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The Social Review @socreview.bsky.social · Jul 21
Hello, just a brief update.

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There will be a brief bit of site downtime this week as the migration is finalised.
socreview.bsky.social The Social Review @socreview.bsky.social · Jun 29
Housekeeping note -

As you may have noticed, TSR is on a hiatus due to a lack of editorial capacity, which is set to continue.

As a result, and due to the domain costs being prohibitively expensive, the TSR website will be decommissioned later this week.
socreview.bsky.social
Hello, just a brief update.

Hosting and the domain have been secured for another year as we were able to find a web host provider that didn't break the bank.

There will be a brief bit of site downtime this week as the migration is finalised.
socreview.bsky.social The Social Review @socreview.bsky.social · Jun 29
Housekeeping note -

As you may have noticed, TSR is on a hiatus due to a lack of editorial capacity, which is set to continue.

As a result, and due to the domain costs being prohibitively expensive, the TSR website will be decommissioned later this week.
July 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Housekeeping note -

As you may have noticed, TSR is on a hiatus due to a lack of editorial capacity, which is set to continue.

As a result, and due to the domain costs being prohibitively expensive, the TSR website will be decommissioned later this week.
June 29, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Anyone interested in why our food standards have declined and the vital importance of why they should be improved should read this book writes Will Barber-Taylor in his review of Serving the Public by Kevin Morgan

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Serving the Public Review - The Social Review
The food we eat is a complex and much debated issue. Diet can contribute to how children develop, how healthy we continue to be throughout life and often be used as a sign of where we stand on politic...
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April 6, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Tony Benn at the 1978 party conference: ‘Around the world three letters send a chill down the spine of the strikers: SAS’
March 24, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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The latest set of updates to the Employment Rights Bill indicate a Government that is wobbling on its commitments, writes George Guillam 👇

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Reality Bites With The Employment Rights Bill - The Social Review
By George Guillam Following over 200 amendments proposed by the government, the Employment Rights Bill is now making its way through the Lords, and, if the custom of manifesto commitments receiving li...
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March 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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While his retirement is a loss to the movement, Mick Lynch would be the first to rail against the idea of being irreplaceable writes George Guillam 👇

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Mick Lynch, We Hardly Knew Ye
A testament to Mick Lynch’s cultural impact is the scale of media coverage that his retirement as General Secretary of the RMT at the age of 63, has received. The last trade union general secretary wh...
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January 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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‘once the Employment Rights Bill has received Royal Assent, Labour will ‘consult further on modernising the trade union landscape’. There is a clear direction of travel in favour of labour, the only outstanding question is when does Labour decide it has run out of road’

Read George’s take here
October 27, 2024 at 8:41 PM
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Labour’s Employment Rights Bill is a sincere statement of intent, but not a guarantee of success writes George Guillam 👇

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The Shape of Things to Come? – The Employment Rights Bill
Labourism once again stalks the halls of Westminster. On the 10th of October, Labour presented its Employment Rights Bill before Parliament;. Its media spin emphasised the individual benefits that wor...
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October 27, 2024 at 3:09 PM
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The reasons why a Prime Minister elected on a staggering change mandate opted to spend the summer depressing the public can't solely be attributed to Sue Gray, writes John Fitzgerald 👇

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Forgot About Gray
After a brief period of political turmoil following the fallout of Keir Starmer’s donation mini-scandal, the ultimate civil service insider Sue Gray has resigned from her position as Chief of Staff to...
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October 7, 2024 at 4:07 PM
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While Gray is part of this tale, what this ultimately reveals are truths about how Starmer’s lack of political instincts have created organisational strife in the heart of Number 10, writes John Fitzgerald 👇

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October 6, 2024 at 7:49 PM
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Philip Snowden's autobiography may provide some insight into how a Labour Government might attempt to contend with an economic crisis writes Will Barber-Taylor.

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Britain’s Iron Chancellor: Review
100 years ago this year the Labour Party entered government for the first time as the main governing party. It would be a short-lived administration, but it represented a landmark change in British po...
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September 29, 2024 at 3:02 PM
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On the left? Got an idea for an article kicking around but not sure where to start?

Pitch to The Social Review! We're always keen to support new writers and assist in the editing process.

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September 28, 2024 at 2:39 PM
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If you’re a Labour activist and you aren’t concerned about what's going to come from the Greens over the next five years then it’s quite simple, you should be. Writes Sean Smyth 👇

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September 25, 2024 at 5:21 PM
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The Night Soil Men is a fascinating novel that readily engages both with the historical context in which it is set and also the need to tell an entertaining narrative writes Will Barber-Taylor 👇

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The Night Soil Men Review
History as a means of telling a story can be a difficult task. William Shakespeare would often twist history in a way that would suit the drama best, in more recent years The Crown came under intense ...
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September 22, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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There are obvious means for how to fix the problems that have led to the breakdown in public trust in politics and Bowers presents them in a clear, concise, and uncomplicated way, writes Will Barber-Taylor

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Review: Downward Spiral by John Bowers
The public’s ability to trust politicians is a crucial part of any democratic system. If trust is lost, either in an individual, or in the system itself it can have a marked effect not only on the pub...
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April 16, 2024 at 11:23 AM
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The closure of two blast furnaces at Port Talbot puts to the test just what organised labour can or cannot achieve when faced with an existential challenge, writes Alex Maguire

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Footsteps of Doom: Port Talbot Steelworks
On the 2nd of February, Tata Steel announced that it would be starting the consultation process which is expected to result in nearly 3,000 redundancies at Port Talbot as it moves to close two of its ...
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April 11, 2024 at 5:11 PM
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In the almost two years since Deliveroo and GMB signed their Voluntary Partnership Agreement what has GMB achieved? And are Deliveroo capable of changing? @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social investigates

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Deliveroo-GMB Deal: Have GMB Delivered?
GMB union’s 2022 “Voluntary Partnership Agreement” with Deliveroo was conspicuously absent from coverage of the UK Supreme Court case which ruled against the IWGB union in their fight for statutory re...
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February 25, 2024 at 12:40 PM
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In the almost two years since Deliveroo and GMB signed their Voluntary Partnership Agreement what has GMB achieved? And are Deliveroo capable of changing? @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social investigates

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Deliveroo-GMB Deal: Have GMB Delivered?
GMB union’s 2022 “Voluntary Partnership Agreement” with Deliveroo was conspicuously absent from coverage of the UK Supreme Court case which ruled against the IWGB union in their fight for statutory re...
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February 25, 2024 at 12:40 PM
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To forge a new status quo, trade unions need an ambivalent (rather than punitive) legislative environment. How the 1992 Trade Union and Labour Relations Consolidation Act is reformed will be the foundation of such a change, writes Alex Maguire

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Reforming The TULRCA: The Future of Trade Union Legislation
Over the last few months, Labour’s New Deal for Working People has become front and centre of Labour’s otherwise confused policy offering. Labour is committed to enshrining it in law within the first ...
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February 22, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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The Welsh Labour Leadership contest will be won by raw resources, name recognition and postage stamps - on all three counts, Jeremy Miles is in trouble, writes John Fitzgerald

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State of Play: The Welsh Labour Leadership Contest
When looking at Labour leadership contests of the recent past, most are united by the shared characteristic that candidates define themselves against the previous leadership and then from one another....
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February 22, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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Just as pensioners were dug out of indigence by immediate boosts to support and gradually-rising pensions, children should be helped by expanding Child Benefit, writes Brian Townsend

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Child Benefit Needs The Triple Lock Treatment
Despite gradually declining inflation, prices remain stubbornly high, heaping more pressure on working families already suffering from a decade with no growth and severe cuts to the social safety net....
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January 23, 2024 at 1:56 PM
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My biography celebrates media skills and radical politics of Mick Lynch. But it does not shy away from making a searching assessment of his leadership of the RMT, and why it can be seen to have come up somewhat short, writes Gregor Gall

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Has Mick Lynch Delivered?
In late June 2022, as the first national rail strikes began in what would become Britain’s “summer of solidarity,” a new stand-out national political figure emerged. Leader of the Rail, Maritime...
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January 15, 2024 at 12:09 PM
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Even if we take Dear England on its own terms and put to one side its mawkish presentation of the England football team, it still doesn’t work, writes Alex Maguire

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Dear England Review: A Play That Shirks The Big Tackles
James Graham’s play, Dear England has received much praise since it opened in June last year. I, however, did not enjoy it as much as the reviews indicated I should have and was disappointed particu...
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January 7, 2024 at 3:37 PM
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Caution doesn’t have to manifest itself as a paucity of ideas, Labour should look to John Smith's Commission for Social Justice for a way forward, writes Brian Townsend

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What The Commission on Social Justice Can Teach Labour Today
Caution has long been the watchword of the Labour Party. Roy Jenkins’ famous analogy comparing Labour’s caution in 1996 with a museum curator carrying a priceless Ming vase across a slippery floor...
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December 20, 2023 at 12:30 PM
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Who Will Be The Next First Minister of Wales? John Fitzgerald previews the runners and riders of the upcoming leadership election

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Who Will Be The Next First Minister of Wales?
Mark Drakeford has resigned as Leader of Welsh Labour and will be stepping down as First Minister of Wales in the new year. The decision, a surprise but not an unexpected one, comes as he enters his f...
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December 14, 2023 at 1:13 PM