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After Biden: Lessons for Labour and the Global Centre-Left from the United States
The failure of former President Biden's extensive economic programme to win support holds important lessons.
- USA
- Labour Party
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How Not to Deliver Policies: Lessons in Undeliverability from the Conservative Governments of 2019–2024
Undeliverable policies became very much of ‘a thing’ in the 2019–2024 parliament.
- Conservative Party
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The Populist Playbook: Why Identity Trumps Policy and How Democrats Can Adapt
Why do populist leaders continue to secure electoral victories despite their poor performance when in office?
- Populism
- USA
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Sorry for any Inconvenience Caused: Why Britain Messed up High Speed Rail
No convincing answer to the simple but devastating question of ‘why do I need to get to Birmingham in 49 minutes?’.
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The UK General Election in Scotland: The End of an Era, Age of Ultra-Competition or Interregnum?
The dynamics of Scottish politics are still shaped by competition between Labour and the SNP, anti-incumbency and the question of Scottish independence.
- Political Parties
- Elections & Campaigning
- Scotland
- Labour Party
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The New Politics of Public Inquiries
An 'inquiry on inquiries’ at a time when more public inquiries are running concurrently than in any other time in British history.
- Civil Service & Bureaucracy
- Parliament
- Progressive Politics
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The 2024 General Election and the Rise of Reform UK
Has Britain's Eurosceptic and anti-immigration movement broadened its social appeal?
- Conservative Party
- Elections & Campaigning
- Populism
- Identity Politics
- Labour Party
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The Making and Breaking of Jacinda Ardern's Labour Government, 2017–2023
What drove New Zealand's Labour Party from unprecedented success to humiliation? Examining the political lessons can be drawn from Jacinda Ardern's career.
- Political Parties
- Covid-19
- Identity Politics
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Ethnic Minority Representation After the 2024 General Election: Does Ethnicity No Longer Matter?
Voters clearly care about ethnicity, but not in the ways usually assumed.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Racism & Antisemitism
- Labour Party
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An Industrial Policy for Hairdressing?
A wasteland of nail-bars?
- Work & Trade Unions
- Labour Party
