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🇬🇧@WilliamClouston leader of the @SDPhq discusses the need for an industrial strategy, the need for the SDP in today's ever more crowded politics, and more!🔨 🟥"We’re more socially conservative than the Tories have been."🟦 🔋"Most of us in the party have actually built a few things."🏗️ 👇Link to the interview👇 centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/interview-with…

👵👴"The UK needs a renewed pensions settlement, one that delivers an adequate, fair and sustainable pension system, protects the most vulnerable, bolsters and incentivises private saving and ultimately ensures that today’s workers can look forward to financial security in their later years." writes Nick Pearce, Director of @UniofBathIPR .🪙 👇Link👇 centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/what-i-want-to…

🇺🇦🇬🇧"If the UK and Europe are serious about securing the peace, they must move beyond declarations and plan defences capable of deterring and, ideally, defeating future Russian aggression." writes Charles Hellens. 🪖 👇Link👇 centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/our-options-fo…

🧠@h_chandlerwilde argues that our leaders have never been so underqualified🧠 "Many diplomats struggle to speak the local language, while there are complaints of too few subject experts in the civil service." 👇Link👇centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/our-leaders-ha…

Now that England is about to win it all and @HKane is about to bring it home, it might be the right time to re-read @DanielJLilley's piece on the best striker in the world. Link in the reply ⬇️

"Access is much more a 0 to 18 problem than an 18+ problem. To enhance access, reforms should therefore restore or improve the resourcing of policies earlier in the system, some of which were abolished in 2012." writes Nicholas Barr of @LSEPublicPolicy 👩‍🎓 👇PART 2👇centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/student-scam-h…

🧑‍🎓"In sum, taxpayer support for teaching is too low, fees are too high, the interest rate too high and the repayment threshold too high. The system might be right, but it has the wrong parameters." writes Nicholas Barr of @LSEPublicPolicy 👩‍🎓 👇PART 1👇centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/student-scam-w…

Guest blog for @CentreWriteMag Britain feels more like a 'mirrortocracy' rather than a merritocracy. centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/britain-is-an-…

💼"But look closely at who actually gets to lead in business and public life. We do not reward merit so much as we pattern-match for resemblance. We promote the people who look, sound and think like the people already in the room. " writes @Andy_ayim 💼 👇Link👇 centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/britain-is-an-…

🟥"For decades, Britain has enjoyed a peace dividend to which it has become addicted. After all, money not invested in defence is money that can be spent on schools, hospitals and welfare. This is a point that was made clear in briefings coming out of the Treasury." writes @TetlowTweets 🪖 👇Link👇 centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/burnhams-brita…

🟦"Just as Thatcher arrived to subdue the unions’ power, today it is time for a countermovement. Capital owners’ dominance has grown for 40 years; the consequences are apparent in ballooning asset prices and stagnating wages" writes Anakin England💷 👇Link👇 centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/tories-no-long…

🟨🟦"Prosper UK are making a serious mistake if they imagine that the "politically homeless" are necessarily economic and social liberals like themselves." writes @peterfranklin_ 🟨🟦 👇Link👇 centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/prosper-uk-is-…

🟥"Manchesterism has successfully dressed neoliberalism in the rhetoric of socialist solidarity and Mancunian pride. The more I have researched it, the more struck I am by socialist enthusiasm for Burnham." writes Arya Chanda.🟥 👇Link👇 centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/burnham-is-mor…

💷"We left billions on the table in the deal in deterred investment, with the UK being the beneficiary of only a fraction of the annual planned AI infrastructure spending by US hyperscalers." writes Damien Phillips🇬🇧🇰🇼🇴🇲🇶🇦🇧🇭🇸🇦🇦🇪🇬🇧 👇Link👇 centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/deal-with-gulf…

🔖"The autobiography is unusual among Jewish memoirs because it is by a woman who not only received a high level of secular education, but she also converted to Roman Catholicism and then became a fully cloistered nun." writes Mary Lucia Darst in her review of ‘Life in a Jewish Family’ by Edith Stein.📔 👇Link👇 centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/life-in-a-jewi…

🪙"One of the most notable trends I witnessed was young men anxiously asking me if there was any way to reclaim their money from some crypto scam.'"writes Robert Dalton💷 👇Link👇 centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/young-men-need…