The question of sovereignty has not been resolved in Scotland. On the one hand, there is the Westminster doctrine, that the Crown-in-Parliament is sovereign an...
Since medieval times, the Scottish have not only viewed themselves as more moral, intelligent, and educated than the English, but also as a more European peopl...
Salvador Macip has written an accessible survey of pandemics during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, charting warnings and lessons for future pandemic...
As the immediate threat to the health service from the pandemic recedes, attention is turning to long-term care. Anyone wanting to be heard in the debate on ho...
Anya Pearson interviews Michael Kenny, Inaugural Director of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, about winning the 2021 Ber...
Labour’s post-Corbyn membership is overwhelmingly white, well-educated, middle class and middle-aged, and living in southern England. Labour members are dispro...
The present government has made the territorial targeting of funds central to its programme. In the name of ‘levelling up’, it will distribute large tranches o...
Parliamentary scrutiny – a good thing?
The UK parliament identifies one of its main roles as ‘the close examination and investigation of government policies...
On 27 July 2019 Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced The Towns Fund, a £3.6 billion scheme designed to improve transport and communications infrastructure in...
Universal basic services or universal basic income?
In their new book, Anna Coote and Andrew Percy argue that progressive policy should focus more on essent...
Since the 1990s, the major industrial nations have made a number of attempts to coordinate global responses to the challenges of climate change. Mos...
