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Frederick Harry Pitts @fhpitts.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Read 'Rearm/Reindustrialise/Reinfrastructure', my contribution to Reindustrialising Britain: A New Politics of Production, here via @futureoftheleft.bsky.social: futureoftheleft.substack.com/p/reindustri...

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Frederick Harry Pitts @fhpitts.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A privilege to contribute an essay to Reindustrialising Britain, @futureoftheleft.bsky.social's collection on the new politics of production, alongside interventions by @ben-glover.bsky.social @drodrik.bsky.social @paulmason.bsky.social @davidedgerton.bsky.social @davidlawrenceuk.bsky.social 🔗⬇️

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FEPS Europe @feps-europe.eu · 27/07/2026

📕Read FEPS’ policy study “Place-based industrial policy: Places, people & power in European industrial policy”! The policy study argues for an industrial strategy that balances national & supranational economic competitiveness & security while supporting democratic legitimacy & regional development

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Place-based industrial policy - Foundation for European Progressive Studies

Places, people and power in European industrial policy

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

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

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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...

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

"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...

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Sitting on defence

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

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...

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

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

There are many contributions to come on how workplace geopolitics play out in a range of sectors and regions - watch this space, and find out more about the SI via @jirjournal.bsky.social here: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/PD... @digitcentre.bsky.social @ifow.org @sociodigfutures.bsky.social

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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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Renewal

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

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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.

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

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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Volume 34, Issue 1

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

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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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Place-based industrial policy in Europe

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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

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

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...

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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...

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

This looks very timely.

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

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

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

"The UK faces critical vulnerabilities when compared to allied countries...Home defence should be treated as a strategic necessity in the face of persistent and escalating threats" You can read more about our new policy paper via @uniofexeternews.bsky.social here: news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

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

"Without immediate clarity of purpose, strong governance, and rapid mobilisation of resources, the UK risks critical strategic vulnerability at a time when adversaries are already acting." Read "Making Sense of Home Defence: From Planning to Practice" here: www.exeter.ac.uk/v8media/rese...

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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...

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

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

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Volume 33, Issue 3-4

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

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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...

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

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

The new Critical Minerals Strategy speaks to ongoing work with @progbrit.bsky.social & @feps-europe.eu on industrial policy against a backdrop of geopolitical competition for power & control over resources like critical minerals, with Cornwall a case study: 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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Frederick Harry Pitts @fhpitts.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

I recently published a policy briefing looking towards the new Critical Minerals Strategy as the government's 'securonomics' agenda in action - a testbed of reindustrialisation in pursuit of both national security & environmental sustainability: criticalmineralschallengecentre.co.uk/publications...

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Publications & Policy Briefs - Critical Minerals Challenge Centre

Browse our latest publications and policy briefs to explore the evidence, insights, and recommendations shaping the future of critical minerals. These downloadable resources highlight our research imp...

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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

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Volume 33, Issue 2

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...

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

YouTube video by University of Exeter

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