Paul Hayward
@pwhayward.bsky.social
Senior leader, scientist and writer exploring how societies learn, why utopias fail, and how democracy evolves through imagination and realism.
There’s a quiet risk in treating leadership change as reputational reset. If the alternative candidate carries fresh trust questions, the institution may deepen the problem it’s trying to escape. #BritishPolitics
February 8, 2026 at 7:53 AM
There’s a quiet risk in treating leadership change as reputational reset. If the alternative candidate carries fresh trust questions, the institution may deepen the problem it’s trying to escape. #BritishPolitics
Politics doesn’t fail because one side is evil and the other stupid.
It fails when imagination outruns constraint - or caution hardens into inertia.
That tension is the heart of The Realist & The Utopian.
bit.ly/4r1TAAB
It fails when imagination outruns constraint - or caution hardens into inertia.
That tension is the heart of The Realist & The Utopian.
bit.ly/4r1TAAB
The Realist & The Utopian
A Framework for Political Thinking in a Disordered Age
bit.ly
February 8, 2026 at 7:10 AM
Politics doesn’t fail because one side is evil and the other stupid.
It fails when imagination outruns constraint - or caution hardens into inertia.
That tension is the heart of The Realist & The Utopian.
bit.ly/4r1TAAB
It fails when imagination outruns constraint - or caution hardens into inertia.
That tension is the heart of The Realist & The Utopian.
bit.ly/4r1TAAB
Politics feels broken because the way we think about it no longer fits reality.
I’ve published The Realist & The Utopian — a framework for understanding politics as tension, not ideology.
bit.ly/4r1TAAB
I’ve published The Realist & The Utopian — a framework for understanding politics as tension, not ideology.
bit.ly/4r1TAAB
The Realist & The Utopian
A Framework for Political Thinking in a Disordered Age
bit.ly
February 7, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Politics feels broken because the way we think about it no longer fits reality.
I’ve published The Realist & The Utopian — a framework for understanding politics as tension, not ideology.
bit.ly/4r1TAAB
I’ve published The Realist & The Utopian — a framework for understanding politics as tension, not ideology.
bit.ly/4r1TAAB