MORE JOBS! The Dept of Politics is looking to recruit up to SEVEN new lecturers, with five as T&S and two as T&R. Any field is great, but we have gaps in British Politics, Theory, Public Pol, Comparative. The ad for the T&S can be found here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRW437/l... @livunipol.bsky.social

??? Today’s Liverpool Echo

That’s not yesterday, Metro. No-one wore a coat yesterday.

Reflecting on ten years since the EU referendum today as part of Imagine. Great to put this together for Ulster Uni & @consoc.bsky.social Two great panels @jontonge.bsky.social @katyhayward.bsky.social & Stephen Farry Alongside @sjamcbride.bsky.social @markdevenport.bsky.social & Allison Morris.

Yesterday we hosted two panels in Belfast on 10-years since the EU referendum and the lessons for Northern Ireland. Speakers included: @katyhayward.bsky.social, @jontonge.bsky.social, @markdevenport.bsky.social, @sjamcbride.bsky.social, ably chaired by @dmcbfs.bsky.social. Full write-up to follow!

Profs @katyhayward.bsky.social , @jontonge.bsky.social & @stephenfarry.bsky.social @sjamcbride.bsky.social, @markdevenport.bsky.social & Allison Morris will reflect on the political implications of Brexit Get your tickets imaginebelfast.com/event/10-yea...

I’m fearful of being stuck in a REF meeting whilst the PM resigns.

‘Quietly, subtly, the outsider’: Andy Burnham’s dress sense decoded

Are steps 10,11, 13, 14, 17 and 18 secret then or can the Sunday Times not count?

Even the demonstrators haven’t turned up #CPC25

Kemi Badenoch re the NI Act 1998 and the ECHR. ‘That’s the assembly, that’s not national law’. I’m no lawyer but ….

When you get the meetings calendar for the new academic year and it manages to outweigh your teaching hours.

Could a party to the left of Labour really have a chance at the ballot box? @goldbergradio.bsky.social hears from activist Alan Story and politics expert @jontonge.bsky.social From @bylinetimes.bsky.social pod.fo/e/312320

Thanks to the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social (PSA) for allowing me to say thanks to them for being a very supportive organisation for Politics academics.

We're also delighted to see the Founding Fellows featured, including @livunipol.bsky.social's own @jontonge.bsky.social and the key point from Prof Fiona Mackay that the study of politics is for all, not just for the elite institutions!

🌟PSA 75th Anniversary🌟Celebrating 75 years of the PSA being the home of #PoliticalStudies: advancing, supporting & promoting the global study of #politics & #InternationalRelations since 1950. 🎬 Watch this 3 min film to learn more. buff.ly/WaObGCF

Teaching timetable release day: the equivalent of the arrival of the football fixtures, down to the inevitable “oh no, I’m away then” stuff.

To learn more about some of the survey results discussed by our director, Prof Peter Shirlow, and our Politics colleague @jontonge.bsky.social at this @arinsproject.bsky.social event, please go to www.ria.ie/2025/07/04/n...

Research leave for the first time in a while and the out of office is on.

Shot while strapped to a chair??

Our director Prof Peter Shirlow during today's @arinsproject.bsky.social event, where he discussed the 2024 Northern Ireland General Election Survey with our @livunipol.bsky.social colleague @jontonge.bsky.social. Topics considered included immigration, voting and constitutional issues.

Next Wednesday, June 25th! Join us at the Royal Irish Academy for “The 2024 Northern Ireland General Election Survey” with Professors Peter Shirlow & @jontonge.bsky.social The event is free, but registration is required🎟️ Still some tickets left: www.ria.ie/events/arins...

Ensuring football club owners are not going to bankrupt a club or run it into the ground with a view to turning the ground into houses - both happened at Bury - isn’t “bureaucratic whim”. Astonishingly complacent arguments against a regulator from Oliver Dowden.

What does Reform’s by-election success in Runcorn & Helsby herald? theconversation.com/reform-wins-...

William Hague in today’s Times

All finished-up for another year. Thanks to convenors, @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social team, panel chairs, presenters, delegates, exhibitors, & everyone else involved in making it happen, for 3 great days of analysis and discussion #PSA25

Tomorrow’s Irish Politics panels #psa25

Great turnout for Rosie Campbell’s plenary! #PSA25

Delighted that the Department of Politics at #Liverpool - @livunipol.bsky.social - can offer a PhD studentship (fees) from this coming academic year. Details here: www.liverpool.ac.uk/histories-la... #PSA25

Ireland’s Ambassador to the UK, Martin Fraser, stressing the value of good UK-Ireland relations and NW England’s contribution, in a difficult global context, at tonight’s @irishinstitute.bsky.social dinner

Think Hugo Boss my favourite but a close call (Private Eye)

Yesterday’s Irish Times asking a few useful questions…

Looks like The Times or Sunday Times might have a decent shout of winning the, er, Times and Sunday Times Sports Journalism Awards…

We're gonna need a very strong bridge....

I know a few political journalists who have tried! Times obit on why Henry Kelly switched from journalism to gameshows.

Written this. Is it unfair?

🚨 NEW 🚨 Updated list of all the UK MPs on Bluesky 👇 Labour – 248 Liberal Democrats – 40 Conservative – 4 Green – 4 Independent – 3 SNP – 2 Alliance, Plaid Cymru, SDLP – 1 each And Commons Speaker @commonsspeaker.parliament.uk

A Presidency with much to answer for