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Volume 96, Issue 3

July/September 2025

This issue features a collection titled 'The Intellectual and Political Legacy of David Marquand', who died in April 2024, edited by Colin Crouch, Ben Jackson and Peter Sloman. In this collection, authors including Jean Seaton, Will Hutton and Hilary Wainwright consider Marquand's legacy as a great progressive thinker, his biography of Ramsay MacDonald, Labour's first prime minister, and the role of socialism for Marquand. Other articles include a commentary by Deborah Mabbett titled 'Welfare Reform by Numbers'; Jeremy Gilbert and Alex Williams on 'The Vices of Values: Matthew Goodwin and the Politics of Motivation'; Helen McCarthy on 'Why the WASPI has no Sting: Gender, Generation and Pension Inequalities'; and Sam Taylor Hill, Tariq Modood and John Denham on 'Multicultural Nationalism: Saving the White Working Class from Blue Labour?'. A selection of book reviews feature Edmund Fawcett's review of 'Nationalism: A World History' by Eric Storm and Samuel Cohn's review of 'Controlling Contagion: Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid', by Sheilagh Ogilvie.

Commentary

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Welfare Reform by Numbers

Deborah Mabbett

The Intellectual and Political Legacy of David Marquand: Edited by Colin Crouch, Ben Jackson and Peter Sloman

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David Marquand and Progressive Politics

Emily Robinson

Articles

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The Vices of Values: Matthew Goodwin and the Politics of Motivation

Jeremy Gilbert and Alex Williams

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The Rules of the Coronation: Differentiating Convention from Practice and Custom

Carolyn S. Harris and Philippe Lagassé

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The Recent Civil Disobedience Fidelity to Law

Brian Christopher Jones

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Multicultural Nationalism: Saving the White Working Class from Blue Labour?

Sam Taylor Hill, Tariq Modood and John Denham

Reports

Book Reviews

More doom and gloom

Gianfranco Pasquino

Putin turns Slavophile

Geoffrey Roberts