Will Jennings📉🗳️

I research and write about politics, public policy, public opinion, polls, elections, geography, place, trust. I run on espresso.

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Last Notes

2026-03-20 12:34:23 UTC

A cover that was a year ahead of its time
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2026-02-19 10:17:39 UTC

The contrast between Britain and the US in their response to the Epstein files is striking.
Britain: lock up the brother of the King and cast out the prince of darkness, Lord Mandelson.
US: circle the wagons round the president and his cabinet.

2026-01-19 14:15:57 UTC

Neither America nor the rest of the world is prepared for how the dismantling of Pax Americana by Trump will eventually impact American soft power in culture and entertainment. A lot of things will change.

2025-06-23 10:34:59 UTC

The mask really is off, isn't it...
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2025-06-16 00:59:12 UTC

The wilful disinformation being spread by Musk and others about the Minnesota assassinations on X is similar to what occurred after the UK's riots in summer 2024. Governments need to wake up to threats the platform poses to civil disorder and societal polarisation.

2025-06-05 19:31:21 UTC

Odds of Elon Musk dying of a very unfortunate ketamine overdose have suddenly gone up...

2025-05-19 12:51:58 UTC

Today's UK-EU deal should be put in the context that Brexit is widely viewed to have been a mistake (even if there isn't public appetite for revisiting the outcome of the referendum itself).
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2025-05-18 20:26:59 UTC

For fans of The Thick of It (who isn't?!), now twenty years old, this is a great read...
[‘I’m from Glasgow – the sweari...](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/may/18/the-thick-of-it-interview-armando-iannucci-peter-capaldi-rebecca-front?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaeZHFDfKK9TOFacijKLymh5TmRf4-3HPQkb9Iq_OaA51sVtp8sGrqhCqSHtqg_aem_N6Z7CurOgCXaAvSkiup4VQ )

2025-03-23 11:16:06 UTC

This seems unwise when the Lib Dems and Greens are readily placed to attract Labour voters. GE2024 should be a warning sign.
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2025-03-06 12:51:26 UTC

Many of the scientists that the Trump administration is defunding and persecuting will be working on strategically important technologies and research areas. The UK and other European countries should urgently establish programmes to bring those researchers here.

2025-03-06 11:09:54 UTC

What a front cover...
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2025-02-23 14:18:47 UTC

Hate to break it to Elon but most of my most productive work time is when I’m *not* on email..
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2024-11-29 10:38:54 UTC

At some point the Conservative Party might want to wake up to the fact that Elon Musk is not their ally... (Labour might also want to wake up too...)
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2024-09-08 18:42:55 UTC

It’s truly shocking that a presidential candidate…
- threatens to jail opponents
- pledges ‘bloody’ deportation of migrants
- claims that immigrants are engaging in cannibalism
…and it is widely ignored.
This is not a normal candidate or a normal election.
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2024-09-07 09:38:33 UTC

Probably just a bunch of people who own houses in London.
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2024-08-15 20:35:39 UTC

Our social media future is going to be rather like the recent UK general election:
Fragmented.
That's not necessarily a bad thing, but we all need to adapt.

2024-08-08 07:16:50 UTC

A reminder to everyone joining here from the other place: your likes are visible and there is no algorithm boosting Nazis. As you were.