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Volume 95, Issue 4

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Volume 95, Issue 4

This issue features a collection 'Responding to Rachel Reeves' Mais Lecture', in which authors including Dan Corry, Aveek Bhattacharya and Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni give their analyses of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's statement of economic policy given before Labour came to power. In addition there is a collection featuring Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Abby Innes and Gavin Kelly responding to Michael Jacobs' assessment of today's global 'polycrisis'. Other articles include Philippe Marlière's assessment of why French social democracy is in turmoil; and Helen Margetts, Cosmina Dorobantu, and Jonathan Bright's piece on building progressive public services with artificial intelligence. A selection of book reviews feature Dick Pountain's review of Left Is Not Woke by Susan Neiman, and Helen McCarthy's review of The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire by Tehila Sasson.

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Responding to the Rachel Reeves Mais Lecture

Giving a statement of economic policy is always fraught with danger for any opposition politician and even more so for a Labour politician in the run up to a general election. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves gave the Mais lecture in March 2024 before Labour came to power. Her speech gave us strong clues as to what kind of Chancellor she would prove to be. In this collection, Dan Corry, Aveek Bhattacharya, Matthew Watson, Aled Davies and Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni give their analyses.

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Policing the Permacrisis

A catalogue of crimes committed by serving officers, missed opportunities for reform and a scathing review of the internal culture of the police culminating in the recommendation for a ‘complete overhaul’, might initially leave some with the view that there is little hope. But against the backdrop of what seems like a perpetual cycle of crisis for policing, academic experts, senior police—both current and former—and commentators offers a diverse set of ideas for changing policing for the better.

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