✏️ Marc Geddes has written our latest blog all about his research comparing the committee systems in the UK UK House of Commons and German Deutscher Bundestag ! 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 Read it here: psaparliaments.org/2024/04/15/evi…

🇬🇧🚨 From the archives: 'Introducing the ‘conceptual archive’: A genealogy of counterterrorism in 1970s Britain' by Michael Livesey @malivesey.bsky.social. 👉 Open access and available here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Not the most important constitutional point perhaps but there are a lot of MPs saying this today. But they are still MPs until Thursday! Parliament has prorogued (business is suspended). It dissolves on Thursday 30th after which the statutory 25-day election count-down kicks in.

Exc (and free to read this weekend!): Labour manifesto will commit to introducing an age limit on serving peers. House of Lords will be scaled back by forcing peers to retire at age 80, or at the end of the parliament in which they reach that age. It's part of a two-phased

The University of Guam is featured in a special report of the Los Angeles Times! The article highlights how UOG has been a beacon of higher education in the Western Pacific. 👉 Read more in the LA Times: lat.ms/3VKaXry

#dogsatpollingstations

While the Leaders of the Commons and Lords won't be directly responsible for the Restoration & Renewal of the Palace of Westminster, their support for fixing the Palace will be critical if Parliament wants to avoid the impending catastrophe facing the building... #WestminsterRR

More new appointments (given peerages so in HoL)👇🏼 Patrick Vallance, former chief scientific adviser during campaign, appointed as science minister. Backed Labour’s clean energy plan. James Timpson, chair of Prison Reform Trust, now prisons minister.

Today the Speaker should tell the parties how many Select Committees they will get to Chair. This is worked out in proportion to how many seats each party gained. The Whips will then agree which Committees each party will lead, but this may not be announced for a while 1/4

THIS MOMENT! 😲 #NEDENG #BBCEuros #Euro2024

Such a privilege to be part of this CST special issue... Which will make important interventions in fields of critical terrorism studies/critical security studies, and which @Sarah_Gharib and Dr Rabea M. Khan have guided to fruition with such wisdom, care, and composure 👏🙏 /1

After 102 games and almost eight years in charge, Gareth Southgate has announced he is to leave his role as manager of the #ThreeLions.

Unpopular opinion of the day: yes, some bits of the State Opening of Parliament seem strange and quite funny BUT those things aren't *just* the result of 'tradition'- they're also the result of/reflect some v important historic events and fundamental constitutional principles!

The King’s Speech contains a bill to remove the right of hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords.

Why should we care about #localgov? ❤️ ben worthy gives us 5 reasons the sector matters 👇 lgiu.org/blog-article/w…

🌟 Finally: allocation for select committee chairs has been announced, with five going to the Conservatives (of which only two going to departmental committees), three to the LibDems and all the rest to Labour. (1)

Lords Commons scrutiny scrutiny

'It sucks': Guam's indigenous Chamorro people and their complex relationship with the US rnz.co.nz/international/…

📢 Today @HLStatInqs publishes its report ‘Public inquiries: Enhancing public trust’ 📝 👉 Read the committee’s findings here ⬇️ committees.parliament.uk/committee/702/…