Clearly the Home Secretary and No10 are doubling down. At least, after it goes all up in flames in May, it will be hard to argue that they didn’t clarify their position sufficiently for people to notice.

📻 Great new podcast on political behaviour - the last episode features my @lsegovernment.bsky.social colleague Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social on whether campaigns matter, Mamdani’s victory and the Dutch elections - listen here ⬇️ linktr.ee/Politically....

Starmer and Reeves just did the fiscal equivalent of Gordon Brown teasing an election for weeks and failing to follow through. The beginning of the end surely..

🚨 New paper with Maria Grasso on generational shifts in political values. Despite talk of rising age polarisation, we show that gaps in attitudes are stable or even narrowing. Economic attitudes move in cycles, while social values have become more liberal – mainly due to generational replacement.

A month ago I looked at what I called Labour's midlife crisis- an obsession with chasing socially conservative Reform-curious voters and ignoring groups of disaffected voters with social attitudes much closer to Labour voters. But some people thought there was method in their madness. Was there? 1/n

🚨 NEW in @bjpols.bsky.social : When Partygate hit Westminster, trust in Scottish politicians increased. Our experiments reveal a "contrast effect" - scandals at one level can make the other look better by comparison. Who lost most trust in Westminster? Scottish unionists. Read now #OpenAccess 👇

Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments: One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.

Here is some hard evidence that Mamdani actually managed to bring young voters to the polls. 18-29 year olds voted at similar rates than 40-49 year olds.

Good luck to all @epssnet.bsky.social section chairs who are about to read more than 2,500 abstract submissions 😳

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Looking forward to being back at @sociologyoxford.bsky.social today talking about differential mobilization and turnout inequality: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/9ae... Say hi if you around Oxford!

"While testing one dimension at a time can yield simple results, those effects may not generalise to richer, real-world contexts." Read our new POAL Methods Briefs on Conjoint Experiments from Thomas Robinson! Link: www.poal.co.uk/research/met...

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In an ongoing project, we ask which countries citizens prefer as benchmarks for policy decisions. Pilot data from the UK show that Denmark is ranked as one of the most preferred reference countries, particularly in relation to migration policy.

Here is the episode that we recorded yesterday: open.spotify.com/episode/3FRd... Thanks for the great questions, Marc!

‼️Last chance to submit your paper or panel proposal to EPSS 2026 conference in Belfast is TODAY! Don’t miss out - it will be full of great political science and fun social events! 👩‍🏫🥳 epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

I am grateful for the strong commitment to lawful free speech here, but in the spirit of free speech and open disagreement, I don’t think that the position of institutional neutrality outlined by President Kramer in this interview is the right one: blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat... (1)

Four (!) three-year postdoc positions available at @au.dk: international.au.dk/about/profil... Join an incredible team & help understand the psychological & political implications of the clash between high-speed society & slow-speed democracy. Please share! @tboeggild.bsky.social can help with Qs

Here's my take on Mamdani. ryandenos.substack.com/p/mamdani-an...

We are hiring an Associate Professor in Politics, Technology and Computational Social Science. The post will be part of our new Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM) and is a joint hire with the Oxford Internet Institute. All details in the job ad below. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

This year’s call for applications for the Prize Post Doctoral Fellowships in Politics at Nuffield College is now live! It’s a fantastic opportunity for newly minted PhDs to spend three years in a wonderful academic environment: www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...

New WP on political violence in democracies with the fantastic @dianebolet.bsky.social and @bjarneck.bsky.social. Sadly very topical, but with some positive results osf.io/preprints/so... 1/

How can you go on morning TV, knowing that this question is coming and your best answer is "I don't follow American politics closely". Desperate stuff from someone in the mix to succeed Starmer.

The question to sort out is how much of the impressive Dem sweep was a result of differential voter turnout that might not carry as strongly into 2026 and 2028 and how much of it signals a sustainable repudiation of Trump in the form of the mobilization of new voters and voters changing sides.

I still remember the 2013 NYC mayoral race and especially the chaotic Dem primary when I was living in Hamilton Heights ... anyone remember Anthony Weiner? Still trying to forget that episode. The past years were harsh for progressive New Yorkers/most New Yorkers. Delighted for my friends today.

Going on Politically in/sane with Marc & Jade later this afternoon to talk (amongst other things) New York Mayor & whether Mamdani has found the holy grail of progressive electoral politics in changing the electorate where others (Bernie, Corbyn) failed before him: open.spotify.com/show/5bEoSaK...

A great job opportunity for any data experts with a love of social sciences and social research. Pros: you get to work on cool projects with important public policy impact. Cons: you have to listen to me make bad puns in meetings. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43... #polisky

Great teaching tool! 👇

ANES Data Release! electionstudies.org/data-center/... The 3-wave ANES panel is now available. It merges data from 3 election studies (2016-2020-2024), the first time the ANES has collected interviews of the same respondents across 3 presidential elections.

NEW from me: Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent. That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀

UK has been doing redistribution for years but the perception is very different

🚨 EPSS Belfast 2026 Call for Papers - One week to go! 🚨 Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal to the European Political Science Society @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 conference - just one week to go before the deadline: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

Update: Only 1 student in my undergrad lecture had seen TSITP. 🤕😱 Trying again with grad students after reading week...😇

Last chance 🚨 Post doc in our @aimediademlab.bsky.social, U Amsterdam. The lab is vibrant, collegial, inspiring and fun. And there are great research opportunities DL November 1 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

If both the housing minister and the chancellor make mistakes about the fees they need to pay regarding buying and letting, then maybe the rules are too complex?

In new research, @isoldehegemann.bsky.social @lsegovernment.bsky.social looks at how #AI fact-checking can be used effectively to tackle online misinformation and protect democracy. @lseusablog.bsky.social

Sarkozy is going to jail but he’s not the first one. In our new dataset we track modern leaders who have been prosecuted by their own states. There are 215 of them. Turns out leader prosecution is a common & healthy practice in democracies. Full access link: foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/28/d...

I wouldn't be surprised if Labour strategists spent the summer obsessing over Mamdani while being entirely blind-sided by Polanski.

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Your Party is turning out to be a bit of a God-sent for the Greens. It keeps the usual characters and groups on the radical left occupied with the latest intra-party struggles (in a different party!) while Polanski can appeal to the leftwing-progressive vote disillusioned with Labour.

The Political Behaviour Stream of the MSc in Political Science @lsegovernment.bsky.social is welcoming applications for entry in 2026/27: www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse... Benefit from teaching and supervision from world-leading scholars, weekly research seminars & an active alumni network:

From our latest issue: The Class Ceiling in Politics by OLLE FOLKE, JOHANNA RICKNE www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Very cool experiment on how different fact-checking labels on social media affect on-platform behaviours amongst a sample prone to encounter political misinformation, with important results by @lsegovernment.bsky.social PhD candidate @isoldehegemann.bsky.social 👇

Wins the internet today

These bar code train tickets are very cool. At my local station you show them to the person at the gate and they open the barrier for you.

My feeling is that stakes are so high at this point that personal ambition should step back. Where is the actual plan to defeat this authoritarian government and rightwing extremism? Just take a look across the pond and ask how President Trzaskowski is doing...

The @ec.europa.eu preliminarily finds TikTok and Meta in breach of transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act. The EC also finds that Meta and TikTok have put in place "burdensome procedures and tools for researchers to request access to public data." ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Don't forget to submit your Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science application this weekend❗ 📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Applications close 26 October 🚨

Now that they are a clear threat, there are some signs that voters are ready to coordinate to keep Reform out. The bad news for Labour is that they are not coordinating around them.

We'll see more of this all over Britain from Wales (Plaid) & Scotland (SNP), to London (Greens) and the Home Counties (LibDems). Labour assume that voters will return (tactically) but that takes for granted that they are in clear 2nd, a very strong assumption: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...