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Future of the Left

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Josh Westerling @joshwesterling.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Pleased to write a short reflection in this @futureoftheleft.bsky.social collection where we each explore our experience of modern life. Mine looks back on the World Cup and why - for all I still value the unity it brings - this year it felt there was a fakeness and performance to it.
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HOW WE LIVE NOW
An anthropology of ourselves.
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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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Future of the Left @futureoftheleft.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🚨 NEW PUBLICATION 🚨 @andyburnham.bsky.social wants to reindustrialise Britain. Read our collection of essays on what that means, with contributions from @ben-glover.bsky.social, @paulmason.bsky.social, @jessprend.bsky.social, @drodrik.bsky.social, @davidedgerton.bsky.social, and others. ⬇️🔗
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Yuan Yang @yuanfenyang.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I’m honoured to be giving this year’s Rita Hinden Memorial Lecture for @renewaljournal.bsky.social, discussing what the “end of neoliberalism” means and the opportunities Andy Burnham’s premiership brings for fresh economic ideas. (1/2)
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Future of the Left @futureoftheleft.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"Making things matters, but not if the design, the tools, and the returns belong to someone else." writes Max Hebertson on why we need to support British companies at the frontier of new technologies. futureoftheleft.substack.com/p/innovation...
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Innovation first
A series on the politics of production
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Dan Mead @danmead.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Connectivity rather than a return of manufacturing is how we can heal the scars of deindustrialisation in our post industrial towns - my piece in response to @ben-glover.bsky.social futureoftheleft.substack.com/p/connecting...
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Connecting post-industrial towns
A series on the politics of production.
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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
My thoughts on where Andy Burnham’s (and the Left’s in general) priorities on the economy should be futureoftheleft.substack.com/p/the-left-m...
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The Left must focus on where the jobs will be, not where it wishes they would be
A series on the politics of production.
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