@neilwarner
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at @lse-ei.bsky.social. Interested in history, sociology & political economy of socialist parties and labour movements, economic policy ideas including socialisation of investment & economic democracy.
Andy Burnham’s “Manchesterism” rightly argues that the loss of public control of essential services worsens the cost of living crisis.
This is the “Privatisation Premium”.
Our new briefing explains this premium & how to fix it. 🧵
www.common-wealth.org/publications...
Why did the People's Vote campaign fail? Could Brexit have been stopped? What lessons can be learned?
Join us on 19 March to launch @morganj0nes.bsky.social's new book: "No Second Chances: The Inside Story of the Campaign for a Second Referendum".
All welcome!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/no-second-...
Terrifying language from Smotrich and stark illustration of how what's happening now is a result of the West's support for and appeasement of genocide in Gaza
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
The War on Iran (Monologue). Image shows one of the US-Israeli strikes on Iran.
I just released a long solo episode on the Israeli-US war on Iran and what it might mean for Iran, Lebanon and Israel - on @thefirethesetimes.com
On all podcast apps
Also available on thefirethesetimes.com/2026/03/03/t... and www.patreon.com/posts/tftt-2...
Ah thanks!
This will be excellent
Thanks David
Well that is just bait to make a chart for @neilwarner.bsky.social
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Oh this is amazing!! Thanks Yusuf, brilliant work!!
As Italy approves a decree to reimburse gas plants for carbon costs and gas prices jump 80%, it’s worth recalling that in 2018 both Italian and Spanish power prices were tightly linked to gas. Since then, Spain has largely decoupled, mainly thanks to renewables. Italy hasn’t.
@tuc.org.uk condemns the dangerous escalation of military actions, precipitated by the attacks launched by the US and Israel over the weekend that flout international law, undermine diplomacy and the prospects for peace. www.tuc.org.uk/news/tuc-gen...
What is "deliverism"? Is it dead? And what would its death mean for progressive politics?
This essay (kindly published by @samfr.bsky.social) is my attempt to trace five years of trans-Atlantic debates, to set out what I see as the stakes, and to analyse where these arguments have now gotten to:
The event will also have @mathewlawrence.bsky.social speak on economic democracy in the UK and the work of @cmmonwealth.bsky.social, probably the most influential organisation that is developing and promoting proposals for economic democracy in the UK
Key recommendation of the Democracy at Work report
It also follows on from the recent publication of this exciting new report on Democracy at Work for the Spanish government, from an international committee led by @isabelleferreras.bsky.social and also including @lse-ei.bsky.social's @benbraun.bsky.social
reportondemocracyatwork.org/en/home/
It marks the 50th anniversary this year of Swedish trade unions' adoption of the "Meidner plan", which would have seen union-owned funds gradually gain majority ownership of Swedish companies.
The event is hosted jointly by the Ralph Miliband Programme and its director, @lsesociology.bsky.social's Robin Archer, the Alternatives to Capitalism research group and @lse-sticerd-case.bsky.social's Programme on Cohesive Capitalism
2/2 As new proposals renew debate about economic democracy: what it should look like? what can we learn from past ambitions and failures?
Speakers: @isabelleferreras.bsky.social, Mathew Lawrence @cmmonwealth.bsky.social
Neil Warner @lse-ei.bsky.social Chair:Robin Archer
@lsesociology.bsky.social
1/2 - 30 March| 6:30pm|LSE
50 years after labour movements launched radical plans to democratise the economy & gain control of big business: what’s their legacy & the prospects for economic democracy today? On the anniversary of the “Meidner Plan” join us to discuss👇🏾
www.lse.ac.uk/events/democ...
Description of March 30th economic democracy event at LSE
Is a democratic economy possible? What could it look like and how might we achieve it? Come to LSE on March 30th to discuss these questions and more with @isabelleferreras.bsky.social, @mathewlawrence.bsky.social and me.
www.lse.ac.uk/events/democ...
Quite telling to hear talk about restoring Britain's Cromwellian roots that comes with emphasis on how Andrew let down *British soldiers* by giving Epstein tips on exploiting Afghanistan
I have a new review paper out in @environmentalpol.bsky.social! ✨
What would it actually take for states to pursue green transformations? I identify 5 capacities — planning, disciplinary, strategic, legitimation and adaptive — and their respective policy elements, capabilities and institutions
"Many ... commentators argue that we have shifted between two distinct phases, from liberalism to illiberalism. Instead, what I want to argue is that these two systems are cojoined, and at any specific moment, the underlying illiberalism upon which liberalism is founded can emerge and predominate"
What’s driving today’s authoritarian turn? How is the postwar order shifting? And where do liberalism and illiberalism collide?
Professor Anthony Bogues spoke to @neilwarner.bsky.social and @willkend.bsky.social about his recent LSE lecture.
In this interview, Professor Anthony Bogues expands on his recent lecture at LSE examining authoritarian resurgence, the unravelling of the postwar order, and the entanglements of liberalism and illiberalism.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/humanrights/...
Really great reporting by the brilliant @pollysmythe.bsky.social on Criterion Capital and the billionaire philanthropist behind “one of the worst mass evictions in our capital’s recent history” www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...
NEWS
Top Democratic officials who worked on the party's still-secret autopsy of the 2024 election concluded that Kamala Harris lost significant support because of the Biden administration's approach to the war in Gaza.
But what really blew up Michelle’s employment at the mag, former staffers say, was her response to October 7, after she put an effective gag order on commissioning any pieces acknowledging the genocide in Gaza. “Michelle told us variously that she was facing pressure from the board not to say anything anti-Israel, and also that she had, in her words, ‘Jewish people in her life whose feelings would be hurt,’” says another former editor. “It was a workplace issue and treated as such. People were saying, ‘This is sort of unconscionable. Like, what are we doing?” “It’s important to note that in the last year of Boris’s tenure as editor-in-chief, we probably published forty things about the war in Ukraine,” that editor told me. “But Michelle told us we couldn’t even discuss Gaza in editorial meetings.”
At LARB, they weren’t even allowed to discuss Gaza in editorial meetings.
nobaddaysinla.substack.com/p/how-the-la...
Amber Barry on the importance of Wuthering Heights' context in 19th-century northern England, which is lost in the "flat, vaguely gothic backdrop" presented in the film
Amber Barry on the importance of Wuthering Heights' context in 19th-century northern England, which is lost in the "flat, vaguely gothic backdrop" presented in the film
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...
These are the two grounds on which Palestine Action won