If a renewed respect for expertise is one result of post-Covid 19 politics then the Labour party, under Keir Starmer, could be in a better position to capitali...
Political scrutiny of the UK’s management of COVID-19 has recently revolvedaround an ambitious target the government set for itself: the goal of carrying out 1...
Sixty years after its publication, Michael Young’s The Rise of the Meritocracy remains one of Britain’s most influential, yet widely misunderstood, p...
Since 2017 the Labour party has proposed mandatory sectoral collective bargaining (SCB) as a comprehensive strategy to rebuild the trade union voice across the...
In the aftermath of Labour’s general election defeat, a new conventional wisdom has rapidly taken hold: Labour, increasingly middle class and out of touch, has...
The presence of improvement
districts across in cities across the world has been increasing since the
1970’s. But what are they, why are they created, and whic...
From the moment David Cameron made his pledge to hold a referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union back in January 2013, Britain has experienced s...
While climate-induced displacement is
no new phenomenon, we are currently witnessing the critical role it plays in migration.
Thousands of homes in Australia h...
Of all the
candidates vying for the party leadership, Lisa Nandy appears to have put the
most thought into why Labour was so badly beaten in the general electi...
With the intervention of the Board of Deputies of British Jews into the Labour party's leadership election, antisemitism has become one of the campaign’s defin...
Marilyn Stathern, in
her famous article on the ‘Tyranny of transparency’, asked: ‘what does visibility conceal’? While openness can shed light on some ar...
What do the different wings of the Labour Party actually disagree about? Sometimes it seems like almost everything, in spite of the warm words about party unit...
