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Occasional thoughts on progressive campaigns and communications. By Steve Akehurst
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On cost of living populism (opens the original)
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Over the summer I published a bit of work for Persuasion UK that i’d done with some groups from the new economy movement, exploring what an electorally potent ‘retail offer’ on cost of living might look like. Some of these ideas were picked up by the incoming Burnham administration (though others weren’t !). For various reasons though I didn’t get the chance to put this out alongside a bigger report outlining the wider theory to how I see ‘cost of living populism’ - working generally as a politi
Did the 2026 heatwaves move public opinion? (opens the original)
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Occasionally you stumble across a bit of writing that makes you realise there truly is nothing new under the sun.This happened to me recently on discovering Anthony Downs’ seminal essay ‘the issue-attention cycle’, written in 1972. In it Downs theorises that most issues have the same basic life-cycle in public opinion: they bubble under for a bit, worrying only experts and activists; then suddenly they burst through the surface and manifest in ways that lead to mass
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