New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

Prime minister confident social media ban will work and will empower Australia’s parents - ABC News www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Glasman is an absolute weirdo.

"Far from draining our welfare system, migrants are supporting the British state’s solvency." New analysis by @lgilbert.co ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...

The Thick of It 2025 edition. Where would the characters of The Thick of It be in 2025? @dmk1793.bsky.social gives his take. Full episode here 👉 linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow... #thethickofit #thickofit #malcolmtucker

For anyone still tempted to take Dominic Cummings at all seriously, he's now an advocate of Donald Trump-style open racism.

I wanted to do this 15 years ago but only got support to create the option for schools to do this voluntarily. Would make a big difference.

Superb stuff from @nickanstead.bsky.social. The Celebrity Traitors are behaving like a more fragmented and volatile electorate. Perhaps because they have less on the line?

Hell of a line up assembled by m’former colleagues here.

The patterns by neighborhood rent look quite different, and the relationship with education level is also more nuanced. A small 3% gap to Cuomo in precincts with incomes above $200,000 indicates that Mamdani performed relatively well in these areas.

We campaign in TikTok, we govern in Excel. As the older Cuomo didnt say.

The lessons of Mamdani’s victory for progressives: 1. Tell compelling stories 2. Identify clear enemies 3. Create policies that address voters’ problems 4. Mix modern online campaigning with face to face conversations 5. Mobilise

Australia to introduce power cuts... no, wait, free power for 3 hours a day, as the solar boom has reached its, what's the new word?, abundance phase. HT @volts.wtf www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

New substack: how the government can raise economic growth: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/increasing...

Digital ID It will make your life easier. And it will be free. Here is Josh Simons, Cabinet Office Parliamentary Secretary explaining just a few of potential uses. I personally cannot wait for it. Most people will wonder what the fuss is all about when we get it. www.instagram.com/p/DQb9v_igdEa/

In defence of digital ID: timharford.com/2025/10/in-d...

Last Friday, new English Indices of Deprivation were released for the first time since 2019, measuring relative deprivation in 33,755 areas of England across multiple domains. How do these geographic disparities relate to voting patterns in the UK’s last General Election? A short thread 🧵

Delighted to announce we are advertising our first academic post in the Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM). The position is Associate Professor in Politics, Technology and Computational Social Science and is joint with Politics, the Oxford Internet Institute, and Reuben College 1/n

Painful comparison for UK Labour.. Incumbency and centre left governing doesn’t *have* to be quite so painful with the right strategic choices. HT @drjennings.bsky.social

Oof. Look at those Coalition numbers (and One Nation)...

Nigel: I agree with Nick!

Unrelated to this post, but: talking about 'class' is the single most effective, cost-free change Labour could make to improve their support.

'Alarm clock Britain' is remarkably hackneyed, cliched and - frankly - dull - phraseology from someone who is meant to be good at this stuff.

All in favour of shared spaces that get people out and about and it you’re going to burn money on gambling then yeah, better to do so with a friendly person on hand. But still some incredible “men’s mental health” lobbying against a gambling tax in the Sunday Times. www.thetimes.com/article/f115...

Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The generation that experienced WW2 knew how bad things could get. The horrors that they had directly experienced in Coventry, on Omaha, at Belsen, Bastogne, Dresden, Nanjing & Tokyo meant that they understood how dangerous THIS was. This is where all that started.

Wrote about the dominance of "victims" in our political discourse, which included this fab chart @owenwntr.bsky.social www.economist.com/britain/2025...

"everyone I disagree with is a Hamas supporter". This is so fucking tedious

This is the case I've been regularly trying to make to both Labour people and wealth tax advocates over the last few months - a wealth tax as political cover for broader tax rises

Really enjoyed recording this discussion with David Runciman, covering threats to democracy, early 20thc theories of oligarchy, how algorithmic social media is changing politics, the problem with 19thc approaches to suffrage - and much, much more!

Coming back to this. The amount of attention Reform gave Caerphilly (and lack of expectation management) suggests their data showed them winning. Worth remembering when we hear similar stories about Reform's advanced data analysis in future!

Great to speak to @greenmirandahere.bsky.social for today's FT Inside Politics about the latest finding from our politics of (im)patience project, w/ @karlpike.bsky.social and @philipjcowley.bsky.social. www.ft.com/content/e984...

Truth-telling. It seems so easy when it’s done. You just have to do it. Of course Trump might now threaten ABC with a lawsuit for claiming that Vance had not answered the question…

Which party underperformed the most in the 2025 local elections? Arguably Reform UK. A 🧵 on what the locals tell us about a key and neglected dimension in analysis of the current political situation.

There have likely been 10,000 or more university redundancies in the academic year 2024-25. @gsoh31.bsky.social, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Oxford Brookes, argues that the Higher Education system as we know it is coming to an end.

🆕 Anti-Woke Wake: It the Tory Party dead or just resting? ☠️ 💥 Tory Conference debrief 💥 France latest political soap 💥 A deal on Gaza - but antisemitism on the rise An amazing episode with special guest @samfr.bsky.social. 🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/5JQF... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

🧠 Alzheimer’s reversed in mice A new study found that injecting nanoparticles can 'remind' the blood–brain barrier to function properly again, restoring normal brain activity in mice. Human trials could follow within years. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm #Alzheimers 🧪

If you can't see how this will end, then you're not paying attention (not least to what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic).

Businesses should call on the chancellor to put VAT on everything while complex rules should be consigned to history, writes Tim Leunig. Read more: https://bit.ly/4nFvYAn

if that HIGNFY Euan Blair fuckup had been about a right-winger it'd have had full front-page scandal coverage in the Mail followed by frontpage coverage across the board for the next week, days of "BBC in crisis" headline coverage by the BBC, and parliamentary questions about Tim Davie's future

Barely a fortnight has passed since Kemi Badenoch’s reflexive and incredibly OTT hostility to the government’s proposals for digital ID.

Pleased that @nuffieldfoundation.org support @fullfact.org & their important work.

Feels like this is one of those things that could have quite serious repercussions - how can this have slipped through?

Saying it in the recording is pretty bad. It actually making it to air is *woeful*. This is really basic stuff..!

Absolutely astonished @hignfy.bsky.social just stated that Multiverse will be running the government's digital ID scheme An incredibly basic failure of fact-checking fullfact.org/technology/d...

as @dralanwager.bsky.social and I put it in 2021, the gap between the deregulatory vision of the Brexiters and the preferences of the British public meant 'the prime minister won the Brexit war. Keir Starmer may have an opportunity to win the peace'. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Not with you on this one. My electronic ID is my legal citizenship tied to my rights and I feel safe. The EU moves on…..

Just so you know, digital ID is soon to be in general use in most European countries. It is already in use in some non-European countries.

Just 20% of Britons believe the government is doing too much to reduce carbon emissions, amid Kemi Badenoch announcing the Tories would repeal key climate change laws Too little: 32% About the right amount: 25% Too much: 20% yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

= Brexit