Peter Allen

Professor of Politics @PoLIS_Bath. THE POLITICAL CLASS out now w/ @OUPAcademic Views own.

[Elvis Buñuelo @Mr_Considerate]

I hadn't thought of him this way before, but it's suddenly clear that Streeting is this decade's Michael Gove. No idea is too untested to be wielded against reality.

[Tom Whyman @HealthUntoDeath]

Most British thing I've ever heard. The service isn't there to be a service, the service is there as a low-level entrapment scam.

[Peter Allen @peteraallen]

@arthur_spirling Strong “trying to recapture the FBPE glory years” vibes

[Peter Allen @peteraallen]

@philipjcowley @TheHouseMag Gnome Style (Fenno 1978)

[Dan Davies @dsquareddigest]

it's him who brought his kid into it! the only disclosure he needed to make was the value of the donation! the public interest here is not in whether you spent it on virtuous stuff or treats, it is in the fact that whenever the PM has a personal problem he calls Lord Alli

[Karl Hansen @karl_fh]

Britain has such strict anti-corruption rules that street cleaners are banned from accepting charitable donations, but politicians can accept hundreds of thousands of pounds in gig tickets, holidays, designer clothes, and lavish parties. What a country!
https://t.co/3RtJhZBHWG

[Peter Allen @peteraallen]

@aleferna_ @uc3m @MartaCuanti @_HGZ_ @alberardevol @carloseliasuc3m Congratulations!

[Tim Bale @ProfTimBale]

"How far into the future a policy is expected to pay off matters a lot less to voters than how big that payoff will be. The sooner the better, but much more so, the bigger the better." Crucial research finding from our @QMPoliticsIR colleague @m_barnfield https://t.co/CQsvI4qZZ1

[Matthew Barnfield @m_barnfield]

My article "Policy Discounting Across and Beyond the Lifespan" was published open access over the weekend @EJPRjournal. It shows that people prefer policies with short-term payoffs, but not because they will personally live to see those future benefits.

https://t.co/W3RO3oA9N4

[Peter Allen @peteraallen]

@MatthewLBishop And then, once you’re even slightly hooked, enough “politics podcasts” to listen to new content all day, every day.

[Peter Allen @peteraallen]

@DanJDevine @sotonpolitics Congrats, Dan — well deserved

[Aditya Chakrabortty @chakrabortty]

The cynical spectre of Osbornomics is haunting the Labour party. Emergency cuts, empty pockets, a ‘maxed-out credit card’: why is Rachel Reeves using the language and logic of austerity?

My column https://t.co/FYWTemDJKE

[Peter Allen @peteraallen]

@colm_m Just don’t cross the barman!

[Dara Ó Briain @daraobriain]

Next Sunday the All-Ireland hurling final will be on the BBC for the first time. It’s Cork vs Clare, a cracker of match in front of 82,400 screaming fans at Croke Park, for the highlight of the Irish sporting year. If you’ve never seen Hurling, here is a quick explainer…

[Neil Matthews @NT_Matthews]

New paper from myself and @S_Haughey, addressing the issue of MPs security at constituency-level. Open access in Parliamentary Affairs. Get in touch if interested in the agenda! [1/2] https://t.co/G4QSHL7Jgl

[Peter Allen @peteraallen]

@stephengfhall Is this why Gareth didn’t bring you on on Sunday night?

[Karl Pike @p_ikek]

You can read a book about this (and consider the reasons why a distancing from New Labour happened). Getting Over New Labour: The Party After Blair and Brown https://t.co/7Ww8McWsYc

[Henry Dyer @Direthoughts]

Don't really understand this from Starmer as reported in @thetimes. The register of members' financial interests does not abolish conflicts of interest. It publicises interests, revealing (potential) conflicts. It is not a magic wand for ensuring "there's no conflict of interest"

[Karl Pike @p_ikek]

Expecting a Labour majority following the election? Wondering what a Labour government will want to do? I have a book for that! Getting Over New Labour covers Labour’s tumultuous post-2010 years, culminating in Keir Starmer’s leadership. https://t.co/y1E7R2HnmO