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Green Capitalists and Green Anti-Capitalists are on the Same Side – For Now
Green capitalists and green anti-capitalists will have to be on the same side if they are to prevail and prevent the worst ravages of global heating for which we are currently on course.
- Political Parties
- Environment & Climate Change
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Why Cynicism Over COP26 is Misplaced
Cynicism about the achievements of the conference is misplaced (if understandable) because it was the most that could have been agreed, according to its own terms.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Environment & Climate Change
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The Case of Azeem Rafiq Points to a Long History of Racial Thinking in Cricket
Cricket's racialised cultural conflicts, originating in the colonial period, help us to understand more recent cases such as that of Azeem Rafiq.
- Racism & Antisemitism
- Sport
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Why the Idea of a UK-US Free Trade Deal is Little more than Performance
A free trade agreement with the US has consistently been presented as the main prize post-Brexit. But is the desire to perform ‘independence’ from the European Union, rather than policy content, driving the UK's trade strategy?
- Brexit
- Trade
- USA
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Parliament’s One-Year Review of the Coronavirus Act 2020
Even as Covid-19 is absorbed into ‘the new normal’, the government’s response continues to be framed by an emergency paradigm, underpinned largely by the Coronavirus Act 2020.
- Political Parties
- Covid-19
- Human Rights
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Concerns About Social Conflict Might Explain Immigration Preferences - Here's Why
Explanations for variation in attitudes to immigration are typically conceptualised either in terms of the ‘economic competition’ or ‘cultural threat’. But there is a third factor: perceptions of the effect of immigration on social conflict.
- Immigration
- USA
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Labour and the Patriot Game
The Labour Party has recently been advised to let the electorate know it is proud to be British. So what opportunities exist for Labour in the patriot game?
- Sovereignty
- Labour Party
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The Forward March of Devolution Halted
Progressive unionism requires a Labour Party capable of winning more seats in England, Scotland and Wales—and of reaching out to others who share a progressive unionist agenda.
- Devolution
- Constitution
- Brexit
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English Devolution and Covid
If local government is to drive the economic recovery, overcome regional inequalities and provide better public services, the Treasury will have to enable greater fiscal autonomy.
- Devolution
- Covid-19
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Why we Need Data on Both Sex and Gender Identity
Sex is a fundamental demographic and explanatory variable, yet in recent years, sex has been overwritten by gender identity across a range of data collection exercises.
- Feminism & Gender
