Introduction
The abolition of the monarchy in several European countries during the twentieth century has led to a teleological assumption that, in time, mo...
The Political Quarterly 2020 Annual Lecture by Amelia Gentleman
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How the British government has communicated with the public and what it has communicated have played a major part in determining how citizens have behaved duri...
The laws, regulations and practices around managing elections have accumulated over time to deal with ad-hoc problems and are therefore unfit for purpose in an...
The context of the review
The Labour Together review of the 2019 election was published on 19 June 2020, almost exactly six months after the party suffered ...
The introduction of devolution in Scotland and Wales, and its reintroduction in Northern Ireland, has wrought a welcome transformation in the governance of the...
Is meritocracy an effective device for legitimising socioeconomic inequality?
My father Michael Young’s objection to meritocracy was rooted in his belief in...
As an expert on game theory and the like, Dominic Cummings will be well aware of the concept of moral hazard. This holds that, if individuals are protected aga...
The illusion of meritocracy at school inflicts damage on children and young people – particularly those from working class backgrounds. More than that, meritoc...
A new world order awaits us on the other side of the pandemic. As we wait out this storm of uncertainty and possibility in our small pockets of isolation, the ...
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...
