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GUEST POST Let next week's online summer school rekindle your Radical Liberal fire William Lane invites you to an exciting online event being organised by the John Stuart Mill Institute and the Social Liberal Forum. As Lib...

My wonderful colleague @williamjtlane.bsky.social banging the drum for next week's @jsmillinstitute.bsky.social Liberal Summer School. Sign up and be inspired. ☀️🔶️

Radical Liberal Summer School - Hosted by the JSMI and the SLF Join leading progressive and liberal contributors from 11-13 August 2025. The Summer School's theme is "Power in the Liberal Tradition".

This year's JSMI Summer School is on the theme of 'Power in the Liberal Tradition,. We explore a wide range of topics including;
🔶️ Civil Liberties
🔶️ Economic Democracy and Empowerment
🔶️ Deliberative Democracy
🔶️ The Rights of Nature
🔶️ The Future of Liberal politics.

Come and join the discussion!

Spread the word @amnestyuk.bsky.social @libdems.org.uk 🔶️👍

Mary Renault

'You can take it from a man who has been poor: goodness is there, and with the world what it is, that's proof enough to my mind that the gods exist...But goodness is like money; a city only has so much: you have to start small and build up the capital' (Mary Renault, The Mask of Apollo)

Bartek Staniszewski

We're looking forward to welcoming Bartek Staniszewski, Head of Research at @brightblueuk.bsky.social to the JSMI Lberal Summer School (11-13 August). Bartek will explore how co-ops and mutuals can spread power and wealth. You can sign up for the Summer School here: share.google/DEGm400jqFZn...

Looking forward to it!

Would be this be of interest @allianceparty.bsky.social? 🔶️

Molly Scott Cato

Natalie Bennett

Two Green thinkers are better than one: The JSMI is thrilled to welcome both Molly Scott Cato & @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social to our first online Summer School. The theme this year is 'Power in the Liberal Tradition'.
@greenparty.org.uk @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social

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Ben Wood

Paul Hindley

Out of the doom loop: At our upcoming Liberal Summer School @paulhindley2210.bsky.social and @cosmichope.bsky.social discuss reasons for Liberals to be optimistic, despite difficult times. You can sign up for the Summer School below: www.eventbrite.com/e/radical-li...

Quite right. If "toughness" means slavishly accepting a condition of utter passivity, we should not want this for ourselves, much less for anyone else. 🔶️

William Lane

We're thrilled to welcome our colleague @williamjtlane.bsky.social to the Summer School. Will explores the ostensibly grim question: "Is Liberalism dying?" Expect some rich conversation about authoritarianism, the surveillance state, & the Alt-Right. Sign up here

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Jo Grimond 🔶️

'Privatisation is eminently justified where the market is appropriate and competition can keep down prices and improve efficiency. Otherwise, the best way to run services such as the railways and water is as a public service directly under parliamentary control' (Jo Grimond, 1989) 🔶️

Why market socialism is a viable alternative to neoliberalism - British Politics and Policy at LSE Political and economic thinking is currently dominated by neoliberal economic ideology and, in the mature capitalist societies, socialism as a counter ideology has weakened in the public consciousness...

We desperately need to democratise our painfully top-down economy. Here's one way to do it: "Why market socialism is a viable alternative to neoliberalism - British Politics and Policy at LSE" 🔶️ share.google/zLq2daAZDKcG...

Radical Liberal Summer School - Hosted by the JSMI and the SLF Join leading progressive and liberal contributors from 11-13 August 2025. The Summer School's theme is "Power in the Liberal Tradition".

In August, we welcome Professor Helena Rosenblatt to our first JSMI Summer School. Helena's lecture will explore liberal theories of political power in the work of Benjamin Constant and Germaine de Staël. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/radical-li...

Looking forward to seeing you @ejcrobinson.bsky.social. You can read an essay from Ed exploring the political economy of the climate crisis in our recent publication "When We Speak of Freedom". 🔶️✊️

Stuart White

Summer School poster

The JSMI is thrilled to welcome Dr Stuart White, Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford, to our Summer School (11-13 August). Stuart will be reflecting on the policies we need to truly democratise work and capital. Sign up to the Summer School below: share.google/xpKKYKL0Aqmw...

J.S. Mill 🔶️

'The form of association, however, which if mankind continue to improve...is not that which can exist between a capitalist as chief & work-people without a voice in the management, but the association of the labourers themselves on terms of equality, collectively owning the capital' (J.S. Mill) 🔶️

A hand holding a Yorkshire flag

A Happy Yorkshire Day from everyone at the JSMI. 🏵

I'm looking forward to taking part in the rebooted Liberal Summer School on 12 August - joining Stuart White, Frances Foley and Vicky Pryce to talk about economics and empowerment

Introducing the Radical Liberal Summer School It is tempting to get caught in a doom spiral of negativity. From the cost of living crisis, the social crisis and the sewage scandal, to wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, a chaotic second Trump Pr...

@jsmillinstitute.bsky.social's Radical Liberal Summer School has been featured in Lib Dem Voice!

Thanks to @paulhindley2210.bsky.social for writing the op-ed, click through here if you would like to know more about our upcoming event.

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Tickets are on sale now!

Peter Sloman

We're thrilled to welcome @pjsloman.bsky.social to our online Summer School. Peter will explore the economic policy of the Liberal Party, & its commitment to worker co-ownership. What lessons can we learn for a world of tech giants & widening inequality? Sign up below: share.google/lAuP00z6RFpg...

A Celebration of the life of David Boyle There will be a Celebration of the Life of David Boyle on Wednesday 10th September at the Cocktail Bar of The Bedford Balham, 77 Bedford Hill, London SW12 9HD from 7pm. You can read a tribute to David...

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Carko Rosselli

'We are anti-fascists because our homeland is not measured by borders and cannons, but coincides with our moral world and the homeland of all free people' (Carlo Rosselli) 🔶

You can sign up to the Summer School here: www.eventbrite.com/e/radical-li...

Looking forward to it - I'll be talking about "Power, Rights and Nature" (and no doubt lots of other subjects!)

#RightsForNature
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Michael Meadowcroft

The JSMI is thrilled to invite Institute Trustee Michael Meadowcroft to our first online Summer School in August. Biographer Mark Smulian has described Michael as "the main, indeed very nearly the only, philosopher of applied Liberalism within the old Liberal Party from the late 1960s onwards" 🔶️

This August (in partnership with the Social Liberal Forum) the JSM is running its first online Summer School. The theme is "Power in the Liberal Tradition". You can find details below. ✊️🔶️

Vicky Pryce

The JSMI is pleased to welcome former government economist Vicky Pryce to our first online Summer School in August. Vicky will explore with us the extent to which Keynesianism has been a centralising top-down project. Is it possible to imagine a Keynesianism of the local & the grassroots? 🔶️

EM Forster

"You remember how he would trust strangers, and if they fooled him he would say, 'It's better to be fooled than to be suspicious'--that the confidence trick is the work of man, but the want-of-confidence trick is the work of the devil." (E.M Forster, Howards End) 🔶️