One of the things that non-political scientists don't appreciate is how _tiny_ and mostly disregarded a part of the discipline, election prediction is and has been. The occasional 'here are the odds' special section in PS magazine, which is not a venue where ambitious people publish their finest ...

Every few months someone will discover that school libraries regularly throw away books, and will post about how "heartbreaking" it is. It isn't "heartbreaking". it's collection management. Mass market books have a finite life. Sorry you had to find out this way. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Dumpsters full of books seen outside high school on Chicago's Northwest Side

Paperbacks and textbooks were piled up outside Carl Schurz High School, at 3601 N. Milwaukee Ave. in the Irving Park neighborhood.

When I read the headline about Kemi on maternity pay I was like “pretty weird but probably talking about the burden on business”. Then you realise she’s talking about statutory maternity pay? A payment mainly known for shocking every new parent with how crap it is? Proper “hello I am mental” stuff.

Milliband's position always seemed to me - and I agreed at the time - "something must be done, but we've seen the damage caused by going in and having no plan for what to do. What is the plan?" No answer came. Given what had just happened in Libya too, this seemed reasonable to me.

A couple of you have genuine expertise and are able to draw attention to, and explain the problems with, these Other Place posts from high-profile people. But most of you really don't.

You do you, it's your feed, but do we really need to keep screen capping and dunking on people from The Other Place?

Lemme tell you when a billion people get displaced by climate change this whole 'who deserves it and who doesn't' is going to get even darker. Unless the flood was literally at Exxon Mobil headquarters, nobody deserves it.

I might know something about Pilates, but it's a bit of a stretch.

... nitty gritty, you're listening to the boy from the big bad city, this is jam hot.

Labour never should have let Duffield run as an MP at the election. This fallout is predictable and she is reprehensible in so many ways.

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Rosie Duffield to resign Labour whip & sit as an Independent within 3 months after being re-elected as Labour MP for Canterbury. She had been a vocal critic of the leadership and party esp on gender issues for several years www.thetimes.com/article/f7ea...

Rosie Duffield: Sleaze, nepotism and greed — why I’m quitting Labour

In her resignation letter, the MP lambasts Sir Keir Starmer for the ‘staggering hypocrisy’ of accepting gifts worth tens of thousands of pounds while scrapping winter fuel payments