Society & Culture
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Mixed Communities or Missed Opportunities?
When social ‘mixing’ becomes problematic.
- Equality
- Racism & Antisemitism
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Where Next for Long-Term Care?
‘Caps for rich home-owners’ does not have the same ring to it, but that is the policy we seem to be locked into now.
- Conservative Party
- Health, Education & Welfare
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Mr Cameron’s Plan to Teach English to Muslim Women: Lessons in Policy Implementation
Greeted by a storm of controversy, the government announced earlier in the year that it would spend £20 million on a programme to teach Muslim women to speak English.
- Immigration
- Health, Education & Welfare
- Equality
- Racism & Antisemitism
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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 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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Public Service Broadcasting: What Research Tells us
Watching TV news is still the main way in which most people keep up with current affairs.
- Media
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Social Policy Through the Looking Glass: How to Make Poor Households Poorer
How did we end up in this looking glass world, where policies are sold as a package when they will actually work in opposite directions?
- Health, Education & Welfare
- Equality
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Gove is all around: Exams, public services and EU competition law
Michael Gove’s retreat on his plan to reform GCSE examinations has provided an object lesson in the perils of political hubris.
- Conservative Party
- Health, Education & Welfare
