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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 1m

First Tice and UAE, now Badenoch and China. It's striking just how compelling authoritarian states seem to them as a point of comparison.

Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 45m

"While Britain was redefining what a woman is, China was building five nuclear reactors," says Kemi Badenoch.

I cannot be the only person curious about how these two things are related

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 49m

I mean, imagine if they were to throw this much energy and conviction at sorting out bins, or rail pricing, or water quality.

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 4h

She's nothing if not predictable, is she? I know the Tories aren't keen on anything Green these days, but pretty much all they've done this week is recycle stuff they've been banging on about--for the most part fruitlessly--for the last decade and a half. And today it's "Mickey Mouse" degrees. 🙄

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English

The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

inews.co.uk

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 16h

Jenrick being the loudest member of the Conservative party has already been a huge contributor to the poisoning of our politics. We really don't need any four-dimensional chess about him becoming leader. When it happens, it will be a terrible day for our country.

Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 23h

A Tory party under Jenrick might take a few of the racist votes from Reform, but they’d haemorrhage bucketloads to the Lib Dems.

So, on balance…

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 56m

You have to wonder just what Kemi Badenoch took from Terry Pratchett, because it certainly wasn’t a hatred for the English language, sociology and anthropology.

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 1h

Will they be flown to Rwanda?

Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 14h

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is expected to announce plans to cut the number of UK university places by about 100,000 annually by reintroducing student number controls, reports Patrick Jack #edusky
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/badenochs-number-caps-plan-would-cut-100000-university-places

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 1h

First three lines and I was transported back to the golden age of Twitter. Thanks, Keith.

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 1h

Ah well, at least it’s not a roiling pit of lunacy presided over by weird saucer-eyed guys whose understanding of what motivates human beings can best be gauged by the fact that they keep trying to make novelty glasses happen

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1h

BANK OF ENGLAND FPC: RISK OF A SHARP MARKET CORRECTION HAS INCREASED || EQUITY MARKETS ARE PARTICULARLY EXPOSED SHOULD EXPECTATIONS AROUND AI BECOME LESS OPTIMISTIC

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 1h

Got one on order, now I just need to find a manky radio

Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 1h

Hope you enjoy Warsaw (Indiana)

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 1h

There will be a lot of this happening right now. I used to write public opinion reports for a company that subcontracted analysis work from various institutions. They’d usually be in touch every couple of months. I haven’t heard from them for over a year. Doesn’t take a genius to understand why.

Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 1d

Yet another Australian Commonwealth Government fiasco: The @Deloitte scandal discredits both this high (taxpayer) paid consultant and AI (artificial intelligence). Before it was cut and paste. Now AI has been exposed making stuff up. False/fraudulent. Elizabeth Knight/SMH 👇

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 1h

I just want someone to put their hand up and ask Badenoch to explain what anthropologists do.

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 1h

“I see you looking covetously at The Apparatus. So, you feel you have exhausted the potential of The Benches? You perhaps also scorn The Beanbags? You feel The Hoops somehow beneath you, a trifle for the younger children? No, no my child, you are not ready. Many have aspired; few were called.”

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 2h

Been to the youngest’s harvest assembly.
Theory: every primary school built pre about 1980 in Britain has some version of this equipment. It is referred to as something like ‘the apparatus’.
No one has any memory of it ever being used.

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 1h

“Due to my goal of making fine dining more financially accessible, I will be sprinting away from this restaurant at precisely 22:59.”

Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 2h

“Is this a paid ‘opportunity’”

Hi Felicity, Unfortunately, due to our goal of making business more financially accessible, we don’t have a dedicated presenter budget. Despite this, it’s a fantastic extended marketing opportunity where you’d gain great exposure interviewing our headline speakers, including figures like Touker Suleyman, and be featured across our event’s digital channels and marketing materials. It’s an excellent way to build visibility, connect with influential business leaders, and showcase your presenting skills to a large professional audience.

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 1h

That aside, I wish someone would keep hammering them on the philistinism and hatred of their own country’s culture. Saying British kids shouldn’t study English because it won’t make them money echoes Tice and Candy’s contempt for anything that isn’t their Magic Kingdom Canary Wharf in the emirates.

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 2h

Maybe they should learn to code instead. Oh, wait…..

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 3h

"You go to some places like Handsworth.. parts of Dewsbury, Bradford, Leicester, where you see.. a single ethnicity.. we don't think that's healthy thing"

Kevin Hollinrake is MP for Thirsk and Malton, which according to the 2021 census is 98% white.

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 3h

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 12h

Just so remorselessly philistine and predictable.

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 12h

Sunder makes me feel optimistic. I greatly admire and appreciate his patient, methodical, implacable approach to tackling racism in the face of immense provocation. He does all pluralists a service, and it’s great that people beyond social media will be able to read about his work. A real mensch.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 16h

"We haven’t come all this way, Katwala says, “just for Elon Musk, a man born into an apartheid state, who’s polarised America, to come and start a civil war here by breaking the law"
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Sunder Katwala on race, patriotism and flag-waving: ‘The far right is vocal and angry because it is shrinking’

The director of British Future has spent his career trying to find common ground when it comes to race and immigration. He describes his own experience of racism – and why he’s still hopeful for the U...

www.theguardian.com

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 13h

a close up of a man 's face in a car with a woman behind him .

ALT: a close up of a man 's face in a car with a woman behind him .

media.tenor.com

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 14h

Fyre Festival Keith Harris

Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 14h

This looked better in his head

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 14h

If only those parties which actually like Britain would make a daily habit of reinforcing the point.

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 14h

I’m just amazed everything sums to 100

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 14h

Very interesting. Given the glut of conjoints in polisci over the last few years, I have been wondering whether survey professionals have become wise to the idea, at least to the extent that when they encounter one they immediately look for the manipulation

Tiago Ventura @tiagoventura.bsky.social · 16h

How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality?

Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):

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