Maria Sobolewska
Professor of Political Science at Manchester University. British politics, race and ethnicity, representation.
- Reposted by Maria Sobolewska"MPs’ preferred policy instrument is a sticking plaster. Any well worked-out policy will have losers as well as winners, but MPs are not up for the challenge of putting across the big picture when they face angry and noisy constituents" - Deborah Mabbett
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- How do attitudes towards race and ethnicity shape political views in Britain? Join us on 05 Feb at 15.45 (GMT) as @profsob.bsky.social explores this topic, with a focus on racial colour blindness in post-Brexit Britain. Attendance is free and open to all 🔗 www.compas.ox.ac.uk/event/the-po...
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- Reposted by Maria SobolewskaWhy isn't this a major news story?
- Reposted by Maria SobolewskaIs the idea that MPs are in touch with the real world through their constituency offices ill-founded? The Labour government needs to be bolder and braver—and this probably means listening less to its MPs, argues Deborah Mabbett.
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- An excellent piece. Especially on the evergreen topic of how our leaders turned into our followers with quite frankly terrible consequences
- Reposted by Maria SobolewskaCurrent Labour policy potentially restricts public input into the building of new houses. But the concept of public interest is ill-defined, contested, unevidenced and, too often, unchallenged.
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- Another good read, if you’re having a Substack morning like me
- “Yep, Mr Burns is now a Democrat!” Honestly the best thing on the internet today- do yourself a favour and read it
- Reposted by Maria SobolewskaI use @electionstudies.bsky.social data from 1972 to model how characters in The Simpsons would have voted in presidential elections It turns out to be very revealing about how the demographic coalitions of the Democratic and Republican parties have completely rearranged themselves...
- We are hamstrung by human rights apparently… if only these terrible terrible things were abolished 😳 it is going so well in the US after all
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- When will they finally ban this criminal website?
- This week, an X user created an AI video of me being chloroformed and prepared for rape. Victims are told it's not real and they're getting offended for no reason. But nudification tools are weapons of sexual assault, and the harm they cause is real 👇 jessasato.substack.com/p/ai-nudific...
- Reposted by Maria SobolewskaAbsolutely cracking work here from Jim's team. I defend the BBC a lot, but when a small team is doing really solid work like this while BBC London is doing puff pieces about the Wicked films, it really does make you wonder what's gone wrong with the big news outlets.
- This is one of the strangest and most screwed-up stories I’ve worked on. www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...
- A REALLY great piece!
- A striking feature of Rachel Reeves’s recent budget was the frequency with which she name-checked (or, more precisely, constituency-checked) backbench Labour MPs. But listening to MPs is not a substitute for good policy advice, argues Deborah Mabbett. politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/the-lis...
- Reposted by Maria SobolewskaCould a version of Trump's attack on US universities happen here? Universities are increasingly criticised as elitist, self-serving and disconnected from the everyday lives of UK citizens. We must redefine their moral purpose.
- Reposted by Maria SobolewskaInterested in democratic reform? Don't miss this episode of 'Uncovering Politics' in partnership with @uclspp.bsky.social. Experts examine two specific reform ideas: reforming party funding and giving smaller parties a stronger voice.
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- Reposted by Maria SobolewskaNew - Nigel Farage has been found by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards to have made 17 standards breaches, adding up to over £380,000 in late declarations. He’s apologised, so no further investigation (which seems unusual for a breach this large)
- Hemmed in between two people coughing heavily on a two hour train to London/ with of course no opening windows. They are not wearing masks of course. I wish we would collectively start calling it what it is- antisocial behaviour. Stay the f^ck home if you have a cough, or 😷
- Reposted by Maria SobolewskaOMG, he actually did the ‘I can’t be sexist, my wife is a woman’ line.
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- Reposted by Maria SobolewskaI am extremely confused as to why the UK government and police are saying Grok’s mass-scale CSAM generation is an issue for Ofcom. This isn’t about X failing to moderate CSAM, which is an Online Safety Act issue. It is about the company and its technology being actively involved in its generation.
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- Reposted by Maria SobolewskaNo idea who Laurent Brindeau is, but isn’t this caricature of @zackpolanski.bsky.social in today’s @dailymailpolitics.bsky.social ragingly antisemitic?
- Reposted by Maria SobolewskaWhen people say they want to go back to a time "when men were men", I point them to Issue 2528 of the "Men in Belted Sweaters" catalogue.
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- Reposted by Maria SobolewskaThe most-read PQ article of 2025 was.... .... Drumroll.... 'The Most Disproportionate UK Election: How the Labour Party Doubled its Seat Share with a 1.6Point Increase in Vote Share in 2024' Congrats, @martamiori.bsky.social @profjanegreen.bsky.social!
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- Errr… it’s delicious 🤤
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The UK will celebrate net emigration and depopulation come 2027. And by 2028 it will start to realise, with an ageing society and low growth, what a really silly thing it has done. The right will go "pro-natalist", the centre-left will be completely stuck. - Good news of the day. I first came to the UK university system on an Erasmus exchange so I might be biased, but I am so happy British students can choose to experience this great opportunity again 🙌🙌
- EXCL: An agreement to rejoin Erasmus – the EU’s student exchange programme – set to be announced on Wednesday as part of UK government’s drive towards closer relations with Brussels. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
- Reposted by Maria Sobolewska😍We are rejoining Erasmus. Official announcement tomorrow😍 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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- Should the FT journalists talk to each other? 🤔
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- Reposted by Maria Sobolewska📢 Call for Submissions UK-based early career researchers in political science, political economy & public policy: apply to our January Early Career Workshop at LSE. 🗓️ Deadline: 28 Dec 2025 🔗 forms.gle/HXU4DnBq9HmX...
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- Reposted by Maria SobolewskaIt's almost like every single reputable expert who has been saying this exact thing for years was right. Home Office recognised this fact 15 years ago. Successive governments, globally, continue to ignore it, and continue to push harmful "tougher" policies. 1/ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
- I have no words for this … it is indeed a dark day
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- Guess what other growth engines we had that we are now destroying… universities
- If it were steel works we would have a government bailout plan, yet losing thousands of jobs at unis is met with a shrug. & unlike steelworks universities were profitable when they had foreign students. You are killing the golden goose… one of our best exports… HOW IS THIS HELPING GROWTH?!
- Every sympathy for University of Essex (and pressures facing them) but this is very bad news for Southend. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Essex university to cut 400 jobs as overseas student numbers plummet
- Reposted by Maria SobolewskaEvery sympathy for University of Essex (and pressures facing them) but this is very bad news for Southend. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Essex university to cut 400 jobs as overseas student numbers plummet
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- An amazing opportunity to subscribe to the Mill, a local Manchester newspaper that does the proper reporting and investigating, for basically ‘give what you can’ prices! manchestermill.co.uk/r/3359d2b6?m...
- Reposted by Maria SobolewskaThe most dangerous moment in every authoritarian regime is when it realizes that its power has crested and is now falling. This is when they realize that if they are to achieve their maximalist ambitions, now they have to throw the dice — because no matter how bad the odds, their odds are best now.
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- Given child poverty levels this feels a little ‘let them eat cake’
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- Reposted by Maria SobolewskaLabour is desperately trying to appeal to Reform supporters. In October, we asked people in the UK if they perceive a party as a "party for someone like them". Only very few people say this for both Labour and Reform. The correlation is negative. Labour is chasing an electorate that does not exist.
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- Reposted by Maria SobolewskaAny President who calls for the opposition party to be hanged should be immediately impeached and removed from office.
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- Reposted by Maria SobolewskaTypically entertaining piece with a review of the research set out here: bsky.app/profile/turn...
- Latest piece for the @thehousemag.bsky.social, on the island of strangers speech and similar. Also ft Bob Hawke. www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
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