Jonathan Hopkin

@jonathanhopkin.bsky.social

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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

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 9h

A younger creepier version of Starmer

Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 9h

Lord Finkelstein has a mandate for what exactly

Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 9h

Lots of bars and restaurants running with fewer staff as far as I can see

Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 18h

Maybe that’s their idea of the kingdom of God

Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d

It does capture what has happened to the city. The football is better but the connection has gone

Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d

Yes there are mechanisms of exclusion, and not everyone shares in the prosperity by any stretch but was London better for the working class in the 1980s? Mass unemployment and slum housing anyone? Maybe if you like racist gangs, shit food and drunken fighting

Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d

I first set foot in London more or less exactly 40 years ago and the idea that somehow it’s got worse since then is a bit like saying that the old First Division was better than the Premier League

Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 1d

Also because we all speak English so they dont have to learn another language (though maybe we all need to learn muslim 🤪) as.ft.com/r/d3004b61-5... Why Maga loathes London

Why Maga loathes London

[FREE TO READ] Trump and his supporters see the UK capital as the symbol of a Europe facing ‘civilisational erasure’

as.ft.com

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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 1d

Also because we all speak English so they dont have to learn another language (though maybe we all need to learn muslim 🤪) as.ft.com/r/d3004b61-5... Why Maga loathes London

Why Maga loathes London

[FREE TO READ] Trump and his supporters see the UK capital as the symbol of a Europe facing ‘civilisational erasure’

as.ft.com

Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d

You can kind of see a logic to this mass deportations plus AI thinking, until you realise that AI can't do the things most of the deportees are doing

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Peter Navarro: "The jobs report comes out tomorrow. We have to revise our expectations down significantly for what a monthly job number should look like ... Wall Street has to adjust for the fact that we're deporting millions of illegals out of the job market."

Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d

There's point at which AI does everything and we can just all go and lie in a field as society grinds to a halt

Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d

From Rustow, 'Transitions to Democracy', 1970

Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d

This is cute

Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah maybe projection, as very often is the case

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d

The West's boomer problem in a nutshell: Former Socialist legend Felipe Gonzalez would rather ally with fascists than the radical Basque left. Many such cases

EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 1d

📹 Felipe González: "Yo no pactaría con Vox [...]. Pero no pactaría ni de broma, ni de broma con la gente que ni siquiera ha pedido perdón ni ayuda a resolver algunos de los crímenes de ETA más abyectos" social.elpais.com/igr…

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EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 1d

Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d

I doubt if it has had any impact on the broader field in either teaching or research. A sign of how the institutions which wrecked the global economy survived pretty much unscathed and created the conditions for authoritarianism

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d

Camps

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April

Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.

www.ajc.com

Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d

I think the sense of impotence about what politics can achieve is also relevant here. Why opt for irrational politics if a rational politics can actually deal with the things that irk you?

Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d

The more successful this politics is the more it feeds off its own negative consequences. You would think the obvious failure of Brexit would have led to some kind of correction towards more rational policy thinking, but this is not how this kind of politics works

Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d

It’s classic Politics of Resentment. If you can’t improve your voters’ lives you can at least make people they don’t like worse off. civic.mit.edu/index.html%3...

Kathy Cramer on The Politics of Resentment: What I Learned from Listening – MIT Center for Civic Media

civic.mit.edu

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d

This is all designed to appeal to people who either don’t work or don’t have the opportunity to work from home. Perhaps they will achieve their dream of reducing the UK economy to its least productive elements

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Nigel Farage calls for an end to working from home and the focus on work-life balance

"People aren't more productive working from home - it's a load of nonsense”

Whatever you do JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM!

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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 1d

The big picture for the 13 million working-age households across the poorest half of the country we call ‘Unsung Britain’ is a stark income slowdown. Pre-2005, real disposable incomes doubled every 40 years. But since 2005, that level of living standards progress would take 130 years to achieve.

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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 1d

🚨 Major NEW research published today 🚨

Our book Unsung Britain reveals that squeezed families now face waiting more than a lifetime for the doubling of living standards we used to enjoy every 40 years.

Full findings here 👉 buff.ly/7WcqrbQ

Ruth Curtice, Chief Executive of the Resolution Foundation, said:
“The 13 million working-age families across the poorest half of the country are widely courted by politicians. But despite working harder they have seen their disposable incomes stagnate, as they grapple with shrinking pay rises, higher costs and a growing struggle with their health and care needs.
“The stalling of disposable incomes means that many families’ hopes of home ownership have evaporated and work is not a guaranteed a route out of poverty.
“If politicians want to regain the trust of the families of Unsung Britain, they need to get the economy growing again so that pay rises pick up, while also putting their specific needs at the heart of efforts to turn the country around. If they fail to do so, the economic malaise facing Unsung Britain risks fuelling further political disruption.”

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 1d

And if he’s interested in my views on an immigration policy that I believe could command public support here’s my take:

benansell.substack.com/p/select-and...

Select and Respect

How to create a UK immigration policy that can command public support

benansell.substack.com

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 1d

If Starmer wants a reset - and not yet another U-turn when the parliamentary party balks at a policy - here is his chance.

Benjamin Welby @bm.wel.by · 1d

300,000 children face 10-year wait for settled status under UK plans, says IPPR

The consultation closes on Thursday. What is being proposed is dreadful. Can I encourage you to engage with the consultation and put your dissent on record?

Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d

Not usually a fan of Streeting, but I could certainly get behind this www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d

Always had a soft spot for Ed

Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d

Also, that picture! Depressing to think this is what Labour has to offer these days

Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I can’t think of any policy stance he has ever taken, apart from hanging out with private healthcare companies

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