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What I want to achieve with the revived Pensions Commission
The UK needs a new renewed pensions settlement. Professor Nick Pearce, Director of the Institute for Policy Research (IPR) and one of the three members of the Pensions Commission, explains why. The work of the first Turner Pensions Commission twenty...
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Local asylum seekers or national debate: What shapes opposition to immigration?
Public debate often assumes that communities become more hostile to immigration when asylum seekers are housed nearby. Max Strangleman-Sykes, a Politics and International Relations finalist at the University of Bath, explains why local increases in asylum accommodation do not appear...
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The UK and Canada: Leading a middle-power coalition
As competition between the world’s major powers intensifies, middle powers are coordinating their responses to help stabilise international affairs. Avital Zuk Avina, a researcher and lecturer specialising in political communication and international relations, examines how the UK and Canada are...
