Wyn Grant
wyngrant.bsky.social
Wyn Grant
@wyngrant.bsky.social

Emeritus professor now living a quiet and blameless life in Leamington Spa. Blogger on football. Great-grandfather.

Wyn Grant is a British political scientist and professor of politics at the University of Warwick. He was chair (2002–2005) and president (2005–2008) of the Political Studies Association (PSA). Wyn Grant is a graduate of the universities of Leicester, Strathclyde and Exeter. In 2010 he was presented with the Diamond Jubilee Lifetime Achievement award of the Political Studies Association of the UK at their Awards Ceremony. He was elected an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2011. .. more

Political science 51%
Business 17%

Rural Labour MPs were key in forcing government to back down on farm inheritance tax: agpostbrexit.blogspot.com/2025/12/gove...
Government gives way on farm inheritance tax
In a Christmas Eve u-turn the Labour Government has backed down on inheritance tax for farmers.  My estate will still attract 40 per cent, b...
agpostbrexit.blogspot.com

South Borestshire MP Guy Bland thinks that he will lose his seat in 2029 regardless of who leads Labour, but will he seek to defenestrate Starmer? britpolanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/12/blan...
Bland keeps quiet on Labour leadershiip
As the year comes to a close, how is our fictitious South Borsetshire MP Guy Bland coping with the travails of the Labour Party?   Will he b...
britpolanalysis.blogspot.com

Farage says there will be an election before 2029 because of a fiscal crisis. The problem here is defining what is meant by a fiscal crisis, but I suppose a gilt edged strike? (as was threatened in the 1970s). Will there be a fiscal crisis in 2026? (I don't mean extra taxes).

Globalization is said to be an idea whose time is over, but that does not apply to football. Globalizers have lost another battle, but may win the war: footballeconomyv2.blogspot.com/2025/12/foot...
Football once again fails the ultimate globalisation test
The death of globalisation as an economic principle has been widely proclaimed given the reintroduction of tariffs as a political and econom...
footballeconomyv2.blogspot.com

As @robfordmancs.bsky.social and others point to the risks of Reform winning power, my search for a bolt hole from a Reform govt. takes me to the Orkney Islands: britpolanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/12/why-...
Why not go north of the border?
The news that more people are now members of Reform rather than Labour reminded me that I should renew my search for a bolthole in the even...
britpolanalysis.blogspot.com

Whatever populists say, I still believe that there is value in evidence based expertise: britpolanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/12/we-s...
We still need experts
In one of her recent diatribes, tin eared Liz Truss said that people were fed up with experts who were always wrong.  I wouldn't bother with...
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Where should I go to live if there is a Reform government?https://britpolanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/09/relocate-to-grand-duchy.html