Political ideologies
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At a low ebb or in terminal decline? The future of social democracy
I wrote this short blog for The Staggers this week on the future of the left, with particular reference to European social democracy: "There are plenty of grounds for pessimism about the left’s prospects and they are well rehearsed. Across...
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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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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’...