#Populist

Maurits Meijers

MauritsMeijers

Very pleased that my paper with @AndrejZaslove "Measuring Populism in Political Parties: Appraisal of a New Approach" has been accepted for publication in #ComparativePoliticalStudies! In the paper, outline and test

Sanjay G Reddy

sanjaygreddy

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/sep/03/david-graeber-anthropologist-and-author-of-bullshit-jobs-dies-aged-59?fbclid=IwAR3W9q9KJO3kQdj-9uA-_C0QE-2GA9vgQB3cUwN0dNWykCXlrFiRlJI_AVA I had reason to recall & cite Graeber just a few da

Dan Salt

danieljohnsalt

The idea that the EU is going to reform is ridiculous because there is no evidence to support that it's capable of it.It's been navel gazing over the euro for

dasPost-CV

dasvee

What's the takeaway from today?The government thinks it can get away with post-truth (lies) on a subject that the entire public understands, which has affected them, which if undermined could

Jeet Heer

HeerJeet

There's an argument gaining currency that American federalism has proven its worth in the pandemic but I find it hard to believe when the president is comparing himself to Captain

Steve Bullock Music

GuitarmoogMusic

Last comment before getting out of election mode and back to music.The biggest worry for me from Brexit was always that a bitter, recalcitrant, UK looking for someone to blame

Neale Jones

nealejones

Pure idiocy from Conservatives who have spent too much time reading the Telegraph.They complain NZ hasn’t stood with Australia or spoken out on China. Incorrect. NZ issued two joint statements

Jamal Raad🌲

jamalraad

This is terrible newshttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-23/larry-summers-advising-biden-campaign-on-economic-recovery?sref=f7rH2jWS In run up to a vote on unlocking the second tranche of bailout funds to Wall Street, Summers promised pro

Stefan Simanowitz

StefSimanowitz

"If you're interested, & I'll fund it somehow, I think you're the perfect guy, what we'd like to do is help knit together a populist nationalist movement throughout the world."

CrémantCommunarde#ActivistLawyer 🕊️⚖️ 🟠⬆️

0Calamity

1. Reading this article again (sub-tweeting my thread with another thread, here... soz folks!) and my first overwhelming feeling was "How are the Left ever going to win against such

Mehdi Hasan

mehdirhasan

Andrew Cuomo taking down Trump one day, Mitch McConnell the next. Reminding us that not all Democrats bring knives to gunfights with Republicans. His politics are wayyy too rightwing for

Ronan Delexical

delexical

John Hume represented and pluralist tradition in Irish politics. We get so caught in the revolutionary/constitutional, violence/nonviolence division while looking at the distant and recent past that we neglect the

David Roberts

drvolts

I used to wonder, "what level of threat would rouse the institutional Democratic Party to actually FIGHT, fight like desperate people willing to do anything to save their country?" It's

Sean Jones QC

seanjonesqc

Lightbulb! Boris Johnson’s non-existent unity: 1/n Remember how Boris Johnson suggested that once he’d “got Brexit done”, there would be levelling up and “unity”? It may have surprised you how

Michael Govern Ready

mikegove12

Extracts from the plague diary of Mark ne-Francois-PepysMay 25thUp, and after visiting Barnard Castle to headbutt the virus, back down the A1 to White Hall with my petition to introduce

HijackedEUrophile #WearADamnMask #3point5percent

EHijacked

I feel very, very depressed tonight.All of us ordinary people who’ve spent years, decades, bringing up good, decent, tolerant, talented, hard-working young people to be proud citizens (not flag-waving ignoramous