Great opportunity here to work on policy and politics and make a real difference. @labourtogether.bsky.social x.com/LabourTogeth...

Young people get a triple lock too: locked out of safe public spaces, then locked out of the job market, then locked out of buying a house Cf this brilliant work by @peterhyman.bsky.social & Shuab Gamote for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social & @demos-uk.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-hyman-...

Which political party in the UK has best changed their story in 2025? My verdict and marks out of 10. @zackpolanski.bsky.social @rachelsylvester.bsky.social @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social @rafaelbehr.bsky.social @stephenkb.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/peterhym...

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. open.substack.com/pub/peterhym... @itvpeston.bsky.social @rafaelbehr.bsky.social @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social @robertshrimsley.bsky.social

Shuab is in sparkling form - a great podcast.

@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...

This is such an insightful post from @peterhyman.bsky.social. 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 open.substack.com/pub/peterhym...

How Keir Starmer’s Winning Strategy has run its course. @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social @itvpeston.bsky.social @rachelsylvester.bsky.social @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social @rory-stewart.bsky.social @rafaelbehr.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/peterhym...

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. @itvpeston.bsky.social @robertshrimsley.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/peterhym...

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 🎯

‘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

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 👇

We've got to ditch the 'Andrew Tate assembly' and start having proper discussions in schools. @richardreeves.bsky.social @rachelsylvester.bsky.social www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

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.

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 demos.co.uk/research/ins...

'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. @rachelsylvester.bsky.social @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social @itvpeston.bsky.social @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social demos.co.uk/wp-content/u...

‘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. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

An important call for more radical education exam reform from leading scientists. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Yes it’s possible! open.substack.com/pub/peterhym...

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.

How Keir Starmer could become a social media star. My Substack today. open.substack.com/pub/peterhym...

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.

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. @itvpeston.bsky.social @rachelsylvester.bsky.social @robertshrimsley.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/peterhym...

How Keir Starmer could become a social media star. My Substack today. open.substack.com/pub/peterhym...

Why bold curriculum and assessment reform is needed if we want to thrive in the future. Government needs to be less timid. New Substack. @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social @itvpeston.bsky.social @jonsevers.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/peterhym...

This is great from @peterhyman.bsky.social . The government mantra should be “education education education” not “immigration immigration immigration”. Change is urgently needed and it’s what genuinely animates Starmer peterhyman21.substack.com/p/make-educa...

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.

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! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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 @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/peterhym...

My new substack is about oracy: the superpower needed in troubled times. How better speaking and listening could solve so many of our problems. open.substack.com/pub/peterhym... @itvpeston.bsky.social @rachelsylvester.bsky.social @geoffbarton.bsky.social @jonsevers.bsky.social

We’ve got to end the toxic politics where citizens are treated as victims and the politicians as saviours. My new Substack. open.substack.com/pub/peterhym... @rachelsylvester.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com @robertshrimsley.bsky.social @itvpeston.bsky.social

V interesting new substack from @peterhyman.bsky.social 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)

Why the government grid is strangling effective communications and why we need a playlist of campaigns instead. @lewisgoodall.com @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social @rafaelbehr.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/peterhym...

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. @rachelsylvester.bsky.social @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social @rafaelbehr.bsky.social @sundersays.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/peterhym...

Why the government grid is strangling effective communications and why we need a playlist of campaigns instead. @lewisgoodall.com @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social @rafaelbehr.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/peterhym...

🎙️NEW ep 🎙️ Postcard from Liverpool: is Starmerism is already over? w/ Deputy PM David Lammy Lucy Powell @alistrathern.bsky.social @stephenkb.bsky.social @peterhyman.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social @noahkeate.bsky.social & @ecasalicchio.bsky.social www.politico.eu/podcast/west...

The death of the media grid: @peterhyman.bsky.social peterhyman21.substack.com/p/revealed-h...

This piece from @peterhyman.bsky.social 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 open.substack.com/pub/peterhym...

The secrets of the government GRID and how it’s strangling effective communication. @rachelsylvester.bsky.social @rafaelbehr.bsky.social @itvpeston.bsky.social @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/peterhym...

With the interim report due soon, will the Curriculum and Assessment Review rise to its potential? - @peterhyman.bsky.social in the @financialtimes.com sets out why it’s time to be bold… www.ft.com/content/4a62...

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” www.ft.com/content/4a62...

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 @peterhyman.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/peterhym...

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. @rachelsylvester.bsky.social @alisonpeacock.bsky.social @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/peterhym...

@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 ... open.substack.com/pub/peterhym...

This from @morganwild.bsky.social and @peterhyman.bsky.social is excellent. Was waving a lighter in the air while reading. www.labourtogether.uk/all-reports/...

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. open.substack.com/pub/peterhym...

Traditional communications is too bland. We need to learn from Trump about how to operate in the attention economy. Full substack here: open.substack.com/pub/peterhym...

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. open.substack.com/pub/peterhym...

And this from @peterhyman.bsky.social - 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

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. open.substack.com/pub/peterhym...