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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...
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After Brexit: The Eurosceptic vision of an Anglosphere Future
Now that the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, has published the proposed reforms to the relationship between the UK and the EU, and the Prime Minister, David Cameron, has endorsed them as the basis for the UK’s continued...
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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’...
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Back to the future: the revival of interest in a Universal Basic Income
In recent weeks, the idea of a universal basic or “citizens” income (UBI) has been enjoying a revival of interest and support. Different versions of the proposal that all citizens should be entitled, by virtue of their citizenship, to a...
