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No such thing as anti-Muslim racism?

Tariq ModoodApril 3, 2018
Historically, Muslims have often been told that there is no such thing as anti-Muslim racism, because Muslims are a religious group and not a race. Hence Musli...
Long ReadsUKWelfare & Inequality6 min read

Catalonia and the ongoing struggle for independence: An explainer

Nora RäthzelMarch 30, 2018
Since the December 2017 elections, it seems as though political developments in Catalonia take new twists several times a day. However, coverage in internationa...
ElectionsEurope7 min read

What could Irish abortion law look like after the May referendum?

Máiréad Enright and Fiona de LondrasMarch 27, 2018
At the end of May, the Irish people will vote in a referendum which will ask whether they want to remove the 8th Amendment from the constitution. But the questi...
FeminismHealth4 min read

Why the collapse of Carillion is a governmental failure

Deborah MabbettMarch 16, 2018
The collapse of Carillion has brought the usual suspects into the spotlight. Senior executives prospered on over-generous pay packets. Shareholders did not ask ...
EconomyUK5 min read

What experiments in Finland can tell us about basic income

Miska Simanainen and Olli KangasMarch 14, 2018
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...
CommentEconomyInternational politics6 min read

British Muslims are still being discriminated against at work. Here’s what we can do about it

Asma MustafaMarch 6, 2018
Equality of opportunity in the labour market is crucial for the economic and social integration of minorities, so we should be very concerned that British Musli...
EconomyLong ReadsUKWelfare & Inequality7 min read

Revisiting Tony King’s analysis shows just how much parliament has changed

Meg Russell and Philip CowleyMarch 1, 2018
Parliaments are not monoliths. They are highly complex political organisations. Anthony King’s 1976 article ‘Modes of executive–legislative relations: Great Bri...
CommentGovernmentUK6 min read

Universities, football academies, and Shakespeare: a further comment on Ware

Dennis AhlburgFebruary 26, 2018
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 ...
CommentEducationUK4 min read

Tony King’s vision of an overloaded government didn’t materialise – but is the alternative any better?

Michael MoranFebruary 21, 2018
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...
CommentEconomyGovernment5 min read

Brexit taught us that facts still matter in the post-truth age

Jessica GarlandFebruary 19, 2018
Culture matters in politics. But so does information: something that is more possible to influence. ‘Cultural identity and political disposition’ are two facto...
BrexitCommentElections4 min read

The EU knowledge deficit was all too predictable before Brexit

John McCormickFebruary 14, 2018
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...
BrexitComment3 min read

Remembering Tony King

Tony WrightFebruary 12, 2018
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...
CommentGovernmentUK5 min read
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