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Nick Pearce
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Prof Public Policy & Director, Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath. Trustee at Foundations and HEPI. Chair, Living Wage Commission.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 2d
"Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the Jewish historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon on June 23... His family requested that 'the far right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony.'"

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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 2d
Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin
Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin
La date du 16 juin avait été dans un premier temps pressentie pour son entrée au Panthéon, mais la cérémonie a dû être décalée de quelques jours en raison du G7 à Evian-les-Bains.
www.lemonde.fr

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 4d
the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran
The real reason I'm leaving The Great British Baking Show Trump is threatening bombing the likes of which Tehran has never seen Prue Leith

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 4d
Look what's arrived! It seems crass to be talking about it after everything that's happened this week, but I think my new book on the Blair years is fair, balanced and judicious. Available at all good bookshops: www.amazon.co.uk/New-Labour-B...

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Nick Pearce @iprnickp.bsky.social · 5d
The Long Goodbye: A California Couple Self-Deports to Mexico www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Long Goodbye: A California Couple Self-Deports to Mexico
Enrique Castillejos and his wife, Maria Elena Hernandez, raised a family in California. But they were undocumented immigrants, and after President Trump’s crackdown began, they decided to return to Me...
www.nytimes.com

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 6d
I just re-read, for the first time for years, the memoir I wrote for the British Academy for Jerry Cohen, shortly after his sudden, shocking, death in 2009. Here it is a Word file for those who don't have access to the British Academy volume.

www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~uctyjow/CPB...
www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk

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PompeyNewsNow 🎙️ PO4cast @pompeynewsnow.bsky.social · 10d
FT: #Pompey 3-0 WBA

🔵 Chaplin
🔵 Alli
🔵 Adams

🤩 Excellent win against a poor Baggies side. Let’s have your thoughts! #PO4cast

📸 Jason Brown

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 11d
Let's all take a moment to stop and drink a toast to the wonderfulness and luminosity of Catherine O'Hara. Here's to her.

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Alex Thomas @alexgathomas.bsky.social · 12d
Scotland's first deputy first minister Lord Jim Wallace dies, aged 71 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Scotland's first deputy first minister Lord Jim Wallace dies, aged 71
The former Scottish Liberal Democrat leader was undergoing a procedure at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12d
Good morning! If you want to hear more about place, towns and high streets - and the findings from my recent report - this podcast with @andrewcities.bsky.social @centreforcities.bsky.social is now available to listen to...
City Talks: Perspectives on Place - Centre for Cities
Andrew Carter is joined by Professor Will Jennings to discuss his latest paper Perspectives on Place: what the English think about their local area.
www.centreforcities.org

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 13d
An Injury To All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class will be published by Verso in October!

Today I submitted responses to last comments from my editor and worked on the blurb. It's getting closer and closer!

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 14d
You can read the full UK Poverty report here. It shows the headline poverty rate has been relatively flat since 2005/06, with overall poverty being between 20% and 22% in every year since then. But under the headline rate, numbers in deep poverty have been increasing
www.jrf.org.uk/uk-poverty-2...
UK Poverty 2026: The essential guide to understanding poverty in the UK
This report sets out the nature of poverty in the UK, and evaluates changes under the last Conservative-led Government. It also sets out the scale of action necessary for the current Government to del...
www.jrf.org.uk

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 16d
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17d
The BBC coverage is absolutely terrible.

It leads on "sharply contested narratives"

It has a dramatic skew to the US government

It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue

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PompeyNewsNow 🎙️ PO4cast @pompeynewsnow.bsky.social · 20d
FT: Watford 1-1 #Pompey

🔵 Segecic

A point on the road which lifts the Blues out of the relegation zone.

Thoughts? #PO4cast

🏟️ Tonight’s attendance: 17,577 incl 1,774 Pompey fans

📸 Jake Smith

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 20d
Neighborhood watch is taking on a new form in Minneapolis and other cities under occupation by federal immigration agents: ICE Watch.

These folks, who're tailing federal agents as they make arrests, are passionate, determined, and just about everywhere—and ICE is getting frustrated.
Meet the Minneapolis neighbors standing up to ICE by the thousands
Local resistance is "growing exponentially," says Defend the 612's Andrew Fahlstrom.
www.motherjones.com

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Nick Pearce @iprnickp.bsky.social · 21d
Full text of Carney’s speech is well worth reading globalnews.ca/news/1162087...
Read the full transcript of Carney’s speech to World Economic Forum - National | Globalnews.ca
Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a forceful speech in Davos, Switzerland, on the 'new world order' and how middle powers like Canada can benefit by working together.
globalnews.ca

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Renewal @renewaljournal.bsky.social · 21d
NEW ISSUE: Renewal 33/3&4

Guest co-edited by @neilwarner.bsky.social & @beccagold.bsky.social, this special double issue features nineteen (19) brilliant essays analysing Labour's statecraft and debating the strategic challenges for social democracy in Britain and beyond
Volume 33, Issue 3-4
A quarterly journal of politics and ideas, committed to exploring and expanding the radical potential of social democracy.
renewal.org.uk

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Nick Pearce @iprnickp.bsky.social · 24d
Blue Streak missile, anyone?

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Lawrence Freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social · 24d
We should know by now not to respond to one of Trump’s weekend posts as a definitive statement of policy. The content is as outrageous as it is absurd. For that reason there will be strong pushback from markets, Congress, perhaps Supreme Court as well as European governments.

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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 27d
Benefit claims among young people are rising - but almost half of NEETs don't claim out-of-work benefits.

This lower-than-it-could-be welfare spending might seem like good news to some policy makers, but also highlights a policy dilemma - how can we reach NEETs who aren't engaged with the state?
Chart showing the estimated number of young people aged 16-24 who are NEET, by benefit receipt: UK. The chart shows the number of young people aged 16-24 claiming an out-of-work benefit stood at 530,000 in 2024, up from 460,000 two years earlier in 2022 (a rise of 68,000, or 15 per cent). There are slightly more young people claiming out-of-work benefits relating to economic inactivity than unemployment: by 2024, 56 per cent of young out-of-work benefit claimants received an inactivity-related benefit, while 44 per cent received an unemployment-related benefit. But both types of benefit claims are on the rise: between 2022 and 2024, claims relating to unemployment rose by 13 per cent and claims relating to inactivity rose by 16 per cent.

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Nick Pearce @iprnickp.bsky.social · 27d
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Frieze of fifteen exquisite ‘History of Bristol’ murals saved – The Twentieth Century Society
c20society.org.uk

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 29d
Jerome Powell responds to Trump’s criminal investigation of him.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · Jan 4
#OtD 4 Jan 1901 CLR James, anti-colonial activist, socialist historian, theorist, journalist and cricket aficionado, was born in Trinidad. We have made available a number of his lesser-known works here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · Jan 3
"Trump’s new world order is now very much a reality. It has no obvious rules, no real allies, celebrates the jungle and is almost always about money. There is a lot of wealth under Venezuela’s soil. Trump is now committed to extracting it." My column. Free to read. as.ft.com/r/08b22b7a-4...
Trump now owns Venezuela
[FREE TO READ] The US president has a growing appetite for military adventure
as.ft.com

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Ryan Evans @ryanevans.bsky.social · Jan 1
Reading this deeply reported article by Adam Entous on the US approach to Ukraine and Russia was painful for me as an American. I will provide some of my thoughts later on here. This is probably the most important piece of journalism in 2025 on foreign policy.
The Separation: Inside the Unraveling U.S.-Ukraine Partnership
As President Trump sought a peace deal and Vladimir V. Putin sought victory, factions in the White House and Pentagon bled the Ukrainian war effort.
www.nytimes.com

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Dec 27
Two new books on @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow Jürgen Habermas reviewed by @iprnickp.bsky.social

Habermas is 96. Had they lived as long, ‘Foucault would have interpreted the election of Donald Trump, Hannah Arendt would have analysed 9/11’
www.ft.com/content/9f89...
Jürgen Habermas: Germany’s political and cultural phenomenon
Two new books bring fresh insights into the philosopher who has towered over seven decades of German public life
www.ft.com

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Nick Pearce @iprnickp.bsky.social · Dec 23
My Habermas review for the FT www.ft.com/content/9f89... Jürgen Habermas: Germany’s political and cultural phenomenon
Jürgen Habermas: Germany’s political and cultural phenomenon
Two new books bring fresh insights into the philosopher who has towered over seven decades of German public life
www.ft.com

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Ann Pettifor @annpettifor.bsky.social · Dec 22
From Snape, Suffolk with the solstice sun beaming down on the Alde river... I wish you, my valued followers, peace, joy and love this festive season.
The sun beaming down on the watery, reedy fringes of a flooded river.

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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · Dec 21
Sleigh bells ring are you listening?
In Hyde Park, coke is glistening
A typical sight, a massive fist fight
Brawling in the Winter Wonderland