But ultimately progressives need a dream of their own - one that also radically re-imagines "the state". Where the right looks to the past, progressives must face the future. We need to recover faith in our capacity to shape what lies ahead

The challenge is to tell another story of who we are, with a forward sense of the collective project. There are reasons to be hopeful - a large, latent desire for a new politics of common life:

By a new group of politicians and activists on the Right who are trying to change how we see ourselves and each other from the top down. They're not dreaming of a different economic model, they're dreaming of a different demographic makeup

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

As ethnonationalism re-emerges as a defining characteristic of the Right, equality must return as the distinguishing feature of the Left

New @ippr.org paper in today's @theguardian.com

A few thoughts on turning tax from individual burden to common cause @ippr.org www.newstatesman.com/business/eco...

This is good: returns on owning are outstripping returns on earnings. How we make money has changed, how we tax it hasn't

Rachel Reeves explores reform of capital gains tax on expensive houses - on.ft.com/45REVyW via @FT

I once told Kay Burley she needs a knee replacement. She made me eat my words - and the government adopt the policy idea

All the best in retirement, british politics will miss you