Latest @ippr.org Progressive Review is out, focused on the "abundance agenda" - including @christabelcoops.bsky.social & @katealexandershaw.bsky.social on the politics of growth, and satisfyingly blunt realism from @gilesyb.bsky.social & @colmpm.bsky.social
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The study of European politics has taken a crisis-oriented turn. Yet despite a proliferation of new empirical research, crisis remains undertheorised as a unit of analysis in European studies
@katealexandershaw.bsky.social, Joseph Ganderson & Anna Kyriazi explore
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Extraordinary images and reporting
"in reality much of the system is focused on ranking children... By definition, the benefits here cannot be universal as the aim is to create a hierarchy"
Really thought-provoking read on education and inequality, from @samfr.bsky.social
We don’t like or approve of most of the people in this constituency, but we definitely should have won
This
What the- ? Genuinely jaw dropping - a President extorting his own government and, by extension, the American people
This is a thorny area and I am not an expert. But one insight from being a primary school governor: getting an EHCP requires evidence the child's needs are not being met - evidence of ongoing failure, essentially. This can take until Y6. For it then to be up for reassessement in Y7 would be awful
"Andrew was a walking category error... conducting a campaign of international larceny masquerading as public service." Blistering piece by Andrew O'Hagan in @lrb.co.uk
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New piece from me, on the politics of 'abundance', in IPPR Progressive Review (currently free to read) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Comparative European Politics - The study of European politics has taken a crisis-oriented turn. Yet despite a proliferation of new empirical research, crisis remains undertheorised as a unit of...
The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...
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The abundance agenda offers an important provocation to progressives, asking them to think big about the possibilities for growth and economic renewal. Developed in the context of the United States, ...
"I'm not sure that anyone who voted Green (in Gorton and Denton) works" says Nigel Farage.
So not just smearing the winners of the by-election his party just lost, but all of their voters too.
I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.
New post out:
"The gap that never closes"
I've spent much of my career trying to reduce the rich/poor gap in education.
Nothing's worked.
Which has led me to the conclusion that we're thinking about inequality the wrong way...
(£/free trial)
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Inside Ukraine’s ‘kill zone’ ft.trib.al/9xQGDNr
A move of anything less than, say, 0.1 percentage points -- sorry, Ten Basis Points -- in gilt yields is meaningless noise and does not qualify as news.
Please stop breathlessly reporting every 0.02 pp move and connecting it to the Westminster soap opera! This is getting ridiculous.
