(Very!) different polling times: from Marplan's explainer of its methodology in The Times in 1968, just as it started doing regular national voting intention polls. It's a reference to a Parliamentary by-election poll previously carried out by the pollster.

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It's the job of the media to scrutinize such statements and decide whether there's a story here at all (maybe the story is Anthropic researchers have fallen into a fantasy-land and brought many policymakers with them), not to just platform them. >>

Horrendous times

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Whether you choose to mark Babyloss Awareness Week alone, or if it is too much this year, there is always help out there from the fantastic brilliant charities like Miscarriage UK & NI, Sands & Tommys. Whatever role I have, I’ll always support others to break the stigma of pregnancy loss & babyloss

UCU should have a door there!

This is the direction of travel for all the far right. A Trumpian EU doing the barest minimum coordination, no European elections, EU enacting cultural warfare on anything the far right dislikes. Plus national vetos which will gut any other coordination. Can’t say we weren’t warned…

Wise words from my wise husband

I hope the legacy is that providing evidence and commentary not linked to campaigning becomes a more normal part of academic life.

Very important public health announcement! Having landed in hospital on Easter Sunday 2022 - with no underlying conditions and entirely otherwise healthy- I now do it every year. Flu is a very serious disease and can kill those otherwise young and healthy if not taken seriously. Jab yourself!

‘Culturally British by my standards’ is one of the most chilling phrases uttered in British politics. Entirely unsurprising to me who it’s from.

What terribly sad news. It is hard to imagine what could ever replace it.

I liked it. I also have an obsession with left cross stitching (is it a continental thing?) & complex feelings about recommendations. However, I started taking some recommendations recently. Just to keen my mind open I guess. Interesting results I’d say: tv less so, but books- definitely worth it.

🔴NEW: Ben Delo has given Reform £44MILLION Delo’s money comes from his now-closed crypto exchange BitMEX In 2019, a BitMEX investor asked about the status of his investment Delo responded by sending this meme, according to court documents. There’s more, a lot more (new investigation🧵)

oh my god I was going to joke "he's actually centre-left" and turns out he IS

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