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Regulatory Opportunities Come with Potential Costs for Post Brexit UK Services
Whilst there are opportunities to tailor regulation to the UK economy, it is important to recognise the potential costs, that diverging from the EU on regulatory reform may give rise to.
- Brexit
- Trade
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The Waste Commons
Rubbish belongs to the poor because they have maintained customary access to it over decades as a way of sustaining themselves. Is waste as a form of urban commons?
- Environment & Climate Change
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Why Motherhood is Intensely Political
Despite decades of further social progress, motherhood has become a politics-free zone. Yet the truth is that motherhood is intensely, yet covertly, politicised.
- Progressive Politics
- Feminism & Gender
- USA
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Liberty After Neoliberalism
The Covid pandemic has raised hard questions about liberty and the role of the state – and many Conservatives have been discomfited by the answers that their own government has given.
- Conservative Party
- Political Parties
- Constitution
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This Isn’t What a ‘National Liberation’ Should Look Like
Viewed as a national liberation, Brexit looks distinctly odd. Brexit has simply bequeathed a nation divided.
- Brexit
- Trade
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Women's Access to Public Life is Restricted by Incivility and Discrimination
Women in the UK—particularly women in Parliament and public life—are subject to physical and verbal abuse, threats, and merciless assaults in the press. In what way is women's access to public life being restricted by these forms of intimidation?
- Elections & Campaigning
- Equality
- Feminism & Gender
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Why the Conservatives' Bond with Business is Weaker than Ever
The Conservatives' strategy is to build on Brexit by reaching for nationalistic excuses in the face of economic disruption, leaving its traditional allies in the business community fuming.
- Conservative Party
- Immigration
- Work & Trade Unions
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The Slow Radicalisation that Helped the Taliban to Victory
How widespread radicalisation through mosques, madrassas, educational institutions and even state universities both directly and indirectly contributed to the Taliban’s victory.
- Feminism & Gender
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The 2021 Metro Mayors Elections: Localism Rebooted?
A new political institution has been added to subnational governance in England: ‘metro mayors’. What is their evolving role, and in what way – if at all – are they making an impact?
- Elections & Campaigning
- Devolution
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Where Next for Conservatism? The New Political Divide is Age
The capacity to appeal to both the principles of freedom and belonging whilst shifting the balance between them is key to the long-term political success of the Conservatives.
- Conservative Party
- Equality
- Progressive Politics
