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Volume 96, Issue 1

January/March 2025

This issue features a collection titled 'The 2024 UK General Election' edited by Ben Jackson, Colm Murphy and Peter Sloman, in which authors including Ross Mckibbin; Will Jennings,  Gerry Stoker, Paula Surridge, Maria Sobolewska, Mathew Lawrence and many more discuss the sources of Labour’s victory and consider how the result will shape the future of British politics. Other articles include a commentary by Deborah Mabbett on Trump's proposal to buy Greenland; 'Centralised by Design: Anglocentric Constitutionalism, Accountability and the Failure of English Devolution' by John Denham and Janice Morphet; 'Broke and Broken: The Crises Facing Local Government in England' by David Jeffery; and 'Biographies of Discontent: The Challenges Facing Labour' by Helen Goodman. A selection of book reviews feature Morgan Jones' thoughts on 'Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis' by Nick Bano, and Lyndsey Jenkins' review of 'Orwell's Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century' by Laura Beers.

Commentary

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Buying Greenland

Deborah Mabbett

The 2024 UK General Election

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Fragmented and Dealigned: The 2024 British General Election and the Rise of Place-Based Politics

Will Jennings, Jamie Furlong, Gerry Stoker and Lawrence McKay

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Playing the System: Electoral Bias in the 2024 UK General Election

Charles Pattie and David Cutts

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‘Whitby Woman’, ‘Waitrose Woman’: Gender and Voting Behaviour at the 2024 UK General Election

Rosie Campbell, Ceri Fowler, Anna Sanders and Rosalind Shorrocks

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The 2024 General Election and the Rise of Reform UK

Oliver Heath, Christopher Prosser, Humphrey Southall and Paula Aucott

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Local Leaflets: Constituency Issue Messaging at the 2024 General Election

Alan Duggan, Caitlin Milazzo and Siim Trumm

Article

Report and Survey

Book Review

Smartphones and mental illness

Richard Mullender

To speak or not to speak?

Gianfranco Pasquino

So, what is terrorism?

Martyn Frampton