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Housing in the Budget: The Sound of Silence (And What we Should Have Heard)
Labour’s 2025 budget focused on planning reform, but the housing market needs reforming in other ways.
- Equality
- Progressive Politics
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Government by WhatsApp? Covid, Transparency and Government by Text
The Covid Inquiry revealed that there were ‘substantive discussions’ of important policy decisions through texts and messages. Is this ever acceptable?
- Political Parties
- Parliament
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Is the Congestion Charge Coming Back Into Fashion?
As cities become even more congested, with air quality in decline, the need for a congestion charge has never been more urgent.
- Progressive Politics
- Environment & Climate Change
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What is Labour’s Pride In Place Programme, and will it be Enough to Build a Good Society?
Why Labour must also connect local efforts under the Pride In Place programme to a national story of renewal.
- Equality
- Populism
- Labour Party
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How Europe’s Migration Rules Keep Creating the “Irregular Migrants” They Claim to Catch
What if irregular migration is not something that happens despite the system, but because of it?
- Immigration
- Populism
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Nigel Farage is no Ramsay MacDonald: Comparing the Rise of Reform with the Rise of Labour
It is hard not to suspect that arresting the rise of Reform could be beyond the powers of both current party leaders.
- Immigration
- Populism
- Labour Party
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Whose Flag? Belonging and Disinformation in Britain’s Immigration Debate
Sam Taylor Hill discusses anti-migrant sentiment and the social dislocation recent flag-raising represents
- Immigration
- Populism
- Racism & Antisemitism
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- Political Parties
- Elections & Campaigning
- Voting systems
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Diane Abbott's Suspension Highlights the Complexity of Different Types of Racism
Rather than a zero sum approach, we need a 360 degree politics of solidarity.
- Racism & Antisemitism
- Labour Party
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In Talking About ‘Borders’, did King Charles Overstep Constitutional Boundaries?
During Macron's state visit, King Charles delivered a controversial speech in which he explicitly referenced illegal migration.
- Constitution
- Brexit
- Labour Party
