Nick Pearce @iprnickp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Peter Hall’s major new work on growth regimes is out: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...press.princeton.eduGoverning GrowthA groundbreaking account of how politics and economics have interacted in Western democracies over the past eighty years 052
Nick Pearce @iprnickp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Mitsotakis - return and reunite the Parthenon Frieze @anglohellenic.bsky.socialtheguardian.comBritain would not cut up the Bayeux tapestry. So seize this moment and reunite the Parthenon sculptures in Greece | Kyriakos MitsotakisBoth Greek and British citizens think the sculptures should be returned. What’s needed now is political will and courage, says Kyriakos Mitsotakis, prime minister of Greece 000
Reposted by Nick PearceInstitute for Public Policy Research @ippr.org · 18/09/2026We’re delighted to announce a new editorial advisory board to help shape the future of IPPR's journal, Progressive Review, including: 👉 @iprnickp.bsky.social 👉 @pollymackenzie.bsky.social 👉 @will-davies.bsky.social Subscribe here: progressivereview.substack.com 082
Nick Pearce @iprnickp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Sweden - tight but the Social Democrats now have the task of forming a government. 000
Reposted by Nick PearceJohn McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 15/09/202615 Sept 1622: John Donne #poet ordered to preach in defence of James I's preaching restrictions at St Paul's Cross #otd (NPG) Truly. 073
Reposted by Nick PearceEurope Elects @europeelects.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Sweden, SVT projection at 21:45: Seat projection national parliament S-S&D: 98 (-9) M-EPP: 71 (+3) SD-ECR: 62 (-11) V-LEFT: 29 (+5) C-RE: 25 (+1) KD-EPP: 22 (+3) MP-G/EFA: 22 (+4) L-RE: 20 (+4) +/- vs. Last election result ➤ europeelects.eu/sweden 183
Reposted by Nick PearceIPR @uniofbathipr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026We're pleased to share reflections on a year of sustained research, policy engagement and impact across our team! Discover our commitment to strengthening the role of robust evidence in policy decision-making in our Annual Report 2025/26. @uniofbath.bsky.social | @iprnickp.bsky.socialbath.ac.ukInstitute for Policy Research Annual Report 2025/26Find out about the IPR’s work and achievements over the course of this year. 012
Reposted by Nick PearceEurope Elects @europeelects.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Germany, Saxony-Anhalt regional parliament election today: ➤ Eligible voters: ≈1.69m ➤ Polling stations open: 8:00 AM–6:00 PM CEST ➤ Incumbent gov't: centre-right CDU (EPP) – centre-left SPD (S&D) – liberal FDP (RE), led by Minister-President Sven Schulze (CDU) ➤ europeelects.eu/2026/08/30/g... 083
Reposted by Nick PearcePompeyNewsNow 🎙️ PO4cast @pompeynewsnow.bsky.social · 05/09/2026💙 FIRST HOME WIN OF THE SEASON AS #POMPEY PAY TRIBUTE TO ALAN KNIGHT MBE 🎥 More: youtu.be/2QAsIk0fx4c?... 084
Reposted by Nick PearceDuncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I'm honoured to have been elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Congratulations to all the other new fellows. 🍻 1433
Reposted by Nick PearceDepartment of Politics & International Studies, Uni of Cambridge @campolis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026👏🎓Huge congratulations to @duncanbell.bsky.social who has been elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. 🎉 022
Nick Pearce @iprnickp.bsky.social · 05/09/2026newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...newleftreview.orgOwen Hatherley, Ruination — SidecarOn the Glasgow School of Art. 032
Reposted by Nick PearceDr. Henry Tam @henrytam.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Andy Burnham & his mentor, David Blunkett, have both cited communitarianism as a key strand in connecting people with progressive politics. "We need to", as Burnham said in his 2025 essay, "rediscover communitarianism" renewal.org.uk/blog/redisco... @renewaljournal.bsky.social @iprnickp.bsky.socialrenewal.org.ukRediscovering communitarianism“We need to rediscover communitarianism afresh as a defining but often overlooked strand of the Labour tradition. From the co-operative movement to trade unions, Labour’s greatest achievements have co... 033
Reposted by Nick Pearcewalkhighlands @walkhighlands.co.uk · 25/08/2026The area affected by the Cairngorms fire, as seen from Meall a Bhuachaille summit this evening, showing the extent of the burnt area. Meall a' Bhuachaille is open via the route from Glenmore - but not from the Ryvoan side, which remains off-limits at the moment. 04114
Reposted by Nick PearceKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/08/2026In a world of dreadful billionaires, be Dolly 332960
Reposted by Nick PearceLost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton RIP - what a woman, what a songwriter, what a humanitarian, and what an American. Pic: Dolly arrives in Glasgow in 1977 for the Silver Jubilee Royal Variety performance at the King's Theatre. 0458
Nick Pearce @iprnickp.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Japan continues destroying its fabulous post-war modernism giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...giftarticle.ft.comHow many more of Japan’s iconic buildings will be lost?A country short of land and prone to earthquakes is seeing innovative design gems demolished for new developments — but not, in some cases, without a fight 010
Reposted by Nick PearceDavid Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I've written an essay for @ippr.org about why democratic reformers need to expand their horizons beyond trying to finish the work of Charter 88, and should now shift their focus towards rebuilding the public sphere and confronting private power 1/4onlinelibrary.wiley.comAgainst Private Power: A Democracy Agenda Beyond Charter 88Since Charter 88, democratisation efforts in the UK have focused on constitutional reform to change the internal structures of the Westminster state. Today, however, the major challenge for democracy... 34025
Reposted by Nick PearcePolitical Quarterly @politicalquarterly.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Originally published in 1999, a review of the 1998 Crick Report finds introducing statutory citizenship education into schools could combat political apathy and civic disengagement. By @iprnickp.bsky.social and Sarah Spencer thepoliticalquarterly.substack.com/p/from-our-a... 083
Nick Pearce @iprnickp.bsky.social · 12/08/2026This ages me. Unfortunately our guarded optimism was misplaced. 140
Nick Pearce @iprnickp.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Brilliant PSI campaign poster, 1946. (H/T Mark Gilbert, ‘Italy Reborn’) 052
Reposted by Nick PearceGlen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 25/07/2026You can still buy the book here! It's had great reviews... (2/2) manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526146328/manchesteruniversitypress.co.ukManchester University Press - New Labour, New Britain?New Labour, New Britain? - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of New Labour, New Britain? by Glen O'Hara 051
Reposted by Nick PearceThomas Aubrey @thomasaubreycca.bsky.social · 15/07/2026A huge thanks to the @lse-ei.bsky.social as my 2 year Visiting Senior Fellowship has just finished - where I extended my 2022 book on liberalism & public policy to international relations & trade. The paper on the topic was published by the European Legacy here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comWhy Liberals Should Embrace the Demise of the ‘Liberal International Order’The decline of the Liberal International Order is increasingly acknowledged by observers of international relations. This decline has left liberals struggling to respond to the rise of a more reali... 011
Nick Pearce @iprnickp.bsky.social · 06/07/2026www.theguardian.com/technology/n...theguardian.comChina wants to solve the hardest problem in robotics – making handsRace to develop ‘embodied AI’ focuses on creating dextrous hands to transform humanoid robots from gimmicks into useful products 010
Reposted by Nick PearceChristian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 05/07/2026OK…who made this??? 15939294
Nick Pearce @iprnickp.bsky.social · 25/06/2026In Dublin this week for university and Pension Commission meetings, and dropped into the National Gallery - it has some great new acquisitions, including this by Hannah Hoch 061
Reposted by Nick PearcePolitical Quarterly @politicalquarterly.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Britain Beyond Brexit 7 years ago we published @gavin-kelly.bsky.social @iprnickp.bsky.social collection with articles by @duncanweldon.bsky.social @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social @profsob.bsky.social @robfordmancs.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social + more (no £) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1467923x...onlinelibrary.wiley.comThe Political Quarterly: Vol 90, No S2Click on the title to browse this issue 047
Reposted by Nick PearcePast Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 18/06/2026And after nearly two decades of inactivity, a minor miracle: the scaffolding that has obscured the facade of Alexander "Greek" Thomson's Egyptian Halls for nearly two decades is finally being removed. Hopefully this is the first step towards the delivery of the CPO-backed scheme to save the building 1202
Reposted by Nick PearceIPR @uniofbathipr.bsky.social · 16/06/2026📉 A low-earning household in England could receive up to £125 a month in council tax support in one area, and little or no support in another. New research examines how 313 local Council Tax Reduction schemes create uneven financial outcomes across England. 📑 www.bath.ac.uk/announcement... 001
Reposted by Nick PearceDavid S. Moon @daimoon.bsky.social · 15/06/2026I have a provocatively titled piece in the latest issue of @renewaljournal.bsky.social, in which I propose that among the lessons of the “Epstein files” revelations is the value of a properly directly, healthy paranoia suited to an age of opaque networks, dark money, and unaccountable elites. (1/2) 44016
Nick Pearce @iprnickp.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Tom is right. Hattersley was a committed and thoughtful egalitarian, as well as a pragmatic politician. Few Labour politicians of his era engaged so seriously with its public philosophy. 091
Reposted by Nick PearceTom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 14/06/2026RIP Roy Hattersley. A pragmatic style of politics in unswerving service of radical, egalitarian ends. A rare blend then, which would be rarer still today. www.thenewworld.co.uk/matt-kelly-r...thenewworld.co.ukRoy Hattersley, former Labour deputy leader, diesCommitted pro-European who formed half of the so-called dream ticket with Neil Kinnock was 93 620758
Reposted by Nick PearceStuart Hoddinott @stuarthoddinott.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Love this as a prevention case study: - Low cost, even revenue raising in the short term - Improves health outcomes and reduces costly hospital admissions Shows political leadership is key: - Politically costly for Khan to implement - Did it despite cost savings landing outside GLA 8380161
Reposted by Nick PearceThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 10/06/2026LA fans, Mark E Smith’s sisters and Frank Skinner doing the quiz: inside the totally wired festival on the Falltheguardian.comLA fans, Mark E Smith’s sisters and Frank Skinner doing the quiz: inside the totally wired festival on the FallFeaturing cover bands, walking tours and the poet laureate as DJ, The Fall: Futures and Pasts is the ultimate Fall fan experience. But can our writer get through Eat Y’Self Fitter at karaoke? 0193
Reposted by Nick PearceThe Anglo-Hellenic League @anglohellenic.bsky.social · 09/06/2026We're delighted to announce that the winner of the Anglo-Hellenic League's Runciman Award 2026 is Julian Hoffman, for his wonderful book, Lifelines. Yannis Tsaousis, the Greek Ambassador to the UK, presented him with the prize at the ceremony at King's College London tonight. Congratulations Julian! 152
Reposted by Nick PearceThe Anglo-Hellenic League @anglohellenic.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Next of the books shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award is Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life by Agnes Callard. She highlights Socrates’ discovery that we don’t know how to ask ourselves life's most important questions. For more, see www.anglohellenicleague.org/news 021
Nick Pearce @iprnickp.bsky.social · 05/06/2026‘Gamer kids are coming out and running some of our autonomous units. We also have autonomous harvesters that literally have gaming chairs with joysticks, so they’re running them like a game.’ From Cow-Milking Robots to Weed-Zapping Lasers, Farmers Are Embracing A.I. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/m...nytimes.comFrom Cow-Milking Robots to Weed-Zapping Lasers, Farmers Are Embracing A.I. 010
Nick Pearce @iprnickp.bsky.social · 03/06/2026The splintering of the left bloc in Greece is worthy of Sophocles. 130
Nick Pearce @iprnickp.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Review by Jonathan Parry of H.S.Jones’ new biography of the ‘snivelling professor’ of Anglo-America, James Bryce. Important figure in the intellectual genesis of the ‘special relationship’, even if politically marginal and unsuccessful app.lrb.co.uk/2026/05/22/j...app.lrb.co.ukJonathan Parry: James Bryce’s LiberalismCertain Kinds of CarpetJonathan Parry Liberal Worlds: James Bryce and the Democratic Intellect by H.S. Jones. Princeton, 445 pp., £38, JanuaryIf historians are remembered posthumously, it tends to b... 020
Nick Pearce @iprnickp.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Capture the Flag www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukRory Scothorne · Capture the Flag: Labour in Scotland 000
Nick Pearce @iprnickp.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Symbolic last rites for post-war Peronism giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...giftarticle.ft.comJavier Milei to privatise Argentina’s $10-a-night workers’ hotelsLibertarian government targets vast ‘social tourism’ complexes founded under Perón 041
Reposted by Nick PearceDuncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 03/02/2026NEW BOOK! I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line academic.oup.com/book/62279academic.oup.comUtopiaAbstract. Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of human beings’ social dreaming. In this c 1125976
Nick Pearce @iprnickp.bsky.social · 19/05/2026I’m off to the launch of the Pensions Commission Interim Report this morning. It sets out our analysis of the problem of inadequate savings for retirement in 2050 and beyond. PN is here, full report to follow. www.gov.uk/government/n...gov.ukBritain is undersaving for retirement warns Pensions CommissionThe Pensions Commission has today (19 May) published its interim report on the state of retirement saving in the UK, setting out the key challenges facing the current system and where it will focus it... 77826
Reposted by Nick PearceThe Institute for Fiscal Studies @theifs.bsky.social · 18/05/2026NEW: A gender gap in the average pension contributions of men and women opens at the time of the birth of their first child, our research finds. The report for the Pensions Commission provides new evidence on how labour market life-course trajectories link to pension saving and retirement outcomes: 2134
Reposted by Nick PearceLaura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Robert Harris, author: Happy 100th birthday to Sir David Attenborough. Doing some research on the Suez Crisis I discover he produced Anthony Eden’s live broadcast to the nation for the BBC nearly 70 years ago. What a career! 319734
Reposted by Nick PearceC20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · 07/05/2026C20 Society is saddened to learn of the death of Peter Aldington, at the age of 93. Modest yet highly influential, Aldington was renowed for his domestic housing -particuarly the trio at Turn End in Bucks - and has more listed buildings on the National Register than any other post-war architect (9). 0284