Urgent call for our friends’ wedding tomorrow - any leads welcome!

In light of the Liberal victory in Canada, re-upping my Renewal piece from last month - for centre and left of centre parties worldwide there’s greater electoral ground to be gained from a principled, progressive response to the far right than from nervous accommodation.

Heartily recommend holding your next academic workshop in Bologna. Wonderful two days discussing prediction and the environment for our The British Academy ‘Place of Prediction’ workshop, with special thanks to host Or Rosenboim

It was a pleasure to speak at a History and Policy and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology seminar this afternoon on ‘How has the way that humans create, receive and share knowledge evolved over time?’(!!). Annoyingly, given the content of my presentation, AI summarised my remarks quite well.

📢 New Blog Or Rosenboim explores 'Planetary Orders and Global Divisions in the Political Thought of Barbara Ward' intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/planet…

I'm biased because Lise Butler is an editor now, but the Renewal relaunch looks amazing. Great new website, awesome line-up. And there's going to be a party!

Excited to have joined Renewal as a contributing editor and have an interview with John Ganz in the relaunch issue

Out now - John Ganz (John Ganz) has republished his interview on the genealogy of Trumpism with Steven Klein on his Unpopular Front substack unpopularfront.news/p/interview-wi…

Just to reassure anyone who has subscribed (thank you!) or wants to: the website currently lacks an address field but all subscribers will be contacted ASAP for details about where we can send our shiny new issue

Thanks to everyone who attended this discussion hosted by Renewal! NB Rebecca was replaced on the panel by Sof. of Round Our Way.

Pleased to see Renewal’s interview with Andy Burnham get a shout out in the Guardian: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Dimes Square era (2018-2025)

Basically all the women I know have a huge crush on Mamdani and they keep telling me about it

Merci Marc-Olivier Bherer for this piece on our relaunch in Le Monde lemonde.fr/idees/article/…

Wondering where James Meadway keeps his crystal ball - read the whole thread.

If you read one thing on the Sultana-Corbyn new-party-announcement make it this excellent piece by Alfie Steer

This overview by Alfie Steer is the best write up of the potential for a new left-wing party I've read. It benefit from Alfies's research into the recent history of both the Labour left and the left outside Labour rather than focusing on personalities. renewal.org.uk/blog/the-reven…