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Patrick Dunleavy

@patrickdunleavy.bsky.social

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Emeritus Professor of Politics & Public Policy, London School of Economics & Political Science. Interests - digital era governance, democratic audit & renewal, theories of the state, elections & party competition. And in open social science, universities.

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · Aug 2

Many thanks from all our authors to the thousands of readers who have downloaded copies of our free book “Australia’s Evolving Democracy” here:
press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3...

Also available in paperback for lowest price we could set from Amazon UK & other etailers

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 2h

The AI boom is about to go bust, any week now…
“Bank of England warns of 'sharp correction' for markets if AI bubble bursts”
news.sky.com/story/bank-o...

Bank of England warns of 'sharp correction' for markets if AI bubble bursts

In its latest update on the state of the financial system, the Bank adds its voice to concerns about US issues that will have knock-on effects for us, if realised.

news.sky.com

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Bill Berry @whimberry.bsky.social · 2h

A horrifying pogrom. ICE = SS. This racist state terror is what Farage, Badenoch and Jenrick want to import from the US.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 12h

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 15h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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grinchw.bsky.social @grinchw.bsky.social · 2h

Badenoch must be having a laugh with us. Everything she says is just so plain stupid.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 5h

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 2h

“How Russia Recovered”
Just as in WWII Russia’s military has learnt quickly from its numerous big mistakes and adapted a lot to a fully drone-dominated battlefield.
The military UK and NATO still have not, perhaps cannot. www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/how-r...

How Russia Recovered

What the Kremlin is learning from the war in Ukraine.

www.foreignaffairs.com

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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 2h

Tories will scrap stamp duty on primary residences, Kemi Badenoch tells conference

A fight to the bottom with Farage on the Fantasy Economics league table

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 1d

How do we bring inflation down? blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

How do we bring inflation down? | British Politics and Policy at LSE

The UK's inflation is still the highest in the G7. This is due to the Bank of England's previous low interest rate policy, and inflation's inherent innertia.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 1d

Yet another Australian Commonwealth Government fiasco: The @Deloitte scandal discredits both this high (taxpayer) paid consultant and AI (artificial intelligence). Before it was cut and paste. Now AI has been exposed making stuff up. False/fraudulent. Elizabeth Knight/SMH 👇

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 1d

Privatising provision equals lousy service and huge company profits, wherever it is done.

“Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper” - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper

Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of

www.bbc.co.uk

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 1d

Are Christians in Europe more likely to be Islamophobic than other citizens?

New research finds no link between personal Christian beliefs and Islamophobia, but a close association of latter with nativism/authoritarianism.

✍️ @kai_arzheimer blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

Islamophobia in Western Europe is not driven by religiosity

Are Christians more likely to be Islamophobic than other citizens in Europe? New research finds European Islamophobia has no link to a person’s religiosity.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Paddy Magill @padraigpostal.bsky.social · 6h

'Rule of Law'.....well it was quaint while it lasted, bit like that 'Democracy' thing...

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

harpers.org

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 16h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Ferryoons @ferryoons.bsky.social · 7h

Mysteriously, my arse.

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Russian newspaper head mysteriously falls 70ft to his death from a window | News World | Metro News metro.co.uk/2025/10/06/r...

Russian newspaper head mysteriously falls 70ft to his death from a window

The veteran publisher died on Saturday. Police are investigating the 'strange death'.

metro.co.uk

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22h

Thanks, New Yorker

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 1d

"We weed out the bad judges and defend the good ones."

Shadow Justice Sec. Robert Jenrick tells @maitlis.bsky.social he wants to "undo the constitutional vandalism" Blair inflicted on the UK judicial system...

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 7h

is this the Kemi Badenoch, wanting to cut English, whose slogan misspelled "Britain"

Ignoramus and philistine Kemi Badenouch saying students should not study Englush and "rip-off" degress, the Tories wanting to cut arts, sociology, and anthropology

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Medlife Crisis (Rohin) @medcrisis.bsky.social · 7h

As this thread spells out, it seems utterly incomprehensible that Tice, Candy, Oakeshott etc lavish praise on the Gulf states when to an outside observer, it’s everything they hate. Until you understand that all these people see is 1) no tax and 2) a subservient class of browns. Now it makes sense.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 21h

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

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The Original Cry-Wanker™ @andyking.bsky.social · 7h

Kemi Badenoch wanting to cut "English" is delicious, possibly not as delicious as chocolate tho.

Yea I'm spoll all the time, but I don't want to cut English as an area of study for others

A hand with painted nails holding Kemi Badenoch Tory conference promotional chocolate bar with Britain spelt Britian

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 7h

UK Tory Party Conference: Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch declares war on English degrees.
#literature #language #English #HigherEd #University

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 7h

‘Bow to the Emperor’: We Asked 50 Legal Experts About the Trump Presidency
Before the election, we surveyed the legal establishment about what a second Trump term could mean for the rule of law. A year later, they’re very, very worried.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/m...

‘Bow to the Emperor’: We Asked 50 Legal Experts About the Trump Presidency

www.nytimes.com

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John Earle @skembear.bsky.social · 7h

Since Starmer came to power, NHS privatisation is up by up to 71% www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Since Starmer came to power, NHS privatisation has increased by up to 71%

From July 2024-July 2025, the amount of firms leeching profit from the NHS has increased by huge amounts in London, Dorset and other areas

www.thecanary.co

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 1d

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

He is making sh*t up. To justify Trump's deployment of troops. Despicable.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Stephen Miller claims that in Portland "ICE officers have to street battles against antifa, hand to hand combat every night, to come and go from their building"

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