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Stefan Eich @stefeich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New article just dropped in APSR! Leah Downey and yours truly on why people should stop using “democratize” when all they really mean is increasing market access. (Looking at you, economists! 👀) And, more positively, what a better vision of “democratization” looks like when applied to finance.

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Clear break from neoliberalism from Burnham - since the 1980s, "the wealth [Labour] created for the many was seen as an opportunity for the few." "The right talk about taking back control - they were the ones that gave it away in the first place" (referring to water, elec, care etc.)

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Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Sick of work this Monday lunchtime? Or perhaps hungover from one too many on the first night of Labour Conference? If so, distract yourself with ✨ 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱-𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗠𝗥𝗣 𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 ✨ Full interactive at: jack-bailey.co.uk/ward2024

Screenshot showing interactive ward level MRP estimates at the 2024 UK general election.

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IPR @uniofbathipr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We're pleased to share an opportunity for researchers, policymakers and practitioners to contribute to debates on how pension systems should evolve as societies age. 'The Future of Pensions in an Ageing Society' will be a Special Collection in the Contemporary Social Science (CSS) journal...

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The Future of Pensions in an Ageing Society

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Andrew WM Smith @smidbob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'll be on @france24.com english channel tonight around 8.30pm (London time) to talk about the latest French political polling. But first, I'm off to see part 2 of the de Gaulle film

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good shout out to RNLI from Healey in his speech to HUGE applause

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Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I just spotted that my book was one of those reviewed in this suggestive essay about the transnational circulation and contestation of, and adaptation to, neoliberal ideas in late C20th European social democracy. Very pleasing to be read alongside such excellent authors. doi.org/10.1017/S096...

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Social Democracy and Neoliberalism since the 1970s: Adaptation, Convergence or Contestation? | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core

Social Democracy and Neoliberalism since the 1970s: Adaptation, Convergence or Contestation? - Volume 35

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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Had fun talking about Hobsbawm, the history of French intellectual life, and a whole host of other things in the latest episode of BBC Free Thinking on Radio 4 with Matthew Sweet and guests... www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Intellectuals

Matthew Sweet discusses the role of intellectuals in public life.

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you are at Labour Party Conference today, I'll be speaking at the @ippr.org 'Big Ideas Debate' this evening making the case for compulsory voting. 6pm, Museum of Liverpool, Education Area 3. www.ippr.org/events/ippr-...

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IPPR at party conferences 2026 | IPPR

This year IPPR is expanding its presence and will be at five party conferences in 2026. We anticipate that just as in previous years, our events will prove

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For Histoire @ Politique, I reviewed Jean Vigreux's 'Découvrir le Front populaire' - a new source-based introduction to France's Popular Front, which eschews simplistic celebration in favour of highlighting the Popular Front moment as one of extreme social and political tensions

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Jean Vigreux, Découvrir le Front populaire

Politics in Europe today is increasingly marked by what the historian Renauld Meltz describes as a “compulsive return to the 1930s” as a primary lens through which to view the present. In France, t...

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yes - which is why there are real limits to how far the left can and should lean into “cost of living” politics

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yes - which is why there are real limits to how far the left can and should lean into “cost of living” politics

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Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Good post. At some point we are going to have to confront the fact that those who live materially comfortable lives may have to cut back a bit on what are effectively luxuries (even if they are now regarded as necessities).

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 26/09/2026

‘Universities have not been very hospitable to intellectualism for quite a long time in the UK.’ @will-davies.bsky.social on what happened to the intellectual, on the podcast. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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On Politics: What happened to the intellectual?

Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 23 September · 1hr 7min

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 26/09/2026

🚨 NEW: More community ownership. More co-operatives. High streets that work for the people who live there. From a stronger Community Right to Buy to bringing empty shops back into use, we’re putting more power and ownership into local hands. 🐝

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Dean Hochlaf @dhochlaf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Do think a lot of this attitude stems from 1) falsely equating higher tax revenue as a % of GDP with a higher average tax burden for individuals and 2) failing to link higher costs to persistent state underinvestment which has left us trying to put out fires which should never have started

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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Think it's important to grasp that when people like Ovenden use phrases like "rapidly medicalised layabouts" they get a little thrill like they're daring to break taboos, but actually they're repeating the tiresome but orthodox belief of their coterie. (Cf his treatment of Diane Abbott.)

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Center for Countering Digital Hate @counterhate.com · 25/09/2026

Elon Musk doesn’t want to follow international regulations, while exploiting algorithms on X to influence politics and incite violence in countries he doesn’t even live in. He’s turning to every possible avenue to challenge the EU’s enforcement of the DSA against X.

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Nick Garland @npjgarland.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It is no doubt comforting to think that the only reason the Starmer premiership didn't succeed was that it was held back from making Tough Choices by effete progressives inside the Labour Party and the British state. It is also nonsense.

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Nick Garland @npjgarland.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Kind of grimly fascinating as always, coming from the former director of strategy to a Labour PM. There just isn't a future for a centre-left politics that is this hostile to pretty basic progressive values.

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Jean Vigreux, Découvrir le Front populaire

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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have a new essay in the newly relaunched IPPR Progressive Journal. It’s intended as a sober assessment of the political economy of Britain’s energy challenge, as we move from the old, dying fossil fuel system to the new world of electrification onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Screenshot of journal article How Britain Can Eacape Its Energy Trap: Heat and Light at the End of the Tunnel

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Who can be surprised that one of the uses of crypto is to allow Russia to evade sanctions? It is just for crime-ing.

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Political Quarterly @politicalquarterly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Brown's premiership from 2007 is widely regarded as a missed opportunity." Do you agree? Free book review of the month: Patrick Diamond reviews 'Gordon Brown: Power with Purpose', by James Macintyre. politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/review-...

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Review: Gordon Brown. Power with Purpose, by James Macintyre

Gordon Brown in power: was it a missed opportunity?

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Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The first ep of Experts in a Dying Field, a culture and politics podcast with me, @zunguzungu.bsky.social & @lililoofbourow.bsky.social, is up. We talk 100 Years of Solitude's Netflix adaptation and why no one is talking about it until we perish of self-contradiction www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLyj...

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Netflix's One Hundred Years of Solitude | Ep. 1 Experts in a Dying Field

YouTube video by Experts InADyingField

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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As an aside from the piece as a whole, I do find the very recognisable post liberal writing style fascinating.

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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This came out of a project where, to entertain myself, I wrote a few different versions of fundamentally the same piece, in the style of different kinds of commentator. I was kindly allowed to start the piece with a few of these:

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is what happens when people and governments think and want universities to run like for profit businesses. Completely grotesque. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Backlash as Indian oil heir made professor of sustainability by Newcastle University

Role for Anant Ambani, son of India’s richest person, who also runs a controversial mega-zoo, met with incredulity

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🍿 so, everything about this is the most interesting thing ever to me. If you think having to read other people's AI-generated documents is boring, at least you can skim those. What happens when someone gives a circuitous and overblown AI-generated speech? You just have to sit and listen.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

‘This is playing into his hands’/‘this will allow him to play the martyr card’/‘this will help with his fundraising’ are all really bad takes. Criminals should be arrested and charged with crimes.

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

i am sorry i am right wing about this. prison works.

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Euan Huey @euan-huey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm really happy to share that my article is now out in the Journal of Early Modern History and is open access!

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Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

my book Union has a cover. Indeed, two covers- one for the UK release and one for the US. Forthcoming August of next year.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 23/09/2026

On the podcast: @will-davies.bsky.social joins @piercepenniless.bsky.social to consider what distinguishes intellectuals from the technocrats, academics, experts, polemicists, thought leaders, gurus and utopians who compete for our attention. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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On Politics: What happened to the intellectual?

Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 23 September · 1hr 7min

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's worth noting that the "Burnham bounce" - before the tough decisions kick in - has Labour at 23-30%. The "Keminaissance" has the Tories at 18-22%. The old social and cultural ties that anchored voters to the two-party system, even when things were rough, just don't exist anymore.

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IPR @uniofbathipr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Why did ‘Leave’ and ‘Remain’ identities endure long after the Brexit referendum? Join a conversation with Prof Sara Hobolt, LSE, to explore the lasting political tribalism sparked by the Brexit referendum. 📍 29 Oct 17:30 @uniofbath.bsky.social Open to all.

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Prof Sara Hobolt: Tribal politics: How Brexit divided Britain

Sara Hobolt explores how a political moment can spark lasting divides, and the consequences of this for political attitudes and choices.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I guess he has more time for monetary policy now he's not on the Ed Sheeran tour

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It is both really obvious and seemingly often forgotten that an awful load of pressing economic problems would be an order of magnitude easier if the Strait of Hormuz was open.

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Connected by Data @connectedbydata.org · 21/09/2026

Summer’s gone; parliament is back. In this blog for @futuregovforum.bsky.social, @jenitennison.com & @gavinfreeguard.com assert a digital, devolved state needs to be deliberate - and democratic. 🔗 futuregovforum.substack.com/p/a-digital-...

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A digital, devolved state needs to be deliberate – and democratic

By Gavin Freeguard and Jeni Tennison

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It was very good to see Bridget Phillipson both endorse Sunak's article *and* point out that Conservative, as well as Reform, politicians have endorsed the view that you have to be white to be British/English.

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's time. Time to write about this style of writing. Which I've done here. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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What is LinkedIn?

The rise of mindful slop

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Tories, early 2010s: "We've raised the tax-free allowance, taking low-paid workers out of having to pay income tax. Aren't we great!" 2020s: "Isn't it terrible that these low-paid immigrants aren't paying enough tax"

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Thoughtful essay, challenging those on the Left who would prefer not to acknowledge the significance of advances in AI, while calling for the Left to develop its own social-democratic perspective on what they could mean and how we should respond

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