In recent years successive UK governments have implemented administrative reforms to build competitive markets for the delivery of public services, with more th...
Local government has been the success story of the UK’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic. In challenging circumstances, they have shown how place-specific kno...
Salvador Macip has written an accessible survey of pandemics during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, charting warnings and lessons for future pandemic...
Parliamentary scrutiny – a good thing?
The UK parliament identifies one of its main roles as ‘the close examination and investigation of government policies...
Now is a good time to take stock of what the last few years have taught us about British Conservatism.
The UK’s departure from the EU prompted another bout ...
What is the impact of Covid-19 on English professional football? To establish this, it’s necessary to analyse revenue streams in different divisions, the depen...
Sophie Watson is Professor of Sociology at the Open University. Her research tackles feminist theory, cities and the politics of public space. Her book City Pu...
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 introduction of devolution in Scotland and Wales, and its reintroduction in Northern Ireland, has wrought a welcome transformation in the governance of the...
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...
Can it just be coincidence that the countries weathering the COVID-19 storm most effectively are run by female leaders? In recent weeks, endless column inches ...
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 ...
