Whoever emerges from the Conservative leadership contest as the next Prime Minister, they will need to have the human and technical skills to tackle both the emotional divisions of the country and the challenges of Brexit, writes Tony Hockley.
Over the summer the Conservative Party will be choosing Britain’s next Prime Minister. The winner will face an exceptional challenge. They […]
Abby Innes explains how the current financial incentive framework is stacked against any traded company that tries to care about climate change. She warns that without government regulation, the economy’s most regressive financial actors will continue to punish those who invest for the future.
When the Conservative Government insists that traded corporations and investment funds should be left to self-regulate […]
The political forces most hostile to European integration are also the only ones to have formulated a common vision for Europe, writes Lea Ypi. Now is the time to bring the various local social justice campaigns together, and put them at the service of a renewed political project.
As Marine Le Pen, Matteo Salvini, Geert Wildeers and other far-right leaders […]
The 2019 European Parliament elections were like no other: like no other European Parliament election before, and like no other democratic exercise in the world. In fact, it is probably the first time that we may call it a singular European Parliament election because so many of the trends that shaped it are pan-European, write Michael Bruter and Sarah Harrison, […]
The results of the European Parliament elections in the UK are out, and while various politicians have tried hard to frame the result as telling an ‘obvious’ story, it is probably because interpreting the outcome depends a lot on how you read the 2014 results, explain Michael Bruter and Sarah Harrison.
The European Parliament election of 2019 is the story […]
When the results of the European Parliament elections are revealed they will likely be met with the usual assortment of self-congratulation and outcry. Drawing on the work of the LSE Electoral Psychology Observatory, Michael Bruter and Sarah Harrison explain why polling is a lot more complicated than people may think.
Reading polls is a lot more complicated than what many […]
Kitty Stewart explores the potential consequences of Brexit for domestic social policy. Drawing on existing research and evidence, she sheds light on the many ways in which social policy in the UK has been affected by EU membership, and hence the likely implications and challenges arising from the decision to leave.
How are the effects of Brexit expected to fall […]
Rory Stewart’s plan for UK teenagers: the problem with making National Citizen Service compulsory
Why did the Conservatives lose the 1945 election?
Exploitable loopholes: how the self-employed non-resident status can be a route to child maintenance evasion
Brexit was not the voice of the working class nor of the uneducated – it was of the squeezed middle
The Brexit Prime Minister? Assessing Theresa May’s legacy
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Remain, revolt, reform: the EU needs policies that tame capitalism and a politics conducive to socialism
Remain, revolt, reform: the EU needs policies that tame capitalism and a politics conducive to socialism
The fight for Europe cannot just be a fight against how certain things are done, but also a fight for how they should be done, writes Lea Ypi. This requires changing power relations and power structures, both within states and between them.
The one conclusion on which many seemed to agree after the European elections was that: ‘it’s complicated’. The […]