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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...
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The Brexit referendum and the future of the EU
Dr Nicholas Startin is Senior Lecturer in French and European Politics in the University of Bath's Department of Politics, Languages & International Studies. Earlier this year, I was invited to speak at the European Ideas Network’s (EIN) annual summer school...
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No love on the dole
Dr Rita Griffiths is a researcher at the Institute for Policy Research (IPR). Her PhD focussed on the relationship between family structure and the UK means-tested social security system. How would you feel if, by living with your partner, you...
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After the Referendum: Picking up the bits, by Professor Graham Room
What have we learned from this referendum campaign, the passions and fears that it unleashed? Were the electorate truly energised by the question, to leave or remain, or were they asking quite other questions than that on the ballot paper? ...
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More Brexit...
I have a piece in today's Observer, expanding on the issue of the political economy of Brexit. It is in a section on the choices that confront Labour on Brexit. You can read it here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/02/brexit-labour-divisions-way-forward Meanwhile, down under, the...
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On the worldview of Dominic Cummings and Michael Gove
Some years ago I wrote a blog on Dominic Cummings, an adviser to Michael Gove and one of the key architects of the Leave campaign. The blog focused on a long essay he had published on leaving the Department for...
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The Political Economy of Brexit
Sociological analyses of the vote to leave the EU have largely focused on the working class revolt in England & Wales: the rage of the hollowed out netherworlds of post-industrial Britain in which respect, status and the prospect of a...
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The most influential text of late Victorian imperialism was J R Seeleys The Expansion of England
The most influential text of late Victorian imperialism was J. R. Seeley’s The Expansion of England. In it, Seeley, a Cambridge historian, argued that underneath the surface of British political history - the stories of the rise and fall of...
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EU Referendum Opinion Piece: Please don’t go! A plea to historical reason from an American
Dr Jon Frost is Assistant Professor of Finance at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Originally from Seattle, he is a fan of British rock music and met his (German) wife while studying in Bath. In one short week, British voters will take on...
