Just having a lovely time scrolling through the 1926 Census. Turns out my Grandad could speak Irish - something I never knew. nationalarchives.ie

This Modern British Studies conference looks fantastic:

the new V&A is just lovely.

"Whether the topic was housing supply, AI, devolution or industrial strategy, speakers returned to questions of trust, institutional capability and coordination, and the relationship between national policy and lived experience in places."

www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/blog/confere...

Sensational PhD opportunity here

"The picture that emerges is more nuanced, and in some ways more surprising, than the prevailing narrative suggests."

@johnlpoquiz.bsky.social and Nghi Nguyen on AI adoption in the UK

www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/blog/ai-adop...

McIntyre was told his trial, which is expected to last for three days, is set to take place from September 9 2030

From a court report *today*.

[and yes, I know this isn't at all unusual]

This work uses Management and Expectations Survey (MES) data.

MES was created by ESCoE in partnership with the UK Office for National Statistics to analyse business management practices, current performance and future expectations.

Find out more: youtu.be/vqTqMvq1uBA

We’re excited to share that the highlights from the Bennett School of Public Policy Annual Conference 2026 are now live!

🎥 Watch the session recordings
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Take a look & join the conversation: www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/events/annua...

This article 'has revealed the unrecognized significance of being hatless' and it is perfect.

“It’s as if Ireland changed so fast that the geological layers are compressed"

This realisation came from seeing someone referring to MeToo as a moment of reckoning, and the wider idea that is so prevalent now that there was a backlash against it as a victory. But even if it were “successful” (and I’m not sure it was capable of “successful”) it was still bruisingly awful.

Contest of Words, by Ben Lerner High school debate and the demise of public speech

“Whatever its value to the initiated, whatever its jargon and rules, from the outside debate must appear more cultic ecstasy than ‘public speaking.’”

Ben Lerner on high school debate and the demise of public speech (2012).

'The museum will double as an event space, including a Rough Trade shop and a youth club. With a 20-year lease and support from City Bridge Foundation and the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Swinstead hopes the museum will become a significant part of the UK’s cultural landscape.'

QMUL is advertising an exciting opportunity: a fully funded PhD studentship, working on European politics, ideology, and political 'myths' with @karlpike.bsky.social and @timbale.bsky.social. Details below.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRB421/p...

UK job cuts hit English and modern languages staff hardest ‘Vicious cycle’ of course closures means system ‘gradually losing breadth and depth of expertise’

“This is the story of a system gradually losing the breadth and depth of expertise that national skills, research capacity and cultural understanding depend on."

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-job-...

As the UK govt advances its New Towns agenda, @thomasaubreycca.bsky.social argues current funding plans are ill-equipped to deliver infrastructure at scale.
He calls for reviving long-term, bond-based financing to unlock large-scale housing & growth without straining public finances.
bit.ly/41Y8VHu

Is Omaze too good to be true? The property giveaway is just another facet of Britain's never ending housing crisis

"Why not admit that these luxury homes are often little more than a tradable asset?

The moment Omaze admits the prize is basically money, it looks a lot more like gambling."

www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

right then.

Plum Sykes and the return of the unpaid intern A look into the informal hiring world of Substack interns

'Condé Nast shut down its internship program when it was forced to confront the cost of unpaid labor. A decade later, that same model is reappearing — not inside institutions, but through individuals with just enough power to replicate it.'

wildethought.substack.com/p/plum-sykes...

'Yet still, women have been limited in the minds of historians, caught in our web of cultural assumptions and the limited space given to other possibilities. Our research on women as madhouse proprietors pushes open that space and upends historiographical myths.'

The Artemis rocket launches with a chyron below that says: Weather presenter Carol Kirkwood leaves BBC after 28 years.

Dramatic scenes at BBC Breakfast.

This is really good - Henry Kippin on how to do good place based policy. Feels like the right mix to me.

49% are absolutely correct

Guide to the 2026 English local elections - LGiU Key contests to look out for in the 2026 English council elections. Findings from polling on public attitudes to local government.

'The public also sees councils as possessing a stronger ability to impact people’s everyday lives than national government, the civil service, and other sectors of society.'

Useful guide to local elections - and interesting polling - from LGIU

lgiu.org/publication/...

'mid-way through a mini Battenberg' absolutely perfect

The Pitt's Noah Wyle on why A&E is the 'catch-all of society's bad choices' The former ER star is back playing a physician with PTSD in a new US medical drama.

Dana Evans supremacy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Really pleased to advertise these 4 LSE postdocs in the history of popular government as part of our ERC Synergy Project "Popular Government in Global Perspective (POPGOV)"

“Seriously ill and disabled people facing years of significant difficulty are at risk of being left on a lower rate simply because recovery, however partial or distant, cannot be ruled out.”

v important addendum bsky.app/profile/past...