This is a brilliant book by Sara and James!
Great article covering its main argument.
An argument that travels across to many cases globally.
Last year, we shared a paper showing that Labour's accommodation of the radical right did not work.
We now have a new version of the paper online: osf.io/preprints/so...
Paying peer reviewers works.
Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social:
• 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews
• ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript
• no reduction in editor-assessed review quality
• similar acceptance rates
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Call for papers British Association for the Study of Ukraine (BASU) National Conference. Submissions welcome from scholars, policy & think tank professionals, across the Social Sciences, Humanities, Arts and Culture, STEM, & Government/NGOs/Industry.
thebasu.com/basu-nationa...
Deadline 25 June 2026
Immigration salience by party (top 3 issue)
Reform: 83% (1st priority)
Conservatives 33% (2nd priority)
Labour 17% (5th priority)
Green 16% (=6th priority)
Ipsos, 8th-12th May 2026
www.ipsos.com/sites/defaul...
It is Europe day!
Democrats in Belarus (those who identify democracy as the best system for the country) are more likely to want Belarus to join the EU!
Being a democrat in Belarus increases the likelihood of wanting to join the EU by 22 percentage points!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
It’s Europe Day!
Being a supporter of democracy increases the likelihood that a Pole would want Poland to stay in the EU by 12 percentage points at a statistically significant level.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
@jcms-eu.bsky.social
It’s Europe Day!
Being a supporter of democracy increases the likelihood that a Pole would want Poland to stay in the EU by 12 percentage points at a statistically significant level.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
@jcms-eu.bsky.social
My reading of public opinion on Brexit rn:
~most constituencies think the UK was wrong to have left the EU
~most constituencies will now be majority Rejoin given national polling (55-33)
~the national lead that Rejoin enjoys in the polls would tighten a fair bit during a campaign*
It’s Europe day!
If someone didn’t support democracy in 2019 but became a supporter of democracy by 2021 the likelihood that they came to want Ukraine to join the EU increased by 20 percentage points!!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Great piece in The Guardian by @chakrabortty.bsky.social on how Britain remains a country divided along Brexit lines - building on my new book with James Tilley:
"Tribal Politics. How Brexit Divided Britain" (global.oup.com/academic/pro...)
Read it here 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Back in 2023, when @focaldata.bsky.social produced an MRP poll on Brexit, Makerfield was estimated as 51% agree (vs 31% disagree) that the UK was wrong to have left the EU.
Tribalism has not faded over the past decade. Instead, new research reveals our politics has become ever-more polarised and fractious, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
