The new Prime Minister is writing a "10-year plan" for the UK. The arts & culture MUST be part of it. I've signed @campaignforthearts.org's petition urging @andyburnham.bsky.social to revitalise the arts – to revitalise the whole nation 🌱 Join me: www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/10-year-plan/

Prime Minister – put the arts in your 10-year plan for the UK | Campaign for the Arts

Sign our petition urging the UK Government to build a country where the arts are available from childhood, accessible to all and thriving everywhere.

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Interesting qualitative study of smartphone addiction in young adults “”I can never be in a room alone and not be on my phone.” Understanding smartphone addiction of young adults". You can read more about it here: www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Frontiers | “I can never be in a room alone and not be on my phone.” Understanding smartphone addiction of young adults

The literature on smartphone addiction, particularly concerning young adults, is mostly quantitative and focuses on screen time and the self-assessment of wh...

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Depressing reading: Loss of academic staff and "cold spots" for humanities and social science degrees threaten strategically important skills for UK, says British Academy. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/loss-of...

Count Binface is taking this seriously --- A really excellent video x.com/killingbrita...

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Count Binface vs The Establishment Official Satirical Music Video #CountBinface #ReformUK #NigelFarage #clacton

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Annoying. I should have said ‘genuine stupidity.’

Last day of IconS and a full room to discuss Defending the Political Constitution

Great to be able to present my book at Icon-S in Dublin today with excellent critical comments

Please consider signing this position to Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter - mainly in the humanities and social sciences, which historically have been the university's core strengths. www.change.org/p/stop-redun...

Sign the Petition

Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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On the 10th anniversary of the Brexit referendum, it's worth reposting my old @lseblogs.bsky.social post with my critique of the "will of the people" rhetoric around Brexit, from the perspective of social choice theory. @lsephilosophy.bsky.social @albertpweale.bsky.social @rbellamy.bsky.social

Is Brexit the will of the people? The answer is not quite that simple - LSE BREXIT

The Prime Minister, Theresa May, has repeatedly asserted that Brexit is “the will of the British people”, and that the government, therefore, has a duty to “deliver” it. But is Brexit really the will ...

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I'd like to think that Burnham - like any sane person - will rightly conclude that whatever Frost thinks, one should do the opposite. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

UK’s former Brexit negotiator says Burnham should ditch much of Starmer’s EU reset if made PM – Europe live

As UK marks 10 years since the EU referendum, David Frost says outgoing prime minister’s team ‘didn’t think hard enough about the choices and the processes’

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Out today and free to read: Brexit and the UK constitution. Essays on the economy, immigration and regulation by John Springford, Jonathan Thomas, Catharine Barnard and Joel Reland and an introduction by Katy Hayward: https://consoc.org.uk/publications/brexit-and-the-uk-constitution/

Brexit and the UK Constitution - The Constitution Society

Brexit and the UK Constitution is an edited collection surveying the impact of Brexit 10 years after the UK voted to leave the European Union

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Clean economy brings jobs and growth, says Miliband as £100bn invested in green energy

Clean economy brings jobs and growth, says Miliband as £100bn invested in green energy

Energy secretary hails £100bn milestone in this parliament and says it is ‘only the start of what we want to achieve’

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Details here - virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/74960/...

Richard Bellamy@rbellamy.bsky.social · last mo.

Am looking forward to discussing my Defending the Political Constitution at Icon-S in Dublin on July 1st 14-15.30 with Jeff King, Iseult Honohan, Carmen Pavel, and Ignacio Giuffre All welcome!

Am looking forward to discussing my Defending the Political Constitution at Icon-S in Dublin on July 1st 14-15.30 with Jeff King, Iseult Honohan, Carmen Pavel, and Ignacio Giuffre All welcome!

ICON•S@icon-s.bsky.social · 10mo ago

📢The 2026 ICON•S Annual Conference Call for Submissions is out! Join us in #Dublin from June 29 – July 1, 2026! Read the 🧵for details ⬇️

I'm looking forward to taking part in this debate - I last did so during the pandemic, which seems a different time in so many ways .... cdga.org.uk/event/putney...

Putney Debates 2026: Constitutionalism in Times of Empire and Autocracy > Centre for Dialogue and Global Affairs

The 2026 Putney Debates explores some of the conceptual and practical challenges that empire and autocracy raise for constitutionalism.

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Question for historians and jornos: is Hesgeth the first fascist to make a speech on a Normandy beach in 81 years?

Reading this reminded me how during the Thatcher years Bernard Crick suggested Labour was the party of Burke. One could understand the appeal of such a stance - but more now than then there is a real desire for transformative policy making. open.substack.com/pub/benansel...

Pardogatto Progressivism

The switch in radicalism from left to right is the key challenge of our age

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Great turnout and discussion of my colleague Shuk Ying Chan’s important book on Postcolonial Global Justice. With thanks to Adom Getachew, Désirée Lim-Risso and David Owen for their excellent commentary.

My contribution to the current debate on the Canadian Notwithstanding Clause and the superficial - but in my view misleading - comparisons with similar clauses in the Human Rights Act open.substack.com/pub/constitu...

Declarations of Incompatibility in Canada and the UK: Are They Really the Same?

Richard Bellamy is Professor of Political Science at University College, London (UCL), a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) and a Member of the Academia Europaea (MAE).

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Breaking: it turns out that a strategy that literally every political scientist went 'No, don't do that. That's nuts!' is, in fact, nuts.

UK elections: Reform surges in English local elections

Nigel Farage’s party has won about 300 seats in early results

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This is so much a continental European election result it’s almost funny. True Britain Democrats (PfE) 26% Ecology/Planet Action (G-EFA) 18% Christian Democrat Union (EPP) 17% Socialist Workers Revolutionary Party (S&D) 17% Europe Liberalism! (Renew) 16% Others 6%

Looked at another way: Leave/Right bloc: 47% ; Remain/Left bloc 51% But Remain/Left bloc more evenly split despite being bigger, so Leave/Right bloc does better under FPP. As in 2019 with Johnson's Leave coalition. But that could change if left bloc vote coalesces nationally or locally

A call for Post Graduate Teaching Assistants at UCL in various aspects of political science, including political theory for the second year compulsory module on POLS0063 - Ethics and Public Policy www.ucl.ac.uk/pg-teaching-...

PGTA - Political Science

Political Science are looking for PGTAs. Start date: 1st September 2026. Deadline to apply: 11.59pm, 17th May 2026.

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With thanks to Bilyana Petkova for organizing this public lecture on Hate Speech related to her research project on regulating Online speech www.unwe.bg/bg/news/7750...

Проф. д-р Ричард Белами, политолог от University College London, изнесе публична лекция в нашия университет

Проф. д-р Ричард Белами, политолог от University College London, изнесе публична лекция в нашия университет - В УНСС се проведе публична лекция на проф. д-р Ричард Белами, политолог от University Coll...

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Thanks to Rukky Otive-Igbuzor for his excellent summary of the discussion. www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/news/20...

Book Launch: Defending the Political Constitution

GCDC celebrates the launch of ‘Defending the Political Constitution’ (Oxford University Press, 2026), authored by Professor Richard Bellamy.

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This is a new role packed with potential. An exciting direction of travel to get caught up in…

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Awesome job alert. We are looking for a Head of Fellowship and Alumni to work with our scholarly community. £66.5k. Perhaps the most beautiful office in London next to St James’ Park. Take a look / spread the word! www.peridotpartners.co.uk/jobs/head-of...

The claim that those opposing her unjust snd cruel policies on immigration are somehow anti democratic in opposing the views of millions of voters is precisely the argument used by right wing populists like Vance snd Farage, comparison with whom she objects to. … www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Shabana Mahmood swears at ‘white liberal’ hecklers over Reform remarks

Home secretary accuses protesters of trying to ‘delegitimise’ concerns people have over immigration

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Great new CRISPP Special Issue now out: Articles by the editors, James Johnson, Tom Malleson, Rainer Bauböck, Arash Abizadeh, Sarah Song, Courtney Jung, Simone Chambers, with a reply by Joseph Carens

Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy@crispp.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: Vol 29, No 3 is now available: A Special Issue on: The Political Thought of Joseph Carens Editors: Kiran Banerjee; Abraham Singer; Melissa S. Williams www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcri20/c...

If you missed the book launch, there's no excuse - you can now watch the video! With thanks to all the great commentators. youtu.be/H_mnwtQRHTw?...

Defending the Political Constitution: A Book Launch of Richard Bellamy’s latest book

YouTube video by UCL Laws

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Thanks to Alan Renwick for asking me to do this podcast with him on my latest book Defending the Political Constitution. No need to spend £105 to read it - thanks to Alans's expert questioning I'll talk you through it for free. uncoveringpolitics.com/episodes/the...

The Nature of Constitutions and the Role of the Courts | UCL Uncovering Politics

This week we’re looking at the nature of constitutions. What are ‘legal’ constitutions? What are ‘political’ constitutions? And why might the latter be better than the former?

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