Ryan Shorthouse
@ryanshorthouse.bsky.social
Founder & Chair, Bright Blue | Deputy Chair, Transforming Access and Student Outcomes (TASO) | Commissioner, Commonwealth Scholarship Commission (CSC) | Senior Visiting Fellow, King’s College London & University of Bath
Bright Blue is hiring for a Communications Manager.
Deadline: 1st December 2025
Position can be full-time or part-time.
Full details: www.brightblue.org.uk/who-are-brig...
@brightblueuk.bsky.social
Deadline: 1st December 2025
Position can be full-time or part-time.
Full details: www.brightblue.org.uk/who-are-brig...
@brightblueuk.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Bright Blue is hiring for a Communications Manager.
Deadline: 1st December 2025
Position can be full-time or part-time.
Full details: www.brightblue.org.uk/who-are-brig...
@brightblueuk.bsky.social
Deadline: 1st December 2025
Position can be full-time or part-time.
Full details: www.brightblue.org.uk/who-are-brig...
@brightblueuk.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
November 11, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Delighted I & @brightblueuk.bsky.social have co-authored this new paper on tax reform
Impressive to have such cross-party consensus from think tanks.
Well done to @centaxuk.bsky.social for co-ordinating.
Impressive to have such cross-party consensus from think tanks.
Well done to @centaxuk.bsky.social for co-ordinating.
November 5, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Delighted I & @brightblueuk.bsky.social have co-authored this new paper on tax reform
Impressive to have such cross-party consensus from think tanks.
Well done to @centaxuk.bsky.social for co-ordinating.
Impressive to have such cross-party consensus from think tanks.
Well done to @centaxuk.bsky.social for co-ordinating.
My article for The Critic
⚪️ Some spurious arguments for abolishing Stamp Duty, especially that it is preventing downsizing
⚪️ There are better tax property regimes - such as an annual proportional property tax - but politically and technically challenging to deliver
thecritic.co.uk/abolishing-s...
⚪️ Some spurious arguments for abolishing Stamp Duty, especially that it is preventing downsizing
⚪️ There are better tax property regimes - such as an annual proportional property tax - but politically and technically challenging to deliver
thecritic.co.uk/abolishing-s...
Abolishing Stamp Duty is no silver bullet | Ryan Shorthouse | The Critic Magazine
Though there may be some positive spillover effects from the tax cuts the Conservative Opposition are now promising, all of them, especially abolishing Stamp Duty…
thecritic.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 10:50 AM
My article for The Critic
⚪️ Some spurious arguments for abolishing Stamp Duty, especially that it is preventing downsizing
⚪️ There are better tax property regimes - such as an annual proportional property tax - but politically and technically challenging to deliver
thecritic.co.uk/abolishing-s...
⚪️ Some spurious arguments for abolishing Stamp Duty, especially that it is preventing downsizing
⚪️ There are better tax property regimes - such as an annual proportional property tax - but politically and technically challenging to deliver
thecritic.co.uk/abolishing-s...
My latest article on the situation in Israel and Gaza for The Circus, the bulletin of @brightblueuk.bsky.social
✔️ Also, 6 recent policy wins with the @teamlabouruk.bsky.social Government
📚 Read The Circus here: mailchi.mp/44eff4615b57...
✔️ Also, 6 recent policy wins with the @teamlabouruk.bsky.social Government
📚 Read The Circus here: mailchi.mp/44eff4615b57...
November 5, 2025 at 10:46 AM
My latest article on the situation in Israel and Gaza for The Circus, the bulletin of @brightblueuk.bsky.social
✔️ Also, 6 recent policy wins with the @teamlabouruk.bsky.social Government
📚 Read The Circus here: mailchi.mp/44eff4615b57...
✔️ Also, 6 recent policy wins with the @teamlabouruk.bsky.social Government
📚 Read The Circus here: mailchi.mp/44eff4615b57...
Reflecting on the future of the centre-right.
Thank you to the Konrad Adenauer Foundation for hosting such energising and educational seminars in beautiful Lake Como.
Thank you to the Konrad Adenauer Foundation for hosting such energising and educational seminars in beautiful Lake Como.
November 5, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Reflecting on the future of the centre-right.
Thank you to the Konrad Adenauer Foundation for hosting such energising and educational seminars in beautiful Lake Como.
Thank you to the Konrad Adenauer Foundation for hosting such energising and educational seminars in beautiful Lake Como.
Reposted by Ryan Shorthouse
Delighted to launch a new online daily magazine:
@centrewrite.bsky.social
Find thoughtful contributions from authors every day, starting with Mel Stride's interview, here: centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/interview-wi...
Subscribe to weekly roundups on our homepage: centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk
@centrewrite.bsky.social
Find thoughtful contributions from authors every day, starting with Mel Stride's interview, here: centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/interview-wi...
Subscribe to weekly roundups on our homepage: centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk
Interview with Mel Stride – Centre Write | Bright Blue
centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk
October 31, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Delighted to launch a new online daily magazine:
@centrewrite.bsky.social
Find thoughtful contributions from authors every day, starting with Mel Stride's interview, here: centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/interview-wi...
Subscribe to weekly roundups on our homepage: centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk
@centrewrite.bsky.social
Find thoughtful contributions from authors every day, starting with Mel Stride's interview, here: centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/interview-wi...
Subscribe to weekly roundups on our homepage: centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk
Reposted by Ryan Shorthouse
✍️Today's article from Centre Write:
@bijanomrani.bsky.social explains why ‘The anti-social menace will be our undoing’.
Read here👇
centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/the-anti-soc...
@brightblueuk.bsky.social
@bijanomrani.bsky.social explains why ‘The anti-social menace will be our undoing’.
Read here👇
centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/the-anti-soc...
@brightblueuk.bsky.social
The anti-social menace will be our undoing
The train stank of weed, and several people were playing music out loud on their phones. There were too many for me to stomp up and down the carriage asking the offenders in my usual diplomatic way to...
centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk
November 3, 2025 at 9:48 AM
✍️Today's article from Centre Write:
@bijanomrani.bsky.social explains why ‘The anti-social menace will be our undoing’.
Read here👇
centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/the-anti-soc...
@brightblueuk.bsky.social
@bijanomrani.bsky.social explains why ‘The anti-social menace will be our undoing’.
Read here👇
centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/the-anti-soc...
@brightblueuk.bsky.social
Reposted by Ryan Shorthouse
Today, Alex Gunter writes about what @conservatives.bsky.social can learn from Moldova's Party of Action and Solidarity.
Read the article on Centre Write👇
centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/moldovas-pas...
@brightblueuk.bsky.social @yougov.co.uk
Read the article on Centre Write👇
centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/moldovas-pas...
@brightblueuk.bsky.social @yougov.co.uk
Moldova’s PAS shows Russians can be beat
For a party that once prided itself on knowing every doorstep in Britain, the Conservatives have somehow lost the knack of knocking on them. Bizarrely, it was Moldova that reminded the centre-right…
centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk
November 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Today, Alex Gunter writes about what @conservatives.bsky.social can learn from Moldova's Party of Action and Solidarity.
Read the article on Centre Write👇
centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/moldovas-pas...
@brightblueuk.bsky.social @yougov.co.uk
Read the article on Centre Write👇
centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/moldovas-pas...
@brightblueuk.bsky.social @yougov.co.uk
Reposted by Ryan Shorthouse
📢 Today Bright Blue launches a new essay collection in partnership with @jrf-uk.bsky.social:
'Mending the net? A new centre-right approach to social security'
📖Read the full report here: brightblue.org.uk/portfolio/me...
🧵Follow this thread for more details 👇
'Mending the net? A new centre-right approach to social security'
📖Read the full report here: brightblue.org.uk/portfolio/me...
🧵Follow this thread for more details 👇
October 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM
📢 Today Bright Blue launches a new essay collection in partnership with @jrf-uk.bsky.social:
'Mending the net? A new centre-right approach to social security'
📖Read the full report here: brightblue.org.uk/portfolio/me...
🧵Follow this thread for more details 👇
'Mending the net? A new centre-right approach to social security'
📖Read the full report here: brightblue.org.uk/portfolio/me...
🧵Follow this thread for more details 👇
Reposted by Ryan Shorthouse
Join us today for our online #LudgateLecture where University of Strathclyde's Professor of Practice, Sir John Curtice, discusses what polls tell us about whether Britain's two-party system can survive.
📅Thursday 30th October
⏰ 12:00-13:00
📍Watch live on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xhe...
📅Thursday 30th October
⏰ 12:00-13:00
📍Watch live on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xhe...
Ludgate Lecture with John Curtice: How polling has changed politics
YouTube video by Bright Blue
www.youtube.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Join us today for our online #LudgateLecture where University of Strathclyde's Professor of Practice, Sir John Curtice, discusses what polls tell us about whether Britain's two-party system can survive.
📅Thursday 30th October
⏰ 12:00-13:00
📍Watch live on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xhe...
📅Thursday 30th October
⏰ 12:00-13:00
📍Watch live on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xhe...
Reposted by Ryan Shorthouse
⚖️ @mrjcrouch.bsky.social argues that the Conservative Party would lose votes by leaving the European Convention on Human Rights.
📖Read the full article on Centre Write: centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/leaving-the-...
@brightblueuk.bsky.social
@opiniumresearch.bsky.social
#Tories #politics #ECHR
📖Read the full article on Centre Write: centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/leaving-the-...
@brightblueuk.bsky.social
@opiniumresearch.bsky.social
#Tories #politics #ECHR
ECHR exit would lose Tories votes
If there’s one thing in politics worth remembering, it is not to get caught in an argument that unites your opponents and splits your friends. The announcement on the European Convention on Human…
centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk
November 5, 2025 at 9:35 AM
⚖️ @mrjcrouch.bsky.social argues that the Conservative Party would lose votes by leaving the European Convention on Human Rights.
📖Read the full article on Centre Write: centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/leaving-the-...
@brightblueuk.bsky.social
@opiniumresearch.bsky.social
#Tories #politics #ECHR
📖Read the full article on Centre Write: centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/leaving-the-...
@brightblueuk.bsky.social
@opiniumresearch.bsky.social
#Tories #politics #ECHR
🔥 LAST WEEK @brightblueuk.bsky.social launched our new online magazine @centrewrite.bsky.social
Check it out & subscribe to our weekly email here centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk
Centre Write will be a home for centrist, liberal & conservative readers searching for thoughtful writing & radical ideas
Check it out & subscribe to our weekly email here centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk
Centre Write will be a home for centrist, liberal & conservative readers searching for thoughtful writing & radical ideas
November 5, 2025 at 10:38 AM
🔥 LAST WEEK @brightblueuk.bsky.social launched our new online magazine @centrewrite.bsky.social
Check it out & subscribe to our weekly email here centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk
Centre Write will be a home for centrist, liberal & conservative readers searching for thoughtful writing & radical ideas
Check it out & subscribe to our weekly email here centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk
Centre Write will be a home for centrist, liberal & conservative readers searching for thoughtful writing & radical ideas
My article in @thespectator1828.bsky.social today
spectator.co.uk/article/to-s...
This is an extract from a new book by @brightblueuk.bsky.social out today.
📘 Read the book here: brightblue.org.uk/wp-content/u...
spectator.co.uk/article/to-s...
This is an extract from a new book by @brightblueuk.bsky.social out today.
📘 Read the book here: brightblue.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Cutting Britain's giant welfare bill would be an act of kindness
The rate of poverty across the population has been pretty static over the past few decades, but child poverty has risen in recent years.
spectator.co.uk
October 3, 2025 at 11:25 AM
My article in @thespectator1828.bsky.social today
spectator.co.uk/article/to-s...
This is an extract from a new book by @brightblueuk.bsky.social out today.
📘 Read the book here: brightblue.org.uk/wp-content/u...
spectator.co.uk/article/to-s...
This is an extract from a new book by @brightblueuk.bsky.social out today.
📘 Read the book here: brightblue.org.uk/wp-content/u...
📢 OUT TODAY @brightblueuk.bsky.social and @jrf-uk.bsky.social release a book on a new centre-right approach to social security
Includes contributions from @conservatives.bsky.social and @reformuk.bsky.social politicians and thought leaders
🗞️ Covered in @theipaper.com: inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Includes contributions from @conservatives.bsky.social and @reformuk.bsky.social politicians and thought leaders
🗞️ Covered in @theipaper.com: inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Tory Reform defector Danny Kruger calls for two-child benefit cap to be scrapped
Better parental leave and 'universal credit lottery' among other suggestions in centre-right book of essays
inews.co.uk
October 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
📢 OUT TODAY @brightblueuk.bsky.social and @jrf-uk.bsky.social release a book on a new centre-right approach to social security
Includes contributions from @conservatives.bsky.social and @reformuk.bsky.social politicians and thought leaders
🗞️ Covered in @theipaper.com: inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Includes contributions from @conservatives.bsky.social and @reformuk.bsky.social politicians and thought leaders
🗞️ Covered in @theipaper.com: inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Reposted by Ryan Shorthouse
TODAY Join us at the @libdems.org.uk Party Conference 2025 at 11:30am
🗣️
@ryanshorthouse.bsky.social
@willforster.bsky.social
@carlcashman.bsky.social
📍Blandford Syndicate 3, Highcliff Marriott Hotel
🤝
@propertymark.bsky.social
🗣️
@ryanshorthouse.bsky.social
@willforster.bsky.social
@carlcashman.bsky.social
📍Blandford Syndicate 3, Highcliff Marriott Hotel
🤝
@propertymark.bsky.social
September 21, 2025 at 7:50 AM
TODAY Join us at the @libdems.org.uk Party Conference 2025 at 11:30am
🗣️
@ryanshorthouse.bsky.social
@willforster.bsky.social
@carlcashman.bsky.social
📍Blandford Syndicate 3, Highcliff Marriott Hotel
🤝
@propertymark.bsky.social
🗣️
@ryanshorthouse.bsky.social
@willforster.bsky.social
@carlcashman.bsky.social
📍Blandford Syndicate 3, Highcliff Marriott Hotel
🤝
@propertymark.bsky.social
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IfG at the Conservative Party Conference | What is the Conservative route to fiscal sustainability?
Join us in Manchester! With: Richard Fuller MP,
@tompope.bsky.social
@ryanshorthouse.bsky.social @trinhtu.bsky.social
@gemmatetlow.bsky.social
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/ifg-co...
Join us in Manchester! With: Richard Fuller MP,
@tompope.bsky.social
@ryanshorthouse.bsky.social @trinhtu.bsky.social
@gemmatetlow.bsky.social
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/ifg-co...
September 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
IfG at the Conservative Party Conference | What is the Conservative route to fiscal sustainability?
Join us in Manchester! With: Richard Fuller MP,
@tompope.bsky.social
@ryanshorthouse.bsky.social @trinhtu.bsky.social
@gemmatetlow.bsky.social
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/ifg-co...
Join us in Manchester! With: Richard Fuller MP,
@tompope.bsky.social
@ryanshorthouse.bsky.social @trinhtu.bsky.social
@gemmatetlow.bsky.social
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/ifg-co...
Join @brightblueuk.bsky.social in Bournemouth at the upcoming 2025 @libdems.org.uk Party Conference
We're hosting 2 public fringe events outside the secure zone
Full details: www.brightblue.org.uk/upcoming-eve...
We're hosting 2 public fringe events outside the secure zone
Full details: www.brightblue.org.uk/upcoming-eve...
September 9, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Join @brightblueuk.bsky.social in Bournemouth at the upcoming 2025 @libdems.org.uk Party Conference
We're hosting 2 public fringe events outside the secure zone
Full details: www.brightblue.org.uk/upcoming-eve...
We're hosting 2 public fringe events outside the secure zone
Full details: www.brightblue.org.uk/upcoming-eve...
Great to be in No.10 again. We talked about @brightblueuk.bsky.social's ideas on justice & home affairs, specifically that will create:
🔴 A more selective, contributory-based skilled migration system
🔴 A drugs policy - for both legal & illegal drugs - that will reduce harms to individuals & society
🔴 A more selective, contributory-based skilled migration system
🔴 A drugs policy - for both legal & illegal drugs - that will reduce harms to individuals & society
August 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Great to be in No.10 again. We talked about @brightblueuk.bsky.social's ideas on justice & home affairs, specifically that will create:
🔴 A more selective, contributory-based skilled migration system
🔴 A drugs policy - for both legal & illegal drugs - that will reduce harms to individuals & society
🔴 A more selective, contributory-based skilled migration system
🔴 A drugs policy - for both legal & illegal drugs - that will reduce harms to individuals & society
📣 Government adopts @brightblueuk.bsky.social and @thefabians.bsky.social recommendation for a new Pensions Commission
Read more here: www.brightblue.org.uk/pensions-com...
📘 Read our original report here: brightblue.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Read more here: www.brightblue.org.uk/pensions-com...
📘 Read our original report here: brightblue.org.uk/wp-content/u...
August 5, 2025 at 12:27 PM
📣 Government adopts @brightblueuk.bsky.social and @thefabians.bsky.social recommendation for a new Pensions Commission
Read more here: www.brightblue.org.uk/pensions-com...
📘 Read our original report here: brightblue.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Read more here: www.brightblue.org.uk/pensions-com...
📘 Read our original report here: brightblue.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Delighted to speak today with Head of Policy at 10 Downing Street about radical @brightblueuk.bsky.social ideas to help a moderate Labour Government:
📈 Increase prosperity
🧑🧑🧒🧒 Support families
💷 Make tax system simpler & fairer
🏠 Democraticise asset ownership
🛂 Manage immigration
🌳 Green our economy
📈 Increase prosperity
🧑🧑🧒🧒 Support families
💷 Make tax system simpler & fairer
🏠 Democraticise asset ownership
🛂 Manage immigration
🌳 Green our economy
July 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Delighted to speak today with Head of Policy at 10 Downing Street about radical @brightblueuk.bsky.social ideas to help a moderate Labour Government:
📈 Increase prosperity
🧑🧑🧒🧒 Support families
💷 Make tax system simpler & fairer
🏠 Democraticise asset ownership
🛂 Manage immigration
🌳 Green our economy
📈 Increase prosperity
🧑🧑🧒🧒 Support families
💷 Make tax system simpler & fairer
🏠 Democraticise asset ownership
🛂 Manage immigration
🌳 Green our economy
📢 TODAY @brightblueuk.bsky.social launch a mega-report on future of European centre-right - to beat the statist left & populist right
🔵 5 countries studies
🔵 3 key principles identified
🔵 10 new priorities proposed
📚 Read: www.brightblue.org.uk/portfolio/ri...
🔵 5 countries studies
🔵 3 key principles identified
🔵 10 new priorities proposed
📚 Read: www.brightblue.org.uk/portfolio/ri...
June 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
📢 TODAY @brightblueuk.bsky.social launch a mega-report on future of European centre-right - to beat the statist left & populist right
🔵 5 countries studies
🔵 3 key principles identified
🔵 10 new priorities proposed
📚 Read: www.brightblue.org.uk/portfolio/ri...
🔵 5 countries studies
🔵 3 key principles identified
🔵 10 new priorities proposed
📚 Read: www.brightblue.org.uk/portfolio/ri...
📣 THIS WEEK @brightblueuk.bsky.social & the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung publish a mega-report on the future of European centre-right
Proposes 10 new distinctive priorities - w/ supporting policies - for the centre-right to beat populist right & statist left
Sign up: brightblue.org.uk/future-of-th...
Proposes 10 new distinctive priorities - w/ supporting policies - for the centre-right to beat populist right & statist left
Sign up: brightblue.org.uk/future-of-th...
June 16, 2025 at 11:46 AM
📣 THIS WEEK @brightblueuk.bsky.social & the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung publish a mega-report on the future of European centre-right
Proposes 10 new distinctive priorities - w/ supporting policies - for the centre-right to beat populist right & statist left
Sign up: brightblue.org.uk/future-of-th...
Proposes 10 new distinctive priorities - w/ supporting policies - for the centre-right to beat populist right & statist left
Sign up: brightblue.org.uk/future-of-th...
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We were delighted to host the Minister for Social Security and Disability, Stephen Timms MP, for a speech on ‘Expanding economic activity.’
📖 Read the speech here: www.brightblue.org.uk/stephen-timm...
📺 Watch the speech here: www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
📖 Read the speech here: www.brightblue.org.uk/stephen-timm...
📺 Watch the speech here: www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
May 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
We were delighted to host the Minister for Social Security and Disability, Stephen Timms MP, for a speech on ‘Expanding economic activity.’
📖 Read the speech here: www.brightblue.org.uk/stephen-timm...
📺 Watch the speech here: www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
📖 Read the speech here: www.brightblue.org.uk/stephen-timm...
📺 Watch the speech here: www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...