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Raids, roadside bandits and insecurity in Northern Kenya 22 Aug 2013 | 02:19 pm
Posted in Undergraduate Posts Elders, women, and Morans in the small village of Lorroki Each year the School of Politics and International Relations allocates funds to help undergraduate and MA stud...
My experience at Harvard Model United Nations 2013 19 Aug 2013 | 03:46 pm
Posted in Undergraduate Posts Image by sbakshi Each year the School of Politics and International Relations allocates funds to help undergraduate and MA students engage in activities beneficial for ...
Utopias can help us move beyond a politics that is dysfunctional, polemical and party-divided 14 Aug 2013 | 01:31 pm
Posted in Environment Rainbow over the Graham Downs Community in New Zealand I got caught in a hailstorm yesterday. On Saturday I got sunburnt in my garden. What’s going on with all this weather? C...
Cameron ‘determined to win’ debate on fracking: public opinion is moving in his favour 13 Aug 2013 | 01:44 pm
Posted in British Politics In a recent Daily Telegraph column, David Cameron says that ‘Fracking has become a national debate in Britain – and it’s one that I’m determined to win’. He means ‘win’, of...
MPs and Twitter: an infographic 7 Aug 2013 | 07:57 pm
Posted in British Politics See also: MPs and Twitter: who’s tweeting? MPs and Twitter: which parties are tweeting? MPs and Twitter: what are MPs tweeting about? Leave a Comment
Polling Observatory #27: Labour in crisis? Tories resurgent? Not really. 7 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
Posted in British Politics This is the twenty-seventh in a series of posts that report on the state of the parties as measured by opinion polls. By pooling together all the available polling evidence...
Public care about the source of MPs’ second incomes just as much as the amount earned 27 Jul 2013 | 04:30 am
Posted in British Politics It was an interesting leap from the shenanigans in Falkirk Constituency Labour Party to proposing a restriction on MP’s outside interests, but it was a leap Ed Miliband mad...
MPs and Twitter: what are MPs tweeting about? 26 Jul 2013 | 01:33 pm
Posted in British Politics For my final year dissertation I chose to look at what use MPs’ are making of social media. Focussing on their use of Twitter, I set out to answer two questions: which MPs ...
MPs and Twitter: which parties are tweeting? 25 Jul 2013 | 01:21 pm
Posted in British Politics For my final year dissertation I chose to look at what use MPs’ are making of social media. Focussing on their use of Twitter, I set out to answer two questions; which MPs ...
Five things you may think you know about the Conservative grassroots but actually probably don’t 24 Jul 2013 | 01:01 pm
Posted in British Politics The problem with doing any kind of social science is that the data you collect end up confirming what people already assume is the case. This is not bad in itself. There’s ...
