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This Isn’t What a ‘National Liberation’ Should Look Like
Viewed as a national liberation, Brexit looks distinctly odd. Brexit has simply bequeathed a nation divided.
- Brexit
- Trade
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Review: Weak Strongman. The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia, by Timothy Frye
A particular view of Vladimir Putin has become ever more entrenched in the English-speaking world. Now that conventional wisdom is coming in for some serious scholarly challenge.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Trade
- Identity Politics
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- Health, Education & Welfare
- Equality
- Progressive Politics
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"Equality has Always Been Conditional on Being a Particular Kind of Human": Interview with Anne Phillips
Anya Pearson interviews Professor Anne Phillips, one of the most distinguished political theorists of our time, on what it would mean to have genuinely unconditional equality in society.
- Equality
- Progressive Politics
- Human Rights
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Women's Access to Public Life is Restricted by Incivility and Discrimination
Women in the UK—particularly women in Parliament and public life—are subject to physical and verbal abuse, threats, and merciless assaults in the press. In what way is women's access to public life being restricted by these forms of intimidation?
- Elections & Campaigning
- Equality
- Feminism & Gender
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Why the Idea of a UK-US Free Trade Deal is Little more than Performance
A free trade agreement with the US has consistently been presented as the main prize post-Brexit. But is the desire to perform ‘independence’ from the European Union, rather than policy content, driving the UK's trade strategy?
- Brexit
- Trade
- USA
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Parliament’s One-Year Review of the Coronavirus Act 2020
Even as Covid-19 is absorbed into ‘the new normal’, the government’s response continues to be framed by an emergency paradigm, underpinned largely by the Coronavirus Act 2020.
- Political Parties
- Covid-19
- Human Rights
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Concerns About Social Conflict Might Explain Immigration Preferences - Here's Why
Explanations for variation in attitudes to immigration are typically conceptualised either in terms of the ‘economic competition’ or ‘cultural threat’. But there is a third factor: perceptions of the effect of immigration on social conflict.
- Immigration
- USA
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Why the Conservatives' Bond with Business is Weaker than Ever
The Conservatives' strategy is to build on Brexit by reaching for nationalistic excuses in the face of economic disruption, leaving its traditional allies in the business community fuming.
- Conservative Party
- Immigration
- Work & Trade Unions
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The Slow Radicalisation that Helped the Taliban to Victory
How widespread radicalisation through mosques, madrassas, educational institutions and even state universities both directly and indirectly contributed to the Taliban’s victory.
- Feminism & Gender
