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Jon Kirkup @jonkirkup.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Was it from Mr. Elon M of Boca Chica, Texas?

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Jon Kirkup @jonkirkup.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

The same middle name and surname.... Weird

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

via Private Eye

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Jon Kirkup @jonkirkup.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I assume part of the reason Greenland is a line in the sand for Western European nations is the precedent it sets and the threat to territories in the Western hemisphere controlled by European powers. If Greenland why not Bermuda?

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Plaid Cymru and the Greens are surging in Wales, according to this latest poll. Where’s the media narrative around this? Where are the stories saying Farage is failing? When will Labour try to regain ground by appealing to Plaid & Green voters, not just copy Reform? www.itv.com/news/wales/2...

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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Has there ever been any poll showing the public this united? yougov.co.uk/technology/a...

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

If anyone sees the mari lwyd this week, please can you share photographs? I am unable to go this year 🐎

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

One like and I'll get my archives number tattooed on me

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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 13/01/2026

Senedd Voting Intention: PLC: 37% (+4) RFM: 23% (-7) GRN: 13% (+4) LAB: 10% (=) CON: 10% (=) LDM: 5% (-1) Via @yougov.co.uk, 5-12 Jan. Changes w/ 28 Nov - 10 Dec.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 12/01/2026

This feels like a sign of what I think might be another trend of this year - people giving up on saving the Conservatives and believing they can shape and/or politically profit from the Tories being subsumed into Reform.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 21/12/2025

Think you can understand a lot about British politics from the ONS survey reporting that 56% of people said they voted in the last local elections, when turnout in those elections was about 36%.

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Daniel Wincott @danielwincott.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

👇👇Upcoming Senedd elections look set to break the mould of Welsh party politics and rock UK Labour. To understand the ‘made in Wales’ and UK influences on this ‘within bloc’ realignment read @jaclarner.bsky.social & @jamesdgriffiths.bsky.social 👇👇 blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/thinking-wal...

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Consolidation, Not Conversion: Understanding Wales’s Ongoing Realignment

Showcasing current research, comments and analysis on the law, politics, history, culture, government and political economy of Wales from the Wales Governance Centre.

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Jon Kirkup @jonkirkup.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I refer the honourable gentleman to the reply I gave some decades ago.

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OldRailwayAccidents @rwldproject.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Our #AccidentalJourney will also show some of the potential of the Railway Work, Life & Death project database - now including over 115,000 cases. We hope it'll encourage you to explore it for yourselves, in the #Railway200 year - & beyond! www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk /4

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Home - Railway Work, Life & Death

Find out more about work & accidents on Britain & Ireland's railways, c.1880s to 1939: including a free database of cases & weekly blog.

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Why Did Ulster Patients Travel to Scottish Asylums for Mental Health Care? 🧠 Scotland’s nineteenth-century chartered asylums had philanthropic roots and developed very differently from the Irish district asylum system. epidemic-belfast.com/ulster-patie... #histmed #Scotland

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I've never met an ex-miner who wanted their children to go underground. The ones I have spoken to wanted better opportunities for them.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 01/06/2025

“It’s very important history, but above all, it’s very readable and enjoyable history.” bit.ly/43yzlS9 Histories of news in the news: surviving editions of the 'Belfast News Letter', the world’s oldest, continuously published English-language daily, can now be accessed free #Skystorians

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‘It’s thrilling’: almost three centuries of the Belfast News Letter go online

The surviving editions of the world’s oldest, continuously published English-language daily can now be accessed free

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

#OTD 1791 • Rev Dr Richard Price died aged 68. He was an influential Welsh moral philosopher and theologian, well-known for his influence on both the French and American Revolutions 🇫🇷 🇺🇸 hellohistoria.substack.com/p/a-friend-o... #Wales #History

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Political Quarterly @politicalquarterly.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

A list of current public inquires. Why are public inquiries now so commonly created and what does this say about the changing nature of British politics? And how might a ‘new’ politics of public inquiries be emerging? By Matthew Flinders

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The New Politics of Public Inquiries

An 'inquiry on inquiries’ at a time when more public inquiries are running concurrently than in any other time in British history.

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Jon Kirkup @jonkirkup.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Fascinating that framing a question in a certain way results in an answer you want?? 'Bernard, do you agree we should bring back national service?' #yesminister

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

The German defence ministry, army and foreign ministry are no longer using Twitter. The Foreign Ministry will use BlueSky. Defence Ministry on WhatsApp. Might occasionally post on X to challenge specific misinformation, but not using it for public communication www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

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Lee Waters @waterslee.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Been beavering away over the last 3 months on a project to shed some light on the inner workings of the Welsh Government (a little understood part of our politics). Cardiff University have published the full transcripts of the interviews I drew on for my podcast www.cardiff.ac.uk/__data/asset...

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Inflation is running at 2.6%. It was 16% in 1974.

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Jon Kirkup @jonkirkup.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I keep reminding myself when it comes to Trump/Musk announcements: keep one eye on the weather but focus on the changing climate.

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Jon Kirkup @jonkirkup.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Latest X/Twitter update: Eastenders end credits drumroll.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

BlueSky 26.2 million users, globally, up from 6 million in last 4 months 2024 Rough estimate 5% UK. Could roughly mean 250k UK users to 1.25 million since Sept. Would like a UK total and daily UK stat Twitter had 23m UK accounts. Daily UK users from 8 million 2023 down to 5 million in Sept24

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Jon Kirkup @jonkirkup.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Hold fire and review the situation post January 20. I suspect the eye of Sauron will shift its gaze away from the legal functions of local government in the North West of England.

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Jon Kirkup @jonkirkup.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

If I was a GOP supporter in the Midwest, I would be getting increasingly bored with Musk posting about the statutory functions of Oldham country council. I assume his eye will shift to more homegrown concerns after Jan 20th.

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Anthony Wells @anthonyjwells.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

If you are (or know) a student interested in politics, elections, public opinion & quant methods and are looking for a sandwich placement for 2025-2026, we're currently recruiting for our student placement in the YouGov political team boards.eu.greenhouse.io/yougov/jobs/...

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Junior Research Executive - Student Placement

London, United Kingdom

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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

The striking thing is how marginal the Parliament would be. 271 seats would be won by a party getting under a third of the vote. 221 seats have a lead of less than 5%, 87 are within 2%. So very small shifts under first past the post could lead to radically different outcomes

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Jon Kirkup @jonkirkup.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Do any politicians still listen to what 'The Sun says'?.... I suspect they don't and shouldn't, the readship even online is a shadow of its former self.

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Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Look who I found… Alban Arthan Hapus pawb, Happy Winter Solstice! The shortest day is upon us, now the light will start to be returned to the sky 🌌

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

With the "Stormont Brake" in the Windsor Framework being used for the first time, here's my earlier detailed legal analysis of that process eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2023/03/just...

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Just Say No? The new ‘Stormont Brake’ in the Windsor Framework (part 2 of the analysis of the framework)

Professor Steve Peers , University of Essex Photo credit : Dom0803, via Wikimedia Commons Introduction The firs...

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

It's striking how much Tory members differ from the public on these qs: "It's important for leaders to be able to manipulate...to get their way"(+15/-21) "I like self-confident leaders who regard themselves as exceptional"(+32/-32) "Britain needs strong leaders...prepared to break rules" (+1/-65)

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Jon Kirkup @jonkirkup.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Definition of echo chamber politics. Being totally outflanked by Reform. Most salient issues housing/health/cost of living are not address by anti-woke politics.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

If you've ever wondered why parliamentary oratory isn't what it was, I've been reading about Lord Brougham's "superhuman" speech ("the best ever made") on the Reform Bill in 1831. He drank two bottles of port while speaking, ending up so drunk he needed help to put the question to the House.

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Jon Kirkup @jonkirkup.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I suspect we are a few short days away from the 'Greg Wallace cookery hour' on GB News. With branded merchandise: the Woke Wok

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Tom Calver @tomcalver.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

But another theory behind crime’s growing importance may have little to do with total numbers at all For reasons I explain in the piece, Britain appears to have lost faith in the ability of police to solve crime. Trust in police is plummeting - a pattern seen more starkly among women… 7/8

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Overperception of outrage is stronger for people who spend more time online discussing politics. So if you’re mainly consuming political content on Twitter, you’re getting an even more distorted view of the world.

Fig. 3 | Observers’ overperception of outrage is positively associated with
their daily political social media use. a,b, Overperception of outrage was
defined at the participant-level, where the y axis represents the mean levels of
outrage judged by an observer minus the mean outrage reported by authors
(for all messages the observer judged). Daily political Twitter use was measured
on the basis of a slider scale from 0 to 100, where users who did not use social
media daily to learn about politics were instructed to select ‘0’. a, Exploratory
results from studies 1 and 2, two-sided Pearson correlation r(222) = 0.19,
P = 0.004, N = 224. b, Confirmatory analysis from study 3, two-sided Pearson
correlation r(248) = 0.20, P = 0.001, N = 250. Error bands represent 95% CIs on
linear model predictions.

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Cllr Joe Carter 🔶 🇺🇦 @josephcarter.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Fascinating history of the Welsh Not. I’d never considered that a driving force would have been local teachers looking to help children advance by becoming bilingual. I’d always assumed it was solely an attack on Welsh identity open.spotify.com/episode/47jP... . Well done @hiraethpod.bsky.social

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The History and the Politics of the Welsh Not

Hiraeth - Welsh Politics · Episode

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Commons majority of 75 for the second reading of the assisted dying bill

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Heidi Alexander’s appointment as transport secretary means the cabinet is now 100% state-educated for the first time in history - great stat from @georgeeaton.bsky.social

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

The Reform 14% are outliers - a vocal minority, not a silent majority saying what most people really think - on just about everything we ask the public about choices on immigration

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

EXC - The former president of the supreme court who ruled on the most high-profile assisted dying cases has declared his support for the law change. MPs backing the bill say they believe they have the numbers for Friday’s historic vote to pass.

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Ex-supreme court president backs assisted dying law change

Exclusive: David Neuberger, who ruled on high-profile assited dying cases, believes tight terms of bill cannot be expanded in courts

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Ireland's political leaders hold their final TV debate tonight ahead of Friday's General Election. Irish Times poll today

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