The Milburn Report is out today — and it paints a staggering picture of how hard things have become for young people in the UK. 1 in 8 young people are NEET: not in education, employment, or training. As my @ippr.org colleagues have shown, this could reach 1 in 6 by the end of the decade.

It’s becoming harder to ignore the growing weight that extremely wealthy donors appear to carry in British politics, not just in scale, but in proximity to key political decisions.

Did the BBC assume that asylum applications, unlike every other area of society, were completely free of fraud? Seems like a total loss of perspective over their investigation, now into its second day of dominating their headlines

Fifty years ago this year, one of the most powerful labour movements in the world adopted an audacious plan to transform the ownership structure of a capitalist economy in an electoral democracy. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

As we @ippr.org have set out though, there is still a strong case for capping donations from all sources, including domestic companies and individuals, to take big money from mega donors out of politics and tackle inequalities in influence.

Friday news! We're launching the advisory panel for @ippr.org's Decade of National Renewal today. An incredible group of thinkers to keep us in line as we do some creative thinking about what the left should stand for in an increasingly uncertain world. Find out more 👉 www.ippr.org/research-and...

Lots to chew on in the Chancellor’s Mais lecture, but worth highlighting the clear case for an activist state shaping the economy we want. The state’s always been key to shaping how capitalism works - even in its ‘free-market’ heyday - nice to see that discussed so openly!

Grateful to the wise @jydenham.bsky.social for engaging with my work on nationalism with Parth Patel for @ippr.org. Much I agree with. www.ippr.org/articles/rec...

Loved this piece — We’re really not talking enough about what multiparty Britain means for the rest of our democratic institutions which are very much two-party shaped!

My brother wanted a London pub crawl. The result? My new Substack post: "Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next?" How private equity reshaped the local, which pubs are most at risk and most importantly what to do about it. open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...