Digested Read
Pressed for time? Read these short summaries of our journal articles
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Why Grammar Schools? Why Social Mobility?
While St Augustine supposedly exclaimed “Make me good, God, but not yet”, Theresa May is surely committed to the view: “Give me social mobility, but not too much”.
- Health, Education & Welfare
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The Populist Surge and Democracy in Today’s Europe
Mainstream parties ought to take seriously the demands of populists on the issues which they raise, and respond to them with concrete policy proposals and discourses of positivity.
- Political Parties
- Populism
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The SNP's Progressive Dilemma
The reluctance of UK voters to support parties – usually Labour or the Liberals – whose broadly progressive values and policies they otherwise claim to support.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Brexit
- Scotland
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Beyond ‘Secret Deals’: Rethinking Devolution in England
The case for devolution is strong in principle. But this might be an appropriate moment to the reconsider the narrow model that has been on offer.
- Devolution
- Parliament
- Trade
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Why Donald Trump was Nominated by the Republicans
One of the most controversial nominations in American electoral history.
- Elections & Campaigning
- USA
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Culture as Politics: Electoral Chaos and the Crisis of the Traditional Spanish Left
Will posterity remember figures such as Guerra and González as the architects or the saboteurs of a bona fide democracy?
- Elections & Campaigning
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Beyond Anti-Politics
Disenchantment with conventional politics is anything but non-political.
- Political Parties
- Populism
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The Bifurcation of Politics: Two Englands and a Divided World
In England, America, Europe and democracies elsewhere, a bifurcation of politics is transforming the essence of contemporary politics.
- Brexit
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Losing Perspective: Brexit and the EU’s Freedom of Movement
Ultimately it is the attractiveness of Britain’s labour market, rather than its current migration policy, that makes people move to Britain.
- Immigration
- Brexit
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Breaking the Constitutional Silence
Reforming the outsourcing sector is only a first step to a more general reconsideration of the place of the corporation in our constitution.
- Constitution
- Trade
