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This is an excellent intervention - nice work all involved👇🏻

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As others have noted, this is very good on the developing neo-Thatcherite political consensus. Tomlinson is particularly strong on the bad history that underpins much of it

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Excellent takedown of the incoherent reheated Thatcherism of Southwood, Bowman et al.

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This piece by @jimtomlinson45.bsky.social is an important intervention that I’m really pleased to have published - a thorough dissection of the bad history underpinning the neo-Thatcherite “Foundations” project (which has unfortunately found acceptance on parts of the centre-left)

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This is an excellent critique of recent conservative thinking on the economy: renewal.org.uk/articles/bui...

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Let me get this straight: the Cass review wasn’t peer-reviewed yet was relied on by the government for major policy decisions - but now a critique of that review has been peer-reviewed and published, giving it more authority. Will government now be relying on this for policy? We all know the answer.

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4 games I'd give 10/10

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👇🏻Reserve your ticket to see Clive and other great speakers discuss common sense policies for food, water and energy reform: actionnetwork.org/events/forum...

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While people struggle to pay bills, Thames Water bosses pat themselves on the back, racking up debt, dodging responsibility & passing the cost to us. They profit, we pay. It's not enough to just stop bonuses. This only gets fixed with public ownership. www.ft.com/content/1f6d... #thameswater

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🚨Forum 2029 Launch: Why we need a new progressive policy platform and the case for housing reform 🚨 📆 Weds 4th June, 18:30 (London) 📣 Danny Sriskandarajah, Neal Lawson, Zack Polanski, Beth Stratford, Sarah Nankivell Sign up: buff.ly/AzeeSZ7 #forum2029

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Elon Musk vowed to cut almost a third of the annual US federal budget ie $2 trillion Doge’s website claims $170bn in savings FT investigation shows only a sliver of that figure can actually be verified US Treasury data has so far shown no drop in government spending www.ft.com/content/0854...

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🚨 NEW SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 We're excited to have Jamie Driscoll join us for our #forum2029 panel: 'Public services: ending austerity logics' on Weds 2nd July (Online) 🎉 He'll be alongside Anna Coote (NEF), Cat Hobbs (We Own It) and Luke Fletcher (Plaid Cymru) 📣 Sign-up now: buff.ly/OdPLdhF

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I could not think of a group of people more deserving of a 25% pay rise than nurses, and I would gladly pay more tax to make it happen www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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For anyone who's just seen Yvette Cooper talking about the immigration white paper, I set out some of the evidence and facts here. [1/?] www.independent.co.uk/voices/tight...

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England’s water is appalling — and so is the politics keeping it privatised. Labour can’t win back trust and beat Reform whilst cosying up to the same profiteers who’ve bled our rivers dry. My latest in @gonuj.org: time to clean house. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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🚨 Forum 2029 Launch: Why we need a new progressive policy platform and the case for housing reform 🚨 📆 Weds 4th June, 18:30 (in-person, London) 📣 Danny Sriskandarajah, Neal Lawson, Beth Stratford, Sarah Nankivell Sign up: buff.ly/oXp1HlX #forum2029 buff.ly/j21h9fi

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What could public luxury look like in practice? 💭 Phil Jones envisages a world of shared tools, collective kitchens, ambitious infrastructure & aesthetic freedom 📈 On the blog for our #UBS Hub👇

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🚨 'Forum 2029: Building a living standards policy platform for the UK' 🚨 The UK needs a strong living standards policy programme, but it has yet to emerge 🕙 Join the conversation at our seminar series this summer 👇 buff.ly/j21h9fi

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Autonomy Institute is building a UK policy platform to tackle drastically falling living standards. Get involved here:

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Today's results should be a wake up call: we need a shift in policy. Join us at our summer series of events on exactly that👇🏻👇🏻

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We’re launching our new report on sex work & platform labour on 15 May at 2 PM BST. We spoke to workers using platforms like OnlyFans & Chaturbate—what we found was abuse, precarity & platform neglect. Join the launch: buff.ly/hs6kH5E #Fairwork #SexWorkIsWork #PlatformWork

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“too many working-class people see Labour as the party of immigrants, minorities [and] those on benefits” And Jonathan Hinder's response is... let the number of universities whither away? That's an interesting way of improving the lives of the working class.

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This is much needed and I'm happy we've managed to bring it together. Get your tickets here! 👇

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There's something so on the nose about Tony Blair still haunting us, encouraging our doom.

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Important event with some great speakers!

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Got a new paper on the AI anxieties of big business coming soon. Really fantastic work by Sean within our Data Unit. More soon....

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This was a great episode (the Brassier one). Makes me want to return to Sellars.

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Blimey. UK life expectancy worst in Western Europe - OECD report www.thetimes.com/article/52c5...

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@helenhester.bsky.social and I have written a piece for Tribune on the wider context of the government's benefit cuts. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/04/your... There's a much longer account of the history of unemployment and welfare in the book: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/postwork-... 👇

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Playing the excellent Billionaires and Guillotines board game with the @autonomy-institute.bsky.social team. You can support the game here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/plu...

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This is a great article from Phil: what if public services didn't just meet expectations - but exceeded them? What if we didn't see public spaces and services as the bare minimum, but as platforms for abundant living?

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Submitted the final version of my next book on AI, Big Tech, and the geopolitical struggles over them. Now hopefully nothing important happens on those topics before it comes out... Pre-order here: www.amazon.co.uk/Silicon-Empi...

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From what Helen tells me this course sounds awesome 👇🏻

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This game looks like a lot of fun: www.kickstarter.com/projects/plu...

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I wrote this 5 years ago describing Eric Kaufmann/Policy Exchange's agenda on academic freedom as "McCarthyite." Today Kaufmann says that Trump's impact on academic freedom is "likely to be net positive". www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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An awesome evening where we all got to hear about this brilliant new project @carefull.bsky.social. Very happy to have hosted the eve and discuss all sorts with the panel. Follow them to hear what comes next!

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NEW from us: polling on the public's spending priorities (spoiler: it is NOT the military) plus the launch of our brand new UBS Hub. 👇

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New project which I'm really excited about: automating a key part of the democratic scrutiny process. Looking at past and present relationships between donations from firms and government contacts. 👀

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EMA payments were a glimpse of what a universal income floor or UBI would be like. A modest bit of cash allowing young people to participate in social life without stigma. EMA was introduced by Labour & cancelled by the Tory coalition (2011). This kind of thing seems utopian now.

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Just a thought: instead of hunches of "over-diagnosis" & anecdotes, maybe the government should investigate why so many people require welfare support? Maybe do this before you pull the rug. They won't because that'll get messy & will draw out findings they can't countenance.

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Today on the academic blog @helenhester.bsky.social and @wstronge.bsky.social, authors of Post-work: What It Is, Why It Matters and How We Get There, discuss work, freedom and the future. What does the future hold for work in our new age of crisis? bit.ly/4c3SRbP @bloomsburyphilo.bsky.social

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Excellent post.

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Really excited to be introducing this excellent project!

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#slavojzizek is Post-Work! on sale here⬇️ www.bloomsbury.com/uk/postwork-... @helenhester.bsky.social @wstronge.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @bloomsburyphilo.bsky.social