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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 · 8h
Wow. Quite a post, leaving me thinking the situation at the Beeb is even worse than I feared
lewisgoodall.com Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 12h
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.

New piece from me.

open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 9h
Sorry but your licence fee direct debit will increase by 200% from next April

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 9h
😂

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 9h
If only someone would ask Farage what he thinks about this

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 9h
Jeff as Trump

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 9h
To be honest I see it as being very much in character. RKF as Ted Danson with Marty Funkhauser’s politics

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 9h
Haha he has no idea how broke this country is

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 9h
It is utter bullshit that the mistaken splicing of two bits of his January 6th 2021 speech on Panorama in October 2024 had any significant impact whatsoever on the reputation of Donald Trump in Britain, or globally, and the claim for $1 billion damages is bullshit and bullying by the US president

Reposted by Jonathan Portes, Jonathan Hopkin, Christina Pagel

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 10h
The idea of a $1 billion lawsuit from Donald Trump is utter nonsense

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
Trump threatens $1bn legal action against BBC over 6 January speech edit
The BBC chair earlier apologises for the
www.bbc.co.uk

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 10h
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Trump Threatens To Sue BBC Over Misleading Edit Of ‘The Vicar Of Dibley’
LONDON—In response to what his lawyers characterized as “a reckless and defamatory misrepresentation” of the beloved ’90s sitcom about a small-town vicar and her eccentric parishioners, President Dona...
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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 11h
Oh happy days when we were under the boot of cancel culture

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 11h
I mean TV, obviously the press is about as partisan as it gets

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 11h
It’s really extraordinary how partisan a lot of US mainstream media is. There’s no equivalent of a Rachel Maddow or the late night presenters in the UK (GB News is the only obviously partisan channel)

Reposted by Jonathan Hopkin, Jack Stilgoe

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 11h
A piece I wrote about the manufactured ‘impartiality’ panics that greeted Tim Davie’s arrival just over 5 years ago, when GB News was still a glint in Robbie Gibbs’ eye www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
William Davies · Short Cuts: Woke Conspiracies
A British equivalent of Fox News, wherever it may come from, would have its own distinctive character – less...
www.lrb.co.uk

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 12h
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.

New piece from me.

open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com

Reposted by Jonathan Hopkin

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Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 13h
Must have missed the explosive row & resignations over the claim, wrongly made by many including here in the Telegraph last week, that this prematurely-released prisoner was an "asylum seeker"

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Prison chiefs must face justice for such unbelievable ineptitude - Yahoo News UK
It’s happened again. A prisoner has been released by mistake. This time it’s understood to be Ibrahim Kaddour-Cherif, an Algerian asylum seeker with a record of committing sexual offences. He was rele...
uk.news.yahoo.com

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 15h
The evidence keeps accumulating that Brexit was an astonishing self-inflicted economic policy disaster. The fact that it is a slow-moving one bodes ill for those who think that populist economic mismanagement will translate into voters punishing populists. www.nber.org/system/files...

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 16h
Weird how we have probably the best public broadcaster in the world (yeah, low bar) alongside possibly the most biased and unethical private media of any democracy

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 16h
Yeah I mean it should be taken for granted that nothing they say is anything but rampant self-interested garbage. And yet

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 16h
Yeah it will be funded by surcharges on children of migrants or something

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 16h
Finally some courage
pippacrerar.bsky.social Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 17h
NEW: Rachel Reeves signals she intends to remove the two-child cap *in full*

"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 16h
Switzerland might be an exception here

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 17h
NEW: Rachel Reeves signals she intends to remove the two-child cap *in full*

"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.

Reposted by Jonathan Hopkin, Dan Hicks

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18h
When was the last time anyone at the BBC had to resign for misrepresenting a leftwinger?

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 18h
“The BBC’s error, from a survival point of view, was breaking from its practiced game of distorting the history of the powerless, and instead messing with the big dogs it customarily serves.”
The BBC Thought It Could Save Itself by Serving the Powerful. It Was Wrong | Novara Media
The corporation's cardinal sin was messing with the big dogs it usually serves, writes Steven Methven.
novaramedia.com

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 18h
Here’s the same data, but with trust broken down by political views (circles are trust among people on the left, +s the right).

It’s not just that the BBC is widely consumed — it also has solid trust on both left & right, whereas trust in the biggest US media brands is hugely polarised.

Reposted by Steve Peers, Jonathan Hopkin, Vaughan S. Roberts

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 19h
Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 19h
You shouldn’t make fun of people for their apparence but
That fucking moustache

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 21h
There’s a story you could be telling about remembrance that it was all about fighting tyranny and we’re going to have to be ready to do it all again, but no. Nobody wants to run with that obvious line, not even the left wants it.

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 21h
The well documented identity appeal of rent freezes, free buses and cheap childcare