Reposted by Dr Annabel MullinElect Her @electheruk.bsky.social · 24/09/20263 weeks ago the Representation of the People Bill left the Commons without our amendments. Today 7 are. 27 of the 57 peers who spoke raised what we briefed Still to come: privacy of home addresses, domestic abuse in electoral law, democratic education 👉www.elect-her.org.uk/blog/stilltocome 011
Dr Annabel Mullin @annabelmullin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026And another £36million … Not as if the Gov had the power to put in donations caps, oh wait! 000
Dr Annabel Mullin @annabelmullin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026New Brand. New Money. Same Establishment. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Reform UK receives record £36mn donationgiftarticle.ft.comReform UK receives record £36mn donationThe gift from crypto billionaire Ben Delo is the largest donation in British political history 031
Dr Annabel Mullin @annabelmullin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026“Here are two companies, both posting blockbuster results, that are asking - begging, really - for the U.S. government to please come and regulate them as soon as possible. We have never seen anything like it.” This Is Really Bad www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/o...nytimes.comOpinion | This Is Really BadWe can no longer pretend that A.I. is safe. 013
Reposted by Dr Annabel MullinElect Her @electheruk.bsky.social · 06/09/2026What happened last week that matters? 🤔 MPs passed the Representation of the People Bill, the biggest overhaul of election law in a generation. It's progress. There is a lot more to do! The Bill goes to the House of Lords next. Read more 👉 www.elect-her.org.uk/blog/houseoflords 075
Dr Annabel Mullin @annabelmullin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026This - “Our “Big Tobacco moment” ended with Meta’s shareholders richer, competitors weaker, and its business model intact. We’ve been played, again.” open.substack.com/pub/profgmed...open.substack.comLittle Tobacco MomentMeta Wins 010
Dr Annabel Mullin @annabelmullin.bsky.social · 02/08/2026An honest account of why you got where you did matters. Paying that privilege forwards even more so! open.substack.com/pub/profgmed... 000
Dr Annabel Mullin @annabelmullin.bsky.social · 26/07/2026This interview is brilliant! Illuminating, probing, enraging and fascinating. And Musk is no more clear on the mechanics of the next phase, yet holds many of the levers! www.economist.com/insider/the-...economist.comAn interview with Elon Musk | The Economist InsiderElon Musk may be the most powerful man in the world. He’s worth almost $1trn, runs Tesla and SpaceX, boasts an enormous social-media following and, to top it all off, he reckons he’s pretty good at pr... 121
Dr Annabel Mullin @annabelmullin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Bought an iPod nano so one of my cuties can have music (and obvs doesn’t have smart phone), pay Apple every month… Not allowed to download. You greedy 🤬. Anyway there is a hack but I could just do without always having this kind of extra layer of complexity! 😔 000
Dr Annabel Mullin @annabelmullin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Representation isn’t about who succeeds because they’re women. It’s about ensuring our institutions draw on the fullest range of talent our country has to offer. 021
Reposted by Dr Annabel MullinJanine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 19/07/2026Scrap the Romesh thing just clip Wayne Rooney saying he thought the half time show was crap and the licence fee QR code 211609248
Dr Annabel Mullin @annabelmullin.bsky.social · 17/06/2026I think a classic of the commentating genre is, ‘he didn’t come here to play’! 😂🤔 000
Dr Annabel Mullin @annabelmullin.bsky.social · 15/06/2026“ We are so committed to fairness that we have lost sight of the unfairness of doing nothing.” This so applies in the UK too. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/o...nytimes.comOpinion | One City Might Have Just Cracked the Housing Crisis 000
Dr Annabel Mullin @annabelmullin.bsky.social · 10/06/2026This is really worth reading - it’s horrifyingly surreal to understand the level and degrees of the abhorrence for, and abuse of, women … and of course the reality that their life is only made viable by that subjugation. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... 000
Dr Annabel Mullin @annabelmullin.bsky.social · 05/06/2026US lecturing us is so LOL! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comUS government criticises ‘two-tier’ UK policing after Henry Nowak murderState department warns of ‘ideological conditioning’ in social media post offering condolences to student’s family 000
Dr Annabel Mullin @annabelmullin.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Such a good piece - we all have responsibility… and our agency maybe be less than we’d like but it is still ours to use. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Should AI steal your job? 000
Dr Annabel Mullin @annabelmullin.bsky.social · 24/05/2026🙏”Perhaps the best thing for Burnham to do, recognising his weaknesses at wielding hard power, would be to get himself into Downing Street and immediately start giving it away.” manchestermill.co.uk/stop-looking...manchestermill.co.ukStop looking for Burnhamism - in six years, I’ve never found itWatching the mayor up close in Manchester, I’ve seen his unusual gifts and glaring weaknesses. Would he make a good prime minister? 010
Reposted by Dr Annabel MullinElect Her @electheruk.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Where are Labour’s women in the leadership conversation? Politics is not just about who governs. It is also about who gets imagined as defining the future. 👉 www.elect-her.org.uk/blog/women-hold-power 041
Dr Annabel Mullin @annabelmullin.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Amazingly detailed analysis! Londoners you nose at your boroughs… @davehillonlondon.bsky.social @lewisgoodall.com 👏👏👏 londondecides.lowickhedry.comlondondecides.lowickhedry.comLondon Decides – 32 boroughs. One guide.Expert, non-partisan analysis of all 32 London boroughs ahead of the 7 May 2026 elections. Written by Dave Hill and Lewis Baston and powered by Lowick Hedry. Register to receive it first. 110
Dr Annabel Mullin @annabelmullin.bsky.social · 13/04/2026So… great day for democracy and looks like you can win from the center right! 000
Reposted by Dr Annabel MullinAndrew Mueller @andrewmueller.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Remember to be wary, as today is the only day of the year that incorrect or misleading information is posted on the internet. 6331106
Dr Annabel Mullin @annabelmullin.bsky.social · 21/03/2026If you had an extra day, what would you do with it? 110
Reposted by Dr Annabel MullinCraig Oliver @craigoliver100.bsky.social · 08/03/2026 A short video on why I’m writing about the power in David Hockney reminding us spring cannot be cancelled. You can read the whole piece by clicking on the link below… open.substack.com/pub/craigoli... 022
Reposted by Dr Annabel MullinWill Sebag-Montefiore @wsebag.bsky.social · 05/03/2026The guy who filmed Andrew Tate dancing in Dubai 30491118
Reposted by Dr Annabel Mullin👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 04/03/2026I don’t think that “accidentally” getting a Nazi tattoo means you have to be exiled from the whole of society, I do think it means you don’t get to be one of the hundred most powerful people in America. Sorry. I know that seems unfair. That’s just the way it works. 436354
Dr Annabel Mullin @annabelmullin.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Algorithms now go beyond tyrannical AI tools enable the harassment, humiliation, abuse and relentless hounding of women … Without any guardrails. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...giftarticle.ft.comHow tech turned against womenAs AI-generated sexualised images proliferate and app-facilitated abuse spreads, we are sleepwalking into a new age of gender inequality. It is time to regulate properly 010
Reposted by Dr Annabel MullinJustin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 21/02/2026"Months before Jesse Van Rootselaar became the suspect in the mass shooting that devastated a rural town in British Columbia, Canada, OpenAI considered alerting law enforcement about her interactions with its ChatGPT chatbot, the company said."wsj.comExclusive | OpenAI Employees Raised Alarms About Canada Shooting Suspect Months AgoThe ChatGPT maker opted against informing Canadian authorities about Jesse Van Rootselaar’s descriptions of violence last June. 17843
Reposted by Dr Annabel MullinPhiline Widmer @phinifa.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Can feed algorithms shape what people think about politics? Our paper "The Political Effects of X's Feed Algorithm" is out today in Nature and answers "Yes." www.nature.com/articles/s41... 4273129
Dr Annabel Mullin @annabelmullin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026“All of the 18 experts Meta hired concluded they presented a wellbeing issue.” 😱 giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...giftarticle.ft.comMark Zuckerberg overruled 18 wellbeing experts to keep beauty filters on InstagramBig Tech chief takes stand in legal case over whether company’s products are addictive to children 031
Dr Annabel Mullin @annabelmullin.bsky.social · 15/02/2026“That catalysed an environment ... Complexity became a liability. Doubt became weakness. And politics, which should be the arena where we wrestle with hard truths, became a performance of certainty - a race to the bottom where the goal isn’t to govern well but to score points & “win” the news cycle” 010
Dr Annabel Mullin @annabelmullin.bsky.social · 11/02/2026😢. Life is so harsh and fast. Pacey was my guy but Dawson made it. 000
Dr Annabel Mullin @annabelmullin.bsky.social · 11/02/2026As if… www.ft.com/content/41e4...ft.comFormer Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre ‘reduced to rage’ over hacking claimsLeading tabloid executive says paper used third-party services to obtain information before he instituted a ban in 2007 000
Dr Annabel Mullin @annabelmullin.bsky.social · 07/02/2026“At the time, Mandelson was both Britain’s ambassador to the US and a shareholder in Global Counsel, the lobbying firm he co-founded in 2010 that counts Palantir as a client.” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...giftarticle.ft.comStarmer faces questions over visit to Palantir office alongside MandelsonFormer ambassador was also shareholder in lobbying group that counted US tech firm as a client 000
Dr Annabel Mullin @annabelmullin.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Damn. Somebody said there is a documentary that Melania appears in that is actually worth seeing. I think it’s an old YouTube thing?! If by any remote chance anyone knows of what that was - please release me from my blankness! 000
Dr Annabel Mullin @annabelmullin.bsky.social · 05/02/2026We see this repeatedly. People feted/ put on pedestals, behaviour ignored because they are ‘masterminds’ - despite there being clear signs that they aren’t, maybe in one realm they flourish but not in others. Everyone needs checks & balances - & Mandy more than most! www.cityam.com/starmers-fai...cityam.comStarmer's faith in Mandelson was a catastrophic error of judgementWhy didn't he ask the Americans whether Mandelson appeared in the Epstein emails? Why did he believe Mandelson's lies? Why did he take the risk? 000