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🚨NEW BLOG🚨 With polls opening in less than 24 hours, I thought it would be good to look over the kind of information environment voters would be operating in in Wales! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/thinking-wal...

Trump Slams The Beauty Of A Lotus Flower In Scathing Truth Social Haiku

Men find yet another way to film and harass women without consent, this time, using a remote controlled robot to push against a "16-year-old girl's buttocks", and this is how the most well-resourced news agencies cover it: Read *our* piece here: www.404media.co/theres-nothi...

Reform UK candidates caught saying some proper sick things about women and minorities in a new ITV undercover expose. Explains why the party has been panicking and lashing out at ITV over the past few days. The ITV documentary "Undercover: A Year In Reform" will air on 18th October.

It's so weird, because--and I know I'm a broken record on this--I was told in no uncertain terms this would not be happening, by one of the NYT's brightest stars.

My man ended USAID, condemning millions to death

Voters in the Peruvian town of Queropalca have chosen their new mayor: Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores.

1. The independent Taskforce — commissioned by NHS England, backed by government — concluded ADHD is under-diagnosed, under-recognised and under-treated in the UK. Not over. The press has reported the reverse of the finding www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

Iowa man kicks off controversy over religious freedom in the small town of Ottumwa by opening a city council meeting with a prayer to Satan, which then kicked off a debate about the proper time in the meeting agenda to undo the “curse @mjgault.bsky.social story: www.404media.co/it-is-done-h...

"How voters evaluate the proportionality-concentration tradeoff" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... <- people like proportionality less if you tell them there won't be a clear majority

New feature @irishpollingind.bsky.social: you can now explore election results and polling estimates from 1987 to 2026 interactively. Select one or more parties to check how their (combined) support has changed. The graph also lists cabinets and government composition. pollingindicator.com/#graphs

Man Confident He Would’ve Been Brave Enough To Send Thumbs Down Emoji In Cornell Group Chat

We (BES colleagues) have just finished a book showing how Brexit crystallised the realignment of the electorate, and how its persistence beyond 2024 depends on whether the parties appeal to the same groups … Seems that’s a ‘yes’ then!

Immediate thoughts on Andy Burnham's announcement today of a national commission on electoral reform. Doing this process well will be really important. theconversation.com/if-he-wants-...

Electoral reform: “I hear you, I agree with you, and today I am announcing a new national commission on electoral reform.” Biggest opportunity to reform FPP in perhaps a century has now arrived. But long way to go…

I mean, any time now would be good. If it's not too much trouble

Politics saw the largest year-on-year increase of all A-level subjects in the UK, with entries up 12% this year compared with 2025.It’s still only 3% of all A-levels studied across the UK in 2026 but is one of the fastest-growing A-levels – up 81% in the UK since 2010.

Not suprising that the Linke got the most votes among younger voters in Berlin. Yet, the size of their vote share among under-35 year-olds is stunning.

“Where do you get your ideas from, Ms Le Guin?” From forgetting Dostoyevsky and reading road signs backwards, naturally. Where else?

FBI Warns ICE Agents Not to Trust Any Woman Willing to Date Them

Breaking News: Citizens who are members of Group X won't vote for political parties who make it clear they don't like members of Group X.

Reform in Wales having quite a bad day. Announced in the last 5 mins: • Leader Dan Thomas steps down due to "personal reasons" (he was arrested). • Reform MS Sarah Cooper-Lesadd defects to Plaid, saying Reform are "far more interested in division, opposition and headlines than finding solutions"

Voters in Wales turned out in record numbers for the 2026 Senedd election, but more needs to be done to tackle candidate abuse and misinformation, according to new research from the Electoral Commission ✍️Emily Price

I've talked to the Reform councillor in Portsmouth who had to explain to a masked vigilante mob outside the city's Marriott hotel that a group of young men who had arrived on a coach were not asylum seekers but an U21 cricket team from Pakistan. He called it a “massively unfortunate incident”.

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'

Germany: Saxony-Anhalt regional parliament election 🇩🇪 🇪🇺 In 1998, 25% of voters under 26 backed the far-right DVU (Infratest dimap exit poll). The AfD (ESN) won this same age group in 2016 — also with 25%. Explore the data: europeelects.eu/2026/08/30/ge

One of the interesting aspects of all this footage is it reveals that parties/strategists firmly believe that opinion polls can be used for significant political advantage.

The S4C public-service Welsh-language news managed to get through a whole interview feature and article on the same trans person denied healthcare without mentioning "biological sex" or a 29-year-old's lost breastfeeding opportunities, btw The BBC specifically is making a choice here

Iceland: EU membership negotiations referendum 🇮🇸 Polls suggest that the race between 'Yes' and 'No' is too close to call. Explore: https://europeelects.eu/2026/08/28/election-dashboard-icelandic-european-union-membership-negotiations-referendum-2026/

'cause you've seen blue skies through the tears of your eyes and you realise you're going home Smooth sailing, Tim! What an awful week.

Rest in peace to one of the best to ever do it.

💔 Mae’r actor Tim Curry, oedd yn adnabyddus am ymddangos mewn ffilmiau fel The Rocky Horror Picture Show a Home Alone 2, wedi marw yn 80 oed

In New Zealand, a political storm over the voting system threatened the Prime Minister’s leadership. electoral-reform.org.uk/questioning-...

If you think this is not a problem, bc mail voting may not favor Democrats, or bc it's too late to affect voting, or any other argument related to the actual voting, you're missing the point. The point isn't to affect the results of the election, it's to create the conditions for contesting them.

“if we don’t stand up for the free speech of racists, it puts everyone’s free speech in danger.” - guy who only ever talks about free speech when it’s racism

Seeing the Venn diagram of transphobes and defenders of race science is the least surprising thing this weekend. Maybe this helps illuminate the stupidity and danger of “it’s just biology” arguments around gender and sex.

Woah.

Britain's violently racist legacy media, abetted by social media, have successfully brainwashed the public into racist beliefs.

Look, put simply, people should not be comfortable saying that in public and the way to fix society runs directly through making them afraid to say it again.

I wish media outlets would describe Nathan Cofnas as a racist rather than a "self-defined race realist" which doesn't mean anything to most people. His writing meets any definition of racism however narrowly and cautiously drawn.

Astonishing. The Press Association understands Essex Police did not tell Nigel Farage, or any other Clacton candidate, not to attend the count. This is after after his and Reform UK's claim Essex Police advised him against it due to a "credible threat".