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Why cynicism over COP26 is misplaced

Michael JacobsFebruary 7, 2022
After two weeks of intense negotiations, including a leaders’ summit attended by 120 presidents and prime ministers, the main outcome of the UN climate conferen...
CommentEnvironment4 min read

The case of Azeem Rafiq points to a long history of racial thinking in cricket

Michael CollinsFebruary 7, 2022
During 2021, long-standing concerns about racism in English cricket became very public, political questions. Back in July 2020, the retired West Indian crickete...
CommentHistory7 min read

Liberty After Neoliberalism

Ben JacksonFebruary 1, 2022
The Covid pandemic has raised hard questions about liberty and the role of the state. Many Conservatives have been discomfited by the answers that their own gov...
CommentGovernmentUK8 min read

This isn’t what a ‘national liberation’ should look like

Chris GreyJanuary 20, 2022
In the years since the referendum, it has become a myth that the impetus behind Brexit was a demand for pure sovereignty, with any economic effects being irrele...
BrexitCommentUK6 min read

Review: Weak Strongman. The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia, by Timothy Frye

Mary DejevskyJanuary 18, 2022
Vladimir Putin has been in power, as President or Prime Minister, for more than twenty years, during which time a particular view of the Russian leader has beco...
International politicsReviews4 min read

“Equality has always been conditional on being a particular kind of human”: Interview with Anne Phillips

anyapearson2December 28, 2021
Anya Pearson interviews Professor Anne Phillips, one of the most distinguished political theorists of our time, after her 2021 Political Quarterly Annual Lectur...
InterviewsWelfare & Inequality8 min read

Women’s access to public life is restricted by incivility and discrimination

Michael Drolet and Agnès Alexandre-CollierDecember 16, 2021
For some time now, women in the UK—particularly women in Parliament and public life—have been subject to physical and verbal abuse, threats, and merciless assau...
CommentFeminismUKWelfare & Inequality5 min read

Sovereignty, legislative supremacy and devolution

Alison YoungDecember 6, 2021
It is almost impossible to discuss the UK's constitutional arrangements without mentioning the sovereignty of Parliament. Any attempt by one Parliament to restr...
CommentGovernmentUK5 min read

Why the idea of a UK-US free trade deal is little more than performance

Tony Heron and Gabriel Siles-BrüggeNovember 29, 2021
A free trade agreement with the US has consistently been presented as the main prize from the UK's much touted post-Brexit trade policy independence. The UK Pri...
BrexitEconomyInternational politicsUK6 min read

Parliament’s One-Year Review of the Coronavirus Act 2020

Fiona de Londras, Daniella Lock and Pablo Grez HidalgoNovember 11, 2021
Even as Covid-19 is absorbed into ‘the new normal’, the government’s response continues to be framed by an emergency paradigm. This is underpinned largely by th...
GovernmentLaw & JusticeUK5 min read

Concerns about social conflict might explain immigration preferences – here’s why

James Dennison and Andrew GeddesNovember 11, 2021
Migration is likely to remain one of the world's most important political challenges throughout the twenty-first century. Simultaneously, public attitudes to im...
International politics6 min read

Why the Conservatives’ bond with business is weaker than ever

Deborah MabbettNovember 8, 2021
Long before Boris Johnson gave his robust view of business opposition to Brexit, the Conservative Party had an ambivalent relationship to business interests. Mr...
EconomyUK4 min read
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