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What we've been reading this week

@insidehousing.bsky.social @jamesriding.bsky.social @thetimes.com @standard.co.uk.web.brid.gy

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November 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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💥 Budget incoming!
🗣️ Join us for an interactive #webinar all about the #Budget2025
🕕 Thursday 27th November, 6:00pm
📖 Leading economists Vicky Pryce & Andy Ross will unpack the budget and share big ideas from their new book #MismanagedDecline
🎟️ Register now 👇
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All About The Budget! Andy Ross and Vicky Pryce on Mismanaged Decline
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November 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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📖 What have we been reading this week?
@benedictpringle.bsky.social @labourlist.bsky.social @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social @99organisation.bsky.social y.social @ipenews.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social @news.architectsjournal.co.uk
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November 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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🔍Is there a solution to wealth inequality?

Join us for a free & interactive #webinar to explore how to create fairer growth with @liambyrnemp.bsky.social, George Freeman and Vicky Pryce 📺

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#InclusiveGrowth
Is there a solution to wealth inequality? Meet the Leaders with Liam Byrne MP and George Freeman MP
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November 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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From health hubs on high st to lessons from New York via should pensions - what we've been reading this week

@lukealsford.bsky.social @dailymail.co.uk @electoralcommission.org.uk @theguardian.com @profpensions.bsky.social @libdemvoice.org

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November 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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🔍Is there a solution to wealth inequality?

Join us for a free & interactive #webinar to explore how to create fairer growth with @liambyrnemp.bsky.social, George Freeman and Vicky Pryce 📺

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#InclusiveGrowth
Is there a solution to wealth inequality? Meet the Leaders with Liam Byrne MP and George Freeman MP
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November 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Crypto donations to political parties mark a shift in political finance in the UK 💰 💻

In our blog, @cfs-rusi.bsky.social's Eliza Lockhart explores the ramifications of these donations are for our democracy and how electoral law must change to protect it🛑

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Crypto political donations are here – is the UK ready?
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October 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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What we've been reading this week

On crypto donations, regional investment, infrastructure, SME builders, democracy

& is UK politics like The Traitors
@cfs-rusi.bsky.social @cityam.bsky.social @financialtimes.com @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social @theguardian.com
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October 31, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Really important stuff here from @rusi.bsky.social (hosted here by @radixuk.bsky.social) on the challenges to our democracy posed by crypto. They're doing work funded by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust on the need for the UK to update its thinking- and fast.

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Crypto political donations are here – is the UK ready?
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October 31, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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🎙️ Catch up on our latest Meet the Leaders - now on YouTube! 👇
youtu.be/mkBS_yXomqc

📺 Watch Prof. Tony Travers and @realVickyPryce survey the political landscape ahead of #Elections2026 to ask - what is the state of UK politics? 🗳️ #webinar
The State of UK Politics: Meet the Leaders with Prof. Tony Travers
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October 31, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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🔍 Is there a solution to wealth inequality?
📣 Join us for a free & interactive #webinar to explore fairer growth
🎙️ With Rt Hon @liambyrnemp.bsky.social, George Freeman MP, and economist Vicky Pryce
🎟 Register & have your say 👇https://www.radixbigtent.org.uk/events/wealth-inequality/
#InclusiveGrowth
October 24, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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🔍 Is there a solution to wealth inequality?
📣 Join us for a free & interactive #webinar to explore fairer growth
🎙️ With Rt Hon @liambyrnemp.bsky.social, George Freeman MP, and economist Vicky Pryce
🎟 Register & have your say 👇https://www.radixbigtent.org.uk/events/wealth-inequality/
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October 24, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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What we've been reading this week...📰👓👀

Including: cryptocurrency's first political donation, the 'Sterling 20', Labour losing in Caerphilly and cutting affordable housing targets in London...
@spotlightcorruption.org @labourlist.bsky.social

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October 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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The UK's first #cryptocurrency donation to a political party raises questions on traceability, foreign influence & regulation
@timpicton.bsky.social of @spotlightcorruption.org explores options - regulate or ban crypto?
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Crypto donations: how to tackle the new dark money threat
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October 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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An excellent article in the @financialtimes.com this week from @cfs-rusi.bsky.social's Eliza Lockhart on the outdated approach to crypto-assets in UK politics.
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#Crypto #Politics #Corruption
Politics should not apply cash-era laws to crypto donations
The UK government’s elections bill risks importing analogue assumptions into a digital threat landscape
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October 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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The question of influence from political donations in cryptocurrency on democracy is a serious one💎💰

Kudos to @cfs-rusi.bsky.social, part of our Resilient Democracy network, for launching a new project to look into influence entering UK politics through crypto.

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CFS Launches Project on Cryptocurrencies in UK Politics
The Centre for Finance and Security's new project examines the risk of opaque, foreign or malign influence entering UK politics through cryptocurrency donations.
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October 16, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Division➡️ Democracy
Fear ➡️ Fairness
From democratic renewal to fair growth, @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social outlines 5 practical steps to rebuild trust and prosperity in the UK 📈🌱

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Two futures for Britain
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October 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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#YIMBY? 🏡 With rent in #AustinTexas down 22% since 2023, Zach Fischer explores how local reform and 'abundance economics' are reshaping housing policy

Read more below 👇
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Austin-tatious: Radical housing policy lowers rent in Texan cities
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October 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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What we've been reading this week

@unlockdemocracy.bsky.social @darrenpjones.bsky.social @thetimes.com @theguardian.com @nhsconfed.org @financialtimes.com @simonkuper.bsky.social

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October 10, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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📽️ Live now for a 'Meet the Leaders' webinar with Britain’s foremost commentator on local government and elections, Professor Tony Travers, and leading economist, Vicky Pryce - discussing the state of #UKPolitics after the #PartyConference season 🧠💡
October 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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📣 As party conference season closes, join us for an interactive #webinar surveying the political landscape
💡 With expert in local and national government, Prof. Tony Travers, and leading economist Vicky Pryce
📅 Thurs 9th Oct ⏰ 1:00PM
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October 6, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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As the political landscape evolves, @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social of @99organisation.bsky.social makes the case to establish a transparent definition of 'far-right', in order to strengthen democratic safeguards #ResilientDemocracy

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What is ‘far-right’?
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October 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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📣 As party conference season closes, join us for an interactive #webinar surveying the political landscape
💡 With expert in local and national government, Prof. Tony Travers, and leading economist Vicky Pryce
📅 Thurs 9th Oct ⏰ 1:00PM
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October 6, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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“The Tories… remember them?”
With defections mounting and Reform rising, Ben Rich argues that the #Conservatives must set out a clear economic vision to avoid decline.

Read the last in our series of conference blogs 👇
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Last and least?
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October 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Delighted to give @radixuk.bsky.social a preview of some of the big issues that we're going to be thinking about at Green Party conference today.
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🌱 The Green Party has new leaders, 12,000 new members, and a strategy of eco-populism. As they kick off their conference, @joshalston.bsky.social explores the question - can the Green Party turn momentum into seats?

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From fringe to force?
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October 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM