The documents I cite in an article currently under review have not been made public. I'm not sure whether to be relieved or concerned.

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Does that graphic indicate that the internet panel thinks the Conservatives have moved left since the Cameron years and that the BES experts think they have only moved marginally to the right? Odd.

I think the experiment can be concluded: It’s clear not. Complex, societies/economies require political parties with large active, memberships & mediating institutions for the formation & organisation of political identity, expression of demands & for policy implementation (1/3)

An alternative framing is civil servants finding every flex available to deliver the stated position of the Government. After the politicians announced an appointment (before the process), the civil servants did what they could to enable it.

There's certainly room for interpretive disagreement, and I think you get the gist of the literature, your point seems most compelling on the neoliberalism without neoliberals claim - not all who do or spread neoliberalism are advocates of the ur-ideas.

This is a generally good overview but I think it's mistaken to suggest that these don't fit together quite neatly. The neoliberal thought collective was active in, inspired and was invoked by various actors, shaping a series of policies and subjectivities, intended and unintended.

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“Ministers justify cutting help for people too disabled to work by arguing it will remove the “perverse incentives” for benefits, as if a 25 year old bedbound with ME just needs incentivising to get back to the office.”

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What I really like about how you've posed this question is that is recognises that the party's enthusiasm wasn't really a choice but a path dependency of sedimented 'common sense', mythmaking and ideology. Was an alternative available to the Tories, was it viable, or was it inevitable?

New Labour joke (apologies): In the 1990s, Labour looked for ideas on how to reposition or rejuvenate itself and return to government. Charlie had a promising idea: lead better.

How has the reception of the article/book been in Poland? It's the sort of argument one would hope picks up engagement in broader society.

In a new GHIL Blog post, former scholarship holder Benedikt Sepp (@lmu.de) traces how the AR-15/Armalite brought together American ideas of technological progress, guerrilla tactics in jungle warfare, and racialised ways of imagining enemies, leaving their mark on
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Part of this dynamic must be that 'passive income' has achieved an aspirational valence. In a weak welfare state it is difficult to criticise rents without falling into a reification of work.

Ah, whig Thomism

What's their account of liberal Thomism?

I got a desk reject after 70 days on the first article I ever submitted. The editor did give a fair amount of feedback on the article and reason for reject (fit with subfield/journal).

The question that raises is whether the AI discourse is any different from earlier instances of technological determinism. The engine, power loom and internet transform production/society beyond the capacity of individual/collective workers or capitalists to resist.

What is Milibandism? Your guide to the key intellectual texts, thinkers and activists

Stumbled over this article on 'key intellectual texts, thinkers and activists' behind Milibandism. 12 years old, it's interesting how, despite the first name on the list now being Chancellor and Ed having a resurgence, so many of the others have fallen away.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

Although, in fairness to William Robson, they would probably still desk reject a submission if it was deemed party political propaganda.

I sent it to The Political Quarterly, the joint editors being Leonard Woolf and William Robson (Professor of Public Administration at LSE). This proved to be a mistake. Robson rang me up and berated me for sending what appeared to be ‘a piece of liberal propaganda’ which a good solid Socialist periodical could not possibly publish. It was in vain that I argued that James Meade, who had given this negative tax proposal a run for its money in his recent writings, was a member of the Labour Party. The ‘piece of propaganda’ was firmly rejected and remained unpublished, never to see the light of day.

The @politicalquarterly.bsky.social's editorial policies have likely changed somewhat since the late 1940s.

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/essays/55680/the-blair-paradox

Marquand - 1998

For periodisation, Luke Martell, in 1990, groups the Sheffield Group alongside Reactions to the Right and The Alternative: Politics for Change (there are overlapping contributors) which are useful comparisons as well as Labour's Policy Review.

It probably can be folded into the origins and politics of PERC and NPE alongside specific personal relationships but it's worth seeing the overlap with the trajectories of Blunkett and the Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire into New Labour.

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The Social Economy and the Democratic State: A new policy agenda Edited by Pete Alcock, Andrew Gamble, Ian Gough, Phil Lee, Alan Walker 'the Sheffield Group' foreword by David Blunkett MP

Is there an account of what happened to the Sheffield Group? I was reading this yesterday and they mention an intention to publish annually. It's not as if these people disappeared.

He's not really a professional philosopher is he? His whole career is as a theologian.

Reed's defence, saying Hartlepool should learn from what he did as leader in Lambeth, beyond the political/human geography of the comparison speaks to a concerning temporal slippage for the Sec State for Local Gov. Council finances circa 2008 ≠ council finances 2026

The comments from back when they did the GoldList blog (discussion of PPCs) were very interesting although are no longer hosted on the website.

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See their report for 2024 about their opacity of measurement and their links to campaigning to increase the salience/artificially construct this as a political issue. democracyvolunteers.org/final-report...

campaigning, whose findings have been picked up by wider audiences in narrative aligning to bigger political interests. Healthy scepticism is warranted.