Senior Lecturer in Modern History @Cityintpolitics. Modern British historian. Co-editor @RENEWALjournal. 🇨🇦
London, England
Joined January 2012
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I have an essay in the new issue of @thebafflermag about the mundane, incredible fact that London, alongside many other cities, has for the last 50ish years been filling up with Himalayan parakeets - and on the contested realm of invasion biology itself.
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Big news! The @HPE_Project is thrilled to invite applications for two residential fellowships at the @RemarqueNYU for AY 27-28, in our Histories and Futures of Global Governance Initiative. Info and call for applications here: hpeproject.org/hfgg-cfa
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Wrote about seas, trees and heartbreak in Vancouver
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My book Union now has a cover - indeed, two, one for the UK release and one for the US release...coming out August of next year
Ah yes, the two genders, economics and sociology
I recently selected this exact hotel as a mid-range option for a work trip to Manchester.
Burnham has talked a good game on rough-sleeping but it remains a notoriously intractable policy problem - this piece in @RenewalJournal by a front-line homelessness charity worker cuts through some of the well-intentioned rhetoric on the issue and lays out the challenge ahead.
My brother has worked in complex needs homelessness hostels for years, and has written this for @RenewalJournal about Burnham's aspiration to end rough sleeping. The policy is welcome, but the view from the front line is sobering.
renewal.org.uk/blog/can-andy…
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The British prime minister is replaced 24 times per second, creating the illusion of a smoothly flowing image
Lise Butler retweeted
“I will take our child to Canada, where we aren’t constantly having a mental breakdown about only being a middle power.”
Wrote for @nplusonemag's GOOOOAAAL series about the end of England's World Cup campaign, its new Prime Minister, and going to the pub--with reference to the distinctions between hope, optimism and expectation (and also some personal news).
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Pleased as any self-respecting millennial woman to have my pregnancy featured in a piece about England's World Cup delusions, the new PM and the nature of hope in @nplusonemag ❤️
Wrote for @nplusonemag's GOOOOAAAL series about the end of England's World Cup campaign, its new Prime Minister, and going to the pub--with reference to the distinctions between hope, optimism and expectation (and also some personal news).
nplusonemag.com/online-only/…
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I have written this short article with Professor @martin_oneill for @RenewalJournal.
For the new Burnham government to seriously challenge one of the most extractive economic systems in the western world, after decades of damaging neoliberal economics, we need radical change, not skirting round the edges.
A central component of this must be a more democratic economy including a new Community Wealth Building Act.
Full article ⬇️:
renewal.org.uk/blog/if-burnh…
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I've written a short piece for @RenewalJournal with @MatthewBrownLab, Leader of Preston City Council and main architect of the Preston Model of Community Wealth Building, on what Andy Burnham needs to do if he's serious about changing the British economy.
Link in next post. 1/2
Pleasure to speak to @CalumAM for @TimesRadio Breakfast bright and early this morning about Burnham’s 1980s callbacks and historical precedents for yesterday’s political takeover.
Interview starts around 7:00, you can create a free account to listen: thetimes.com/radio/show/2026…
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Not much to disagree with in this - but the obvious and unsaid thing is that the Starmer government has quite continually delivered for non university educated working class people, and has at almost every turn failed to communicate this effectively and with authenticity.
@ppi has launched a new Substack - Radically Pragmatic- and here’s my reflections on what went wrong for Keir Starmer’s government and lessons for the global center-left.
Center-left parties have to remain as focussed in power on the everyday concerns of voters as in opposition:
Was on @CTV @YourMorning today talking about Starmer’s resignation, Burnham, and what (if anything) Mark Carney has to do with it: youtu.be/0_Vza3WtH9c?is=3qsm…