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After the Party?
One of the central facts of recent British politics has been the decline of the political party. Why has this decline happened? Does it matter? And what, if anything might be done about it?
- Political Parties
- Elections & Campaigning
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Tax and Spending (Again)
The depth of the spending cuts now being implemented by Whitehall departments and local authorities across the UK is unprecedented in postwar Britain.
- Trade
- Health, Education & Welfare
- Labour Party
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Osborne v. Growth: The Chancellor and the New Green Economy
The most telling comment on last week’s Budget came from the Government’s very own Office for Budget Responsibility, which acknowledged that the Chancellor’s measures would have no impact on growth.
- Environment & Climate Change
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Gove is all around: Exams, public services and EU competition law
Michael Gove’s retreat on his plan to reform GCSE examinations has provided an object lesson in the perils of political hubris.
- Conservative Party
- Health, Education & Welfare
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Whitehall at War?
The recent exposure of serious tensions between ministers and civil servants has once again highlighted this most sensitive of constitutional relationships.
- Civil Service & Bureaucracy
- Parliament
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Obama's Victory: Non-Lessons for Britain
Barack Obama's remarkable victory proves one thing at least: just how distorting is the first past the post electoral system.
- Elections & Campaigning
- USA
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The Coalition's Carbon Crunch
David Cameron’s announcement that the Government would legislate to force energy companies to put customers on their lowest tariffs sounded good for a couple of hours, but it quickly unravelled.
- Trade
- Environment & Climate Change
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Our Economic Prospects After Party Conference Season are Still Dire
The party conference season has ended with no-one any the wiser as to how the British economy will get out of its current dire condition.
- Parliament
- Trade
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Ed Miliband's Bravura Performance was the First Manifestation of Post-Olympic Politics
Ed Miliband's bravura performance at the Labour Party's Conference was the first manifestation of post-Olympics politics.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Labour Party
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The Anglo-Irish Agreement: 25 Years On (2011)
On the surprisingly muted commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Anglo-Irish Agreement.
- Ireland
