My intro builds on the pamphlet I wrote for @thefabians.bsky.social earlier in the year, exploring communitarian ideas development and place-based experimentation, and drawing out the policy lessons: fabians.org.uk/publication/...

“Across Greater Manchester, and the country, Locality members are showing what’s possible when local people are trusted with power"- @ewallis.bsky.social

Great to be with @andyburnham.bsky.social & @right-here.org on the BIG GM Live Well Bus Tour, celebrating community orgs in #Manchester

More on this in my @thefabians.bsky.social pamphlet! fabians.org.uk/publication/...

It’s been lots of fun reengaging with the Fabian part of my brain, nearly a decade (!) after I stopped working there. Thanks to @thefabians.bsky.social for publishing it!

There are lots of more recent communitarian resources to draw on – some aspects of New Labour plus lots of the policy and practice developments of the last 15 years. So the pamphlet tries to map some of that out into a communitarian revisionist policy agenda for the 2020s.

I also delve into Tony Crosland’s revisionist classic "The Future of Socialism" and suggest he would have made more what he calls “the cooperative aspiration” if writing now

The Fabian tradition has of course always been most associated with the “big state” of the Webbs. But there’s always been the quieter communitarianism of GDH Cole and RH Tawney. The pamphlet argues this provides more fruitful inspiration for social democrats today.