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...
The introduction of devolution in Scotland and Wales, and its reintroduction in Northern Ireland, has wrought a welcome transformation in the governance of the...
The headline measure in the ‘Plan for People’s Jobs and Incomes’, announced by the chancellor on 20 March, was the Job Retention Scheme (JRS), under which the ...
Post-work politics, as
pursued by the likes of Paul Mason, Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams, rests on
the idea that the worlds of business and work have reached ...
Earlier this
year, I gave
evidence to the House of Commons Liaison Committee (alongside
Professor Meg Russell, director of the Constitution Unit) on the topic ...
Reckless Opportunists is an astonishing account of the British ruling class in decomposition. It is the result of twenty years of intense research, over 350 int...
Alfie Stirling, Laurie Laybourn-Langton
It is widely accepted that macroeconomic policy in the UK and the USA has experienced two major periods of breakdown an...
Bert Provan
Large social housing estates – often high-rise post war blocks – are common in Europe. Frequently seen as problem neighbourhoods, these estates hav...
Adrian Pabst
Much of the post-2017 general election analysis has focused on Theresa May’s spectacular fall from grace and the surge in support for Jeremy Corb...
Deborah Mabbett
The Conservatives expected to win in 2017, and the manifesto was written accordingly. For the small team in Number 10, it was an opportunity ...
Chris Allen
Chris Allen
Following the news that West Midlands Police have arrested five serving members of the British army on suspicion of being membe...
Simon Lightfoot, Emma Mawdsley and Balázs Szent-Iványi
Simon Lightfoot
Theresa May’s announcement prior to the election that the “0.7% commitment remai...
