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Pete Eckersley @peckersley.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I actually feel quite sorry for Argentinians who might feel obliged to support a team playing this anti-football

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Pete Eckersley @peckersley.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Yeah, the third place playoff/bronze medal match is stupid, but... this is actually really entertaining

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Pete Eckersley @peckersley.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Latest paper by Antje Otto, Wolfgang Haupt, me, Kristine Kern and Annegret Thieken is now out in Cities. We apply an updated version of our 2021 ranking system to every German city with more than 50,000 residents, and every municipality independent of a county. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Pete Eckersley @peckersley.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

France risk being robbed by this ref and Paraguay's anti-football. Awful to watch

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Pete Eckersley @peckersley.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The UK is experiencing record-breaking temperatures; meanwhile, Reform-controlled Sunderland rescinds the city council's declaration of a climate emergency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Sunderland Council rescinds climate emergency declaration

Reform councillor Bill Blackett says polar bears are not extinct and the Maldives has not sunk.

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Pete Eckersley @peckersley.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I reckon Burnham will be the UK's first PM with a Northern English accent since Robert Peel. I'm not sure Harold Wilson counts: he was from the West Riding but sounded distinctly RP when he was in office

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Pete Eckersley @peckersley.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

New Reform council in Gateshead set to scrap music arena on the basis of an AI projection. Financial calculations for public projects are invariably flawed. Financial calculations based only on GenAI assessments of public data are ireedemably flawed. www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

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Pete Eckersley @peckersley.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The snooker is absolutely awesome

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Pete Eckersley @peckersley.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Great to chair this roundtable at the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social annual conference in Oxford-and thank you to @acadsocsciences.bsky.social for filing and promoting our discussion on English devolution! 👇

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 28/04/2026

Take a look at a State Dept design for new American passports. Banana republic stuff. Genuinely tragic to see.

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Pete Eckersley @peckersley.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

What an absolutely crazy end to a match. I need to go and lie down. First automatic promotion for York in over forty years

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Pete Eckersley @peckersley.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

👇 this looks fascinating. But it's also not surprising, given the enshittification of more established social media platforms and the increasing dominance of influencers, celebs and downright unpleasant people. Social media is just getting less *social*

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Pete Eckersley @peckersley.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Big day ahead. Forty years of supporting #YCFC and today might be the first time we get automatic promotion in all of that time

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Academy of Social Sciences @acadsocsciences.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Are you interested in devolution & the future of subnational government? Read our summary of a discussion which took place at #PSA26 where @peckersley.bsky.social, @ariannagiovannini.bsky.social, Prof Janice Morphet, @marksandford.bsky.social & Dr Joanie Wilett discuss just that. Link below.

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Pete Eckersley @peckersley.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Brilliant to hear David Ward's commentary from the end of the York-Altrincham match on the Today programme just now (from 08:33) 🙂. I'll be at the game vs Yeovil tomorrow and hoping we can get automatic promotion for the first time ever in the 40 years I've been a fan www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Radio 4 - Listen Live - BBC Sounds

Listen live to Radio 4 on BBC Sounds

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Pete Eckersley @peckersley.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Feel the need to post this pic before the rain and wind arrives to blow it all away

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

If you’re just waking up, here’s a summary. No, the geopolitical situation is not OK.

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Pete Eckersley @peckersley.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Nice to see my latest paper, co-authored with Bernard Kofi Dom, come out in Public Money & Management. We trace how a lack of agreement about what local government should be *for* - its role in the UK state - have characterised central-local relations since the 1970s. doi.org/10.1080/0954...

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Independence and dependence in central–local relations: Multilevel governance and state capacity in England since the 1970s

The authors draw on secondary analyses of central–local relations in England over recent decades to suggest that conflicting perspectives on what local government should be for—its role in the UK s...

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Pete Eckersley @peckersley.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

👇Thread below summarising the sessions that we in @psalocalpol.bsky.social will run at the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social conference in Oxford next week. Delighted to chair our opening roundtable, another panel, and present my paper on "Understanding the power of place in local climate policymaking"

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Pete Eckersley @peckersley.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Spotted in Morningside, Edinburgh, earlier today. Oops.

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Pete Eckersley @peckersley.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Still my favourite vending machine in the world - at the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin

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Pete Eckersley @peckersley.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Really pleased to pick up these babies in the flesh from the office 😊 Book by Wolfgang Haupt, me and Kristine Kern, on "German cities in a changing climate: challenges for politics, public administration and society" now out in hard copy with @nomosverlag.bsky.social share.google/QL3MVTJbdPXi...

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Pete Eckersley @peckersley.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Blimey, these articles by Goodwin and Oakeshott in the Spectator appear to be genuine - they both read like Private Eye spoofs

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Pete Eckersley @peckersley.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

@gabyhinsliff.bsky.social on the nail here. Unlike many other economic migrants, Dubai influencers have the opportunity (perhaps even the duty) to inform their followers of the perils associated with fleeing conflict zones www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Pete Eckersley @peckersley.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

👇 Brilliant take on the societal risks on relying on LLMs and their hallucinations, particularly in under-researched fields. Also great that @leahbroad.bsky.social refrains from using the term 'AI'. These models are, of course, *not intelligent* in any genuine way.

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Pete Eckersley @peckersley.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I see that the current holder of the FIFA Peace Prize is - once again - showing the world why that award was so well deserved

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Pete Eckersley @peckersley.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

The thing about Gorton and Denton: it wasn't even close. Reform a long way behind the Greens, and not much ahead of Labour, in a seat that was supposed to be a three-way tie

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Pete Eckersley @peckersley.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Great article on tariff rebates from @alanbeattie.bsky.social in the FT, here with a gift link. He points out that Chinese companies, rather than US consumers, will benefit from the fiasco - in direct contrast to how the policy was framed and sold originally giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Pete Eckersley @peckersley.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

It's been a real pleasure to contribute to this report into climate action in English local government. We even managed to keep it to a very-unacademic, readable length! 🙂 Liam Clegg will be talking about our analysis at this launch event in London next month - tickets are still available 👇

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Pete Eckersley @peckersley.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

My massive Schadenfreude at the tariffs judgement is tempered equally bigly by this observation

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Pete Eckersley @peckersley.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Really insightful analysis of the intelligence and diplomatic build-up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, four years after it started. It's reassuring to be reminded that Putin remains a very long way from achieving his objectives. My favourite bit 👇 www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Turns out (says @jburnmurdoch.ft.com) it's not so much an oversupply of graduates in the UK (the same would be true of other similar countries but it's not) as an undersupply of the kind of jobs that a better-performing, more productive economy would supply.

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‘Is university still worth it?’ is the wrong question

The graduate earnings premium isn’t really measuring what most people think

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Pete Eckersley @peckersley.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Terrific from Bedford Council 👇

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Pete Eckersley @peckersley.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

South Korea, like Brazil before it, shows older democracies how to deal with insurrectionists BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq... Yoon Suk Yeol: South Korea’s ex-president jailed for life for masterminding an insurrection - BBC News

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Yoon Suk Yeol: South Korea’s ex-president jailed for life for masterminding an insurrection

Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached and indicted for declaring martial law in 2024.

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Pete Eckersley @peckersley.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Last call for our PhD position to work on the project "Analysing Net-Zero Discourses in the Context of Democratic Backsliding"! Details here, deadline is this Friday, 13 Feb 👇 www.ntu.ac.uk/study-and-co...

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Analysing Net-Zero Discourses in the Context of Democratic Backsliding

A fully funded PhD studentship opportunity, open for UK applicants.

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Pete Eckersley @peckersley.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I'm keen to see this play, but also highly annoyed that the tour goes to nine more southern venues after completing three months in London. The only theatre it will play north of Birmingham is in York! Nothing in Scotland, the north east or north west... www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/f...

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Four decades after we wrote Yes Minister, politics is still reduced to the pleasure of power | Jonathan Lynn

Our sitcom character Jim Hacker continues to cling on – as he takes to the West End stage, nothing has really changed

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Pete Eckersley @peckersley.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

This is quite interesting, even if it does highlight the fact that - AFAIK - no other big tech orgs make it easy for users to opt out from GenAI, despite growing public scepticism. FWIW, the problems that GenAI has caused me since its inception far outweigh any benefits I think it may have delivered

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Pete Eckersley @peckersley.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Ich freue mich sehr auf die kommende Publikation unseres neuen Buches 👇 Das Buch wurde von Wolfgang Haupt, mir, und der leider verstorbenen Kristine Kern geschrieben, und befasst sich mit der Entstehung und Entwicklung städtischer Klimapolitik in Deutschland www.nomos-shop.de/de/p/deutsch...

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Deutsche Städte im Klimawandel

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Pete Eckersley @peckersley.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Respect to this guy for wearing shorts whilst out walking dog on the seafront this morning. Weather forecast also posted for context

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Pete Eckersley @peckersley.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

There's a big, bright, warm, yellow thing in the sky today. What's going on?

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Pete Eckersley @peckersley.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Pleasure to contribute to this report on local climate action in the UK for Climate Emergency UK CIC. Thanks to Liam Clegg for doing the number-crunching to underpin the analysis. The full report will be launched at this event in London on 18 March www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/accelerati...

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Accelerating Local Climate Action Conference

Join us for the Accelerating Local Climate Action report launch and conference exploring what factors accelerate local climate action

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

NEW: NEW: Standards commissioner finds Nigel Farage committed seventeen breaches of MPs code of conduct. He failed to declare £333,000 in outside interests (more than 3x MPs annual salary)…

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