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🖊️NEW #MEIBlog🖊️ With the closure of #PortTalbot's last blast furnace, Nathan Critch and Darcy Luke explore how the end of traditional steel making in the UK will affect regional #economicpolicy, #devolution, productivity and the #greentransition. 🔗qmul.ac.uk/mei/news-and-o…

New Policy & Politics article with Sam Warner Diane Coyle martin smith from Nuffield Foundation Public expenditure control in complex times project explains drivers behind early prison releases The University of Manchester News UoMPolitics Comparative Politics Research Cluster UoM Politics Political Studies Association doi.org/10.1332/030557…

Damaging effects of UK political centralisation and top down Treasury control on prisons policy - open access article by Sam Warner David Richards Martin Smith & me: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/…

I’ve co-authored a new report with Andy Pike for the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, @CURDSNewcastle and Insights North East on the ‘geography of financial distress’ in England’s authorities. Our analysis shows that authorities forecast a £9.3 billion shortfall by 2026-27: ft.com/content/25a6d3…

The early release of 1,100 prisoners highlights urgent public service challenges. Sam Warner Prof. Dave Richards Diane Coyle & Martin J. Smith discuss how budget constraints hinder prison management. This Budget is vital for strategic public financial mgmt. bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/prison-cr…

The early release prisoners scheme highlights scale of public service challenge in budget week. New blog with Sam Warner Diane Coyle martin smith from our Nuffield Foundation Public expenditure control in complex times project —bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/prison-cr…

The Labour manifesto implied a radical restructuring of the UK state, with the aim of making English devolution the ‘default option’....But🧵 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…

Can the Starmer Government’s Approach to Governance Resolve the Crisis in the British State without Radical Reform? Patrick Diamond Prof. Dave Richards Sam Warner examine the key dilemmas confronting the new Labour administration onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… #Whitehall #PublicServices

Our general election SI is coming to fruition Eds Peter Sloman @colm_m with Rosie Campbell Dr Ceri Fowler Anna Sanders Rosalind Shorrocks Patrick Diamond Prof. Dave Richards Sam Warner Caitlin Milazzo Siim Trumm Alan Duggan @kitkowol Oliver Heath Chris Prosser Mathew Lawrence et al politicalquarterly.org.uk/collections/th…

Can the Starmer government's approach to governance resolve the crisis in the British state without radical reform? By Patrick Diamond Prof. Dave Richards Sam Warner politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/change-an…

📣 New report and research 📣 We’ve published ‘Mayoral Matters’ looking at public attitudes to mayors and devolution in the parts of England which have actually experienced it. labourtogether.uk/all-reports/... 🧵 below with my five takeaways. [1/10]

📝 New BJPIR article out now! ‘Taking the border out of politics’?: The 1973 Northern Ireland border poll and the political character of (de)politicisation' by Joseph Ward 🔓 Find the article in #OpenAccess here: buff.ly/3ZqkMwB Political Studies Association

#Poland’s elections reveal a stark truth: the “revenge of places that don’t matter” (rural peripheries) and the “counter-revenge” of urban cores are reshaping #democracy. Territorial #inequality turned political reality. Check my new paper in @RSA_TPG: doi.org/10.1080/216226…

According to new Freedom of Information Requests I’ve shared with the Guardian, only 24 per cent of the combined £10.6 billion from the Levelling Up Fund, Shared Prosperity Fund and Towns Fund was spent under the Conservatives: theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

The key dilemmas that confront the new Labour administration during its initial period in power. By Patrick Diamond David Richards and Sam Warner #UKpolitics #Labour buff.ly/49qsyLx

Nice review of our doi.org/10.1332/030557… article on prison funding for Policy & Politics - civilservicereformuk.com/single-post/it… - Diane Coyle Sam Warner martin smith Nuffield Foundation Public Policy & Administration Specialist Group Prison Reform Trust HMI Prisons

💬 "Almost all school leaders, 99% of the respondents said that the SEN funding support was insufficient" We heard from NAHT on how schools are offsetting the cost for SEND as funding falls short ⬇️

🖊️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…

Want to know about the effect of political short-termism on the Prison Service in England and Wales? New to the blog!⚡️ Prof. Dave Richards Diane Coyle Sam Warner policyandpoliticsblog.com/2025/06/12/the… via Policy & Politics