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Will Jennings📉🗳️
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I research and write about politics, public policy, public opinion, polls, elections, geography, place, trust. I run on espresso.

Political science 71%
Sociology 14%
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I shall pass on your regards!

I did tbf

Oh now it's a bit!

Likely story!
Reflections on the budget from the head of Students4Reform
This week, a very quick take on what the Budget says about the state we are in...

...but mostly, a not-at-all quick list of all the reasons I despise AI. Buckle up, etc.
The Bullshit Maximiser
This week, a very quick take on what the Budget says about the state we are in; but mostly, a not-at-all quick list of all the reasons I despise AI.
jonn.substack.com
oh this is absolutely what i think. i think they feed him fake polls and outright AI slop
At this point, I wonder if he isn't lying when he says he has "my highest Poll Numbers, ever" since it's entirely possible that's what his aides are telling him. It's quite likely that there's an entire Potemkin village built around Trump right now.
Trump responds to a detailed report about his waning energy and propensity to sleep through on-camera events by calling the New York Times's Katie Rogers ugly

The wheels of public policy move slowly. My colleague Gerry Stoker proposed a tourist tax in 2001… twenty-four years later.
'RADICAL NEW REPORT TAKES FRESH OUTLOOK ON FINANCING OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT, AND PROPOSES NEW FORMS OF TAXATION & ACCOUNTABILITY'
In advance of proposals for a White Paper on Local Government, today sees the launch of a new report from the New Local Government Network (NLGN) that
www.lgcplus.com
You'll be hearing plenty more on BGE24 from me in coming days and weeks - I have a book to sell after all - but for now a little amuse bouche from the endnotes - *was* Liz Truss really outlasted by a lettuce?
Simply go the the Springer site for the book, and enter discount code "BGE25", and you'll get 25% off the definitive guide to last year's general election - with many lessons for the current mess we are in. Here's the website:

link.springer.com/book/9783031...
link.springer.com
Looking forward to a much briefed bumper hamper of politics? No, not the Budget, The British General Election of 2024! We had a wonderful all star launch event in London last night, with representatives of all five Britain-wide parties, and now I have a special launch gift for you...read on! 1/?
the Doug Mills video embedded in the NYT Trump aging story is pretty amazing

Well that was a long day (and I still managed to have a diary malfunction)....

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Call me crazy, but I just feel like the thing people care about when it comes to tax is...the amount of money that actually gets paid into their actual bank account at the end of the month.
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
bloom.bg
Today is a good day to remind you that none of the classic vote studies thought very highly of women's political competence.

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GB voting intention results:

🟣 RFM: 28% (-2)
🔴 LAB: 20% (-1)*
🔵 CON: 20% (+1)
🟠 LDM: 13% (-)
🟢 GRN: 10% (+1)

*All-time low

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On the eve of the Autumn Budget, our latest polling finds that *over half* of 2024 Labour voters who are 'finding it difficult' economically have now switched parties.

17% now back the Greens, and a further 17% back Reform.

🧵

And yes the senior dining room menu is still obsessed with pomegranate seeds.

Twenty one years since my first academic job here - still bumping into some of the same people too…

Back at the old place for the afternoon…

That did seem to be a notable omission!

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The Reith Lectures, commemorating Lord Reith's approach to communications during the 1926 general strike.

Probably best to stop calling them the Reith Lectures if the BBC is going to behave like this.

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This seems bad...
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

This does seem to tally!
He’s a year older than me, also born and raised in London. He went to the same university but was a year above and went on to do graduate work at EUI. He then became an academic - I suspect his conception of the industrial working class was gained from TV and history books - and studying in Florence
It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites.

About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1