Getting the old team back together. Pleased to say that I have joined @enzoreds.bsky.social once more as co-editor of European Journal of Political Theory. Looking forward to seeing what people are working on these days (having been slightly removed from the theory world for a couple of years).

Less than a week until US publication day (17th). a.co/d/02CvoxOl

Very grateful for the mention of mine and @pjthinker.bsky.social's book on post-liberalism in The Spectator. I have no dog in the fight, but politics of the British and American post-liberals are more different than acknowledged here (as I explain in my book). amzn.eu/d/0hDHqugN amzn.eu/d/051VjPnM

Just a reminder the excellent @thetablet.bsky.social piece on Against Post-Liberalism and @mattsleat.bsky.social Post-Liberalism is out today…👆👆👆

Review of 'Post-Liberalism' in @thetls.bsky.social. 'Yet as Sleat shows – in devastating fashion, enhanced by how calmly it is delivered – both sides of [post-liberalism's] bizarre political coin are intellectually hopeless'. www.the-tls.com/philosophy/c...

Really grateful to Theo Hobson and The Tablet for engaging with 'Post-Liberalism' and @pjthinker.bsky.social 'Against Post-Liberalism' in their cover story this week. Very thoughtful and reflective piece. www.thetablet.co.uk/features/the...

Another welcome review of Kelly Against Post-Liberalism and @mattsleat.bsky.social Post-Liberalism in @irishtimes.com on Sunday. @lsegovernment.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social

US publication day today @lsegovernment.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social

I can’t remember where I’d written this (probably my book Liberal Realism) but someone kindly shared this passage 10 years ago today. And it’s interesting to look back on it and reflect how I’m now working on whether liberalism has a realistic yet more positive story it can tell.

Reposting this as US publication date is tomorrow @politybooks.bsky.social @lsegovernment.bsky.social - it is increasingly important to understand Postliberalism given its place in US and UK politics but it’s also important to understand how it might be challenged…

Post-Liberalism to be published in North America in less than a month. Will be very interesting to see what Americans make of it! a.co/d/6yLCCqs

🔊242.news podcast: "The politics of nostalgia" - interview with @pjthinker.bsky.social (@politybooks.bsky.social @lsepoltheory.bsky.social) on the "dead end" of post-liberalism. twentyfourtwo.substack.com/p/podcast-th...

Just published (open access) in The Review of Politics: Robin Douglass and Ed Hall, 'Judith Shklar's Ethos of Skeptical Vigilance' www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Great to discuss my new book and our post-liberal moment with Tim Gwynn Jones. open.substack.com/pub/twentyfo...

You wait for some wins then two come along at once. Today Post-Liberalism is published - and my promotion to Professor has been officially confirmed. A rather wonderful way to end the year.

"Postliberals often wildly misconstrue the history of liberal thought, interpreting the ideology’s core value to be libertine 'autonomy.'" Good @mattpolprof.bsky.social reminder that post-liberals erase egalitarian liberalism from the story entirely: jacobin.com/2025/12/post...

Review of @pjthinker.bsky.social and my own books on post-liberalism in The Critic. Though I'm quite in favour of foppery, just not of the post-liberal kind. thecritic.co.uk/issues/decem...

Matt McManus at Jacobin reviews Paul Kelly and Matt Sleat on post-liberalism: jacobin.com/2025/12/post...

Thanks to @mattpolprof.bsky.social for his engaged and thoughtful review of both my own and @pjthinker.bsky.social new books on post-liberalism.

Pls share/re-post! New Onora O'Neill Prize! Here's a brand new @ecpr.bsky.social book prize in pol-theory, regardless of whether it's your 1st/10th book! Had honour of asking Onora myself if she would lend us her good name: ecpr.eu/news/news/de... @biapt.bsky.social @psapolthought.bsky.social

There are two distinct but related stories behind the book. The first began with the rise of Blue Labour and its search for a new political economy following the Brown Gov defeat in 2010. What started as a left discourse with Cruddas, Rutherford, Pabst and Glasman, quickly turned right under Glasman

Marking one month since publication Watch out for some podcast appearances and reviews. Some growing interest amongst journalist - see Ross Douthat in @nytimes.com Also @mattsleat.bsky.social book coming shortly @politybooks.bsky.social (it’s good and it’s different so get both!!!)

While the US right is having a meltdown on the other place as to what post-liberalism is — or whether it’s even a thing — a quick reminder that my book on exactly that topic is out in the UK in less than a month (and in the US this February). Spoiler: it is a thing. amazon.co.uk/Post-Liberal...

A couple of years and a @leverhulme.ac.uk research fellowship in the making, my book on post-liberalism is out next month and available to pre-order. www.amazon.co.uk/Post-Liberal...

The US vice-president, J. D. Vance, has identified himself as being “of the post-liberal right”. But what is post-liberalism and what does it mean for US government? @mattsleat.bsky.social, Reader in Political Theory, explains 👇 theconversation.com/j-d-vance-ca...

J.D. Vance is religious, has conservative views on social issues, but also believes in big government’s power to change society.

My short explainer on post-liberalism for The Conversation. theconversation.com/j-d-vance-ca...

‘Postliberalism offers no account of change nor of the future and that is why it with its populist politics of faith, family and flag is ultimately a dead end.’ Against Post-Liberalism by @pjthinker.bsky.social is out today in the UK! www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Just finished this tremendous volume. Cannot believe I’d never read it before. Highly recommended. And think it might have given me an idea for my next research project.

Three days until publication on 24th October - might be of interest to @iandunt.bsky.social and to @sohrabahmari.bsky.social for different reasons. @politybooks.bsky.social

My colleague and friend Ed Hall is, by his own admission, not the best at the self-promotion that is part and parcel of modern academia. But I have just finished this and think it’s a really important book that political theorists of all stripes ought to read. amzn.eu/d/3RfY3xr

Really pleased this has now come out. My thoughts on what a realist account of political obligations might look like. And a real privilege to among such a stellar cast of contributors. academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

We are thrilled to announce that Joe Davidson is the winner of our BIAPT Early Career Prize for 2025! Joe’s work on utopia is just what the field needs at a time when political pessimism prevails. Full announcement below 👇 www.associationforpoliticalthought.ac.uk/biapt-early-...

BIAPT is delighted to announce that its Mid-career prize for 2025 goes to Jemima Repo! Warm congratulations to her for huge contributions to gender theory, feminism, and biopolitics. Full statement below 👇 www.associationforpoliticalthought.ac.uk/biapt-mid-ca...

‘Against Political Chmness’ by Paul Sagar. Great account of one of the key arguments for political realism. Thoroughly worth a read. open.substack.com/pub/conspicu...

A couple of years and a Leverhulme Trust research fellowship in the making, I am excited to see that my book on post-liberalism is now available to pre-order. amzn.eu/d/7gmUUxD

Who are the main contemporary writers countering the argument - made in different ways by Taylor, Siedentop, Gillespie, Holland, Milbank, et al. - that modernity was a development within rather than rejection of Christianity?

My take on why Labour is not having a post-liberal turn. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

The Kelly / Sleat postliberalism double act forthcoming from @politybooks.bsky.social - @lsegovernment.bsky.social