Chris Bick
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Senior Research Fellow at IPPR; working on democratic reform, youth politics, and political parties
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.
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Institute for Public Policy Research
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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.
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Will Davies
about 2 months ago
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
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LSE Business Review
2 months ago
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...
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What will it take to revive economic democracy 50 years after the Meidner plan? - LSE Business Review
Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Meidner plan, Neil Warner looks at the prospects for reviving the “third pillar” of democratisation.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2026/03/27/what-will-it-take-to-revive-economic-democracy-50-years-after-the-meidner-plan/
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Ryan Swift
3 months ago
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.
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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...
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About the advisory group | IPPR
The populist radical right is not just gaining in the battle of votes but is also dominating the battle of ideas: about who the state is for, how it should
https://www.ippr.org/research-and-ideas/our-major-programmes/decade-of-national-renewal/about-the-advisory-group
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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!
3 months ago
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Nick Garland
3 months ago
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...
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Reclaiming Britain - a response | IPPR
By engaging directly in a discussion of nation-building it tackles a problem than many avoid. Fear that nation-building must inevitably collapse into natio
https://www.ippr.org/articles/reclaiming-britain-a-response
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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!
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Lauren Leek
4 months ago
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...
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Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They Were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next?
How private equity reshaped the local and the postcode tool that shows the pubs most at risk.
https://open.substack.com/pub/laurenleek/p/britain-lost-14000-third-places-they?r=2mgxo2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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