Reposted by Morgan JonesNick Garland @npjgarland.bsky.social · 13hThis is really interesting, and basically vindicates the v different approach Labour took towards the Greens in Holborn & St Pancras vs Gorton & Denton. 177
Reposted by Morgan JonesFintan Smith (Mac Gabhann) @fintan-smith.bsky.social · 14hGreat thread from Steve here on @convergent-opinion.bsky.social's constituency poll of Holborn and St Pancras. Custom recruitment has naturally seemed to become a bit of a thing we do at Convergent - and is one of the things we help our clients with that I enjoy the most. Have a read: 162
Reposted by Morgan JonesSteve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 14hNEW: What happened in Holborn? Some constituency polling to help us understand a bit more. TLDR: loyalty to Burnham + a local candidate won the day; no real sign of tactical voting; Greens never convinced ppl they could win but Polanski not toxic necessarily. @persuasionuk.bsky.social 23317
Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 14hBut the picture for Polanski isn't that bad either. Labour people who might want to go in on the Green leader should be aware that personally disliking Zack Polanski was the least popular reason not to vote Green. Overall, 'attract don't attack" would seem to hold per this poll: 1327
Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 14hWe've done some polling at @persuasionuk.bsky.social on the Holborn by-election, looking beyond how people voted to why they voted the way they did, which I discuss exclusively in the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social this afternoon: www.newstatesman.com/politics/pol...newstatesman.comWhat Holborn and St Pancras voters wantedExclusive polling reveals residents rejected the Greens in order "not to undermine the Labour government" 2245
Reposted by Morgan Jonesterror @weedlejuice.bsky.social · 15hSaw your man get swallowed and spat back out by a malevolent elm in the Haunted grove 510920
Reposted by Morgan JonesThe BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 08/10/2026As the world heats up, are we really taking notice? www.break-down.org/making-peopl...break-down.orgMaking people care about the climateAs the world heats up, are we really taking notice? 032
Reposted by Morgan JonesLabour Climate and Environment Forum @lcefuk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This year was our hottest summer on record - but did it shift the dial on climate action? @PersuasionUK.bsky.social has an excellent article out today covering some of their ongoing work with LCEF on voters' appetite for climate action. buff.ly/sMEEo81buff.lyMaking people care about the climateAs the world heats up, are we really taking notice? 144
Reposted by Morgan JonesDavid Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"But there is no straight line between experience and opinion. All experience is mediated via pre-existing political beliefs" Fascinating analysis here of experience vs media coverage in shaping climate salience - with wider implications for how we think about the drivers of political opinionbreak-down.orgMaking people care about the climateAs the world heats up, are we really taking notice? 0219
Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026cold showers are not bracing and good when they are your only choice it has been two weeks i yearn to have a bath 010
Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026hard to overstate the impact no hot water has had on my women's men's mental health 250
Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026(in the uk, pushing at an open door in some ways because there are functionally almost no "deniers") whereas not so with brexit issues, where salience is necessary but difficult. 130
Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Have discussed with various people the similarities in climate activism and rejoin stuff – activists who are already convinced, etc. I suppose the answer with climate is that raising salience is a straightforward good as discussed in article/ 130
Reposted by Morgan JonesJohn Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Which includes this completely bonkers graph, tracking support for net zero policies from the major parties. Look at those Tories!! 095
Reposted by Morgan JonesJohn Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This is a brilliant piece of research, on how we keep attention focused on the climate crisis 273
Reposted by Morgan Jonesits borb @itsborb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026humanity's oldest storage technology is the humble yet practical Heap 415225
Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Pleased to have this out today with @steveakehurst.bsky.social, discussing @persuasionuk.bsky.social's work on climate salience and public attitudes. I'm really pleased with the piece, do give it a read: www.break-down.org/making-peopl...break-down.orgMaking people care about the climateAs the world heats up, are we really taking notice? 12416
Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026i went for a run in the pouring rain this morning because it’s the only way to take the edge off a cold shower. horrible 120
Reposted by Morgan JonesMegan Corton Scott @mcortonscott.bsky.social · 07/10/2026WE'RE HIRING Reminder: the application deadline to be the Parliamentary Engagement Manager at @lcefuk.bsky.social is this Sunday, 11.59pm! 👇 224
Reposted by Morgan JonesGrobian Syboe @grobiansyboe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Welcoming you onto the bus and escorting you to a seat upstairs like a kind orangutan holding your hand 2194
Reposted by Morgan JonesGrobian Syboe @grobiansyboe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026If I'm in the supermarket, at the frozen aisle, and I've got it all to myself, I like to stick my head in one of the freezers and get a good few lungfuls of that strange cold air. 0222
Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I have a lot of time for the people who want to make the Greens better. However the last few days would suggest that a lot of people are more interested in making the party worse 0161
Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026when will our long national nightmare [no hot water] be over 120
Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026psychic damage of a cold shower first thing got me listening to enya on the bus to work 160
Reposted by Morgan JonesG🅰️reth @gbentl.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Andy Burnham needs to start making Mr. Beast style challenge videos where he locks 3 civil servants in a room with £100m and they have 15 days to solve the driving test backlog 16113
Reposted by Morgan JonesG🅰️reth @gbentl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Hello, in 1995 the first colony of penguins in the Scandinavian north pole were discovered. These penguins exhibited many intriguing behaviours such as living in Igloos. But it was their language that was most compelling. Joining us to discuss "Pingu" is Dr Joanne Simmons of Canterbury University 1103
Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026this does raise some questions about your quant skills 160
Reposted by Morgan JonesJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I accidentally spent £17,700 on 400 subscriptions to the LRB for Home Office staff and now the Life in the UK test is asking applicants to rank Derek Jarman films from most to least emotionally resonant? 129572
Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026spending last hour of being 30 improving my skills with my newly acquired more in common yo yo 3100
Reposted by Morgan Jonesclamplifier @clamplifier.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Margate looms large in the imagination of the French Riviera’s creative class: an wet seaside town that you can abscond to when things begin to look too sublimely erotic and glamorous. But the actual Margate is complicated—a real place with real problems and deep history. 0121
Reposted by Morgan Jonesjack's microblog @jackalert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026we need a mission economy national push to breed an affordable and delicious alternative to pine nuts 151
Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026@petewhitehead.bsky.social's incredible commitment to "starmer? i hardly know her!" (or, indeed, anything with an er or some vaguely similar sound) is admirable 030
Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I also go a bit into some of our other work on ownership issues, discussing more on why this area of the speech is particularly popular. 0101
Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026As 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... 2147
Reposted by Morgan JonesCo-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 01/10/2026Ownership 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. 034
Reposted by Morgan JonesEllie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I am once again drawing your attention to some interesting research from Steve Akehurst and Persuasion UK 0104
Reposted by Morgan JonesSteve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 01/10/2026NEW: 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! 🧵👇 614051
Reposted by Morgan JonesJack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 28/09/2026Sick 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 75927
Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Incidentally I found Polanski's figures – 41% negative view, 17% positive view – quite striking here. 050
Reposted by Morgan JonesPersuasion UK @persuasionuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Our polling is in today's @mirror.co.uk: 111
Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In Renewal, Steve discusses some testing Persuasion has done on the electoral appeal of this approach. renewal.org.uk/blog/the-cas... 089