Patrick Sturgis

Prof Department of Methodology LSE. Research methods, surveys & polling, whingeing about West Ham. tweeting in a personal capacity.

[Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg]

@whippletom @thomasforth and why do their costs scale proportional to the size of the donation? Does it cost them more to process £500 than £5?

[Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg]

@edwinhayward @LukeTryl I think the leave side would be perfectly happy to frame FoM exactly how they want (remember 2016?) and that this could prove a major drain on support.

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@edwinhayward @LukeTryl https://t.co/vDjlgl4DLl

[Luke Tryl @LukeTryl]

When we ask about acceptable terms for rejoining the EU - we showed half the sample 'restoring free movement' and half 'removing limits on immigration between EU and UK' and sentiment flips 51%-23% think FoM acceptable but removing limits is 31%-45% opposed.

[Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg]

@edwinhayward check out the recent @LukeTryl More in Common polling on this.

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@RichardBentall It was weird hearing Bernard Jenkin spouting lies and misrepresentations on the Today programme last week. The ghost of brexit past.

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@MartinHGAnthony I hope you also had a decent bottle of wine or two.

[Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg]

@edwinhayward We won't have to adopt the euro but we will have to have FoM and that is likely to be the thorniest issue for rejoin.

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@icod you should have said hello!

[Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg]

@BrendanNyhan yet it is shameful to use them for writing.

[Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg]

@tomrenniesoccer tbf when he came into the team in Feb he was part of our revival then I think, he can play with both feet which Areola can't. But he can't save or command his area which is a pretty major limitation for a goalkeeper.

[Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg]

I'm now £150 up from making small bets West Ham will lose. The bookies haven't figured out how shit we are yet, I got 4/1 on Blackburn to win at home against us today. Free money.

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@PatMcGovern16 Getting rid of condoment sachets is reason enough on its own to rejoin.

[Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg]

@HansGutbrod Hard to see how a 'graded' approach would work, if by graded you mean banning some areas of legal research because some people find them unpleasant/offensive. That is basically the key point of AF, allowing people to research in such areas.

[Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg]

I don't agree with Cofnas or Malm but I do support Academic Freedom. It's depressing how many academics either don't understand viewpoint neutrality, or do but are too frightened to support it in practice.

[Abhishek Saha @ObhishekSaha]

@nathancofnas Free speech and academic freedom are viewpoint-neutral principles.

Shout-out to everyone else (list in screenshot) who signed both the Malm and Cofnas letters.

@ProfDHayes @DrLeeJones @thephilippics @prossertj @peteray21 @MShipworth @patricksturg @Seatradelawyer @colwight

[Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg]

@HansGutbrod People are free to take a ‘moderated’ position but then they can’t claim to be viewpoint neutral on AF.

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@CantBullshit @ObhishekSaha @nathancofnas @ProfDHayes @DrLeeJones @thephilippics @prossertj @peteray21 @MShipworth @Seatradelawyer @colwight You'd have to ask him. My point is it tells us little at the individual level but in the aggregate it shows academics in general are not viewpoint neutral.

[Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg]

@CantBullshit @ObhishekSaha @nathancofnas @ProfDHayes @DrLeeJones @thephilippics @prossertj @peteray21 @MShipworth @Seatradelawyer @colwight People can sign whichever letters they want to, or not. There is no duty to sign every letter and we can't read individual positions from this pattern of behaviour but it is evident in the aggregate.

[Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg]

@johnarmstrong5 To my understanding no specific reason has been given for why Malm was denied entry. He has said he was not a member, had never publicly endorsed the group and had not funded it.

[Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg]

@CantBullshit @ObhishekSaha @nathancofnas @ProfDHayes @DrLeeJones @thephilippics @prossertj @peteray21 @MShipworth @Seatradelawyer @colwight Because most academics do not approach AF from a viewpoint neutral perspective. Rather they support AF for positions they agree with.

[Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg]

@sturgios bit shade-throwing for the Speccy to have this as a side banner on your excellent Russell Brand piece.