Rob Ford (Not the Canadian one. Or his brother.) @robfordmancs
Politics Prof, author "The British General Election of 2024" (& 2019), "Brexitland" Senior Fellow @UKandEU "The Swingometer" - https://t.co/I4x2VwsRoF robertford.net Manchester UK (not Toronto CA) Joined November 2010-
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Here's an extract from my @spectator piece, 'The truth about the Fabian Society': "It’s a strange feeling finding out that you have been part of a revolutionary group that secretly controls Britain and, er…didn’t realise it. For four years in the 1990s I was the Research…
It’s official - “Nigel Farage is right, don’t vote for him” is a demonstrably awful strategy for Labour. Boosts salience of immigration, costs votes on the left, doesn’t persuade any voters on right (why would they accept a crap knock-off when they can have the original?)
Reform regularly posts double digit poll leads. No surprise as public frustrated at pace of change, Starmer unpopular &immigration / asylum the main issue on voters minds. BUT easy to forget in this frantic 24 hour news cycle how things can change @Ipsos_in_the_UK Analysis 🧵
@PolitlcsUK It was 63k in 2015, went on a big decline during 2015-2018 and has now overtaken that figure after a decade en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Par…
🚨🟢 NEW: The Green Party reveal their membership is at its highest ever level at 68,500
Why even small-scale local levies could make a big difference to local areas, for the @themjcouk Visitor levies, business rate supplements and land value capture - give places the tools they need themj.co.uk/getting-fiscal…
Recently finished revisions for our paper "The robustness reproducibility of the American Economic Review", in which we replicated a year's worth of a flagship economics journal, and found that many key results are not particularly robust. Very proud of this one.
This is vile. I cannot see how anyone on the left at this time could think intimidating think tank workers and vandalising their workplace for having different politics is legit. This isn’t liberal. This isn’t democratic. This is, simply, wrong and should be condemned as such.
NEW: Progressives have a birth rate problem For all the talk of a general fall in births, the drop is overwhelmingly driven by people on the left having fewer kids. By ceding the topic of family and children to the right, progressives risk ushering in a more conservative world.
Medicine and public health have added three decades to the human lifespan. Vaccination alone produced 40% of the reduction in child deaths. And now a disturbed and unqualified man driven by crackpot theories is destroying the foundations of this work, including CDC.
Medicine and public health have added three decades to the human lifespan. Vaccination alone produced 40% of the reduction in child deaths. And now a disturbed and unqualified man driven by crackpot theories is destroying the foundations of this work, including CDC.
Motivated by discussion between @markpack and @robfordmancs At 5 mins, Mark asks: if, as Rob shows, society has steadily become more socially liberal and demographic momentum on liberals’ side, why do socially liberal parties keep losing elections? youtube.com/watch?v=1BBpvF…
Ever feel like everything online is getting angrier? You’re not imagining it. Tweets with anger have surged since 2013, while neutral content has declined. 📉 And it matters for policy—our new paper shows how emotions shape what people support. socialeconomicslab.org/research/worki…
Housing tax is a mess. Current system penalises renting, under taxes owners of valuable houses, and gums up housing market. But apparent briefing from Treasury looks chaotic. Need proper strategy not short term wheezes to raise money. Hugely economically and socially important.
I worry how nasty, how anti-migrant, the popular press in UK has become. Sales have dropped but these papers set the weather, they enable people like Jenrick, Farage; They make it all normal. Where are the leaders to call this out?
I worry how nasty, how anti-migrant, the popular press in UK has become. Sales have dropped but these papers set the weather, they enable people like Jenrick, Farage; They make it all normal. Where are the leaders to call this out?

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