Over the past eighteen months, Renewal’s editorials struck something of a recurring note: under Keir Starmer’s leadership, Labour was shrinking from ideological arguments, and lacked any sense of poli...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10 Renewal 34.3_Casey10 Renewal 34.3_Casey.pdf95 KBdownload-circle This article explores the little-known history of the ISK, an anti-Nazi resistance movement that combined enlightenment philosophy...

03 Renewal 34.3_Yang03 Renewal 34.3_Yang.pdf100 KBdownload-circle This is the text of Renewal’s annual Rita Hinden Memorial Lecture, delivered this year on 8 September at City St. George’s Universi...

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

After Labour Party conference last year, Renewal published a set of reflections from contributors and editors who had attended what would prove to be Keir Starmer's final conference as leader and PM. ...

Days into Andy Burnham's premiership, key figures in the Labour Party (including Deputy Leader Lucy Powell) came out to promise that he would end the ‘boys club’ within Number 10 and within the Labour...

Andy Burnham entered Downing Street with laudable ambitions to end ‘four decades of neoliberalism’.[1] Within his first week in office, he announced a string of retail policy offers to voters worried ...

Over the coming weeks, Renewal Online will be hosting a debate over the merits or demerits of 'cost of living' politics. First up, Steve Akehurst - Director of Persuasion UK - makes the case for a 'co...

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?

In these pages in 2022, David Klemperer and Morgan Jones authored a piece about a group called Labour for the Long Term, an attempted entry of Effective Altruists (EAs) into the UK Labour Party. I rem...

Progressive parties are sustained by vision, aspiration, energy, commitment and organisation. But none last long without ideas. Labour, however, is remarkably uncurious about where its ideas come from...

Progressive parties are sustained by vision, aspiration, energy, commitment and organisation. But none last long without ideas. Labour, however, is remarkably uncurious about where its ideas come from...

Reflections on the 2nd Rita Hinden Memorial Lecture by Yuan Yang

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

“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...

Dear Subscribers and Friends of Renewal. We are delighted to announce this year's Rita Hinden Memorial Lecture will be given by Yuan Yang MP. Yuan Yang is the Labour MP for Earley and Woodley, and c...

Dear Subscribers and Friends of Renewal. We are delighted to announce this year's Rita Hinden Memorial Lecture will be given by Yuan Yang MP. Yuan Yang is the Labour MP for Earley and Woodley, and c...

The UK’s electricity grid is a problem. It has been underinvested in for decades, leaving it low on capacity and poorly designed to accommodate the rapid rollout of new renewable energy generation. C...

Andy Burnham’s first major policy announcement as Prime Minister was a commitment to ‘end rough sleeping’. No timeframe was given, and we are still awaiting policy details beyond the initial funding f...