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...

I had a great time last week at the @buiraonline.bsky.social 2025. It was such a friendly conference, packed with good discussions around the geographies of good work. And, of course, being in Cornwall, I got a much needed dose of ‘vitamin sea’!

"Marxism can be misused & without modification can justify authoritarian politics. Pitts represents a current that recognizes this". Nice review of my book Marx in Management & Organisation Studies: Rethinking Value, Labour & Class Struggles: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Delighted to have our re-launch covered in Le Monde www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Finally back home from the @buiraonline.bsky.social conference. Great to catch up with friends old and new and present comparative work on strike datasets. I'm also very pleased be elected to BUIRA's Executive Committee for the next three years. Thanks to the Bristol team for a great conference!

Outgoing @buiraonline.bsky.social president, Pete Turnbull, closes our 2025 conference ‘Putting Industrial Relations in its Place: The Geographies of Good Work’. The conference at @hass-cornwall.bsky.social caps off our 3-year term as the @bristoluni.bsky.social led BUIRA stewardship team 👋

‘To unlock Cornwall’s full economic potential, we must invest in the people who power our economy’ Great to see now out for consultation this new Workforce & Skills Strategy for Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly, developed with colleagues from @hass-cornwall.bsky.social & @uniofexeternews.bsky.social

Delighted to welcome @kenanmalik.bsky.social to @hass-cornwall.bsky.social for @buiraonline.bsky.social conference 2025. His keynote lecture will outline ‘a short history of the making of the ‘white working class’’.

Pleasure to open @buiraonline.bsky.social's 2025 conference at @hass-cornwall.bsky.social yesterday, introducing two great keynotes from Al Rainnie on place-based approaches to green steel in South Australia & Jane Wills on the history of the labour movement in the context of contemporary populism.

Look forward to welcoming @buiraonline.bsky.social’s annual conference to @hass-cornwall.bsky.social today. The theme is ‘Putting Industrial Relations in their Place: The Geographies of Good Work’, with keynotes including @kenanmalik.bsky.social. More info here: www.buira.net/conferences/...

And on BBC Devon and BBC Cornwall at 8:15am www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Dr @fhpitts.bsky.social from @hass-cornwall.bsky.social has been speaking to journalists about the impact of the #spendingreview today. BBC Somerset at 10:20am www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Putting Industrial Policy in its Place: Securonomics and Reindustrialisation Between Defence, Digital & Decarbonisation New paper for @progbrit.bsky.social & @feps-europe.eu with Ed Atkins, Theo Cox, Tom Collinge & @gerardoosterwijk.bsky.social Read here: www.progressivebritain.org/putting-indu...

Putting Industrial Policy in its Place: Securonomics and Reindustrialisation Between Defence, Digital & Decarbonisation New paper for @progbrit.bsky.social & @feps-europe.eu with Ed Atkins, Theo Cox, Tom Collinge & @gerardoosterwijk.bsky.social Read here: www.progressivebritain.org/putting-indu...

The RHS – the UK’s largest and oldest membership organisation for professional historians – spent two days visiting the University Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Cornwall (HaSS Cornwall), last week, meeting staff and students. news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

Spoke to @stevenklein.bsky.social for the new issue of the relaunched @renewaljournal.bsky.social www.unpopularfront.news/p/interview-...

My colleague @huwthomas.bsky.social on our Journal of Industrial Relations call for papers on the intersection between industrial relations and international relations. Extended abstracts due this week!