Digested Read
Pressed for time? Read these short summaries of our journal articles
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The Limits of ‘Opportunity’: Is There a Clear Labour or Conservative View of Social Mobility?
A deeper theoretical debate about the meaning of social mobility.
- Conservative Party
- Equality
- Labour Party
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A Speech to Win an Election: A Response to Rachel Reeves’s Mais Lecture
Giving a statement of economic policy is always fraught with danger for any opposition politician and even more so for a Labour politician.
- Labour Party
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Vulnerability and Policing: Rethinking the Role and Limits of the Police
An increasing range of social problems become cast as ‘police problems’. Is this right?
- Progressive Politics
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In the Eye of the Storm: Permacrisis in the Investigation of Rape and other Sexual Offences
The storm about the policing of rape and other sexual offences has been brewing for years.
- Equality
- Feminism & Gender
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The Collapse of the Green Wall
The Conservative Party has usually done well in rural areas, but its ‘green wall’ is now under threat from Labour more than the Liberal Democrats.
- Conservative Party
- Work & Trade Unions
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Fifty Years after Peter Singer's Animal Liberation: What has the Animal Rights Movement Achieved so Far?
Analysing the impact of the animal rights movement fifty years after the publication of Peter Singer's landmark book.
- Equality
- Progressive Politics
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Changing Attitudes, Changing Coalitions: The Politics of Immigration before and after Brexit
For the first time, voters who see immigration as an opportunity outnumber those who see it as a threat.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Immigration
- Brexit
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Constitutionalising the BBC
Why the BBC should be constitutionalised and acknowledged as a necessary and permanent part of a functioning democracy.
- Media
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Addressing Barriers to Women’s Representation in Party Candidate Selections
A call for action in feminising political party candidates.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Equality
- Feminism & Gender
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The New Transition Politics of Net Zero
A rare opportunity to renew the nation’s housing stock, establish warm, more comfortable homes and create hundreds of thousands of good jobs. Are the UK’s political leaders up to the challenge?
- Work & Trade Unions
- Progressive Politics
- Environment & Climate Change
