100th anniversary of General Strike tomorrow and thinking of my grandmother. She came from comfortable South London family but told me that seeing the anger of strikers on a picket line she passed on a bus made her think ‘there must be some justice to their cause’ and became a Labour supporter
Pleased to have reviewed @brunoleipold.com and @stuartgwhite.bsky.social contributionsto the burgeoning field of civic republican political thought. Two very different books but both illustrate the importance of this tradition to our increasingly unequal times.
This is a wonderfully uplifting story about the radicalism of Glasgow but also the radicalism of streets
With a radical new Mayor in NYC, join us @LSE to discuss how to create fairer transport systems in large global cities. The Inclusive City: Transport Equity in New York and Londonhttps://www.lse.ac.uk/school-of-public-policy/events/2025-26/the-inclusive-city-transport-equity-in-new-york-and-london
Call for papers: We're getting used to cities standing up to populists leaders. But what explains this & what intellectual, legal & political resources can they draw on in their fight? Delighted to be working w/ @mwojciechowska.bsky.social @jmchickson.bsky.social Joe Hoover. Apply: lnkd.in/ee3dkZj6
Very annoying when a serious news outlet runs a story celebrating the design of a building without mentioning the architect. Happens the time yet too www.bbc.com/news/article...
Deadline approaching: Call for papers: The City as a Normative Political Space: Institutions, Relations, and Republicanism MANCEPT Workshop philevents.org/event/show/1...