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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.
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Power with Purpose? Further Reflections on Strengthening the Centre of Government
Interrogating the Commission on the Centre of Government's final report 'Power with Purpose'.
- Conservative Party
- Progressive Politics
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In the Eye of the Storm: Permacrisis in the Investigation of Rape and other Sexual Offences
The storm about the policing of rape and other sexual offences has been brewing for years.
- Equality
- Feminism & Gender
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The Collapse of the Green Wall
The Conservative Party has usually done well in rural areas, but its ‘green wall’ is now under threat from Labour more than the Liberal Democrats.
- Conservative Party
- Work & Trade Unions
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Policing, Politics and Prejudice: A Participant Observer's Reflections
Offering straightforward solutions in recruitment, vetting, and training of the police force.
- Equality
- Feminism & Gender
- Racism & Antisemitism
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Robert Saunders Announced as Winner of This Year's Crick Prize
Announcing the worthy winner of the annual Bernard Crick Prize for Best Article 2023.
- Brexit
