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The radical right have stolen the centre left's clothes – but it's not too late to fight back Keir Starmer's honeymoon was non-existent. Across the world, progressive parties face the same search for new answers.

I’m in the Big Issue: on IPPR’s new Decade of National Renewal programme, and the need for progressive parties to engage with their populist enemies not as managers of the status quo, but in a fight about fundamental beliefs and ideas.
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Mazel tov 😍

I'm thrilled to have been published in Past & Present.

Diving into the fractious politics of rich-country macroeconomics after 1973, I use the neglected case of protectionist Keynesians to rethink what happened, and why. I highlight statecraft, geopolitics, and Maier's 'territoriality'. (1/2)

Sam’s essay on the intellectual history of critiques of the “bureaucratic class” is worth reading alongside @will-davies.bsky.social’s recent NS piece on the contemporary anti-bureaucratic wave: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Ah thanks David, v kind!

Excited to get some of my research out in the newly relaunched Renewal.

To understand the anti-globalist turn of figures like Badenoch we need to look at the pre-cold war right of Enoch Powell, Murray Rothbard and Garet Garrett, alongside the fall of post-war affluence.

Very excited to be launching public engagement on Hackney Council’s economic development plan

Hackney leads the country when it comes to promoting inclusive growth.

We believe a fair and green economy are the path to growth that can be felt in every corner of Hackney.

Great to see this out.

A revelatory discussion of the failure of the Meidner Plan. While we should be careful about generalising, the analysis may shed light on the problems facing a reformist politics that aims for "structural" change rather than just everyday alleviation.

Busy ward day today

Lunch at warm welcome. Great to meet all the volunteers and residents.

Nourishing free food and fun activities

Then onto Stamford Hill Estate at Cazenove police ward panel.

Got a picture of the magnificent planting on Stamford Hill Estate

Want to understand why Trump is raising Tariff’s, listen to this. It’s all about servicing American ballooning public debt.

This is really worth checking out

YouTube video by Mile End Institute The Political Economy of Starmer's Labour

Enjoyed this @mileendinstitute.bsky.social webinar on the Starmer govt's economic policies with @samfr.bsky.social, @katealexandershaw.bsky.social, @theobertram.bsky.social and @morganj0nes.bsky.social.

I was lucky to join such an expert panel. Great turnout online too!

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And ending the day @co-op party with a really good session on cooperative solutions for London’s future with Hackney’s @sampallis.bsky.social and an inspiring panel of cooperative activists incl www.workers.coop

A busy weekend:

1. On a panel at the London co-op party conference talking about how we can realise the government mission of doubling the co-op sector

2. Out on the doorstep in Cazenove talking about resident priorities, and how we are tackling litter though our regular walkabouts.

Excited to be talking at the London Co-op party conference about Co-op Development in London

Especially after the calls from Mayor of Hackeny and @coopparty.party.coop that put the social economy at the heart of the London growth plan

Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/london-co-...

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Cazenove Labour councillors are continuing to take action on litter, fly-tipping and other waste issues in the ward.

Please join @sampallis.bsky.social and I for our next litter walkabout on Sunday 6 April, meeting at 11.00 at The Boiler House N16 6BE

Caz team out team in Hackney Central today. With our new recruit baby

This will be excellent

Plain Old Labour - Lawrence Wishart Keir Starmer�s Labour has a strikingly simple perspective on the party�s history: of a series of good Labour governments affecti

My piece for the new @renewaljournal.bsky.social on how Labour talks about its history, how it's kind of remarkably unremarkable, and what that says about the party's ideological orientation. A qualified defence of Plain Old Labour.
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