Political history

James Harle
6th June 2017

In what ways does gender matter for voting behaviour in GE2017?
James Harle
24th May 2017

From Brexit to European Renewal: the fracture of the social contract underlies the current turmoil
James Harle
2nd May 2017

Things Fall Apart: From Empire to Brexit Britain
Nick Pearce
2nd March 2017

Sea-Changes in World Power
Nick Pearce
25th January 2017

The empire strikes back: How the Brexit vote has reopened deep wounds of empire and belonging, and challenged the future of the United Kingdom
Nick Pearce
17th January 2017

Brexit Redux
Nick Pearce
3rd October 2016

Legacies and long shadows: will Theresa May succeed where Chamberlain failed?

Birmingham has a square named after Joseph Chamberlain, its most famous politician, through which visitors to the Conservative Party conference will pass on their way up from rebuilt New Street station this week. Although the square is home only to...
Nick Pearce
25th September 2016

Whatever happened to the soft left?

The New Statesman led its Labour Party conference edition with a series of “New Times” pieces, in emulation of the 1988 Marxism Today special of that title. For people of a certain age, Marxism Today remains talismanic. It was where...
Nick Pearce
22nd September 2016

Colin Crouch: The familiar axes of politics are changing, with momentous consequences

The familiar axes of politics are changing, with momentous consequences, argues Colin Crouch From the time of the French Revolution, mass politics has revolved around two core conflicts: that between preferences for more or less economic inequality; and that between...
Nick Pearce
20th July 2016

Theresa May and the Varieties of Capitalism

Rhetorical commitment to social justice has featured in every new Prime Minister’s No. 10 doorstep speech in recent years. Theresa May’s remarks were well crafted and confidently delivered but it is her commitment to economic reform, not social mobility and...