Jon Dean

@jondeanstuff.bsky.social

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Associate Professor in Politics and Sociology, Sheffield Hallam University. Charity researcher.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 11h

Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.

Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph

Because this does NOT add up!

No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…

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

I don't think it's all of it by any measure but I do absolutely believe that the political media's raging anti-intellectual streak has got worse with time and has ended up influencing the way MPs talk, and what they choose to talk/think about

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think this is a “politicians have got dumber” issue for the most part. If you look at the *actual CVs* of previous cohorts of MPs, their background is not radically different when you account for, you know, the fact the economy is different! It is primarily a media and ecosystem issue.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

We have got to make politics intellectual again. It is the only way that societies thrive is when politicians have the capability to actually think and reflect deeply:

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 2d

My view: the SRA should act immediately and close down Milne's firm and suspend him from practice.

Normal procedures are not appropriate when, as each day goes by, more threatening letters are sent by Milne to innocent homeowners.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 2d

A solicitor, Andrew Milne has been bullying leaseholders across Sheffield into paying him extraordinary sums, with no legal basis.

Why hasn't the SRA stopped him? Because he's conducted an extraordinary campaign against the SRA. 180 complaints. Two judicial reviews.

More here: buff.ly/LmLVegM

SRA urged to take action as we reveal solicitor has ‘purposely frustrated’ investigation

Solicitor Andrew Jonathan Milne delayed an official investigation into his alleged professional misconduct by overwhelming the regulator with complaints and threatening them with two injunctions se…

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Reposted by Jonathan Portes, Patrick Walsh, David D. Buck , and 1 more Jonathan Portes, Patrick Walsh, David D. Buck, Jon Dean

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d

Most of the public think net migration increased last year, when in fact numbers halved.

New findings from the Ipsos/British Future Immigration Attitudes Tracker show that 56% of the public thinks immigration increased last year. Just 1 in 6 realise it was down
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Jon Dean @jondeanstuff.bsky.social · 4d

Mabel is a glorious researcher and colleague, and you should all buy her book, or order it for your libraries: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/politics-and...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d

Does the BBC think it's improper for a speaker to state their opinion that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history?

Because I think almost all historians would readily agree that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 4d

BBC censors a lecture removing author’s remarks on Trump that refer to him a the most openly corrupt American president.

Reposted by Jonathan Portes, Jon Dean, Christina Pagel

Julianna 💎 @batariangal.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t like subtweeting people I consider online friends, but there is a subset of people who are very worried about the ongoing radicalisation of our political elite but won’t ever acknowledge the echoes with the radicalisation of their colleagues on trans rights

Julianna 💎 @batariangal.bsky.social · 4d

And few who are sympathetic to us, some who are friendly with me on here, will ever stick their head above the parapet

Reposted by Jonathan Portes, Cas Mudde, Ben H. Ansell , and 73 more Jonathan Portes, Cas Mudde, Ben H. Ansell, Richard S.J. Tol, Dorothy Bishop, David M. Farrell, Will Jennings, Stefan Rahmstorf, David N. Thomas, Gavin A. Schmidt, Patrick A. Jansen, John Horgan, Steve Peers, Andrew Scott, Colin Murray, Mark D. White, Huw Price, Rosemary A. Joyce, Elizabeth Stokoe, Dirk Pilat, Charles West, Martijn W. Hesselink, Chris Hanretty, Simon Wren‐Lewis, Alison Phipps, Greg Woolf, Mary Corcoran, Anand Menon, Michelle Everson, Jo Barraket, Rebecca Tushnet, Ben Worthy, David R. Miller, Robert Wolfe, Gary D. Rawnsley, Aileen McHarg, Jacob T. Levy, Simon Glendinning, Scott A. Imberman, Julie Cupples, Lyndsey Stonebridge, Stephen Ryan, Samantha Brennan, Jonathan Birch, Anne Norton, Hubert Zimmermann, Leo McCann, Timothy Burke, Manuel Puppis, Graeme Warren, David Bartram, Lisa Diedrich, Brian Doucet, Ann Bartow, Stuart White, Pauline Stafford, Clayton Littlejohn, Rense Corten, Greg Linden, Jack Stilgoe, Lukas Graf, Jon Dean, Klaus Oschema, Christina Pagel, Daxton R. Stewart, Rune Møller Stahl, Olivier Mannoni, Camille Lefebvre, Aviel Roshwald, Colin Talbot, Tarik Abou‐Chadi, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Jeroen Van Bouwel, David Spurrett, François Guesnet, Speranţa Dumitru

Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 4d

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 5d

This Labour government’s talent for punishing its own natural supporters without gaining any new ones is something I don’t think I’ve ever seen in politics. What on earth are they smoking

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 6d

There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.

Even the term “progressive” makes Lord Glasman shudder. His mother died of progressive supranuclear palsy. “Every word of that condition is terrible. She lost all her bodily functions, yet her brain remained intact, leaving her a mute witness to her own demise. It took six years to kill her, and to cure me of any fantasy that ‘progressive’ is desirable.”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 7d

okay so here’s the actual bad part of the article

“oh it never affected my coverage” horse and also shit

and what the fuck is Lizza doing sitting on this while RFK takes a buzz saw to American health so he can sell substack subscriptions

ghouls, the lot of them

I have never been able to convey her near-total obsession with Bobby properly. What I can say with authority is that it seeped into every corner of her life, affected every relationship she had, and drove every decision she made in late 2023 and all of 2024, including her catch-and-kill operations on his behalf, the campaign strategy memos she wrote him, and the other journalistic transgressions that have still not been disclosed.

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sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 7d

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?

We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

Jon Dean @jondeanstuff.bsky.social · 9d

Killing Thatcher - like Say Nothing, but better, more gripping, more intense.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11d

Sometimes you just have to murder and dismember a critical journalist. Things happen!

Reposted by Tom Shakespeare, James Harrison, James Connelly , and 1 more Tom Shakespeare, James Harrison, James Connelly, Jon Dean

John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 14d

"Thank Heavens Reeves froze the thresholds," says the median voter in 2029 as they walk past the derelict sports centre and down the empty high street to cast their vote.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14d

English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books

Survey finds 60% of key cities councils are planning to sell assets to meet costs of adult and children’s social care English councils are planning to sell social clubs, sports centres and shopping arcades as they bet on a fire sale of assets to balance the books, according to a survey of local authorities. The key cities group of councils, which represents second-tier cities in England, said 60% of councils were planning to sell assets to meet the escalating costs of adult and children’s social care. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14d

English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books

www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Michael E. Mann, Cas Mudde, Will Jennings , and 5 more Michael E. Mann, Cas Mudde, Will Jennings, Alan Richardson, David R. Miller, Michael D. McDonald, Jon Dean, Maksym Polyakov

Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 15d

what the actual fuck

A headline from the New York Times:
Olivia Nuzzi Did It All For Love

The article lede:

By Jacob Bernstein
Reporting from Los Angeles
Nov. 14, 2025 Updated 12:07 p.m. ET
Olivia Nuzzi loved him. She loved the politician, even though she was a political reporter and he was then a presidential candidate she had written about. She loved his eyes, "blue as the flame." She loved that "the sight of something as trivial as a rose" could move him to tears. She loved his insatiable appetites and his
"particular complications and particular darkness."
But she said "I love you" only after he said it first. He called her "Livvy" and wrote her poems. He said he wanted her to have his baby.
He promised to take a bullet for her.

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Migrant Voice @migrantvoice.bsky.social · 15d

A key point about "volunteering" is that it should be "voluntary". By forcing migrants to volunteer this government not only treats us as if we are a free resource, but also ignores everything else we go through. This policy is dehumanising and exploitative.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

UK charities condemn ‘immoral’ plans to force asylum seekers to volunteer

Making volunteering compulsory for refugees slammed as exploitative, bureaucratic and un-British

www.theguardian.com

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UCU Hallam @ucuhallam.bsky.social · 15d

JOINT RALLY ANNOUNCEMENT:
Join us on Monday 17th November, 12:30PM @ Bakers Pool, Sheffield. For a joint rally with Uni of Sheffield. There will be speakers from both branches and we will hear from Dave Pike, TUC Regional Secretary, NE Yorkshire and Humber.

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 15d

⏰ CLOSING TOMORROW: Call for participation for a workshop on social reproduction

Apply by 15 Nov to take part in Methodologies and Epistemologies of Social Reproduction, a 2026 #workshop for scholars, practitioners and activists using traditional & non-traditional methods.

➡️ Info: buff.ly/ZFAUEkF

Call for Participation: Methodologies and Epistemologies of Social Reproduction Workshop The Sociological Review Foundation Seminar Series

Call for participation in a seminar funded by The Sociological Review Foundation exploring methods, ethics and innovative approaches to social reproduction research.

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Iain Simpson @iainsimpson.bsky.social · 15d

But think of the positives. You get all the popularity that comes with announcing an income tax rise, all the credibility that comes with a screeching U-turn, and all the revenue that comes with tinkering with the cycle to work scheme, all rolled into one.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 17d

One day the US will have to face the shame and horror of what has happened here: that a cabal of wealthy people have elevated a monster into the most powerful person in the world www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct

www.nytimes.com

Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 17d

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.

It's *scientific publishing*.

We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...

Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 17d

It is the second time this year members of the University and College Union (UCU) at Sheffield Hallam have taken action....

Bob Jeffery... [UCU Sheffield Hallam], said: "Massive cuts have been pushed through, so we've lost about 1,000 staff in the last two years."'

Fresh strike action begins at Sheffield Hallam University

Union members at Sheffield Hallam Uni strike in a dispute over job losses, workload and welfare.

www.bbc.co.uk

Jon Dean @jondeanstuff.bsky.social · 17d

This would be awful. I still use what I learned on that course, twenty years on. Please sign and share.

Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 18d

RED ALERT: the University of Nottingham is threatening to close its Department of American Studies, putting all staff at risk of redundancy, and ending any American specialist knowledge in the Faculty of Arts.

Sign the petition here to save jobs:
www.change.org/p/save-ameri...

Sign the Petition

SAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM

www.change.org

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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 18d

Sign the Petition

SAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM

www.change.org

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UCU Hallam @ucuhallam.bsky.social · 18d

📢 Solidarity in Action: Day One Strike Highlights

Today was powerful! Our members showed incredible unity and resolve on the first day of strike action. We stood together, loud and proud, demonstrating our commitment to fighting in our dispute!!!

#SaveSheffieldHallam

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18d

The thing to understand about this is that this catastrophe in the UK has redounded to the political benefit of the very same people and political movement that pushed for it! Extremely perverse.

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 18d

I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world?

Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)

Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 19d

The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.

New piece from me.

open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

The truth about impartiality at the BBC

And the hysteria of the current "crisis"

open.substack.com

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