Only
a few years ago, the protection of human rights seemed to be a relatively
uncontentious political objective, a consensual expression of the liberal
values...
Britain’s new prime minster, Boris Johnson,
berates opponents of Brexit for being gloomy pessimists, unwilling to embrace
the golden age that automatically awa...
A relatively new addition to the British summer calendar, joining
Royal Ascot and Wimbledon, is the public revelation of another year of
hyper-inflation in uni...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
Social media are blamed for almost everything
that is wrong with democracy.
Facebook, twitter and other platforms are held
responsible for pollution of the...
Forty years ago, those in the top one per cent took home
around three per cent of all income; today that share has more doubled
to around eight per cent. Aroun...
What to make of
Extinction Rebellion (XR) after its spectacular week occupying four very
visible sites in central London? We were there on the first day of the...
The suburban areas that were initially stereotyped in the late
nineteenth century as ‘Villa Tory’ strongholds and exemplified by Hackney and
Islington were pla...
