This page shows a continually updated list of the past month’s twenty most popular blog posts by readership.
- Solving the housing crisis without building new houses
- An emerging homo-nativist electorate?
- The national minimum wage – 25 years on
- What a drag – the impact of the frozen personal allowance on those with lower incomes
- Political leadership in the Cold War’s ending: Thatcher and the turn to engagement with the Soviet Union
- Why are younger people becoming unhappier?
- Exposing the myth of Western betrayal of Russia over NATO’s eastern enlargement
- The relationship between religion and racism: the evidence
- It’s a mistake to call Reform UK “far-right”
- Contrary to popular and academic belief, Adam Smith did not accept inequality as a necessary trade-off for a more prosperous economy
- Higher workload for police officers correlates with victims withdrawing statements
- Mais lecture – a serious approach for sustainable and inclusive growth
- The changing face of the British far right
- UK citizens can access assisted suicide, but they must travel to Zurich in order to do so. This is illogical, but more importantly, it imposes an unfair burden on terminally ill individuals
- To grasp the extent of inequality, look at the relatively well-off
- The Leaving of Liverpool: managed decline and the enduring legacy of Thatcherism’s urban policy
- The evidence shows that multiculturalism in the UK has succeeded in fostering a sense of belonging among minorities, but it has paid too little attention to how to sustain support among parts of the white population
- How effective is Parliament in controlling UK government and representing citizens?
- Book Review: Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
- The UK’s sustained growth between 1997 and 2008 was fuelled by the importance of skills and new technology. Rather than just austerity, the government should focus on building human capital and innovation to support long-term growth.