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Graham Room on alternatives to austerity: Budget day lessons from Keynes
Nationally and internationally, economic growth – such as there was – is faltering. China’s slowdown has prompted falls on the Asian and global stock markets. The US Fed’s signal that interest rates may soon rise – and QE wind down...
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Michael Jacobs on high pressure for low emissions - how civil society created the Paris climate agreement
Michael Jacobs, visiting fellow at IPPR, and visiting professor at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science, writes the story of how civil society mobilised to secure the...
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Dr Sophie Whiting on: 'The EU debate in Northern Ireland'
Dr Sophie Whiting, Lecturer, Department of Politics, Languages & International Studies. The regions of the UK have varying experiences of EU membership; it is therefore inevitable that the BREXIT debate will vary across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Political...
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..and justice for all? Basic Income and the Principles of Gender Equity
Caitlin McLean, of the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, University of California-Berkeley, writes on basic income and gender equity Cross-posted from the website of the journal Juncture http://www.ippr.org/juncture International interest in universal basic income[1] proposals has increased...
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Dr Emma Carmel on: Game of Diplomacy anyone? Which country do you want to play?
Dr Emma Carmel, Senior Lecturer, Department of Social and Policy Sciences Donald Tusk’s decision to play ‘let’s diss the migrants’ is misplaced. It might have garnered him the goodwill he needs from central and eastern European member states to broker...
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On Ministers and Mandarins
The accountability of senior civil servants, and how far they should be independent of politicians or responsible to them, has been a recurrent theme of recent British political history. During the Blair years, retired mandarins muttered darkly of sofa government...
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Professor David Nutt on: ‘Psychoactive Substances Bill - Flawed Rationale and Huge Potential for Increase in Harms’
Professor David Nutt is a professor of neuropsychopharmacology, Imperial College London, chair of DrugScience.co.uk, and author of Drugs - Without the Hot Air. On Thursday 25 February he delivered the IPR Public lecture ‘Time to Put Science at the Heart...
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With record employment rates, why is working life not more visible?
This week official statistics showed that, at 74.1%, the employment rate is at its highest since comparable records began in 1971. Nearly 23 million Britons work full time, and 8.43 million part time. In total, we work in excess of...
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Emily Rempel on : The machines are all around us: An introduction to the UK Government’s Public Dialogue on Data Ethics
Data science is being hailed as the latest frontier in evidence-informed policy making. It’s the shiny new crayon for nearly every level of government from local councils to national policymakers. There is a near universal embrace of data’s potential to...
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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...
