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@bloggeronpole.bsky.socialReposted by @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.socialNew article by yours truly for @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social - I wrote about how avenues for content and account removal appeals are still an under-developed area of platform enforcement and of online safety legislation
@lsepoliticsblog.bsky.socialTim Bale @timbale.bsky.social on electoral reform and what happens when political ideals meet political reality.
Read it on the LSE British Politics Substack.
@lsepoliticsblog.bsky.socialReposted by @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.socialWill Labour win the Holborn and St Pancras by-election?
🖋️Paul Whiteley
@lsepoliticsblog.bsky.socialReposted by @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.socialThe right to appeal is still missing from online safety conversations
Dr Carolina Are @bloggeronpole.bsky.social argues that the current routes of appeal offered by Big Tech companies are hugely ineffectual, delegated to AI with little or no human oversight.
@lsepoliticsblog.bsky.socialThe right to appeal is still missing from online safety conversations
Dr Carolina Are @bloggeronpole.bsky.social argues that the current routes of appeal offered by Big Tech companies are hugely ineffectual, delegated to AI with little or no human oversight.
@lseblogs.bsky.socialReposted by @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.socialThis was the second summer in a row that saw race riots in Northern Ireland.
Jose Gutierrez, Matthew Whiting & Shannon Doherty analyse the 2025 Ballymena riots and argue that they were driven by sectarianism, echoing patterns of violence from the Troubles.
@timbale.bsky.socialReposted by @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.socialThere's many a slip twixt cup and lip. Me on how once we move from the normative abstract to the nitty-gritty particular on electoral reform, there's plenty of opportunities for self-interest to take over. Fortunately, to borrow another maxim, The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley!
@lsepoliticsblog.bsky.socialBe careful what you wish for...
Burnham’s proposed electoral reform could have unpredictable effects, writes @timbale.bsky.social.
@lsepoliticsblog.bsky.socialReposted by @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.socialEngland's strong performance at the PISA results has been attributed to reforms. But one finding stands out: immigrant children outperformed their native peers.
Christian Dustmann and Stephen Machin of @cep-lse.bsky.social look into what led to this result.
@lsepoliticsblog.bsky.socialWill Labour win the Holborn and St Pancras by-election?
🖋️Paul Whiteley
@lsepoliticsblog.bsky.socialUnderstanding the roots of race riots in Northern Ireland
@lseblogs.bsky.socialReposted by @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.socialEngland’s strong PISA performance has been put down to recent reforms.
But that explanation ignores a striking finding: children from immigrant backgrounds outperformed their native-background peers.
Christian Dustmann @ucleconomics.bsky.social & Stephen Machin for @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social
@lsepoliticsblog.bsky.socialAndy Burnham's ambition to build a National Care Service might be finally giving hope for meaningful reform to adult social care.
But hope alone is not enough and lots of questions remain, writes
@melanie-henwood.bsky.social .
@lsepoliticsblog.bsky.socialEngland's strong performance at the PISA results has been attributed to reforms. But one finding stands out: immigrant children outperformed their native peers.
Christian Dustmann and Stephen Machin of @cep-lse.bsky.social look into what led to this result.
@lseblogs.bsky.socialReposted by @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social"Within the UK, we arguably have our own sacrifice zones, especially in the most industrial areas – places where predominantly working-class and racialised communities are based and have worked in sectors that expose them to various toxins and pollution." Roxana Willis @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social
@lsepoliticsblog.bsky.socialReposted by @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.socialAI means fewer graduate jobs – how to make sure they still exist in the future
🖊️ Grace Lordan
@lsepoliticsblog.bsky.socialHow can the UK deal with its post-industrial waste in a just way?
An interview with Roxana Willis of @lselaw.bsky.social.
@lseblogs.bsky.socialReposted by @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.socialAs AI is making graduate trainee jobs an endangered species, Grace Lordan
@lsepbs.bsky.social argues that a youth employment strategy has to be built around the bottom rung of the ladder by rewarding firms for sustaining graduate hiring @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social
@lsepoliticsblog.bsky.socialAI means fewer graduate jobs – how to make sure they still exist in the future
🖊️ Grace Lordan
@lsepoliticsblog.bsky.socialReposted by @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.socialWhy Reform can’t afford to pick a side on economic policy
🖊️Zain Asaf
