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Debates About a Four-Day Working Week are Important - but Often Miss the Point
There are potential dangers with the modern debate on the four-day working week.
- Work & Trade Unions
- Progressive Politics
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Racism Towards the Chinese Minority in Malaysia
Malaysia’s experience with racism towards its minorities is not unique but it is notable that an ethnic domination has increasingly taken on a religious character.
- Equality
- Racism & Antisemitism
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Inside Xinjiang: State Racism in China
Researchers have overlooked how racism as a technique of state governance in China parallels racialisation in other parts of the world.
- Political Parties
- Racism & Antisemitism
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Longitudinal Study Shows Decline of Trust in Politicians During Covid-19
A new longitudinal study on political trust shows that as levels of trust declined during the pandemic, so too did the likelihood of people following the government’s health measures.
- Political Parties
- Covid-19
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Brexit and Strand Three of the 1998 Agreement
The decision of the UK to withdraw from the EU catalysed a paradigm shift in British-Irish relations.
- Devolution
- Brexit
- Ireland
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How Seriously Should We Take Universal Basic Income?
Has UBI’s time now come? If so, how does it compare to a long history of similar-sounding and once popular proposals?
- Work & Trade Unions
- Health, Education & Welfare
- Progressive Politics
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The Relationship Between Business and Politics is Under Challenge
The relationship between business and politics is more complex and heterogenous than often assumed.
- Trade
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The Politics of Parole Reveal a Creeping Authoritarian Conservatism
What do the politics of parole reveal about a creeping authoritarian conservatism premised upon nostalgia, nationalism and the projection of a strong, centralised state?
- Conservative Party
- Equality
- Populism
- Courts
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Bullfighting Enters the Political Arena in Spain
As the bête noire of Catalan nationalists, bullfights were an obvious campaign ground for Vox's nativist and xenophobic political agenda.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Populism
- Identity Politics
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Voting into a Void? The 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly Election
The 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly election reordered the top two parties whilst illuminating the growth of Alliance as a centrist force beyond unionism and nationalism.
- Ireland
