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The Labour Leadership Election: Getting it Together
On closer investigation the disagreement between left and right is less about policy, and more about entitlement.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Labour Party
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Post-Work Politics – Why the Tipping Point Thesis is Wrong
The problem with tipping point arguments is that they are not empirically sustainable.
- Work & Trade Unions
- Trade
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Toxic Friends? A Critique of Blue Labour
A critique of Blue Labour in four key areas – class, economy, family and race. What are the alternative ways forward to forge alliances between the working class and new social movement?
- Health, Education & Welfare
- Equality
- Labour Party
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Brexit and Gastronationalism
‘Gastronationalism’ is the idea that there are distinctive and authentic national food cultures that are threatened by the forces of globalisation. It is a myth.
- Sovereignty
- Brexit
- Trade
- Identity Politics
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How Brexit Will Affect the Fast Food Industry – the Cost of Taking Back Control
The fast food industry has emerged as one of the major battlegrounds of the EU withdrawal process.
- Brexit
- Trade
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Four Things you Should Know About the Suburbs (and the Brexit Vote)
The suburbs are of great psephological significance to the electoral pulse – including the Brexit vote. Yet they have tended to be overlooked.
- Brexit
- Health, Education & Welfare
- Equality
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Seven Things to Consider Before Setting up a Public Inquiry
What are the very basic questions that ministers and potential inquiry chairs absolutely should consider before setting up or agreeing to run a public inquiry?
- Trade
- Health, Education & Welfare
- Courts
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Navigating Labour's New Constitutional Position in the Lords
Exploring how the powers of a conservative House can be used for progressive ends.
- Courts
- Labour Party
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The Politics of Human Rights: A Response to Lord Sumption’s Reith Lectures
How convincing is the historical account that underpins Sumption’s argument?
- Human Rights
- Courts
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Conservatives Regard Human Rights as a Foreign Imposition – but They Helped Shape Them in the First Place
Human rights have traditionally been the concern of all leading political parties in the UK, both right and left‐wing.
- Conservative Party
- Human Rights
