Snr Lecturer @ Edge Hill - Social Media, Pol Com, Content Moderation & Politics. 🗳️ Also Convenor @techpolicy.bsky.social
Spends more time posting GIFs than working.
https://www.Leelum.com
Dr Liam Mcloughlin ☕
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Local Council website having a bit of a wobble with the election results.
Every single time a @richersounds.com newsletter hits my email.
I put some words on if the big phone OS providers can stop children from sharing explicit images in this article by @stokel.bsky.social.
Also some excellent words by @bloggeronpole.bsky.social & Julian Hayes.
Overall, great collection of words. Go read.
www.newscientist.com/article/2529...
You can see the Playbook description here!
www.politico.eu/newsletter/l...
I'd like to say I've been a a productive researcher this week. Instead I've created MandelsonMail.com 👀
View 1,500+ pages of the Peter Mandelson files as his email box and WhatsApp chats.
Today's @politico.eu London Playbook described it as "a lot of fun, so it should probably be avoided".
Women are beating men at the ballot box, but we’re far off gender equality in local government.
I followed-up my last analysis back in April with the updated @democracyclub.org.uk 2026 Local Election results.
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With the UK's Government moving ever closer towards banning social media content for under 16s, @maia-aa.bsky.social & @ariadnevromen.bsky.social share their thoughts on "Why an under 16s social media ban won’t improve online safety" in the TIP Blog. 👇
technologypolicy.substack.com/p/why-an-und...
Searchable archive of the Cabinet Office disclosure: 296 emails, 60 WhatsApp conversations, 51 meetings and 14 letters involving Lord Peter Mandelson.
The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.
It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
With the United Kingdom moving towards banning under 16s from accessing social media, Dr. Maia Almeida-Amir & Prof. Ariadne Vromen provide a rights-based perspective following the Australian ban.
In this blog we argue that blanket social media bans (like in Australia) conflate restricted access with safer access, and frame young people as vulnerable objects for protecting - rather than as rights-bearing participants in digital society
@uofgsocsci.bsky.social
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In the local elections, women out-polled men. Paradoxically, men remain overly represented. The reason is simple: no single political party managed gender equality in the number of women candidates st...
With the UK's Government moving ever closer towards banning social media content for under 16s, @maia-aa.bsky.social & @ariadnevromen.bsky.social share their thoughts on "Why an under 16s social media ban won’t improve online safety" in the TIP Blog. 👇
technologypolicy.substack.com/p/why-an-und...
Ariadne Vromen
With the United Kingdom moving towards banning under 16s from accessing social media, Dr. Maia Almeida-Amir & Prof. Ariadne Vromen provide a rights-based perspective following the Australian ban.
I took the full list of candidates in the Local Elections in May & undertook an approach to infer gender.
The analysis suggests little movement in the % of women standing for each party, but recent polls suggest a decline in the total % of women in local government.
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Dr Liam Mcloughlin ☕
I analysed the list of candidates for the upcoming 2026 Local Elections to predict the state of gender inequality in local government
