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Nick Garland

@npjgarland.bsky.social

Think tanker, political speechwriter, historian. I edit Progressive Review, IPPR's journal of politics, ideas and public policy.

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Chris Cook@chriscook.news · 21h ago

Liz Truss’s books total 467 pages (a/c Amazon) which means she has already written enough to spend ~3 pages per meal she ate in office

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 22h ago

Liz Truss is writing another book. It will reveal how the left has infiltrated the British governmemt. She thinks the Establishment have got to Kwasi now. She has "unfinished business" in politics & says it is like Hotel California for her: so she can never leave. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Peter Walker@peterwalker99.bsky.social · 2d ago

The Telegraph obituary of Patrick Stewart is, as usual, extremely good, not least this detail about how his brief, pre-acting career as a journalist on the Dewsbury Reporter came to a sudden end.

He soon lost this job, however, when it was discovered that he had been going to a local drama group rather than to the council meetings whose doings he had, in fact, been inventing in his reports. He was caught out when his account of such a meeting failed to mention the large fire that had broken out in the neighbouring building at the time.
Nick Garland@npjgarland.bsky.social · 2d ago

I definitely think this is the *intention*. How you square that intention with the actual reality of Britain's fiscal position - where choices made in the Treasury are basically make or break for all the govt's ambitions - is less clear to me.

Anthony Painter@anthonypainter.bsky.social · 2d ago

What is emerging is HM Treasury moving towards becoming more of a finance ministry under Burnham. Economic strategy is moving elsewhere- No10, Office of PM and Cabinet and No10 North. And that will mean more boring budgets. This is significant institutional change.

Institute for Government@instituteforgovernment.org.uk · 2d ago

PODCAST 🎙️ Healey’s budget: Policies today, problems tomorrow Nick Garland, former speechwriter to ex-chancellor Rachel Reeves, joins the podcast team to explore the significance of Healey’s big day. PLUS: Ringfencing preventative budgets www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/podcast/insi...

Healey’s budget: Policies today, problems tomorrow | Institute for Government

Nick Garland, a former speechwriter to ex-chancellor Rachel Reeves, joins the podcast team to explore the significance of Healey’s big day.

instituteforgovernment.org.uk

Nick Garland@npjgarland.bsky.social · last wk.

In the "what are spads actually for" conversation, I'm always a little surprised and dismayed that the answer isn't "not letting this happen".

Matthew Holehouse@matthewholehouse.bsky.social · last wk.

An insight into the limited vocabulary of Whitehall press offices.. and the inability to think properly about regulation.. .that a govt that talks about “ending 40 years of neoliberalism” also reverts back to old tropes about “slashing red tape”

Nick Garland@npjgarland.bsky.social · last wk.

Late to it, but this by @daimoon.bsky.social is very good. As with @profafinlayson.bsky.social's work on reactionary digital politics, it's v clarifying on how ill-equipped contemporary liberalism is for fighting enemies who reject its basic conception of politics. renewal.org.uk/articles/in-...

In defence of paranoia: rethinking politics after the Epstein Files

A quarterly journal of politics and ideas, committed to exploring and expanding the radical potential of social democracy.

renewal.org.uk

David Higham@oldtrotter.bsky.social · 2w ago

Haldane overdosing on sound bites this morning. What British politics needs at the moment is a sensible discussion about the role of the state in a world of geopolitical uncertainty, climate change and an ageing population not references to 1950s state socialism (the Tories were in power 1951-1964)

In today's hostile environment for borrowers, the route to growth comes from priming the private sector, not pump-priming the public sector. Voluntary government spending restraint is needed today as insurance against the possibility of sharper, involuntary cuts in the teeth of a crisis. Those pennies need to drop if indebted governments are not to live on borrowed time as well as money.
Nick Garland@npjgarland.bsky.social · 2w ago

Excellent work by IPPR colleagues, and a strong takedown of the crude sovereingtism which people on left and right who like the idea of control but not the actual power to control things indulge in

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

Britain voted to leave the EU in 2016 to ‘take back control,’ so why does it now feel like we have less? Economic power depends on scale. Defence relies on shared capabilities. And threats to democracy, from disinformation to foreign interference, do not stop at national borders.

Rebecca Goldsmith@beccagold.bsky.social · 3w ago

Delighted to have contributed to the latest issue of Renewal. I’m in it discussing how children talk today, how that’s changed since the postwar period, and what that means for progressive politics.

Renewal@renewaljournal.bsky.social · 3w ago

FREE TO READ: @beccagold.bsky.social on the tendency of young people today to identify as ‘types’, and the need for social democracy to revive an alternative model of selfhood renewal.org.uk/articles/chi...

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

Interested in social democracy and Tony Harrison’s poetry (like the PM)? Then this book may interest you too! Also features many great colleagues, including @eunicegoes.bsky.social and @emmanuelleavril.bsky.social

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 5mo ago

Practical Social Democracy by Magnus Feldmann, Jonas Hinnfors and Mark Wickham-Jones. A new understanding of social democracy, emphasising its practical orientation and the varied choices that social democratic actors make. 📚 https://cup.org/3PZl7oH

Practical Social Democracy