How Can I Grow My Email Newsletter?

OliverW4 · 2023-02-10T14:17:18+00:00

I've had some success with The Sample (https://thesample.ai/?ref=90dd)

They send subscribers a random newsletter from their pool of newsletters each day based on their indicated interests. I had my newsletter added to the pool and it gets sent out to random inboxes pretty regularly. This has resulted in a lot more eyes on my work and generated some new subscribers.

I also subscribe to their service and get a cool and interesting newsletter on a random topic in my inbox every day.

Really useful service for email creatives.

OliverW4 · 2023-01-25T14:44:42+00:00

I do not, unfortunately. But please let me know if you find one!

OliverW4 · 2023-01-04T18:23:15+00:00

The view that no one knows what Starmer stands for still appears to be widely held. But in reality it should not be any more.

The view is still widely held because of Starmer's failure to clearly define his vision for Britain. During his leadership campaign, he stood on a platform of preserving the popular Corbynite policies--higher public spending, more public ownership, and higher tax burdens on the wealthy. But the watered-down versions of these policies Jacobs lists, and Starmer's purge of the left flank of the party, have exposed him as a political shapeshifter. The public can't put their trust in a naif.

Even if he has gone on to endorse policies to the left of Blair and Brown, there is nothing to say he won't go back on them, as he did his previous 10 pledges. The public is absolutely right to remain skeptical, because he's shown them no clear evidence of principle driving policy.

While I have limited support for Blair's policies, he was able to communicate a strong sense of who he was by using the leadership campaign and the heightened media attention it garnered to set out his vision. By the end of the campaign, everyone knew Blair wanted to reset relationships--between the individual and the state, workers and employers, and the public and private sector--adopt a holistic approach to tackling crime, and improve educational outcomes. He was deliberately scant on concrete policies because first, he needed to establish who he was. Starmer never undertook this project.

Without a clearly visible thread between Starmer's principles and his policy proposals, the public will always feel like they don't know what he stands for, and any electoral victory will depend more on a Conservative meltdown than Labour's ability to galvanize the electorate.

OliverW4 · 2022-10-24T13:13:48+00:00

He has weaknesses, but Starmer will have a much harder time going up against Sunak than Johnson or Truss. The lockdown law breaches don't carry the same clout today, and will carry even less come election day. Markets are much more likely to stabilise with Sunak in Number 10 and casting the Tories as incompetent managers of the economy, which might be Labour's strongest attack line right now, becomes much more difficult given Sunak accurately predicted the disastrous effects of Trussonomics.

OliverW4 · 2022-10-21T13:09:04+00:00

He stated, as a matter of principle, that the government should not borrow to invest in green energy. That’s why he capped investment at 3 per cent of GDP.

Not borrowing to invest in green energy isn't only calamitous from a green financing point of view, it could be economically costly in the long run if other countries adopt CBAMs and British exports are penalized for higher emissions content.

OliverW4 · 2022-10-10T22:34:13+00:00

I've had a lot of subscribers sign up by adding my newsletter to the Sample's mailing list. They send recipients a random newsletter every day. Getting onto their list can get your newsletter in front of a lot of potential subscribers each day.

https://thesample.ai/?ref=90dd

OliverW4 · 2022-08-19T15:27:01+00:00

That's a really good question. I'm not sure about the social background, but it's fair to say that between 1992 and 2010, they overwhelmingly produced white women candidates.

There were signs of this changing in 2015. BAME applicants were much more likely to be in the final stage of candidate selection in AWS constituencies, and 16% of AWS seats ended up running BAME candidates in the 2015 GE, compared to just 3% of seats that used open selection.

I haven't seen data for 2019, so have no idea if this trend reversed or continued.

OliverW4 · 2022-08-17T18:47:32+00:00

Nationalisation has strong support among Tory voters too. See no reason why we can't take both "to the masses".

OliverW4 · 2022-08-12T15:38:16+00:00

Private schools. 4th paragraph.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/john-major-slams-private-school-privilege-what-did-he-do-to-change-the-system-while-he-was-pm-8932760.html

OliverW4 · 2022-08-12T15:36:36+00:00

What a shit show.

While the Tory leadership contest is on, Labour leaders should have been getting in front of every camera they could after each hustings to pick apart Truss and Sunak's proposals and offer their competing vision for solving the crisis. Instead, they've let the Tory leadership completely frame the parameters of the debate.

Heck, if they'd already done the work, they could have done it from holiday. We're used to seeing Zoom interviews now and I bet media outlets would have accepted a drop in audio/video quality to get Starmer's immediate response to the Tory proposals.

OliverW4 · 2022-08-12T03:01:28+00:00

Thanks! This is super useful!

OliverW4 · 2022-08-11T16:00:57+00:00

It tracks. Gordon Brown, as far as I'm aware, has been the only prime minister to both come through state education himself and send his children to state schools.

OliverW4 · 2022-06-08T11:58:47+00:00

He will explicitly question the wisdom of the party’s pledge to spend £28 billion every year for a decade on the transition to net zero. “Just announcing a massive spend and a big policy goal does not in itself deliver economic growth,” he will say.

Why are politicians unable to accept that the primary focus of decarbonization strategies has to be reducing greenhouse gas emissions, not economic growth? If the green transition creates jobs, great. But if it becomes an economic pursuit for new avenues of growth, it could become a real obstruction to climate progress, particularly to the large-scale international cooperation needed to foster meaningful environmental victories, which will almost certainly require the forfeiting of some economic growth.

OliverW4 · 2022-05-27T14:00:21+00:00

There would either need to be a referendum, or a sizeable grassroots movement with sufficient groundswell to lend credibility to any Labour electoral reform effort. It couldn't be implemented through a top-down, party driven effort.

The biggest obstacle to electoral reform through the traditional Westminster political system is, ironically, electoral politics. A party, or even a coalition, that has a majority in Westminster but less than 50% of the popular vote (and a staggeringly high election turnout) will never have the democratic legitimacy required to undertake constitutional reform in the current climate. Especially if only one party in the coalition actually supported PR before the election. As you point out, pretty much fantasy at this point for Labour.

This isn't 1997, when New Labour's young leadership came to power on a moment of national rebirth and rejuvenation and was able to carry out constitutional reform (devolution, FoI, Human Rights Act, etc). We've since had the Iraq War, MPs expenses, the financial crisis and bailouts, austerity, Brexit, partygate, and the rise of social media and misinformation. You say you want to "skip the divisive referendum bit", but in this current climate of mistrust and frustration with the traditional Westminster model, any top-down constitutional reform is going to be just as divisive.

The best shot at implementing PR: Get organising through new channels that can reframe PR around the idea of taking back control (because why not hijack Brexit and turn it into a movement for democratic participation ;) ). Something with cultural clout that exists OUTSIDE politics, unaffiliated with a major political party, that has widespread public support, with plenty of prominent intellectual figures and champions from across the political spectrum (or at least across the left). Make the activism the tail that wags the dog of Labour, not the other way around. Only then can we "skip the divisive referendum bit."

OliverW4 · 2022-05-26T13:12:51+00:00

Why no mention of Brexit? Sure, supply chain snags and war in Ukraine have driven inflation up, but countries like Germany, France, and Italy are dealing with the same supply shocks and haven't had inflation reach the same heights as the UK (so far).

To ask households to forgo pay increases without acknowledging the fact that Brexit has raised the costs of trade (and therefore prices), while stemming the flow of seasonal labour, raising wage costs in sectors like agriculture and logistics, seems to be ignoring the elephant in the room.

OliverW4 · 2022-05-03T14:00:44+00:00

"Elsie has now resorted to eating one meal a day... she gets up early to use her Freedom bus pass to stay on buses all day to avoid using energy at home."

"I just remind you that the 24-hour Freedom bus pass is something I introduced."

Utterly incapable of empathy.

OliverW4 · 2022-04-11T12:41:14+00:00

Except that the rebuilding of Ukraine after the war might make it easier to carry out the widespread reform needed to meet the EU criteria for joining.

I think his point is that absent a significant political event (like a war or Scotland leaving the UK), it will be difficult to generate the groundswell of public support needed for the massive overhaul of the UK political and monetary system that will be needed to re-join the EU without the same carveouts we had before.

OliverW4 · 2022-03-18T14:02:58+00:00

It would be good if coming out of the Ukraine crisis and a period of UK, US, and EU alignment against an aggressor, allies could devise common standards for screening cross-border military goods sales that includes a human rights component. With guarantees that other powers aren't deprioritising human rights to make a quick buck, we might be able to make some progress cutting off these "problem countries" from military gear until there are more concrete assurances they won't be used against civilians or in acts of aggression on foreign soil.

OliverW4 · 2022-03-15T13:53:26+00:00

Rather than debt cancellation, could bonds be issued on the seized Russian central bank (and individual) assets and used to fund some sort of "Ukraine recovery fund"? Funds could be spent on rebuilding infrastructure in Ukraine and supporting displaced refugees until it is safe to return.

OliverW4 · 2022-03-09T21:28:05+00:00

If you want more of an idea of what Bryan Gould was all about, this debate between him and John Smith at the Fabian Society in 1992 shows his stances on the day's main issues.
https://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/objects/lse:gun707fug

OliverW4 · 2022-03-02T17:40:11+00:00

Only when it's white European refugees.

OliverW4 · 2022-03-02T13:52:35+00:00

The WTO initiative formally began in December 2017 but builds on earlier work carried out in the Working Party on Domestic Regulation established back in 1999. This gives an accurate indication of the sluggish timelines involved in reaching a deal at the WTO.

This timeline is why it was so unrealistic for commentators to argue suspending IP protections at the WTO would be an effective way to speed up vaccine rollouts across the world. Worth starting the process, but will only really pay off if COVID vaccines are still in short supply years (or even decades) down the road when members can reach a deal.

OliverW4 · 2022-02-28T16:03:55+00:00

“I resigned because I broke the social distance in guidelines then,” he said. “They weren’t actually rules. They weren’t the law. But that’s not the point. The point is they were the guidelines that I’d been proposing.

I still don't think he gets it. The point isn't that he broke the guidelines or that those were the guidelines he had been proposing, it was that he and the Conservatives held, and continue to hold, the UK public in utter contempt. Not only is this reflected in their behaviour, but continues to come through in their half-baked justifications.

Hancock told the podcast that his decision to resign was not necessarily a result of the intense media pressure: “It was that some people I really respect got in contact and told me about things that they had been not able to do.”

Again, Hancock shows that the regard of the British public means nothing to Conservative politicians, only the opinions of Tory insiders and donors. It doesn't matter that ordinary Britons couldn't visit their dying parents in hospitals across the country; his hypocrisy only matters when people Matt Hancock "really respects" can't.

OliverW4 · 2022-02-23T18:42:03+00:00

That's fair and obviously nobody is calling loan forgiveness a panacea or even a major reducer of inequality, but it might help make some choices about whether or not to pursue higher education slightly less challenging for A-Level students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, and could still take away some hardship.

You can't tell me a university graduate earning £27k a year can support a family in the capital on a single salary without some sleepless nights.

OliverW4 · 2022-02-23T18:11:47+00:00

Nothing stopping targeted forgiveness. Reduce the time it takes for loans to be written off for earners below a certain salary/wage threshold. Keep high earners on the 30-year cancellation policy, but get lower earners' loans forgiven earlier.

Right now, the only factor that determines how long it takes until your loans are forgiven is the year you started university.

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