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Le Monde, "French MPs vote through the left's wealth tax on the ultra-rich" Your reminder that a 2% wealth tax on those with £10 million, affecting 0.04% of the UK population, would raise £24 billion a year You have to wonder why Labour chose not to do this..

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You and me both, dino… @fgenovese.bsky.social

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Talked to an educated, well travelled and open minded American friend yesterday. He knew there are German elections on Sunday, but the follow up question made me die a little

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“There’s a lot of uncertainty, there’s a lot of fear,” @davidho.bsky.social says. “And it shouldn’t be this way. Studying environmental sciences is about studying our life support system.”

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True that the silence of establishment (much less progressive) opposition leaders in a moment like this is truly exceptional in comparative context. Perhaps a function of the still-powerful yet misplaced sense of American exceptionalism that still dominates elite circles.

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🧵 In catene. Il regime di Musk e Trump ha avviato l’espulsione degli immigrati, non prima di averli incatenati a beneficio degli odiatori da tastiera. Per Musk e Trump, le espulsioni sono utili a creare posti di lavoro e ridurre la criminalità. Nessuna delle due, mi dispiace. 👇 1/

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At this point the norms-based worldview that guides these leaders- don’t interfere with a new President, stay out of the limelight, be statesmen etc has become an affliction. It is aiding and abetting the demise of democracy.

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Anecdotal European stuff: I have spoken to a few Italians about the US “situation” lately and all are pretty much asking themselves the same question: where are the American opposition leaders? Where are Obama, Harris, Biden? Their absence is as horrifying as the acts of the current administration.

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Every time I login for a second on LinkedIn

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How does the “mental load” of taking care of family and household influence decisions about participating in public life? In a new @bjpols.bsky.social paper w @annanhelgoy.bsky.social we use a survey experiment priming domestic mental load to find out. doi.org/10.1017/S000... 🧵 1/9

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What a disaster. The WGIII TSU is critical for enabling the functioning of the IPCC process, specifically the assessment of options for mitigating climate change. Among the agenda items of the IPCC meeting next week is the adoption of the outline of the next major IPCC Assessment Report (AR7).

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Post brought to you by my minor obsession with papal politics and after reading a great relevant paper by @jeffreymziegler.bsky.social

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Watched Conclave last night and I am now persuaded by the idea that, on top of all the democratic backsliding happening everywhere, we are not far from a world in which the Papacy is up for renewal and we might need to get ready for a contra-Francis backlash.

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Me: "Let's see if I missed any important email while juggling the kids this winter half term break" The email:

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HSBC has delayed its net zero target by 20 years, until 2050.

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I am keeping a diary of daily events, as they unfold open.substack.com/pub/adamprze... It is available to everyone. I am new to Substack, so please let me know if something is wrong with the link or the file.

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Interested in austerity politics and public opinion? I greatly enjoyed this conversation with @vikburgi.bsky.social and @juliusk.bsky.social, drawing on my work with @retobuergisser.bsky.social and other ongoing research. Check it out and listen to the other fantastic episodes of the podcast, too🎙️

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Where did I see a similar favorability rating sink? Oh yes

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Tell them, Mario.

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Far from me to defend Deutsche Bahn and how it has been treated, but this very FT article also clarifies that, while the UK only exchanges trains with France, the German system deals (helas, badly) with trains coming in from 9 bordering countries. Bigger point: we are comparing two sad losers.

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I mean, in absolute numbers yes, but we are comparing two painful pictures, there are no real winners. The headline should continue with “… but really both train systems are dysfunctional”

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Trump is obviously caving in to Putin's demands 100%. However. Europe is more than large enough to support Ukraine in its defence, until the Russian economy runs into the brick wall it is heading towards. Important to realise this and do what we must.

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Look at Spain: progressive on immigration and clean energy —and reaping the benefits. #NomadCentury #ChangeTheNarrative

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Having seen multiple evidence that the IRA investments did not yield significant electoral points to the US Dems in 2024, I'm persuaded that main explanations are that the IRA didn't have time to yield fruits and it was suboptimaly publicized (bc ofc the US convo is hostage to regressive media). 1/2

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A regular reminder: the reason energy bills are high and rising is mainly because we’re so reliant on gas, and gas is a lot more expensive now

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New piece in @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social summarising our (w\ @bertous.bsky.social & @michaelhunklinger.bsky.social) recent experiment on perceptions of Muslims. blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

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The root of those with seeds does not dry up

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As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that refraining from provoking the authoritarian is not how it works. Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.

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I hope this adds some clarity as to why so many of us have been so pushy about always highlighting the connections between fossil fuels and the disasters they intensify and multiply. Complete separation of cause from consequence only helps fossil fuel companies and authoritarians.

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“It’s a moonshot.” Vienna has a $21 billion plan to end its dependence on imported fossil gas with heat pumps, boreholes and energy efficiency. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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If youth demonstrating for climate change is what gets so under the skin of MAGA that the vice president of the US needs to make a bad joke about it in the first appearance to international military partners, then the youth has done alright.

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Tonight is the night

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10 days to go. I am not saying things are rosey in the UK, but we can still study climate politics.

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🚨 please share! We will be running our annual workshop on the political economy of development in Berlin @wzb.bsky.social in June. This is a really fun workshop doing deep reads of a small number of new papers. Call for papers / participants below! ⬇️ www.wzb.eu/en/events/mo...

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Yes. That’s the way.

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In the effort to find things to look forward to, I’ve just booked my ticket for the “Kyoto” play in London. Extra delighted to see that many seats are gone.

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Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

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Read between the lines: I wouldn’t expect Italy to become the mediator of international forces right now.

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