Nick Garland

finally watched Casablanca. wild in this day and age for something to actually live up to the hype

Reclaiming Britain: The nation against ethno-nationalism | IPPR Last summer, after the most widespread racist rioting since 1919, IPPR wrote it was “a testament to progress” that deporting black and brown people living

The original piece is here:
www.ippr.org/articles/the...

Reclaiming Britain - a response | IPPR By engaging directly in a discussion of nation-building it tackles a problem than many avoid. Fear that nation-building must inevitably collapse into natio

Grateful to the wise @jydenham.bsky.social for engaging with my work on nationalism with Parth Patel for @ippr.org. Much I agree with.
www.ippr.org/articles/rec...

Incredibly telling Kemi Badenoch interview on Today:
- can’t say what she’d actually want UK forces to do
- no idea what objective her proposed military action is to achieve
- hides from reality that single biggest constraint on British military = her govt’s defence cuts

No Second Chances: The Inside Story of the Campaign for a Second Referendum Join Mile End Institute to celebrate the publication of Morgan Jones’s new book about the campaign for a second EU referendum and its impact

Why did the People's Vote campaign fail? Could Brexit have been stopped? What lessons can be learned?

Join us on 19 March to launch @morganj0nes.bsky.social's new book: "No Second Chances: The Inside Story of the Campaign for a Second Referendum".

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Characteristically insightful from Dr Klemperer. My predictable answer is you have to do both, and both have got harder.

The implicit argument of so much of this stuff is that there is no legitimate role for Muslims in public life.

I did think The Plot Against America had far too much subtlety and not nearly enough twitter in it

Vice has to be up there. Infuriatingly condescending.

'I wouldn't touch a Jewish woman': Meet the Reform team in Gorton and Denton Members of Reform's campaign team shared racist content online and aligned themselves with far-right groups

Not exactly surprising Matt attracts these people given his own output..will the national media follow up on this?

(h/t @benstanley.eu)

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mostly I am tired of people with 3 passports and 6 multinational conglomerates lecturing me on the virtues of ethnic nationalism

Thanks! Hope you’re well

Frustration with the NDC derived in large part from the scale of declared ambition: the inevitable disappointment stemming from the hope that programmes commanding only a small portion of social spending in a locality could somehow reverse decline rooted in deindustrialisation and the decline of social housing. Likewise, the promise that communities would have control over how money was spent – providing they met demanding Treasury criteria – exposed the tension between target-laden programmes designed to improve material outcomes, and the aspiration to active citizenship.

From @npjgarland.bsky.social's @powertochange.org.uk essay on the history of place-based policymaking www.powertochange.org.uk/evidence-and...

Counter factual also makes no sense whatsoever because this scenario does not happen in any situation where Liverpool weren’t losing with no time left to play

Remembering the General Strike, 100 years on

To mark the 100th anniversary of the General Strike we have a special event planned @ihr.bsky.social on Weds 29 April. Prof Jonathan Schneer will be discussing his new book on the strike alongside Paul Novak, Jon Cruddas, Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite & Jim Moher. www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

AFCON drama, delicious, exhilarating

I enjoyed this very much (while also starting with pretty much zero prior knowledge), but the many, many conversations had about how and whether the central figures would be remembered were *a bit* on the nose

Opening page for the Royal Historical Society article 'Writing the History of Neoliberalism: A Comment'. Full abstract: This series of comments brings together four historians of neoliberalism, each of whom focuses on a different part of the world but whose work has implications that are transnational if not global. Quinn Slobodian reconstructs the rise of the category of neoliberalism among historians and identifies the different paths of inquiry it is generating. Priya Lal, offering an Africanist’s perspective, moves beyond the reduction of the neoliberal narrative of the continent to one of linear declension and abjection by way of structural adjustment to show continuities from the colonial era to early independence. Gary Gerstle, an Americanist by training, offers a macro take on the move from a Keynesian and social democratic order to a neoliberal one while insisting we attend to the diverse ways policies and elite neoliberal ideas are taken up by populations for whom promises of freedom may mean something different from what intellectuals intended. Finally, Tehila Sasson, a historian of modern Britain and the world, explores the left-wing features of what has come to be called neoliberalism, insisting we keep a keen eye out for unintended consequences and unlikely origins. Together, the comment offers a satellite’s eye view of a subfield reaching maturity."

'Writing the History of Neoliberalism: A Comment' bit.ly/3LKB8NF - new article in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'.

With contributions from Quinn Slobodian, Priya Lal, Gary Gerstle & Tehila Sasson.

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The James Ford Lectures in British History The Language of Social Science in Everyday Life - Peter Mandler (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)

Looking for an intellectual treat? @petermandler.bsky.social 's Ford Lectures on 'The Language of Social Science in Everyday Life' begin Thursday 22 January and continue weekly through 26 February in Oxford. #Skystorians

One of the many things I liked about your (excellent) book was the debt to that earlier (imo more satisfying) sort of writing on the state - also Anthony King etc

A plea for more people in UK politics to read some Michael Moran

I mean, a willingness to argue that all human beings are of equal intrinsic worth is never a bad place to start, but yes I'm afraid the health of liberal democracy does rely on evidence that it makes people's lives materially better

Defending basic precepts of liberalism is one of the biggest tasks for progressives now, but that absolutely can’t be reduced to a defence of the status quo - have to better narrate and substantiate ‘national renewal’ across the board

In short, elite cues massively matter, the odd speech won’t counteract the barrage coming from the right on old and new media, and if progressives are vacating the field on national identity then that can only end very badly.

Reclaiming Britain: The nation against ethno-nationalism | IPPR Last summer, after the most widespread racist rioting since 1919, IPPR wrote it was “a testament to progress” that deporting black and brown people living

The challenge for progressives (& govt in particular) is to appreciate they are in a very different sort of ideological fight, and respond accordingly. Hints of this in PM’s speech at party conference in September but much, much more needed, as @parth0 & I argue here.

www.ippr.org/articles/the...

Number of people who say Britons must be born in UK is rising, study shows Exclusive: Research finds ‘worrying’ surge in support for hard-right narratives on national identity

Some pretty worrying shifts identified in this new @ippr.org @yougov.co.uk data:

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Reclaiming Britain: The nation against ethno-nationalism | IPPR Last summer, after the most widespread racist rioting since 1919, IPPR wrote it was “a testament to progress” that deporting black and brown people living

The IPPR paper by me and @npjgarland.bsky.social is here www.ippr.org/articles/the...

There has been a rise in the number of people who think being British is something you are born with rather than something you can become over the past 2 years