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

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

Progressives have to take on the challenge of unifying/universalising concerns. To reframe contentious differences (tax, immigration, etc) as common cause.

This is how to build new majorities in a time of multiplying antagonisms. Political identities are made, not given

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:

This revival of nationalist politics has to be superseded, rather than simply cast aside. Used to opponents who challenge them on grounds of economic equality, progressives now find themselves locked in conflict with those who reject far more basic tenets of human equality

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

That's a short period of time for so many people to have changed a fundamental outlook. More likely, people with latent ethnonationalist sympathies are being authorised/encouraged to express them with greater conviction - in surveys, on social media, on the streets, as votes

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

Superbly discussed in ethical not operational terms by @tom-clark.bsky.social for @ippr.org

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