Daniel Jones

Perhaps the quoted stat might explain this slightly awkward turn. Could we not perhaps both build on brownfield and reform greenbelt system? That tension between constituents and principles is going to be a painful fence to straddle for Lib Dem MPs this parliament.

Hosting a conference today on Local Context, Extreme Politics - wonderful paper just now finishing from @Willallchorn. And my Facebook has reminded me that today is 5 years since I submitted my thesis.

@markpack @BNHWalker

You saw the headline he managed to generate? Starting to suspect the entire Conservative press team quit in early march and no-one has told anyone.

The Prime Minister has gone from being told off for lying, and getting himself in more trouble to go back and do TV interviews to deny lying, to this. Brutal self-destructive honesty. There is a middle ground you know.

From Christopher Hope of GB News. 59 MPs with just 10% of the vote. 59 MPs being less than 10% of the MPs. So no idea what he sees as wrong with that.

Oddly enough, the advert that Twitter decided to serve under that to me was:

After some feedback, and to enable more people to take part, we have decided to move the workshop we were planning in July online. We've also moved it earlier in the week, to avoid the American holiday. We've extended the call for papers until 3rd of June - do get in touch!

Of all the problems facing the country, and the electoral issues facing the Tories, are we seriously saying any of them is ‘the rise of gender neutral toilets’? Having failed to ‘stop the boats’ we have moved onto ‘be weird about toilets’ as policy.

We've had some fantastic abstracts so far, but had a few people ask for more time - so @hylandsiobhn and I have extended the call for papers for our workshop until May 4th. If you want to give a paper, or come along, do get in touch.

Oops. Family and Community.

Just a few days left to get panel/paper/session proposals in for this.

Abstract deadline closes in a week - workshop on local/regional contexts of the far right. Want to present your research? Talk about your practice as a GLAM professional? Engage with a mixed audience of academics and practitioners? Any questions, get in touch!

*looks at polling, looks at campaign launch* Mm hmm

Here it is. Fairly standard. The issue is where you have two elections with different election agents, given the alteration of guidelines around apportionment etc.

Received a big Union Jack fronted leaflet today talking about Britain’s Future. Turns out it was Labour PCC candidate leaflet. But the priorities on the back…only one of these is a PCC issue. Why would I vote for a PCC in order to fund the NHS? The two are unrelated

If it is a May GE, I'll be teaching first years about 1997 around the time of the election.