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Luis Ramiro

@ljramiro.bsky.social
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Professor of Political Science at the Political Science Dept. UNED, Spain t.co/fH7XVoLcVY (lramiro@poli.uned.es). European Political Science reviews editor.

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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 1h
Fascinating story illustrating, yet again, that some of the most dubious things that wealthy people get away with rely on respectable law and professional services firms - in respectable places - knowingly assisting their dubious behaviour. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Roman Abramovich aides falsified paperwork to disguise assets and dodge tax, records suggest
Accountancy firm Deloitte Cyprus among those that appear to have backdated records outlining the Russian billionaire’s assets
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Flashback: McCain tells supporter Obama is 'a decent...
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 3h
the caption that tells you everything you need to know
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 20h
The 2016 Brexit vote was targeted by Russian “state-sponsored interference”, Andy Burnham has said, as he warned voters in France and Germany about Kremlin-backed attempts to influence their countries’ politics.  www.ft.com/content/4fcb...
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Russia ‘interfered’ in 2016 Brexit vote, says Andy Burnham
UK prime minister calls for European voters to be better informed about efforts to disrupt democratic process
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 23h
If Trump were working directly for Putin this whole time, people ask, taking orders to destroy US democracy and the Western alliance, would anything look different? Yes. Trump would be more subtle about it.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026
Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h
Zelenskyy: "Prices are rising because of the war in the Middle East, the blocking of Hormuz. Everyone understands it. If we want to speak with people fairly, if we want to be clear, if we want to speak with our nations openly, people have to hear reality. Don't play games with people."
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Henry Foy @henryjfoy.ft.com · 18h
💥 The Trump administration has threatened European capitals that it could stop paid-for weapons shipments to Ukraine if Kyiv does not halt its deep strikes on Russian energy infrastructure, officials told @christopherjm.ft.com and me @financialtimes.com as.ft.com/r/bc5bd7e2-3...
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US threatens to block arms for Ukraine over attacks on Russian refineries
Officials lobby European capitals and Kyiv following Trump’s diesel deal with Putin
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 23h
The "Party of Reagan" has the United States siding with Russian aggression against NATO allies and a brutal war on a European democratic US partner. Yes, the whole party. If they didn't, they would impeach and remove the president who is blatantly breaking US law to help fund Russia's war effort.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/10/2026
Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report
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Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report
Research challenges the notion that the growing visibility of crosses and other symbols reflects a revival of Christianity Christian nationalism in Britain is being driven largely by people who rarely attend church and are more concerned with defending the country’s Christian heritage, according to research. The report, by the thinktank Theos, identified five different groups within the UK in a survey that looked at their attitudes to Christianity and Britishness. Continue reading...
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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Russian strikes killed over 80 Ukrainian civilians in two days. Moreover, it has stepped up its hybrid attacks against Europe, both EU Member States and NATO Allies. Suspending sanctions on Russian diesel provides Moscow with more revenues to wage war.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2026
“Zelenskyy could’ve stopped this war many times, and he chose not to … he better damn well stop” — Trump is no longer trying to conceal that he’s fully on Putin’s side
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
New primer about the news from the last few hours that the US is getting back to business with Russia. This is not Trump being erratic, it is not about diesel, it is not a small move. It is about the US moving to a more active position of helping Putin. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/this-is-ab...
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This Is About Much More Than Just Diesel
What Really Matters From The Last Few Hours
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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Join the @lsesociology.bsky.social & the III for the launch of the Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Global Elites, with speakers @will-davies.bsky.social, @urbanmorph.bsky.social, María Luisa Méndez, Annette Lareau, & @mikesavagelse.bsky.social, chaired by @aaronreeves.bsky.social.
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The Oxford Handbook of Global Elites Book Launch | LSE Sociology
6.30pm Thurs 22 October | Will Davies, Caroline Knowles, María-Luisa Méndez, Mike Savage and Annette Lareau mark the launch of the Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Global Elites at LSE
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 09/10/2026
Zelensky criticized the US decision allowing Russian diesel sales, saying sanctions relief without clear, lasting de-escalation would strengthen Moscow. “Permission for Russia to sell petroleum products is an investment in the war that must be ended, not prolonged,” he said. #Ukraine
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Zelensky isn’t pulling his punches
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Selling out Ukraine to side with Russia in order to marginally reduce the negative impacts of his dumb war with Iran
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Russia has shortages, long lines, and imposed limits. Ukraine has knocked out about 1/2 (!) of Russia's refining capacity. And they're going to export a million tons of diesel? Yes, Trump is again siding with Russia against Ukraine, Europe, law, and democracy. But that won't make fuel appear.
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Moscow Gas Stations Reimpose Fuel Limits as ‘Second Wave’ of Shortages Hits Russia - The Moscow Times
Fuel purchase restrictions are beginning to make a comeback in some regions as persistent shortages continue to dog the domestic market following months of Ukrainian drone strikes on oil refineries, i...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
this is honestly one of the worst and most irresponsible things he has ever posted, and that's really saying something
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Political Quarterly @politicalquarterly.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"What people haven't really looked at is: why were the Nazis so popular in the first place?" Katja Hoyer's acclaimed book on Weimar tells the story of how ordinary people became witnesses, perpetrators, victims and bystanders in the Nazi regime. politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/we-need...
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"We Need to Understand how Ordinary People Gradually get Used to Extreme Ideologies": Interview with Katja Hoyer
Anya Pearson interviews Katja Hoyer, the German-British historian, journalist, and author whose acclaimed book Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe was published earlier this year. Drawing on...
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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A shadowy network of hedgehogs and owls, operating at the highest levels of the British establishment.
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Jane Green @profjanegreen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Holborn and St Pancras: 1. Yes, good for Labour. But not a usual 'mid-term' moment but a honeymoon. Will it last? 2. Greens could have won, Polanski could be an MP. They have done themselves real harm. 3. Doesn't show Burnham's *strategy* working - uniting the left. Other seats much better tests.
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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Agree with this take: kellnerp.substack.com/p/the-figure... This is not a good result for the Greens. Burnham's strategy of turning left on the economy and signalling on a couple of issues such as Gaza and the EU seems to be working, at least for now.
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The figures that make Sagal Abdi-Wali’s victory remarkable
Ignore the Greens’ misleading claims. It was a catastrophic night for Zack Polanski
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António Costa @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu · 08/10/2026
The EU will continue to stand by Ukraine until a just and lasting peace is achieved. It is time for Russia to end its war.
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Business Ukraine magazine @businessukraine.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
22 people killed in their beds yesterday in a targeted Russian strike on a residential building in northern Ukraine. 33 people killed this morning in Russian attacks on public buses in eastern Ukraine. Russia is now massacring Ukrainian civilians with complete impunity
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Just a reminder it was exactly three months ago that Trump promised Ukraine its own license to build Patriot Interceptors and one month since the Lindsey Graham tariff bill was signed. How’s all that support for Ukraine going, Trump apologists?
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Luis Ramiro @ljramiro.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
where every democrat should be
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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In a moment when simple solidarity-based emotions seem such a rare thing, I cherish this photo of Miliband showing empathy to Zelenskyy and the Ukrainians
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 08/10/2026
Imagine if this was the common approach in our mainstream media If instead of buying into moral panics whipped up by wealthy elites to stoke division and hatred to protect their selfish interests, we actually gave space to communities to speak in their diversity www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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‘I feel perfectly safe’: white Lutonians on the town’s supposed no-go zones
Little if any sign Bury Park is a place where any group might fear to tread, despite Tory MP’s comments to the contrary
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is not good Supporters of a conference should not determine the contents of the panels and program. And pulling out in response to US pressures is highly problematic www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request
Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website
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Léonie de Jonge @leoniedejonge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We are so excited to launch the call for papers for our second @ecpr-ead.bsky.social conference in Rotterdam next year. Please consider submitting a proposal! Big thanks for Ofra Klein and her team at @essb-erasmusuni010.bsky.social for making this possible 👏
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Luis Ramiro @ljramiro.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Tim, I have always found this concept very insightful, it also reveals a complex reality. There is a variety of characters, from journalists & commentators to academic agitators, who echo the party line, seek to shape party line, or maneuver for political appointments & financial patronage, I guess
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
There’s a reason, when writing my first book on the Tories, that I insisted on the importance of “the party in the media” as an integral part of their milieu.
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Expect more culture war antics from an AfD/BSW populist coalition government that has no coherent answers to the labour shortages, overstretched public services in rural areas, fragile position of local manufacturers and other economic challenges facing Sachsen Anhalt
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 08/10/2026
And so it begins: the very first proposal of the new regional parliament in which the AfD is the strongest faction is about an immediate end to sanctions against Russia and the normalisation of relations. (Which, of course, they cannot decide at the regional level.) www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...
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Sachsen-Anhalt: BSW will mit AfD Ukraine-Antrag verabschieden
Das BSW und die AfD wollen im Landtag in Sachsen-Anhalt den ersten gemeinsamen inhaltlichen Antrag beschließen: Ukrainehilfen sollen eingestellt, Russlandsanktionen aufgehoben werden.
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Luis Ramiro @ljramiro.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"... el orgullo intelectual, la esperanza de poder probar lo que uno realmente vale (o cree que vale) es lo más difícil de abandonar. El orgullo intelectual, sepa usted, es lo último que se pierde, aunque uno se haya convertido en una escoria", Respiración artificial, Ricardo Piglia (1980)
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 07/10/2026
The horseshoe theory of extremism is bonkers until it is not: in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, the #farright #AfD and BSW, a breakaway from the (supposedly far) Left, are working on a joint resolution demanding'peace with Russia'
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AfD und BSW wollen ersten gemeinsamen Antrag verabschieden
Kurz nach der Konstituierung des neuen Landtags suchen AfD und BSW bei einem außenpolitischen Reizthema den Schulterschluss. Der Vorstoß soll bis in den Bundesrat wirken, hätte zunächst aber vor allem symbolische Bedeutung.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The kids these days will hardly believe it, but a mere two years ago, the mental & physical (lack of) acuity of Elderly Presidents was the Great Issue of Our Time. Someone should tell Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson, so they can write a book on it
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
As a broader point, the Administration is war with data collection. The goal is simple: you can't prove racial discrimination in court if the government doesn't collect data by race. You can't show climate change if the government dismantles climate monitoring. This is Authoritarianism 101.
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Stephen Vaisey 🇺🇦 @stephenvaisey.com · 07/10/2026
BTW this means no funding for GSS, ANES, or PSID. GSS 2026 is in the field now, but then it looks like that's it. Devastating for social science.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Trump: "I could've done very bad things to Hillary Clinton. I could've done very very bad things to Joe Biden. I could've done very bad things to Barack Hussein Obama ... I can do whatever I want, if I want."
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Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
On this day 20 years ago, Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in Moscow, on Putin’s 54th birthday. She had spent years reporting on Putin’s Russia and exposing atrocities committed during Russia’s war in Chechnya. Dozens of journalists have been killed for their work under Putin.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A note from Richard Barfield sets out why Matt Goodwin's projections of population & ethnic change are entirely unreliable, using simplistic + false premises that are not valid but have the impact & intent of exaggerating the rate of change rbas.co.uk/wp-content/u...
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Luis Ramiro @ljramiro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
No sería mejor llevar a las tertulias radiofónicas directamente a representantes d los partidos en vez de tertulianas/os ferreamente alineados con sus partidos? Entiendo que los medios no lo quieran hacer, claro, pero quizás fuera más transparente, aunq solo sea por evitar confusiones y simulaciones
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hey hey -- it's publication day! Couldn't be more excited for this to be out in the world. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Sciencepo ULB @sciencepoulb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
[OUT] 'Crises and regime instability: autocratization and democratization pathways across political regimes', new paper by @lucatomini.bsky.social, professor at SciencePo ULB (Cevipol), with Guido Panzano, in Journal of Peace Research academic.oup.com/jpr/advance-...
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Crises and regime instability: autocratization and democratization pathways across political regimes
Abstract. To what extent are political regimes vulnerable to crises? Established research has explored in depth how crises can compromise regime stability,
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Prof Laura Morales @lauramdu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Y las presentaciones de: Mónica Méndez (CIS), Zaida Chinchilla (@ipp-csic.bsky.social), Diana Zavala-Rojas (@politiquesupf.bsky.social), @martafraile.bsky.social , @amjaime.bsky.social y @moragasai.bsky.social ¡Os esperamos! Inscripciones: saco.csic.es/apps/forms/s...
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Prof Laura Morales @lauramdu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
📣 MIÉRCOLES 14 de octubre, de 16:00 a 19:00 Media jornada de presentación de la Encuesta Social Europea, con la participación de: Isabel Martínez (VRI, @csic.es ), Marian Rodríguez Parrilla (@cienciagob.bsky.social ), Rory Fitzgerald (@surveyprof.bsky.social) de @ess-survey.bsky.social;
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