Joseph Evans

Great piece by my colleague @pathwithanr on what progressives can learn from the young socialist politician who just won the Democratic nominee for New York mayor lbc.co.uk/opinion/views/…

A great read (as ever) by @phil_tinline - on the history of state-funded community empowerment in the UK, and how a new generation of “trailblazer neighbourhood” pilots could rebuild public trust in an era of abject dissatisfaction with government newstatesman.com/politics/2025/…

Young people today have endured stagnation and seen opportunity limited. But young people in the North are being hit twice as hard – faced with entrenched regional inequalities. This year’s @IPPRNorth State of the North report focuses on the challenges for young Northerners.

Turns out that decades of deliberate entanglement with US finance, tech and security has made extricating ourselves from the web of American hegemony very, very difficult indeed wired.com/story/enshitti…

Sweden's furlough scheme - giving workers time off to retrain, while being paid most of their salary - could be an idea to help UK policymakers manage the impact of AI on jobs, says @sarahoconnor_ ft.com/content/a70da2…

Radicalised right-wing commentators are inventing a new, highly dangerous myth - "the nightmare of state collapse under ethnic conflict and white replacement" Excellent piece on the moral panic driving support for radical right populism theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I spoke to @GregBarradale at the Big Issue for a great piece on why activists are right to pressure large multinationals to pay the real living wage bigissue.com/news/employmen…

A small piece of good news: UKRI will fund two restaurants - in Dundee and Nottingham - to improve access to affordable, healthy food Not a million miles away from Mamdani's proposal for state-owned grocery stores in NYC bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The optics of tackling water pollution don't get much better than this - Paris has opened the Seine to public swimming for the first time in a century! Key context: the city took public control of its water supply in 2010...

Today’s industrial strategy echoes Bidenomics. But while the US economy improved, Biden couldn't stop Trump. We went to Washington to find out why. ✒️ IPPR's Sam Alvis writes for the @guardian 👇 theguardian.com/commentisfree/…