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@peterhyman.bsky.social
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Substack - Changing the Story. Former advisor to Tony Blair and Keir Starmer. Former headteacher.
Which political party in the UK has best changed their story in 2025? My verdict and marks out of 10.
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‘Changing the Story’ - Review of 2025
Which of the political parties best managed to change their story this year?
https://open.substack.com/pub/peterhyman21/p/changing-the-story-review-of-2025?r=4g3aiz&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
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How do you actually make real change happen? And how do lumbering institutions stop being swept away by the tide of events? My Substack on A to B thinking.
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A to B thinking
How to make change happen
https://open.substack.com/pub/peterhyman21/p/a-to-b-thinking?r=4g3aiz&utm_medium=ios
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Shuab is in sparkling form - a great podcast.
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26 days ago
@peterhyman.bsky.social
blog has been very highly recommended - and is excellent with a lot of thoughts about comms I've had for a while but far more erudite He's right the 'grid' approach and control doesn't work. Modern news is more like a random firehose than a directed stream you can control...
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Revealed: How the No 10 grid strangles effective communication
A government ‘playlist’ of campaigns could cut through more powerfully than an old-style grid of worthy policy nuggets
https://peterhyman21.substack.com/p/revealed-how-the-no-10-grid-strangles?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=6005897&post_id=175202676&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=gc2ub&triedRedirect=true
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Rachel Sylvester
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This is such an insightful post from
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. It’s amazing how uninterested so many in government seem to be in getting from A to B or even in what B is. A rare exception was Shabana Mahmood’s sentencing reforms
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A to B thinking
How to make change happen
https://open.substack.com/pub/peterhyman21/p/a-to-b-thinking?r=5jzg7c&utm_medium=ios
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How Keir Starmer’s Winning Strategy has run its course.
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When your Winning Strategy starts to fail
We all have a Winning Strategy in life, but if we don’t adapt, it can stop us from doing great things.
https://open.substack.com/pub/peterhyman21/p/when-your-winning-strategy-starts?r=4g3aiz&utm_medium=ios
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A Budget for the future with a description of a new economy - and the measures to get there - is the best way of getting beyond the obsession with filling the ‘hole’ in the public finances.
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A Budget for the future
To convince the sceptics, the coming Budget needs to champion a plan for a new economy
https://open.substack.com/pub/peterhyman21/p/a-budget-for-the-future?r=4g3aiz&utm_medium=ios
about 1 month ago
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Claire Green
about 2 months ago
Essential reading: Shuab Gamote &
@peterhyman.bsky.social
amplify the voices of KS5 students, revealing the wisdom, clarity & hope they bring to today’s challenges. Let’s empower 16–19s as
#rolemodels
: credible, grounded, inspiring. Meet them where they are, & listen. The recommendations are 🎯
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Tes magazine
about 2 months ago
‘As educators, we should never give in to moral panic’:
@peterhyman.bsky.social
explains why schools should allow debate to unfold in a way that gives space for teenagers' views to be heard, not censored
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Ditch the ‘Andrew Tate assembly’ and start having proper discussions
A former adviser to Tony Blair and Keir Starmer says schools can’t just tell boys to avoid controversial content – instead, they need to give them the tools, time and space to discuss the world they inhabit
https://www.tes.com/magazine/analysis/secondary/ditch-andrew-tate-assembly-start-discussions-boys-schools
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Fairness Foundation
about 2 months ago
Fascinating insights in this new report from
@demos-uk.bsky.social
@peterhyman.bsky.social
At the heart of young people’s agenda for change is economic fairness & a clear demand for an economic system that tackles the insecurity and precariousness shaping their lives. Read the full report below 👇
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We've got to ditch the 'Andrew Tate assembly' and start having proper discussions in schools.
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Ditch the ‘Andrew Tate assembly’ and start having proper discussions
A former adviser to Tony Blair and Keir Starmer says schools can’t just tell boys to avoid controversial content - instead, they need to give them the tools, time and space to discuss the world they i...
https://www.tes.com/magazine/analysis/secondary/ditch-andrew-tate-assembly-start-discussions-boys-schools
about 2 months ago
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Andrew Lawton
about 2 months ago
A fascinating report this, interesting that one of the reasons young people spend so much time online is the lack of alternatives. The report says there's a need to fund spaces for young people to meet. There's a yearning to do more in person. Ideally, for me, physical activity and sport spaces.
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Shuab Ganote and Peter Hyman write for Demos on their conversations with 16 yesr olds on their experiences of society, technology, gender shifts, role models & their views of the future
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Inside the mind of a 16-year-old: From Andrew Tate to Bonnie Blue to Nigel Farage - what do first time voters think about social media, politics, the state of Britain and their futures?
Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.
https://demos.co.uk/research/inside-the-mind-of-a-16-year-old-from-andrew-tate-to-bonnie-blue-to-nigel-farage-what-do-first-time-voters-think-about-social-media-politics-the-state-of-britain-and-their-futures/
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'Andrew Tate is Dead.' Our report out today - Inside the Mind of a 16-year-old - gets underneath the moral panic and finds out what young people really think.
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‘Andrew Tate is dead.’ My piece in the Observer today with Shuab Gamote based on a year long project listening to 700 young people across the country.
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‘Andrew Tate is dead’: inside the minds of 16-year-olds | The Observer
https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/andrew-tate-is-over-the-surprising-result-of-quizzing-teens-about-the-gen-z-crisis
about 2 months ago
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An important call for more radical education exam reform from leading scientists.
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Broken education system is holding back the young, top scientists warn PM | The Observer
https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/broken-education-system-is-holding-back-the-young-top-scientists-warn-pm
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Yes it’s possible!
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How to make Keir Starmer a social media star
Five ways for the PM to connect with voters, without tap-dancing naked down Camden High Street
https://open.substack.com/pub/peterhyman21/p/how-to-make-keir-starmer-a-social?r=4g3aiz&utm_medium=ios
about 2 months ago
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Sam Freedman
2 months ago
Notable in today's YouGov that the centre/left bloc - Lab/Green/LD/SNP are on 54%. With Reform/Tories on 43%. That's the biggest differential in a long time. I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.
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How Keir Starmer could become a social media star. My Substack today.
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How to make Keir Starmer a social media star
Five ways for the PM to connect with voters, without tap-dancing naked down Camden High Street
https://open.substack.com/pub/peterhyman21/p/how-to-make-keir-starmer-a-social?r=4g3aiz&utm_medium=ios
2 months ago
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Josh Westerling
2 months ago
Good ideas in this, and Peter right to say there's nothing to lose - crucially trying different things out is needed to find what works authentically for you even if it's not your comfort zone comms wise.
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It’s time Starmer was out there every day fighting to change Britain. He needs to flood the zone. He needs to embrace social media. He needs to take more risks. Nothing to lose.
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How to make Keir Starmer a social media star
Five ways for the PM to connect with voters, without tap-dancing naked down Camden High Street
https://open.substack.com/pub/peterhyman21/p/how-to-make-keir-starmer-a-social?r=4g3aiz&utm_medium=ios
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How Keir Starmer could become a social media star. My Substack today.
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How to make Keir Starmer a social media star
Five ways for the PM to connect with voters, without tap-dancing naked down Camden High Street
https://open.substack.com/pub/peterhyman21/p/how-to-make-keir-starmer-a-social?r=4g3aiz&utm_medium=ios
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Why bold curriculum and assessment reform is needed if we want to thrive in the future. Government needs to be less timid. New Substack.
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Make education the number one priority again
Bold curriculum and assessment reform is essential if we want to thrive in a fast-changing world
https://open.substack.com/pub/peterhyman21/p/make-education-the-number-one-priority?r=4g3aiz&utm_medium=ios
2 months ago
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Rachel Sylvester
2 months ago
This is great from
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. The government mantra should be “education education education” not “immigration immigration immigration”. Change is urgently needed and it’s what genuinely animates Starmer
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Make education the number one priority again
Bold curriculum and assessment reform is essential if we want to thrive in a fast-changing world
https://peterhyman21.substack.com/p/make-education-the-number-one-priority
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Kate Paradine
2 months ago
Brilliant, compelling case for oracy education made by
@peterhyman.bsky.social
Co-founder of
@voice21oracy.bsky.social
👇🏼 ~ vital to deepen learning, well-being, belonging and our connection to each other.
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On Radio 4 Broadcasting House this morning talking about how govt needs to blast away on ID cards, opportunities for young people, and Pride in Place community funding, if it is to regain initiative. The British state and its politics may be broken - but Britain isn’t!
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Broadcasting House - Streeting: Country in 'despair' over public services - BBC Sounds
The health secretary admits Hadush Kebatu's release adds to a sense Britain isn't working.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002ldbh?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
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Oracy - speaking and listening - is the superpower we all need in these troubled times. My Substack on why it’s vital it’s taught in schools. Please RT
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Oracy: the superpower for our troubled times
In our divided, technology-driven world, honed speaking and listening skills will bring people together and help solve complex problems. It should be taught to every child.
https://open.substack.com/pub/peterhyman21/p/oracy-the-superpower-for-our-troubled?r=4g3aiz&utm_medium=ios
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My new substack is about oracy: the superpower needed in troubled times. How better speaking and listening could solve so many of our problems.
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Oracy: the superpower for our troubled times
In our divided, technology-driven world, honed speaking and listening skills will bring people together and help solve complex problems. It should be taught to every child.
https://open.substack.com/pub/peterhyman21/p/oracy-the-superpower-for-our-troubled?r=4g3aiz&utm_medium=ios
2 months ago
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We’ve got to end the toxic politics where citizens are treated as victims and the politicians as saviours. My new Substack.
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Escaping the politics of victimhood
Politicians like to portray voters as victims and themselves as the rescuers. Breaking this toxic cycle is the route to stronger democracies and empowered citizens.
https://open.substack.com/pub/peterhyman21/p/escaping-the-politics-of-victimhood?r=4g3aiz&utm_medium=ios
3 months ago
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Jill Rutter
3 months ago
V interesting new substack from
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on what decent modern media management in govt should look like - and why the Grid is no longer the way to go
peterhyman21.substack.com/p/revealed-h...
(the lesson of Major era is, I think, hopeless division not great for media management)
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Revealed: How the No 10 grid strangles effective communication
A government ‘playlist’ of campaigns could cut through more powerfully than an old-style grid of worthy policy nuggets
https://peterhyman21.substack.com/p/revealed-how-the-no-10-grid-strangles
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Why the government grid is strangling effective communications and why we need a playlist of campaigns instead.
@lewisgoodall.com
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Revealed: How the No 10 grid strangles effective communication
A government ‘playlist’ of campaigns could cut through more powerfully than an old-style grid of worthy policy nuggets
https://open.substack.com/pub/peterhyman21/p/revealed-how-the-no-10-grid-strangles?r=4g3aiz&utm_medium=ios
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Thinking a lot about Britishness - here’s a snapshot of Britain in 1945 and 2025 - what have we gained, what have we lost? Would love to hear your views.
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Snapshot: Britain 1945, Britain 2025
My favourite passage of any history book is written by David Kynaston in Austerity Britain 1945-51. It is a vivid, rhythmic, pointillist portrait of Britain just after the war.
https://open.substack.com/pub/peterhyman21/p/snapshot-britain-1945-britain-2025?r=4g3aiz&utm_medium=ios
3 months ago
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Why the government grid is strangling effective communications and why we need a playlist of campaigns instead.
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Revealed: How the No 10 grid strangles effective communication
A government ‘playlist’ of campaigns could cut through more powerfully than an old-style grid of worthy policy nuggets
https://open.substack.com/pub/peterhyman21/p/revealed-how-the-no-10-grid-strangles?r=4g3aiz&utm_medium=ios
3 months ago
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Sascha O'Sullivan
3 months ago
🎙️NEW ep 🎙️ Postcard from Liverpool: is Starmerism is already over? w/ Deputy PM David Lammy Lucy Powell
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@stephenkb.bsky.social
@peterhyman.bsky.social
@morganwild.bsky.social
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Postcard from Liverpool: is Starmerism over already?
Host Sascha O’Sullivan goes behind-the-scenes of Labour Party conference in Liverpool, talking to senior politicians and advisors as she tries to hunt for Keir Starmer’s ideology – once…
https://www.politico.eu/podcast/westminster-insider/postcard-from-liverpool-is-starmerism-over-already/
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John Rentoul
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The death of the media grid:
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Revealed: How the No 10 grid strangles effective communication
A government ‘playlist’ of campaigns could cut through more powerfully than an old-style grid of worthy policy nuggets
https://peterhyman21.substack.com/p/revealed-how-the-no-10-grid-strangles
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Hugh Pemberton
3 months ago
This piece from
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is very good on why political parties need to focus less on crafting policy-based sound bites and press releases and more on making the argument for change
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The secrets of the government GRID and how it’s strangling effective communication.
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Revealed: How the No 10 grid strangles effective communication
A government ‘playlist’ of campaigns could cut through more powerfully than an old-style grid of worthy policy nuggets
https://open.substack.com/pub/peterhyman21/p/revealed-how-the-no-10-grid-strangles?r=4g3aiz&utm_medium=ios
3 months ago
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Beccy Earnshaw
11 months ago
With the interim report due soon, will the Curriculum and Assessment Review rise to its potential? -
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in the
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A new curriculum is needed for a new age
An upcoming review has the potential to radically reform what we teach the next generation
https://www.ft.com/content/4a626c0d-a791-47c6-8283-86443089f41d
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Kate Paradine
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Compelling call
@peterhyman.bsky.social
for a new curriculum as a “landmark legacy” with “new basics including oracy.”
@voice21oracy.bsky.social
And need to build a coalition “united by a powerful sense of aspiration & necessity of preparing our children for the future”
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A new curriculum is needed for a new age
An upcoming review has the potential to radically reform what we teach the next generation
https://www.ft.com/content/4a626c0d-a791-47c6-8283-86443089f41d
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Hugh Pemberton
4 months ago
This is very good on some of the many ways that our scandalous neglect of the 55% of British kids who don't want to go to university is coming back to bite us. From
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The education divide that’s fuelling populism
Without high status career pathways for all, we will not heal a divided Britain
https://open.substack.com/pub/peterhyman21/p/the-education-divide-thats-fuelling?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=p13md
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Education is the biggest divide now in politics in the US and UK. Those who don’t go to university too often feel second class. This is fuelling populism. And it has to change.
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The education divide that’s fuelling populism
Without high status career pathways for all, we will not heal a divided Britain
https://open.substack.com/pub/peterhyman21/p/the-education-divide-thats-fuelling?r=4g3aiz&utm_medium=ios
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Hugh Pemberton
4 months ago
@peterhyman.bsky.social
is good on successful politics in a superficial world - grab people's attention, tell stories that they can engage with, persuade people you can get things done (actually getting things done not so important). All bloody depressing but ...
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Trump: the teacher we can’t ignore
The American President is pioneering a new form of political communications. We must swallow our pride and learn from him.
https://open.substack.com/pub/peterhyman21/p/trump-the-teacher-we-cant-ignore?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=p13md
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James O'Malley
4 months ago
This from
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is excellent. Was waving a lighter in the air while reading.
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I care deeply about this from my time as a headteacher. We must go beyond the exam factory model of education and give all students proper career pathways and hope. Without it we will fuel resentment and the rise of populism. My latest Substack.
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The education divide that’s fuelling populism
Without high status career pathways for all, we will not heal a divided Britain
https://open.substack.com/pub/peterhyman21/p/the-education-divide-thats-fuelling?r=4g3aiz&utm_medium=ios
4 months ago
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Traditional communications is too bland. We need to learn from Trump about how to operate in the attention economy. Full substack here:
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4 months ago
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If the centre left wants to fightback against the populists, then it needs to learn from the way Trump communicates. Because at the moment we are lame and failing to understand the attention economy. My latest Substack.
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Venetia S-Booth
4 months ago
And this from
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- we don’t necessarily want to hear it, but a lot of what he says, I think, is right. We need to listen more and patronise less
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My new substack today is about how to get things done in government and the big choice facing Starmer this autumn - business as usual in Whitehall- or dynamic mission-driven task forces.
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How to get things done in government
Labour faces a choice: continue with business-as-usual in Whitehall or power up mission-driven task forces.
https://open.substack.com/pub/peterhyman21/p/how-to-get-things-done-in-government?r=4g3aiz&utm_medium=ios
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Excited to have launched a new Substack - Changing the Story, where I’ll be writing about politics, education, strategy and a few other things. My first post is about what Labour should do this autumn to regain the momentum. Please subscribe and share.
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Changing the story
The five essentials to get Labour back on track this autumn
https://open.substack.com/pub/peterhyman21/p/changing-the-story?r=4g3aiz&utm_medium=ios
4 months ago
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Fairness Foundation
11 months ago
Missed our populism and inequality event with
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@liambyrnemp.bsky.social
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@benansell.bsky.social
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@hamidaali.bsky.social
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The return of Trump: is inequality behind the rise of the populist president?
Why were the Democrats defeated? Is America’s surging inequality the root cause of President Trump’s victory? What connections can we draw between growing inequality and the populists’ clarion call fo...
https://fairnessfoundation.com/posts/the-return-of-trump
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