What do
employers and employees gain when they participate in mechanisms of collective
voice? This question matters because work is changing and there are like...
Since 2010, Theresa May’s ‘hostile environment’ for immigrants has
brought a catalogue of human rights violations and inequalities in Britain. Immigration
rule...
While a lot of recent attention has focussed upon Russian attempts
to influence the
2016 United States presidential election, far less work has addressed their...
The Conservative Party regards
human rights as a ‘foreign’ imposition from Europe. Conservatives opposed
Labour's Human Rights Act (HRA) in 1998; recent manife...
Public inquiries sometimes feel
like a version of Groundhog Day where it is repeatedly stated
that ‘lessons will be learned’. One of the key reasons ...
In the 2017 French presidential election, Marine Le Pen led the Front National (FN), to the second and final round, where she was decisively defeated by Emmanu...
We are technological teenagers when it comes to
social media. Facebook was made publicly available just 14 years ago, and
Twitter, Snapchat and Instagram far l...
The ideas for
corporate governance reform espoused in the final report of the IPPR Commission
on Economic Justice make intuitive sense. But the question, from ...
We should expect democratic systems to meet some relatively modest claims: they should be able to provide for the equal treatment of men and women as individua...
Back in 2007, four intellectuals, the figureheads
of New Atheism, met for drinks and an informal discussion of their views. Each
individual had taken it upon t...
Earlier this
year, I gave
evidence to the House of Commons Liaison Committee (alongside
Professor Meg Russell, director of the Constitution Unit) on the topic ...
Watching the Conservative leadership campaign would be an
entertaining spectator sport, were it not that the winner will be prime
minister, even if briefly. Th...
