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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 13h

A sad tale of how agents can get too much influence in football. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Pezzolano sacked by Watford after ‘resisting pressure to use players linked to agent’

Watford sources have denied Paulo Pezzolano was sacked because he resisted pressure to select players who have a connection to the agent Arnaud Mogi Bayat

www.theguardian.com

Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 14h

Corrupt. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian

www.theguardian.com

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 2d

A professor is threatened online, has his flight canceled mysteriously, and this is all his university has to say:

“Rutgers University is committed to providing a secure environment (...) where all members of our community can share their opinions without fear of intimidation or harassment,

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

www.theguardian.com

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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 4d

No, I have not forgotten!

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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 4d

I can still remember the shock of being a naive student in the 1980s and seeing some of Dublin's finest propertied middle class screw student tenants out of money. Kudos to the former tenant who coldly claimed revenge 16 years later.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jim Gavin: Fianna Fáil candidate withdraws from presidential race

He said in a statement he had

www.bbc.co.uk

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 5d

🚨 We have a cool new ESRC PhD studentship opportunity on the topic of political persuasion for someone interested in campaigning, field experiments and/or computational methods @lsegovernment.bsky.social, in collaboration with
@campaign-lab.bsky.social. All info 👇
www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

LSE Collaborative Studentship with Campaign Lab

www.lse.ac.uk

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UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 5d

Kemi Badenoch has said that the UK will leave the ECHR if the Tories win the next election

But is it possible to leave these conventions? If so, how? And, less radically, can these conventions be reformed?

@cbarnard.bsky.social has the answers 👇

ukandeu.ac.uk/leaving-the-...

Leaving the ECHR and the Refugee Convention - UK in a changing Europe

Catherine Barnard explains the political and legal consequences of leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the Refugee Convention.

ukandeu.ac.uk

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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 5d

Leeds 0 - 1 Real Mallorca 😎

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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 6d

Snob.

Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 6d

But relying on polling numbers or on economy is merely reversing the previous situation - little or no attempt to incorporate the other identity and so it is minoritised with all the festering problems we saw over the past 101+ years.

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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 6d

No NI SoS is going to make that decision without consulting cabinet and King.

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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 7d

Reform government highly unlikely to agree to referendum. Farage wants to renegotiate Good Friday Agreement. Anyway, most southerners have never stood in Belfast so how do they hope to persuade?

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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · 9d

Join us tonight for our screening of From Where We Stand and Q&A with its director, Lucy Kaye.

This documentary explores race, belonging & post-Brexit Northern England.

🕔 5pm to 7.30pm
📍OLD 3.24, LSE Old Building
🎟️ Free and open to all!
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#LSESociology #LSEEvents

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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 11d

Had the same experience with a child in one arm and a folded pushchair in the other on a London bus 24 years ago. N=1. Maybe we look like we are coping?

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 12d

Krishnan Guru Murthy, "Isn't it a bit insulting to say to an Indian doctor who is working 60-70 hours a week that in order to get settled status he's got to volunteer?"

Rachel Reeves, "We want people to contribute if they come to our country"

Labour have gone utterly bonkers

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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 13d

You and me both.

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 13d

Every time I read @adamprz.bsky.social reflecting on his life and work, I am in awe. Though I have never met him, and we move(d) in different circles, his reflections speak deeply to me.

One of the last intellectual giants in the field representing an increasingly different discipline.

How Democracies Fall Apart - Dissent Magazine

An interview with Adam Przeworski.

www.dissentmagazine.org

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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 13d

Why I posted. Colonialism.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 15d

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 14d

This book made a huge impression on me when I read it as a ‘western’ loving teenager - one of those rare books that makes you rethink your assumptions. I still keep a copy. Might be time to re-read. www.psbooks.co.uk/bury-my-hear...

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

www.psbooks.co.uk

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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 15d

As it happens, this is a country with a substantial ‘brain drain’ with most of the flow going to North America. Refs available.

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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 16d

Peak LoI season!

Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 16d

I endorse this message.

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Kasia @scullingmonkey.bsky.social · 19d

Odd to see that in the news and SILENCE from the British prime minister about Farage plans.

You want the best and brightest to come here?

You know they can read and see how you treat those who are already here?

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 19d

The British prime minister’s 'global talent task force' is working on ideas to lure the world’s best scientists, academics and digital experts, at a time when the US has moved sharply in the other direction on.ft.com/4pAwJfj

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