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Joe Pollard

Joe Pollard is Progressive Britain's Policy and Projects Officer. He tweets @JPollard01
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Joe Pollard

What are we talking about, when we talk about Industrial Strategy?

Can Industrial Strategy do everything Labour hopes? This summer the government will publish it’s Industrial Strategy. It will be plan for growth, for the environment, for security, and for regenerating communities.  All things that the country urgently needs, but can, and should Industrial Strategy deliver them all?  In this paper

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Joe Pollard

Men Against Boys II: Lessons We Should Learn from Adolescence

Similar to ITV’s Mr Bates vs the Post Office, Netflix’s Adolescence has brought to the fore of public consciousness a crisis that has been brewing for some time now – the masculinity crisis and susceptibility of young men to the Manosphere. Whether this can be turned into effective action remains

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Bernstein, Wilson, Blair, Starmer, Ardern
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Joe Pollard

New New Labour? Values-based Social Democracy

Following the recent electoral victories of Joe Biden, Olaf Scholz, Anthony Albanese and Jacinda Ardern, with further victories on the cards in Brazil and the UK, it looks like, after a period in the wilderness, social democrats are back. This is a welcome development, but all of the incumbents (perhaps

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Joe Pollard

How Labour can stop the Party

What connects the Partygate scandal and the ongoing response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine? Through their dismissal of concerns about the No.10 parties, and refusal to engage with the Russian influence on our politics, both expose an elite Conservative mindset. One defined by moral and legal exceptionalism which actively

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