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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 · 7h

Truth is nobody has ever twisted reality around a political agenda as much as these people

Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 7h

Objective facts about literature

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@bobhudson.bsky.social @bobhudson.bsky.social · 7h

Wondering what a Reform government might do with our universities? Here’s Lee Anderson to enlighten you…😳

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 14h

What a sick society

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Reposted by Steve Peers, Jonathan Hopkin, Paul Nightingale

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 14h

New post just out:

The relationship between Russia and the European radical right goes well beyond Reform's Nathan Gill being bribed.

In this post I trace the history back to the 1990s and look at the threat it poses now.

(£/free trial)

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Russia and the rise of the radical right

Marine Le Pen meets with Putin before the 2017 French Presidential election (Photo credit Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 14h

Wtf

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 20h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 14h

I wonder what the reactions would have been if Biden had pulled the plug on Netanyahu

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 14h

Under some circumstances (especially when Labour is cheap) you can increase your turnover and profits while your productivity is falling. flipchartfairytales.wordpress.com/2017/04/24/p...

Productivity: Why worry?

My post on productivity earlier this month prompted a few questions about the relationship between profit and productivity, and specifically, how a company can increase its profits while productivi…

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 20h

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d

Why bother with data when you’ve got reels

Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d

I think I would have noticed

Reposted by Joshua Goodman, Jonathan Hopkin, Laurent Pech , and 2 more Joshua Goodman, Jonathan Hopkin, Laurent Pech, Jacob T. Levy, Samantha Brennan

Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 1d

It's clearer by the day that Columbia making a deal with Trump in July was a catastrophe for higher education as a whole. It gave terrible people a bottomless appetite for extortion. The other eight universities must follow MIT's lead.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 1d

something quite brain-melting about the hard right's position apparently now being "we hate all Muslims and distrust Muslim states, aside from that one Muslim place that still has slavery because that sounds fun"

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 2d

Shock report: British establishment not ignorant and racist

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Rune Møller Stahl @runestahl.bsky.social · 2d

"they make a desert and call it peace"

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 3d

The Antifa Roundtable was a well known daily lunch meeting of the greatest wits of its time

Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 3d

It’s almost like markets misallocated resources, but surely that isn’t possible

Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 3d

Just call them burghers

Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 3d

I clearly remember going out with a fiver in my pocket

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 3d

Your work here is done

Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 3d

Glad I don’t work in A & E

Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 3d

What an image

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 8d

wizard frog is insane

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 3d

The current Republican Party will follow Donald Trump absolutely anywhere he decides to take it, including public ownership of the means of production.

Republican socialism: The Trump administration buys a stake in yet another company

Trilogy Metals will receive a $35.6 million "investment," and the federal government will now own a 10 percent stake in the company.

reason.com

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 3d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 4d

Ha right out of The Thick of It

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

Good lord.

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 4d

This is so artfully done. No wonder they want to cancel him

Jimmy Kimmel Live @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social · 4d

Did Trump write the infamous Epstein birthday letter? You decide.

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Reposted by Ben H. Ansell, Scott L. Greer, Jonathan Hopkin , and 4 more Ben H. Ansell, Scott L. Greer, Jonathan Hopkin, David R. Miller, Bessma Momani, James Goodwin, David Darmofal

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

Good lord.

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.bsky.social · 4d

Remember when dense networks of strategic cross-shareholdings among firms, native to coordinated market economies, went the way of the dodo?

The Rhenish model, Germany, Inc. undone by Anglo institutional investors?

Well, the dodo is back. Say hello to USA, Inc.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 4d

I have 250 on my iPad for absolutely no reason at all

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Reposted by Kimberly A. Prather, Patrick A. Jansen, Jonathan Hopkin

Jimmy Kimmel Live @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social · 4d

Did Trump write the infamous Epstein birthday letter? You decide.

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