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Understanding Germany's Complicated Relationship with Migration
What Germany’s easternmost city, Görlitz, reveals about migration, identity and belonging.
- Immigration
- Populism
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A Crisis of Representation: Reflections on John Boswell, How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State
What is power? Who exercises it? How do those without it get what they want?
- Progressive Politics
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- Equality
- Environment & Climate Change
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Why Compulsory Voting is Not the Answer
Before we force people to vote, we should ensure that their votes will be meaningful.
- Elections & Campaigning
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"We Need to Understand how Ordinary People Gradually get Used to Extreme Ideologies": Interview with Katja Hoyer
Anya Pearson interviews Katja Hoyer about her acclaimed book 'Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe'.
- Populism
- Racism & Antisemitism
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From Protest to Pluralism? The Green Party of England and Wales after a Decade of Political Upheaval
How the Greens have transformed themselves from a niche protest party into an increasingly plural but ideologically coherent party.
- Environment & Climate Change
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The Silence That Could Not Hold: Foreign Policy and the Fall of Keir Starmer
Gaza did not topple Keir Starmer directly, but it crystallised a perception of a leader without conviction.
- Progressive Politics
- Human Rights
- Labour Party
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Review: Hyperpolitics. Extreme Politicization Without Political Consequences, by Anton Jäger
A newly revised, English-language version of Jäger's social history of the present moment makes for cogent reading.
- Progressive Politics
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Democracy, Representation and Local Governance in Crisis: Reflections on the 2026 Tower Hamlets Elections
A study illustrating the insufficiency of traditional canvassing in dense urban settings.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Labour Party
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Values versus Tactics: The Liberal Democrat Predicament
Have the Lib Dems reacted too late to eliminate a serious risk of losing seats if the Conservatives revive?
- Political Parties
- Elections & Campaigning
