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📣📣New publication! So thrilled to see my latest paper 'Going Digital … But What For? Parties' Ideological Positions and Divides on Platform Societies in Western Europe' out on govandopp , open access for sharing, citing, criticising ☺️. Link 👇 cambridge.org/core/journals/… and a🧵

What impact will the end of traditional steel making have on regional #economicpolicy, #devolution, productivity and the #greentransition in the UK? You can read Nathan Critch and Darcy Luke's analysis of the consequences of the situation in Port Talbot on the #MEIBlog⬇️

Me and my colleague Nathan Critch on the recent closure of the last blast furnace at #PortTalbot for the Mile End Institute The decline of UK steel manufacturing tells us a great deal about the UK economy, and gives us insight into the policy implications of declining sectors.

The term “working person/people” is nebulous and was always going to become a problem, given fiscal constraints. But there’s been a fair bit of feigned ignorance adopted by much of the coverage this last week or so. Everyone knows the difference between income derived from

New piece out on #Budget2024 w/Prof. Dave Richards and @AndyWWestwood Short-termism is key to Britain's economic policy problems, Labour have tried to articulate a longer-term vision in some ways, but challenges lay ahead The Productivity Institute theconversation.com/five-ways-the-… via The Conversation

NEW: 'Chancellor Rachel Reeves presented Labour’s first #budget in 14 years by promising to put an “end to short-termism”'. In an article for The Conversation, Nathan Critch, @AndyWWestwood and Prof. Dave Richards outline Labour's different approach 👇 theconversation.com/five-ways-the-…

'Change & Continuity in British Politics: Can Starmer Govs Approach to Governance Resolve Crisis in Br. State' New @politicalquarterly.bsky.social article with Sam Warner Patrick Diamond from The Productivity Institute UoMPolitics UoM School of Social Sciences Comparative Politics Research Cluster UoM Politics Public Policy & Administration Specialist Group Political Studies Association onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

Industrial strategies have come & gone so often that it's easy to be cynical. That said, in a recent piece with Nathan Critch for the The Productivity Institute we look at The Labour Party's 'Invest 2035' Green Paper and find reasons to be (cautiously) cheerful! productivity.ac.uk/news/an-end-to…

Read Darcy Luke and Nathan Critch's commentary for our Productivity Policy Unit ⬇️

New piece out by me, Peter Kerr and Steven Kettell on 14 years of Tory rule and the meaning and relevance of modernization therein. Check it out! Slow burn: Re-examining the legacy of Conservative Party modernization academic.oup.com/pa/article/doi…

Useful summary of one of the changes likely to come down the pike with the devolution white paper. Sounds anorakish, but might be one of the more significant and thoroughgoing reforms Labour pursue. instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/loca… via Institute for Government

📢New Publication📢Very happy to see this article finally out open access in BJPIR! Building on research from the PhD and postdoc last year, the piece conducts an archival analysis of the 1973 Northern Ireland border poll. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

Splendid to see research on Theresa May, Statecraft and the Environment cited new new work by Nathan Critch , Peter Kerr and Steven Kettell published in Parliamentary Affairs (Hansard Society). academic.oup.com/pa/advance-art…

Good to see the response to this report. Overall good to see govt acknowledge value in moving away from one-size-fits-all approach, but disappointing to not have more concrete resources for the Inquiries Unit. civilserviceworld.com/news/article/g…

What is the political economy of Starmer's Labour? Join a stellar panel for the Mile End Institute’s next webinar on 13 March, featuring Sam Freedman, Theo Bertram, Kate Alexander-Shaw, morgan and the MEI’s very own Dr Colm Murphy! us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

🖊️NEW #MEIBlog🖊️ After the UK decided to follow the US in not signing the Paris Summit Declaration on AI, Nathan Critch and Darcy Luke consider what the Government's #AI strategy tells us about its 'number one mission' to generate economic growth. 🔗qmul.ac.uk/mei/news-and-o…

New blog out with Darcy Luke on the government's AI strategy and approach to regulating AI, which situates it in the broader context of the approaches previous UK governments developed towards AI. A fascinating and increasingly important topic!

blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpol… New LSE British Politics and Policy with Darcy Luke Nathan Critch Sam Warner for our The Productivity Institute and Nuffield Foundation projects

Pleased this piece written with my The Productivity Institute colleagues - Nathan Critch, Patrick Diamond, Prof. Dave Richards, Sam Warner, & Andy Westwood - has been published in Renewal renewal.org.uk/blog/will-labo…

New Renewal piece from our The Productivity Institute project UoMPolitics UoM School of Social Sciences with Nathan Critch Patrick Diamond Darcy Luke Sam Warner and Andy Westwood renewal.org.uk/blog/will-labo…