Blog
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From Estimating to Explaining and Eliminating Ethnic Disproportionality in Stop and Search
Broadening the debate that surrounds the annual stop and search statistics.
- Racism & Antisemitism
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From Trauma to Trust: The Case for Integrating Reconciliation Practices
A model to promote healing, foster trust and highlight the importance of sustainable community-police engagement.
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How does Labour Intend to Achieve Economic Growth? A Response to Rachel Reeves's Mais Lecture
The new Labour government's overriding priority is economic growth—and chancellor Rachel Reeves's March 2024 Mais lecture is the clearest statement of how they intend to achieve it.
- Work & Trade Unions
- Trade
- Labour Party
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How to Restore Trust in Government
Trust and distrust are useful short-hand ways of describing the mood of the public but they do not explain it.
- Conservative Party
- Labour Party
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The Limits of ‘Opportunity’: Is There a Clear Labour or Conservative View of Social Mobility?
A deeper theoretical debate about the meaning of social mobility.
- Conservative Party
- Equality
- Labour Party
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A Speech to Win an Election: A Response to Rachel Reeves’s 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.
- Labour Party
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The Case for a Scottish Clarity Act
The long-term question of Scotland's future within the UK remains an important area of analysis for constitutional policy makers and scholars alike.
- Constitution
- Scotland
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Vulnerability and Policing: Rethinking the Role and Limits of the Police
An increasing range of social problems become cast as ‘police problems’. Is this right?
- Progressive Politics
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Trust in the Police: What is to be Done?
Reviewing some potential solutions to declining trust in the police while also acknowledging some costs and difficulties.
