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Jon Bloomfield


Jon Bloomfield is a writer, European policy specialist, environmental practitioner and author of Our City: Migrants and the Making of Modern Birmingham. He is an honorary research fellow at the University of Birmingham.

Jon Bloomfield

Jon Bloomfield is an honorary research fellow at the University of Birmingham and policy adviser on the EU Climate Knowledge Innovation Community programme.

How to puncture the populist right in Europe

Jon Bloomfield 2nd July 2024

The far right’s national-populist narrative has gone largely unchallenged—despite its utter incoherence.

Options for Europe’s ‘geopolitical’ future

Jon Bloomfield 8th February 2023

Global challenges have left only one option off the table for the European Union—inertia.

A green growth and innovation paradigm

Jon Bloomfield 31st October 2022

Meeting the challenge of climate change requires social democracy to come up with a new social paradigm.

How the climate crisis is changing Europe’s economic landscape

Jon Bloomfield 17th November 2021

After four decades, the pandemic and especially the climate crisis have silenced the exponents of fiscal orthodoxy. Keynes is back.

Maximising the potential of the European Green Deal

Jon Bloomfield 30th July 2021

The European Green Deal doesn’t deserve uncritical support—but nor does it need sniping from the sidelines.

The limits of the nationalist left

Jon Bloomfield 14th October 2019

The nationalist left offers one response to neoliberal globalisation. The wrong one.

Countering the crisis of the left

Jon Bloomfield 21st February 2019

Should social democracy tack towards populists wooing its electorate with xenophobic slogans? The crisis of the left demands instead a positive alternative to social insecurity. These are grim times for the left across Europe. It has been losing votes and intellectual support almost everywhere. For social-democratic parties this decline has in many cases been catastrophic—obliterated […]

Taking The Initiative: How Europe Should Respond To Brexit

Jon Bloomfield 17th February 2017

The week after the UK voted to leave the European Union, Nigel Farage went to the European Parliament and boasted that this was the beginning of the end for the European project. Most MEPs didn’t believe him. Government leaders and EU Commissioners trotted out well-worn clichés about Europe’s resilience. They didn’t sense the danger. They […]

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Spring Issues

The Summer issue of The Progressive Post is out!


It is time to take action and to forge a path towards a Socialist renewal.


European Socialists struggle to balance their responsibilities with the need to take bold positions and actions in the face of many major crises, while far-right political parties are increasingly gaining ground. Against this background, we offer European progressive forces food for thought on projecting themselves into the future.


Among this issue’s highlights, we discuss the transformative power of European Social Democracy, examine the far right’s efforts to redesign education systems to serve its own political agenda and highlight the growing threat of anti-gender movements to LGBTIQ+ rights – among other pressing topics.

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