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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 · 4h
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
a man says " look hard this might get tasty " while talking to another man
ALT: a man says " look hard this might get tasty " while talking to another man
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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 4h
Kind of thing an 8 year old should be writing down
kennen11.bsky.social Dwayne Day @kennen11.bsky.social · 12h
Elon Musk (you may recognize him from the Epstein files) has just given up on Mars.

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Dwayne Day @kennen11.bsky.social · 12h
Elon Musk (you may recognize him from the Epstein files) has just given up on Mars.

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d
When you can’t touch the finance industry, or homeowners, or landowners, or tech monopolists, or pensioners, what else is left

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d
Beating up on non-voters ticks a few boxes. It sounds like it can restore things without affecting entrenched interests, thus reassuring everyone that the problem wasn’t anything fundamental but just a contamination of a well functioning system

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d
We had a phase where parties essentially offered voters nothing, and that was grudgingly accepted, to parties realising that voters now demand something, but lacking any appetite for the kinds of changes that might upset anyone powerful

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d
Bull’s eye
emmavj.bsky.social Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 1d
British values

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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 1d
British values

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d
If the Labour Party goes down this route it’s going to disappear as a serious political party
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d
Weird Farage ally statement

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 1d
Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks.

He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.

Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d
Weird Farage ally statement

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d
‘They said there would be girls’

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d
He isn’t

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d
Reform winning amongst young weirdos
owenwntr.bsky.social Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 2d
The untold story that is told constantly and isn’t really true

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d
There’s a very real Peter Principle at play here

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d
All I can think about is how small the soft loan to buy the flat in Notting Hill was

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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 2d
The untold story that is told constantly and isn’t really true

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 2d
The thing about Matt Goodwin is that you can probably dig out a quote of him saying just about anything at this point. The only sentiment that is constant is ‘please look at me’
sarahowen.org.uk Sarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 2d
So as I struggled with miscarriage after miscarriage before having my 🌈 baby, Reform would seriously think I should pay more tax during that agony.

This policy isn’t just a slippery slope to a handmaids tale dystopian future - it’s a deliberate step towards it
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Reform by-election candidate suggested people who don’t have kids should pay more tax
Exclusive: The Reform politician’s suggestion would ‘punish millions of women and strip them of their basic dignity to choose’, Labour’s deputy leader has warned
www.independent.co.uk

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 2d
Man of the people

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 2d
Apart from the contempt towards the party base you would expect, it also omits to mention that it was sensible Labour MPs that nominated Corbyn in the first place

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 2d
This is a classic

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 2d
New on FT website:

Downing Street has refused to say whether Sir Keir Starmer knew Palantir was a client of Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm when they both visited the company in Washington last February — ahead of it winning a £240mn UK government contract.

www.ft.com/content/5bba...
Starmer faces questions over visit to Palantir office alongside Mandelson
Former ambassador was also shareholder in lobbying group that counted US tech firm as a client
www.ft.com

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Sarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 2d
So as I struggled with miscarriage after miscarriage before having my 🌈 baby, Reform would seriously think I should pay more tax during that agony.

This policy isn’t just a slippery slope to a handmaids tale dystopian future - it’s a deliberate step towards it
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Reform by-election candidate suggested people who don’t have kids should pay more tax
Exclusive: The Reform politician’s suggestion would ‘punish millions of women and strip them of their basic dignity to choose’, Labour’s deputy leader has warned
www.independent.co.uk

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 2d
The newly appointed leader of Reform UK in Wales hasn’t moved back to his home town in the Valleys, but has bought a £1m house near Bath, we can reveal ✍️Martin Shipton
The new leader of Reform UK Wales lives in Bath, not Wales
Martin Shipton The newly appointed leader of Reform UK in Wales hasn’t moved back to his home town in the Valleys, but has bought a £1m house near Bath, we can reveal. Dan Thomas, the former Conservat...
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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 2d
Italy would have crumbled to pieces decades ago if they had our project management culture

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 2d
Renovating a not particularly beautiful or interesting building £15 billion, doing one HST line, £100 billion, upgrading sewer system, £180 billion. Basically doing anything in this country costs multiples more than anywhere else as far as I can see

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 2d
It’s an insane strategy even on its own terms

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 2d
I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.

Great work everyone.
The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None. Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law? Zachary: Correct. Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 3d
Imagine if Attlee had just not bothered with the Beveridge report and focused on getting back to balanced budgets

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 3d
If Starmer’s pitch was to be an honest and competent politician he maybe shouldn’t have been drawing on the sleaziest corners of British politics to get things down. He could have been a reformer and chose not to go there