Jonathan Hopkin

We share a new article, forthcoming in Public Opinion Quarterly, titled: Not Your Mama’s Ideology (But Close) Modest Generational Differences in Ideological Alignment in Post-Communist Europe. The picture shows its title page on OSF.

🎉Excited to share our forthcoming paper in POQ! And don’t worry—it’s not all about our mums 😉. With @lenkahrbkova.bsky.social and @matejjung.bsky.social, we ask: did younger generations in post-communist Europe develop more conventional left–right belief systems?
Tl;dr: not really. (🧵)

Seriously BBC?

“We thought opportunist chancers would be loyal to us”, laments offshore tax shelter.

Was it on the left hand side of the road?

Actually, this on a banknote

Abingdon. Aylesbury. Autobahn

The president genuinely doesn't know much about most things but the times you can be sure he does, in fact, know about something is when he says "I don't know anything about that."

It’s the grinning morons behind him that I find most disturbing

Isn’t one upshot of this that Trump will end up in a fight with his Big Oil backers over war profiteering? If so will be interesting to see who is wearing the outsized shoes in that relationship

I can see his huge ears on a fiver right now

I blame westerns

Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:

2008: 0.3%

2024: 19%

@nytimes.com #GildedAge
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

Literal clowns

Norwegian new passenger cars sales by type: Monthly

US new light-duty vehicle sales by type: Monthly

Tale of two petrostates.

Data from @robbieandrew.bsky.social: robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/

Strongly encourage all academics, novelists, reporters, bloggers, whatever to just email this account and state that you want to opt out of this idiocy.

Overload them with emails and make them regret they ever tried this shit.

expertoptout@superhuman.com

💸🚨I am hiring 2 Postdocs for my ERC-funded project SOCDEBT on #debt dynamics across countries. One position: #SocialStratification + strong quantitative skills. The other: qualitative research and #EconomicSociology. waitkus.github.io/SOCDEBT/ 🚨💸

People don’t go into academia for the money but they do have to eat

inflation is about power. In the 70s, workers had the power to resist the oil squeeze. In 2022, there were acute labour shortages, which produced temporary pockets of worker "power". Today, workers are gonna get hosed

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 23% (=)
CON: 19% (+3)
GRN: 19% (-2)
LAB: 17% (+1)
LDM: 14% (=)

Via YouGov, 9-10 Mar.
Changes w/ 1-2 Mar.

British.

Job offer: leading large Middle Eastern country the way we want. No experience necessary. We might kill you.

As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

Ok this one dumb tweet from musk wasn’t real 🤷

sorry for serious interlude.
aaaaaaand we are back to satire.
we are all going to need therapy after today bsky.app/profile/whst...

Aaaaaaaannd Scene.

Congrats Market you got played by the master

"Trump then said never mind. Oil is climbing again. Tehran under heavy bombardment."
www.ft.com/content/56dd...

Ah yes the draft dodgers love a war

It’s a fake? Well it’s a long way from being the craziest thing he’s tweeted

Hey buy my car, but if I don’t like your politics I might just switch it off on you

Not here Donald

An hour apart. Perhaps we should stop treating the mindless weathervane spinning in the breeze as if it has a clear strategic direction we can ascertain.