Past Issues

If you'd like to browse the full archive, you can do so via our publisher's website

  • October/December 2023

    Includes a collection on Scottish Politics After Sturgeon, edited by Ben Jackson and Anna Killick. This features articles such as 'Independence is not Going Away: The Importance of Education and Birth Cohorts' by Lindsay Paterson; 'Diary of an SNP First Minister: A Chronopolitics of Proximity and Priorities' by Hannah Graham; and 'Politics, the Constitution and the Independence Movement in Scotland since Devolution' by Malcolm Petrie. There are a wide range of other articles including 'Unlocking the Pensions Debate: The Origins and Future of the ‘Triple Lock’ by Jonathan Portes and 'The Politics of England: National Identities and Political Englishness' by John Denham and Lawrence Mckay. Finally, there is a selection of book reviews such as Branko Milanovic's review of Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea by Darrin M. McMahon, and Alexandre Leskanich's review of Cannibal Capitalism by Nancy Fraser.

    Read More about Volume 94, Issue 4
  • July/September 2023

    Includes a commentary by Colin Crouch on the dark heart of today's Conservative party, an article by Stewart Lansley tracing the history of ‘crowding out’, and its use as a justification for austerity and state deflation; and Tim Vlandas and Kate Alexander-Shaw debating the political economy of age. In our reports and surveys section, Deborah Mabbett asks where next for curbing London's emissions? The issue also includes a selection of book reviews such as Andrew Gamble on The Culture of Accountability: A Democratic Virtue by Gianfranco Pasquino and Riccardo Pelizzo, and Leila Simona Talani on Europe's Coming of Age by Loukas Tsoukalis.

    Read More about Volume 94, Issue 3
  • April/June 2023

    Includes a collection on the future of British political history, edited by Lyndsey Jenkins, Colm Murphy and Robert Saunders. This covers politics and contemporary history; voice, agency and British political history; and methods and concepts. There is also a report that places the Office for Budget Responsibility's commentary on the March 2023 UK Budget in political context, and a selection of book reviews such as Weeda Mehran's review of 'The Long War' by David Loyn and Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi on Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan's 'Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia'.

    Read More about Volume 94, Issue 2
  • January/March 2023

    Includes a collection on the Future of Irish-UK Relations: Borders and Identities after Brexit, edited by Barry Colfer and Patrick Diamond with articles from Patrick Diamond and Barry Colfer, Conor J. Kelly and Etain Tannam, Mary Murphy, Neale Richmond, Lisa Whitten. Other highlights are articles from Gavin Kelly and Nick Pearce, David Lidington, David McCrone, Nicholas Allen, Matteo Tiratelli, Jörg Michael Dostal, Michael Collins, Robert Hazell and book reviews include Donald Sassoon discussing Winston Churchill. His Times, His Crimes, by Tariq Ali.

    Read More about Volume 94, Issue 1
  • October/December 2022

    Includes a collection on the everyday economy, edited by Anna Killick, Ben Jackson and Deborah Mabbett, which includes articles by Anna Coote, Christine Berry, Tess Lanning and Rachel Laurence. Other highlights include Geoffrey Dudley, David Banister and Tim Schwanen's reflections on the rollout of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, and Erzsébet Bukodi and John H. Goldthorpe's commentary on the Social Mobility Commission's recent annual report. Book reviews include Gianfranco Pasquino on the crisis of writing about the crisis of democracy.

    Read More about Volume 93, Issue 4