Union members could decide who the next Labour leader is With party membership figures plummeting, affiliates take on a new importance

You can read my original article here if you want to brush up on internal voting for no reason at all: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Lots of discussion of my article from January on trade union voting in internal elections in here:

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04...

Very proud to see this issue of Renewal out. In it, we use the Employment Rights Act to think more broadly about the politics of work today. With great contributors ranging across history, social science, and philosophy, including Elizabeth Anderson and my KCL colleague Jimena Valdez

The day's main political event: new Renewal !

Trade Union Roundtable: Is the Employment Rights Act the Change We Need? 03 Renewal 34.1_Roundtable, Midgley et al03 Renewal 34.1_Roundtable, Midgley et al.pdf77 KBdownload-circle The Employment Rights Act has been hailed as the biggest upgrade to workers’ rights in gen...

FREE TO READ: In trade union roundtable @anneliesemidgleymp.bsky.social, the TUC's @timsharp.bsky.social, the CWU's Gen Sec Dave Ward, USDAW's Gen Sec @joannethomas.bsky.social, and an anonymous UTAW organiser at Google Deepmind reflect on the ERA.

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Volume 34, Issue 1 A quarterly journal of politics and ideas, committed to exploring and expanding the radical potential of social democracy.

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

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Patrick Freyne: Here’s why AI is making us dumber and more lonely Writing forces people to resolve internal contradictions and confront their own bullshit. It’s why it’s hard. It’s why it’s beautiful

I wrote about why we should keep reading and writing

www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

thinking about when Peter Mandelson called him fat. job has aged him certainly!

yeah I think people clock him as a decade younger than he is and it does shine through - I think about when he said growing up he never went out to eat and, yep, that's very normal for a person of his age and class. I think same effect at play here

you're completely correct but as I have learned this is a great way to get yelled at on the internet

one of the under discussed things about keir starmer is that he's really old

The conflict in Sudan is the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today and of the 21st century wholesale. It's largely absent from the headlines, even as we mark the third anniversary of the war.

I liked the book a lot and think this is an on the money (as it were) review

a while ago played a game of trying to work out emmanuel macron/ en marche style names for 2024 intake MPs. sadly the "nibble britain" suggestion looking a little different in light of this

always very confronting to be surrounded by the exact kind of guy you are, en masse

gas leak at the ben lerner reading would be extinction level event for British library readers pass holders

Is your coffee being made by an unpaid trial shifter? Plus: Kanye vs Haringey Council, curious commenters, and the new Lime bike arrives on the streets of London.

Did the person making your coffee get paid?

I looked into how working for free just to be considered for a job is becoming the new normal in the capital, as young people navigate an increasingly brutal hunt for work www.londoncentric.media/i/192962193/...

Denmark's immigration lessons for Labour Copying the country's tough stance on migration no longer looks like such a good idea

Copying Denmark’s tough stance on migration no longer looks like such a good idea for Keir Starmer, writes Morgan Jones

For the avoidance of doubt, those who are arguing for “drill baby drill” really don’t get the seriousness of the situation. We should not be falling back on technologies that damage us, our economy and our future, but rather be embracing increasingly cheap and reliable home grown renewable energy.

why is this the picture of starmer labour have sent out to members before the locals it's giving

i fear … phone disease

Denmark's immigration lessons for Labour Copying the country's tough stance on migration no longer looks like such a good idea

Copying Denmark’s tough stance on migration no longer looks like such a good idea for Keir Starmer, writes Morgan Jones

Featuring some thoughts on how international comparisons work (always a little fuzzy and wish cast-y, tbh) and when they falter.

I have my doubts! And I think there's a reason Rayner (see, "unBritish" remark) thinks it's a weak spot.

Morgan Jones | Starmer mixes it up Global Progress Action was in London at the end of last month, filling Methodist Central Hall with politicians and think...

Is the internal constituency for what Hinder (and more importantly, Mahmood) want sufficient? Given how unpopular the policies are with MPs and how weak the leadership is?

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

MP: 'Labour seen as party of migrants, minorities, and people on benefits' - LabourList Labour MP Jonathan Hinder argues "nothing economically leftwing about high immigration”.

This draws out some other thinking/ reporting I have done on Denmarkism over the last year or so.

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Denmark's immigration lessons for Labour Copying the country's tough stance on migration no longer looks like such a good idea

Does Labour really want to do it like Denmark? I've written about why the strategy is increasingly beleaguered,

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/728...

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You know, substantively, I do think this is right. However,