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University of Exeter News @uniofexeternews.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

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Prof @fhpitts.bsky.social has been discussing today's events: 📻Before and after the PM's resignation with BBC Radio Devon-1h13+3h48: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... 📻 With BBC Somerset: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... 📻Anticipating a Burnham premiership with BBC Radio Cornwall-1hr32: lnkd.in/e33EfmDJ

Frederick Harry Pitts @fhpitts.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Answered @congeostrategy.bsky.social's 'Big Ask' on defence spending along with @paulmason.bsky.social & others, considering how a new Labour leadership must confront the convenient alibis that enable the party to avoid a ruthless prioritisation of security: www.britainsworld.org.uk/p/the-big-as...

University of Exeter News @uniofexeternews.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

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"The lack of fiscal room and the immediate threat posed on our doorstep by Russia mean that it is no longer possible to fudge the issue" - @fhpitts.bsky.social for @renewaljournal.bsky.social on why decisions about defence funding need to be made quickly renewal.org.uk/blog/sitting...

When the sun sets on the Starmer premiership, it will be clear that its descent began when it caved to elements of the Parliamentary Labour Party on welfare reform. Caught up in the conditions faced b...

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University of Exeter News @uniofexeternews.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

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Professor @fhpitts.bsky.social from @exeterspspa.bsky.social @hass-cornwall.bsky.social spoke to BBC Radio Devon and Radio Cornwall about the resignation of John Healey + Al Cairns and why it crucial for the Government to make decisions about defence spending www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Caroline Densley - 12/06/2026 - BBC Sounds

Caroline gets Devon talking and celebrates the best of what's going on in the county.

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Frederick Harry Pitts @fhpitts.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

🏭 Foundational Industries & the UK's Modern Industrial Strategy 🏭 New briefing note from our Critical Minerals Challenge Centre at @exeter.ac.uk. Draws on recent work with @feps-europe.eu looking at steel & critical minerals as case studies: criticalmineralschallengecentre.co.uk/wp-content/u...

Paul Mason @paulmason.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

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Kicking Defence Off Campus? Cui Bono? Why making the universities part of the defence tech industrial base is a solid socialist idea... open.substack.com/pub/htsf/p/k...

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Kicking Defence Off Campus? Cui Bono?

The Defence Universities Alliance is a brilliant Labour idea inspired by a visionary Liberal peer

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Frederick Harry Pitts @fhpitts.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The first few articles are now published OnlineFirst from the 'Workplace Geopolitics: Industrial Relations & International Relations' Special Issue that I am editing with @huwthomas.bsky.social for @jirjournal.bsky.social. The SI focuses on how our current age of conflict shapes the future of work:

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Frederick Harry Pitts @fhpitts.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

New @feps-europe.eu paper with Theo Cox, Ed Atkins & @gerardoosterwijk.bsky.social: "Place-Based Industrial Policy: Places, People & Power in European Industrial Policy" feps-europe.eu/publication/... Thanks to László Andor & team at @feps-europe.eu + @adamlangleben.bsky.social & team at Progress

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Renewal @renewaljournal.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This week, Renewal has published two new online pieces covering problems of industrial relations... renewal.org.uk/blog/ 1/4

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Frederick Harry Pitts @fhpitts.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Excited to publish a timely new paper by @paulmason.bsky.social: "Designing the 21st Century Wartime State: Challenges for the UK’s new War Book & Defence Readiness Bill" Read here: www.exeter.ac.uk/v8media/rese... And more via @uniofexeternews.bsky.social here: news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

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Blue Labour @blue-labour.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

A New issue of our friends at Future of the Left with intro from Jason Cowley 🗞️ Includes: John Bew on US Foreign policy Jonathan Rutherford on the PMC Also includes pieces on critical mineral strategy and institutional decline. futureoftheleft.substack.com/p/newsletter...

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Newsletter #7: If you don’t know, now you know

Whether we like it or not the world has changed, and we must change with it.

Lise Butler @lisebutler.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

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Really very proud of this issue of @renewaljournal.bsky.social and a pleasure to work with Steven and Harry. I think the issue offers a fair-minded view of one of the most important pieces of Labour’s agenda and tackles the changing work landscape in a big picture way. Read, share, subscribe!

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

New Renewal just dropped! Some fantastic stuff in this issue, including essays from Jane Gingrich, Jon Cruddas, Hilary Cottam, @ewangibbs.bsky.social, @joshwesterling.bsky.social, @abbyabhaya.bsky.social, and @benjthomas.bsky.social

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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

The day's main political event: new Renewal !

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Renewal @renewaljournal.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

NEW ISSUE ALERT: Renewal 34:1 The Employment Rights Act and the Politics of Work Guest edited by Renewal contributing editors @stevenklein.bsky.social and @fhpitts.bsky.social along with co-editor @lisebutler.bsky.social renewal.org.uk/journal/volu...

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Frederick Harry Pitts @fhpitts.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Great to talk Cornwall & critical minerals at this event today along with @jaynekirkhammp.bsky.social and many others, and introduce a new policy study out soon with @feps-europe.eu: 'Place-Based Industrial Policy in the Age of Insecurity: The Politics of Producing Materials, Minerals & Microchips'.

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FEPS Europe @feps-europe.eu · 19/03/2026

🔴Join LIVE - the event “Place-based industrial policy in Europe” youtube.com/watch?v=Eufb... 🤝 By FEPS in cooperation with Progress and @pes-cor.bsky.social.

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Frederick Harry Pitts @fhpitts.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Quoted in todays @theguardian.com on the latest progress in Cornwall's contribution to the country's energy & mineral security, alongside Critical Minerals Challenge Centre colleague Frances Wall & @perranmoonmp.bsky.social: theguardian.com/environment/... @uniofexeternews.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk

Frederick Harry Pitts @fhpitts.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

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From national resilience to national renewal? Wrote up some remarks on our home defence paper for @renewaljournal.bsky.social, asking whether Labour's long-promised 'defence conversation' will find, to paraphrase Thatcher, no such thing as 'whole-of-society' after all: renewal.org.uk/blog/resilie...

Resilience and Renewal: Labour and ‘Whole of Society’ Defence

The 2025 Strategic Defence Review (SDR) was commissioned by Sir Keir Starmer as Labour entered government, updating the UK’s defence and security posture in the face of a more dangerous world. Alongsi...

Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

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This looks very timely.

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Frederick Harry Pitts @fhpitts.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Resilience and Renewal: Labour and ‘Whole of Society’ Defence

Frederick Harry Pitts @fhpitts.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

New policy paper exploring the concept of home defence & whole-of-society security/resilience in the UK. Published by the Centre for the Public Understanding of Defence & Security at @exeter.ac.uk. Coauthored with Frances Tammer & Gareth Stansfield with a Foreword by Paul Cornish: t.co/hloNsXAYaJ

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University of Exeter's Environment and Sustainability Institute @uniofexeteresi.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Did you know that security is being used as a lever to attract economic development in rural regions? Sign up for the RSA Edgenet webinar talking about what it means for peripheries in a new era of geopolitical instability. Wednesday 4 February, 9-10.30 am 👉 www.regionalstudies.org/events/rsa-r...

Renewal @renewaljournal.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

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NEW ISSUE: Renewal 33/3&4 Guest co-edited by @neilwarner.bsky.social & @beccagold.bsky.social, this special double issue features nineteen (19) brilliant essays analysing Labour's statecraft and debating the strategic challenges for social democracy in Britain and beyond

A quarterly journal of politics and ideas, committed to exploring and expanding the radical potential of social democracy.

Volume 33, Issue 3-4

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FEPS Europe @feps-europe.eu · 16/12/2025

🇪🇺🇬🇧The final day of the 11th Oxford Symposium opens with the plenary on “#Industrial strategy and grand transformations”. With: 🔺@jrgingrich.bsky.social 🔺Rachel Blake, MP 🔺 Theo Cox The 11th Oxford Symposium launches the book “The Great Unravelling”. 📕 bit.ly/GreatUnravel...

Paul Mason @paulmason.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

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Preparing for Putin's Intermittent War - why we have to harden UK society against the kind of treatment Ukraine is suffering - open.substack.com/pub/htsf/p/p...

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Preparing for the 'Intermittent War'...

What I learned at the RUSI Long War Conference

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Frederick Harry Pitts @fhpitts.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Great to see our @ukri.org Critical Minerals Challenge Centre at @exeter.ac.uk mentioned in Vision 2035, the government's new Critical Minerals Strategy. As test case for securonomics in action, it has a clear focus on Cornwall's tin, tungsten & lithium. 🔗in thread below www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Renewal @renewaljournal.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

NEW ISSUE: Renewal Vol. 33 No. 2 Published amidst far-right mobilisation and a Reform surge, the new issue of Renewal (guest co-edited by @sachahilhorst.bsky.social) features activists, journalists, and academics analysing the radical right threat and debating how social democrats can respond

A quarterly journal of politics and ideas, committed to exploring and expanding the radical potential of social democracy.

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Emma Kluge @emmakluge.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Our historical narratives are often centred on land, but what happens if we shift our perspective to oceans? How might this shape our environmental and political imaginaries? Join us at @hass-cornwall.bsky.social as we plunge into the past to navigate new futures. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xqj...

Oceans - Dr Emma Kluge, Lecturer in Colonial and Environmental History

Frederick Harry Pitts @fhpitts.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

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The latest in our series of short videos about the interdisciplinary research colleagues do at @hass-cornwall.bsky.social. Watch the full series here: hass-cornwall.exeter.ac.uk/research/

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Research | Humanities and Social Sciences, Cornwall | University of Exeter

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University of Exeter Humanities and Social Sciences, Cornwall @hass-cornwall.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Falling youth turnout is an existential threat to our democracies. @hass-cornwall.bsky.social are studying how volunteering can reconnect young people from the poorest backgrounds with elections. Find out more in our new ‘Research Shorts' series. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vgS...

Volunteering - Dr Stuart Fox, Senior Lecturer in Politics

University of Exeter Humanities and Social Sciences, Cornwall @hass-cornwall.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

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Next in our series of Research Shorts is Prof. Jamie Hampson on rock art. Humans have been creating rock art for more than 70,000 years. At HaSS Cornwall we consider why, and think about how understanding art helps us understand what it means to be human. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAf0...

Rock Art - Professor Jamie Hampson, Associate Professor of Rock Art and Indigenous Heritage

University of Exeter Humanities and Social Sciences, Cornwall @hass-cornwall.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

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Tradition is not only about continuity – it can also be about change. At @hass-cornwall.bsky.social historians explore how continuous ritual traditions have been interpreted in radically different ways across the centuries. Find out more in our new Research Shorts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj-n...

Tradition - Dr Jeremy DeWaal, Senior Lecturer in European History

Frederick Harry Pitts @fhpitts.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

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'Reindustrialisation’ is now a buzzword across the political spectrum. At @hass-cornwall.bsky.social we are surrounded by resurgent industries rooted in place and strategically pivotal to security & sustainability. Hear more in our new 'Research Shorts' series of videos: youtu.be/oPIDKPX7jcc?...

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Reindustrialisation - Dr Frederick Harry Pitts, Senior Lecturer in Politics

Frederick Harry Pitts @fhpitts.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

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My colleague Catriona Pennell @teachlearnwar.bsky.social launches our new @hass-cornwall.bsky.social short video series with a brilliant reflection on remembrance & forgetting. Hear more about our interdisciplinary research here: hass-cornwall.exeter.ac.uk/research/ @uniofexeternews.bsky.social

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Frederick Harry Pitts @fhpitts.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Me for @progbrit.bsky.social on the Chancellor's visit to South Crofty in Cornwall yesterday. The critical minerals sector symbolises some of the promise of 'securonomics', its importance recognised in both industrial policy & national security strategy. www.progressivebritain.org/the-chancell...

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The Chancellor sees Critical Minerals are a case study in Securonomics - Progressive Britain

With the Chancellor visiting the soon to be re-opened South Crofty Tin mine, can Critical Minerals bring security & growth to the South West?

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Nick Garland @npjgarland.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Great new @ippr.org report from @sachahilhorst.bsky.social, making very clear the link between the decline of community spaces and the rise of the radical right. Sacha reimagines the 20th century miners' welfare fund as a model for reviving social infrastructure: www.ippr.org/articles/pla...

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Places to come together: Rebuilding local solidarities against the far right | IPPR

In late July 2024, the seaside town of Southport in Merseyside burst into the national consciousness when it suffered two different, violent events in succ

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Frederick Harry Pitts @fhpitts.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

The Chancellor is visiting the epicentre of the Cornish mining revival, South Crofty: theguardian.com/business/202... Great to see tin understood as a test case for Reeves's 'securonomics', as I suggested in a piece for @renewaljournal.bsky.social a few years ago: renewal.org.uk/blog/bringin...