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Four Recommendations to Improve Digital Electoral Oversight in the UK
The laws, regulations and practices around managing elections are therefore unfit for purpose in an era of fast-paced evolutions in digital campaigning.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Trade
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‘Get Brexit Done’: The New Political Divides of England and Wales at the 2019 Election
This article analyses the successful Conservative election campaign of 2019 and how it took advantage of a fractured political and economic landscape.
- Conservative Party
- Brexit
- Labour Party
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A Mountain to Climb: Labour Together's 2019 Election Review
No one can accuse this review of not taking the scale of Labour's 2019 defeat seriously. It rarely, however, takes sides—preferring to admonish all involved.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Labour Party
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Intergovernmental Relations: Time for an Overhaul?
A set of ideas to offer guidance and inspiration to those tasked with reforming and scrutinising intergovernmental relations in the UK.
- Devolution
- Brexit
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A Crisis for Devolution?
To see the value of devolution, especially in the current crisis, it is worth remembering why it was introduced in the first place.
- Devolution
- Covid-19
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Why Stop and Search should be abolished
The perennial and widely-recognised problems with stop and search cannot be adequately understood and addressed except through an abolitionist lens.
- Equality
- Racism & Antisemitism
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Flatlining Social Mobility is a Bug, Not a Feature, of Meritocratic Societies
Is meritocracy an effective device for legitimising socioeconomic inequality?
- Trade
- Health, Education & Welfare
- Equality
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Review: The Far Right Today, by Cas Mudde
The thrust of Cas Mudde's book explains how ‘the far right in general, and the populist radical right in particular’ has become normalised in the mainstream.
- Populism
- USA
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The Deadly Legacy of Cummings’s Triumph
As an expert on game theory, Dominic Cummings will be aware of the concept of moral hazard – that if individuals are protected against bearing the negative consequences of risky actions they take, they will push higher risks.
- Conservative Party
- Covid-19
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The Illusion of Meritocracy Damages Young People – and Sanctions Inequality
The illusion of meritocracy at school inflicts damage on children and young people – particularly those from working class backgrounds. More than that, meritocracy creates more inequality in British society.
- Health, Education & Welfare
- Equality
