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    Flybe rescue: why the government may be putting the green revolution at risk

Flybe rescue: why the government may be putting the green revolution at risk

Boris Johnson may be putting the green revolution at risk by aiding regional airline Flybe, writes Tony Hockley. He argues that while Britain led the way in the liberalisation of air travel, current evidence on climate change as well as the rise of the world wide web have transformed choices for regional development.  

The rescue of Flybe from extinction […]

January 17th, 2020|British and Irish Politics and Policy, Featured, LSE Comment|0 Comments|
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    Punctuation and rhetoric: the difference between the “the people’s parliament” and “the peoples’ parliament”

Punctuation and rhetoric: the difference between the “the people’s parliament” and “the peoples’ parliament”

How Boris Johnson’s government refers to parliament may come to reveal how deep a commitment it has to constructing a pluralistic claim of a collective UK state interest, rather than a singular populist claim, writes David Judge.

Immediately after the general election, Boris Johnson greeted the newly convened parliament with the triumphalist words, ‘[this] is one of the best Parliaments […]

January 16th, 2020|British and Irish Politics and Policy, Featured|0 Comments|
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    Why did the Conservatives’ large lead in vote shares produce only an 80-seat majority?

Why did the Conservatives’ large lead in vote shares produce only an 80-seat majority?

Plurality rule voting systems have a well-known tendency to exaggerate the seats of the largest party. A full analysis of the 2019 results remains to be completed, but Tim Smith finds evidence that this time around the Conservatives had a modest 23 seat advantage over Labour in terms of two-party bias. The ‘leader’s bias’ advantage was also much smaller […]

January 15th, 2020|British and Irish Politics and Policy, Featured|0 Comments|
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    How the UK’s migration regime negatively affects the lives of transnational couples

How the UK’s migration regime negatively affects the lives of transnational couples

Clive Sealey and Daniel Nehring discuss how the recent changes to UK migration policy have redefined the way that transnational marriages are created and maintained. The explain that, on the one hand, legal and financial requirements can force couples to marry earlier than they otherwise would have, but on the other hand they also limit their ability to function […]

January 14th, 2020|British and Irish Politics and Policy, Featured|0 Comments|
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    Underemployment among part-time workers may have detrimental psychological consequences

Underemployment among part-time workers may have detrimental psychological consequences

Victoria Mousteri, Michael Daly, and Liam Delaney outline how underemployment affects well-being. They find that underemployment predicts meaningful increases in distress in two UK cohorts – an effect that is reversed when the underemployed find full-time work.

The potential psychological effects of atypical and precarious employment arrangements are attracting increasing attention among academic and policy researchers. The UK economy is […]

January 13th, 2020|British and Irish Politics and Policy, Economy and Society, Featured|0 Comments|
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Book Review | After Extinction

What comes after extinction? In After Extinction, editor Richard Grusin brings together contributors to address this question by considering extinction within cultural, artistic, media and biological debates. This is a timely contribution to contemporary discussions regarding the future of our planet, writes Anda Pleniceanu, that will leave readers with a renewed perspective on the relevance of the humanities to understanding our […]

January 12th, 2020|Book Reviews, Featured|0 Comments|
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    The public’s climate change views: strong beliefs but low salience

The public’s climate change views: strong beliefs but low salience

What does the British public think about climate change? Is there strong public pressure on politicians to enact policy to bring down emissions? Drawing on online survey data, Sam Crawley, Hilde Coffé and Ralph Chapman explain that there are five climate change opinion ‘publics’. The two largest publics have strong beliefs that climate change is occurring, but view it […]

January 10th, 2020|British and Irish Politics and Policy, Featured|0 Comments|
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How household debt influences inequality

James Wood writes that private debt contributes to increasing inequality, as highly indebted households provide a revenue stream to the financial sector, where profits are distributed to financial employees, managers, and executives, as well as to the most affluent households which hold the concentrated ownership of financial assets.

Britain has one of the highest levels of inequality in Europe. As […]

January 9th, 2020|British and Irish Politics and Policy, Economy and Society, Featured|0 Comments|
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