Nick Anstead
@nickanstead
Associate Professor at LSE, researching political communications and the role of ideas in politics. More on me and my research:
Aside from the fact that it is pretty funny to name prisons after the county’s most famous nurse, I’m pretty sure none of the Nightingale Hospitals were ever used as they lacked staffing capacity. Also look forward to hearing where these prefab prisons will be built.
Aside from anything else, this suggests Trump has failed to learn Andy Burnham’s name yet.
Interesting choice. I always felt this when Tories were talking up Ben Wallace as a leadership candidate (& he continually declined to run): if you agitate for greater defence spending, then you need to be willing to take on the role of PM / CHX in make the real political choices to make it happen.
Even the humble steel helmet barely existed in 1914, and when it was introduced was both very practical but also dehumanising. The designers in the programme have done a great job harnessing the shock this aesthetic must have created into their designs. Highly recommended [3/3].
I am not as down on the 3rd place match as many people (lots of sports have a play off for 3rd place & if England win, it would officially be their best result since 1966, which is not nothing), but I guess one issue is losing semi-finalists have to remain in the WC media bubble, which seems harsh.
There is precedent: no one serious ran against David Davis in 2008. Also, some guy called Andy Burnham said Davis should pay the costs of the vote.
This highlights a major problem with the UK constitutional system and how we transfer power… it is unclear if Keir Starmer or Andy Burnham should call Gianni Infantino to get Jarell Quansah’s red card overturned.
That what quite what the JLP data shows andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social. It is asking people to predict who they think will win (hence the choice of Lab, Reform, Cons or Don’t Know). So it tells us something about vibes but not about popular support.
Showing an impressive sense of both history and irony, Badenoch chooses to go with the insult which convinced a significant chunk of the electorate that Churchill had gone mad in 1945.
The danger with these scenarios is that it is easy to spot a conspiracy where there isn’t one… but interesting which PPS is first over the top, and who their constituency neighbour is…
Encountered this Lego rip off in a charity shop. It does not look quite like other Lego kits I have encountered…
It does seem one of the major problems of US media coverage is too easily being distracted by what are clearly very impressive feats of arms (see also Venezuela) but not adequately reflecting the complete strategic vacuum in which they are occurring in.
I should add, just to increase my irritation levels, it has been saying “finishing” for about 38 of those minutes.
I personally think Starmer is in about the right place on Iran, but it is pretty damning of the various pro-intervention voices on the U.K. right that Blair has managed to clearly articulate a more logical case for the U.K. supporting the US than any of them have managed in the past week.
I imagine Starmer feels like he isn’t exactly dealing with FDR either.