The suburban areas that were initially stereotyped in the late
nineteenth century as ‘Villa Tory’ strongholds and exemplified by Hackney and
Islington were pla...
The 2017 snap general
election was, for many people, a remarkable result for Labour given the
pervading conventional wisdom that the Labour party could not do ...
With numerous
delays to the publication of the social care green paper, everyone in the
health and social care industry has had ample time to truly consider wh...
Mustn't grumble. Mustn't make a fuss.
England's suburbs are slowly dying, as years of austerity slowly changes the
landscape. Since 2014, life expectancy has b...
Joe Kennedy's new book is filled with curious incidents in our recent political and cultural history. A politician affects astonishment at seeing ‘frothy coffe...
It has been widely
observed that something has gone awry with the Conservative party. Where once
its watchwords were pragmatism and economic competence, solici...
Most democratic governments claim to support equality for women, but none have so far achieved it. Even after decades of struggle and despite significant ...
Generational politics is nothing new, but the extent of the
profound generational cleavage that has emerged in British electoral politics
is. After the Brexit ...
We are currently in a political moment which could lead to a major
paradigm shift in economic policy. There were similar moments twice in the last
century, in ...
Long before it acquired the name
of Brexit, the project of making the UK leave the European Union was a solution
in search of a problem.
This EU?bashing wa...
I
began this series of blogs by noting the fogginess of the UK’s constitutional position
in relation to the Brexit referendum. In formal terms the vote was adv...
The 2016 Brexit referendum, we were often told during the campaign, was a ‘once in a generation’ opportunity for the British people to decide on future members...
