📕Read FEPS’ policy study “Place-based industrial policy: Places, people & power in European industrial policy”! The policy study argues for an industrial strategy that balances national & supranational economic competitiveness & security while supporting democratic legitimacy & regional development

Place-based industrial policy - Foundation for European Progressive Studies

Places, people and power in European industrial policy

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Featuring @fhpitts.bsky.social from @exeterspspa.bsky.social @hass-cornwall.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Andy Burnham’s Call on Ed Miliband Could Shape His Premiership

As Andy Burnham weighs the top team he will appoint if he becomes UK prime minister, one divisive decision could come to define his term in office: the role of Ed Miliband.

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Prof @fhpitts.bsky.social has been discussing today's events: 📻Before and after the PM's resignation with BBC Radio Devon-1h13+3h48: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... 📻 With BBC Somerset: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... 📻Anticipating a Burnham premiership with BBC Radio Cornwall-1hr32: lnkd.in/e33EfmDJ

Answered @congeostrategy.bsky.social's 'Big Ask' on defence spending along with @paulmason.bsky.social & others, considering how a new Labour leadership must confront the convenient alibis that enable the party to avoid a ruthless prioritisation of security: www.britainsworld.org.uk/p/the-big-as...

"The lack of fiscal room and the immediate threat posed on our doorstep by Russia mean that it is no longer possible to fudge the issue" - @fhpitts.bsky.social for @renewaljournal.bsky.social on why decisions about defence funding need to be made quickly renewal.org.uk/blog/sitting...

Sitting on defence

When the sun sets on the Starmer premiership, it will be clear that its descent began when it caved to elements of the Parliamentary Labour Party on welfare reform. Caught up in the conditions faced b...

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Professor @fhpitts.bsky.social from @exeterspspa.bsky.social @hass-cornwall.bsky.social spoke to BBC Radio Devon and Radio Cornwall about the resignation of John Healey + Al Cairns and why it crucial for the Government to make decisions about defence spending www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Caroline Densley - 12/06/2026 - BBC Sounds

Caroline gets Devon talking and celebrates the best of what's going on in the county.

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🏭 Foundational Industries & the UK's Modern Industrial Strategy 🏭 New briefing note from our Critical Minerals Challenge Centre at @exeter.ac.uk. Draws on recent work with @feps-europe.eu looking at steel & critical minerals as case studies: criticalmineralschallengecentre.co.uk/wp-content/u...

Kicking Defence Off Campus? Cui Bono? Why making the universities part of the defence tech industrial base is a solid socialist idea... open.substack.com/pub/htsf/p/k...

Kicking Defence Off Campus? Cui Bono?

The Defence Universities Alliance is a brilliant Labour idea inspired by a visionary Liberal peer

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🏭 Foundational Industries & the UK's Modern Industrial Strategy 🏭 New briefing note from our Critical Minerals Challenge Centre at @exeter.ac.uk. Draws on recent work with @feps-europe.eu looking at steel & critical minerals as case studies: criticalmineralschallengecentre.co.uk/wp-content/u...

The first few articles are now published OnlineFirst from the 'Workplace Geopolitics: Industrial Relations & International Relations' Special Issue that I am editing with @huwthomas.bsky.social for @jirjournal.bsky.social. The SI focuses on how our current age of conflict shapes the future of work:

New @feps-europe.eu paper with Theo Cox, Ed Atkins & @gerardoosterwijk.bsky.social: "Place-Based Industrial Policy: Places, People & Power in European Industrial Policy" feps-europe.eu/publication/... Thanks to László Andor & team at @feps-europe.eu + @adamlangleben.bsky.social & team at Progress

This week, Renewal has published two new online pieces covering problems of industrial relations... renewal.org.uk/blog/ 1/4

Renewal

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

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Excited to publish a timely new paper by @paulmason.bsky.social: "Designing the 21st Century Wartime State: Challenges for the UK’s new War Book & Defence Readiness Bill" Read here: www.exeter.ac.uk/v8media/rese... And more via @uniofexeternews.bsky.social here: news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

A New issue of our friends at Future of the Left with intro from Jason Cowley 🗞️ Includes: John Bew on US Foreign policy Jonathan Rutherford on the PMC Also includes pieces on critical mineral strategy and institutional decline. futureoftheleft.substack.com/p/newsletter...

Newsletter #7: If you don’t know, now you know

Whether we like it or not the world has changed, and we must change with it.

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Really very proud of this issue of @renewaljournal.bsky.social and a pleasure to work with Steven and Harry. I think the issue offers a fair-minded view of one of the most important pieces of Labour’s agenda and tackles the changing work landscape in a big picture way. Read, share, subscribe!

Renewal@renewaljournal.bsky.social · 4mo ago

NEW ISSUE ALERT: Renewal 34:1 The Employment Rights Act and the Politics of Work Guest edited by Renewal contributing editors @stevenklein.bsky.social and @fhpitts.bsky.social along with co-editor @lisebutler.bsky.social renewal.org.uk/journal/volu...

New Renewal just dropped! Some fantastic stuff in this issue, including essays from Jane Gingrich, Jon Cruddas, Hilary Cottam, @ewangibbs.bsky.social, @joshwesterling.bsky.social, @abbyabhaya.bsky.social, and @benjthomas.bsky.social

Renewal@renewaljournal.bsky.social · 4mo ago

NEW ISSUE ALERT: Renewal 34:1 The Employment Rights Act and the Politics of Work Guest edited by Renewal contributing editors @stevenklein.bsky.social and @fhpitts.bsky.social along with co-editor @lisebutler.bsky.social renewal.org.uk/journal/volu...

The day's main political event: new Renewal !

Renewal@renewaljournal.bsky.social · 4mo ago

NEW ISSUE ALERT: Renewal 34:1 The Employment Rights Act and the Politics of Work Guest edited by Renewal contributing editors @stevenklein.bsky.social and @fhpitts.bsky.social along with co-editor @lisebutler.bsky.social renewal.org.uk/journal/volu...

NEW ISSUE ALERT: Renewal 34:1 The Employment Rights Act and the Politics of Work Guest edited by Renewal contributing editors @stevenklein.bsky.social and @fhpitts.bsky.social along with co-editor @lisebutler.bsky.social renewal.org.uk/journal/volu...

Volume 34, Issue 1

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

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Great to talk Cornwall & critical minerals at this event today along with @jaynekirkhammp.bsky.social and many others, and introduce a new policy study out soon with @feps-europe.eu: 'Place-Based Industrial Policy in the Age of Insecurity: The Politics of Producing Materials, Minerals & Microchips'.

FEPS Europe@feps-europe.eu · 5mo ago

📕🏭The 1st panel at “Place-based #Industrial policy in Europe” presents the first draft of the policy study by its authors 🇫🇮🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇩🇪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eufb... 🔺Theo Cox 🔺Gerard Rinse Oosterwijk 🔺@fhpitts.bsky.social 🔺Lorenzo Mascioli 🔺Anna Kolesnichenko

🔴Join LIVE - the event “Place-based industrial policy in Europe” youtube.com/watch?v=Eufb... 🤝 By FEPS in cooperation with Progress and @pes-cor.bsky.social.

Place-based industrial policy in Europe

YouTube video by FEPS_Europe

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Carl Hunter OBE and @paulmason.bsky.social have been appointed as Honorary Fellows at the @exeter.ac.uk Centre for the Public Understanding of Defence and Security @fhpitts.bsky.social news.exeter.ac.uk/top-stories/...

Paul Mason and Carl Hunter OBE appointed Honorary Fellows at the Centre for the Public Understanding of Defence and Security and Exeter’s Defence, Security & Resilience Network

Award-winning journalist, writer and political consultant Paul Mason and Carl Stephen Patrick Hunter OBE have been appointed as Honorary Senior Research Fellows at the University of Exeter’s Centre fo...

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Quoted in todays @theguardian.com on the latest progress in Cornwall's contribution to the country's energy & mineral security, alongside Critical Minerals Challenge Centre colleague Frances Wall & @perranmoonmp.bsky.social: theguardian.com/environment/... @uniofexeternews.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk

From national resilience to national renewal? Wrote up some remarks on our home defence paper for @renewaljournal.bsky.social, asking whether Labour's long-promised 'defence conversation' will find, to paraphrase Thatcher, no such thing as 'whole-of-society' after all: renewal.org.uk/blog/resilie...

Resilience and Renewal: Labour and ‘Whole of Society’ Defence

The 2025 Strategic Defence Review (SDR) was commissioned by Sir Keir Starmer as Labour entered government, updating the UK’s defence and security posture in the face of a more dangerous world. Alongsi...

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Frederick Harry Pitts@fhpitts.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New policy paper exploring the concept of home defence & whole-of-society security/resilience in the UK. Published by the Centre for the Public Understanding of Defence & Security at @exeter.ac.uk. Coauthored with Frances Tammer & Gareth Stansfield with a Foreword by Paul Cornish: t.co/hloNsXAYaJ

This looks very timely.

Frederick Harry Pitts@fhpitts.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New policy paper exploring the concept of home defence & whole-of-society security/resilience in the UK. Published by the Centre for the Public Understanding of Defence & Security at @exeter.ac.uk. Coauthored with Frances Tammer & Gareth Stansfield with a Foreword by Paul Cornish: t.co/hloNsXAYaJ

From national resilience to national renewal? Wrote up some remarks on our home defence paper for @renewaljournal.bsky.social, asking whether Labour's long-promised 'defence conversation' will find, to paraphrase Thatcher, no such thing as 'whole-of-society' after all: renewal.org.uk/blog/resilie...

Resilience and Renewal: Labour and ‘Whole of Society’ Defence

The 2025 Strategic Defence Review (SDR) was commissioned by Sir Keir Starmer as Labour entered government, updating the UK’s defence and security posture in the face of a more dangerous world. Alongsi...

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Frederick Harry Pitts@fhpitts.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New policy paper exploring the concept of home defence & whole-of-society security/resilience in the UK. Published by the Centre for the Public Understanding of Defence & Security at @exeter.ac.uk. Coauthored with Frances Tammer & Gareth Stansfield with a Foreword by Paul Cornish: t.co/hloNsXAYaJ

New policy paper exploring the concept of home defence & whole-of-society security/resilience in the UK. Published by the Centre for the Public Understanding of Defence & Security at @exeter.ac.uk. Coauthored with Frances Tammer & Gareth Stansfield with a Foreword by Paul Cornish: t.co/hloNsXAYaJ

Did you know that security is being used as a lever to attract economic development in rural regions? Sign up for the RSA Edgenet webinar talking about what it means for peripheries in a new era of geopolitical instability. Wednesday 4 February, 9-10.30 am 👉 www.regionalstudies.org/events/rsa-r...

The report has identified six areas of focus to help leverage more SME participation in UK defence as a rallying call is issued for joint industry and government collaboration - @hass-cornwall.bsky.social @cornwall.exeter.ac.uk @fhpitts.bsky.social www.babcockinternational.com/news/babcock...

Babcock and the University of Exeter report cites SMEs as crucial for UK Defence resilience - Babcock International Group

Our new report in partnership with the University of Exeter has called for significant reforms to help Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) more readily

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NEW ISSUE: Renewal 33/3&4 Guest co-edited by @neilwarner.bsky.social & @beccagold.bsky.social, this special double issue features nineteen (19) brilliant essays analysing Labour's statecraft and debating the strategic challenges for social democracy in Britain and beyond

Volume 33, Issue 3-4

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

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🇪🇺🇬🇧The final day of the 11th Oxford Symposium opens with the plenary on “#Industrial strategy and grand transformations”. With: 🔺@jrgingrich.bsky.social 🔺Rachel Blake, MP 🔺 Theo Cox The 11th Oxford Symposium launches the book “The Great Unravelling”. 📕 bit.ly/GreatUnravel...