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
This is a wonderfully uplifting story about the radicalism of Glasgow but also the radicalism of streets
It’s going to bd good!
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
Deadline approaching: Call for papers: The City as a Normative Political Space: Institutions, Relations, and Republicanism MANCEPT Workshop philevents.org/event/show/1...
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.
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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...
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
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While mainstream political theory has long focused predominantly on the nation state, it has largely been silent about the city. Slowly, however, the city is gaining prominence in political theory, pa...
