Updating my slide-deck for tomorrow's internal-party-politics class. I suspect the gap between member-sourced and donor-sourced income will be dwarfed for Reform when I repeat this task in a years' time and the Ben Delo donation appears in the 2026 accounts filing.

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This post has too few likes, so put this in perspective: 1) in 2025, Reform had 268k members, leading all parties on membership. It’s 5th in the ranking of membership gives you a sense of how large the size of private donations is. 2) B. Delo is a crypto exchange guy that has pledged £36M to Reform

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🚨 Public good alert: I put together a list of 100+ free datasets for social science research, spanning a large number of topics. I hope it's useful for students, researchers, and anyone looking for interesting data to explore. It's on GitHub - contributions welcome! github.com/toddrjones/d...

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I haven't taught a survey course in human evolution in the last decade, but starting next week (!!) I will try again. I plan to record the lectures. But the lab practicals can't be shared online, unfortunately. Currently deciding how much math I can/should make the students do

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It's finally publication day for this decade-in-the-making book. @noamlupu.bsky.social and I explain why working-class jobs make up 70% of the average democracy's labor force, but only 2% of the average democracy's national lawmakers had working-class jobs when they got into politics.

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