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Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · 2d

A thread of inspirational quotes from two of my idols: Kemi Badenoch and Ange Postecoglou

(uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??)

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Liam Stanley @liamstanley.bsky.social · 2d

Article here: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘The president is unhinged’: Trump’s online behavior grows increasingly odd

The US president’s recent behavior is strange to many, from reposting a false AI video of himself to confusing comments during press conferences

www.theguardian.com

Liam Stanley @liamstanley.bsky.social · 2d

These are not the same things: one is a barely intelligible ramble and the other is a coherent but bullshit political statement. If these claims of “eccentric” behaviour are going to work, politically, then it might be important to distinguish between the two.

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Liam Stanley @liamstanley.bsky.social · 2d

This is such a weird article that mixes up the kind of bombastic exaggeration that is a core part of Trump’s personality with genuinely unhinged examples of odd behaviour.

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ProfAFinlayson @profafinlayson.bsky.social · 6d

There's at least one consistent pattern with this government: announcing a big policy before they've worked out any details, or planned its implementation & sending people out to defend it who've got no arguments. E.g.

1) Welfare reform: no plans for actually getting people into work (1/x)

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Liam Stanley @liamstanley.bsky.social · 6d

I literally did a few months back!

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Liam Stanley @liamstanley.bsky.social · 20d

Anyone interested in the green transition ought to check out this brilliant new article by Chris Saltmarsh, published today in @ripejournal.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Article title: The Chinese road to decarbonisation: China’s party-state capitalism in the political economy of fossil energy phase-out

Author: Chris Saltmarsh

Abstract: While blind spots around climate change and China in the literature are now being plugged, there remains an imbalance between emphases placed on green energy build-out versus fossil energy phase-out in the political economy of global energy transition. China’s paradoxical energy economy raises the puzzle as to whether the structures of China’s party-state capitalism render it capable of successfully confronting the fossil fuel industry, just as it has scaled green technologies. This article historicises China’s fossil economy, identifying a unique potentiality for fossil energy phase-out arising from its idiosyncratic post-revolutionary development trajectory. The prominence of the CCP in China’s party-state capitalism contrasts with the West’s basis in profit-seeking market forces. This divergence underpins distinct power resources to dominate carbon-intensive industries and ideational resources to legitimate the social upheavals of energy transition. In practice, fossil energy phase-out is far from pre-determined as the potentiality rests in an ongoing struggle between corporate and political objectives within the regime as well as the uncertain responses of domestic populations and international actors. Regardless, scholars and practitioners alike should now understand China as standing alone in the world system as a geopolitically ascendent, continent-sized, post-revolutionary party-state with unique capacities to lead global energy transition.

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Liam Stanley @liamstanley.bsky.social · 21d

Quote of the day courtesy of Bismarck.

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Liam Stanley @liamstanley.bsky.social · 26d

How time flies!

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Liam Stanley @liamstanley.bsky.social · 26d

One of the strangest things about my time in HE is how REF has gone from universally loathed by academics to seemingly our best hope for justifying (and therefore maintaining) the research component of our jobs.

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 26d

Ministers ‘want to shift funds away from low-quality research’ .

Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Ministers ‘want to shift funds away from low-quality research’ - Research Professional News

Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Liam Stanley @liamstanley.bsky.social · 26d

I don’t think it necessarily disproves the point because Starmer’s appearance on Football Cliches is still joked about for how terrible and stilted it was

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Stewart Home @stewarthome.bsky.social · 27d

“Electric cars can be remotely controlled. Again, not a conspiracy theory. These cars can be shut down… There’s a reason why this neo-Marxist, communist, shambolic government wants us in electric cars. It’s so that we have no freedom whatsoever…" (sic) hopenothate.org.uk/2025/09/10/i...

Inside Reform's conference: conspiracy theories galore – HOPE not hate

Walking around Reform UK’s conference on Friday 6 and Saturday 7 September, one thing was clear: the party is utterly unfit to govern. Most peculiar...

hopenothate.org.uk

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Liam Stanley @liamstanley.bsky.social · 27d

A question about Mandelson: if Starmer sacks him, then does that risk pissing off Trump by implying that fraternising with Epstein represents a red line that should not be crossed?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29d

the free press trying to make a scandal out of reading robert dahl is very funny (shoutout to dahl, one of the best to ever do it)

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29d

One of Bari Weiss’s reporters over at the Free Press was shocked to discover what Columbia students are reading in class:

lol wat

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Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · Sep 2

Updated theory of British political decision making

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Liam Stanley @liamstanley.bsky.social · Aug 15

As a frequent reader of kids books, I wouldn’t have guessed frog as the most he/him gendered animal

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Amin Samman @aminsamman.bsky.social · Aug 15

It's happening! My book on financial nihilism is set to be published in March next year with Stanford UP. It has been many years in the making and I look forward to seeing it in print soon. www.sup.org/books/politi...

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Liam Stanley @liamstanley.bsky.social · Aug 9

Pulling an alt nighter

The ARC conference has been dubbed ‘the right-wing Davos’. Our reporter crashed its Mayfair afterparty.

www.the-londoner.co.uk

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Liam Stanley @liamstanley.bsky.social · Aug 8

I found this Panic World podcast on Sydney Sweeney to be insightful for what this moment means for political culture: far right vibe shifts, outrage cycles on a dying social media platform, and just the bare cynicism of the whole episode.

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

BONUS: Sydney Sweeney and rage bait

Podcast Episode · Panic World · 08/08/2025 · Bonus · 23m

podcasts.apple.com

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · Aug 8

The University of Warwick has paid a lot of money, I'm guessing, for their internet banner ads on the Guardian and elsewhere.

But they can't spell "curiosity". This isn't a US-UK variant. They just, genuinely, have a massive spelling error in their banner ads.

A banner advert for the University of Warwick, which says "Beyond ignores curiousity". This is a spelling error.

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Liam Stanley @liamstanley.bsky.social · Aug 7

From Hannah Arendt’s introduction to this Benjamin collection

Liam Stanley @liamstanley.bsky.social · Aug 7

This Kafka quote is like a punch to the gut

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · Aug 6

One of the right's most popular fascists is revolting against Trump's economics www.vox.com/on-the-right...

Trump’s tariffs have pissed off the right’s favorite “pervert”

Bronze Age Pervert is an influential voice on the extreme right. Now he’s trying to change the administration’s economic approach.

www.vox.com

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Liam Stanley @liamstanley.bsky.social · Aug 6

There's a conference next week on "Liberalism for the 21st Century: A Global Convening to Defend and Reimagine Liberal Democracy". The programme offers insight into who is considered liberal: Francis Fukuyama, David Goodhart, Daniel Drezner, Derek Thompson, Steven Pinker... conference.ismaglobal.org

Liberalism for the 21st Century - ISMA

Join some of the world’s leading liberal thinkers, journalists, and advocates for two days dedicated to countering the rise of illiberalism and charting a course forward for a liberalism that can answ...

conference.ismaglobal.org

Liam Stanley @liamstanley.bsky.social · Aug 5

I unfortunately remember this from the time

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