Pat McGovern
Incurable sociologist @lsesociology.bsky.social - Work, migration, social inequality and a bit of conflict. Co-founder MSc International Migration and Public Policy @LSE. ⚽️
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- It’s a series of three lectures #LSEEvents Much of the Q&A attempted to extract his views on from week three on policy making but he left us with a cliff-hanger. Very well attended.
- Choking in January? 🤣 www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
- What? Garcia didn’t want to manager under their olayer teadibg model? No wonder so many seats are empty these days. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
- Saved by Laura Dern and worth watching for that reason. www.imdb.com/title/tt2808...
- Very excited about this opportunity which will support our successful #LSE MSc in international migration now in its 14th year.
- 💼 We're #HIRING! We are seeking an Assistant Professor in International Migration specialised in forced #migration and #policy responses to the #international #displacement of people and/or #immigration, #race and #citizenship (from a #comparative perspective). 🌍️ 👉️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
- Reposted by Pat McGovernI wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
- Reposted by Pat McGovernI've known Matt nearly twenty years since we worked together at the University of Manchester, I never realised this claim wasn't true.
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- Keep on rocking in the free world.
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- Nope, nothing from the #NHS hospital. Drove back yet again. Dept receptionist remembered me. When to get the administrator again. Asked to take a seat.
- The state of the #NHS Had a scan in early Oct. Follow up appt led to a referral to specialist dept in local hospital for possible surgery. Heard nothing for one month.
- Brilliant, as is so often the case. Marina Hyde on the Beckham family firm www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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- Early term #protest at the LSE. The #LSE does not like masked protests (and bad spelling). We shall see.
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- The state of the #NHS Had a scan in early Oct. Follow up appt led to a referral to specialist dept in local hospital for possible surgery. Heard nothing for one month.
- Reposted by Pat McGovernThis photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo
- Reposted by Pat McGovernConspiracy theories are increasingly prominent in Spanish politics. @josejavierolivas.bsky.social @maikherold.bsky.social & Felix Hormig @forum-midem.bsky.socia explain why on @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social
- We keep hearing about the wonderful advances in IT, how they will solve so many problems, including in the #NHS. I had a specialist appointment this morning - the only thing the doctor had was my name and date of birth. He knew there was a file but the system would not give him access!🤣😢
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- Reposted by Pat McGovernNadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.
- ‘… has-been politicians looking for the next gravy train’😂 Former Tory Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi defects to Reform UK www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Went to see 'Am I Irish yet?' last night. It was more entertaining than some of the reviews suggest but I did come away more impressed by #KateKerrigan career achievements than by the piece itself. The relationship between the 2nd gen and the auld country is certainly fertile territory.
- Welcome to Bluesky. Here’s sensible advice from a good citizen.
- I was never convinced by #Martinelli - unimaginative decision maker with ordinary end product. Now I just don't like him as a person on the old rule - give someone complete power in a situation and they will reveal themselves.
- Reposted by Pat McGovernThe no-angeling is already in full swing.
- Reposted by Pat McGovernThe datasets from our @protestinstitut.bsky.social project ‘20 years of protest survey data’ are finally online for scientific re-use. We processed 30+ datasets, covering protests on peace, climate, trade, migration, equality & more. Now available @gesis.org 👇 search.gesis.org?source=%7B%2...
- One for the shopping list
- What a wonderful book! If you read just one book in 2026, please consider this briliant one by @drkatemarvel.bsky.social. Rich, wise, challenging, moving, funny - all at the same time. Whatever you think, feel or know about climate change & science, it won't disappoint. bookshop.org/p/books/huma...
- Reposted by Pat McGovernI understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance". It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder". The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.
- Much as I admired his Against Postmodernism… ‘’The bulletin stated that the changes were made “to confront the legacy of the 2013 crisis, when the SWP failed two women who raised complaints of sexual misconduct”. www.workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...
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- Tax avoidance to protect their low wage workers? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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- Back in the old country, 'fertility rates have fallen faster than expected' and so migration is required to help develop a 'virtuous cycle' of demographic change. Rich country problems, at last. www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
- ‘Significant here is the attempt to play down the problem of the persisting very low chances of long-range social mobility between the wage-earning working classes and the higher-level professional and managerial occupations’ www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
- Really sad news about John Robertson, the artist among the ‘miracle men’ at Notts Forest who created moments of beauty every other week. #Picassoo
- Gobsmacked to read elsewhere that the Professor who invited @profalices.bsky.social was suspended and was still under suspension 12 months later. #managementmalpractice
- ‘A court summons issued against Reginald D Hunter has been quashed after a judge said Campaign Against Antisemitism misled him when bringing a private prosecution against the comedian.’ www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/d...
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- We’ll always have Paris, which I can neither forgive nor forget as he has never full accepted what he did. And i’m a #Gooner www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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- Determined to keep a 'research essay' on one of my courses and so we are embarking on a trial with some new tech in the New Year. Let me add that it's more about academic integrity AND student support than a minor worry about student cheating. We have great students. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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- 🤣 Taking the piddle. #FIFA www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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- Variation on an old theme but it's no longer a legally justifiable basis for dismissal. Happy to be corrected on legal matters, of course. #GrandTheftDismissals www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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- Reposted by Pat McGovern1. BREAKING Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is referring to the Bondi Beach massacre as a “targeted attack on Jewish Australians,” and says that “an attack on Jewish Australians is an attack on every Australian.”
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- Spent a lovely afternoon visiting a friend at Brown University two summers ago. Hard to believe such things happen in such peaceful places. What freedom do you have when you allow gunmen to repeatedly remove it? #Brown
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- Frame it as a crisis and get more clicks. Strip out all context - and ignore new manager with identical problems across the city who is white. apple.news/ABmJousV5SJG...
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- All the Scottish teams lost in Europe tonight. O’Neill’s #Celtic lost to a Danish team. So why is all the criticism directed towards the black manager?
- Is there a more despised international sporting organisation than #FIFA? Outrageous ticket prices for ‘the people’s game’. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
- Reposted by Pat McGovernTomorrow's front page 📰 'The UK is letting these people die'
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