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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 21h

No, I have not forgotten!

Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 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

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UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

Leeds 0 - 1 Real Mallorca 😎

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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 2d

Snob.

Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

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

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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 6d

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 · 7d

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 · 8d

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 · 9d

You and me both.

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 9d

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 · 9d

Why I posted. Colonialism.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 12d

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

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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 11d

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 · 12d

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 · 13d

Peak LoI season!

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 13d

Good job, mate. Top notch. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Harvard’s Public Health Dean Was Paid $150,000 to Testify Tylenol Causes Autism | News | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard School of Public Health Dean Andrea A. Baccarelli received at least $150,000 to testify against Tylenol’s manufacturer in 2023 — two years before he published research used by the Trump admini...

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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 13d

I endorse this message.

Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 13d

I will consider forgiving all the Oirish nonsense in “House of Guinness” if it includes a two-episode mini-arc entirely about William Sealy Gosset and the origin of the t-test.

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Kasia @scullingmonkey.bsky.social · 15d

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 · 16d

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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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 15d

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins?

He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.

So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 17d

British media pumps out daily propaganda pieces for Farage, fails to offer *any scrutiny* and basically legitimises rampant racism, then puts on its ‘innocent face’ and clutches its pearls at the rise of the far right…
What a grim betrayal of our democracy.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...

Reform, with 0.7% of all MPs, featured in 25% of BBC's recent 10pm news bulletins

Astonishingly, a party with 18 times as many MPs as Reform has received one-third less coverage on BBC News at 10.

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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 17d

One of the great things about London is that living legends play their music there from time to time. 🙏

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