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Walking the Dark Side: Evading Parliamentary Scrutiny
There is a dark side to parliamentary scrutiny: where the principles and practicalities of scrutiny are not aligned, and where willingness and capacity are constrained or non-existent.
- Political Parties
- Parliament
- Covid-19
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Corbynism and its Aftermath
Context caught up with the outlook of Jeremy Corbyn, rather than the other way around.
- Labour Party
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The Politics of Levelling-up
As a broad aspiration for the country, levelling-up will eventually crash into the hard-fiscal reality that not everywhere can be levelled-up.
- Conservative Party
- Equality
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Gender Politics after Corbynism
How initial prospects for the cultivation of a more gender-sensitive left politics in the early years of the Corbyn period were ultimately undermined.
- Feminism & Gender
- Labour Party
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The Pork Barrel Politics of the Towns Fund
On 27 July 2019 Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced The Towns Fund, a £3.6 billion scheme designed to improve transport and communications infrastructure in English towns.
- Conservative Party
- Elections & Campaigning
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Looking for Starmerism
Assessing the evolution of Starmerism through his successful campaign to be leader of a divided party and his first year as leader of the opposition.
- Labour Party
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The Problems of Starmerism
Labour and Keir Starmer would do well not to throw over Corbynism in its entirety.
- Labour Party
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- Work & Trade Unions
- Labour Party
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Movements and Gatekeepers in a Hybrid Media Environment: A Comparison of the Twitter Networks of Corbynism and the People's Vote Movement
What is the extent to which the Corbyn movement and the movement for a People's Vote were able to attract the attention of mainstream media ‘gatekeepers’ on Twitter?
- Labour Party
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‘This Really has the Potential to Destroy us’: Jeremy Corbyn's Management of the Problem of Anti-semitism in the Labour Party
The inadequacy of the Corbyn leadership's schematic understanding of anti-semitism and of its managerial precepts help explain its failure to resolve the anti-semitism crisis.
- Labour Party
