Public interest in Basic Income, or BI (known as Universal Basic Income in the UK), has increased significantly during the last few years. In addition to academ...
Parliaments are not monoliths. They are highly complex political organisations. Anthony King’s 1976 article ‘Modes of executive–legislative relations: Great Bri...
In Alan Ware’s latest defence of his views on higher education, “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing” (Macbeth), he claims that ...
Anthony King was, among other things, a public intellectual: that is, he could explain how the most rigorous and theoretical social science threw light on our p...
Culture matters in politics. But so does information: something that is more possible to influence.
‘Cultural identity and political disposition’ are two facto...
Two years before the Brexit referendum, I wrote a piece for the Political Quarterly reflecting on its potential downfalls. My concerns were prompted by research...
There is a table at the Tate Britain restaurant that the waiters there always referred to as ‘Professor King's table’. It is situated near the bar, a discreet d...
It is not every day that a film about administrative justice wins a BAFTA. Ken Loach's success with I, Daniel Blake, a film in part about the protagonist's trag...
University education in Britain currently exhibits two serious problems of social justice. There are far more graduates than jobs requiring the skills obtained ...
The twentieth anniversary of Labour’s 1997 election victory passed without much comment last year – among other reasons, the hectic pace of political developmen...
In his recent article in The Political Quarterly, Alan Ware claimed that for most students, higher education was not worth the cost. However, this view is incon...
A favourite saying of Uber chief executive and co-founder Travis Kalanick was that ‘it is easier to ask for forgiveness than permission,’ but recent events sugg...
