Joni Lovenduski

@jonilo.bsky.social

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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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Political science 82%

Sociology 11%

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Joni Lovenduski @jonilo.bsky.social · Jul 6

Important observation by Theda SKOCPOL on US police state.

Joni Lovenduski @jonilo.bsky.social · 7h

About to get very cold here. But sunny.

Reposted by Joni Lovenduski, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 7h

Silicon Valley billionaire responses to wealth tax proposals:

“It’s illegal confiscation!” Property taxes go back to ancient times

“We will move away!” Yes you lack loyalty to society

“You’re just jealous of us!” ??

“We will buy new politicians to stop this.” Yes this is precisely the point

Reposted by Andrew Scott, Jonathan Wolff, Lesley A. Hall , and 3 more Andrew Scott, Jonathan Wolff, Lesley A. Hall, Joni Lovenduski, Tom Griffin, Aidan O’Sullivan

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Tommy Robinson says he found Jesus in prison. Churches disagree about how to respond

C of E faces dilemma as far right claims Christianity to push agenda that often clashes with gospel message

www.theguardian.com

Joni Lovenduski @jonilo.bsky.social · 3d

best done in slow cooker

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 4d

Making a turkey broth with the carcass like an old school grandma.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 4d

Making a turkey broth with the carcass like an old school grandma.

Reposted by Andrew Scott, Joni Lovenduski

Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 5d

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

Joni Lovenduski @jonilo.bsky.social · 6d

Long shot to aid arthritic hands. Looking for a source of larger magnetic clasps to add to necklaces. Can only find tiny ones.

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Political Quarterly @politicalquarterly.bsky.social · 18d

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 Will Jennings, Steve Peers, Joni Lovenduski, Mark Priestley

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 18d

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 Kim L. Scheppele, Melissa Johnson, Joni Lovenduski, E. Wayne Ross, Samantha Brennan, Richard M. Carpiano, Colin Woodard

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 19d

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

Joni Lovenduski @jonilo.bsky.social · 20d

Very cool article

Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 21d

🎁 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

Joni Lovenduski @jonilo.bsky.social · 20d

Yikes

Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 20d

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

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 20d

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.

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 20d

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

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 20d

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

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Margaret Hallah @margaretj.bsky.social · 20d

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 Diane Coyle, Richard S.J. Tol, Ken Caldeira, Steven French, Alistair Munro, Hilde Van den Bulck, Fabián Muniesa, Paul E. Smaldino, Benjamin Braun, Joni Lovenduski, Paolo Crosetto, Christopher Barrie, Paul Nightingale, Guillaume Allègre, Clark Gray

Lauren Leek @laurenleek.eu · 20d

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

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 20d

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 · 20d

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

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 20d

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.

Abbott says Turning Point USA will expand in Texas schools

Republican officials in Oklahoma and Florida have also launched plans to expand the presence of the conservative youth organization founded by Charlie Kirk.

www.texastribune.org

Reposted by Cas Mudde, David M. Farrell, Kai Arzheimer , and 2 more Cas Mudde, David M. Farrell, Kai Arzheimer, Joni Lovenduski, Niklas Bolin

Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 21d

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

Joni Lovenduski @jonilo.bsky.social · 24d

posting this because I like it . Wout Schram (Dutch, 1895–1987)
"A View of Amersfoort", 1925.
Oil on Canvas, 111 × 71 cm.
Private Collection.

Joni Lovenduski @jonilo.bsky.social · 24d

Magari!

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Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 24d

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.”

Joni Lovenduski @jonilo.bsky.social · Nov 29

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

Joni Lovenduski @jonilo.bsky.social · Nov 28

He is a cat. You should have known.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · Nov 27

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.

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

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 Jonathan Portes, David M. Farrell, Jonathan Wolff, Peter Holmes, Joni Lovenduski, Ian Butler, Pauline Stafford, Vaughan S. Roberts

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.