Anthony King was, among other things, a public intellectual: that is, he could explain how the most rigorous and theoretical social science threw light on our p...
There is a table at the Tate Britain restaurant that the waiters there always referred to as ‘Professor King's table’. It is situated near the bar, a discreet d...
There are two routes to becoming Prime Minister in the UK. You can either win a General Election or win a party leadership election to become head of the larges...
As the guard changes in Westminster and a new government seeks to differentiate itself from its predecessor, it is timely to review the state of the devolution ...
For some time I have been working with colleagues in CRESC (the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change) tracking the consequences of the great privatisati...
The House of Commons select committees witnessed some of the most constructive political theatre of the 2010-2015 Parliament. Recall Rupert Murdoch’s public con...
Party politics has long been associated with narratives of decline. Falls in party membership, loyalty and participation seem to indicate that parties are in cr...
One of the central facts of recent British politics has been the decline of the political party. Fewer people are voting for them; memberships have collapsed; a...
The recent exposure of serious tensions between ministers and civil servants has once again highlighted this most sensitive of constitutional relationships. It ...
The extraordinary glimpse into the inner workings of No 10 given in a rare interview by David Cameron’s Deputy Chief of Staff, Oliver Dowden – in which he admit...
The party conference season has ended with no-one any the wiser as to how the British economy will get out of its current dire condition. At the beginning of th...
