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Interesting piece in the Economist on Germany’s emerging foreign AfD removes whip from “too liberal” MP, two more may follow (in German). My update on the AfD faction in Thuringia is here. ONS constituency interactive maps Greeks continue to love euro more than they love Tsipras
Patrick Dunleavy is not happy about the Conservative win: Three more years of Cameron – but it will be a rocky road ahead Why GRAMMAR MATTERS. This is depressing: Amnesty’s report on “Europe’s sinking shame: The failure to save refugees and migrants at sea” What do you call a past counterfactual? Useful information, anyway: What…
Me, in AfD prophet mode: Full WEP article ($) Rage over the lost coin:British Polling Council seeks investigation into skewed results How I kept a promise to Ben. Definitively time to go home now.
An update on the far-right infighting in the European Parliament: A far-right confederacy of quarrels Lucid: The system used to favour Labour, now favours the Conservatives. Welcome to the lottery: The new “skew” of the electoral system in 2015 Going down Memory Lane: OTDI 1981 Roy Jenkins, David Owen, William Rodgers & Shirley Williams launched…
Great advice from the great: writing good code | OUPblog PHD Comics: Feeling sick English libel laws & Russian autocrats: ‘Book prize judges criticise decision to axe Putin exposé’ You want one of those. You know that you want one of those: Gnome Chomsky: The Essential Ornament for the Thinking Person’s Garden An illustration of…
Back to the future MOOC: A university proposal for teaching classes remotely via television, 1935 PHD Comics: How To Write An E-mail To Your Instructor Or Teaching Assistant Some more information on Henkel’s resignation from the AfD board General Election 2015, Far Side Edition: We’ll lose votes to UKIP, say Loony Party Anton Shekhovtsov: The…
This is cool: A Corpus-Based Analysis of REF Output Titles for Politics & International Studies Why austerity is not #Greece’s problem University of Surrey’s Politics department under threat Obituary: Norman Nie, inventor of SPSS Ouch: Major publisher retracts 43 scientific papers amid wider fake peer-review scandal Hillary onesies and ‘Rand on a stick’: the best…
Math Joke, anyone? Answer to “Immigrants are a burden on the welfare state” by voting intention in the 2015 General Election Things to remember when your manuscript is rejected Self-referential comic: Self-Description Majority of Germans now support a Grexit. (52% compared to 41% in Feb) (Pro tip: Opinion bounced back again) Ukip parliamentary candidate forced…
Trouble telling your economist from your sociologist colleagues? Look no further: Economics/sociology phrase book The Gamification of graduate lives: PHD comic: ‘Level Up.’ Hamburg election: AfD enters first parliament in West Germany, CDU at record low The German constitution gets its own float at Mainz carnival. Tags mark sections on religious freedom & free speech.…
Elsevier, Cameron, Wolfinger: links