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Lee Jones
@DrLeeJones
Professor of Political Economy & International Relations @QMPoliticsIR. Associate @SCWObservatory. @BungaCast contributing editor. China, global & UK politics.
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    Lee Jones
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    Apr 28, 2023
    Out today! My new co-authored book, TAKING CONTROL: SOVEREIGNTY AND DEMOCRACY AFTER BREXIT. Answering questions like: what *is* the EU? Why did the UK vote to leave? Why was it so hard? And why is everything still so dire? politybooks.com/bookdetail?boo… (1/12)
    Taking Control: Sovereignty and Democracy After Brexit, Taking Control argues that neither side in the Brexit debate really understood the European Union or what was involved in reclaiming Britain's sovereignty
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    Taking Control: Sovereignty and Democracy After Brexit, Taking Control argues that neither side in the Brexit debate really understood the European Union or what was involved in reclaiming Britain's...
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    Lee Jones
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    Mar 27, 2020
    I have put in about 60-70hrs over the past week handling the COVID19 crisis in my department. Today @QMUL demanded to know what dates I was on strike in March so they could dock my next pay packet. In the middle of a pandemic. Utterly ashamed to work at this university.
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    Lee Jones
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    Aug 10, 2021
    Top scientists: - everyone will get COVID, spread can't be stopped, incl. by vaccine - mass testing should end - focus on people who actually get ill, not "cases" - we must learn to live with it Exactly what "sceptics" have been saying for some time.
    Delta variant has wrecked hopes of herd immunity, warn scientists
    From telegraph.co.uk
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    Lee Jones
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    Jul 25, 2025
    Hugely useful timeline of the Thai-Cambodia border crisis. Makes pretty clear that the whole thing has been instigated by, and most often escalated by, Cambodia, notwithstanding tit-for-tat on the Thai side. Why is this crisis happening, and why now? 🧵 1/14
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    Nathan Ruser
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    Jul 25, 2025
    🧵A detailed timeline on escalations in the lead-up to yesterday's clashes between Thailand and Cambodia. Much of the escalation seems to stem from Cambodia, with their troops fortifying many sectors before the May 28 clashes and surging strategic assets immediately after. 🗺️ -
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    Lee Jones
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    Aug 29, 2021
    This weekend I'm celebrating my promotion to Professor. Not too shabby for a bricklayer's kid who was the first in his family to attend university. ☺️
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    Lee Jones
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    Nov 10, 2021
    I appeared on @MichelleDewbs' show on @GBNEWS earlier this week, making the case against vaccine mandates and care workers being threatened with the sack if they don't get the jab. @hartgroup_org @BigBrotherWatch @unisontheunion
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    Lee Jones
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    Jun 4, 2020
    The speed with which lockdown fanatics have gone from tarring and feathering Dominic Cummings to endorsing mass gatherings is breathtaking. I don't think they have any conscious understanding of their own motivations.
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    Piers Morgan
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    Jun 4, 2020
    Proud of my son for attending the #BlackLivesMatter protest which he found profoundly inspiring. He told me he maintained social distancing as best he could in the large crowd. Not easy given many others weren't, but I'm glad he tried.
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    Lee Jones
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    May 30, 2020
    Congratulations, with over $5bn in US govt subsidies, you achieved what the Soviet Union managed in 1961.
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    May 27, 2020
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    Lee Jones
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    Jul 2, 2019
    Christine Lagarde, one of the chief torturers of the Greek people - who admitted to Varoufakis that inflicting austerity wouldn't work, but did it anyway - is set to be ECB president. How can anyone believe the EU is capable of change? It's not even capable of basic decency.
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    António Costa
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    Jul 2, 2019
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    Lee Jones
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    Feb 1, 2019
    In my London borough this week, three kids were stabbed and seven arrested in a knife brawl, and the mayor is tweeting about his consumption of soft drinks.
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    Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
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    Feb 1, 2019
    Drinking just one 330ml can of fizzy drink a day could add over a stone of weight gain per year. I’m cutting out fizzy drinks for #FizzFreeFeb to highlight the impacts of sugar on obesity and tooth decay. Join me and #GoFizzFree: bit.ly/2Gwk1si @tom_watson
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    Lee Jones
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    Feb 23, 2021
    Medieval university managers.
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    Lee Jones
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    May 12, 2019
    Attempts to smear The Brexit Party as "far right" and the "gotcha" focus on Farage's record are simply not going to dent the party's support, because what drives it is a singular concern for democracy, not agreement with Farage's personal views.
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    Lee Jones
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    Aug 19, 2021
    I oppose vaccine passports because they are - ineffective (vaccinated people still spread COVID-19) - discriminatory (against those who do not want/ cannot have the vaccine) and - authoritarian (no to a "papers, please" society) #together
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    Lee Jones
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    Mar 24, 2019
    Apart from the wrongly capitalised "L" and the non-capitalised "G", your attempt to sneer at the poor was a great success.