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Jonathan Hopkin

@jonathanhopkin.bsky.social

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Professor of the Political Economy of Europe at LSE. Interested in democratic representation and inequality, worried about the survival of democracy. Author of Anti-System Politics (OUP, 2020). Also random thoughts on football, cycling, the weather etc .. more

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Jonathan Hopkin is Professor in the European Institute and the Department of Government of the London School of Economics and Political Science. He obtained a PhD at the European University Institute in Florence, and lectured at the Universities of Bradford, Durham and Birmingham, joining LSE in 2004. He teaches comparative politics and political economy, and has published in the areas of political parties and elections, political economy, inequality and welfare states. .. more

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Economics 17%

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 8h

Shock report: British establishment not ignorant and racist

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Rune Møller Stahl @runestahl.bsky.social · 8h

"they make a desert and call it peace"

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d

The Antifa Roundtable was a well known daily lunch meeting of the greatest wits of its time

Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d

It’s almost like markets misallocated resources, but surely that isn’t possible

Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d

Just call them burghers

Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d

I clearly remember going out with a fiver in my pocket

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d

Your work here is done

Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d

Glad I don’t work in A & E

Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d

What an image

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 5d

wizard frog is insane

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 1d

The current Republican Party will follow Donald Trump absolutely anywhere he decides to take it, including public ownership of the means of production.

Republican socialism: The Trump administration buys a stake in yet another company

Trilogy Metals will receive a $35.6 million "investment," and the federal government will now own a 10 percent stake in the company.

reason.com

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 1d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d

Ha right out of The Thick of It

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

Good lord.

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d

This is so artfully done. No wonder they want to cancel him

Jimmy Kimmel Live @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social · 1d

Did Trump write the infamous Epstein birthday letter? You decide.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

Good lord.

@apnews.com

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.bsky.social · 1d

Remember when dense networks of strategic cross-shareholdings among firms, native to coordinated market economies, went the way of the dodo?

The Rhenish model, Germany, Inc. undone by Anglo institutional investors?

Well, the dodo is back. Say hello to USA, Inc.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d

I have 250 on my iPad for absolutely no reason at all

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Jimmy Kimmel Live @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social · 1d

Did Trump write the infamous Epstein birthday letter? You decide.

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 1d

This - as any historian who has studied the subject of immigration knows - is what always happens over time & there is no reason to believe it will not continue. The only enemies of this benign process are those that highlight & seek to profit from division.

Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 2d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 2d

All university researchers around the country are having to deal with new procedures around the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme yet foreign fascists are given free rein to pollute our public space. What a joke of a country. Zero dignity.

Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 2d

🔴 ‘America Must Save Britain’: MAGA-Mania and Conspiracy Theories Broadcast Nightly on GB News’ New US Show

A new daily GB News programme broadcast from Washington features climate denial, vaccine misinformation, and non-stop praise for Donald Trump. ✍️ @bylinetimes.bsky.social

'America Must Save Britain': MAGA-Mania and Conspiracy Theories Broadcast Nightly on GB News' New US Show

A new daily GB News programme broadcast from Washington features climate denial, vaccine misinformation, and non-stop praise for Donald Trump – as its hosts tell the American audience that the UK need...

bylinetimes.com

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 2d

The very definition of flogging a dead horse

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 2d

Tory Badenoch to set out new rule to cut borrowing and taxes.

A code for more austerity, public service cuts. What do they think will happen when £47bn is removed from the economy?

Silence on taxing the rich, windfall taxes, ending corporate welfare, tax havens.

Same old Tories.

Badenoch to set out new rule to cut borrowing and taxes

In a conference speech, the Tory leader will say the Conservatives are the only party

www.bbc.co.uk

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 2d

'America Must Save Britain': MAGA-Mania and Conspiracy Theories Broadcast Nightly on GB News' New US Show

bylinetimes.com

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 2d

There seems to be little recognition amongst the general public of what rights actually are, and how if others are denied them that means you no longer have rights either

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Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 New research published today

'Before the fall' looks at what has happened to the distribution of household wealth in Britain and the impact on families.

Read it here 👉 buff.ly/Ya8kInK

Senior Economist Molly Broome:
"Wealth gaps in Britain are now so large that a typical full-time employee saving all their earnings across their entire working life would still not be able to reach the top of the wealth ladder. These gaps are doubly concerning as wealth mobility in Britain is low – people that start life wealthy tend to stay wealthy, and vice versa.
Rising house prices and changes in the value of pension promises account for most of the growth in wealth gaps since the early 2010s, rather than any active behaviour on the part of individuals, such as buying homes or acquiring new assets.
Soaring wealth and an acute need for more revenue has prompted fresh talk of wealth taxes ahead of the Budget next month. But with property and pensions now representing 80 per cent of the growing bulk of household wealth, we need to be honest that higher wealth taxes are likely to fall on pensioners, Southern homeowners or their families, rather than just being paid by the super-rich."

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 2d

Badenoch to set out new rule to cut borrowing and taxes

In a conference speech, the Tory leader will say the Conservatives are the only party

www.bbc.co.uk

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nevratutuncu 🫐 @nevrasland.bsky.social · 2d

The Forgotten History of Hitler’s Establishment Enablers
The Nazi leader didn’t seize power; he was given it.

By Adam Gopnik
March 18, 2024

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The Forgotten History of Hitler’s Establishment Enablers

The Nazi leader didn’t seize power; he was given it.

www.newyorker.com

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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 2d

The funny thing is that contrary to people who use it that way now, not too long ago, the defining features of the West were supposed to be that it alone had moved from faith to doubt, status to contract, charismatic to bureaucratic authority, and gemeinschaft to gesellschaft.

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 2d

Badenoch has three children. Anyone want to bet they won’t all go to university?

Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 2d

The kind of thing that only someone with three degrees can promise with a straight face

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 2d

Breaking: Tories would slash university places by 100k.

Student numbers cap plan billed as saving £3 billion to invest in apprenticeship funding.

Tomorrow, Badenoch will unveil plans to limit student numbers across all subjects.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

Tories would slash university places by 100,000 - Research Professional News

Student numbers cap plan billed as saving £3 billion to invest in “doubled” apprenticeship funding

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 2d

Tories would slash university places by 100,000 - Research Professional News

Student numbers cap plan billed as saving £3 billion to invest in “doubled” apprenticeship funding

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 3d

This is an image from 1992, in case you were curious

CNN @cnn.com · 3d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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