Elections & Campaigning
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Democracy, Representation and Local Governance in Crisis: Reflections on the 2026 Tower Hamlets Elections
A study illustrating the insufficiency of traditional canvassing in dense urban settings.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Labour Party
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Values versus Tactics: The Liberal Democrat Predicament
Have the Lib Dems reacted too late to eliminate a serious risk of losing seats if the Conservatives revive?
- Political Parties
- Elections & Campaigning
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Should Labour Have Changed Its Leader?
Prime ministers are increasingly as insecure as Premier League football managers.
- Conservative Party
- Elections & Campaigning
- Labour Party
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Review: Making Speeches. The Speechmaking of Margaret Thatcher, 1975–1990, by Tom Hurst
The Iron Lady's political speeches.
- Conservative Party
- Elections & Campaigning
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How did the Rise of the Green Party Happen?
What explains the Green Party's meteoric rise, and how to do they compare to the German Greens, Die Grunen?
- Elections & Campaigning
- Environment & Climate Change
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Why the Voter Authority Certificate Isn't Enough to Plug the Voter ID Gap
The decline in voting under mandatory voter ID in the UK reveals the limitations of the Voter Authority Certificate.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Equality
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What if Unenfranchised Adults Could Vote? The Case for Residence-Based Voting in the UK
If all UK residents could vote, 257 seats could have had a different outcome at the 2024 general election.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Immigration
- Voting systems
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Book Reviews: Fractured France by Andrew Hussey, and Why Fascism is on the Rise in France by Ugo Palheta
Even by French standards, the current administration, and with it the country, is in crisis. Two books help guide the reader through the mazes and smokescreens.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Populism
- Racism & Antisemitism
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How Serious is the Green and Left-Wing Threat to Labour?
Labour faces credible electoral threats from minor parties to its left.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Labour Party
- Environment & Climate Change
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Buried by a Landslide: The ‘South Asian Vote’ in London, Residential Suburbanisation and the Geopolitical Shift in the 2024 General Election
Why the movement of South Asian populations towards London's suburbs reveals dramatic changes in voting patterns that are likely to shape British politics for the foreseeable future.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Immigration
- Labour Party
