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Nick Carnes @carnes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's finally publication day for this decade-in-the-making book. @noamlupu.bsky.social and I explain why working-class jobs make up 70% of the average democracy's labor force, but only 2% of the average democracy's national lawmakers had working-class jobs when they got into politics.

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Philip Cowley @philipjcowley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For the last four weeks, I've been doing a slot on Matt Chorley's programme on Radio 5, in which we take an interesting or historic parliamentary vote and discuss its significance. So far we've done Norway (1940), the Shops Bill (1986), seatbelts (1981) and yesterday we did Iraq (2003).

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Due out January...

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Peter Allen @peterallen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

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Peter Allen @peterallen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Stop crying your heart out”: Burnham, masculinity, and the long ‘90s

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Ana Catalano Weeks @anacweeks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m so happy to share that I’ve been awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship at @uniofbath.bsky.social to study how the mental load—the invisible work of anticipating, planning and organizing family life—shapes parents’ political participation. 🤯 www.bath.ac.uk/announcement...

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Two University of Bath researchers awarded UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships

They will investigate how the hidden mental load of domestic life shapes political participation and how online behaviour can contribute to violent extremism.

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Hettie O’Brien @hettieobrien.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My latest Guardian long read is about the people trying to get their ideas into Britain’s new government and whether Burnham is really prepared to be that radical. Grateful to the many people who spoke to me for this - read it online or in Saturday’s paper: www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

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Labour’s last chance? The people shaping Andy Burnham’s grand plans for Britain

The long read: The new prime minister has declared he wants to end 40 years of neoliberalism. But is he really prepared to be that radical?

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Peter Allen @peterallen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s noticeable in restaurants and supermarkets how the apps are prioritised over people who are actually present in those places, making the whole experience worse for the latter group.

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Peter Allen @peterallen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Agree, and it’s being pushed quite a lot on the new r/popular feed, I think.

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Nick Garland @npjgarland.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

To mark Progressive Review's relaunch, we've put together a collection of the greatest hits from @ippr.org's various journals since 1994 - all free to read. Including Jürgen Habermas, Thomas Piketty, Helen Thompson, David Runciman, Will Davies & Jean Seaton. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

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Reinventing the Left Since 1994: The Best of New Economy, Public Policy Research, Juncture and Progressive Review: IPPR Progressive Review

Click on the title to browse this issue

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Peter Allen @peterallen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I had just started my final year when Lehman Brothers collapsed. A mate and I walked down to Canary Wharf from where we were living nearby, got a sandwich, and sat in Reuters Square watching it all play out. A very strange time.

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Alexandra Jabbour @alexjabbour.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

First time I am plugging one of my papers without being asked to: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Weirdly still a niche topic* in polsci while it's becoming a new norm with potential political consequences *with the exception of work from @profjanegreen.bsky.social Z.Grant, and G. Evans

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Matthew Barnfield @mbarnfield.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I had fun writing the Last Word in the latest (penultimate, I believe) issue of Political Insight. Read for free here: journals.sagepub.com/share/PUST6R... tl;dr: Burnham must continue to take easy short-term wins and keep banging the drum about the long-term vision those short-term wins serve.

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Lotte Hargrave @lottehargrave.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🚨New paper🚨 Very pleased that “Using Gender to Choose: Voter Decision-Making in Low-Information Elections”, coauthored with Ellie Woodhouse, is now out at @jeppjournal.bsky.social. In it, we ask: when voters know very little about candidates, how do they use gender when deciding who to vote for? 🧵👇

Peter Allen @peterallen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Last month, my most recent book ‘How to Think About Politics’ was released in Portuguese with the title ‘Política na vida real’ (trans. Thais Entriel). It is extremely weird but also very cool to see it on sale, a first for me: www.travessa.pt/Artigo/Detal...

A photograph of the book ‘política na vida real’ by Peter Allen.

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Conor J. Kelly @conorjkelly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The sign up link for my book launch on 23 September can be found below. We have a fantastic panel with @timbale.bsky.social @benworthy.bsky.social and Giada Lagana due to contribute. Please join us online or in Bloomsbury :)

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Philip Cowley @philipjcowley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Latest article for the House magazine, in which I wonder if I have wasted my life learning about leadership elections rules... www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

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The Professor Will See You Now: Defenestration

Lessons in political science. This week: defenestration

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Peter Allen @peterallen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Amazing! Congratulations, very well deserved.

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Peter Allen @peterallen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It has a great audiobook too, very cleverly done.

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Peter Allen @peterallen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A great paper that I use in my teaching. Congratulations!

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 01/09/2026

The Rainbow Vote now has a cover & publication date. www.therainbowvote.com 🗳️🏳️‍🌈 Please consider pre-ordering, or asking your institution’s library to pre-order! Insufferable self-promotion to follow but I am dutifully celebrating every milestone along the way to publication day in February 😎

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Peter Allen @peterallen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Oh well, that’s fine then.

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Peter Allen @peterallen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Junction 19? The site of some truly unique driving.

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Peter Allen @peterallen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

That Springbank 1994 looks amazing. Is this via Master of Malt?

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Robin Bisson @robinbisson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

£6.3bn really is a huge gap for unis to fill on research each year It's sometimes said that's what QR is for, but QR is part of the calculation: without it the gap would be close to £9bn The biggest way that gap is filled is international student fees (yellow bar), but we all know how that's going

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Boak & Bailey (Jess & Ray) @boakandbailey.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

BLOG POST: “It was startling... to see various people on non-beer social media railing against this policy for reasons like…it’s for Reform voters; pubs are ‘Brexit coded’... it’s just encouraging drinking, a social ill...” boakandbailey.com/2026/08/outs...

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Outside the bubble: “Pubs don't deserve special treatment”

It’s a given, isn’t it, that pubs are a good thing and deserve protection? Well, it turns out that many people disagree.

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Peter Allen @peterallen.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Yes, I think the busiest pubs around here now have lots of dedicated days/events etc.

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Peter Allen @peterallen.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Same in my area of Bristol too tbh. Really just depends on the specific pub, even down to table layout, beer selection, general vibe, etc.

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I'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 1/4

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Against Private Power: A Democracy Agenda Beyond Charter 88

Since 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...

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Peter Allen @peterallen.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Great! Used to love their sessions in The Three Tuns.

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Peter Allen @peterallen.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Will they play on the last Thursday of each month?

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Peter Allen @peterallen.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

To quote Mark Blyth, the climate crisis is ‘a giant non-linear outcome generator with wicked convexities. In plain English, there is no mean, there is no average, there is no return to normal. It’s one way traffic into the unknown’. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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There is no ‘getting back to normal’ with climate breakdown | Mark Blyth

As the IPCC report makes clear, there are now only unknown and unfamiliar alternative futures that we can choose from, says political economist Mark Blyth

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Peter Allen @peterallen.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

100%. The idea that students all leave home, all get involved in student politics, all reside in the equivalent of an Oxbridge college, etc, pervades so much of this sort of commentary.

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Peter Allen @peterallen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Blackheath looked scarily dry today.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

If they were skilled political operators perhaps they wouldn’t be on the backbenches, along with their chief, two years into a Parliament which began with a landslide election win?

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Matthew Barnfield @mbarnfield.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This point is coming up a lot today. Last year, I argued that failure to recognise this would be the downfall of Starmer's "decade of national renewal": theconversation.com/keir-starmer...

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Peter Allen @peterallen.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Congratulations! Well deserved.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 14/07/2026

As an ex media report I can't help looking at the BBC Annual Report, it's a habit I cannot kick, I'm going to stick some things I've noticed in a thread. The tldr to my mind is if you're at the BBC and you're not panicking and trying new stuff and tuning out low level moans you're screwed. 🧵

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