Patch Thompson
@patchthompson.bsky.social
🌹✊ 📸 | academic researcher | average photographer | all views my own etc.
The numbers could not be any more comically unambiguous if they tried! It is this, in polling form.
January 21, 2026 at 3:14 PM
The numbers could not be any more comically unambiguous if they tried! It is this, in polling form.
Glad that my institutional cloud store is via One Dri....oh no
January 19, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Glad that my institutional cloud store is via One Dri....oh no
Ten hours is a long time in politics, I guess?
January 18, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Ten hours is a long time in politics, I guess?
Fascinating framing from CNN here. Has he?
January 16, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Fascinating framing from CNN here. Has he?
Alternatively, my other insight is:
'can someone explain the will stancil lore to me'
'can someone explain the will stancil lore to me'
January 15, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Alternatively, my other insight is:
'can someone explain the will stancil lore to me'
'can someone explain the will stancil lore to me'
Nick Timothy as Shadow Justice Secretary?
January 15, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Nick Timothy as Shadow Justice Secretary?
'I am sick of psychodrama!'
'We have people everywhere!'
'We have people everywhere!'
January 15, 2026 at 12:40 PM
'I am sick of psychodrama!'
'We have people everywhere!'
'We have people everywhere!'
What an incredibly stupid time to be alive.
January 14, 2026 at 10:55 AM
What an incredibly stupid time to be alive.
Trying to work out if the spike in followers I've had overnight is because I said something good, said something bad, or there has been a mass migration event from X...
January 10, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Trying to work out if the spike in followers I've had overnight is because I said something good, said something bad, or there has been a mass migration event from X...
'And to do this? We are going to announce some very long-term structural reforms, go really hard both on legal migration and refugees, and just be relentlessly negative'
January 9, 2026 at 3:31 PM
'And to do this? We are going to announce some very long-term structural reforms, go really hard both on legal migration and refugees, and just be relentlessly negative'
It is very easy to go 'We're being pragmatic about tactical voting' yet much harder to explain how spending five years hippy punching and trying to outflank Reform is going to persuade broadly liberal tactical voters to back you...
January 9, 2026 at 3:26 PM
It is very easy to go 'We're being pragmatic about tactical voting' yet much harder to explain how spending five years hippy punching and trying to outflank Reform is going to persuade broadly liberal tactical voters to back you...
Incredible things happening in the opinion pages of the Irish Times
January 8, 2026 at 10:09 AM
Incredible things happening in the opinion pages of the Irish Times
Still the greatest single piece of media commentary in British TV history, I reckon.
January 6, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Still the greatest single piece of media commentary in British TV history, I reckon.
That first line is very much...
January 6, 2026 at 7:21 PM
That first line is very much...
On Alaa Abdel Fattah and the incredibly stupid game the government is playing, @stephenkb.bsky.social is spot on
www.ft.com/content/0e12...
www.ft.com/content/0e12...
January 6, 2026 at 11:13 AM
On Alaa Abdel Fattah and the incredibly stupid game the government is playing, @stephenkb.bsky.social is spot on
www.ft.com/content/0e12...
www.ft.com/content/0e12...
Interesting to see Professor Betz choose to list this article - on the War in Ukraine - as one of his more recent research outputs. The Hungarian Conservative, no less.
January 4, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Interesting to see Professor Betz choose to list this article - on the War in Ukraine - as one of his more recent research outputs. The Hungarian Conservative, no less.
At this point, the Pentagon could announce that the city of El Dorado had been seized in a lightning military strike and some breathless BBC live reporting would ask 'What will this mean for gold prices?'
January 3, 2026 at 5:30 PM
At this point, the Pentagon could announce that the city of El Dorado had been seized in a lightning military strike and some breathless BBC live reporting would ask 'What will this mean for gold prices?'
Presumably, the source is very happy to see the government briefing CBS like this...
January 3, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Presumably, the source is very happy to see the government briefing CBS like this...
But seriously, why?
December 18, 2025 at 11:04 AM
But seriously, why?
We basically got this instead...
December 17, 2025 at 10:02 AM
We basically got this instead...
I know we all love a bit of armchair IR posting here on Bluesky, but this is just sad.
December 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I know we all love a bit of armchair IR posting here on Bluesky, but this is just sad.