January 2016
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Marley Morris on the EU renegotiation: finding a deal on free movement
By Marley Morris, Research Fellow, the Institute for Public Policy Research Rumours abound over the Prime Minister’s renegotiation over the UK’s EU membership with his European counterparts. With the aim clearly to wrap things up by the European Council summit...
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New Canada, New Labour: Trudeau takes a lesson in Blairite government
As the Labour Party wrestles over whether to honour or disown its New Labour past, Canada’s new Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, has been busy assembling the architecture of a Blairite central government. Trudeau’s youth, good looks and self-declared “sunny ways”...
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“Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming”
“Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming”, was the slogan David Bowie coined to promote Heroes, the second instalment of his great Berlin album trilogy. It neatly captures one of his most important talents: to intuit the future...
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Yes, we can? Renewal vs remorseless decline of political parties
At the end of last year, Spanish voters delivered a major, some would say fatal, blow to the country’s two party system. The combined vote share of the two mainstream parties, the conservative People’s Party and the centre-left Socialist Workers’...
