John Meadowcroft

@MeadowcroftJohn

Reader in Public Policy ; in charge of this twitter account until somebody tells me otherwise

London, UK
Joined November 2014

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    15 Jun 2018

    Explaining the rise and fall of the English Defence League - new article with Elizabeth Morrow in (open access)

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    (1/14) A short thread on the sad HISTORY OF LOBOTOMIES 👇👇On 12 November 1935, a Portuguese neurologist named Antonio Egas Moniz became the first individual to perform what would later be known as a lobotomy.

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  3. Retweeted
    9 hours ago
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    Oh I have seen that in GR. Most Syriza supporters who voted NO in referendum said Grexit would be OK and that won’t be a problem. A week of queuing outside banks convinced them otherwise. Reality in the end is inescapable

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  4. 5 hours ago

    So Global Britain actually means self-sufficiency Britain; a return to an agrarian economy will be good for British farming and fishing, at least in terms of numbers of employees, and a three month transition will certainly be character building for our new peasant society

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    I agree with this open letter from universities. No Deal is an avoidable disaster & Govt could & should be ruling it out, not using it as a threat to try to coerce MPs to support its blindfold Brexit. There is no consent to either. We need a

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    #7 of my 40 FAVOURITE HISTORY OBJECTS: Marie Curie's notebooks, which are RADIOACTIVE & must be stored in a lead-lined box in the Bibliothèque Nationale. Curie’s corpse is also radioactive. Her coffin is lined in an inch of lead. Both will remain radioactive for 1,500+ years.

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  7. Jan 3

    Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?

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  8. Jan 3

    If anyone actually believes this statist, economic illiterate nonsense I’d recommend they read The Role of Business in the Modern World by David Henderson

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  9. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    I'm VERY honored to have been chosen as one of the 14 people who are "using the web to make the world a better place" - with Faces of Auschwitz. Check out the interview (and the other fantastic stories too) Thank you !

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  10. Retweeted
    Jan 2

    A couple years ago, when I was writing for American Dad!, I needed an Arabic speaker for a small part. Our casting director recommended a Saudi comedian, who happened to be in LA for a couple months shooting a tv show. His name is Fahad Albutairi.

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    Jan 2
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  12. Jan 2

    James Buchanan and the Political Economy of Desegregation by in Southern Economic Journal - highly recommended (and gated I'm afraid)

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    One of the best pieces of writing I came across in 2018: A description of the meteor that killed the dinosaurs.

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  15. Jan 1

    Canary Wharf from Greenland Dock Happy New Year!

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  16. Retweeted
    31 Dec 2018
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    Hell is just a word. The reality is far worse...

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  17. 31 Dec 2018
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    31 Dec 2018

    Loved that stat that Neil Etheridge's penalty saves this season have all been against players with names of former US Presidents - sun's out, puns out as you'd expect

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    30 Dec 2018

    Overheard in Chicago Institute of Art: Small child, reading description of painting: Grandma, what's a brothel? Grandma, after enormous pause: it's the place where they make soup THIS IS BOTH THE BEST AND ALSO THE MOST RUIN-YOUR-LIFE-FOREVER ANSWER POSSIBLE

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  20. 29 Dec 2018

    What a goal and what a moment! Absolutely top class from Sess and Mitro

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    29 Dec 2018

    Look at this photo. Everything about it is just pure class: -Dirty Den thinks he is back on the crossbar -The geezer kissing Mitro more passionately than he’s probably ever kissed a bird (or geezer, it is 2018 after all) And.. -The loving hug from we love to see!

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