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Three thoughts on Thursday's election
As expected, Labour won Thursday’s UK election and Keir Starmer is prime minister.
Jul 6
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Thomas Prosser
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What would a Labour supermajority tell us?
By a crushing margin, the Labour Party is set to win Thursday’s UK election.
Jul 2
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Thomas Prosser
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June 2024
We’re all excellent now
Recently, the scientist and Substacker Ruxandra Teslo published two superb essays on the decline of the ‘Weird Nerd’ in academia.
Jun 19
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Thomas Prosser
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If Starmer is so untrustworthy, how can I vote Labour?
This Substack is almost three years old. In this time, I have repeatedly criticized Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour Party leader and, almost certainly, the…
Jun 11
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Thomas Prosser
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May 2024
Evidence for elite overproduction could be better
On reformulating an important hypothesis
May 30
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Thomas Prosser
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Two announcements and an event
I hope everyone is well. I’m sorry there’s been little recent activity on this Substack! Two things have been keeping me busy. Both are relevant to this…
May 16
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Thomas Prosser
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April 2024
Britain’s instability problem
During this parliament, one book has proved unusually prescient. Published in 2019 and covering the 2010-17 period, Electoral Shocks argued that…
Apr 21
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Thomas Prosser
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March 2024
Notes on an academic spat
This week on X (formerly Twitter), there was a notable dispute between the conservative journalist Charlotte Gill and British humanities academics. In a…
Mar 28
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Thomas Prosser
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James O’Brien and low liberalism
A review of How They Broke Britain by James O’Brien
Mar 24
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Thomas Prosser
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A retracted paper tells us something important about academia
Recently, scandal has struck the Frontiers in Psychology journal. Following the acceptance of the paper ‘Meta-analysis: On average, undergraduate…
Mar 13
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Thomas Prosser
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February 2024
Lindsay Hoyle must resign
Occasionally, I take students on visits to parliaments. The Senedd (Welsh parliament) is wonderful, yet the history of the UK Houses of Parliament is…
Feb 23
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Thomas Prosser
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Lindsay Hoyle must resign
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If Labour is elected, the sky probably won’t fall in
This week, the political scientist Matt Goodwin attacked the UK Labour Party, arguing that the party’s probable victory in this year’s election would…
Feb 21
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