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Chris Brooke@chrisbrooke.bsky.social |
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Jonn Elledge
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cannot overstate my outrage at the fact I have a mere fraction of the subscribers that celebrity bad person Matthew Goodwin has, if you're appalled by that too then here's a sign up link:
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Jacob T. Levy
@jacobtlevy.bsky.social
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I'm up at the UnPopulist, discussing, you know, Montesquieu and stuff, as usual.
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Kieran Healy
@kjhealy.bsky.social
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Amongst candidate names occurring at least 5 times within party, distinctively Tory names include Simon, Caroline, Laura, and Robert. Distinctively Labour names include Alex, Michael, Matt, Josh, Joe, and Dan. James and Andrew are common to both but lean Tory; Chris and Sarah lean Labour.
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Chris Brooke
@chrisbrooke.bsky.social
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Did your research manage "to secure democratic values, institutions, and good governance"? Quite the impact case study if it did!
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Chris Brooke
@chrisbrooke.bsky.social
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My goodness.
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Chris Brooke
@chrisbrooke.bsky.social
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"All things for all people" sounds a bit like securing for the workers by hand or by brain the full fruits of their industry and the most equitable distribution thereof that may be possible upon the basis of the common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange, no?
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@nosemonkey.bsky.social
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The local Waitrose knows what day it is...
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Dan Davies
@dsquareddigest.bsky.social
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the only people left in the conservative party are either very old or very odd, and there weren't many old people on the campaign
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Charles Beckett
@charlesbeckett.bsky.social
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Tories’ internal polling says they’re confident of hanging on in 80 seats, and maybe they can win another 60. Come on, Britain, you’re better than that.
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Chris Brooke
@chrisbrooke.bsky.social
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I read on Wikipedia that "Larry has served during the premierships of five prime ministers: David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and Rishi Sunak", and suspect that this sentence will be updated pretty soon.
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Katie Martin
@katie0martin.bsky.social
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Anyway, happy Dogs At Polling Stations Day tomorrow, for all who observe
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Chris Brooke
@chrisbrooke.bsky.social
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My goodness. (I've had it twice, in mid-2022 and early 2024.)
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Chris Brooke
@chrisbrooke.bsky.social
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Get well soon!
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Richard
@ashcroftethics.bsky.social
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I’m fairly sure this demonstrates that Gilgamesh and Enkidu were cricketers.
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Chris Bertram
@crookedfootball.bsky.social
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(Nicked from Arthur Goldhammer)
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megan gallagher
@twasmegan.bsky.social
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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 17/20 #booksky
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Chris Brooke
@chrisbrooke.bsky.social
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Yes, I think that’s right.
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Chris Brooke
@chrisbrooke.bsky.social
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Gavin Jacobson (who now works for the New Statesman) wrote a cracking PhD at Oxford a few years ago on fraternité in the French republican tradition (which neatly showed what a misunderstood concept it is).
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Neville Morley
@nevillemorley.bsky.social
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Clearly the US Supreme Court has decided to run a real-time experiment to decide the question.
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Chris Brooke
@chrisbrooke.bsky.social
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Just seen this link posted by @scottwortley.bsky.social at the Other Place together with the remark, “Turns out this title was a threat”.
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Carlos Noreña
@carlosfnorena.bsky.social
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"Whatever he considers to be beneficial to the commonwealth and the dignity of divine, human, public, and private affairs, he shall have the right and the power to do and to execute." From the statute that conferred absolute power on the Roman emperor (*Lex de imperio Vespasiani*, section 6). 😬
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Chris Brooke
@chrisbrooke.bsky.social
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Portents are already starting to appear, ahead of the Tory party-shattering election on Thursday. #beateousandswift #theminionsoftheirrace
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Phil Edwards
@philedwards.bsky.social
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"No, no, you're not getting it," he said. "I'm not Mr Clever. I'm Mr Clever*ly*." - What's the difference? He sighed. "Mr *Clever* would just invariably be clever. No one would ever say 'he did that cleverly' - it'd be assumed." - So to be Mr *Cleverly*... "I have to be stupid, almost all the time."
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Chris Brooke
@chrisbrooke.bsky.social
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When I went to Twickenham a few years ago the England fans were singing it at half time, when they also did a little dance. It was quite strange.
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Nick Barlow
@nickbwalking.bsky.social
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"Labour will gerrymander the system" say the party who introduced voter ID, abolished SV for mayoral and PCC elections, opposed AV for Parliament and appointed dozens of Johnson cronies to the Lords.
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Chris Brooke
@chrisbrooke.bsky.social
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I have long held that if I can’t make this academic career malarkey work out, I would like to be the person who writes the historical trivia for the commentators to recite as the Tour pedals its way through the various villages, etc.
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Chris Brooke
@chrisbrooke.bsky.social
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It was when I realised I could watch an entire flat stage quite happily—in which, objectively, only the last few seconds had any bearing on anything at all—that I realised I probably needed to cut down.
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Chris Brooke
@chrisbrooke.bsky.social
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What is your favourite black and white movie?
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Mike Brown
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I haven't set up the bear-cam outside yet but I didn't need it this morning. It's Patch! I would recognize that cute face anywhere. He still likes to do his laps, too.
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Stuart Elden
@stuartelden.bsky.social
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Today is the fortieth anniversary of Foucault’s death. The Collège de France are putting the surviving audio recordings of his lectures online – Le Pouvoir psychiatrique is up now, with others to follow.
www.college-de-france.fr/fr/actualite... (1/3)
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Michael Ledger-Lomas
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I wrote about sublime mysticism and nonsense
engelsbergideas.com/reviews/the-...
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Chris Brooke
@chrisbrooke.bsky.social
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My goodness.
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Declan Gaffney
@greyskiesthinking.bsky.social
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Feel the Tories must have one more scandal up their sleeves to tide us over the next week, can't imagine what it could be.
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Chris Brooke
@chrisbrooke.bsky.social
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It is indeed apocryphal, but the keyword is usually "pigfucker".
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Chris Brooke
@chrisbrooke.bsky.social
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This is great fun.
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Mark Chadbourn
@chadbourn.bsky.social
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This will never not be funny.
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Chris Brooke
@chrisbrooke.bsky.social
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Surely you have a Wikipedia page in the only version of Wikipedia that matters? #einbritischerAltertumswissenschaftler.
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Chris Brooke
@chrisbrooke.bsky.social
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"Protect Country Sports. These increase investment and help conservation of our environment. They boost rural jobs, communities and local economies".
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Stephen Bush
@stephenkb.bsky.social
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My new favourite chart: www.ft.com/content/1cc5...
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Richard J
@preachypreach.bsky.social
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Chris Brooke
@chrisbrooke.bsky.social
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The text at the top of my profile page On Here has rarely been more topical.
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Chris Brooke
@chrisbrooke.bsky.social
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www.theonion.com/undercover-a...
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Chris Brooke
@chrisbrooke.bsky.social
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There’s a chapter on Alinsky in my friend Andy Sabl’s book on political offices.
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Chris Brooke
@chrisbrooke.bsky.social
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No. I mean, maybe there is something going on about MMcSw & CGT, but if there is I have no idea what it might be.
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Chris Brooke
@chrisbrooke.bsky.social
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Why wouldn’t Davey just tack to a broadly centre-right, but leaning to the right, position, in which we know he is thoroughly comfortable, insofar as he was a minister in the Coalition?
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Tom Hamilton
@tomhamilton.bsky.social
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New post on Dividing Lines: on the tax traps the Tories are setting for Labour, and the tax traps they’re caught in themselves dividinglines.substack.com/p/tax-traps
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Chris Brooke
@chrisbrooke.bsky.social
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Sunak will be hanging out on LinkedIn, looking for strategic insight.
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Nick Barlow
@nickbwalking.bsky.social
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An actual street here in Colchester and also a useful warning for posters.
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The Onion
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"They have hundreds and hundreds of these things. It’s disturbing and suspicious. At best, they’re naïve and callous, and at worst, they’re actual neo-Nazis who hoard all this stuff as part of their shrine to Hitler."
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Chris Brooke
@chrisbrooke.bsky.social
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If this poll were replicated at a general election the Conservatives wouldn't even be able to fill out a Shadow Cabinet.
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