Will Davies

will-davies.bsky.social

19 October 2026 09:39

My next book, 'The Reaction Economy: Searching for Humanity in an Age of Screens', is now done, dusted, covered, endorsed, and available for pre-order - all details here substack.com/home/post/p-...

Nick Anstead

nickanstead.bsky.social

19 October 2026 09:23

A new dataset that I have been playing with and will continue to do some work on in the future (so this is version 0.9.0). Every exchange in PMQs since 1961 to the last week (n=66,496). Cleaned up (so speaker internventions removed etc). doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Institute for Government

instituteforgovernment.org.uk

16 October 2026 15:57

EVENT | How can democratic countries get better political leaders? 📆 Tuesday 10 November, 17:30–18:30 Join us as our international panel bring together perspectives on political leadership. www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/democr...

Institute for Government

instituteforgovernment.org.uk

16 October 2026 12:55

No political party is acknowledging the UK’s fiscal reality, argues @tompope.bsky.social. At the party conferences, no party grappled with the real trade-offs underlying their policy choices, nor the big fiscal pressures on the horizon. www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/no-p...

Will Davies

will-davies.bsky.social

16 October 2026 12:48

"Whereas neoliberal technocracy is an epistemic argument, grounded in claims to expertise about the market economy, monarchical long-termism is grounded in notions of private ownership" - v interesting (open access) paper from @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...