When, I ask myself, did I last have a passion fruit?

'I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.' - C. S. Lewis

Further to this part of the SNP opposition day (21 Feb) saga, the Procedure Committee has published an unusual letter from Leader of the House of Commons, Penny Mordaunt.

In her letter, she (in my view, correctly) suggests the committee is wrong not to take the matter up.

committees.parliament.uk/publications/4…

NEWS - from the 2nd of July 2024 all articles accepted for publication in BJPolS will be #OpenAccess ; published with a Creative Commons licence and freely available to read online.

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#OA

Just needed to check something about the rules of parliamentary ping pong and googled it, was reading an answer about tabling things, thought it seemed a bit odd, realised I was reading the rules of actual ping pong, the sport

In today’s surprising teaching development, I mentioned to a year 1 lecture that I wrote my UG dissertation on neo-corporatist interest group bargaining in Denmark and if anyone was interested, I’d let them have a copy. And a student approached me afterwards TO ASK FOR A COPY.

I know this isn't the most important bit of the story but the 'source close to the MP' bit is so good.

We are delighted to announce that the call for papers for #EPOP2024 is now open! This will take place at the University of Manchester from 11-13 September.

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It's nice and funny and everything, but it is sort of insane that the Chancellor has to replace the infested carpets in a flat owned by the government at his own expense

Looks like a fantastic online course taught by an inspirational teacher. Sign up if you want to learn about randomised field experiments 👇

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Some brief thoughts on what this means for the policy effectiveness and political durability of Sunak’s phased smoking ban: ft.com/content/bf31dd…