Really excited to be relaunching Progressive Review, @ippr.org's journal of politics, ideas and public policy, with a new editorial team + advisory board:

I have a short essay in this relaunched Progressive Review from @ippr.org, called ‘A Liberalism of Public Things’. Open access link below: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A Liberalism of Public Things

The social democratic ideological tradition - including the liberalism within it - should be described more accurately and defended. Liberalism within social democracy is the liberalism of public thi...

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Institute for Public Policy Research@ippr.org · 2w ago

📣 Today, we’re relaunching IPPR’s journal of politics, ideas and public policy, Progressive Review. A new Substack, a new look, a new editorial team, and lots of new content. Sign up here 👇 buff.ly/Q7HpiEi

Last month, my most recent book ‘How to Think About Politics’ was released in Portuguese with the title ‘Política na vida real’ (trans. Thais Entriel). It is extremely weird but also very cool to see it on sale, a first for me: www.travessa.pt/Artigo/Detal...

Very good piece on some of the fiscal and temporal dilemmas Labour - and so Andy Burnham - still face.

Rafael Behr@rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 4w ago

Column, on Burnham’s free-range style about to collide with the battery farm politics of Westminster www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Pleased to be publishing Karl’s essay. One of the v valuable things he does here is show that it’s just nonsense to see liberalism as somehow incompatible with many of the aspects of social democracy - community, belonging, solidarity - which post-liberals have tried to co-opt.

Karl Pike@karlpike.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I have written a short essay for the IPPR called A Liberalism of Public Things: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@benzaranko.bsky.social on immigration and wages in Norway: winners and losers, net *rise* in native wages. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Remember: immigrants create jobs as well as take them

A narrow focus on the jobs immigrants move into ignores the fact that by spending money, they create new jobs elsewhere

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I have written a short essay for the IPPR called A Liberalism of Public Things: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A Liberalism of Public Things

The social democratic ideological tradition - including the liberalism within it - should be described more accurately and defended. Liberalism within social democracy is the liberalism of public thi...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

New research from @mbarnfield.bsky.social here on support for Andy Burnham’s policy priorities, and views on timing - the politics of patience. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Is Andy Burnham already doomed?

New polling suggests the Prime Minister understands what voters want – but has limited time to deliver it

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Focusing on centrism as a purported set of ideas – a centre beyond left and right – @karlpike.bsky.social offers a new theory of centrism as a structure for political action: a politics which oscillates between left and right. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/fRxUuSv @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polisky

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🧵 Progressives need to think much more ambitiously about citizenship: it can't only be a debate about the "who" - the boundaries of citizenship. Our new @ippr.org report today makes the case for a new politics of "democratic citizenship": www.ippr.org/articles/the...

The democratic citizen: Renewing citizenship and the public domain | IPPR

Often, this descends into little more than an argument about eligibility for welfare benefits. This is a disaster for progressives, who find themselves fig

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10 years ago, the air outside Aldgate School didn’t meet legal limits. Children were breathing polluted air every day. I made it my mission to change that. Here’s the difference our bold policies have made ⬇️

Very informative from @karlpike.bsky.social on whether or not there should be a leadership contest.

Karl Pike@karlpike.bsky.social · 3mo ago

There may be some debate about whether a contest would be a “good thing” - for policymaking, for a leader, for Labour etc.

There may be some debate about whether a contest would be a “good thing” - for policymaking, for a leader, for Labour etc.

Karl on the idea that a contest for the next leadership would be good for 'stress testing' ideas. I fear that he may be right.

Karl Pike@karlpike.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Our public sphere isn’t, on the whole, great at nuance and giving people the time to articulate ideas in a contest, e.g. the “gotcha” questions and “will you rule out specific thing now”.

There may be some debate about whether a contest would be a “good thing” - for policymaking, for a leader, for Labour etc.

Latest piece for the @financialtimes.com, on who gets to vote for a new Labour Prime Minister www.ft.com/content/d2d9...

The strange case of who chooses the next Labour prime minister

Around three-quarters of those who can vote in any contest on who succeeds Starmer are not Labour Party members

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Great article here from @yuanfenyang.bsky.social

Yuan Yang@yuanfenyang.bsky.social · 4mo ago

As an economist, former FT journalist and now Labour MP, l don’t think the bond markets have to fear a change of Labour leadership. The biggest problem for gilt investors and MPs alike is inflation – & it remains our common enemy. My @financialtimes.com op-ed 👇 (1/5) www.ft.com/content/2a64...

Grateful for the chance to discuss private members' bills (usage, reform, etc) today at the @instituteforgovernment.org.uk - alongside @kimleadbeatermp.bsky.social, @paulbrand.bsky.social, @drhannahwhite.bsky.social & Luke Norbury. Recording here: www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/assist...

Are private members' bills a good way for MPs to decide on difficult policy issues? | Institute for Government

An expert panel drew on lessons from the recent assisted dying bill and other PMBs to consider how backbench MPs should approach complex issues.

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Discussed ongoing research with @mbarnfield.bsky.social and @philipjcowley.bsky.social on the BBC’s Moral Maze yesterday evening - about what the ‘short term’ and the ‘long term’ mean in politics and policymaking. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Moral Maze - Who is morally responsible for Britain's political short-termism? - BBC Sounds

Live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories.

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Focusing on centrism as a purported set of ideas – a centre beyond left and right – @karlpike.bsky.social offers a new theory of centrism as a structure for political action: a politics which oscillates between left and right. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/r8Nq38r @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polisky

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A write-up of the key findings and points made in this thread on my Substack: open.substack.com/pub/drmatthe... The way I see it, the argument that the public’s irrational impatience makes it ungovernable can’t be defended rigorously because it simply hasn’t been put to the test.

Testing the public's patience

Even if the electorate is short-termist, it's hard to argue irrational public impatience is to blame for the prime minister's woes

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Matthew Barnfield@mbarnfield.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Is impatience killing the government? Some data and some thoughts. @karlpike.bsky.social @philipjcowley.bsky.social and I found a year ago that people expected noticeable improvements in the NHS, schools, housing well within Labour's first parliament. www.politicshome.com/news/article... 1/7

The most damning resignation letter yet, I think:

Jim Pickard@pickardje.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Breaking: Jess Phillips resigns as safeguarding minister just ahead of the 1pm news bulletins

Going to be a lot of talk about who in the coming days. True labour values compel us to ask what and why first. This is my piece for @newstatesman1913.bsky.social on how we can again show our values lead our vision of the country Britain can be with Labour. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

By being true to itself, Labour can win again

At the moment the government knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

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An unhappy Labour Party very uncertain about what to do next - has been the case for a while now, and remains the case.

The Conversation UK@uk.theconversation.com · 5mo ago

What do the results mean for Labour – and is it the end of two-party politics in the UK?

What do the results mean for Labour – and is it the end of two-party politics in the UK?

Elections 2026: Experts react to the Reform surge and Labour losses

What do the results mean for Labour – and is it the end of two-party politics in the UK?

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My thoughts on the poll showing the Greens have overtaken Labour following the Gorton and Denton by-election, whether this could be a "bandwagon effect", and what that means, for The Conversation: theconversation.com/how-to-under...

How to understand the post-Gorton and Denton national poll that puts the Greens ahead of Labour

It’s not the byelection win that matters but the scale of the swing to Zack Polanski’s party.

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A blog on my centrism paper for @ecprtheloop.bsky.social theloop.ecpr.eu/centrism-as-...

Centrism as a structure for political action

A distinct centrism which goes ‘beyond’ left and right remains elusive, argues Karl Pike. Centrists act as a managers of an ideological context shaped by existing ideologies of left and right, moderat...

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Focusing on centrism as a purported set of ideas – a centre beyond left and right – @karlpike.bsky.social offers a new theory of centrism as a structure for political action: a politics which oscillates between left and right. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/rdRQJBU @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polisky

What Is Centrism? - Karl Pike, 2026

Centrism, an ambiguous political term, requires greater analytical scrutiny. After summarising conceptualisations of centrism – and of a centre in politics – th...

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Good discussion piece from @philipjcowley.bsky.social on the issue of by-elections after defections. www.ft.com/content/5d7d...

How to deal with defecting MPs

Voters should be able to force parliamentarians who change parties to face the electorate

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Focusing on centrism as a purported set of ideas – a centre beyond left and right – @karlpike.bsky.social offers a new theory of centrism as a structure for political action: a politics which oscillates between left and right. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/rdRQJBU @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polisky