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New Labour in Power: Five Problems of Contemporary History
An opportunity to reappraise New Labour as history.
- Political Parties
- Progressive Politics
- Labour Party
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The Politics of Race and the Future of British Political History
British political history has a major blind spot when it comes to race.
- Equality
- Racism & Antisemitism
- Human Rights
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The OBR and the March 2023 Budget: The Travails of UK Economic Growth and the Politics of Technocratic Fiscal Governance
Placing the Office for Budget Responsibility's commentary on the March 2023 UK Budget in political context.
- Conservative Party
- Civil Service & Bureaucracy
- Parliament
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Building a More United Kingdom: A Conservative Case for Constitutional Reform
The twin constitutional crises facing the United Kingdom.
- Devolution
- Constitution
- Parliament
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Review: Emergency State. How we Lost our Freedoms in the Pandemic and Why it Matters, by Adam Wagner
A book full of detail about the level of authoritarian restrictions implemented during the pandemic.
- Covid-19
- Human Rights
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Rethinking Postwar Liberalism: The Road to 2010 and Beyond
Careful attention to the nature and limits of Liberals’ political agency can help us understand the changing meaning and significance of third-party politics in Britain.
- Political Parties
- Progressive Politics
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How the Conservatives Choose Their Leaders
Casting doubt on the efficacy of Conservative leadership election rules.
- Conservative Party
- Political Parties
- Elections & Campaigning
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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.
- Conservative Party
- Health, Education & Welfare
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Social Democracy's Muted Revival
What is the place of social democracy in the political and economic order that is emerging from the Covid-19 pandemic, and the economic crisis that has followed in its wake?
- Work & Trade Unions
- Health, Education & Welfare
- Progressive Politics
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Introduction: The Future of British Political History
What (if anything) is distinctive about political history as practised today, and what should its contribution to historiography, social science and public life be?
- Constitution
- Sovereignty
- Parliament
