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Emeritus Professor of Politics & Public Policy, London School of Economics & Political Science. Interests - digital era governance, democratic audit & renewal, theories of the state, elections & party competition. And in open social science, universities. .. more

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Patrick John Dunleavy, is Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Public Policy within the Government Department of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He was also Co-Director of the Democratic Audit and the Chair of the LSE Public Policy Group. In addition Dunleavy is an ANZSOG Institute for Governance Centenary Chair at the University of Canberra, Australia. .. more

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 15h

Many thanks from all our authors to the 12,000 readers who have downloaded our book “Australia’s Evolving Democracy” or any chapter this year so far. We are hugely grateful! It’s open access, always. press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3...

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 10h

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America. newrepublic.com/post/201625/...

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 10h

A study in @nature.com shows the world’s biggest oil & gas companies contribute less than 1.5% to renewable energy capacity — despite claiming for years to be leading the energy transition.
www.exxonknews.org/p/study-oil- www.exxonknews.org/p/study-oil-...

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NPR @npr.org · 10h

On Capitol Hill, there has been almost no sign of progress toward ending the shutdown. Senators say they aren't even formally negotiating, which begs the question: what are they actually doing?

'Make it stop.' For lawmakers, the shutdown feels like purgatory (but with Thai food)

On Capitol Hill, there has been almost no sign of progress toward ending the shutdown. Senators say they aren't even formally negotiating, which begs the question: what are they actually doing?

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Andy Wood @andyatnanyuki.bsky.social · 11h

No wonder Trump now wants to appoint Blair to a role in Gaza.

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 11h

Washington Post reports on mad-as-a-hatter far rightist Peter Thiel:
“Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg & critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.”

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 11h

In places throughout the world and in moments of great social duress, such as in Poland during the Solidarity movement and El Salvador during St. Oscar Romero’s episcopate, “people’s Masses” have been organized by grassroots Catholic communities.

Amid Chicago ICE raids, a people’s Mass is an example of ‘political holiness’

Several hundred Catholics and people of faith gathered on Sept. 13 to celebrate a people’s Mass, or Misa popular, outside the gates of the Great Lakes Naval Station in the city of North Chicago.

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Nolan Principles Matter. End the #GazaGenocide💔💙 @philildo.bsky.social · 12h

I don’t imagine any UK press will be covering the massive march protesting the #GazaGenocide in London

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12h

Make your plans for #NoKings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in. You'll see me at one of the events.
www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

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mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 14h

Has the concept of Limited Liability had its day. Far too easy for dodgy business owners to go into liquidation and give everyone the 🖕.
Time for a rethink, particularly when HMRC are often the biggest losers.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

CARTOON OF THE DAY

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 14h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 14h

So police used a paedophile to spy on green activists. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Man convicted of 38 paedophile offences revealed as police informer who spied on UK activists

Trial of Nick Gratwick, 68, who schemed to rape children as young as six, exposes previous role among green protesters

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 15h

Most people seem to have missed who retweeted this picture of Farage in Gill’s office a few days after Gill began receiving his first bribes from Oleh Voloshyn (Oleg Voloshin). None other than…

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

Page One in Boston.

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TwitRuss @twitruss.bsky.social · 15h

They did create a trail of destruction

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 15h

Revealed: thousands of rogue bosses have failed to pay tribunal awards
The government scheme ‘enforcing’ money owed to workers has been unsuccessful in a staggering three-quarters of cases www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

Thousands of rogue bosses get away with not paying tribunal awards

The government scheme ‘enforcing’ money owed to workers has been unsuccessful in a staggering three-quarters of cases

www.thebureauinvestigates.com

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 15h

“‘It's going to be really bad': Fears over AI bubble bursting grow in Silicon Valley” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley

Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.

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