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Ben Ansell

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Politics Professor, Nuffield & Oxford, FBA. Host of BBC Radio 4 Rethink. Reith Lecturer. Columnist for Prospect.
Nuffield College, Oxford benwansell.com Joined September 2009
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I am deeply grateful and honoured to have been asked to give this year's Reith Lectures by the BBC. The title of the series is 'Our Democratic Future', which is no simple topic but I hope to do it justice. A v quick thread on details. 1/n

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www.bbc.co.uk Our Democratic Future: Professor Ben Ansell announced as BBC Radio 4’s Reith Lecturer for 2023 The lectures and question-and-answer sessions will be chaired by presenter, journalist and author Anita Anand
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This is more military deaths than the UK experienced in WW2.

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www.parliament.uk The Fallen
Alberto Nardelli Verified account @AlbertoNardelli 2d
Russia has recorded the deaths of about 400,000 of its people fighting in Ukraine since the full-scale invasion almost five years ago, according to confidential data held by the country’s statistics agency, Rosstat.

The information comes from more than 11 million death certificates with accompanying details such as residence, age and where people died. The data was obtained by the Belarusian pro-opposition group Cyber Partisans and the Ukrainian hacker operation Silent Crow. It was subsequently shared with Bloomberg News and a small group of other outlets.

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Ben Ansell @benwansell
Inspired by the piece by @Will___lloyd I made (ok, vibe-coded) a little web app to explore NEET rates at the local authority level and across Europe. V much a work in progress but maybe of interest

benwansell.github.io/neet-atlas/
Ben Ansell @benwansell 5d
Late to this fabulously written piece by @Will___lloyd. A great account of both Rotheram and the experience of being young and feeling hopeless.

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