The King secured an exemption from a Welsh act to ensure he couldn’t be prosecuted for “rural crimes”. Quite literally: “one rule for them, another for the rest of us” theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

Maybe Doru Peter Frantescu Dave Keating Ania Skrzypek Céline Guedes know the story?

Excellent piece by Lisa O'Carroll on the key votes coming up in the EP on the EU's migration package. The splits are going to be fascinating to watch (ht Doru Peter Frantescu Abdul Ghafar Noury): theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Looking forward to discussing today with Ursula von der Leyen and the European Commission College on the main ideas of the Report on the Future of the #SingleMarket . Jacques Delors Institute Jacques Delors Centre Europe Jacques Delors

A (very fair!) critique I get often about the crosstab aggregator is that it compares polls in a given month to 2020 results — as opposed to 2024 polls to 2020 polls at that same time (🍎 to 🍎)

So here’s March 2024 polls vs. March 2020 polls by some key age & race groups

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Indeed. But which way round is the relationship: democracy makes you rich, or being rich makes you a democracy? Something a few brave souls have been trying to figure out for decades …

JFYI
👉Most rich nations are free ( liberal democracies)
👉Most poor nations aren’t
✍️Martin Wolf 🔗 on.ft.com/4aDtjQD

Happy to share two additions to Journal of Politics @[email protected]'s 'Just Added' collection🙂

Field experiment on negative identities with Dr Katharina Lawall Florian Foos & Joshua Townsley, PhD
doi.org/10.1086/730718

Meta analysis with Elizabeth Simon on education & in-group biases
doi.org/10.1086/730745