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...

Another example is some of Mamdani's language, e.g. "if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Draws on the Fighting Oligarchy Tour of AOC & Bernie, the New Deal, Popular Front, a range of historic and recent literature on fascism and/or neoliberalism, and analogies between political & economic authoritarianism now being used on the far right (e.g. Thiel, Yarvin, 'CEO-monarch' idea)

I enjoyed writing this in the great new issue of Renewal. It's an effort to think through how fighting the far right should be integrated with campaigns for economic alternatives in a "postneoliberal" context

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...

It’s been a real treat to help with this issue. Huge credit to @morganj0nes.bsky.social and @neilwarner.bsky.social for bringing it together. There are some great free-to-read pieces (including Neil’s excellent article on anti-oligarchy as anti-fascism), but you should subscribe for the full thing!

It's a pleasure to contribute to Renewal's special issue on Labour in power (though unfortunately it's behind a paywall)

May have more to say later but just to trumpet that I’m in RENEWAL, and in the same double issue as the Labour Minister who resigned in part over the gendered impacts of the aid cuts and a Labour MP calling for an extra dose of feminism.

So pleased to be part of this, reflecting on the fraught place of disability in Labour's history, distant and recent

My belated Christmas present - a jampacked double issue of Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy.

Very pleased to have contributed to this fascinating double issue of @renewaljournal.bsky.social.

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.

I’ve written an essay about Labor’s 2025 #ausvotes landslide for the upcoming issue of @renewaljournal.bsky.social to give a global social democratic audience a better sense of what happened #auspol

There's some wonderful writing from @febalata.bsky.social in this edition of Renewal, on how extreme wealth undermines democracy, blocks attempts at justice, and on how the fight against it has got to be a core priority of modern progressive politics.

The new (double!) issue of "Renewal - a journal of social democracy" is now available both online and in print, featuring brilliant contributions from historians, sociologists, political scientists, think tank researchers, and activists (and even the odd Labour MP)

Back into writing this year and I'm in the latest edition of @renewaljournal.bsky.social with a piece looking at Scottish social democracy, the structural challenges it faces and the spectre of a Scottish far-right.

very pleased to see this out!!! Me on the state of Labour‘s “hard” left, the rise to prominence of the “soft” left, and the prospects of cooperation between the two in order to save the party from electoral calamity.

NEW ISSUE: Renewal 33/3&4 Guest co-edited by @neilwarner.bsky.social & @beccagold.bsky.social, this special double issue features nineteen (19) brilliant essays analysing Labour's statecraft and debating the strategic challenges for social democracy in Britain and beyond

And what does Will Stancil think? @renewaljournal.bsky.social interviewed him a few months back: renewal.org.uk/blog/all-tha...

You should get the next issue of Renewal because I wrote something about Scottish social democracy.

Plus @christabelcoops.bsky.social @redrabbleroz.bsky.social @marzmac.bsky.social @lucydelap.bsky.social and many more! For full and unfettered access to the issue (online and in a lovely print edition) when it comes out I think you should subscribe here: renewal.org.uk

It also has my fabulous issue co-editors @beccagold.bsky.social (writing about social democratic ideas of the good life) and @neilwarner.bsky.social (writing about anti-oligarchy as anti-fascism).

The issue features @anneliesedoddsmp.bsky.social's Rita Hinden lecture on how social democracy should relate to big tech; @sarahowen.org.uk on Labour as a feminist project; @alistrathern.bsky.social on 'commuter Labour'; and @pollybillington.bsky.social on the party's narrative.

We're putting the finishing touches on the next issue of @renewaljournal.bsky.social, which is a double issue about Labour's time in power.

The new edition of @renewaljournal.bsky.social is one of the most exciting yet, featuring essays from four Labour MPs, as well as from some of the sharpest writers and academics from across the wider left. Subscribe now to get the print edition delivered straight to your doorstep! renewal.org.uk

An excellent review of our Radical Abundance book from Anna Coote.

"The way to achieve ‘radical abundance’, meaning enough for all, is not to pursue more growth but to shift the balance of power" Anna Coote of @neweconomics.bsky.social reviews "Radical Abundance" by @kaiheron.bsky.social, @kmilb.bsky.social & @bertrussell.bsky.social

I have a piece in the upcoming Winter 2026 double issue of @renewaljournal.bsky.social that goes through Australian Labor’s tumultuous first term & explains how the “centre left revival” occurred so keep an eye out

Completely right from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com that we are increasingly in an age of zero-sum politics. In the latest edition of @renewaljournal.bsky.social, @paulmason.bsky.social wrote about what this means for social democrats: renewal.org.uk/articles/soc...

Read the full piece, and my recommendations, in @renewaljournal.bsky.social here (thanks @dmk1793.bsky.social for editing and publishing!) renewal.org.uk/blog/a-custo...

I'm in the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social & @renewaljournal.bsky.social today arguing why rejoining the EU Customs Union won't fix Labour's growth woes. The basic reason: UK and European stagnation predate Brexit, and the real challenge is competing with US and Chinese dynamism.

"Joining the Customs Union would most likely be good for growth. But if we think it will save us from economic stagnation, we are suffering from a very British form of exceptionalism." David Lawrence of @britishprogress.org argues that a Customs Union is not a cure-all for growth

With Resident Doctors set to go ahead later this week, it is worth revisiting this piece by @m-ttpa.bsky.social from August on how Britain's broken industrial relations system is an obstacle to negotiation and compromise

As with many other questions these days, the closest thing we have to an actual real existing answer to this question in my mind is @renewaljournal.bsky.social

Before that a piece first published in @renewaljournal.bsky.social argued for a social democratic futurism. It has a lot of similar themes to Morozov’s piece. I sketched a combo of public automation partnerships, recursive publics and v-Taiwan style deliberation there

At this time of growing division and anger, we should remember what defines and unites Britain. Our country is strongest when we're united. When our different communities come together to build a common nation. When we draw renewal.org.uk/blog/a-unite...

Thank you to @jeevunsandher.bsky.social for writing for Renewal Online about his vision for a united Britain

Re-upping this excellent little essay @demofuturist.bsky.social wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social, which I continue to think is an extremely pithy and insightful bit of analysis on this topic:

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

"allotments encapsulate the merits and limits of social democracy: on the one hand, they represent a foot in the door of socio-economic equality; on the other, they belie a compromise that forecloses on something more radical" Archie Cornish on the politics of allotmenteering

Good to see a Renewal contributing editor gracing our TV screens

Wrote my take on the retreat on day one rights against unfair dismissal, for Renewal. Basically Labour made a promise it turned out it couldn't deliver, a small group of serious trade unions then decided to try to salvage this, but this isn't without severe trade offs renewal.org.uk/blog/pragmat...

"Trade union pragmatism wins out once again" For Renewal Online, @m-ttpa.bsky.social analyses the causes and consequences of the government's back-track on "day-one protections" renewal.org.uk/blog/pragmat...

A short piece for Renewal on how the government's failure to present a consistent political argument is, despite its "long-termist" rhetoric, about not being orientated towards a political vision for the future.