#Politicians

UCL Political Science - School of Public Policy

uclspp

“Political alliances realign, friends change, and parties break up."@anneapplebaum gets our Policy and Practice seminar off to a great start by providing us with an overview to the shift in

Witchcrit

Dis_Critic

This was an interesting article outlining some of the reasons politicians gave for refusing Women a voice. A number of them sounded familiar....https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43740033 Then: Godfrey Collins, MP "Intuition is far

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

Been thinking a lot this morning about bad faith on the Right and how it’s already in full bloom from its media and politicians.It’s time to change the way we

Barmak Nassirian

BarmakN

This is an excellent overview of some of the issues related to the vexing topic of interest rates on student loans. As long and comprehensive as it is, it only

Madeleine Morris

remittancegirl

The thing I’ve noticed about people who continue to cleave to politicians who do them material harm on a daily basis is… they aren’t self-reflective people. The gratification they get

Katie Herzog

kittypurrzog

I really appreciate all the politicians and reporters connecting the wildfires to climate change... but maybe we should also talk about forest management a bit more? It’s well-established that a

Richie5Angels

Demon1111Slayer

The PCR test currently in use is unreliable and essentially worthless..it MIGHT show a few tiny fragments of what may possibly be a novel virus, but it shows NOTHING that

Jill Filipovic

JillFilipovic

This all reminds me so much of the assassinations & clinic attacks in the 90s and 00s. Anti-abortion extremists carried them out. But TV anchors, talk radio hosts, and Republican

Jay Van Bavel

jayvanbavel

Research finds that feelings of victimhood can indeed be stoked by politicians, and are linked to support for Trump, his policy agenda, conspiracy theories & distrust.Importantly, people do not need

MattSquatch

MLindleyMusic

10 years ago this week dangerous, violent rhetoric led to the attempted murder of a U.S. congressperson. A graphic on Sarah Palin's website put crosshairs on Gabby Gifford's district and

Amer Bisat

abisat

1/6. A thread on #Lebanon political paralysis. The political class’s abdication of civic responsibility lies between the surreal and the criminal. At least as an intellectual exercise, its worth revisiting

Karam Bales

karamballes

1/ Thread: Remember Sunak saying recently once 15m people are vaccinated we can just open up and pretty much get back to normal?Its the latest iteration of GBD, protect vulnerable,

Shivam Shankar Singh

ShivamShankarS

Excellent piece! Know why targeting advertisers works in the west and fails in India to get sites like opIndia defunded?The funding from advertising isn’t the only funding for a lot

వనమాలి

Humblefool_14

This was in 1988. Chinese SEZ's (Shenzhen,Shantou,Zhuhai,Xiamen,Hainan) All near ports. Max tax rate 15%,5-6 exemptions if invested in high-tech exports. Coastal cities (14) also followed the same policies. From there

Gerry

Theaulred

Time after time we accept these scandals, usually shrugged off as 'sure they're all at it' which ignores the fact that this is systematic. This is institutionalised. The people we

Lewis Goodall

lewis_goodall

NEW: The US Senate has voted to acquit Donald Trump, for the second time. A clear majority voted that the former President was guilty, 57-43. But the effort was 10

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