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Joni Lovenduski
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Feminist, retired professor of political science, Chair The Political Quarterly board, politics obsessed,cat lover, Bridge player, Italy, food.

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Joni Lovenduski, is Professor Emerita of Politics at Birkbeck, University of London.

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Joni Lovenduski @jonilo.bsky.social · Jul 6
Important observation by Theda SKOCPOL on US police state.

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Joni Lovenduski @jonilo.bsky.social · 4h
best done in slow cooker
samfr.bsky.social Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 22h
Making a turkey broth with the carcass like an old school grandma.

Reposted by Joni Lovenduski

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 22h
Making a turkey broth with the carcass like an old school grandma.

Reposted by Andrew Scott, Joni Lovenduski

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 2d
I like that every iteration of the Tory party since I’ve been aware has had its own version of Sir John Hayes, a point of surety in an uncertain world

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Joni Lovenduski @jonilo.bsky.social · 3d
Long shot to aid arthritic hands. Looking for a source of larger magnetic clasps to add to necklaces. Can only find tiny ones.

Reposted by Joni Lovenduski

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Political Quarterly @politicalquarterly.bsky.social · 15d
We're sharing our PQ Wrapped, and our 8th most-read article of 2025 was:

'Buying Greenland' by Deborah Mabbett, on Donald Trump's 2019 proposal to buy Greenland from Denmark.

Read it now:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Will Jennings, Steve Peers, Joni Lovenduski , and 1 more

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15d
Former Tory MP Ben Bradley has now defected to Reform. They really are taking all the worst people from the Boris era.

Reposted by Kim L. Scheppele, Melissa Johnson, Joni Lovenduski , and 4 more

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 15d
Requiring foreign visitors to hand over 5 years of social media isn’t “security,” it’s unchecked government control.

All-seeing surveillance systems don’t make us safer. They are in direct opposition to our civil liberties.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Foreign tourists could be required to disclose 5 years of social media histories under Trump administration plan
The Customs and Border Protection proposal would apply even to countries that don't require visas to enter.
www.nbcnews.com

Reposted by Tim Bale, Duncan McDonnell

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Joni Lovenduski @jonilo.bsky.social · 17d
Very cool article

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Joni Lovenduski @jonilo.bsky.social · 17d
Yikes
paulwaldman.bsky.social Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 17d
The DSA and a dozen other lefty groups should sue, demanding that they too be given state money to establish organizations in every school in Texas
robertscotthorton.bsky.social Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 17d
The Texas GOP orders that the TurningPoint USA Trump youth organization will be obligatory at all high schools and colleges in the Lone Star State.

Reposted by Joni Lovenduski

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 17d
6PM Wednesday, Mile End. @psurridge.bsky.social and I will be joined by @stephenkb.bsky.social, the Associate Editor of the @financialtimes.com, and @rmcunliffe.bsky.social, Associate Political Editor at the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
Triumph and Trauma: The British General Election of 2024
Join the Mile End Institute to look back on the 2024 general election, the historic Conservative collapse and Labour's “loveless landslide"!
www.eventbrite.co.uk

Reposted by Joni Lovenduski

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17d
There were over 1000 deprivation of citizenship orders since 2010. (Commons Library) so the current pattern would seem to be the inverse of that claimed by the Opposition: there seems to be much more prevalence of removal from UK than to the UK
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...
Deprivation of British citizenship and withdrawal of passports
In the 21st century there has been a revived use of government powers to deprive people of their British citizenship and withhold UK passports, particularly as a counter-terrorism measure.
commonslibrary.parliament.uk

Reposted by Joni Lovenduski

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Margaret Hallah @margaretj.bsky.social · 17d
Charities supporting women and refugees are being targeted.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
UK charities face ‘culture of fear’ as threats and violence surge
Exclusive: Charity Commission chief condemns public hostility towards staff helping women and refugees and at places of worship
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Diane Coyle, Richard S.J. Tol, Ken Caldeira , and 12 more

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Lauren Leek @laurenleek.eu · 17d
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
open.substack.com

Reposted by Joni Lovenduski

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 17d
Anybody hoping that this is going to be a real problem for Farage and Reform should probably calm down and move on. This expert take suggests it's very unlikely to result in anything - for several reasons.
Nigel Farage accused of breaking election spending laws – the situation explained
Police are looking at whether the MP for Clacton overspent on his campaign – but it’s incredibly hard to make such cases stick.
theconversation.com

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 17d
The DSA and a dozen other lefty groups should sue, demanding that they too be given state money to establish organizations in every school in Texas

Reposted by Cas Mudde, David M. Farrell, Kai Arzheimer , and 2 more

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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 18d
🎁 Christmas has come early for @ammassarisofia.bsky.social & me with the publication of our article "The geography of the party on the ground: Local branches in Italy and Sweden in the late twentieth century" in @politicalgeography.bsky.social:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The geography of the party on the ground: Local branches in Italy and Sweden in the late twentieth century
The idea that the presence of Western European political parties at grassroots level rose and fell in the twentieth century is central to some of the …
www.sciencedirect.com

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Joni Lovenduski @jonilo.bsky.social · 21d
posting this because I like it . Wout Schram (Dutch, 1895–1987)
"A View of Amersfoort", 1925.
Oil on Canvas, 111 × 71 cm.
Private Collection.

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Joni Lovenduski @jonilo.bsky.social · 21d
Magari!

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Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 21d
If Europe (except far right populists) thinks we can still rely on the US as an ally, the new NSS should disabuse them. No criticism of Russia, but hostility to the EU. And “Managing European relations with Russia will require significant US diplomatic engagement”, rather than military pushback!
Highlighted extract from US National Security Strategy: “Managing European relations with Russia will require significant US diplomatic engagement, both to re establish conditions of strategic stability across the Eurasian landmass, and to mitigate the risk of conflict between Russia and European states.”

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Joni Lovenduski @jonilo.bsky.social · 26d
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Doesn’t quite express the actual policy!
UK asylum seekers to be banned from taking taxis to medical appointments
Move, which is part of crackdown on costs, comes after it emerged Home Office spends £15.8m a year on service
www.theguardian.com

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Joni Lovenduski @jonilo.bsky.social · 28d
He is a cat. You should have known.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29d
Wake up to 400 emails on how I can hide my money from the Chancellor and, as ever, it's good to see the generous, warm-hearted, UK press in action.

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Joni Lovenduski @jonilo.bsky.social · Nov 24
Not a royal watcher so may have missed something here,but it does seem that the commentariat want the Sussex marriage to fail? Why?

Reposted by Peter Holmes, Joni Lovenduski

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · Nov 23
The fact that in both 2019 and 2024, the winning party did so with a set of manifesto promises that could not be kept and dissolved upon contact with actual office is something that as an industry we should be much more bothered by than we are.

Reposted by Jonathan Portes, David M. Farrell, Jonathan Wolff , and 5 more

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · Nov 15
Buckle up - because this now amounts to a direct and deliberate attack on our country and its cultural sovereignty. Which side our politicians take - Trump's or the BBC's - over the coming days and weeks will speak volumes about their patriotism.
Trump says he will sue BBC for at least $1bn over Panorama edit
The US president confirmed he intends to sue the broadcaster for at least $1bn over the Panorama edit of a 2021 speech.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Joni Lovenduski @jonilo.bsky.social · Nov 11
So Trump wants to bring down the BBC.

Reposted by Joni Lovenduski, Ben Worthy, James Connelly

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Rosie Campbell @profrosiecamp.bsky.social · Nov 8
@jonilo.bsky.social @politicalquarterly.bsky.social what would it take for a women to become President of the United States? A series of unlikely events. doi.org/10.1111/1467...
What Will it Take for a Woman to Become President of the United States?
In this article we consider what it will take for a woman to be elected President of the United States. We examine the available data from the 2024 election, in comparison to previous elections; we i....
doi.org

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Joni Lovenduski @jonilo.bsky.social · Nov 1
From our porch as the valley fog lifted this morning

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Joni Lovenduski @jonilo.bsky.social · Oct 31
My neighbour in Umbria

Reposted by Joni Lovenduski, Robin Celikates, Josef Früchtl , and 4 more

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · Oct 30
On the “defeat” of the far right in the Netherlands 🇳🇱

The total number of far-right seats in the Tweede Kamer:

2021: 28
2023: 41
2025: 42 👈

And I don’t even count BBB here, which has radicalized significantly in the last year.