(Warning: this post contains spoilers, so if you haven’t been watching Celebrity Traitors, you might wish not to read on…) As well as being the TV event of the year so far, Celebrity Traitors, which concludes tonight, is a near-perfect natural experiment. My interest was piqued by a conversation between contestants historian David Olusoga and…
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Nye at the NT
At the LSE, I have the great pleasure of teaching students from all over the world. Many of them are completely baffled by the British relationship with the National Health Service. That is not to say they think it provides bad healthcare. Many of them are really impressed by it. But they find the deep…
It is time for Badenoch to expel Truss.
I was very struck by the above quotes from Liz Truss at an event in, of all places, Hungary. The first obvious response to the comments is that Truss is deeply delusional, both about her own place in politics and the state of the world. A secondary perhaps more generous reading is, in need of…
Tories who sound like Reformers, Reformers who sound like Tories
Sounding more like Tories and toning down the drama points to a possible trajectory for Reform in the future
New article alert! Facebook election advertising: dangerous for democracy or politics as usual? The case of the 2017 UK general election
Some reflections on my new article
Hard board and crooked timbers in an age of friends and enemies
Setting up a website like this is a new venture for me. It has been a long time since I have had a blog. I did blog while a PhD student, but that whole idea seems very 2009. I am not quite sure what this site is or will be, but at the moment, I am largely thinking of it as a journal of ideas and thoughts, a place to articulate some ideas as they occur to me and store them away for future use.