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 ...
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Bert Provan
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Chris Allen
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At the outset of the 2017 election campaign there seemed to be a good chance that the Labour Party would be broken – possibly irreparably – on the...
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