Delighted to see my article exploring how Britons planned for retirement in the mid-to-late 20th century out in the world! It tries to capture the mixed feelings prompted by ageing & retirement whilst connecting those themes to wider histories of social democracy, selfhood & financialisation.

Good morning, somehow this has only just come up on my instagram but it’s well worth 30 seconds of your time.

When people ask me what I think about using AI in writing I’m going to send them this screenshot

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

Some thought-provoking reflections here

Right, that's it. I'm founding a new populist party of the centre called Go Outside!

Something to this for sure. Early Blair v strongly foregrounds a critique of "anything goes" identity-ish liberalism. Think the "NL was liberal" stuff comes partly from (i) assumptions about the social milieu around Blair etc & (ii) wild overestimation of the liberalism of "aspirational" m-c voters.

An admirably clear statement from Board of Deputies of British Jews and Jewish Leadership Council

It was inevitable that far-right agitators like Goodwin would try to exploit the Manchester atrocity in this despicable way. I really hope that people will instead recall Tony Walsh's spine-tingling reading of 'This is the Place' after the Manchester Arena bombing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=josa...

Going on to Farage's programme to sycophantically apologise for the PM's speech doesn't scream of a man who thinks he has great influence on Downing St, so much as a man yet again pissing himself for attention

Agree. It is has sometimes been quite convenient for the Old Right to lean on Blue Labour for some intellectual ballast and always useful for Blue Labour to claim everything that sounds a bit Old Right belongs to them for the clout. And Glasman is a chronic attention seeker.

Truly awful news coming out of Manchester. My thoughts are with the friends and family of those affected, and the wider Jewish community.

Yom Kippur should be a time of peace and reflection, but instead they have been the victim of hate and violence.

This is really horrendous, not least coming today. Despicable. Thinking of people across Crumpsall, Sedgley and Prestwich. It's an attack on the whole community. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...

Quite funny to have a writer apparently well-versed in the history of early C20 socialist print culture taking aim at the "lanyard class" who "know what IPPR stands for". Self-hatred really isn't a useful guide to political strategy.
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Punchy but necessary intervention from @sundersays.bsky.social in @renewaljournal.bsky.social, responding the anonymous memo circulating amongst Labour MPs:

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NEW - Keir Starmer says that Reform UK's policy to abolish indefinite leave to remain is " a racist policy. I do think it is immoral.”

Good to see this announced today. Positive combination of more powers and more local control, without competitive bidding.

Short-term challenge is to make a tangible and visible difference in these places.

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Frankly if you want to be a ‘globalisation defender’, you should be happy to accept the price of that is interventions designed to support quality of life in ‘left behind’ places

Area based interventions are a good and very mainstream part of a government’s policy toolkit, so it’s pretty fatuous to criticise this on the grounds that ‘other policies have existed before’ or ‘this doesn’t fix all the big structural challenges facing advanced economies’.

It was a very great pleasure to appear on one of my favourite podcasts, and to talk with David Runciman about the Past, Present, and Future (!) of electoral reform & proportional representation

It didn't work out for me in the race to be deputy leader, but given events today, am sharing this again.

We in Labour are uniquely placed to bring our diverse country together against the forces of hate. When we stand up for each other, we all win.

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This is the Powellite argument about the near impossibility of integration [bar "a very small minority"] for people with black or brown skin born in this country to parents from the Commonwealth, described as 'prescient in some regards' by the interviewer of Jenrick in the Spectator

Yeah! Well deserved

Ben Obese-Jecty is the only Conservative MP and frankly one of the vanishingly small number of MPs, full stop, to react to this stuff in a normal way.