I've written about Neets for the LRB. It is odd listening to recent debates about this completely ignore the overwhelming fact of this current crisis, that it is one of inactivity, disability, mental ill-health and neurodevelopmental disorders (as I discuss) www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

William Davies · Young People Are Different: What do Neets need?

The majority of Neets are not looking for work, but living outside of the labour market and the education system,...

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very interesting from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com - cross-over in graph on left coincides precisely with Global Financial Crisis www.ft.com/content/6a35...

Great to see my op-ed out in LBC today, which builds on our new @ippr.org report, What is the Left For?, also out today. A short thread 🧵 Op-ed 👉 [https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/price-caps-neoliberalism-growth-opinion-5HjdfDx_2/] Report 👉 [https://www.ippr.org/articles/what-is-the-left-for]

We're sleepwalking into a real democratic legitimacy problem. Falling turnout means we keep returning governments fewer and fewer of us actually voted for. Compulsory voting is the way out — and it's good to see it's getting some traction. Great thread explaining why from my colleague Nick

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

1/ Great reporting in The Times on the emerging momentum behind support for compulsory voting, which @ippr.org called for a couple of weeks ago: www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Jane Gingrich and I have written an essay for @ippr.org on a fundamental problem, that an age that demands more of the state also suffers from multiple state legitimation crises www.ippr.org/articles/the...

The legitimacy trap | IPPR

In many ways, the public want more government: to shape a fairer, more dynamic economy and protect ordinary people from the consequences of a turbulent wor

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Young people aren’t disengaged from politics. We’re just looking in the wrong places. They may be less likely to join parties or unions, but they are talking about politics, protesting and engaging in other ways, often more than older generations. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/741...

Britain’s next generation is all grown up

Alienated, ignored—and stuck at home with mum and dad. Young adults are locked out from the future they’re ready to shape

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🗳️ NEW REPORT: Democracy should mean more than casting a vote every few years. It should give people power, purpose and a stake in public life. That is the alternative to the populist right’s politics of resentment and division. The latest from us👇 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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🧵 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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New research from us, finds: 1️⃣ Reduced goods exports to the EU due to Brexit have cost the UK economy an estimated £18.1bn per year 2️⃣ This is 0.63% of GDP per year 3️⃣ As a result of Brexit, ours goods exports to the EU are an estimated 14.5 per cent lower than they would have been otherwise

NEW: Young men are not becoming more right-wing, new study finds - or at least, no more than anyone else. Fascinating research by @jchrisbick.bsky.social and Jasmine Jinadu www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Young men in UK are not more rightwing than older groups, study says

Exclusive: Analysis shows men aged 18 to 25 are less likely to vote for rightwing parties than other age groups of men

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New @ippr.org report for you, published with my brilliant colleagues Pascale Frazer-Carroll and Jasmine Jinadu. We looked at some common claims about youth politics and find most of them are largely wrong. A thread🧵

The Milburn Report is out today — and it paints a staggering picture of how hard things have become for young people in the UK. 1 in 8 young people are NEET: not in education, employment, or training. As my @ippr.org colleagues have shown, this could reach 1 in 6 by the end of the decade.

It’s becoming harder to ignore the growing weight that extremely wealthy donors appear to carry in British politics, not just in scale, but in proximity to key political decisions.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3mo ago

Revealed: Nigel Farage was given undisclosed £5m by crypto billionaire in 2024

Did the BBC assume that asylum applications, unlike every other area of society, were completely free of fraud? Seems like a total loss of perspective over their investigation, now into its second day of dominating their headlines

Fifty years ago this year, one of the most powerful labour movements in the world adopted an audacious plan to transform the ownership structure of a capitalist economy in an electoral democracy. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

What will it take to revive economic democracy 50 years after the Meidner plan? - LSE Business Review

Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Meidner plan, Neil Warner looks at the prospects for reviving the “third pillar” of democratisation.

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As we @ippr.org have set out though, there is still a strong case for capping donations from all sources, including domestic companies and individuals, to take big money from mega donors out of politics and tackle inequalities in influence.

Friday news! We're launching the advisory panel for @ippr.org's Decade of National Renewal today. An incredible group of thinkers to keep us in line as we do some creative thinking about what the left should stand for in an increasingly uncertain world. Find out more 👉 www.ippr.org/research-and...

About the advisory group | IPPR

The populist radical right is not just gaining in the battle of votes but is also dominating the battle of ideas: about who the state is for, how it should

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Lots to chew on in the Chancellor’s Mais lecture, but worth highlighting the clear case for an activist state shaping the economy we want. The state’s always been key to shaping how capitalism works - even in its ‘free-market’ heyday - nice to see that discussed so openly!

Grateful to the wise @jydenham.bsky.social for engaging with my work on nationalism with Parth Patel for @ippr.org. Much I agree with. www.ippr.org/articles/rec...

Reclaiming Britain - a response | IPPR

By engaging directly in a discussion of nation-building it tackles a problem than many avoid. Fear that nation-building must inevitably collapse into natio

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Loved this piece — We’re really not talking enough about what multiparty Britain means for the rest of our democratic institutions which are very much two-party shaped!

Hannah White@drhannahwhite.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Everyone is analysing the implications of the byelection for Keir Starmer and Labour but the most important lessons are for democracy - my latest for @instituteforgovernment.org.uk www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/gort...

My brother wanted a London pub crawl. The result? My new Substack post: "Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next?" How private equity reshaped the local, which pubs are most at risk and most importantly what to do about it. open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They Were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next?

How private equity reshaped the local and the postcode tool that shows the pubs most at risk.

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