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Jonathan Hopkin
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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

Political science 69%
Economics 17%
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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 35m
These tools are going to kill so many people

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 36m
Holy s***
tautology.uk Tautology @tautology.uk · 39m
To be fair, let's update what the other LLMs are doing. First ChatGPT

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 38m
Hey good news Labour are still ahead of the Tories
electionmaps.uk Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 1d
Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 25% (-2)
LAB: 19% (=)
CON: 18% (+1)
GRN: 16% (-1)
LDM: 15% (+2)
SNP: 3% (=)

Via @yougov.co.uk, 23-24 Nov.
Changes w/ 16-17 Nov.

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 39m
To be fair, let's update what the other LLMs are doing. First ChatGPT

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 53m
Must have been fun sitting in his lectures

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 54m
If you read this you can guess www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Maurice Glasman On Nigel Farage, Peter Thiel and Shabana Mahmood
Is a very British tech revolution on the cards? Blue Labour peer Lord Glasman talks to Sienna Rodgers about ‘big AI’ with the union jack on it, get...
www.politicshome.com

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1h
If you think that’s bad read this www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Maurice Glasman On Nigel Farage, Peter Thiel and Shabana Mahmood
Is a very British tech revolution on the cards? Blue Labour peer Lord Glasman talks to Sienna Rodgers about ‘big AI’ with the union jack on it, get...
www.politicshome.com

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1h
My God the overhang

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1h
It’s the shoes that get me

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1h
Incredible stuff
flipchartrick.bsky.social Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 2h
BBC just showed this video of John Noakes climbing Nelson’s column.
Wearing flared jeans and ordinary shoes, on a wooden ladder with no harness!

youtu.be/tMrB_3wq2ak?...
1977: JOHN NOAKES scaling Nelson's Column is TERRIFYING | Blue Peter | Classic clips | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1h
Another interesting part of this is that funny cat video that warms your heart doesn’t work if you think it isn’t real

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1h
Good job we still have reliable sources of expertise that we are protecting and nurturing www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens
University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1h
With AI the knowledge economy becomes like the used car market
himself.bsky.social Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 12h
What you think the likely consequences are depends on whether you expect to see a pooling or separating equilibrium.
alexis-madrigal.bsky.social Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social · 12h
One of the big tidal forces of the coming years is that the baseline reliability of things you see on a screen is going to decline.

I think this has not been adequately metabolized.

This is one version, but there are a bunch of them.

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 2h
BBC just showed this video of John Noakes climbing Nelson’s column.
Wearing flared jeans and ordinary shoes, on a wooden ladder with no harness!

youtu.be/tMrB_3wq2ak?...
1977: JOHN NOAKES scaling Nelson's Column is TERRIFYING | Blue Peter | Classic clips | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
youtu.be

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 2h
Utterly surreal that a key part of the pre Budget narrative from the government hasn’t been ‘Russian planes keep buzzing the Essex coast, US support for NATO is looking shaky, and thanks to the Tories our army fits in Old Trafford - that’s why we need to raise taxes’.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 2h
Best understood, Labour's attack on juries, as a further lurch towards authoritarianism. Who, now, will stand in the way of a State that wants to imprison its opponents?

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 11h
British electorate eyeing a Reform government: ‘gimme some more of that!’
josiah.writes.news Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 23h
The UK is losing up to £250m a day in lost tax revenue due to the economic impact of Brexit, House of Commons Library analysis for the Lib Dems suggests.

Brexit has blown a "black hole of [up to] £90 billion a year in the public finances" the party says. Even under lower estimates the hit is ~£65bn

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 11h
I still remember him coming up to me in Florence, when I’d already know him a while, and saying ‘so you’re from Beverley! Haha’ in a gotcha tone. He seemed to think that meant I was posh and was very satisfied in a way that perplexed me at the time but now makes a lot of sense.

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 11h
Or the Wheeltappers and Shunters Club of Palmers Green

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 11h
When Keir Starmer is finally spat out the other end there won’t be much left of the Labour Party

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 11h
Smart move for a party whose voters are increasingly university graduates. Or were.

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 12h
Is there any other political party out there so hostile to its own base I wonder

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 12h
It beggars belief that Labour are taxing universities’ most lucrative revenue streams at a time when three quarters of them are in the red

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 12h
What you think the likely consequences are depends on whether you expect to see a pooling or separating equilibrium.
alexis-madrigal.bsky.social Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social · 12h
One of the big tidal forces of the coming years is that the baseline reliability of things you see on a screen is going to decline.

I think this has not been adequately metabolized.

This is one version, but there are a bunch of them.
davey.bsky.social Davey Alba @davey.bsky.social · 18h
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 14h
Look, women no longer do shit for free is actually at the root of a lot of social disruption. The question is whether you think the solution is women going back to being unpaid and unprotected by their own labor.

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Dr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social · 14h
# We don't need no education #
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Fifty higher education providers at risk of exiting market in England, MPs told
Regulator says 24 are at more immediate risk and may have to stop degree courses within next 12 months
www.theguardian.com

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 15h
The slavish devotion to motoring is one of the most frustrating things about UK public policy over the past decades

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 15h
Early sign that doing anything on climate was going to meet very violent resistance

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 15h
If you're still tinkering with a fundamentally flawed tax system one year into a five year parliament with a massive majority, it can only get worse from here

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 16h
He wants family, community and tradition, but not by Muslims