Neil Warner
@neilwarner.bsky.social
Researcher in political sociology at LSE. Interested in history & political economy of socialist parties and labour movements, economic policy ideas including socialisation of investment & economic democracy.
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Neil Warner
@neilwarner.bsky.social
· May 5
I have a new article out on wage-earner funds, a famous attempt at economic democracy in Sweden in the 70s & 80s. It explores the funds' defeat, emphasising the issue's stronger resonance with businesses compared to workers & the Social Democratic Party
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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I enormously enjoyed this conversation with David Runciman about the history of compulsory voting, how it came to be adopted in countries like Belgium and Australia, and what it could for British politics today.
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
In today’s episode David talks to political historian @dmk1793.bsky.social about whether voting should be required by law and what might change if non-participation was no longer an option. Why have some countries made voting compulsory?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
In today’s episode David talks to political historian @dmk1793.bsky.social about whether voting should be required by law and what might change if non-participation was no longer an option. Why have some countries made voting compulsory?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
October 8, 2025 at 7:50 AM
I enormously enjoyed this conversation with David Runciman about the history of compulsory voting, how it came to be adopted in countries like Belgium and Australia, and what it could for British politics today.
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Golf courses take up more land than solar farms.
September 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Golf courses take up more land than solar farms.
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NEW ISSUE: Renewal Vol. 33 No. 2
Published amidst far-right mobilisation and a Reform surge, the new issue of Renewal (guest co-edited by @sachahilhorst.bsky.social) features activists, journalists, and academics analysing the radical right threat and debating how social democrats can respond
Published amidst far-right mobilisation and a Reform surge, the new issue of Renewal (guest co-edited by @sachahilhorst.bsky.social) features activists, journalists, and academics analysing the radical right threat and debating how social democrats can respond
Volume 33, Issue 2
A quarterly journal of politics and ideas, committed to exploring and expanding the radical potential of social democracy.
renewal.org.uk
September 16, 2025 at 1:19 PM
NEW ISSUE: Renewal Vol. 33 No. 2
Published amidst far-right mobilisation and a Reform surge, the new issue of Renewal (guest co-edited by @sachahilhorst.bsky.social) features activists, journalists, and academics analysing the radical right threat and debating how social democrats can respond
Published amidst far-right mobilisation and a Reform surge, the new issue of Renewal (guest co-edited by @sachahilhorst.bsky.social) features activists, journalists, and academics analysing the radical right threat and debating how social democrats can respond
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It was a very great pleasure to appear on one of my favourite podcasts, and to talk with David Runciman about the Past, Present, and Future (!) of electoral reform & proportional representation
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
For the first episode in a new series about the ideas that could help democracy work better David talks to @dmk1793.bsky.social of the Constitution Society about proportional representation. When will we get serious electoral reform in the UK?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
For the first episode in a new series about the ideas that could help democracy work better David talks to @dmk1793.bsky.social of the Constitution Society about proportional representation. When will we get serious electoral reform in the UK?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
September 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
It was a very great pleasure to appear on one of my favourite podcasts, and to talk with David Runciman about the Past, Present, and Future (!) of electoral reform & proportional representation
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Welcome to Rip-Off Britain.
A country remade by privatisation.
Our latest project — Who Owns Britain? — explores how a radical experiment transformed our society and shapes your life.
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A country remade by privatisation.
Our latest project — Who Owns Britain? — explores how a radical experiment transformed our society and shapes your life.
🧵
September 16, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Welcome to Rip-Off Britain.
A country remade by privatisation.
Our latest project — Who Owns Britain? — explores how a radical experiment transformed our society and shapes your life.
🧵
A country remade by privatisation.
Our latest project — Who Owns Britain? — explores how a radical experiment transformed our society and shapes your life.
🧵
This is a government that, for lack of belief in anything else, has basically decided to adopt self-hatred as its ideology
good that Keir has broken his silence this morning to ... continue posting on a website run by a man who yesterday addressed a far right rally to call for his overthrow, while not in any way addressing said far right rally
September 14, 2025 at 10:17 AM
This is a government that, for lack of belief in anything else, has basically decided to adopt self-hatred as its ideology
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Loath though he is to alienate floating racists, perhaps Starmer could rouse himself to condemn a violent fascist rally teeming with people who want him overthrown and/or killed
September 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Loath though he is to alienate floating racists, perhaps Starmer could rouse himself to condemn a violent fascist rally teeming with people who want him overthrown and/or killed
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Labour has been quietly going quite hard on "community empowerment" – possibly because it's one of the few halfway coherent theories knocking around the party about how to tackle anti-politics. I've spoken to a lot of people about it for @newstatesman.com:
www.newstatesman.com/comment/2025...
www.newstatesman.com/comment/2025...
Labour’s secret plan to thwart Reform
New legislation could unleash a transformation in community empowerment.
www.newstatesman.com
September 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Labour has been quietly going quite hard on "community empowerment" – possibly because it's one of the few halfway coherent theories knocking around the party about how to tackle anti-politics. I've spoken to a lot of people about it for @newstatesman.com:
www.newstatesman.com/comment/2025...
www.newstatesman.com/comment/2025...
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The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war
With foreign media barred, Palestinians have reported alone, facing the ‘most deliberate effort to kill and silence’ them ever
www.theguardian.com
September 1, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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I’m very excited to share that my paper “Cleavage theory meets civil society: A framework and research agenda” with @eborbath.bsky.social & Swen Hutter has now been published online in @wepsocial.bsky.social (w/ open access funding thanks to @wzb.bsky.social!)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
August 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I’m very excited to share that my paper “Cleavage theory meets civil society: A framework and research agenda” with @eborbath.bsky.social & Swen Hutter has now been published online in @wepsocial.bsky.social (w/ open access funding thanks to @wzb.bsky.social!)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Very few social-democrat-vs-democratic-socialism vignettes can rival Sweden's future finance minister getting photographed in parliament scribbling ‘wage-earner funds are a fucking piece of shit.’
From @neilwarner.bsky.social's excellent recent article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
From @neilwarner.bsky.social's excellent recent article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
September 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Very few social-democrat-vs-democratic-socialism vignettes can rival Sweden's future finance minister getting photographed in parliament scribbling ‘wage-earner funds are a fucking piece of shit.’
From @neilwarner.bsky.social's excellent recent article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
From @neilwarner.bsky.social's excellent recent article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Thanks for flagging this Neil! Here is the working link: www.exploring-economics.org/en/discover/...
The political economy of water | Exploring Economics
This introductory text explores the political economy of water by defining the subject and examining its key issues.
www.exploring-economics.org
August 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Thanks for flagging this Neil! Here is the working link: www.exploring-economics.org/en/discover/...
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Organizing this workshop with @solveigdegen.bsky.social and @cominsitu.bsky.social, in case you'd like to join via zoom:
hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/6969547647...
Meeting ID: 696 9547 6478
Passcode: 800441
registration here: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/democr...
hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/6969547647...
Meeting ID: 696 9547 6478
Passcode: 800441
registration here: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/democr...
August 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Organizing this workshop with @solveigdegen.bsky.social and @cominsitu.bsky.social, in case you'd like to join via zoom:
hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/6969547647...
Meeting ID: 696 9547 6478
Passcode: 800441
registration here: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/democr...
hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/6969547647...
Meeting ID: 696 9547 6478
Passcode: 800441
registration here: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/democr...
"Never before has the FRC had to return so many times to the same crisis; a stark reflection of how suffering has not only persisted but intensified and spread until famine has begun to emerge...As this famine is entirely man-made, it can be halted and reversed"
Famine confirmed in Gaza City for first time, UN-backed report says - live updates
Israel says
www.bbc.co.uk
August 22, 2025 at 12:31 PM
"Never before has the FRC had to return so many times to the same crisis; a stark reflection of how suffering has not only persisted but intensified and spread until famine has begun to emerge...As this famine is entirely man-made, it can be halted and reversed"
FT podcast on Peter Thiel contains some seriously mad stuff from Gillian Tett, who seems to really appreciate how Thiel's "Socratic, intellectual questioning approach" leads him to explore interesting new ideas about how dictatorships are good
shows.acast.com/ft-tech-toni...
shows.acast.com/ft-tech-toni...
August 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
FT podcast on Peter Thiel contains some seriously mad stuff from Gillian Tett, who seems to really appreciate how Thiel's "Socratic, intellectual questioning approach" leads him to explore interesting new ideas about how dictatorships are good
shows.acast.com/ft-tech-toni...
shows.acast.com/ft-tech-toni...
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In 1926, Sheffield became the first major British city to come under Labour control. Published six years later, 'this little volume shows what was actually accomplished by a Labour Council with socialist ideals'.
www.principle5.coop/wp-content/u...
www.principle5.coop/wp-content/u...
August 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM
In 1926, Sheffield became the first major British city to come under Labour control. Published six years later, 'this little volume shows what was actually accomplished by a Labour Council with socialist ideals'.
www.principle5.coop/wp-content/u...
www.principle5.coop/wp-content/u...
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"Carbon financiers continue to worry about a future in which Big Green States decide that substantive penalties on dirty finance would rapidly scale up climate finance by redirecting capital flows."
@danielagabor.bsky.social
@danielagabor.bsky.social
After Seville | Daniela Gabor
COP30 in Belém
www.phenomenalworld.org
August 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
"Carbon financiers continue to worry about a future in which Big Green States decide that substantive penalties on dirty finance would rapidly scale up climate finance by redirecting capital flows."
@danielagabor.bsky.social
@danielagabor.bsky.social
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LIFT THE BAN - SEPTEMBER 6TH
We can now announce that the next mass action to Lift The Ban on Palestine Action will take place on September 6th at 1pm, in Parliament Square.
We are looking for 1,000 commitments before confirming the action.
Register at: www.wedonotcomply.org
We can now announce that the next mass action to Lift The Ban on Palestine Action will take place on September 6th at 1pm, in Parliament Square.
We are looking for 1,000 commitments before confirming the action.
Register at: www.wedonotcomply.org
August 13, 2025 at 5:11 PM
LIFT THE BAN - SEPTEMBER 6TH
We can now announce that the next mass action to Lift The Ban on Palestine Action will take place on September 6th at 1pm, in Parliament Square.
We are looking for 1,000 commitments before confirming the action.
Register at: www.wedonotcomply.org
We can now announce that the next mass action to Lift The Ban on Palestine Action will take place on September 6th at 1pm, in Parliament Square.
We are looking for 1,000 commitments before confirming the action.
Register at: www.wedonotcomply.org
Kites for Palestine on the north end of the Isle of Iona
August 15, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Kites for Palestine on the north end of the Isle of Iona
From Oban in west Scotland: "Stop the genocide now"
August 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
From Oban in west Scotland: "Stop the genocide now"
The Whitaker report 40 years ago
"saw Ireland’s propensity to send people to prison as excessive, but the rate of incarceration today is more than twice what it was"
"saw Ireland’s propensity to send people to prison as excessive, but the rate of incarceration today is more than twice what it was"
Politicians want to ‘look tough’ on crime, but locking people up in dysfunctional prisons is not the answer
There is something very problematic about the current political approach to crime, repeatedly cramming more into prisons
www.irishtimes.com
August 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The Whitaker report 40 years ago
"saw Ireland’s propensity to send people to prison as excessive, but the rate of incarceration today is more than twice what it was"
"saw Ireland’s propensity to send people to prison as excessive, but the rate of incarceration today is more than twice what it was"
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1/ The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation scheme forces starving Palestinians to scramble for scraps of food, while creating the illusion that sufficient aid is reaching Gaza. Aid cannot be used as a tool to control, punish, or manipulate an entire population.
August 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
1/ The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation scheme forces starving Palestinians to scramble for scraps of food, while creating the illusion that sufficient aid is reaching Gaza. Aid cannot be used as a tool to control, punish, or manipulate an entire population.