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Ewan Hoyle

@ewanhoyle.bsky.social
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Author of the Sprint for PR Substack: @ewanhoyle.substack.com Advocate for ranked preference polling and voting systems. Increasingly overwhelmed at being one of the few who have realised that AV was the solution to the far-right all along.

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 9h
BREAKING: Davey Hearn reflecting pool prosecution dismissed WITH PREJUDICE That means the case cannot be brought again  Huge victory for Davey, for us at @democracydefendersfund.org & our legal team colleagues Washington Litigation Group and Steptoe--& for rule of law More to follow!
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Ewan Hoyle @ewanhoyle.bsky.social · 17h
"Those alternatives should include majoritarian options such as AV, a variety of proportional systems (such as list systems and single transferable vote), and intermediate arrangements." This piece is enormously important. There are aspects to the Alternative Vote that make it so much more...
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Joël Reland @jreland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What's that Andy? You want to look at the different options for the UK's relationship with the EU? If only someone had set them out already... ukandeu.ac.uk/introducing-...
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Ewan Hoyle @ewanhoyle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The electoral reform collectively goes "OK, we got what we want. What do we do now?" You do this. You do this. YOU DO THIS. Please. 👇 ewanhoyle.substack.com/p/why-we-nee...
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Why we need electoral reform in this parliament, and how we deliver it.
Andy Burnham has promised electoral reform in the next manifesto. We need to persuade him to act now.
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Ewan Hoyle @ewanhoyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Gaaaaaaaahhhhh!! I've identified the answer to fascism by accident, and I really don't know if I've got the skills and the time to not f*** this up. The title of this Substack is shocking for starters 🫣 ewanhoyle.substack.com/p/its-time-t...
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It’s time to get TUFF on the far-right.
Favourability polling shows ranked choice voting to be The Universal Fascism Firewall.
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Ewan Hoyle @ewanhoyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Well... I guess I'm a Rawlsian.
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One for Sorrow @thetalkingmagpie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Christ almighty this is awful, very brave of him to come forward. #NUFC
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Andy Carroll: Former England striker reveals he was sexually assaulted in 2021
Former England striker Andy Carroll reveals he was sexually assaulted in 2021, by a man who has subsequently been jailed for three years.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Matthew Stadlen @matthewstadlen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This week on his TV show, Nigel Farage laughed at a clip of a woman in tears because of the racism she’d experienced. “I can’t stop laughing,” he said. When people tell you who they are, believe them. And then don’t vote Reform.
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Ewan Hoyle @ewanhoyle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Who's going to lead the way on cementing these countries in liberal democracy? Maybe it will be Canada. ewanhoyle.substack.com/p/carneys-mi...
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Carney's "Middle Powers" must defend their democracies from fascists.
First Past the Post, Presidencies, and the Additional Member System all risk giving the far-right more power than they deserve.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ms. Rachel kicks ass. A way better celebrity than Ed Sheeran.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 16/09/2026
Spot on🎯 @pimlicat.bsky.social, CEO of Best for Britain: "I'm really ambitious for our country. I think that we should be doing far, far better than we are. "We're punching well below our weight, largely because we chose to leave the world's biggest single market."
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Ewan Hoyle @ewanhoyle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This breaks my heart.
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Ewan Hoyle @ewanhoyle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The only way Ed Sheeran's "reputation" could potentially recover from this is if the band that comes on to play "Galway Girl" at Gillette stadium turns out to be Kneecap, they DO NOT play Galway Girl (I can't stress this enough), and Sheeran doesn't come back out.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14/09/2026
Excellent letter in The Times. "Greater hate hath no person than to accuse those who put their lives on the line for others of being traitors."
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I was asked "What do other countries do about big money in politics?" Canada is a useful case study as their parliamentary system closely mirrors the UK's (for obvious reasons) - except they've totally clamped down on mega-donations.
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Ewan Hoyle @ewanhoyle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
@lisasmartmp.bsky.social @rozsavage.bsky.social @wendychambld.bsky.social Let's talk about the potential for reform to the Alternative Vote to ensure there aren't any tactical voting mistakes and that Reform UK come 4th or 5th at the next election. open.spotify.com/podcast-chap...
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Audience Questions: Alternative Vote and Electoral System Reform
It's Bloody Complicated - A Compass Podcast · Chapter · 2m
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Ewan Hoyle @ewanhoyle.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Cheers, Kevin. I think compulsory voting would help, yeah.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
From the new Private Eye
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I just think that risking your life at a moment's notice to save people you've never met in exchange for no money is a better expression of patriotism than dressing up like a Poundshop paramilitary and intimidating families with kids trying to get onto a ferry.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 09/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: An AI researcher who worked at Anthropic — and previously OpenAI — has resigned, saying both tech giants are "gambling with our lives." Full story: politico.eu/article/anth...
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
oh my god they're gonna kill their own bounce in under a month aren't they
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“Even if you support Labour or you want to give Andy Burnham a chance, voting Green in this election still makes sense because it’ll make him be a better Labour prime minister”. Exactly! #VoteGreen
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‘We can win here’: Zack Polanski presses the flesh in Holborn and St Pancras
Polanski is confident of taking seat vacated by Keir Starmer, but says he will stay on as Green party leader even if he loses
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
In case this is helpful to the Metropolitan Police, all those exposed in tonight's @channel4news.bsky.social expose, including Nigel Farage, will all be either on or near Stage A of the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, tomorrow at 4pm. You're welcome.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Well, this is a marmalade dropper
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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Ewan Hoyle @ewanhoyle.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"If the Greens and Liberal Democrats want electoral reform, there are simple levers they can pull to make First-Past-the-Post unbearably hostile to the Labour Party." 😎 ewanhoyle.substack.com/publish/post...
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Ewan Hoyle @ewanhoyle.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Elepha-N'tsbreath Whateveryonewants
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Ewan Hoyle @ewanhoyle.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Thanks Judith!
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Nils Steiner @nilssteiner.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
These UK results are well in line with partisan differences in false consensus beliefs we found in Germany: Clearly highest among far-right party supporters. See our (with @clandwehr.bsky.social) study on false consensus beliefs and populist attitudes here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/....
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton
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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 23/08/2026
“Attacks on LGBTQ+ health are a threat to all”: A new Lancet Editorial. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Cover of The Lancet, 22 Aug issue. The quote reads, “...movements that seek to undermine LGBTQ+ people are those that seek to control all of us—our freedom of expression, our personal medical decisions, and our privacy.”
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Ewan Hoyle @ewanhoyle.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The serious environmental point is that communities need to be proud to be fighting harder to protect this kind of carbon dink.
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Every subsequent U.S. president who tries to do a modicum of good via foreign policy or trade is going to be sitting across from someone thinking yeah sure, okay, but what about the next guy. Absent political reforms, tribunals and truth and reconciliation, that credibility is gone forever.
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Ewan Hoyle @ewanhoyle.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I am a spreadsheet person, and the utility of Claude AI in my analysis of polling data is such that I think I may have discovered how to save the world from fascism. Thanks Claude AI 🫡 ewanhoyle.substack.com/p/carneys-mi... ewanhoyle.substack.com/p/why-we-nee...
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Carney's "Middle Powers" must defend their democracies from fascists.
First Past the Post, Presidencies, and the Additional Member System all risk giving the far-right more power than they deserve.
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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bro. People are cool as fuck.
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Jo the Hat @jothehat.eurosky.social · 09/08/2026
More malicious compliance, please.
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Ewan Hoyle @ewanhoyle.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Ranked choice voting might just f*** fascists. Here's a proposal on how we find out if it does. open.substack.com/pub/ewanhoyl...
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The Good Systems Disagreement
What makes a "good" electoral system needs amended when the voters are faced with the prospect of evil.
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Ewan Hoyle @ewanhoyle.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
My ADHD injustice sensitivity has caused me to be hyper-focused on figuring out how to stop right-wing parties ever getting into power again. My polling and modelling research points to electoral systems that will do that, and do it fairly, by allowing voters to record their full opinion of the...
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Hazel @hackneyhaz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Kemi Badenoch on Today defending the neo-Nazi council candidate by saying that it is right to give those who have previously been radicalised a chance. Badenoch on Shamima Begum, whom was groomed by Islamic State when a child, "Citizenship is a privilege, she forfeited it." 🤔
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I recall we had a period of time where the response of Starmer and Cooper to concerns about these groups was ‘I like flags’
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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Once again, I come back to the fact these guys have created a situation where one of the UK's leading, cis female athletes is scared to go to the loo alone, and the fact that they are celebrating this as a step forward for women's rights.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
53,800 of these bad boys are landing in Clacton. Ain’t they beauts? #VoteBinface
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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 05/08/2026
🚨🚨Today the EHRC Code of Practice goes live. Our voices have been ignored. We will not stand for this. We will not stop until our rights are restored. The CoP does not change the law. Inclusion can happen. The vast majority of the public do not want this. WE WILL CONTINUE TO FIGHT 🏳️‍⚧️✊♥️
We Will Continue to Fight
Today should never have been the day that transgender people were forced to defend their right to live safely and equally. Their right to exist. Yet with the EHRC's Code of Practice now in force, that is the reality we face.

We refuse to accept a future in which our rights are dismantled piece by piece while those responsible insist that nothing fundamental has changed. Our rights are not a political bargaining chip. Our lives are not up for debate. Our existence is not something that can be negotiated away. 
1/3We Will Continue to Fight
At TACC, we will continue to challenge discrimination wherever it appears. We will continue to demand accountability from every institution that fails in its duty to uphold equality. We will continue to stand alongside transgender people, their families and our allies, because no one should be left to face this alone.

Equality was never supposed to be something that needed defending, but history has shown that rights survive only because ordinary people refuse to surrender them. We intend to be those people. 
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Trans people have always existed. We always will. We will not be silenced. We will not be erased. We will continue to speak. We will continue to organise. We will continue to fight until human rights once again mean exactly what they are supposed to mean: rights for everyone. Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective (TACC) 


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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Only just found out about this For the record, you don't get multiple genetic markers and one of the most effective medications known to science with 'social constructs' Channel 4, this is, in scientific parlance, an absolute fu*king disgrace that will genuinely endanger lives #c4 #ADHD
New Channel 4 documentary, The Great ADHD Myth?, seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct
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Marian Call @mariancall.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
things are as real as their impacts. if ADHD impacts lives (it does mine) and if it responds to treatment, pharmacological or otherwise (it does) and if life is far worse without that treatment (it is) then why the fuck would it matter whether ADHD is physiological or social?
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bylinepodcast.bsky.social @bylinepodcast.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
"If we accept that we’re not going back into the single market, we’re not going to grow..." Andy Burnham's EU challenge laid down by @dgbailey.bsky.social & @adambienkov.bsky.social on latest @bylinetimes.bsky.social pod @goldbergradio.bsky.social 🎧 pod.fo/e/486c13 📺 youtu.be/28lqmQKMd4I?...
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BYLINE TIMES PODCAST: Burnham's Burning Questions
What will the new Prime Minister Andy Burnham do differently to Keir Starmer? Can he really get the economy growing in a way that eluded his predecessor…? Is his dream of reindustrialisation a re...
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Sarah Cowley @bournemouth4eu.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Burnham's Choice: 'Either Rejoin the EU - Or Accept Slow Growth' open.substack.com/pub/bylineti...
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Burnham's Choice: 'Either Rejoin the EU - Or Accept Slow Growth'
On the Byline Times podcast, Professor David Bailey joins Adrian Goldberg and Adam Bienkov to discuss the new Prime Minister's options for growing the UK economy
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Ewan Hoyle @ewanhoyle.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This is half-assed nonsense from @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-... There is no way STV would produce the same number of seats for the Lib Dems as a party list. If you're modeling AMS, you have to model AV+ alongside. Non-corrective AV+ would be even better...
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