Pat McGovern
@patmcgovern.bsky.social
Incurable sociologist @lsesociology.bsky.social - Work, migration, social inequality and a bit of conflict. Co-founder MSc International Migration and Public Policy @LSE. ⚽️
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November 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Forgive me if I'm wrong, I can't think of a single politician who campaigned hard for Brexit who has since come out and said that they think it was a mistake. Surely, in their heart of hearts, literally one or two of them must know that. So is it that they can't admit it to themselves or just to us?
November 14, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Forgive me if I'm wrong, I can't think of a single politician who campaigned hard for Brexit who has since come out and said that they think it was a mistake. Surely, in their heart of hearts, literally one or two of them must know that. So is it that they can't admit it to themselves or just to us?
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No BBC bias latest!
I cannot think of a more twisted way of reporting what's happening in brussels between EU & UK.
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I cannot think of a more twisted way of reporting what's happening in brussels between EU & UK.
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November 14, 2025 at 8:02 AM
No BBC bias latest!
I cannot think of a more twisted way of reporting what's happening in brussels between EU & UK.
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I cannot think of a more twisted way of reporting what's happening in brussels between EU & UK.
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Net migration IS coming down quite fast, and we will soon know who was right about whether it was a good or a bad idea economically and politically.
November 13, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Net migration IS coming down quite fast, and we will soon know who was right about whether it was a good or a bad idea economically and politically.
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St George's flags are creating 'no-go zones' for NHS staff, health bosses warn
A trust leader hails the "bravery" of black and Asian healthcare workers for continuing to treat patients in areas "designed to exclude them". news.sky.com/story/st-geo...
A trust leader hails the "bravery" of black and Asian healthcare workers for continuing to treat patients in areas "designed to exclude them". news.sky.com/story/st-geo...
St George's flags are creating 'no-go zones' for NHS staff, health bosses warn
A trust leader hails the "bravery" of black and Asian healthcare workers for continuing to treat patients in areas "designed to exclude them".
news.sky.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
St George's flags are creating 'no-go zones' for NHS staff, health bosses warn
A trust leader hails the "bravery" of black and Asian healthcare workers for continuing to treat patients in areas "designed to exclude them". news.sky.com/story/st-geo...
A trust leader hails the "bravery" of black and Asian healthcare workers for continuing to treat patients in areas "designed to exclude them". news.sky.com/story/st-geo...
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#UK folks, support a #London institution! Make your way to New Beacon Books, 76 Stroud Green Road to get a copy of my book, #Reckoning. Let’s create change!
@brisunipress.bsky.social @policypress.bsky.social
@brisunipress.bsky.social @policypress.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
#UK folks, support a #London institution! Make your way to New Beacon Books, 76 Stroud Green Road to get a copy of my book, #Reckoning. Let’s create change!
@brisunipress.bsky.social @policypress.bsky.social
@brisunipress.bsky.social @policypress.bsky.social
This is indeed a big moment for workers rights across Europe. www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
ECJ upholds legality of EU's minimum wage directive
The European Court of Justice has upheld the legality of the EU's minimum wage directive following a legal challenge by Denmark to have the directive in its entirety annulled.
www.rte.ie
November 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
This is indeed a big moment for workers rights across Europe. www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
Life in London #321
November 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Life in London #321
👏 police and also the families. But will the police be able to cope with the riots this weekend? 🤔
www.kent.police.uk/news/kent/la...
www.kent.police.uk/news/kent/la...
Eight child sex offenders jailed for 100 years
Multiple child sex offenders have been jailed for a combined total of 100 years.
www.kent.police.uk
November 8, 2025 at 6:14 PM
👏 police and also the families. But will the police be able to cope with the riots this weekend? 🤔
www.kent.police.uk/news/kent/la...
www.kent.police.uk/news/kent/la...
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This is from good 5 years ago. I would still recommend all five books, even if even more rxcellent books on the far right have been published since.
The Far Right
The best books on the far right, as recommended by political scientist Cas Mudde, Stanley Wade Shelton UGAF Professor of International Affairs.
fivebooks.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
This is from good 5 years ago. I would still recommend all five books, even if even more rxcellent books on the far right have been published since.
Great win for the students today to go top of the league.
November 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Great win for the students today to go top of the league.
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Excited to have this paper on social networks as a mechanism for cleavage stabilization with @dpzollinger.bsky.social out!
If we have you intrigued, also pairs with (and empirically engages) our theoretical piece on puzzles of contemporary cleavage research:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
If we have you intrigued, also pairs with (and empirically engages) our theoretical piece on puzzles of contemporary cleavage research:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
How are contemporary cleavage structures stabilized in times of declining mass social and political organizations?
In this new paper with @davidattewell6.bsky.social @bjpols.bsky.social, we suggest that homogeneous social (educational) networks provide part of the answer.
tinyurl.com/49cs8jwp
In this new paper with @davidattewell6.bsky.social @bjpols.bsky.social, we suggest that homogeneous social (educational) networks provide part of the answer.
tinyurl.com/49cs8jwp
Educational Networks, Social Closure, and Cleavage Stabilization | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
Educational Networks, Social Closure, and Cleavage Stabilization - Volume 55
tinyurl.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Excited to have this paper on social networks as a mechanism for cleavage stabilization with @dpzollinger.bsky.social out!
If we have you intrigued, also pairs with (and empirically engages) our theoretical piece on puzzles of contemporary cleavage research:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
If we have you intrigued, also pairs with (and empirically engages) our theoretical piece on puzzles of contemporary cleavage research:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Ethnonationalism just keeps on accidentally happening in British politics these days…
Nigel Farage's favoured Mayoral candidate for Doncaster said black people cannot be English.
Reform councillor Alexander Jones claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon ‘lineage’.
The messages were deleted after questions were raised by Byline Times
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
Reform councillor Alexander Jones claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon ‘lineage’.
The messages were deleted after questions were raised by Byline Times
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
Nigel Farage's Chosen Reform Mayoral Candidate Suggested Black Britons Can’t Be English
The party's candidate for Mayor of Doncaster claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon 'lineage' and attacked 'third world cultures' in now-deleted posts
bylinetimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Ethnonationalism just keeps on accidentally happening in British politics these days…
@andrewpgeddes.bsky.social writing to the Times(?). Desperate times call for …
A letter from @andrewpgeddes.bsky.social on the Times to criticise simplistic framing of politicians as "pro" or "anti" migration.
November 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
@andrewpgeddes.bsky.social writing to the Times(?). Desperate times call for …
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By my reading, it's hard to remember a more scandalous example of a social media company being negligent in their responsibility to users. It's so so bad, and deeper investigation and regulatory action must surely follow.
This piece suggests Meta is dragging its heels on reducing the (very large) number of scam ads on its services because they're concerned it will materially hurt revenue (the article estimates they make as much as $16bn a year from scam ads)
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
By my reading, it's hard to remember a more scandalous example of a social media company being negligent in their responsibility to users. It's so so bad, and deeper investigation and regulatory action must surely follow.
Says it with research, which is refreshing these days.
🚨🚨This is stellar investigative journalism by @kaitlintosh.bsky.social and @michelleinezsimon.bsky.social on how #elonmusk is boosting the #british right. 🧵 news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Says it with research, which is refreshing these days.
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Interesting lecture by @anandmenon.bsky.social.
How politics have shaped the narrative over the last 10-20 years.
He talks about people wanting change, but doesn't go into what change they want - maybe citizens don't know.
If we need a sense of direction what's it to be ? Ending child poverty ?
How politics have shaped the narrative over the last 10-20 years.
He talks about people wanting change, but doesn't go into what change they want - maybe citizens don't know.
If we need a sense of direction what's it to be ? Ending child poverty ?
I did a lecture on the impact of Brexit on British politics. Watch it here if you're really bored www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztqL...
Reflections on the Brexit Revolution: 2025-26 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture
YouTube video by Cambridge Law Faculty
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Interesting lecture by @anandmenon.bsky.social.
How politics have shaped the narrative over the last 10-20 years.
He talks about people wanting change, but doesn't go into what change they want - maybe citizens don't know.
If we need a sense of direction what's it to be ? Ending child poverty ?
How politics have shaped the narrative over the last 10-20 years.
He talks about people wanting change, but doesn't go into what change they want - maybe citizens don't know.
If we need a sense of direction what's it to be ? Ending child poverty ?
Today we’re celebrating the actions of a brave man who happens to be from an ethno-religious minority. Maybe that’s the way we should view it rather than imposing fixed positive or negative attributes. Or is that not a definition of #racism?🤞 for #SamirZoutani
November 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Today we’re celebrating the actions of a brave man who happens to be from an ethno-religious minority. Maybe that’s the way we should view it rather than imposing fixed positive or negative attributes. Or is that not a definition of #racism?🤞 for #SamirZoutani
Seems like evidence for the neo-liberal university label - when the market triumphs over principle (academic freedom) - except that we are opposed. The reactions will be revealing
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show www.bbc.com/news/article...
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show www.bbc.com/news/article...
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
www.bbc.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Seems like evidence for the neo-liberal university label - when the market triumphs over principle (academic freedom) - except that we are opposed. The reactions will be revealing
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show www.bbc.com/news/article...
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show www.bbc.com/news/article...
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How on earth can Rachel Reeves balance the books? Well, maybe there is a bit of room for taxes to go up, given the vast majority of OECD countries have higher - and in some cases much much higher - taxes on average incomes www.oecd.org/content/dam/...
November 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
How on earth can Rachel Reeves balance the books? Well, maybe there is a bit of room for taxes to go up, given the vast majority of OECD countries have higher - and in some cases much much higher - taxes on average incomes www.oecd.org/content/dam/...
I do like precise concepts😎
Centrism is the belief that society achieved perfection around the same time as you became a homeowner
November 3, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I do like precise concepts😎
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Our Director, @surveyprof.bsky.social, was a guest on the latest episode of the Kohli Foundation for Sociology podcast.
The episode covers the origins of our survey, the methodology employed, and some of the results from collecting data in over 30 countries for more than 20 years.
The episode covers the origins of our survey, the methodology employed, and some of the results from collecting data in over 30 countries for more than 20 years.
For Sociology: Rory Fitzgerald
Listen to For Sociology: Rory Fitzgerald from For Sociology wherever you get your podcasts!
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November 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Our Director, @surveyprof.bsky.social, was a guest on the latest episode of the Kohli Foundation for Sociology podcast.
The episode covers the origins of our survey, the methodology employed, and some of the results from collecting data in over 30 countries for more than 20 years.
The episode covers the origins of our survey, the methodology employed, and some of the results from collecting data in over 30 countries for more than 20 years.
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Lewis is absolutely right here
November 2, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Lewis is absolutely right here
⚽️ Law of TV football punditry: ‘it’s not a red’ - back the player against dismissal and the ref wherever reasonably possible.
November 2, 2025 at 10:38 AM
⚽️ Law of TV football punditry: ‘it’s not a red’ - back the player against dismissal and the ref wherever reasonably possible.