Substacks recommended by The Political Inquiry

Recommended by The Political Inquiry

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The Political Quarterly are on Substack! They are an academic journal with brilliant work - if anyone is interested in reading longer form and high-quality pieces with academic standards do check them out! It’s great to see the political community growing on Substack together.

- The Political Inquiry

Dividing Lines

By Tom Hamilton

A Substack about political attack, what it means and why it matters

Notes from the Underground with David Aaronovitch

The best Substack in the Anglosphere by top British journalist, David Aaronovitch

The Swingometer

By Rob Ford

Thoughts on elections, public opinion and politics. The Swingometer is named in honour of the late Sir David Butler, inventor of both "swing" and the device to illustrate it on television.

Politics, polls and public opinion

By Will Jennings

Analysis of recent developments in British politics, polling and elections

Joxley Writes

Politics, history and culture from a right of centre perspective.

Comment is Freed

By Sam Freedman

Politics, policy analysis, and foreign affairs from Sam and Lawrence Freedman

Value Added

By Duncan Weldon

Economics, finance, political economy.

Dominic Cummings substack

Systems Politics and Regime Change

Citizen of Everywhere

By John Kampfner

Politics and perspectives of Germany, Europe and the world

Hard Thinking on the Soft Left

By Emma Burnell

The Labour Party and the Soft Left

The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything

By Jonn Elledge

assorted nerdery from a man who should probably be doing something else

Just Two Things

By Andrew Curry

I monitor what’s happening out there—economics, technology, culture, climate—and write two notes on what catches my eye. The brief: interesting, provocative, resonant. With some analysis and context. Frequency: usually three times a week.

Chartbook

By Adam Tooze

A newsletter on economics, geopolitics and history from Adam Tooze. More substantial than the twitter feed. More freewheeling than what you might read from me in FT, Foreign Policy, New Statesman.

Normielisation

By Jeremy Driver

Reflections on progress, politics and society, written from a British perspective.

Odds and Ends of History

By James O'Malley

Why that thing you retweeted is probably wrong.