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Nick Clarke

@nickclarkegeo.bsky.social

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Geographer, social scientist, student of politics

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Peter Allen @peterallen.bsky.social · 1d

Print and send this chart (from your newsletter on Tuesday) to every household in the country.

A graph from the FT showing government spending by age cohort. Over-70s have more spent on them than any other age cohort.

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 2d

My latest on trust for The Big Issue... drawing on various research from our ESRC projects on anti-politics over the last decade.

There's no trust left in the world. How can we get it back?

As The Celebrity Traitors comes to our screens, academic Will Jennings looks at why we've lost trust in our institutions, and each other.

www.bigissue.com

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Mass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social · 10d

Our next event, 'Everyday Life and the Crisis Ordinary in Middletown, U.S.A.' is now open for booking! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/everyday-l...

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History & Policy @historyandpolicy.bsky.social · 15d

We’re delighted to publish a new Policy Paper today by Jonathan Moss & @emilyrobinson.bsky.social. They suggest that Mass Observation @massobsarchive.bsky.social - founded in the 1930s - can help us understand the reasons behind contemporary voter apathy. historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...

Mass Observation and Political Engagement in Britain - History & Policy

Low turnout in the 2024 General Election and other signs of voter disengagement from politics pose serious challenges for the UK’s democratic system. To meet these, this policy paper argues, we need a...

historyandpolicy.org

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The Policy Institute @policyatkings.bsky.social · 17d

NEW: Just 11% of the public today agree with Margaret Thatcher’s declaration that there is "no such thing as society" – but this rises to 49% among those who are presented with her full quote.

💬❓Our new study tests how context shapes public reaction to four influential political statements ⬇️

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Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social · 22d

The Mass-Observation Critical Series documents and archives the everyday lives, thoughts and attitudes of ordinary Britons.

Found out more https://bit.ly/4lPM60w

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Russell Prince @russellprince14.bsky.social · 24d

My book Understanding Policy Mobility is out this month, for anyone interested in my take on this literature that has emerged over the last 15 odd years www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/und...

Understanding Policy Mobility

‘With great clarity and insight, Russell Prince’s Understanding Policy Mobility not only explains why and how public policy ideas move, but why it matters. An indispensable guide through decades of sc...

www.e-elgar.com

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 26d

Shot, chaser

Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

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Jonny Darling @jonnydarling.bsky.social · 27d

Commentary on asylum hotels considering how govt can develop dignified community-based housing that meets multiple social needs. Warehousing people in camps and continuing a failed experiment in privatisation causes nothing but further harm @geogdurham.bsky.social theconversation.com/after-the-ep...

After the Epping Forest case, the government needs to be bold and build asylum housing that works

Asylum housing needs to come back under public control.

theconversation.com

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Renewal @renewaljournal.bsky.social · Sep 8

"public opinion should only be one consideration among many in policymaking and party strategy, and never the prime mover of politics."

@philswatton.bsky.social on the pitfalls of poll-driven politics and the importance of political leadership.
renewal.org.uk/blog/public-...

Public Opinion and the Survey Response

Political scientists know that survey responses cannot be taken at face value. For most respondents, most of the time, responses are not the product of deeply held, pre-existing, coherent views on par...

renewal.org.uk

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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · Sep 6

Across all ages, Reform UK and the Conservatives have increased their combined vote share by 8pts. Among the under 30s, they have only increased 5pts

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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · Sep 6

Britain is now one of very few countries where Gen Z are firmly left-of-centre

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · Sep 5

The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants scheme is now open for applications. This opportunity allows postdoctoral – or equivalent – scholars in the humanities and social sciences to apply for funding to support their research projects. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3K4kEyA

White banner with an image of a researcher focused on his work. The words 'BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants' are written on the right-hand side

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · Sep 5

Radical right accommodation really does not work.

New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk

doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · Sep 3

IN NEW ISSUE: British attitudes to ‘Europe’ have been long characterised as ‘reluctant’. @jamesrdennison.bsky.social explores the exception between 1988–1992 - Britain’s Pro-European Moment: buff.ly/3D41PIx (OPEN ACCESS)

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social #ECRs @sagepub.com

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Rishika @rishika-m.bsky.social · Sep 3

Artists and designers are collaborating with craftspeople to revive dying craft heritage. How are these collaborations shaping the heritage-art-craft ecosystem? My latest paper @scgrg.bsky.social
addresses this question by working on the concepts of distance and aura. Read👇
doi.org/10.1080/1464...

Auratic distance: art’s role in heritage production

The paper examines how collaborative art practices with traditional craft practitioners negotiate distance and intimacy to elevate traditional crafts as heritage practices. Addressing this question...

doi.org

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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · Sep 1

Book Launch for Listening to Landscape, King's College 21 Nov 1900. Hauntology/psychogeography/music: free event with music from The Hardy Tree @claypipemusic.bsky.social & Stonecirclesampler with @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social plus Jim Jupp & Oliver Cherer. Grab tickets from Eventbrite, going fast!

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · Aug 28

At RGS tomorrow? Come along to our session on Urban Politics, Crises and Conjunctures with @colinlorne.bsky.social @markushesse60.bsky.social @derek-ruez.bsky.social

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Thomas Dekeyser @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social · Aug 25

To those attending the RGS conference this week: interested in authoritarianism and/or AI, do come and join us on Friday for this brilliant set of papers. It will be insightful, bleak, and much more. ✨

organised w/ @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social @casey-lynch.bsky.social

description of RGS conference session mentioned here https://event.ac2025.exordo.com/session/449/authoritarianism-and-the-geographies-of-artificial-intelligence

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · Aug 23

63% of people think net migration rose in the last 12 months
8% of people think it fell

Yet it fell by 400,000 in 2024 vs 2023
[It is falling further in 2025]

Public service broadcasters are doing a core part of their job on this topic badly if that 8% is not closer to 30% at least

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Tim Cresswell @timcresswell.bsky.social · Aug 19

Coming soon. The Citizen and the Vagabond. A Politics of Mobility.

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · Aug 18

Today is my first teaching day of Fall 2025. I'm teaching a grad course on Qualitative Methods, for the first time in almost 10 years.

As several people have asked me to post my syllabus, here it is. Note that it can be, and often is, changed a bit during the semester.

spia.uga.edu

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Thomas Dekeyser @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social · Aug 7

Announcing my book, Techno-Negative!

It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.

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Eric Laurier @ericlaurier.bsky.social · Aug 5

The delicate dance of revealing more or less of who we are for one another, as it happens at the café counter. Co-authored with Sylvaine Tuncer. #EMCA #geosky

Acknowledging, recognising and responding to one another: ordinary hospitality in the café. Authors: Eric Laurier & Sylvaine Tuncer. Geoforum, Vol 165

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Nick Clarke @nickclarkegeo.bsky.social · Aug 4

One for my physical geography colleagues

Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · Aug 4

Exhibit A – physical geography (plus a bowl haircut and pipe)

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · Aug 4

Exhibit A – physical geography (plus a bowl haircut and pipe)

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · Aug 4

One like, one Presses universitaires de France book cover from the 1990s

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Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · Jul 29

My latest, exploring with numbers how the millennial household budget is basically incomprehensible to retired boomers.

WASPInomics and the magic avocado tree

Why boomers struggle to make sense of the millennial world.

open.substack.com

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History of Parliament @histparl.bsky.social · Jul 14

In this special episode, hosts Dr Emma Peplow and Dr Alex Lock were joined by three guests, including former MPs Anne Milton and Gisela, Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston.

Together they spoke about political and historical interviewing, and the reality of being an MP.

Listen to the episode now!

Four women and a man sit at a long table smiling towards the camera.

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Progress in Human Geography @proghumgeog.bsky.social · Jul 7

✈️ New paper published in Progress in Human Geography ✈️

'Mobilities I: Crisis' by Cristina Temenos

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Mobilities I: Crisis - Cristina Temenos, 2025

In this report on mobilities, I discuss research published between 2017-present, focussing on how multiple crises intersect with mobilities. I examine how recen...

journals.sagepub.com

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