Pundits say British politics is undergoing a post-neoliberal shift. They’re wrong
Far from becoming less neoliberal, core features of the neoliberal settlement – most notably, high levels of inequality and poverty – will be just as entrenched after the pandemic.
COP26: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
We have until 2030 to solve the climate crisis. But little has changed. That’s terrifying.
Are there lessons for Labour from the SPD’s success in Germany’s general election?
Germany’s SPD exceeded many expectations in the recent general election: how did Olaf Scholz do it, and are there lessons for Starmer?
Newcastle Utd. A question of equity
The takeover of Newcastle United widens the already yawning chasm between English football fans and the clubs they love. Labour should heed the danger—and the opportunity.
(How) could the everyday economy become a transformative idea?
The everyday economy is a concept whose time has come. But it must be more than just an attractive political trope in search of economic policy content adequate to its ambition.
A ‘return to the workplace’ will give many in Labour sleepless nights
Few predicted the election of Sharon Graham as Unite general secretary. There are huge implications for the future of trade union organising and the Labour Party link.
Curbing climate breakdown in time
The urgency of the climate crisis demands broad coalitions and targeted campaigns
Lockdown’s moral mission creep
The campaign that called on people to stay at home to “protect the NHS” was effective and necessary; its upshot, however, is that we have all spent a more than a year engaged in a campaign of state-sponsored curtain twitching of a particularly extreme bent.
2001: Revisiting the ‘Death’ of Multiculturalism
It is twenty years since British cultural politics was reconfigured around the assumed death of multiculturalism, and the ascendance of populist xenophobic anti-immigration identity politics. Stuart Cartland reassesses this history and asks how its effects can be reversed.
Ten First Thoughts on Batley and Spen
A week after Batley and Spen went to the polls Mark Perryman offers ten thoughts on Labour’s narrowest of victories.
Ten first thoughts on Amersham
Mark Perryman argues that the result of the Chesham and Amersham by-election suggests the need for Labour to work with other progressive parties
The Labour Party and the Future of Work III: Elections, Economics and Culture
Part 3 of Frederick Harry Pitts in conversation with Jon Cruddas MP.
The Labour Party and the Future of Work II: Policy, Productivity and Technology
Part 2 of Frederick Harry Pitts in conversation with Jon Cruddas MP.
The Labour Party and the Future of Work I: Theory, Politics and Industrial Relations
Part 1 of Frederick Harry Pitts in conversation with Jon Cruddas MP.
How social democracy lost the future
How does Labour, a self-proclaimed party of social change, engender less faith in its plans for the future than the party whose name means to conserve?
Exiting Hogwarts Castle
Good politicians have their fingers to a pulse that most of us never even know is there. Once upon a time, Tony Blair had this. He doesn’t have it anymore.
What Bennism has to offer Starmer
The Labour Party faces an existential crisis. It must expose the contradictions of the new Tory agenda, and face up to the challenges facing the country.
Carers’ Agency: Building agency and institutions
A year into the pandemic, Renewal is publishing a series of essays by careworker Paul Cotterill on power, professionalisation and decommodification in care work. The final essay in this series grapples with the tasks of professionalisation, the role of progressives in facilitating the agency of careworkers, and how careworkers as a profession can lead the … Continue reading Carers’ Agency: Building agency and institutions
Carers’ Agency: Professionalisation, precedent, prejudice
A year into the pandemic, Renewal is publishing a series of essays by careworker Paul Cotterill on power, professionalisation and decommodification in care work. The second essay in this series looks back at the rise and partial fall of nursing as a profession. While a nursing elite professionalised quickly in favourable conditions, this professionalisation was … Continue reading Carers’ Agency: Professionalisation, precedent, prejudice
Carers’ Agency: Power and professionalisation
A year into the pandemic, Renewal is publishing a series of essays by careworker Paul Cotterill on power, professionalisation and decommodification in care work. This first essay looks at power and powerlessness in relation to careworkers, moving towards a core argument of this series: that a way to resolve the powerlessness wrought by decommodification in … Continue reading Carers’ Agency: Power and professionalisation
Renewal 29/1
Renewal 29/1 is finally out in print! Subscribers should receive their copies soon, if they haven’t done so already. We’ve put up four articles from the current issue for free: James Stafford on Labour’s patriotism problem, Stella Creasy and Karl Pike on narrating the covid crisis, Morgan Jones on Young Labour’s ‘fully automated luxury factionalism’, … Continue reading Renewal 29/1
From Momentum to Conundrum
Is change afoot amongst Labour’s beleaguered left? Mark Perryman seems to think so.
Labour, the nation and the world
The worldwide shift away from ‘hyper-globalization’, towards a greater role for the nation state in economic organisation, creates an opportunity for Labour. It allows us to imagine a distinctive project of national renewal that links domestic and foreign policy.
Rural Renewal
The British countryside is at a particularly perilous moment. Starmer is right to address this, but needs to be careful not to further entrench urban/rural divides.
How to make Starmerism work
Work can’t frame every policy or position, but it can offer a substantive unifying programme.
Wrapped up in the Union Jack: Starmer’s Patriotic Turn
It’s not Starmer’s patriotic turn in itself that’s problematic. It’s how that patriotism sits with Labour’s values.
Respectable radicalism?
Anneliese Dodds has set out a framework that would have been fine under the old regime—in fact, it marks a return to the Corbynomics of 2017.
Big v Small Politics
Labour politics is all-too-often a spectator sport. Mark Perryman argues we need a transformational political culture; ‘small’ politics – politics from below – has the potential to generate the broad political alliances that we need.
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