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Jonathan Hopkin

@jonathanhopkin.bsky.social

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

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I love the way Goodwin segues effortlessly from being aggrieved at being called divisive to dismissing his opponents as middle aged cat ladies and angry Muslims

06.03.2026 13:39 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m guessing Mel Gibson is fine with it

06.03.2026 09:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Feel a bit queasy about opening up Claude after this

06.03.2026 09:51 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Somehow this is already being shrugged off while the BBC has a nice little feature about Trump meeting Inter Miami’s players

06.03.2026 09:50 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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A sickening society is clear in these statistics

So why is it not in the news?

Powerful wake-up call from @chakrabortty.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

06.03.2026 08:24 β€” πŸ‘ 136    πŸ” 101    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 17

It really shouldn’t be hard to beat Reform. Beyond migration policy all they have is a load of neo-Thatcherite claptrap that everybody hates

06.03.2026 09:04 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Noem’s Hobbesian vision of the world gets confirmed again lol

05.03.2026 22:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

These people are so awful but at least it’s funny watching them try to screw each other over

05.03.2026 21:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Another moron to follow her

05.03.2026 21:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Put her down like a puppy

05.03.2026 21:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I feel like more should be made of the fact that the right in British politics is very obviously working for foreign interests and have been for a good while

05.03.2026 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jansen Ganesh is on fire in this column on the UK’s role in the Iran conflict

www.ft.com/content/eaee...

04.03.2026 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1076    πŸ” 290    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 16

It sure didn’t take long for those β€œBoard of Peace” fucks to start their first war.

05.03.2026 05:25 β€” πŸ‘ 47    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Help, I saw someone who looked a bit off to me

05.03.2026 15:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sounds a lot like the awful encounter Nadhim Zahawi had in Oxford Street

05.03.2026 15:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

How did he end up looking like Norman Mailer

05.03.2026 15:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.

05.03.2026 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 5749    πŸ” 2028    πŸ’¬ 106    πŸ“Œ 117
Polling from More in Common shows that Greens and Reform win a higher share of voters who struggle to make ends meet, while Labour and the Conservatives win those who are most financially comfortable

Polling from More in Common shows that Greens and Reform win a higher share of voters who struggle to make ends meet, while Labour and the Conservatives win those who are most financially comfortable

Reform UK and the Greens are hoovering up financially insecure voters. My piece this week looks at the return of Britain's class politics (with a twist) www.economist.com/britain/2026...

05.03.2026 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 170    πŸ” 83    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 23

It’s uncanny how it neatly allows Reform to divert attention away from their humiliating defeat

05.03.2026 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I had a quick lot at their webpage and it did look like a right wing think tank webpage would look

05.03.2026 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I suspect all that will remain is the stain

05.03.2026 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No, only to Dubai

05.03.2026 14:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Against the overwhelming forces of family voting

05.03.2026 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Good job he’s surrounded by sensible sane people

05.03.2026 11:34 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Why does Bessent always look like he’s just peed himself

05.03.2026 11:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

05.03.2026 07:15 β€” πŸ‘ 17005    πŸ” 5934    πŸ’¬ 508    πŸ“Œ 493

It does seem like a lot of people overlearned the lessons of the Brexit campaign, and behave as if the entire country hates foreigners

05.03.2026 11:23 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Hadn’t seen those trends before - it looks like their genius strategy had the net effect of losing votes to Reform?

05.03.2026 11:22 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Good point

05.03.2026 11:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0