Robert Saunders
@redhistorian
Author of "Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum & Seventies Britain". "A jaw-dislocating page turner"(Andrew Marr). Co-director @MileEndInst, Reader @QMHistory
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In his final blog as Mile End Institute Director, Patrick Diamond explores what #RachelReeves ' Mais Lecture tells us about how #Labour will forge a new political and economic settlement for the 2030s if it wins the next #GeneralElection ⬇️
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It's like a Hogarth - 'the public listen attentively to the prouncements of his majesty's minister'
(via Etan Smallman)
Duncan Robinson Reform is the most successful recent example of the 'pop-up party': a model that worked brilliantly for Vote Leave, but has proven harder to translate into parliamentary politics.
Excellent piece by Duncan Robinson.
'Reform UK [is] something more powerful than a small political party: it is a nightmare'.
And as Karl Marx pointed out, nightmares can weigh very heavily on the minds of the living.
It was an absolute privilege to visit Utrecht to lecture on 'The Challenge of Democracy in Britain, 1830-1928'.
A gorgeous city, with lovely people in the department and a really engaged audience. I shall definitely be back! Thanks to Frank, Devin and Utrecht University for having me.
Off to lecture at Utrecht University on 'The Challenge of Democracy in Britain, 1830-1928'.
I've had a fantastic time in Utrecht over the last few days. Now to try to give something back...
🧵1/ Unpacking the realpolitik behind parliamentary ping-pong on the Rwanda Bill: as MPs and Peers clash over legislative amendments, how credible are their claims about the political maneuvering of the other side? #RwandaBill #Politics #Realpolitik
Dinah Rose Simon Horobin I like the story of Betjeman complaining that Lewis had ruined Kubla Khan for him by asking whether he thought the 'pants' in the line 'As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing' were made of wool.
Since the Iranian missile attack on Israel, there's been a lot of debate about whether nuclear deterrence 'works'.
This is a thoughtful, clear-headed piece by Patrick Porter on the relationship between deterrence, discipline and self-restraint.
newstatesman.com/international-…
Nice to see Liz Truss confirming Esther Webber and my reporting from 2021 that she opposed the UK's hosting of COP26 — vigorously denied by the gvmt at the time.
One other cabinet member joined her rebellion: Rishi Sunak.
politico.eu/article/cop26-…
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