Saka's gets the hat trick, Bellingham gets the all-time mensch award

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This game is mad

This England game makes me even more furious for the insane aggression they dealt with in the last match that devastated their reserves in the first half. That was NOT a fair game

Arrival was excellent and made me lose my mind a little. Great choice

Huge congratulations to Stephanie @sjrickard.bsky.social for this well-deserved honour! We are lucky to have her as our colleague in the LSE Department of Government! 👇

From what I can understand Argentina can keep pushing players but to keep things fair England have stopped protesting

where is the French team today? not the team that's been playing this whole cup.

Wait, was I the IV all along?

Walking home after an England win and listening to my neighborhood pub loudly singing “I want it that way”. It’s the 1990 hope and euphoria again

Saka, you beauty! Thank you for the defensive cover and the beautiful set ups your team mates discover.

The goal post with main character energy in the 76th minute.

It's weird how we can all guess who this one guy might be. The same who told. us that Biden's failed economic policies and Kamala's wokeness meant men had no choice but to vote for Trump.

Horrible new bullshit from the sea every time. It’s never ‘oh we found a new pink fish that is so happy’ it’s always stuff like this, the crush-depth screw-headed dongwongler, and it’s got to have big long creepy bits. Sick of the ocean tbh.

Again if someone had only listened to bluesky about platner. Maybe mainstream media wouldn’t be so disconnected from voters and reality

Huh seems like all the dude-bro bicep flexing among Democrats might be ending just as well as it did with Blue Labour

good to see that public contrition and self-reflection is still a thing that happens

Having just completed the life in the UK test which was an absurd but sometimes delightful mix of sports and history facts, I shudder to think what a Norway vs England game will do to that test.

Why is this both funny and accurate?

“These new studies demonstrate that state capacity can be strategically manipulated by political and economic elites, and that the various dimensions of state capacity—extractive, coercive, legal—do not necessarily move together.”

🚨My Annual Review article "Endogenous State Capacity" is now available online. I am very grateful for the rich conversations with @annagbusse.bsky.social @pberamendi.bsky.social Cathy Boone, David Stasavage, Emily Sellars, Volha Charnysh, Dann Naseemullah, Francesca Jensenius, Mai Hassan & Xiuyu Li.

I have never been much of a biscuit/cookie person. Today I ate Jaffa cakes for the first time. What one earth is this magic and yes I know there is controversy around them bing a "biscuit"

We want to go after IT companies! Great! Are you going to break them up? Go after their tax avoidance? Make them pay for data center externalities??? No we will promote “phone-free childhoods”

Weird that the sacrificing European theory only applies to hot days and not cold ones. Super strange.

Me looking hard in this article for what makes this a finding about white working class rather than just working class. Why this framing?

AC discourse really silly. If you are going to have multiple weeks in the year where babies and elderly are going to be endangered and where public life is really unpleasant in trains, buses, hospitals and schools, you need coherent public policy. We need more hate against airline travel

Future HPE scholars looking for a smoking gun quotation on corruption and predation rejoice. We have saved this for you in the archives.

NY senator, part of the Dem establishment who can’t understand why the ground sentiment in the state is so against them. Get off X, stop treating your elected office as a club, and don’t pay lip service to corruption:criminality. Also stop enabling your kid to get rich through your tech contacts.

They put AC in 8th century palaces in India lol

Could it be that the Democratic Party’s information sources about where the party is at and what the voters want are distorting their view? Maybe finally get off X?

Britain is about to have its seventh Prime Minister in just over a decade - but is Brexit to blame? Read my thoughts in the LSE British Politics blog @lseblogs.bsky.social ✏️ blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

After six consecutive Oxford-educated Prime Ministers, Britain may finally see some real diversity in the top job: a Cambridge-educated Andy Burnham

Aggressive heat warnings from schools all over London today for the scorching 29 degrees today. So of course my family in chennai enjoying a pleasant 35 degrees is losing its mind 🤣

They’re calling it the quote on British politics that ended the need for all other quotes

A heartfelt thank you to our amazing outgoing #EPSS president @sarahobolt.bsky.social, who was not only instrumental to creating EPSS, but also sheparded it so successfully through its first year. And equally huge thanks to incoming EPSS president @simonhix.bsky.social for his fabulous leadership!

This is definitely the most hopeful trend in British politics right now - people in Britain do actually seem willing and able to coordinate specifically to keep the fash out. It'll make it harder for them to absurdly convert their 25-30% of the vote into a national majority.

I'm grateful to @iandunt.bsky.social for kindly asking me to write a guest post for is great Substack You can read it here if you are interested in the long afterlife of Brexit 👇

Which is why we need this panicked coverage about socialism! What good is rightwing scaremongering if the streets are actually safer

This is *such* a consistent feature of living in the UK - the actual day to day experience of people in this country is so much nicer than what the press or our leadership cadre would have you think - it is remarkable in a somewhat destabilising fashion just how stark the difference is.

I am actually really pleased to see this cover. It tells me that a right-leaning magazine is hand wringing about good old fashioned tax-and transfer politics instead of feeding us BS pseodo-psych babble about the legitimacy of ethno-populist “economic anxiety” which has so benefited the right

People need to understand that Minnesota did not have Democrats and Republicans when I was growing up. We had a Democrat-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party and an Independent Republican (IR) Party. While DFL is still very much in effect, Republicans dropped “Independent” during the Clinton admin (1995).

📻 Another great podcast from Politically In/sane with my brilliant colleague @pavisuri.bsky.social on the role of cast, rank and identity in politics Listen along: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

On panelView, and why we should always look at our data first.. yiqingxu.substack.com/p/plot-your-...

I am very excited to be returning to LSE and joining @lsepublicpolicy.bsky.social. Eager to help develop this already fantastic policy school, co-teach with @alicirone.bsky.social, and launch a new course on "Designing Democracy”.

I don’t know what to say. This seems pretty bleak

Living in the UK with its oversized media market I almost never hear these 4 points. It’s a constant doom loop about the structural constraints on economy after Brexit & drumbeat of Reform gains on immigration. Current Labour could be more imaginative on economy but still has to contend with media

I wish I didn’t know as much about the end of Reconstruction as I do. If you understood what is being unleashed now, how it will touch every aspect of our civic life, and how difficult it will be to undo it, you wouldn’t be able to think about anything else.