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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

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 4h
Fascinating

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 22h
Isn’t this just the suppression of a tax dodge? As I understood it most farms are overvalued in relation to their earnings so their value will tend to fall below the threshold forcing taxdodgers to get out of farming

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 1d
Why should I, someone who doesn’t own a family farm nor stand to inherit one, particularly care whether a farm is farmed by a family?

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 1d
One thing 2025 made clear: Durable progress on climate in the US will require structural reform to our corrupted political systems. Otherwise, steps forward will always be vulnerable to the bloody clawbacks we saw this year. A political strategy that doesn't center system reform is not "pragmatic."

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d
More recently www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...
Fair Enough?
Cambridge Core - Political Economy - Fair Enough?
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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 1d
It’s part of the ‘someone else will pay’ story which politicians of all shades have been promising voters since (at least) 2008.

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Come the glorious day, someone else will pay
Last week, the FT ran a series of articles on public spending cuts. Its summary: Half way through 9 years of planned austerity, the FT has uncovered that more than half of government cuts are still…
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 1d
‘Voters for the historic duopoly mostly cite the lack of a better alternative that can plausibly win. If that sense changes, the floor will vanish beneath Labour’s feet.’

@piercepenniless.bsky.social on Britain’s political futures:
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James Butler · Short Cuts: Labour’s Complacency
The few optimists in Labour claim that polling numbers aren’t meaningful this far from an election: faced with a...
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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d
Oh lol
mrsbettybowers.bsky.social Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d
This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d
1895

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d
Heartbreaking
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An Afrikaner, excited by the President Trump’s public embrace of white South Africans, traveled to the U.S. expecting a warm welcome. Instead, he has spent months locked up in Georgia alongside hundreds of other immigrants.
Trump Invited White South Africans to America. One Ended Up in Detention.
An Afrikaner flew to the United States expecting protection. Instead, he has spent months locked up in Georgia alongside hundreds of other immigrants.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d
An Afrikaner, excited by the President Trump’s public embrace of white South Africans, traveled to the U.S. expecting a warm welcome. Instead, he has spent months locked up in Georgia alongside hundreds of other immigrants.
Trump Invited White South Africans to America. One Ended Up in Detention.
An Afrikaner flew to the United States expecting protection. Instead, he has spent months locked up in Georgia alongside hundreds of other immigrants.
nyti.ms

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d
This just scratches the surface but not a bad start

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d
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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d
Fighting Poverty in the US and Europe: A World of Difference share.google/FGVqw2hXhBbY...
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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d
Also this The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism share.google/4H6eg3h56WDE...
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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d
Try this for starters! scholar.google.com/scholar?star...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d
This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d
Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti

Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta

Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Stephen Miller • @St... • 13m Ø Watched the Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Family Christmas with my kids. Imagine watching that and thinking America needed infinity migrants from the third world.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 2d
Interesting post on why manufacturing mania is misguided, but an idea that never really dies if you don’t believe too much in markets. Some lessons for Blue Labour here open.substack.com/pub/rbaldwin...
Is China misthinking manufacturing?
China’s problem isn’t just overproduction in manufacturing, it’s also underproduction of advanced services.
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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 2d
I thought Brexit was bad

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 2d
I take no pleasure in knowing that for some it has been even worse bsky.app/profile/barr...

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 2d
I feel the same way. I also have the strong impression that this year has been horrible for many people way beyond how satisfying it might have been for those who, mostly frivolously, wanted things to be this way. Suboptimal
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Normally, I would keep this private. But I make an exception.

2025 was the worst year of my personal and public lives.

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 2d
Normally, I would keep this private. But I make an exception.

2025 was the worst year of my personal and public lives.

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IndivisibleMontgomery @indivisiblemontmd.bsky.social · 2d
In thinking about what you can do this year, keep this in mind: showing up at protests has real impact - -
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very
From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history
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Barry Petchesky @barryp.bsky.social · 3d
Merry Christmas to all. defector.com/what-did-we-...
What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums Last Year? | Defector
This is the time of year to be grateful for not having things stuck in our asses, and to think of those less fortunate than us. So spare a thought for those Americans who misjudged the capacity of the...
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 3d
can't they even give this woke nonsense a rest at Christmas? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Pope Leo calls for kindness to strangers and the poor in Christmas message
Refusing to help those in need is tantamount to rejecting God himself, says pontiff during Christmas Eve mass
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Janh1 @janh1.bsky.social · 3d
A huge heartfelt "thank you" to all the #NHS and emergency services staff who will miss their family celebrations this Christmas as they are working - many of them ready to look after any of us in need. ❤️

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Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 3d
I think I need to say that I — a Princeton Univ. Press author that also co-wrote a Covid-19 book on how politics failed us— didn’t review this manuscript. Anyway, if you want to know why over a million people died in a tragedy of choice, see Pandemic Politics: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 4d
Who needs research when you’ve got google

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 4d
What’s insane about France? Have you ever actually been there?