A full list of blogs and short articles published by Jack Newman since 2021.
Hickson, J. & Newman, J. 2025. Localism, Levelling Up and Taking Back Control: Tensions in the Ambiguous Justification of English Devolution. Political Quarterly Blog. 27/08/2025.
Newman, J. & Ayres, S. 2025. How Mayors and Missions Can Make the UK a Better Place to Live. Regional Studies Association Blog. 12/08/2025.
Newman, J. & Hoole, C. 2025. Geographic Inequalities in an Era of Unequal Devolution. Regional Studies Association Blog. 30/06/2025.
Newman, J. 2024. English councils and planning set to be transformed under ambitious devolution plan – an expert explains. The Conversation. 17/12/2024.
Newman, J. and Diamond, P. 2024. Inequality and instability in the British State. Political Studies Association. 05/12/2024.
Newman, J., Ayres, S., & Bates, G. 2024. Evidencing the value of health is the key to uniting health and growth. Civil Service World. 15/10/2024.
Newman, J. 2024. Time to empower mayors to innovate on place-based preventative health. Local Government Chronicle. 04/10/2024.
Newman, J. 2024. Realising Prevention: Practical policies for a healthier society. Institute for Policy Research. 10/09/2024.
Newman, J. & Richards, D. 2024. Ending the failure of regional policy – why Starmer must avoid ‘hyper-active incrementalism’. UK in a Changing Europe. 07/08/2024.
Newman, J. & Ayres, S. 2024. Healthy urban development: a public policy gamechanger for challenging times. Academy of Social Sciences. 28/05/2024.
Newman, J. 2024. Follow the money: Funding outcomes-based policymaking. Chartered Institute for Public Finance Accountancy. 02/05/2024.
Newman, J. et al. 2024. Tackling health inequalities. IPPR Progressive Review. 17/04/2024.
Tilley, H. et al. 2024. How to improve regional productivity levers in England and Wales. RSA Regions Ezine. 10/04/2024.
Newman, J. et al. 2024. The accountability challenge in English devolution. Bennett Institute for Public Policy. 04/04/2024.
Bates, G. & Newman, J. Awaab’s law is a start but England needs whole new approach to ensure healthy homes for all. The Conversation. 18/03/2024.
Newman, J. 2024. Can the silos be broken? Cross-government working for public health. Institute for Policy Research. 27/02/2024.
Newman, J. & Bates, G. 2024. Labour scaling back its £28 billion green pledge will impact UK housing – and public health. The Conversation. 13/02/2024.
Newman, J. & Hickson, J. 2023. The direction of travel for English devolution – a matter of perspective. UK in a Changing Europe. 28/11/2023.
Newman, J., Richards, D., & Warner, S. 2023. What Angela Rayner’s speech tells us about Labour’s potential to curtail short-termism in UK politics. The Conversation. 09/10/24.
Newman, J. et al. 2023. Why ‘levelling up’ in the UK has so far failed – and what a Labour government might do about it. ECPR The Loop. 05/10/2023.
Newman, J. & Richards, D. 2023. Labour’s cautiousness just won’t cut it when it comes to ‘Levelling Up’. Mile End Institute. 07/09/2023.
Shaw, J. & Newman, J. 2023. Trouble ahead for the deals-based approach to English devolution?. Bennett Institute for Public Policy. 21/08/2023.
Diamond, P. et al. 2023. The challenges of Levelling Up: a critical examination of funding and governance. The Productivity Institute. 22/06/2023.
Hoole, C., Newman, J., & Collinson, S. 2023. The Devolution Catch-22: Weak Local Institutions, Uneven Growth and Inequality Across English Regions. Academy of Social Sciences. 05/06/2023.
Hoole, C., Newman, J., & Collinson, S. 2023. How England’s Devolution Catch-22 Stands in the Way of Balanced Growth. City-REDI. 10/05/2023.
Newman, J. et al. 2023. Local democracy is essential for effective decentralisation in England. LSE Policy and Politics. 09/05/2023.
Newman, J. & Kenny, M. 2023. The challenges of devolving English government. Local Government First. 25/04/2023.
Newman, J. & Kenny, M. 2023. How to devolve English government. Institute for Government. 13/04/2023.
Newman, J. & Coulter, S. 2023. Rishi Sunak faces a dilemma over levelling up. British Politics and Policy at LSE. 07/03/2023.
Richards, D. et al. 2023. How the Politicisation of Levelling Up is Undermining Regional Policy. British Politics and Policy at LSE. 06/03/2023.
Newman, J. 2022. Is Labour’s vision of a New Britain any different to the Tories’ levelling up? The Conversation. 07/12/2022.
Newman, J. & Smith, M. 2022. MPs, Outside Interests, and Corporate Boards – Too Busy to Serve?. PSA Parliaments Blog. 16/11/2022.
Newman, J. 2022. Devolution: A View from England. Cambridge Centre for Public Law. 27/04/2022.
Newman, J. 2022. The UK constitution: the need for review. Bennett Institute for Public Policy. 14/02/2022.
Newman, J. et al. 2022. Levelling up: four problems with Boris Johnson’s flagship project. The Conversation [republished Bennet Inst. Warwick Business Sch., City-REDI]. 04/02/2022.
Newman, J. 2021. ‘Five things we learned about levelling up from the Conservative party conference’. The Conversation. 06/10/2021.
Newman, J. 2021. ‘Levelling Up: The (Surprising Long) History’. UK in a Changing Europe. 20/09/2021.
Newman, J. 2021. ‘What actually is ‘levelling up’? What we know about Boris Johnson’s agenda – and what we don’t’. The Conversation. 23/07/2021.
Newman, J. 2021. ‘The ‘levelling up’ agenda of Boris Johnson’s government – and why there might be trouble ahead’. ECPR The Loop. 07/06/2021.
Newman, J. & Hayton, R. 2021. Cameronism’s failure shows that ‘levelling up’ needs a coherent theory of change. Political Studies Association. 03/03/2021.
Newman, J. 2021. Boris Johnson Must Learn Lessons from the Ideological Failure of Cameronism. Politics @ Surrey. 22/02/2021.
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