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🚨New FotL issue with intro from @Lyan82 on agency🚨 Includes: @DowningAm on privatisation @wessiedutoit on Bismarck @ghostofchristo1 on HyperNormalisation @arisroussinos on Piddington ⬇️🔗
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One big, first real day at conference push for my article with @FutureLeft1 on Expressive Politics and how the new Lab Gov should engage with it. futureoftheleft.substack.com…
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Right, stabilisers off, back in the saddle, braced for impact etc. Have written some reflections on where Labour politics is and how the new PM and team can remain upright on the slippy path of government. All there and more at @futureLeft1
🚨NEW🚨 In his first public intervention since leaving No. 10, Sir Keir Starmer’s former speechwriter, @Modern_Lockey argues that Labour needs to reckon with the rise of expressive politics, and what that means for those of us who want a politics based on the promise of material change. 🔗futureoftheleft.substack.com…
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🚨NEW🚨 In his first public intervention since leaving No. 10, Sir Keir Starmer’s former speechwriter, @Modern_Lockey argues that Labour needs to reckon with the rise of expressive politics, and what that means for those of us who want a politics based on the promise of material change. 🔗futureoftheleft.substack.com…
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"He believed in limits to everything but his idealism" writes Tobias Phibbs on the late Wendell Berry. 🔗futureoftheleft.substack.com…
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“There is little use for the being whose tepid soul knows nothing of the great and generous emotion, of the high pride, the stern belief, the lofty enthusiasm, of the men who quell the storm and ride the thunder."
🚨New FotL issue with intro from @Lyan82 on agency🚨 Includes: @DowningAm on privatisation @wessiedutoit on Bismarck @ghostofchristo1 on HyperNormalisation @arisroussinos on Piddington ⬇️🔗
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🚨New FotL issue with intro from @Lyan82 on agency🚨 Includes: @DowningAm on privatisation @wessiedutoit on Bismarck @ghostofchristo1 on HyperNormalisation @arisroussinos on Piddington ⬇️🔗
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Also includes @skulthorp on the Adam Curtis conference, @jujulemons, @martha_dacombe and @ed_lawrence_ on Britain in the AI age, @jrf_uk on social infrastructure, @frazjmac on Renters' Rights Act, and @DantonsHead and @MarkMcvitie on public ownership. futureoftheleft.substack.com…
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My book, Power and the People, is out now amzn.eu/d/00vUdLWA
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RT @fhpitts: Read 'Rearm/Reindustrialise/Reinfrastructure', my contribution to Reindustrialising Britain: A New Politics of Production, her…
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Make Britain Competitive Again
🚨 NEW PUBLICATION 🚨 @andyburnham wants to reindustrialise Britain. Read our collection of essays on what that means, with contributions from @bengglover, @paulmasonnews, @CitySamuel, @andrewmkramer, @dc_lawrence, @DEHEdgerton and others. 🔗futureoftheleft.substack.com…
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Fantastic piece by the Future of the Left A must read
🚨 NEW PUBLICATION 🚨 @andyburnham wants to reindustrialise Britain. Read our collection of essays on what that means, with contributions from @bengglover, @paulmasonnews, @CitySamuel, @andrewmkramer, @dc_lawrence, @DEHEdgerton and others. 🔗futureoftheleft.substack.com…
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A great new publication from Future of the Left, with a contribution from our Economics Adviser, Dan Mead. Dan looks at how to connect post-industrial towns - an important question for anyone thinking about the future of the left.
🚨 NEW PUBLICATION 🚨 @andyburnham wants to reindustrialise Britain. Read our collection of essays on what that means, with contributions from @bengglover, @paulmasonnews, @CitySamuel, @andrewmkramer, @dc_lawrence, @DEHEdgerton and others. 🔗futureoftheleft.substack.com…
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🚨 NEW PUBLICATION 🚨 @andyburnham wants to reindustrialise Britain. Read our collection of essays on what that means, with contributions from @bengglover, @paulmasonnews, @CitySamuel, @andrewmkramer, @dc_lawrence, @DEHEdgerton and others. 🔗futureoftheleft.substack.com…
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“Our national productive capital sits in Units 4–6 of the industrial estate off the A-road ten minutes from where you’re reading this.” writes @andrewmkramer on building an armada of software-first component factories to reindustrialise Britain. 🔗 futureoftheleft.substack.com…
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🚨 New FotL issue 🚨 Includes: @chakrabortty on Luton @PaulEmbery on Dagenham @EsmeLKPartridge on community @johnpmerrick on Eric Hobsbawm @oren_cass, @JuliusKrein, Michael Lind et al on capitalism and country. ⬇️🔗
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Always nice to feature on the excellent Future of the Left substack!
🚨 New FotL issue 🚨 Includes: @chakrabortty on Luton @PaulEmbery on Dagenham @EsmeLKPartridge on community @johnpmerrick on Eric Hobsbawm @oren_cass, @JuliusKrein, Michael Lind et al on capitalism and country. ⬇️🔗
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🚨 New FotL issue 🚨 Includes: @chakrabortty on Luton @PaulEmbery on Dagenham @EsmeLKPartridge on community @johnpmerrick on Eric Hobsbawm @oren_cass, @JuliusKrein, Michael Lind et al on capitalism and country. ⬇️🔗
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Also includes Amelia Wood on the British State for @ThinkLabour, @pahlkadot and @ad_greenway on creative destruction, and @DaveASpencer on the Home Office. futureoftheleft.substack.com…
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RT @YuanfenYang: I’m honoured to be giving this year’s Rita Hinden Memorial Lecture for @RenewalJournal, discussing what the “end of neolib…
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"Making things matters, but not if the design, the tools, and the returns belong to someone else." writes @MDBHerbertson on why we need to support British companies at the frontier of new technologies. 🔗futureoftheleft.substack.com…
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