David Woodruff
Associate Professor of Comparative Politics, LSE. CPE, central banks, monetary history, intellectual history of social science, Karl Polanyi, Soviet economic history, complaining about neoliberalism, etc. He/him.
- Reposted by David WoodruffGet Palantir out of the NHS notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/sto…
- Reposted by David WoodruffWe’re delighted to announce that the Politically In/Sane podcast is now part of POAL! Hosted by Marc Bokobza, the podcast dives into Political Behaviour, exploring how people think, feel, and act politically with insights from prominent experts. Find it here: www.poal.co.uk/events/
- Reposted by David WoodruffAs someone with a profound but unrepentant emdash addiction it is driving me mad seeing commenters yell “AI slop!!!” whenever there is even a single — anywhere in the copy.
- Reposted by David WoodruffApplications are open for the Finance Summer School 2026. Last two have been at Brown. This one is at LSE thanks to LSE European Institute and Huth Initiative, plus the Berkeley Program on Finance and Democracy. Stellar Line up. Apps open: forms.gle/WsEVk4Yy52Dn...
- Reposted by David Woodruff10/10 ICE protest sign
- Reposted by David WoodruffI'm not on here too much these days, things have been a little busy 👀🤭 But the love and support I'm feeling on here is incredible. Being a woman, in politics, online is often utterly grim. So thank you to everyone who has my back. It means the world 💚
- I am staggered to find Weingast still peddling this line in early 2025. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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- Reposted by David WoodruffToday, and every day, the Green Party stands with LGBTIQA+ people 💚🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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- Reposted by David WoodruffJust finished first door knocking for the Greens. Honestly most hopeful I’ve felt about politics in a while. Felt good to not just sit watching the world burn (as I’ve been feeling the last months) and instead try to do doing something with others (even if very small)
- Reposted by David WoodruffMight we tactfully point out that to obsess negatively with trans people when the richest and most powerful men in the world are trying to reverse centuries of humane progress and equality to acquire impunity for rape and murder shows a weird sense of priorities?
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- Reposted by David Woodruffthe median American voter:
- Reposted by David WoodruffLook if Minnesota is the hub then it's a Purple Revolution.
- Reposted by David WoodruffZack Polanski delivered a letter to data surveillance company Palantir stating aim to end the company’s £330m contract with NHS. We are putting Palantir on notice, This is a military surveillance company tied to authoritarian surveillance and the devastation in Gaza — and it has no role in our NHS.
- Reposted by David WoodruffA German soccer federation executive committee member says it's time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.
- Reposted by David Woodruffjust to make that clear for the rest of the world, that's -9 degrees *fahrenheit.* -23 degrees *celsius*.
- Reposted by David WoodruffNational media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
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- To paraphrase Polanyi: the ICE assault was planned, massive resistance was not. That the social fabric—the relationships and ongoing patterns of interaction that get us through our lives—should be reliable is a broadly shared moral conviction. Not only markets provoke protective. countermoves.
- Reposted by David WoodruffKeir Starmer did everything he could to be US poodle and his strategy has ended in total humiliation. Both him and Farage are puppets of a hostile foreign nation. It's obvious that if someone is a bully - you don't just keep appeasing them. Disastrous strategy by Labour.
- Not that it's the most important thing going on right now, but it continues to be outrageous that the BoE has its own gilt issue policy, for no good reason. It's still selling gilts of 30-yrs+ maturity, whereas the DMO has now stopped entirely.
- Dear @lseblogs.bsky.social -- In light of this contribution, is there any chance we could switch to a template that doesn't give an option to share our blogs on X, and does give an option to share them on Bluesky?
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- Time to reread Charles Tilly on multiple sovereignty.
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- Reposted by David WoodruffIf the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.
- I may be guilty of preemptive compliance with this order, despite formally being outside of its jurisdiction.
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- Reposted by David Woodruff🚨 We’re hiring an Assistant Professor in Political Science ⏰ Deadline 4th January 2026 🙋♀️ Any questions, please reach out 👇
- 🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨 We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social Any questions, please reach out to me 📣 Please share! 📣 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
- Reposted by David Woodruffperfect metaphors don’t exis—
- Reposted by David WoodruffLeMonde said, not on our watch
- Will be interesting to see who lionizes the five times convicted for inciting racial hatred Bardot. But hey, she loved animals. www.lemonde.fr/en/obituarie...
- Reposted by David WoodruffLet's choose kindness in 2026. youtu.be/lopMMkz0law
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- Reposted by David WoodruffRather excellent thread Let’s be very clear here. This is exactly why it was exceptionally unwise of the Supreme Court to wade into this space using ‘biological sex’ as a defining concept, because as soon as you talk to actual biologists the simple binary unravels. Not a stable basis for law.
- New translation of Wissenschaft als Beruf just dropped.
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- Reposted by David WoodruffFor the second year in a row, the wealth gains for the 100 richest Americans exceeded what ALL American households spent on groceries combined. ~$995B for billionaires vs ~$775B in total grocery spending. We have an oligarchy and inequality problem masquerading as an affordability crisis.
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- This is really quite awful. I hope that Brian Cox follows him out the door.
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- The fact that @yuanfenyang.bsky.social gets only 5 minutes every other month or so to ask great questions about the worst understood issue in fiscal policy suggests to me that oversight is fundamentally, deeply broken.
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- Versuche die verdammten Ohrwürmer Ikkimels wenigstens an meinen Lebensstil anzupassen. Gassi und Krawall doch mit mir läuft ein Hund. Bäuchlein ist prall und sein Arsch ist rund. Das beste Tier im Stall Auf keinen Fall so dumm. Ganz nicht so wie Cap’n Morgan, Kastriert, macht nicht ‘rum.
- Starting to feel like handing out so much writing advice on students’ essays is becoming a form of auto-intimidation: what if my own writing fails to embody the techniques I urge on them, or displays the very infelicities I caution them against?
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- Today in people I wish I could vote for.
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- A very, very interesting piece on how eating-out markets work today.
- Headline today should be: ‘Court roundly rejects harassment claim against trans woman doctor but concludes NHS mishandled investigation’ Willful misinterpretation of Supreme Court Equalities Act decision rejected. bsky.app/profile/good...
- Decision in the Sandie Peggie case. She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...
- Reposted by David WoodruffThis is the second decision - both first instance - since the appalling For (Some) Women Scotland decision to find that there is no trans bathroom ban. www.gov.uk/employment-t...
- Reposted by David Woodruffit might seem surprising that the people who said “look, let trans people live their lives, but i have Reasonable Concerns about sports and toilets” aren’t up in arms about this, but what you have to remember is that those people who said that are liars who were lying
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- The independence of the Bank of England was supposed to facilitate the application of economic reasoning to public policy. But if independence=taboo on discussing the interactions btw fiscal & monetary policy, then not even technocrats deliberate on one of the biggest economic policy issues!
- IMHO, Murphy's very sloppy. But UK fiscal policy since QE/QT amounts to MMT that dare not speak its name. Viz:Osborne et al spent ~£120 bln of the money created to purchase gilts in QE. Too much monetisation-financed fiscal spending, or too little? MMT could at least pose the question! As for QT 1/n
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- IMHO, Murphy's very sloppy. But UK fiscal policy since QE/QT amounts to MMT that dare not speak its name. Viz:Osborne et al spent ~£120 bln of the money created to purchase gilts in QE. Too much monetisation-financed fiscal spending, or too little? MMT could at least pose the question! As for QT 1/n
