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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
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Stabilising Northern Ireland's Agreement (2004)
An article from our archives by John McGarry and Brendan O'Leary.
- Devolution
- Ireland
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The Politics of Inflation Management
An unanticipated and almost wholly unexpected coincidence of economic events occurred in Britain in July 2022.
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Politics and the Business Cycle
"Read my lips: no new taxes" (George Bush, 1988)
- Trade
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Northern Irish Voters and the British-Irish Agreement: Foundations of a Stable Consociational Settlement? (2002)
An article from our archive by Geoffrey Evans and Brendan O'Leary.
- Devolution
- Ireland
