Patrick Dunleavy

Effective liberal democracy lies behind Australia’s 35 years of economic growth and some substantial social liberalisation press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3...

1 in 10 Australians are now millionaires: UBS report Recent surges in property values have boosted the number of Australian millionaires to a global high, the proportion of wealth held in cash and deposits is the lowest in Australia at just above 10 per...

Australia now has the second-highest median wealth in the world at $US268,000 ($411,000), beaten only by Europe's Luxembourg. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Donor List Suggests Scale of Trump’s Pay-for-Access Operation

Anne Applebaum “The most corrupt White House in history: This is an account of what people are paying, directly to a PAC called MAGA Inc, in order to meet the president, get pardons, change policy”. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...

Making digitalisation work for African smallholders - Africa at LSE Digitalisation must be sensitive to the realities of being an African smallholder, otherwise it won’t be successful, writes Abdul-Rahmin Abdulai. The application of digital innovation to agriculture i...

Making digitalisation work for African smallholders blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/...

Higher education is facing omnicrisis. Is your syllabus done? Maybe I can help. The first of August is the traditional breaking point for academics to suddenly realize that despite the scorching temperatures the summer is rapidly coming to an end. The coming se...

The omnicrisis in American higher education abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io/higher-educa...

Only public ownership of the water system will solve its crisis - British Politics and Policy at LSE The recent report by the Independent Water Commission led by Sir John Cunliffe recommends the abolition of Ofwat and deeper regulatory reforms. But further regulation won't resolve the fundamental ten...

Only public ownership of the UK’s water system will solve its crisis blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

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Interesting handbook on Degrowth here. Open access www.taylorfrancis.com/reader/downl...

Here is how malversation works blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Dwr Cymru is a not for profit- it is neither laden with debt nor has a penny gone in dividends. It cannot be lumped in with the English WC's.

Trump’s mental decline is undeniable — so what now? hemselves, that there is a problem, just as Biden’s supporters did for him.    Donald Trump is showing all the signs of suffering from dementia. If this were a neighbor, a parent, or a family frien…

Trump’s mental decline is undeniable — so what now? thehill.com/opinion/camp...

Fossil Fool How Europe took Trump for a ride

Fossil Fool - Paul Krugman. -the EU has promised things to Trump on trade that it will never deliver open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Only public ownership of the water system will solve its crisis - British Politics and Policy at LSE The recent report by the Independent Water Commission led by Sir John Cunliffe recommends the abolition of Ofwat and deeper regulatory reforms. But further regulation won't resolve the fundamental ten...

Only public ownership of the UK’s water system will solve its crisis blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

It’s a unique brand of political genius that decides to remind the voting public of the political disaster that happened under her own party’s leadership, and then claims the current government is even worse than that when that’s blatantly not the case.

Resisting the Trump assault: will American democracy survive and what can we do to help? Trump’s assault on democracy is real and escalating – Europe should be alarmed, warns ex-diplomat Alex Hall Hall in a recent webinar

Resisting the Trump assault: will American democracy survive and what can we do to help?
Trump’s assault on democracy is real and escalating – Europe should be alarmed, warns ex-diplomat Alex Hall Hall in a recent webinair
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IEA: Renewables will be world’s top power source ‘by 2026’ - Carbon Brief Renewable energy will overtake coal to become the world’s top source of electricity “by 2026 at the latest”, according to new IEA forecasts.

"Renewable energy will overtake coal to become the world’s top source of electricity 'by 2026 at the latest', according to new forecasts from the International Energy Agency (IEA)."

DeSantis: FHP arrests 3,000 in immigration crackdown, plans new strike team Florida Highway Patrol troopers have "apprehended almost 3,000" immigrants this year, and the agency announced a new strike team to increase arrests.

Popular opinion has turned against the GOP's widespread and indiscriminate crackdown on immigration, so of COURSE #Florida Gov. Ron DeSastrous is promising to ramp up arrests with an FHP strike team. www.floridatoday.com/story/news/l...

Quincy residents say mayor’s $285K salary is just too high - The Boston Globe “Quincy Citizens for Fair Raises” has taken to the streets with pen and petition to bring Mayor Thomas P. Koch’s approved $285,000 annual salary to a public vote in November.

The Mayor of Quincy wants his salary to be on par with that of the Vice President of the US. Comically corrupt. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/03/m...

New filings reveal how top Dems are preparing possible 2028 runs Possible 2028 contenders’ leadership PACs have raised and spent millions of dollars combined this year, new filings show.

Some Dems are already preparing to run for president in 2028.

Possible 2028 contenders’ leadership PACs have raised and spent millions of dollars combined this year, new filings show.

“America is in a bad place now for our leader is a reckless, idiotic, sundowning madman pampered, propped up and enabled by a corrupt Roberts Court and supine Republican Congress.”

Nvidia has a market capitalisation of $4.2 trillion, which is 15% greater than UK GDP. HMRC alone has twice as many staff (68k) as Nvidia. Let that sink in.

This is comically stupid *even on its own absurd terms*.

HMRC annual receipts about £860 billion
Staff about 66,000

Nvidia annual revenues about £90 billion
Staff about 33,000

Nigel Farage appearances on Sky News spark thousands of complaints It comes after Reform UK set up its own broadcast studio to pump out slick, TV-style videos online

Nigel Farage appearances on Sky News spark thousands of complaints
It comes after Reform UK set up its own broadcast studio to pump out slick, TV-style videos online
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Supreme Court signals it may rule on law protecting power of minority voters The justices asked opposing parties in a battle over a Louisiana voting map to submit briefs addressing the matter.

The Supreme Court has signaled that it may rule on the constitutionality of a key section of the Voting Rights Act that allows states to draw voting districts to protect the power of Black and Hispanic voters.

Dow closes 500 points lower Friday as weak jobs data and new tariffs incite sell-off: Live updates Investors weighed July's payrolls report following a weak session on Wall Street a day earlier.

USA is heading for recession, with nursery school President in denial and targeting any messenger with bad news. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/31/s...

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Certainly strong links shown here suggest New York Times evasive vocabulary on Gaza and Israel has very deep roots in a lack of any genuine editorial independence and many journalists undeclared vested interests

VIP contract introduced by Tory peer left government owed £24m DHSC rejected as ‘unusable’ PPE supplied by company linked to Lord Chadlington, which later went bust

This is obvious malversation, the form of corruptionthat remains fully legal In the UK. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Trump fires lead official on economic data as tariffs cause market drop The move comes as a weaker-than-expected jobs report stoked fears about tariffs.

When the rule of law is dead, then economic data are what the great leader wants them to be. Trump fires the head of employment statistics. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...