Proud to see this important intervention from the Tribune Group, out now in @renewaljournal.bsky.social

For May Day, I chose some appropriate reading for the tube this morning: @renewaljournal.bsky.social's latest special issue on the politics of work. renewal.org.uk/journal/volu...

Next Thursday, 30 April, 5.30-7pm... Join us (online or in person) with Bobby Phe Amis offering wonderful new perspective on postimperial Britain, welfare and the managed return of colonial service officers! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

I have a new piece out in the new issue of @renewaljournal.bsky.social, identifying the history of industrial and economic democracy in Thatcherism and identifying lessons for social democrats. renewal.org.uk/journal/volu...

Very proud to see this issue of Renewal out. In it, we use the Employment Rights Act to think more broadly about the politics of work today. With great contributors ranging across history, social science, and philosophy, including Elizabeth Anderson and my KCL colleague Jimena Valdez

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!

Pleased to report that my chapter (with Jon Lawrence and Jane Elliot) on Social Science, New Society and the Politics of Social Change is now open access alongside the rest of @garylove.bsky.social and @richardtoye.bsky.social 's Writing Politics in Modern Britain www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...

It's me! In the papers! Read all about it! Never ceases to amaze me that people will carry my stuff. See what you think. 👇

Really looking forward to chairing the launch of Georgios Giannakopoulos' new book ‘The Interpreters’ tomorrow, alongside a fantastic panel of Jeanne Morefield, @chrisbrooke.bsky.social and Dina Gusejnova www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Very useful piece by Nick Clarke, Alex Hill and Jonathan Moss on an archive heavily used by historians of modern Britain - and underutilised by scholars of British politics. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Can’t think of a better writer than David Wingrave to remind us to pay more attention to Cyprus, and the still too relevant legacies of empire in the Mediterranean, in this week’s @newstatesman1913.bsky.social Weekend Essay www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

to be clear, Matthew Goodwin has one (1) child and should thus be penalised for failing to meet the replacement rate under the incentive scheme that he’s established here

Very excited we will be hosting a lecture by the one and only John Ganz - info and sign up here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/why-the-cl...

Excitingly, my book now has a cover. You can see it here, where you can also now pre-order! www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/no-sec...

Am updating my sources for my module on the history of the British left, and want to include the Greens in their contemporary eco-socialist manifestation. Can anyone point me to a good, fairly long-form statement of the party’s policy orientation m that isn’t the 2024 manifesto?

The recent rhapsodising about Carney’s Davos speech and Canada’s repositioning in the new world order has reminded me of my piece on what Starmer can learn from Canada in @renewaljournal.bsky.social, from back in March: renewal.org.uk/blog/sleepin...

Absolute blockbuster of a new issue of @renewaljournal.bsky.social, edited by @morganj0nes.bsky.social @neilwarner.bsky.social and @beccagold.bsky.social which takes a big picture view of the past year and a half of Labour government.

Enjoyed the Guardian piece on Tooze, but absolutely no clearer on the perennial question of ‘HOW DOES HE FIND THE TIME????’

Check out the fab website of our project on histories of prediction, 'imagining tomorrow'! Its sleek design presents our conferences, exhibition and publications, including original artwork. I had a great time working with this wonderful team and I hope you enjoy the outcome!

Last week we launched 'Imagining Tomorrow: The Artefacts of Prediction' at the Manchester Museum, an exhibition exploring how physical objects from 1900 to the present - from bomb shelters to board games - have expressed visions of the future. www.imaginingtomorrow.org.uk

One of my favourite recent pieces we’ve published online in @renewaljournal.bsky.social - Archie Cornish on the allotment and the missed opportunity for a modern politics of the commons

Manchester and area friends: Join us for our launch of our British Academy funded exhibition ‘The Artefacts of Prediction: Imagining Tomorrow’ on December 2nd! There will be speakers, drinks, and nibbles. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-eve...

Breaking the tax pledge is the right call...and politically sulphurous. Reeves must argue, far more forcefully, that taxes are *the* essential downpayment we all pay for a fairer society. Patrick Diamond and I wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Key points in 🧵 👇 renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...

A writer very dear to my heart named Dave Wingrave (who is not on here) published his first piece in Harpers last week - a short story set in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus about conflict, division and what happens after it.

Very glad to see the solid, sensible protections of the Renters Rights Act at least get some recognition in the NS - as a renter in London who has experienced the blight of bidding wars etc the dearth of mainstream media coverage has been stunning. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

My book UP IN THE AIR: A HISTORY OF HIGH-RISE BRITAIN is out today!

I did an interview where I talked at length about why liberal analyses of how to win elections are wrong, why social media matters so much, what’s changed, what’s the same, why Marxists are deeply unsuited for this moment, how people think, and more. renewal.org.uk/blog/all-tha...

Looking forward to this!

Congratulations to our contributing editor Sacha!

Everybody wants growth, but how can we get it? Jimena Valdez makes the case for a growth strategy that embraces international students and immigration, now online for @renewaljournal.bsky.social

Huge thanks to @anneliesedoddsmp.bsky.social for this fascinating and timely lecture on the social democratic response to big tech. Look out for the full lecture, forthcoming in our end-of-year double issue.

So much talk about Reform voters, but I'm yet to read much about their lives beyond tropes and excuses ('legitimate concerns'). I've been back in the midlands to interview people and learn more. Here's my piece on them and Reform's attempts to present itself as a community-minded, pro-worker party:

A Q&A I did earlier this year with about digital political culture. Some might find it relevant to current events. The tl;dr is that it’s all different but it’s also the same: people want and need a vocabulary to think with & things to do to feel like agents in their lives. Who gives that wins.

The new issue of @renewaljournal.bsky.social, themed around the far right, is out now and it couldn't be more timely. Free to read articles by guest editor @sachahilhorst.bsky.social, @profafinlayson.bsky.social and Cailtlin Prowle. Subscribe here to read the rest: renewal.org.uk/journal/volu...

I join the now abundant discourse about Abundance. A good book but more importantly a bellwether book for the orientation of the center-left. But like many, they hope we can engineer a way around politics and put things back in the hands of competent technocrats...I am not so sure...

If Labour has any political strategy at all it should be seeking to appeal not to the people who participated in the protest today, but to the majority of the public who are alarmed by it.

“As social democrats we must be clear that AI is ultimately parasitic on our collective endeavours”

Anneliese Dodds speaking at the @renewaljournal.bsky.social Rita Hinden Lecture tonight. Her talk identifies the "tech bros", and the systems they oversee and interventions they make, as a threat to "free and fair democracy". She argues the left should focus strongly on protecting democracy.

Really enjoyed this evening’s @renewaljournal.bsky.social lecture from Anneliese Dodds. She’s right that delivery in government is necessary but not sufficient. Labour must protect democracy and be a voice for humans in the age of AI. #Labour #AI #democracy

Anneliese Dodds MP takes on the dominance of the (tech) bros in our democracy in her fantastic inaugural @renewaljournal.bsky.social Rita Hinden Memorial Lecture

Final reminder that Anneliese Dodds's lecture - on the Labour government, the challenges of new technology, and the need for a new, internationalist collectivism - is TONIGHT, and will be followed by a drinks reception. Tickets are free, and we still have some left, so sign-up on Eventbrite below:

A reminder that this event is tomorrow at City St Georges. Light refreshments will be provided courtesy of our co—sponsor the Finsbury Institute. Attendance is free but booking required here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

A reminder that Anneliese Dodds, who resigned from Starmer's government, is giving the Rita Hinden memorial lecture for @renewaljournal.bsky.social on Tuesday. With the government in obvious distress and a deputy leadership contest imminent, I am intrigued about what she will say.

This is interesting because it's yet another indicator of the 1970s being memorialised in political culture nostalgically and positively, not as the years of "crisis". @lisebutler.bsky.social spotted this in a Starmer speech from a few years back and now we see it on the radical right.

"The YIMBYs of the party must speak to a Labour vision for Britain, not shoehorn the word Labour into a pre-existing single issue campaign" @mcortonscott.bsky.social assesses the current state of Labour YIMBYism, after the departures of Chrises Hinchliffe and Worrall

Back in the Guardian, on the rise of racialised declinism www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Such a pleasure to present new work on the Third Way, feminism and family policy this morning at @bshsnews.bsky.social - for a panel on New Labour and (Social) Science with Jacob Ward, Jon Agar and Melanie Small

Great to have had the chance to work with @lisebutler.bsky.social and Jane Elliott on this exploration of social science rhetorics of persuasion- looks like being a great book

Modern British History maternity leave cover (7 months in first instance) teaching position, predominantly 20th century, UCL History Dept. Starts 1 October 2025. Friendly department with excellent students and great library resources. PhD required. Deadline 24 July.

It exists! Delighted to have contributed a chapter on social science, political writing and New Society with @jonhistorian61.bsky.social and Jane Elliot.