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It’s time to act on this Wake-Up Call

Tom Meek, Renew’s lead for Policy and Strategy, finds common cause with John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge’s new book You can’t say we haven’t been warned. John Micklethwait, previously editor at The Economist and now Editor-in-Chief at Bloomberg News, and Adrian Wooldridge, the Bagehot columnist at The Economist, have written a new book: The Wake Up Call. Why the pandemic has...

Published on 10 Sep 2020

Williamson, Keegan, Ofqual and Algorithms - the Fiasco of A levels results day

Renew's David Britten discusses how the exams fiasco this year shows why we need political reform Turn your mind back to March when we were in deep lockdown. I was talking to my son and he was concerned that he had his A levels coming up and did not know if he would be able to physically sit his...

Published on 31 Aug 2020

Brits Abroad

Renew's European Co-ordinator Terry Knott on the reality of Brits living in the EU27. It’s not generally known that there are some 1.3 million (upper estimate 2.1 million) British passport holders in the other (currently) 27 countries, of the EU. The majority are based, inevitably, in the four big nations: Germany, France, Spain and Italy, but there are still lots...

Published on 28 Aug 2020

Interview - From the other side

In a new feature, this week we will be looking at the human side of international politics. This week we speak to a Brit living in Holland, and a Nederlander living in the UK. Introducing James Cavell, full-time dad and part-time Occult Metaller (with Era Distolas) and Lennard van Otterloo, entrepreneur and columnist. ...

Published on 14 Aug 2020

The Problem With Local Lockdowns

Renew Member and Prospective Candidate, Jamie Hirst, examines local lockdowns Governments and their departments love blanket policies. Left, right or centre they all love a cheeky blanket policy. They are easier, cheaper and quicker to implement. The fact that the Courts repeatedly find blanket policies illegal is just a minor inconvenience. That’s not to say blanket policies can’t be...

Published on 03 Aug 2020

The Russian Influence on Brexit: Decoding the Russia Report

Renew member and candidate for Hackney North and Stoke Newington in the 2019 general election, Haseeb Ur-Rehman, argues that the Russia Report damningly reveals just how influential a part Russia has played within UK politics. The Russia Report is a peculiar document, which obfuscates, skirts, insinuates and in some places almost sarcastically detracts from the Brexit issue; the latter...

Published on 30 Jul 2020

RENEW BLOG

It’s time to act on this Wake-Up Call

Williamson, Keegan, Ofqual and Algorithms - the Fiasco of A levels results day

Brits Abroad

Interview - From the other side

The Problem With Local Lockdowns

The Russian Influence on Brexit: Decoding the Russia Report