Dear Conservative MPs
In response to Boris Johnson’s Fixed Penalty Notice from the Metropolitan Police, most of you have apparently decided to support his co...
A basic premise of the BBC’s long-running TV programme Would I Lie to You? is that contestants are rewarded for lying successfully. Commentators and colleagues ...
In most contemporary societies there are no longer any formal barriers to women's participation in politics and public life, but women continue to be under-repr...
The Covid pandemic has raised hard questions about liberty and the role of the state. Many Conservatives have been discomfited by the answers that their own gov...
It is almost impossible to discuss the UK's constitutional arrangements without mentioning the sovereignty of Parliament. Any attempt by one Parliament to restr...
Even as Covid-19 is absorbed into ‘the new normal’, the government’s response continues to be framed by an emergency paradigm. This is underpinned largely by 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...
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...
Anya Pearson interviews Michael Kenny, Inaugural Director of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, about winning the 2021 Ber...
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...
