🏭 Foundational Industries & the UK's Modern Industrial Strategy 🏭 New briefing note from our Critical Minerals Challenge Centre at @exeter.ac.uk. Draws on recent work with @feps-europe.eu looking at steel & critical minerals as case studies: criticalmineralschallengecentre.co.uk/wp-content/u...

Kicking Defence Off Campus? Cui Bono? Why making the universities part of the defence tech industrial base is a solid socialist idea... open.substack.com/pub/htsf/p/k...

🏭 Foundational Industries & the UK's Modern Industrial Strategy 🏭 New briefing note from our Critical Minerals Challenge Centre at @exeter.ac.uk. Draws on recent work with @feps-europe.eu looking at steel & critical minerals as case studies: criticalmineralschallengecentre.co.uk/wp-content/u...

The first few articles are now published OnlineFirst from the 'Workplace Geopolitics: Industrial Relations & International Relations' Special Issue that I am editing with @huwthomas.bsky.social for @jirjournal.bsky.social. The SI focuses on how our current age of conflict shapes the future of work:

New @feps-europe.eu paper with Theo Cox, Ed Atkins & @gerardoosterwijk.bsky.social: "Place-Based Industrial Policy: Places, People & Power in European Industrial Policy" feps-europe.eu/publication/... Thanks to László Andor & team at @feps-europe.eu + @adamlangleben.bsky.social & team at Progress

This week, Renewal has published two new online pieces covering problems of industrial relations... renewal.org.uk/blog/ 1/4

Excited to publish a timely new paper by @paulmason.bsky.social: "Designing the 21st Century Wartime State: Challenges for the UK’s new War Book & Defence Readiness Bill" Read here: www.exeter.ac.uk/v8media/rese... And more via @uniofexeternews.bsky.social here: news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

A New issue of our friends at Future of the Left with intro from Jason Cowley 🗞️ Includes: John Bew on US Foreign policy Jonathan Rutherford on the PMC Also includes pieces on critical mineral strategy and institutional decline. futureoftheleft.substack.com/p/newsletter...

Really very proud of this issue of @renewaljournal.bsky.social and a pleasure to work with Steven and Harry. I think the issue offers a fair-minded view of one of the most important pieces of Labour’s agenda and tackles the changing work landscape in a big picture way. Read, share, subscribe!

New Renewal just dropped! Some fantastic stuff in this issue, including essays from Jane Gingrich, Jon Cruddas, Hilary Cottam, @ewangibbs.bsky.social, @joshwesterling.bsky.social, @abbyabhaya.bsky.social, and @benjthomas.bsky.social

The day's main political event: new Renewal !

NEW ISSUE ALERT: Renewal 34:1 The Employment Rights Act and the Politics of Work Guest edited by Renewal contributing editors @stevenklein.bsky.social and @fhpitts.bsky.social along with co-editor @lisebutler.bsky.social renewal.org.uk/journal/volu...

Great to talk Cornwall & critical minerals at this event today along with @jaynekirkhammp.bsky.social and many others, and introduce a new policy study out soon with @feps-europe.eu: 'Place-Based Industrial Policy in the Age of Insecurity: The Politics of Producing Materials, Minerals & Microchips'.

🔴Join LIVE - the event “Place-based industrial policy in Europe” youtube.com/watch?v=Eufb... 🤝 By FEPS in cooperation with Progress and @pes-cor.bsky.social.

Carl Hunter OBE and @paulmason.bsky.social have been appointed as Honorary Fellows at the @exeter.ac.uk Centre for the Public Understanding of Defence and Security @fhpitts.bsky.social news.exeter.ac.uk/top-stories/...

Quoted in todays @theguardian.com on the latest progress in Cornwall's contribution to the country's energy & mineral security, alongside Critical Minerals Challenge Centre colleague Frances Wall & @perranmoonmp.bsky.social: theguardian.com/environment/... @uniofexeternews.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk

From national resilience to national renewal? Wrote up some remarks on our home defence paper for @renewaljournal.bsky.social, asking whether Labour's long-promised 'defence conversation' will find, to paraphrase Thatcher, no such thing as 'whole-of-society' after all: renewal.org.uk/blog/resilie...

This looks very timely.

From national resilience to national renewal? Wrote up some remarks on our home defence paper for @renewaljournal.bsky.social, asking whether Labour's long-promised 'defence conversation' will find, to paraphrase Thatcher, no such thing as 'whole-of-society' after all: renewal.org.uk/blog/resilie...

New policy paper exploring the concept of home defence & whole-of-society security/resilience in the UK. Published by the Centre for the Public Understanding of Defence & Security at @exeter.ac.uk. Coauthored with Frances Tammer & Gareth Stansfield with a Foreword by Paul Cornish: t.co/hloNsXAYaJ

Did you know that security is being used as a lever to attract economic development in rural regions? Sign up for the RSA Edgenet webinar talking about what it means for peripheries in a new era of geopolitical instability. Wednesday 4 February, 9-10.30 am 👉 www.regionalstudies.org/events/rsa-r...

The report has identified six areas of focus to help leverage more SME participation in UK defence as a rallying call is issued for joint industry and government collaboration - @hass-cornwall.bsky.social @cornwall.exeter.ac.uk @fhpitts.bsky.social www.babcockinternational.com/news/babcock...

NEW ISSUE: Renewal 33/3&4 Guest co-edited by @neilwarner.bsky.social & @beccagold.bsky.social, this special double issue features nineteen (19) brilliant essays analysing Labour's statecraft and debating the strategic challenges for social democracy in Britain and beyond

🇪🇺🇬🇧The final day of the 11th Oxford Symposium opens with the plenary on “#Industrial strategy and grand transformations”. With: 🔺@jrgingrich.bsky.social 🔺Rachel Blake, MP 🔺 Theo Cox The 11th Oxford Symposium launches the book “The Great Unravelling”. 📕 bit.ly/GreatUnravel...

Preparing for Putin's Intermittent War - why we have to harden UK society against the kind of treatment Ukraine is suffering - open.substack.com/pub/htsf/p/p...

Professor @fhpitts.bsky.social from @hass-cornwall.bsky.social @exeterspspa.bsky.social spoke to BBC Radio Cornwall ahead of the #budget today www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Great to see our @ukri.org Critical Minerals Challenge Centre at @exeter.ac.uk mentioned in Vision 2035, the government's new Critical Minerals Strategy. As test case for securonomics in action, it has a clear focus on Cornwall's tin, tungsten & lithium. 🔗in thread below www.gov.uk/government/p...

Great to see our @ukri.org Critical Minerals Challenge Centre at @exeter.ac.uk mentioned in Vision 2035, the government's new Critical Minerals Strategy. As test case for securonomics in action, it has a clear focus on Cornwall's tin, tungsten & lithium. 🔗in thread below www.gov.uk/government/p...

NEW ISSUE: Renewal Vol. 33 No. 2 Published amidst far-right mobilisation and a Reform surge, the new issue of Renewal (guest co-edited by @sachahilhorst.bsky.social) features activists, journalists, and academics analysing the radical right threat and debating how social democrats can respond

Dr Joanie Willett from @hass-cornwall.bsky.social spoke to BBC South West about tourism in Cornwall 🏖️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Our historical narratives are often centred on land, but what happens if we shift our perspective to oceans? How might this shape our environmental and political imaginaries? Join us at @hass-cornwall.bsky.social as we plunge into the past to navigate new futures. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xqj...

The latest in our series of short videos about the interdisciplinary research colleagues do at @hass-cornwall.bsky.social. Watch the full series here: hass-cornwall.exeter.ac.uk/research/

Falling youth turnout is an existential threat to our democracies. @hass-cornwall.bsky.social are studying how volunteering can reconnect young people from the poorest backgrounds with elections. Find out more in our new ‘Research Shorts' series. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vgS...

Next in our series of Research Shorts is Prof. Jamie Hampson on rock art. Humans have been creating rock art for more than 70,000 years. At HaSS Cornwall we consider why, and think about how understanding art helps us understand what it means to be human. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAf0...

Tradition is not only about continuity – it can also be about change. At @hass-cornwall.bsky.social historians explore how continuous ritual traditions have been interpreted in radically different ways across the centuries. Find out more in our new Research Shorts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj-n...

'Reindustrialisation’ is now a buzzword across the political spectrum. At @hass-cornwall.bsky.social we are surrounded by resurgent industries rooted in place and strategically pivotal to security & sustainability. Hear more in our new 'Research Shorts' series of videos: youtu.be/oPIDKPX7jcc?...

My colleague Catriona Pennell @teachlearnwar.bsky.social launches our new @hass-cornwall.bsky.social short video series with a brilliant reflection on remembrance & forgetting. Hear more about our interdisciplinary research here: hass-cornwall.exeter.ac.uk/research/ @uniofexeternews.bsky.social

Me for @progbrit.bsky.social on the Chancellor's visit to South Crofty in Cornwall yesterday. The critical minerals sector symbolises some of the promise of 'securonomics', its importance recognised in both industrial policy & national security strategy. www.progressivebritain.org/the-chancell...

Great new @ippr.org report from @sachahilhorst.bsky.social, making very clear the link between the decline of community spaces and the rise of the radical right. Sacha reimagines the 20th century miners' welfare fund as a model for reviving social infrastructure: www.ippr.org/articles/pla...

The Chancellor is visiting the epicentre of the Cornish mining revival, South Crofty: theguardian.com/business/202... Great to see tin understood as a test case for Reeves's 'securonomics', as I suggested in a piece for @renewaljournal.bsky.social a few years ago: renewal.org.uk/blog/bringin...

On the right side of a wrong history? Matt Bolton and I were asked to revisit the themes of our 2018 book Corbynism: A Critical Approach for @unherd.com, and reflect on the challenges for Labour from a new party of the left: unherd.com/2025/07/is-c...

‘Perhaps a rebooted version of Corbynism has the opportunity to prosper in ways it could not before.’ | Matthew Bolton and Frederick Harry Pitts unherd.com/2025/07/is-c...

Typically excellent from @philtinline.bsky.social. I think that quote from a Starmer aide - "tough on populism, tough on the causes of populism" - really should be a guiding force for this government.

On the right side of a wrong history? Matt Bolton and I were asked to revisit the themes of our 2018 book Corbynism: A Critical Approach for @unherd.com, and reflect on the challenges for Labour from a new party of the left: unherd.com/2025/07/is-c...

Starmer and Rayner have sounded the alarm over a social fabric that is 'fraying at the edges' and concern this translates into disorder. Rayner's analysis and prescription isn't new but is, for the most part, right. The briefing is putting a lot in faith in the Plan for Neighbourhoods as a response.

If you missed the launch of our Good Work Monitor on Tuesday, you can watch the webinar - featuring @teraallas.bsky.social and @fhpitts.bsky.social - here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddTk...

Join us at midday today for our launch webinar with IFOW Founding Director, Anna Thomas MBE in conversation with Prof @teraallas.bsky.social CBE and Dr @fhpitts.bsky.social about the power of this dataset for understanding how to better 'Get Britain Working': www.ifow.org/event/gettin...

Reminder that tomorrow we're launching our Good Work Monitor - a unique tool that tracks trends in productivity and 6 dimensions of good work across all 203 LAs in England, Scotland and Wales. Midday webinar with @fhpitts.bsky.social and @teraallas.bsky.social: www.eventbrite.com/e/getting-br...

On Tuesday we're launching our Good Work Monitor - a unique tool that tracks productivity and six dimensions of good work across all 203 local authorities in England, Wales and Scotland. Join us for a launch webinar, with @teraallas.bsky.social and @fhpitts.bsky.social www.ifow.org/event/gettin...

Exciting to be joining the panel for the launch of @ifow.org’s Good Work Monitor 2025 next week. I’ll be talking about how the GWM helps us understand workforce & skills strategy in Cornwall’s changing economy. Read more here: www.ifow.org/news-article... And here: www.ifow.org/publications...