Kate Alexander-Shaw

Me: let’s take the kids travelling, I want them to be citizens of the world

Also me: pack the good teabags, while there is breath in my body I will not entertain Lipton Yellow Label

Brand new research findings from my clever colleagues - and the best “Check out my paper it is V Good” thread you will read all year

This thread is a masterpiece - chapeau, Zbig 😂

One additional observation: a process this dysfunctional burns so much goodwill between HMT officials and their departmental oppos. Once the dust settles you spend the next year trying to rebuild relationships and then do it all again

Essential reading for Whitehall nerds. I worked on SR2004 and it was exactly this bonkers, and that's when there was lots of money in the system

📢 Coming this Wednesday - the next in this online series, with Quinn Slobodian. Really looking forward to this one - do sign up if you haven't already

Starmer doesn't seem to realise that, if you consistently accept the way your opponents frame a question, you'll find it hard to reject the answers that they give.

If you keep telling voters that Farage is right in his analysis, it will be hard to persuade them that he's wrong in his prescriptions.

Keir Starmer is caught in yet another trap of his own making | Rafael Behr The prime minister’s immigration approach follows a now-familiar pattern: letting fear of a difficult argument get in the way of policy that might work, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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Wow. Every line of this

If the renewable fuel of your politics is keeping people angry, your main goal is not to make things better; it's to win the blame game over why they are bad

This initial wrecking phase may dismantle federal agencies, but I suspect next phase replaces them with privately-owned firms delivering what used to be public functions (thinking here of Brett Christophers' chapter on contract rents in the UK). So macro impact may be reduced, but social impact...

"The electorate needs to believe that Labour is governing in pursuit of a shared purpose, not simply governing because it won." Good stuff from @craigpberry.bsky.social

Why Trump Says He’s ‘Not Joking’ About a Third Term The prospect of smashing imagined limits on his power gives him an obvious thrill.

The Constitution is clear that Donald Trump cannot run for a third term as president, Jonathan Chait writes. "But as Trump has repeatedly demonstrated, questions of the law and the Constitution ultimately reduce to power struggles."

Really thought-provoking, especially on whether Trump’s kick-over-the-sandcastles economic strategy is a paradigm shift or just a mess

Really excellent seminar series coming up - first session tomorrow!

GUEST POST: We Are Professors at Columbia. Here is How We Would Respond. Five Columbia University political scientists offer their unofficial response to the Trump administration's demands on their university.

Drezner's World has never published anything not written by the hard-working staff. Until now. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/guest-post...

Congrats to all three of you!

The US is giving us an incredible natural experiment in economic performance vs public sentiment. Biden got no credit for a ‘good’ economy - remains to be seen if Trump can deflect blame for a downturn

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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Our project SOLID has made the leap to Bluesky - do follow along, lots of great stuff coming up

📢 Next week is our first seminar of the @psabcpe.bsky.social online series with fantastic @ankehassel.bsky.social talking about Growth Strategies And Welfare Reforms: How Nations Cope With Economic Transitions💡Please sign up 💻 & share widely ‼️

What is the political economy of Starmer's Labour?

Join a stellar panel for this @mileendinstitute.bsky.social webinar on 13 March, featuring @samfr.bsky.social @colmpm.bsky.social @katealexandershaw.bsky.social @theobertram.bsky.social & @morganj0nes.bsky.social.
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Fascinating long read. Impossible to know how much of James Murdoch's account is true and how much self-serving. But that's rather fitting for the family that institutionalised post-truth journalism. To be believed nowadays, first you must be liked...

Late-adopter incoming... hello Bluesky