Political Economy
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Industrial Policies or Industrial Strategy: The Difficulty of Enacting Long-Term Supply-Side Reform in the UK
The government's recent ditching of Theresa May's interventionist ‘Industrial Strategy’ and its replacement with the ‘Plan for Growth’ has dismayed many. But the move exemplifies the UK's ad hoc, short-termist and ideologically driven industrial strategy.
- Conservative Party
- Work & Trade Unions
- Trade
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Regulatory Opportunities Come with Potential Costs for Post Brexit UK Services
Whilst there are opportunities to tailor regulation to the UK economy, it is important to recognise the potential costs, that diverging from the EU on regulatory reform may give rise to.
- Brexit
- Trade
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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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This Isn’t What a ‘National Liberation’ Should Look Like
Viewed as a national liberation, Brexit looks distinctly odd. Brexit has simply bequeathed a nation divided.
- Brexit
- Trade
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- Health, Education & Welfare
- Equality
- Progressive Politics
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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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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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Why the Conservatives' Bond with Business is Weaker than Ever
The Conservatives' strategy is to build on Brexit by reaching for nationalistic excuses in the face of economic disruption, leaving its traditional allies in the business community fuming.
- Conservative Party
- Immigration
- Work & Trade Unions
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British Politics Beyond the End of History: Marx, Hayek and Andrew Gamble
Although Marxism as an organised force is a shadow of its Cold War heyday, we seem to live in a time when calling someone a Marxist can still inspire a strange political frisson.
- Political Parties
- Progressive Politics
