Eunice Goes
@eunicegoes.bsky.social
Political scientist at @RichmondUniLdn. Interested in parties and ideologies and quite a few other things. More of a fox than a hedgehog.
American Nobel Prize-winners have a lot to learn about ideologies. What Acemoglu is writing about is not so much liberalism but social democracy.
November 29, 2025 at 8:50 AM
American Nobel Prize-winners have a lot to learn about ideologies. What Acemoglu is writing about is not so much liberalism but social democracy.
Two days after the budget and very privileged journalists, paid by the public, are still rehearsing arguments about how lifting the two-child benefit cap is unfair on most families. These journalists should be ashamed of themselves as this is not scrutiny.
November 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Two days after the budget and very privileged journalists, paid by the public, are still rehearsing arguments about how lifting the two-child benefit cap is unfair on most families. These journalists should be ashamed of themselves as this is not scrutiny.
Very happy to finally get hold of this volume on the GE2024 for which I contributed a chapter on Labour’s electoral performance.
November 27, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Very happy to finally get hold of this volume on the GE2024 for which I contributed a chapter on Labour’s electoral performance.
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On the topic of the ‘mansion tax’ somebody with a £2m house will pay £2500 which is substantially less property tax in ABSOLUTE TERMS than I paid on a house assessed at $300k in Minneapolis a dozen years ago. I imagine they will live.
Dollars to donuts the complainants will be older people sitting on massive amounts of property wealth and not younger high income people facing massively increased childcare costs (salary sac) or higher student loan repayments.
November 27, 2025 at 8:33 AM
On the topic of the ‘mansion tax’ somebody with a £2m house will pay £2500 which is substantially less property tax in ABSOLUTE TERMS than I paid on a house assessed at $300k in Minneapolis a dozen years ago. I imagine they will live.
Signs that a rules-based order exists.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Jair Bolsonaro ordered to start 27-year prison term for plotting Brazil coup
Ex-president to start serving term in 12 sq metre bedroom in police base in Brasília after time for appeals elapses
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Signs that a rules-based order exists.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
You know a government is in trouble when it tries the old, tired, depressing “crack-down on welfare fraud”. If only Labour was that vigorous at cracking-down on corporate welfare and fraud, PFI and consultancy contracts
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Reeves to launch crackdown on benefit fraud alongside lifting two-child limit
Move aims to bring in extra £1.2bn of savings as government seeks to head off criticism over welfare spending
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:12 AM
You know a government is in trouble when it tries the old, tired, depressing “crack-down on welfare fraud”. If only Labour was that vigorous at cracking-down on corporate welfare and fraud, PFI and consultancy contracts
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
If this is true it becomes clear that Labour wants to destroy the HE sector and all the local economies that rely on it: higher visas for international students and now higher fees.
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
If this is true it becomes clear that Labour wants to destroy the HE sector and all the local economies that rely on it: higher visas for international students and now higher fees.
The political genius that is Morgan McSweeney is again preparing to take Labour supporters and members for granted. There is no way that he will convince Labour members that Mahmood is nothing other than a social authoritarian.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Morgan McSweeney is pinning all his hopes on Shabana Mahmood
Her immigration policy is an internal victory for McSweeney and his kind of politics
www.newstatesman.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The political genius that is Morgan McSweeney is again preparing to take Labour supporters and members for granted. There is no way that he will convince Labour members that Mahmood is nothing other than a social authoritarian.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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If these morally repugnant
Plans are true Labour will be no different from Reform and deserves to loose the next election.
Plans are true Labour will be no different from Reform and deserves to loose the next election.
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 7:41 AM
If these morally repugnant
Plans are true Labour will be no different from Reform and deserves to loose the next election.
Plans are true Labour will be no different from Reform and deserves to loose the next election.
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🌍 42.5m refugees
Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries.
🇬🇧 548k refugees
= 0.78% of the UK population.
It is not refugees who tear our country apart, it is the mainstreaming of far right policies. And that’s a risk to all of us.
My letter to my MP.
#asylum #Mahmood
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Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries.
🇬🇧 548k refugees
= 0.78% of the UK population.
It is not refugees who tear our country apart, it is the mainstreaming of far right policies. And that’s a risk to all of us.
My letter to my MP.
#asylum #Mahmood
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![Dear [my MP’s name],
As the Home Secretary prepares to announce sweeping changes to the UK’s asylum system, I see it as both my duty as a citizen and responsibility as a migration expert to do all I can to urge policymakers to oppose the proposals—not only for what they will do to refugees, though that is the first concern, but also for what they will mean for all of us and the future society we live in.
That is why I am writing to you as my MP. This letter explains why I consider the need to oppose the Home Secretary’s proposals urgent and, at the most fundamental level, in the national and your constituents’ interest.
I was born in Germany, a country whose history taught me how quickly societies can go down dark paths; how quickly our leaders can fail in the choices they make. But the history of the displacement of people that the Nazi regime was responsible for also shaped my understanding of why refugee movements occur—and why our response to any of them can never compromise what are, and must always be, universal human rights.
Which is why what is happening in the UK now is so deeply alarming.
A manufactured crisis
As of June 2025, there were 42.5 million refugees globally. Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries; most of them immediate neighbours. Overall, five countries—Colombia, Germany, Türkiye, Iran and Uganda—host a third of the total number of refugees; Germany is the main host in the EU, hosting 2.7 million.
The UK hosts 548,000 refugees; that is 0.78% of the UK population. About 110,000 people are in receipt of asylum support; that is 0.15% of the UK population.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bru4h6s37w4hfmwhetu7veye/bafkreidmewc5timbx7nh57qyq7lm7gmhvclzidmloqhwgckpnegnddoicq@jpeg)
November 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Shocking stuff. 👇🏼
As per usual, the allegedly non-ideological nature of the Starmer project means that it follows the most batshxx and fascist trends in vogue around the world.
As per usual, the allegedly non-ideological nature of the Starmer project means that it follows the most batshxx and fascist trends in vogue around the world.
Somebody is briefing the Times that the Home Secretary finds inspiration in Kristi Noem's leading the Trump mass deportation effort - which has gone much too far for Americans
What a kamikaze piece of political madness that is on the eve of their asylum package
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
What a kamikaze piece of political madness that is on the eve of their asylum package
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Shabana Mahmood threatens Trump-style visa ban on three countries
Angola, Namibia and the Democratic Republic of Congo will face Trump-style sanctions if they do not start taking back more illegal migrants and criminals
www.thetimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Shocking stuff. 👇🏼
As per usual, the allegedly non-ideological nature of the Starmer project means that it follows the most batshxx and fascist trends in vogue around the world.
As per usual, the allegedly non-ideological nature of the Starmer project means that it follows the most batshxx and fascist trends in vogue around the world.
ROSALÍA, Carminho - Memória (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by RosaliaVEVO
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November 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Madness! A new tax on electric vehicles so that the government showcases in technicolour its green washing agenda.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Rachel Reeves plans £7.5bn tax rise in budget after U-turn on income tax rates
Chancellor expected to freeze level at which people start paying income tax for two years rather than putting rates up
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Madness! A new tax on electric vehicles so that the government showcases in technicolour its green washing agenda.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
After almost two decades of Conservative politics which did not ‘add up’ (more debt and more poverty), conservative commentators shamelessly lecture us on progressive politics.
And today it's the turn of The Times to try and patronise us all.
Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks.
And every day we are growing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks.
And every day we are growing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
After almost two decades of Conservative politics which did not ‘add up’ (more debt and more poverty), conservative commentators shamelessly lecture us on progressive politics.
Evidence 3561 that Morgan McSweeney is not very good at politics. It’s utter madness to manufacture a leadership crisis at this time in the political cycle www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Starmer allies issue warning to PM’s rivals as fears grow over leadership challenge
No 10 said to be in ‘full bunker mode’ over fears of attempt to oust him after budget or May local elections
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Evidence 3561 that Morgan McSweeney is not very good at politics. It’s utter madness to manufacture a leadership crisis at this time in the political cycle www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
For a change it would be nice if train companies like Thameslink and EMR would be committed to transport passengers from place to place.
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
For a change it would be nice if train companies like Thameslink and EMR would be committed to transport passengers from place to place.
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The Heritage Foundation, the intellectual engine behind the 922-page blueprint that has become the key policy manual for Donald Trump’s second term, is partnering with a constellation of European nationalist far-right movements to export its playbook.
The Heritage Foundation goes from MAGA to MEGA — Make Europe Great Again
On the agenda: pro-natalism, freedom of expression, opposing trans rights and fighting Chinese influence.
www.politico.eu
November 10, 2025 at 7:57 AM
The Heritage Foundation, the intellectual engine behind the 922-page blueprint that has become the key policy manual for Donald Trump’s second term, is partnering with a constellation of European nationalist far-right movements to export its playbook.
Great piece by @colmpm.bsky.social and Patrick Diamond on Labour’s need to make a strong and cogent social democratic case for tax rises.
renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...
renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...
If Labour want a fairer society, they must argue for it
Labour must make the political argument: taxes are the critical downpayment we all pay to live in a fairer society.
It now seems all but certain that direct taxes will rise in the forthcoming Budget...
renewal.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Great piece by @colmpm.bsky.social and Patrick Diamond on Labour’s need to make a strong and cogent social democratic case for tax rises.
renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...
renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...
Really interesting reflection on the politics of Mamdani’s smile. the.ink/p/essay-zohr...
ESSAY: Zohran's smile
The meaning of a facial expression and the making of a new New York
the.ink
November 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Really interesting reflection on the politics of Mamdani’s smile. the.ink/p/essay-zohr...
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The Danish Social Democrats whose immigration policy the Labour Party wants to copy are the red line that starts at 35% in 2019 and ends at 21% in 2025
November 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The Danish Social Democrats whose immigration policy the Labour Party wants to copy are the red line that starts at 35% in 2019 and ends at 21% in 2025
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Aside from the crucial voting system difference, the Social Democrats over this period have haemorrhaged votes to progressive parties and are currently on course for their worst result in 110yrs, while the Green Left are set for their best ever.
The Danish People's Party are currently gaining.
The Danish People's Party are currently gaining.
what are the odds that the people in Downing Street briefing this out would also break out in hives at the mere mention of proportional representation?
November 8, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Aside from the crucial voting system difference, the Social Democrats over this period have haemorrhaged votes to progressive parties and are currently on course for their worst result in 110yrs, while the Green Left are set for their best ever.
The Danish People's Party are currently gaining.
The Danish People's Party are currently gaining.
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"I'm making billions, and, if it fails, taxpayers will bail me out"
November 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
"I'm making billions, and, if it fails, taxpayers will bail me out"
Interesting that the office of the Prime Minister of Lithuania proudly and prominently displays NATO flags (I’ve counted 3 flags in one floor), something rarely seen in other European countries
November 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Interesting that the office of the Prime Minister of Lithuania proudly and prominently displays NATO flags (I’ve counted 3 flags in one floor), something rarely seen in other European countries