for years to improve things in their communities. Voted out not for their mistakes, but the strategic failure and awful politics of their leadership. How must this make them feel?

This is good by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social. But what I think it misses is that fragmentation is also a function of our weakening partisan attachments. Even if FPTP forces the parties to coalesce, that’s not going away. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

For two years the 'Blue Labour' tendency has told the party's core liberal voters (in the famous words of Shabana Mahmood) to "f*** right off". Now they've acted accordingly www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-the-ma...

Even before this….let’s accept for a moment that Labour do have more to fear from Reform. Labour have done essentially everything that Luke and Morgan wanted and it hasn’t worked. It’s like saying the fact you have to win football matches validates Igor Tudor!

The electoral decline of social democratic parties is a well-studied phenomenon. If you want to understand what is happening to Labour, I recommend this (open access) edited volume by the world's leading scholars on this question. Other countries have elections, too. doi.org/10.1017/9781009496810

Looking forward to the launch of my book, Tribal Politics, with James Tilley, this evening at LSE Huge thanks to @anandmenon.bsky.social and Sir John Curtice who will be sharing their insights on how Brexit is still shaping politics and the future of UK-EU relations www.lse.ac.uk/government/e...

Knowledge Fight was and remains one of the all-time great podcasts. It is the rarest kind of thing: a show that entertains while having a real-life impact. Dan and Jordan helped defang and neuter elements of a powerful propaganda network. Excited to see what both do next.

David Benavidez looking like a dweeb that turned to boxing because he is being bullied at school while he is this violent and every punch he throws being this mean is quite something.

I found "Thierry Henry (right)" funnier than I probably should have

During this segment, Kemi Badenoch asked, apparently rhetorically: "Is he creating a climate of intimidation and violence that is resulting in people being murdered?" That sentence betrays an astonishing lack of knowledge about the recent history of terror attacks and plots in this country

Are we rejecting the idea that British Asians have made significant contributions to British cuisine again?

Commentators who talk through ring walks need to be put in prison.

Seeing far too much serious discourse about "The Goblin Situation".

Saw all these guys in Hackney Wick last night.

Why don't working-class people run for office? Anywhere you look in the world, people who run for office are considerably better off than most folks. That inequality affects the way our institutions work: from the kinds of policies they produce to how people feel about their democracy.

All that delicious lead

I love how spending years making a community with welcoming/affirming friends in Glasgow is cast 'indoctrination' and 'social contagion', but starting a detransition after watching TikTik videos isn't. These people always tell on themselves.

When you don't lead you don't get the credit for achievements (housing, energy), but you do shoulder the blame for failing to stop the shit like the mess Streeting has made of NHS reform.

Housing policy has been very positive, as has energy under Miliband. But fundamentally, the good stuff has happened *in spite* of Starmer. Not because of him.

Last fall, I was told about a burgeoning world of apps offering AI therapy. I took a look: all over the app store, there are products for kids as young as 4. Many seem to use your data for advertising. What's it mean to have AI therapy? For @kffhealthnews.org: kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

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/...