Good to see Renewal's latest Special Issue cited in Andy Beckett's latest as an example of the kind of "more worked-out proposals for bolder government" Labour needs

Extremely proud to have edited this special issue of Renewal, in which @louisehaighmp.bsky.social, @yuanfenyang.bsky.social and the Tribune Group of MPs make a major set of interventions into Labour's economic debate

The bigger problem IMO is that there isn't a vision for the future underpinning the pitch. The politics of patience isn't a politics at all. Absent any such future-orientated argument, "impatience" is almost inevitable, as I argued @renewaljournal.bsky.social renewal.org.uk/blog/this-la... 7/7

just reading fascinating @renewaljournal.bsky.social essays on future UK economy. V interesting to see @yuanfenyang.bsky.social identify corporate governance reform as a priority for growth and productivity renewal.org.uk/articles/gro...

Great to see Renewal pieces setting the agenda. If you don't subscribe, you need to.

Some good stuff in here!

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

In my piece for @renewaljournal.bsky.social I look at why hospitality could be a nationwide answer to the youth employment challenge and how that could be achieved.

Today I’m publishing a new contribution with colleagues in the Tribune Group, setting out how we can deliver real economic renewal over the next three years. Read my article "No town left behind: inclusive growth across the UK" in @renewaljournal.bsky.social at the link below 👇️ buff.ly/YvP6tEm

Glad to contribute to this piece on fixing the tax cliffs that punish workers, carers, families and small businesses. Progressive tax can be good for growth and help us create thriving workforces, high streets and communities.

From reforming energy pricing, to tackling housing, transport and food prices, we need to build a more active state that can stabilise prices and support investment. Strengthening household resilience is essential not just for fairness, but for growth. renewal.org.uk

The cost of living crisis and our low growth are two symptoms of the same problem: an economic structure that hasn’t been working for a long time. We need to take on the root causes of those costs.

The more I read of this the more I feel quite uplifted It looks like a serious bit of work. People may not agree with it all but it is policy rich and presents and tries to persuade people of their vision, theory of change and tradeoffs And that is all some of us have been asking for isn’t it?

“The question is not simply what the optimal fiscal framework looks like, but how reform can be sequenced in a context of elevated borrowing costs and heightened market sensitivity”. V interesting, lots to agree with. renewal.org.uk/articles/a-n...

Pleased to see this issue receive coverage in the Guardian from @kiranstacey.bsky.social and @jessicaelgot.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Louise Haigh's essay in @renewaljournal.bsky.social is a substantive intervention from Labour's soft left. She wants "not to abandon fiscal discipline, but to redefine it, so that it supports ... the long-term renewal the UK economy". Some thoughts below. renewal.org.uk/articles/a-n...

If we are to rebuild we have to question fiscal orthodoxies. This issue of Renewal is a really important starting point.

Looking forward to reading this - and quite a coup for Renewal! Suspect a lot of the thinking here will basically underpin the left/soft left candidate in any leadership election (just as the Labour growth group stuff will do for the right's candidate)

We now have the Haigh and Yang intervention, which appropriately has been published in the social-democratic journal Renewal.* *(to which you should all subscribe) bsky.app/profile/rene...

Sensible set of reforms proposed here: longer time frame for fiscal rules, take investment effects seriously and, as I’ve been saying for a while, recognise that monetary and fiscal policy are not independent.

NEW ISSUE: In this special extra edition of Renewal, @louisehaighmp.bsky.social, @yuanfenyang.bsky.social, and other members of the Tribune Group of Labour MPs set out paths to repairing Britain's broken economic settlement. renewal.org.uk/journal/volu...

It's local election day in England! Re-upping @jacktshaw.bsky.social's article from the other week about the stakes, and the limited potential foreither Reform or the Greens to pioneer a new form of local governance: renewal.org.uk/blog/the-sea...

Happy May Day! Show your solidarity by letting us know if you got your copy of our new work issue <3

Sorting through some boxes of books and I’m being slowed down by leafing through my collection of @renewaljournal.bsky.social issues. Not least this one from the summer 2015 Labour leadership contest.

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...

New piece from me in @renewaljournal.bsky.social. The 2025 local elections raised important questions about the future of local governance and whether Reform UK can offer a genuine alternative. Has it? And what does that mean for the Green Party? renewal.org.uk/blog/the-sea...

"The deeper lesson of the forthcoming elections, therefore, may be less about which party wins control of individual authorities, & more about the enduring limits of local democracy in England." renewal.org.uk/blog/the-sea... Jack Shaw at @renewaljournal.bsky.social on #Localgov and local elections

Just over a week out from the council elections in England, @jacktshaw.bsky.social asks whether the results are likely to yield anything new in terms of local governance

Is the Elections Bill up to the job? Guy Furlong argues that the bill is jumble of half-measures, reflecting a lack of any coherent theory of what's wrong with democracy, and of what a better democracy might look like: renewal.org.uk/blog/democra...

Great thread on Ben's excellent piece:

A great read this.

The Scottish Parliament election is being fought in the shadow of devastating job losses at Grangemouth refinery, the Mossmorran petrochemicals complex and offshore. Broken energy promises and policy failure is recruiting voters to Reform. I've written for Renewal on Scotland's unjust transition.

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!

This was a fun one to write. Here I argue, with @joshwesterling.bsky.social, that the next frontier for workers rights must be those devoid of key rights - the self-employed, insecure workers who are now the worst off. Extending basic protections to them should be the govt’s priority.

The Employment Rights Act becoming law is an historic step. Read @joannegsusdaw.bsky.social, @cwunews.bsky.social GS Dave Ward and @anneliesemidgleymp.bsky.social in @renewaljournal.bsky.social on the difference it could make, and how we deliver for working people. renewal.org.uk/articles/tra...

The day's main political event: new Renewal !

New Renewal just dropped! Some fantastic stuff in this issue, including essays from Jane Gingrich, Jon Cruddas, Hilary Cottam, @ewangibbs.bsky.social, @joshwesterling.bsky.social, @abbyabhaya.bsky.social, and @benjthomas.bsky.social

NEW ISSUE ALERT: Renewal 34:1 The Employment Rights Act and the Politics of Work Guest edited by Renewal contributing editors @stevenklein.bsky.social and @fhpitts.bsky.social along with co-editor @lisebutler.bsky.social renewal.org.uk/journal/volu...

Great piece by @neilwarner.bsky.social in the latest and fabulous issue of @renewaljournal.bsky.social. As he says, the social-Democratic left has much to gain from a more robust anti-oligarchy narrative. renewal.org.uk/articles/ant...

Wise words from a valued contributor

Very pleased to make my debut in @renewaljournal.bsky.social online today, with an essay about how politics got stuck, drawing on the ideas of @dsquareddigest.bsky.social @abbyinnes.bsky.social Theodore Porter, James C. Scott, Marc Dunkelman, Lisa Miller and others: renewal.org.uk/blog/disempo...

On Tuesday @philtinline.bsky.social launched a new @futuregovforum.bsky.social report: 'Power Failure: a new theory of power'. Thanks to Phil for an extract of this report, on power shifts and democratic disengagement, new in Renewal online: renewal.org.uk/blog/disempo...

Am pleased that my editorial for @renewaljournal.bsky.social is now online. It was written back in September, but it seems even clearer now that the choice really is between social democracy and the (tech) bros. renewal.org.uk/articles/rit...

Good piece that offers a guide to break out of the low-trust doom loop. Centre-left politicians and parties should have respect for the "intellectual capacities of the public", make clear who its people are and communicate the choices and trade offs they're making.

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...