About once a decade, an arms trade scandal punctures public consciousness and generates debate about British foreign policy, the state of domestic democracy, an...
An invitation to comment on changes in Conservative Party attitudes to race and ethnicity, in the fifty years since Enoch Powell’s Birmingham speech, seems to s...
Parliaments are not monoliths. They are highly complex political organisations. Anthony King’s 1976 article ‘Modes of executive–legislative relations: Great Bri...
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...
At just seventy words, the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Act 2017 is roughly half the length of an article abstract. But, in terms of impact, it i...
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...
