Articles by Patrick Diamond

Review: Why Governments Get It Wrong: And How They Can Get It Right, by Dennis C. Grube

Review: Why Governments Get It Wrong. And How They Can Get It Right, by Dennis C. Grube

Policy making is about getting all your ducks in a row.

New Jerusalems? The Labour Party's Economic Policy-Making in Hard Times

An historical analysis of ideational change in the British Labour Party.

The Future of Irish-UK Relations: Borders and Identities after Brexit: Introduction

Levelling Up the UK: If not the Conservatives, will Labour Learn the Lessons from Past Policy Failings?

Analysing the government's critique of past reforms, the lessons it has set out and why its reform programme is likely to repeat past failings.

Irish Unification After Brexit?

Irish unity is by no means an inevitable outcome, even if Brexit has thrown a binary choice into sharper focus.

What Does the Future Hold for Irish-UK Relations?

The contributions to a new special collection examine key elements of the post-Brexit reality, with a particular focus on Northern Ireland.

Progressive Dilemmas

Review: What's Left Now? The History and Future of Social Democracy, by Andrew Hindmoor

Andrew Hindmoor's monograph on the future prospects for British social democracy is one of the most important to have been written on the left for some years.

Labour’s Factionalism and a Reappraisal of Eric Hobsbawm

Eric Hobsbawm’s case for a more pluralistic, dynamic and intellectually inquiring Labour party is particularly relevant given the recent election of Keir Starmer.