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A quarterly journal of politics and ideas, committed to exploring and expanding the radical potential of social democracy. Subscribe here: https://renewal.org.uk/

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Andrew Brook@anbrook.bsky.social · 5d ago

I'm a Housing First evangelist, but this really interesting article shows that it isn't a cure-all. Homelessness is yet another policy problem held back by neglecting the complexity and totality of human experience.

Lise Butler@lisebutler.bsky.social · 5d ago

Burnham has talked a good game on rough-sleeping but it remains a notoriously intractable policy problem - this piece in @renewaljournal.bsky.social by a front-line homelessness charity worker cuts through some of the well-intentioned rhetoric on the issue and lays out the challenge ahead.

Lise Butler@lisebutler.bsky.social · 5d ago

Burnham has talked a good game on rough-sleeping but it remains a notoriously intractable policy problem - this piece in @renewaljournal.bsky.social by a front-line homelessness charity worker cuts through some of the well-intentioned rhetoric on the issue and lays out the challenge ahead.

Renewal@renewaljournal.bsky.social · 5d ago

NEW ONLINE: Andy Burnham has promised to ‘end rough sleeping’ - but what does that mean and is housing enough? Michael Jones examines the challenges to an admirable policy: renewal.org.uk/blog/can-and...

Renewal@renewaljournal.bsky.social · 5d ago

NEW ONLINE: Andy Burnham has promised to ‘end rough sleeping’ - but what does that mean and is housing enough? Michael Jones examines the challenges to an admirable policy: renewal.org.uk/blog/can-and...

Can Andy Burnham end rough sleeping?

Andy Burnham’s first major policy announcement as Prime Minister was a commitment to ‘end rough sleeping’. No timeframe was given, and we are still awaiting policy details beyond the initial funding f...

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We're Right Here@right-here.org · 2w ago

In an essay for @renewaljournal.bsky.social, our Director Rich Bell and @ewallis.bsky.social explore, in a personal capacity, Andy Burnham’s devolution vision and the community-powered philosophy behind Manchesterism. renewal.org.uk/blog/manches...

Manchesterism and the search for a progressive communitarian politics

This week, Renewal will be publishing a series of reflections on the direction that Andy Burnham's new government could or should take. First up, Ed Wallis and Rich Bell highlight the 'progressive com...

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Martin O'Neill@martinoneill.bsky.social · 2w ago

I've written a short piece for @renewaljournal.bsky.social with Matthew Brown, Leader of Preston City Council & main architect of the 'Preston Model' of @communitywealth.bsky.social, on what Andy Burnham needs to do if he's serious about changing the British economy. renewal.org.uk/blog/if-burn...

If Andy Burnham is serious about changing the British economy, Community Wealth Building is the way to do it

This week, Renewal are publishing a series of reflections on the direction that Andy Burnham's new government could or should take. In this piece, Preston City Council Leader Matthew Brown and politic...

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Renewal@renewaljournal.bsky.social · 2w ago

This week, with Burnham taking office, Renewal will be publishing a short series of reflections on what Burnhamism could or should involve in practice. First up: @ewallis.bsky.social of @locality.org.uk and Rich Bell of @powertochange.org.uk argue for Manchesterism as 'progressive communitarianism'

Manchesterism and the search for a progressive communitarian politics

This week, Renewal will be publishing a series of reflections on the direction that Andy Burnham's new government could or should take. First up, Ed Wallis and Rich Bell highlight the 'progressive com...

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Richard Douglas@maitrereynard.bsky.social · 3w ago

Inspirational article by @kirstymcneill.bsky.social for @renewaljournal.bsky.social - on the vital importance of fostering clubs and associations, both as ends in themselves and the foundation for a fulfilling everyday politics of social solidarity. renewal.org.uk/articles/all...

All together, now

03 Renewal 34.2_McNeill03 Renewal 34.2_McNeill.pdf89 KBdownload-circle Solving our solidarity crisis is imperative for social democracy. To do so, Labour must draw on its heritage of membership-bas...

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Renewal@renewaljournal.bsky.social · 3w ago

"it's part of something much bigger – the dismantling of the twentieth century compact between social democracy and capitalism, and the concentration of power, decision-making and wealth among a small group of financial insiders" Jack Jeffrey interviews @hettieobrien.bsky.social on private equity

The Billionaire Factory: Interview with Hettie O'Brien

In The Asset Class (2026), Hettie O'Brien charts how private equity became one of the most powerful forces reshaping our economies. In this conversation, she discusses the intellectual origins of the ...

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AE Snow@demofuturist.bsky.social · last mo.

Burnham’s speech is what I hoped to see and what I argued for in the latest @renewaljournal.bsky.social The giant we face in the present is the debilitation of democratic agency. But to tackle that we have to orient ourselves towards the future. Imagine! renewal.org.uk/articles/ach...

Achieving England: why the left needs a more imaginative patriotism

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

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Renewal@renewaljournal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"I believe there is a special onus on those of us who would characterise ourselves as on the left to worry about the distribution of relationship goods – just as surely as we worry about the distribution of wealth and power" - @kirstymcneill.bsky.social

Renewal@renewaljournal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Free to read: @kirstymcneill.bsky.social on the "crisis of connection and solidarity", and why social democrats need to rebuild a democratic associational life: renewal.org.uk/articles/all...

Sam Alvis@samalvis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is really really good. For its economic strengths (and the number of Westminster policy people living there) Bristol and the wider SW get such little national attention

Lottie@sellottie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Really pleased to have written this piece in the latest edition of Renewal! As a proud Bristolian, I have often been less proud of how its politics play out. Looking jealously at Manchesterism, I took a deep (& opinionated) dive into the (non)workings of devolution in the West of England…

Renewal@renewaljournal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"What distinguishes @stuartgwhite.bsky.social is the clarity of his moral language: where social democracy once spoke of growth and opportunity, White restores the vocabulary of virtue, citizenship, and the common good."

Renewal@renewaljournal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Subscribe to read: Hannah McHugh reviews @stuartgwhite.bsky.social's new book on republican political economy, and finds in it a new "moral grammar" for social democracy: renewal.org.uk/articles/on-...

David S. Moon@daimoon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I have a provocatively titled piece in the latest issue of @renewaljournal.bsky.social, in which I propose that among the lessons of the “Epstein files” revelations is the value of a properly directly, healthy paranoia suited to an age of opaque networks, dark money, and unaccountable elites. (1/2)

Title: In defence of paranoia: rethinking politics after the Epstein Files Abstract: Th is article argues that a refl exive dismissal of ‘conspiracy’ has left political analysis blind to the routine operations of elite collusion, a failure exposed in stark terms by the Epstein case. It calls for a disciplined, evidence-led ‘paranoia’ capable of tracking power across the opaque ‘parapolitical’ networks that structure contemporary politics.Just as politics itself has a ‘Too Difficult’ box32 – long-term problems such as climate change or media regulation that are quietly shelved because they are complex, unpopular, or resistant to accessible solutions – so too, it seems, does political studies. Structural questions about the influence of security services, corporate lobbyists and/or organised crime on democratic outcomes are almost entirely nudged to the margins, bracketed as conspiratorial and excluded from peer-reviewed publication. Instead, answers are sought where data is more accessible and ostensibly transparent – elections, legislatures, policy pro- grammes – and approached in turn from a perspective buuilt upon broadly pluralistic assumptions. This matters, because despite their relatively small readerships, the outputs academia produce provides a key evidential basis that structures wider political discourses. When political scholarship declines to grapple with these darker dimensions and subsequently fails those seeking reliable, authoritative sources, it cedes fertile ground that can, in turn, be exploited by more malicious or misguided actors. Movements like QAnon weave genuine historical conspiracies – such as MK-ULTRA, Operation CHAOS, or Project Paperclip – into their narratives of mass deception. In doing so they blur truth and fabrication to increase the per- suasiveness of their fantastical claims.33 In short, when scholarship fails to offer rigorous analyses that take account of the darker workings of power, demagogues and opportunists readily fill the void.
Renewal@renewaljournal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Subscribe to read: @daimoon.bsky.social on how the Epstein Files show the need for "political paranoia", and why social democrats should pay attention to "parapolitics" renewal.org.uk/articles/in-...

Lottie@sellottie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Really pleased to have written this piece in the latest edition of Renewal! As a proud Bristolian, I have often been less proud of how its politics play out. Looking jealously at Manchesterism, I took a deep (& opinionated) dive into the (non)workings of devolution in the West of England…

Renewal@renewaljournal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Free to read: @sellottie.bsky.social on the failures of devolution in the West of England, and "Bristolism" as a funhouse mirror to Andy Burnham's "Manchesterism" renewal.org.uk/articles/the...

David Klemperer@dmk1793.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Pleased to have played a part in putting together this issue. In my editorial, I offer a brief assessment of Starmerism, and set out why I see as the major challenges that social democrats now face:

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Renewal@renewaljournal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NEW ISSUE: Renewal 34.2 Ft. @kirstymcneill.bsky.social, @daimoon.bsky.social, @demofuturist.bsky.social, @bjoernbremer.bsky.social, @sellottie.bsky.social @anaopp.bsky.social, @dmk1793.bsky.social, Sean McDaniel, John Chowcat, Carla Rocavert, and Hannah McHugh renewal.org.uk/journal/volu...

Colm Murphy@colmpm.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Very grateful to @bjoernbremer.bsky.social and Sean for this response to our piece. I am a huge believer in public debate to clarify key issues and am genuinely delighted with this essay. In that spirit, I'll highlight a couple of further thoughts in the thread below.

Renewal@renewaljournal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Subscribe to read: @bjoernbremer.bsky.social & Sean McDaniel respond to @colmpm.bsky.social & Patrick Diamond's case for fiscal prudence, and argue for why social democrats must reject any austerity renewal.org.uk/articles/sti...

AE Snow@demofuturist.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The far right see an England of vengeance and of cruelty. A catalogue of nice things is not sufficient to combat the poison in the bloodstream of the nation. I argue here we need to take on the challenge of reimagining England’s past, present and future.

Renewal@renewaljournal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Subscribe to read: @demofuturist.bsky.social on why social democrats need "optimism of the intellect", and a more imaginative form of progressive patriotism renewal.org.uk/articles/ach...