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Looking for an intellectual treat? @petermandler.bsky.social 's Ford Lectures on 'The Language of Social Science in Everyday Life' begin Thursday 22 January and continue weekly through 26 February in Oxford. #Skystorians

A plea for more people in UK politics to read some Michael Moran

Some pretty worrying shifts identified in this new @ippr.org @yougov.co.uk data: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The IPPR paper by me and @npjgarland.bsky.social is here www.ippr.org/articles/the...

There has been a rise in the number of people who think being British is something you are born with rather than something you can become over the past 2 years

As ethnonationalism re-emerges as a defining characteristic of the Right, equality must return as the distinguishing feature of the Left New @ippr.org paper in today's @theguardian.com

Interested in how you square the circle of “British people who post ‘burn down a migrant hotel’ during race riots shouldn’t be arrested” with “someone who posted pretty objectionable and racist things 8 years before they became a British citizen should be deported” and am sure someone will ask Nigel

And a good morning to everyone reading the “later life” section of Brigitte Bardot’s wikipedia page for the first time

And to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, and will return in Avengers: Doomsday

Carol of the Bells ("Shchedryk") from Ukrainian Defenders at Sofiivska Square, in the heart of Kyiv. Merry Christmas, friends! 📹: miarodriges / Threads

Sort of interesting that the Old Right and Blue Labour get conflated so often, but their views of Labour's history (and the state) are pretty much diametrically opposed renewal.org.uk/articles/pla...

With place and devolution back at the centre of political debate, it’s a timely reminder that those mapping a way forward should look at what has come before. 📘 Read Nick’s essay here:https://buff.ly/ElcnWP3 📚 Download the full collection:https://buff.ly/C34ukiN

In our penultimate 10-year essay collection spotlight, @npjgarland.bsky.social pens a walk through the history of place-based policy — drawing out lessons on durable design, clear objectives, and how community policy connects to economic strategy.

💡As our ten-year celebrations draw to a close, we’ve been reflecting on what the next decade of community business should learn from the last and what that means as we head into a new year.

I could watch a million Benoit Blanc mysteries

This is devastating. It’s hard to absorb such an awful end to such an extraordinary, creative and generous life. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...

Study of abstract ideas has a bias towards identifying common ground, and imagining syntheses that are impossible if the practicalities are given any attention whatsoever. Mutual appreciation for the First New Left is (alas) not the foundation for a stable political marriage.

Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.

It is very funny to see Lord Frost writing with such characteristic pomposity on the subject of ‘Silly Sausage Britain’ - and troubling that he seems to have done so off the back of X reactions like these. (@sofiejenkinson.bsky.social is a legend and not at all kitsch.)

I don't think the world of X posters – where people seem to think Mr Blobby has been killed for his meat by asylum seekers who are currently roasting chunks of his pink flesh over a flaming barrel in the car park of a job centre – bears much relation to the reality of life in the UK, if I'm honest.

Child poverty politics: ten years later, Tories still looking down their nose at people... labourlist.org/2025/12/tori...

There's a PhD thesis to be written on how Nicolas (30 ans) replacing Deano as the right's favourite imaginary voter is emblematic of the Conservative Party's intellectual trajectory over the past few years.

A fact being ignored even more than usual: 70% of the money from abolishing the two-child limit will go to families who are in work (via @ippr.org).

Rightly lots of debates about growth this weekend - rightly because it was low productivity growth that saw wages entirely flatline during the 2010s.

Labour's Budget is for every street in Britain. 👉 Cutting energy bills 👉 Lifting children out of poverty 👉 Rebuilding public services While our opponents hide behind cheap, divisive politics, we're getting on with the job: changing Britain.

The Conservative Party's leader in London, Susan Hall, just shared this Islamophobic disinformation about Sadiq Khan, after it was posted on X by a racist troll

Renewing Britain

We possibly do need to know but god I resent it

This story is all Nigel Farage should be asked about by journalists for months

A pleasure to be at @powertochange.org.uk’s launch of their From The Ground Up essay collection tonight, and an honour to have been asked to contribute. www.powertochange.org.uk/event/event-...

Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming before vanishing day to all those who celebrate.

You can catch up now on the essays we've published so far - there are some must-read pieces by the likes of @jamestplunkett.bsky.social @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social @npjgarland.bsky.social - but there's more to come next week! www.powertochange.org.uk/celebrating-...

On Tuesday we launch 'From the ground up: Community business and Britain's next decade' - an essay collection to celebrate 10 yrs of @powertochange.org.uk and look ahead into the future of our communities. Delighted we'll be joined by this excellent panel of guests to share their 2035 vision 👇

Happy 80th birthday to Mr. Neil Young.

I tried to cover a lot of ground here. A few points developing the argument, regarding current government's "Pride in Place" etc: basically I like this stuff, but worry a bit about lack of realism about what they might achieve in isolation.

Great to have Nick writing for us, and putting recent (v positive) announcements in historical context. And, ultimately, calling for a more expansive communitarianism with a clearer view of political economy - something I hope we @powertochange.org.uk and others can do in the months to come.

Good realistic essay by @npjgarland.bsky.social for @powertochange.org.uk. Key bit for me is communities policy being tied into a broader political economy.

I tried to cover a lot of ground here. A few points developing the argument, regarding current government's "Pride in Place" etc: basically I like this stuff, but worry a bit about lack of realism about what they might achieve in isolation.

For @powertochange.org.uk I suggested some "lessons from history" on community and public policy, from the late 1960s through to the current government's "Pride in Place". www.powertochange.org.uk/evidence-and...

Tory policy is to revoke permanent residence (ILR) for everybody who does not earn £38k - deporting most nurses who have ILR This is put in the video as "who is unlikely to contribute more than they cost" NB: video does not say EU settled status is exempt No govt since Idi Amin has done this

This is not normal discourse. It is not just a bit of fun for a Sunday paper interview. It is beyond the realms of the concept of decency shared across the political spectrum until last year.

Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.

Jenrick casting 1980s British football hooliganism as something that was easily dealt with by police and not an era defining issue which we're still living with the consequences of today... He's genuinely the most unserious person in British politics rn

A piece which misses the rather important point that Labour in 2025 faces a very different electoral challenge (i.e. a massively fragmented party system) to the Democrats in 2024. www.ft.com/content/a14b...

Matty Y doing a bit of UK politics analysis

Enjoying the strength of reaction to a historian of socialist political thought observing that a political leader doesn't care about the history of socialist political thought as much as they should

Delighted to see my article exploring how Britons planned for retirement in the mid-to-late 20th century out in the world! It tries to capture the mixed feelings prompted by ageing & retirement whilst connecting those themes to wider histories of social democracy, selfhood & financialisation.

Good morning, somehow this has only just come up on my instagram but it’s well worth 30 seconds of your time.

When people ask me what I think about using AI in writing I’m going to send them this screenshot