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Ben Rosamond
@benrosamond1.bsky.social
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Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of Edinburgh. Anglo-Swede, would-be leg spinner, new elite (if only). Political economy and assorted other obsessions.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d
Revelations about RW social media accounts being run from Russia correspond perfectly to data already revealed by the Panama, Paradise & Pandora Papers: Russian money streamed thru offshore accounts funds virtually all right-wing "populist" parties in EU & NAmerica. Same goal: undermine democracy.
chadbourn.bsky.social Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.

It’s Russian.
Collingwood @admcollingwood 田 Date joined January 2017 • Account based in Europe Veritied since Since August 2024 > 1 username change Last on January 2017 Connected via Eastern Europe (Non-EU) Android App

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 3d
3 per cent margin of error; 5 percent ‘too bloody right is is!’

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 3d
Every Labour MP, SPAD and apparatchik should read this, then read it again. @casmudde.bsky.social with a perfect distillation of why the feted 'Danish model' doesn't work. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark | Cas Mudde
This week’s local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, they’re making a mistake, says academic and author Cas Mudde
www.theguardian.com

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 4d
'Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!'

On second thoughts ...

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 4d
We are moving ever-close to the singularity where all devices will resemble Eddie the shipboard computer from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 4d
Scratchy memories of 1972, but 1975 is the proper starting point for me.

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 4d
Perhaps the Home Secretary needs to learn about the difference between correlation and causation.
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4d
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood made more explicit her argument that when ethnic minorities face racism, "we have no choice but to ask: what is the cause of our division"

Her answer is the level of net migration, 2019-23 causes racism. (She on Monday said it was caused by the scale of asylum)

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4d
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood made more explicit her argument that when ethnic minorities face racism, "we have no choice but to ask: what is the cause of our division"

Her answer is the level of net migration, 2019-23 causes racism. (She on Monday said it was caused by the scale of asylum)

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 5d
VCs all over the UK be like
a cartoon character says my goodness what an idea why didn 't i think of that
ALT: a cartoon character says my goodness what an idea why didn 't i think of that
media.tenor.com

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 9d
We are being governed by people who discount robust measures of public sentiment in favour of their ‘For you’ feeds on X.
drjennings.bsky.social Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 9d
As I have said before, this Number 10 briefs far too much.
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 9d
Somebody is briefing the Times that the Home Secretary finds inspiration in Kristi Noem's leading the Trump mass deportation effort - which has gone much too far for Americans

What a kamikaze piece of political madness that is on the eve of their asylum package
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 9d
As I have said before, this Number 10 briefs far too much.
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 9d
Somebody is briefing the Times that the Home Secretary finds inspiration in Kristi Noem's leading the Trump mass deportation effort - which has gone much too far for Americans

What a kamikaze piece of political madness that is on the eve of their asylum package
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Shabana Mahmood threatens Trump-style visa ban on three countries
Angola, Namibia and the Democratic Republic of Congo will face Trump-style sanctions if they do not start taking back more illegal migrants and criminals
www.thetimes.com

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 11d
In which case, repair to the poop deck forthwith.

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 11d
If you have any hatches, they should be battened down.

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 12d
There's that amazing passage in Fever Pitch about Gus Caesar, which illustrates how someone - who is generally regarded as a failure in top flight football - must have been truly exceptional talent to even get close to being on Arsenal's books in the first place.

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 12d
So now he wants to slash the funding of the social sciences by a mere 40%?

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 12d
It seems to have stopped
a man is peeking through the blinds of a window and asking if it is safe .
ALT: a man is peeking through the blinds of a window and asking if it is safe .
media.tenor.com

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 12d
The Open University … but not that open.

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 12d
We have now reached that singularity, but the avalanche is ongoing.

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 12d
This is going to go on all day, isn’t it?

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 12d
Massive political science reply-all-gate in progress.

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 13d
Not sure that this is quite what Popper had in mind. Refutation through shooting the shit doesn’t really cut it.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 13d
Perhaps check the actual numbers before posting (see www.ukri.org/wp-content/u...).

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 15d
Exactly this.
robertshrimsley.bsky.social Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 15d
The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.

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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 15d
The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 15d
The absence of a monocle is a little disappointing.

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 15d
Why the humanities *really* matter: a case study. Excellent thread.
eicathomefinn.bsky.social Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 15d
What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?

Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
The organ donation ‘opt-out’ has been a fatal failure | The Observer
observer.co.uk

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 15d
Like inviting King Herod on to talk about developments in paediatric care.
bestforbritain.org Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 15d
Sky News just had Kelvin Mackenzie on, former editor of The Sun, one of the people at the centre of probably the most disgraceful front page in newspaper history, complaining about BBC journalists not being objective and 'fake news'. Astonishing. ~AA

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 15d
Sky News just had Kelvin Mackenzie on, former editor of The Sun, one of the people at the centre of probably the most disgraceful front page in newspaper history, complaining about BBC journalists not being objective and 'fake news'. Astonishing. ~AA

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 15d
What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?

Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
The organ donation ‘opt-out’ has been a fatal failure | The Observer
observer.co.uk