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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

Political science 69%
Economics 17%
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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1h
I would start with the media. Plentiful criminal behaviour to crack down on there

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1h
A part of the billionaire class has given up on democracy and there is no point trying to appease them. Nationalise their assets and where appropriate prosecute and incarcerate

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1h
The centre and mainstream left are still insisting that you can save liberalism without declaring war on billionaire racists and there is just no way that’s going to work.
kevinmkruse.bsky.social Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h
If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.
citizensnippy.bsky.social Citizen Snippy △ @citizensnippy.bsky.social · 11h
Yes, Peter decided that the continued existence of our democracies isn't compatible with his desired level of personal freedom.

An absolute enemy of humanity.

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1h
Absolutely it’s related to income stagnation primarily, but the way that feeds through is more complicated. My feeling is that growth was covering up more cracks here than in some other countries

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 2h
I’m tempted to believe that inequality is a proxy for something else that makes societies unhappy - something like precarity - and that while inequality has gone down a bit precarity has probably got worse

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 3h
My review of @profkepickett.bsky.social's new book, "The Good Society"

"If you’d asked Pickett in 2010 whether she’d have accepted this trade she’d presumably have jumped at it...But now, like most of the rest of us, she’s less than happy with the results."

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...
The Good Society by Kate Pickett review – the Spirit Level author takes stock
Is equality at the heart of our social problems? A whistle-stop tour of the greatest hits of progressive policy
www.theguardian.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h
If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.
citizensnippy.bsky.social Citizen Snippy △ @citizensnippy.bsky.social · 11h
Yes, Peter decided that the continued existence of our democracies isn't compatible with his desired level of personal freedom.

An absolute enemy of humanity.
"I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible." - Peter Thiel

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 12h
Ah good another subscription to get rid of

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 12h
Interesting that Goodwin isn’t even claiming a football team. Working class indeed
a man says ya toffee nosed ponce in a cartoon
ALT: a man says ya toffee nosed ponce in a cartoon
media.tenor.com

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 12h
our shitty right wing autocrats are ramping up their attacks on the Netflix Warner Brothers Merger because they want right wing Trump billionaire Larry Ellison to buy it instead
Project Netflix: MAGA’s Plan To Sandbag Warner Bros Deal; Streamer Called “Biggest Political & Ideology Messaging Machine In Human History”
Ted Sarandos' testimony tomorrow in front of the Senate could see MAGA forces try to blow up the streamer's plan to buy Warner Bros
deadline.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 16h
Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 17h
Specifically what I am stating here is that, if you create an untouchable class of ultra-wealthy elites, you are inevitably enabling the systematic abuse, trafficking and killing of human beings. Billionairism is a form of psychopathy indivisible from such predation and cruelty.

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 18h
Amazingly a theory whereby society would be better served by everyone only ever thinking of themselves hasn’t turned out to be the roaring success that was predicted

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 18h
What stage of imperial decadence is leader soiling his pants whilst concentration camps are riven with preventable diseases

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 20h
Good measure of how the Reform propaganda is doing

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 22h
The Epstein Files ought to comprise the easiest political case against the billionaire class ever conceived. Any politician who supports policies favouring the ultra-wealthy should never be able to escape this association.

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 22h
As a general rule it appears the more irrationally terrified of things you are, the more likely you are to vote for the far right. Which is kind of ironic considering how they call progressives snowflakes

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 23h
Can't come soon enough!

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 23h
Oh this is just chef's kiss from @yougov.co.uk

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d
The fact we ever believed otherwise is indicative of how much trust these guys once had

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d
Haha of course they were
htfcuddles.mmfcomic.com htfcuddles @htfcuddles.mmfcomic.com · 1d
Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?

Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Google to pay $68 million over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users
Class-action lawsuit alleged that Google's voice assistant illegally recorded and shared private conversations with advertisers.
www.cbsnews.com

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d
Kiss the toad Matt
dailyherald.bsky.social Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 1d
A vote for Reform UK is a vote for the USA’s far-right.

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d
Just snarky comment about how dark it is outside

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d
Is it just me or is this the gloomiest month for years

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d
Are you sure

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 1d
Or if they wanted to set up their own course, submitting the paperwork the previous year

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d
Why isn't this a major news story?
Churchwarden linked to foreign-born billionaire is behind £200k Reform gift The man whose firm made the donations will not discuss where the money came from, nor his ties to wealthy Farage allies who may not hold citizenship Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall Editor Saturday January 31 2026, 8.00pm, The Sunday Times Share A churchwarden from Potters Bar who works for the family of a highly secretive, Kazakhstan-born billionaire can be revealed as the man behind £200,000 of donations to Reform UK., John Richard Simpson is a 59-year-old

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 1d
I gather some people think the FT has been neglecting its core for “woke nonsense” bla bla yada yada, which is news to this 12k word beast — an oral history of the Federal Reserve’s Covid-19 crisis made up of quotes from the recently released full transcripts. www.ft.com/content/cb9a...

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Pesky Splinter @peskysplinter.bsky.social · 1d
It's 1998. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.

It's 2001. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.

It's 2025. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.

It's 2026. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
Dr manhatan from watchmen sitting on a rock

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d
Billie Eilish criticising ICE at the Grammys,

"No one is illegal on stolen land"

"It's really hard to know what to say and what to do right now"

"I feel really hopeful in this room"

"We need to keep fighting and speaking up and protesting"

"Our voices do matter"

"The people matter"