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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 3h

As Steve outlines below, we have new research out today. For those who prefer paragraphs to graphs when it comes to taking in information, I've written about them here for @politicshome.bsky.social. With some caveats, they're very good for Andy Burnham: www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 5h

Ownership matters. New research from Persuasion UK following Andy Burnham’s conference speech suggests arguments about economic power, public control and ownership resonate with voters. That conversation should include sharing ownership and putting more power in more hands.

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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 6h

I am once again drawing your attention to some interesting research from Steve Akehurst and Persuasion UK

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Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 9h

NEW: How does Burnham’s conference speech land with voters when they see it it? In short, very well it seems. A thread on some new video testing of the PM’s speech among voters by @persuasionuk.bsky.social Top line findings and some caveats below! 🧵👇

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Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Sick of work this Monday lunchtime? Or perhaps hungover from one too many on the first night of Labour Conference? If so, distract yourself with ✨ 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱-𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗠𝗥𝗣 𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 ✨ Full interactive at: jack-bailey.co.uk/ward2024

Screenshot showing interactive ward level MRP estimates at the 2024 UK general election.

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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Incidentally I found Polanski's figures – 41% negative view, 17% positive view – quite striking here.

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Persuasion UK @persuasionuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Our polling is in today's @mirror.co.uk:

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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In Renewal, Steve discusses some testing Persuasion has done on the electoral appeal of this approach. renewal.org.uk/blog/the-cas...

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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As an aside from the piece as a whole, I do find the very recognisable post liberal writing style fascinating.

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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Really pleased to be the newly relaunched Progressive Review. I've written about the way in which places – by-elections, bellweather constituencies – are written about, which often have to do more with authors' priors and expectations of form than the realities of the electoral map.

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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

i bet the focus groups would have gone crazy during the reformation

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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

sources inform me that my book is for sale at Lib Dem conference. if i have an audience… it is there

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Normal Guy @guy-normal.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

babe, i need you to level with me. do you think i'm coded like the pleasant but ineffectual boyfriend in the first act of a Nora Ephron rom-com? don't pull your punches here. would you ever go Meg Ryan mode on me??

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a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

it starts with these influencers and ends with people taken to these reeducation camps

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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Pleased to be in @opendemocracy.net discussing @persuasionuk.bsky.social's work assessing what messages work against Reform and why the summer of financial scandals has caught up to the party. www.opendemocracy.net/reform-uk-ni...

opendemocracy.net

Why crypto and financial scandals are finally denting Reform UK

Our research shows Nigel Farage’s anti-elitist brand is vulnerable to stories linking billionaire cash to party policy

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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

planned but didn't write an article a while ago about why there are no social democratic lifestyle influencers and why we need some. i think it's right!

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Robert Smith @bondhack.ft.com · 17/09/2026

Ben Delo is many things: a crypto billionaire, a Reform mega-donor and a free speech advocate. @oilsheppard.bsky.social and I discovered he's also the landlord of a bankrupt academic after funding her failed libel claim against a Jewish artist who complained of antisemism www.ft.com/content/21aa...

ft.com

Reform UK’s mega-donor backed a friend’s libel claim. Now he controls her home

Crypto billionaire Ben Delo loaned more than £300,000 to former academic Nina Power

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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

These are thugs being thugs, not legitimate protests

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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Joe Fortune is the new Labour Party General Secretary, a pick which I think underlines Burnham's agenda on ownership. I found it very interesting speaking to Fortune about this a few years ago: labourlist.org/2024/10/gove...

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Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

NEW: How did the summer heatwaves and wildfires change attitudes to climate and Net Zero, if at all? A short thread on analysis of tracker polling now summer is winding down. 🧵 (for @persuasionuk.bsky.social with @yougov.co.uk)

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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

what a time to hear Macklemore accused of blood libel on the world at one

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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

government minister voice: i know things haven’t been good enough. that we haven’t been truly listening. but i am listening now. And that’s why today im proud to announce that we’re reintroducing lampreys into the nhs phlebotomy systems

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clamplifier @clamplifier.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I have my personal views on the changes in bureaucratic reporting in the 18th century Qing state. Just because I choose not to speak publicly, it doesn't mean I don't have them, and it doesn't mean I don't care. Nor does it mean I don't acknowledge administrative revolutions in my own, personal way.

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Normal Guy @guy-normal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm the guy at Anthropic in charge of the big red Recursive Super-Intelligence button. Whenever the office needs livening up, I pretend I'm about to drop it, or put my coffee mug down on it, to a chorus of screams. Dario Amodei can't fire me due to Bayesian priors

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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

a real "baby shoes never worn" energy to this

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Phil Swatton @philswatton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Some reflections on @yuanfenyang.bsky.social's brilliant Rita Hinden memorial lecture hosted by @renewaljournal.bsky.social on ending 40 years of neoliberalism. dysfunctionalprogramming.substack.com/p/embracing-...

dysfunctionalprogramming.substack.com

Embracing Uncertainty

Reflections on the 2nd Rita Hinden Memorial Lecture by Yuan Yang

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

One of the really odd things here is that we know from @steveakehurst.bsky.social work that attacks on corruption, donations and crypto links aee the most effective against Farage. And here they are, in essence, leaning into them - after weeks of similar stories which caused huge damage.

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Nothing shows off the mental disorders of small business owners like the AI posters outside so many establishments. Why would you not just take a picture, no way it would be worse

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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

nice void... be shame if someone ruled it

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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

new emily st john mandel... new hernan diaz... it's a great month for the upper middle brow amongst us (me)

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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

crank that shit up (al Stewart’s “year of the cat”)

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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 08/09/2026

fallsview lobby, ellenville, new york, 1977

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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

i'm not even religious and i think these people are going to hell

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Renewal @renewaljournal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A fantastic Rita Hinden Memorial Lecture delivered to a packed room, in which @yuanfenyang.bsky.social offered an exciting vision of a post-neoliberal settlement based on devolution, pluralism, participatory democracy, and local experimentation

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Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 10/09/2026

Really good stuff from @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social here - more Labour MPs should be saying the same. Mahmood's ILR reforms are unfair, will undermine migrant integration and only embolden the far right's attack on the world's best and brightest who want to contribute to the UK 👏

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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

it’s nice that almost everyone i know starts their day by voluntarily jacking up their blood pressure [listening to justin webb on today programme]

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

the world if Meg Hillier had become Speaker in 2019

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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

cloying, tittering inner ring-ism that serves no end but corrosive, wilful vacuity

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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This post made me re-visit this piece from last year: renewal.org.uk/blog/screami...

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Yuan Yang @yuanfenyang.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I’m honoured to be giving this year’s Rita Hinden Memorial Lecture for @renewaljournal.bsky.social, discussing what the “end of neoliberalism” means and the opportunities Andy Burnham’s premiership brings for fresh economic ideas. (1/2)

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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

last year i read a few of the simon raven “alms for oblivion” saga and thought they were really great in this vein. they’re about unpleasant people attempting to borrow small amounts of money from one another via cheque in grimy 1950s london

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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Seeking title suggestions for my feel good film about a group of oil workers tryong to slim down in time for the new regulation deadline. They’re describing it (in my head) as a Full Monty for the 2020s www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Hundreds of North Sea workers too heavy for new helicopter rules

Workers should weigh no more than 19.5st fully clothed so that they can be winched to safety in an emergency.

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Zoe Avison @zoeavison.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🎯 by @morganj0nes.bsky.social "The “Burnham bounce” has been all about the return of these progressive voters. If the Prime Minister wants to keep his standing in the polls, it will be unhelpful, to say the least, to be perceived as being poor on climate." www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

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North Sea drilling could threaten Andy Burnham's green credentials

The prospect of new licenses for oil and gas drilling is not a big vote mover in and of itself. Seen in a climate change context, it could be, howe...

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Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Holborn & St Pancras gut take, fwiw: Should be a fairly safe Labour hold, but Polanski adds a big chaos factor. Without the credible threat of Reform, Labour will need to find a way to up the stakes. Greens will need to settle on a few wedge issues. Bit more on each of these 👇🧵

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Imogen Shaw @imogenshaw.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Really useful and interesting work by Persuasion on North Sea oil and gas and Labour’s progressive voter bloc

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The government's Land Use Framework for England was published in March 2026. It contains 79 actions. Five months down the line, what's happened? - - Just 6 actions are 'complete'; - 57 actions are 'in progress'; - 16 actions are 'not started'. Get a move on, DEFRA! 1/ www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Land Use Framework: list of actions

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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I'm in PoliticsHome, talking about Persuasion's work on the electoral calculations at play when it comes to further oil and gas licenses.

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