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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

You can also download “Doing Open Social Science” free from LSE Research Online here researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/13...

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

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Decline in tourism hits US economy

Overseas visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year.

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 7h

“Rather than facilitating political change in China, the Internet and the associated world of the mobile phone have become formidable tools the government uses to maintain tight control over the society.”https://open.substack.com/pub/newyorkreviewofbooks/p/logging-on-in-china?r=e32v3&utm_medium=ios

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Logging On in China

Howard W. French on the Chinese Internet

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 9h

"We don't want violent men in ill fitting balaclavas intimidating people and trying to take over – that's not democracy and they're not patriots " via The UK Against Hate

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 9h

The UK becoming one big fossil fuel fired data centre for US hyperscalers with a few isolated housing developments with no local amenities scattered around them is certainly a vision. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England

Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 9h

Nigel Farage wants us to believe that ex-Tories responsible for 000s of austerity deaths who defected to Reform UK are going to fix all the problems they created "This poster was used in the 2024 election campaign 85% of the Tories featured defected to Reform after the election" via Barry James

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 9h

Robert Jenrick’s handling of donations to his failed 2024 Tory leadership campaign has come under fresh scrutiny, after the UK donor at the centre of the row claimed that the politician and his senior campaign staff knew about the involvement of an overseas donor. www.ft.com/content/38a5...

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Reform UK’s Robert Jenrick faces fresh accusation from campaign donor

British businessman Phillip Ullmann says the politician was aware of his relationship with potentially illicit US donor

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Chris Rivers @chrisrivers50.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Overall we expect that Labour will have a comfortable win in the by-election”

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

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Decline in tourism hits US economy

Overseas visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked

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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban

The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."

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WatchYourRepsTN&SC @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Trump said his GOP convention beat the NFL. Nielsen says the Seahawks-Patriots opener drew 25.1 million viewers. Trump’s speech drew about 3.3 million across three networks. Claiming victory after losing by roughly 21.8 million people takes a special kind of self delusion.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is testament to No.10's frankly astonishing degree of political competence. A policy which was branded electoral suicide 48 hours ago now showing signs of robust popularity.

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WIRED @wired.com · 30/09/2026

Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Our joint investigation reveals the system that has divided the West Bank and measures what it cost people to move through it. www.wired.com/story/how-is...

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How Israeli Checkpoints Choke Palestinian Life in the Occupied West Bank

Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Our joint investigation reveals the system that has divided the West Bank and measures what it cost people to move through it.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Deloitte paid its UK-based partners £1.125m. Firm has 784 equity partners. Due to self-employed status of partners, employer national insurance (ENI) is not paid on profits shared. 150,000 ENI avoided on every £1m of profits shared. Billions lost across the country. Must end this privilege.

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Deloitte UK advisory arm rebounds to growth as new boss insists AI 'can’t replace lived experience'

Big Four giant Deloitte's new UK boss, Darren Graves, insisted AI “can’t replace lived experience” as the firm's advisory arms return to growth.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Despite all the talk about him being 'Starmer with a Northern accent,' Andy Burnham's conference speech suggests he is set to be a very different prime minister from his predecesssor bylinetimes.com/2026/09/29/a...

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Andy Burnham's Labour Conference Speech Offers a Clear Break From the Politics of Despair

The Prime Minister's emotional and expansive speech opened the door to a genuine shift in our politics, argues Adam Bienkov

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

texans, you are going to see this clip once a week and twice on sundays until the election

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The only kind of person who buys a Swasticar

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good thing that this couldn’t have been predicted almost a year ago <runs bitter victory lap> and the government didn’t just blithely carry on doing the same thing. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/718...

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Times - which has v much joined in the rightwing clamour to reduce immigration - now reporting that Mahmood’s “success” has cost the economy £4- to £7Bn. Would they like to now honestly confirm that fewer people = less spending power for all. There’s a high price to pay for this nasty obsession.

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Falling migration numbers could cost the chancellor as much as £7bn in fiscal headroom as he writes his first budget, The Times has been told.
Government insiders believe that John Healey, who already faced an uphill battle to balance the books next month, is likely to have an even bigger challenge after immigration undershot projections from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).
The Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank estimated last month that the success of Shabana
Mahmood's
reforms, which have cut net migration to the low hundreds of thousands, could cost Healey some £4bn.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Norway produces more oil than Venezuela. And yet, between January and August 2026, electric vehicles made up 97.8 percent of all new cars sold in that country. Moving to EVs is often based on intelligence, not need. Which is why it lags in the notoriously short-sighted and stupid United States.

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pmf @clearlight.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Wasn't he the little shit who had some poor woman raided by the cops for emailing him about the Gaza genocide?

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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @handle.invalid · 26/09/2026

I don’t think we should call them Starmerites. That suggests Sir Kier had a philosophy. The better term is Mandelsonians.

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Elayne Boosler @eboosler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The UN: "The US was the ONLY nation to vote "NO" against ensuring & strengthening worldwide access to justice for all women & girls. The resolution passed with 37 yes votes, 6 countries (Côte d’Ivoire, Congo, Egypt, Mali, Mauritania & Saudi Arabia) abstained." Good company, huh? Vote Blue!

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 27/09/2026

BREAKING: Gov. Gavin Newsom just signed a sweeping California package cracking down on public corruption, crypto fraud, ticket scams, privacy abuses and more, including a new law barring public officials from launching meme coins.

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Newsom Signs Sweeping Anti-Corruption Package Cracking Down on Meme Coins, Crypto Fraud, and Self-Dealing by Public Officials

Governor Gavin Newsom signed a sweeping package of anti-corruption and consumer protection legislation, MeidasTouch has exclusively learned, delivering one of

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Who could’ve foreseen that after the Supreme Court gave Trump immunity from prosecution for committing crimes while in office he would commit lots of crimes while in office?

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Trish 🇨🇦 Sorry! 🍁 @trishly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Tariffs are changing where vehicles are sourced, such as Mexico. Japan and Canada.

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born2balive.bsky.social @born2balive.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The New Yorker posted exactly how I interpreted the whole visit.

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