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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
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The Labour Party Under Keir Starmer: ‘Thanks, But no “isms” Please!’
Starmer's reluctance to reveal his agenda is deliberate and is part of a strategy of ‘ideological quietism’.
- Labour Party
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The Politics of the Green New Deal
There is a considerable potential is for a new green Labour model. But the existing green deal narrative needs to be deepened and modernised.
- Political Parties
- Trade
- Environment & Climate Change
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‘A Mood in the Air … Like 1945’: Democratic Socialism and the Post-Corbyn Labour Party
An overriding preoccupation with distancing Labour from Corbynism risks paralysing it from responding to its fast-changing context.
- Labour Party
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New Jerusalems? The Labour Party's Economic Policy-Making in Hard Times
An historical analysis of ideational change in the British Labour Party.
- Labour Party
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Review: Invisible Women. Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed by Men, by Caroline Criado Perez
Bad data make bad science. Gender biased data distort research because it is predicated on the assumption that the human is male.
- Progressive Politics
- Feminism & Gender
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Why the Protocol in Ireland and Northern Ireland is a Complex Political Challenge
The protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland proved to be the trickiest element of the UK-EU Withdrawal Agreement to negotiate.
- Devolution
- Brexit
- Ireland
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Why do Some Women Call Themselves ‘Politically Homeless’?
There are three main drivers behind such statements: Brexit, allegations of Labour Party anti-Semitism, and current plans to reform the Gender Recognition Act (GRA).
- Elections & Campaigning
- Brexit
- Feminism & Gender
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The New Political Divides at the 2019 Election
Small groups of potential swing voters play a fundamental role in UK elections. The Conservative campaign message targeted a relatively small number of Labour voters prepared to switch.
- Conservative Party
- Political Parties
- Brexit
