Paul Smith
@paulysmith.bsky.social
Doctor of Political Science at RGU Aberdeen UK. Interested in political communication/media pluralism. #NUFC season ticket holder. Living with MS. Shoegazer ♿️
CONTROL ROOM: "CODE RED! CODE RED! GET THE FUCK OUT OF THERE!"
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdaythis answer about what issues matter to him from a college student waiting in line at the Trump rally wasn't what the Fox correspondent expected to hear. She moved on with swiftness
UK ‘wealth exodus’ was manufactured by the press. The press complaints body IPSO must investigate or step aside. The story started with one study which now admits it has no evidence. Media owned by corporations and the super rich lapped it up, served their economic interest, ideological purpose.
The ‘wealth exodus’ was manufactured by the press. The press complaints body IPSO must investigate or step aside. - Tax Justice Network
TL;DR Since 2024 about 30 news articles a day have been published around the world about an exodus of millionaires and billionaires fleeing taxes. ……………………….. The UK, we’re told, has had the worst of ...
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We've had transcripts of Thiel's secret lectures on the Antichrist for a minute -- he's been publishing relevant parts of them, so we had David Gibson, director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University, pull them apart for us. Gift link! www.theverge.com/tech/1014252...
There'll be whole articles devoted to Darren Jones' God Complex. But what really is his complaint? That as a single minister he wasn't allowed to fundamentally reengineer government? What did he have to do to traverse this hurdle? Get PM and Chancellor sign off and provide a ministerial statement.
Josh Self@josh.politics.co.uk · 4d ago🚨 Darren Jones: officials repeatedly told me I couldn’t act ‘because of the constitution’ “I would often reply with, ‘The constitution’s unwritten. So if I decide to do something, it changes. Therefore, why can’t I do it?’” He tried to “abolish the Cabinet Office three times” but was “not allowed”
Now things have settled after the Coventry game I just want to say this. A lot of people I respect on here lost their fucking minds and should think about what they said. The same people were glad Eddie left and were excited about a young team and said we must be patient?!Sort yourselves out #nufc
Exclusive: Do you remember the polling company Redfield and Wilton, which appeared from nowhere in early 2020, whose polls quickly appeared in lots of publications? The company’s director is a registered solicitor, prompting questions over where the polling expertise came from. Here’s the answer…
Nigel Farage adviser had unpublicised role at polling firm
Exclusive: Chris Bruni-Lowe used Redfield & Wilton Strategies role to develop potential campaign tactics, sources say
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Bellingcat's latest documentary, Killing Anna, will be broadcast tonight on Channel 4 at 11:05pm, following the real life investigation into the Tadamon massacre in Syria. It'll also be available on More4 from tomorrow onwards www.channel4.com/programmes/k...
#Politicle: 10/10/2026 I identified the mystery MP after 1 clue 🟥🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ Can you do better? politics.co.uk/politicle
Guess the MP! Politicle - Politics.co.uk
Can you guess today's mystery MP? The game for Political obsessives. From Politics.co.uk. New Politicle Puzzle Every Day.
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We're excited to be recruiting a Senior Research Fellow for @neemabegum.bsky.social's Nuffield Foundation-funded project 'From Rivers of Blood to Rising Seas: Attitudes to Climate Migration' (tinyurl.com/bde9jn3b) in collab with the School of Psychology and @climateoutreach.bsky.social.
❗ There's a permanent, research and teaching lectureship over at the University of Surrey in the broad area of behaviour, attitudes, parties, etc. jobs.surrey.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Vacancy at the University of Surrey: Lecturer in Politics
The University of Surrey is a global community of ideas and people, dedicated to life-changing education and research. We are ambitious and have a bold vision of what we want to achieve - shaping ours...
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Kemi Badenoch wants to exempt the family home from inheritance tax. But that creates a perverse incentive for elderly people to *upsize* to save IHT. That could double the cost of the policy, and push £100bn+ from savings into housing. A 🧵 on bad tax cuts.
The party is polling, on aggregate, nine points lower than the day she took over, even with every right-wing media shoulder to the Badenoch wheel for several months now, and Reform in free fall, they have managed a one-point improvement since their party conference last year.
Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 2w agoWhen people say the Conservatives play politics on easy mode this is what it means
Sorry to be a (Conservative) party pooper, but
The Keminaissance is a myth. The Tories are still like a weird uncle.
Badenoch’s increasing tendency towards being ‘extremely online’ has led the party to paint itself into an ‘anti-woke’ corner that, to the majority of Brits who do not spend much time online…
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Mildly surprised how many people think "yeah Burnham's speech went down well but did you not notice how he failed to solve the (checks notes) 20 year growth and fiscal problems he inherited" is a devastating and insightful critique.
For my new research unit Politics of Democracy at the Berlin Social Science Center @wzb.bsky.social, we have 3 open research positions. 2 postdocs: 4 + 2 years (100%) 1 doc: 2 years (75%) Starting date: 1 March 2027 (negotiable) Application deadline: 1 November
The problem I have with so many AI evangelists is they are fundamentally anti-human
Dan of the Year@downwithdan.bsky.social · 4w agoWhen you have no concept of how people engage with music
This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
Reading the independent report into Man City's financial "arrangements" now, stopping after every paragraph, saying "Jesus"..."JESUS!"..."Holy fuck!" and again. This is beyond anything anyone imagined. Also started to wonder whether criminal proceedings are in the picture now.
Luxury retailers want taxpayers to fund a 20% tax break for foreign tourists. They paid consultancy Cebr to claim this will raise £2.6bn for the UK. That convinced Sadiq Khan and Kemi Badenoch. But it's false: a free lunch. Four basic errors mask a £600m loss. Thread:
"Since Healey is in a Labour government that will not slash spending, this means higher taxes. The UK is not in truth a high-tax country, at least by the standards of its European peers. Labour must now dare to recognise that reality." Martin Wolf telling it like it is www.ft.com/content/aa0a....
they should study him in a lab. I don’t think I could write this badly on purpose. still, glad this has higher billing than coverage of last night’s far right escalation
My latest for @lbc.co.uk: If politicians want to reduce the PIP and wider benefits bill, they should make basic investments in accessible infrastructure and services ⬇️
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LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"
I really need a job, if anybody knows of somewhere looking to hire a good writer with connections in scientific academia and a few random folks in government please lemme know
