| British politics |
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Date |
Scotland's future
Gerry Hassan on the changing shape of
Scottish party politics leading up to the
referendum |
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May/June 2013 |
The devolution dragon
Leanne Wood on Welsh moves for more
freedom |
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Mar/Apr 2013 |
Leveson and judicious journalism
David Khabaz says media ownership must
form part of the press reform discourse |
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Mar/Apr 2013 |
Cut down before their prime
Lisa Nandy MP on failing coalition
policies for young people |
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Jan/Feb 2013 |
Opening up the City
Peter Kenyon see the Square Mile as a test case for Miliband's one nation Labour |
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Nov/Dec 2012 |
Wales
Nia Griffith MP on Welsh lessons
for England |
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May/Jun 2012 |
Who do we think we are?
Mary Southcott on English questions and dogs who haven't barked |
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Mar/Apr 2012 |
Not so different?
Dave Shaw on Scotland, Salmond
and the prospect of independence |
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Mar/Apr 2012 |
NHS privatisation
Wendy Savage on last ditch
efforts to drop the Bill |
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Jan/Feb 2012 |
Bitter legacy
Jeremy Corbyn MP reflects on ten years of Stop the War Coalition |
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Nov/Dec 2011 |
The Cameron-Clegg riots - Tory England in flames
Predictable dismissals of the rioting as 'pure criminality' would let the Tories avoid responsibility, argues Steve Freeman |
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Sep/Oct 2011 |
One Wales showed the way
Ian Johnson on the One Wales coalition advances and where Plaid goes after recent setbacks
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Jul/Aug 2011 |
Welsh Labour goes tops in UK
Peter Rowlands gets behind Labour's success in the Welsh Assembly elections
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Jul/Aug 2011 |
The ideology of localism
Duncan Bowie on the origins of the ideology
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May/Jun 2011 |
Enhancing our democracy
Simon Woolley on boosting black representation |
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May/Jun 2011 |
Monster march for alternative to cuts
Nigel Stanley explains that a campaigning movement is turning the tide against cuts
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May/Jun 2011 |
Challenging the tax dodgers
Tom Holness on the targets of UK Uncut
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Mar/Apr 2011 |
From tweet to street
Cat Smith explains how UK Uncut is taking social media into 'offline' actions |
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Mar/Apr 2011 |
Opposing cuts, defending communities
On the same day that David Cameron launched a salvo against multiculturalism the neo-fascist English Defence League marched in Luton. David Braniff-Herbert reminds us the far right may be down but not out. |
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Mar/Apr 2011 |
The AV referendum is on
Peter Rowlands, Mary Southcott and Tom Harris MP on the alternative vote debate |
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Mar/Apr 2011 |
Capping the benefit
Karen Buck on the homelessness, poverty and social dislocation arising from housing support cuts
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Mar/Apr 2011 |
Keep profit out of pensions
Rory O'Kelly on Tory plans to means test pensions |
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Jan/Feb 2011 |
Jilted generation wakes up in a bad mood
Cat Smith on why the student protests are not just about tuition fees |
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Jan/Feb 2011 |
The fight of our lives
Frances O'Grady on backdoor privatisation and the action needed to stop Coalition cuts. |
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Jan/Feb 2011 |
Cutting it?
Phil Vellender dissects the
ConDem cuts |
|
Nov/Dec 2010 |
Delivering disaster
Billy Hayes rebuts the ConDem
government's case for Royal
Mail privatisation |
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Nov/Dec 2010 |
Getting closer to the people
Don Flynn asks will it help Labour sort out its immigration problem? |
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Sept/Oct 2010 |
Buttering up the doctors
Martin Rathfelder on a ConDem prescription for paralysis in the NHS
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Sept/Oct 2010 |
The Liberal bombshell
Kevin Meagher sees a Liberal
bombshell come to pass |
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July/Aug 2010 |
Invisible women - the missing X factor
Emily Georghiou looks at PR and
its role in gender politics
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July/Aug 2010 |
Cashcroft and Cameron
Prem Sikka investigates the Tory
deputy chairman’s wallet |
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May/Jun 2010 |
Tactical voting
Tim Root sees potential for
change |
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May/Jun 2010 |
Kissing cousins?
Kevin Meagher sees the bright
side of a Lib-Lab UK pact |
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May/Jun 2010 |
A co-op con?
David Rodgers smells a
backdoor Tory ploy |
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May/Jun 2010 |
Direction of travel
Christian Wolmar sees transport
policy getting back on track |
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May/Jun 2010 |
Not the Hillsborough Agreement!
Paul Dixon on power sharing
back from the brink |
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Mar/Apr 2010 |
Red Tories
Andy Gregg explores an
oxymoron |
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Jan/Feb 2010 |
Labour - a fantasy
Peter Kenyon dreams on |
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Jan/Feb 2010 |
Trident U-turn
Joy Hurcombe welcomes Labour's change
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Sept/Oct 2009 |
A new politics at last?
If anything good is to come from this economic and MP expenses crisis then it needs to be more democracy argues Mary Southcott |
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July/Aug 2009 |
Jettison conventional wisdom
Bill Butler MSP on prospects for a new Scotland
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July/Aug 2009 |
Politics is getting nastier
Jenny Bowie on a bad month for democratic politics |
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May/Jun 2009 |
Welfare benefits
Kate Green on authoritarianism
rather than enlightened reform |
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Jan/Feb 2009 |
Casting aside barriers
Like Obama's campaign the parties in the UK should encourage minorities, immigrants and the young to participate in politics, writes Simon Woolley |
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Jan/Feb 2009 |
Labour's election chances
Eric Shaw sizes up the challenge
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Nov/Dec 2008 |
Beyond cross dressing
Where are the new suffragettes asks Mary Southcott in celebrating the 90th anniversary of women's franchise |
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Sep/Oct 2008 |
Proud of Livingstone's transport legacy
Dave Wetzel on London's transport system after eight years of Mayor Ken |
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Jul/Aug 2008 |
The fall of Ken Livingstone
It wasn't Boris but the government that brought Ken down says Duncan Bowie |
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Jul/Aug 2008 |
Triangulating to defeat
Jon Trickett MP on disappointed hopes and winning back Labour's missing millions |
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May/June 2008 |
What happened to redistribution?
Nia Griffith finds abolition of the 10% tax rate is penalising the poorest
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May/June 2008 |
You say you want a revolution
Gerry Hassan reports on a year in the life of Scottish politics |
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Mar/Apr 2008 |
The red-green show must go on
Leonie Cooper on why Boris and the BNP must be kept out
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Mar/Apr 2008 |
Respect: the end
Andrew Coates tells a tale of opportunism, egos and splits |
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Mar/Apr 2008 |
Passive citizenship
Mike Davis discusses the malaise of democracy in Britain
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Jan/Feb 2008 |
Party democracy: renewal or reprise?
Ann Black fears warm words on accountability will not be matched by actions |
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Nov/Dec 2007 |
Gordon Brown's first 100 days
Peter Kenyon asks, Are you listening, Mr Brown?
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Sept/Oct 2007 |
Scotland - Polling blunders
Mary Southcott sees the problem in the counting not the voting
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Jul/Aug 2007 |
The Pound in your pocket
With a downturn beckoning Frank Lee asks what fool will take on the job at No 11?
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Jul/Aug 2007 |
Is the future Brown?
Trevor Fisher ponders the danger of a monochrome economy. |
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Mar/Apr 2007 |
All the wrong signals
Christian Wolmar finds a green hole in Labour's transport plans.
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Mar/Apr 2007 |
The instinctive politician
Don Flynn dissects the Blair legacy.
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Mar/Apr 2007 |
Red to be green
Anna Bluston on why blues
can't be true greens. |
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Jan/Feb 2007 |
Deal or no deal
As Northern Ireland moves closer to the
endgame Kevin Meagher says Labour should call Paisley’s
bluff. |
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Nov/Dec 2006 |
Hook, line and sinker for Bush
Blair’s ditching of core Labour values
led to a series of foreign policy disasters from Iraq to Europe.
With a lameduck Bush, David Clark explains it’s just
possible a Brown leadership might rethink. |
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July/Aug 2006 |
Devolution delivers
Labour’s first minister Jack McConnell
on devolved government in the 300 year union. |
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July/Aug 2006 |
The rupture between Westminster and reality
Jon Cruddas on why more New Labour solutions
are likely to further fuel the far right |
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July/Aug 2006 |
Back to the future
Pete Smith sees lessons for Labour in the
Cameron makeover of the Tories towards a more traditional pragmatism. |
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Nay/June 2006 |
After Blair, opportunity knocks
Blair must go now to avoid the calamity
of a Cameron government argues Peter Rowlands |
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Mar/Apr 2006 |
Education Blue Paper
Dave Lister is not surprised the Tories back Ruth Kelly’s White Paper, much was in their manifesto not Labour’s |
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Jan/Feb 2006 |
Party tricks
Michael Crick exposes dirty work at the cross roads |
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Nov/Dec 2005 |
Fears of a brave new world
Catherine Fieschi assesses the threast from the far right |
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Nov/Dec 2005 |
New
kind of politics
Pete Smith on the death of the parties |
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Sept/Oct 2005 |
The forward march of New Labour halted?
As Blairism unravels, incremental steps
within organic movements are the way to start building the
alternative, suggests Don Flynn |
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July/Aug 2005 |
The cult of newness
Jon Cruddas on how new Labour’s neglect
of working class communities feeds the fascist right |
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July/Aug 2005 |
The state Will Hutton is in
Frank Lee considers the political evolution
of the former cheerleader of stakeholder capitalism – from
social-democrat to liberal-democrat. |
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May/June 2005 |
Doing Mrs Thatcher proud
New Labour’s embrace of home ownership marks an end to collectivism
with the real victims being lower income households argues Duncan Bowie. |
|
May/June 2005 |
Ending the presumption of guilt
Doug Jewell and Mhairi McGhee outline the case against Labour’s anti-terror
measures. |
|
May/June 2005 |
A place in history… for
the Party
Peter Kenyon reflects on the election
campaign that gave Labour a third term and left its leader
increasingly isolated in his own party |
|
May/Jun 2005 |
On the inside
looking out
Peter Kenyon reports on the Chancellor's efforts to reposition himself inside
the Labour Party ahead of leadership contest |
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Mar/Apr 2005 |
Death of a party
David Floyd smirks as the Tories hit the buffers |
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Mar/Apr 2005 |
Crazy tactics
Vote for the party you want to win, says Nick Parrott |
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Mar/Apr 2005 |
Why aren't they voting?
Gavin Lewis on how new Labour acolytes in the media
keep the drum beating for Blair. |
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Jan/Feb 2005 |
UKIP – a wake up call
Tim Pendry suggests that UKIP is a lesson on what
can happen when a Government declares cultural war on a section
of its people. |
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Jan/Feb 2005 |
NHS-PLC
Allyson Pollock assesses the state of the NHS. |
|
Nov/Dec 2004 |
Between war and peace
Paul Dixon on the painful leaking of support for power-sharing
in Northern Ireland. |
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Jul/Aug 2004 |
Thought we'd got
rid of her
David Floyd on Thatcher's influence on new Labour. |
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May/June 2004 |
Higher priorities
Chris Isaac argues that the government has found the fairest way to increase
university funding. |
|
May/June 2004 |
Wasted opportunity
Nick Parrott says the government has missed its big chance to make higher education
more equal. |
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May/June 2004 |
Time to end the same old show
RMT union expulsion from Labour is but a symptom of
a deeper malaise facing the party in Scotland, argues Gerry
Hassan. |
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Mar/Apr 2004 |
Aid to fraudsters
ID cards mean more dangers than benefits, argues Neil Gerrard MP. |
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Sept/Oct 2003 |
New suffragettes
75th anniversary highlights voting reform case, says Mary Southcott. |
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Sept/Oct 2003 |
Power to the people
Regional government must have its day, writes Kevin Meagher. |
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Sept/Oct 2003 |
Moving beyond class
A disoriented Dan Elton finds the Tories have got it right on higher education. |
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July/Aug 2003 |
Dog eat dog asylum
system
John Sunderland asks if ‘Super Sangattes’ can be the UK’s new
vision on asylum in Europe? |
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July/Aug 2003 |
A stake for youth
It's time to end the political limbo for youth, says Steve Allen |
|
May/June 2003 |
The end of the Blair presidency?
Pete Smith on Tony Blair. |
|
May/June 2003 |
Atheists, anarchists
and Muslims unite
A different coalition has emerged on the streets of Britain in opposition
to the Iraq war. But Adam Riaz Khan argues that the left and Muslims must
learn to build on their shared anti-capitalism. |
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May/June 2003 |
The politics of punishment
Jock Young and Roger Mathews examine the contradictions
of Labour’s penal policy and detect signs of change. |
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May/June 2003 |
No Minister
Dave Lister explores
the issues behind Estelle Morris' resignation. |
|
Jan/Feb 2003 |
Son of Star Wars
The US has now requested British co-operation on Missile
Defence. Malcolm Savidge analyses the Government's response
in its 'public discussion paper'.
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Jan/Feb 2003 |
Quality Streets
Andrews Stevens looks for excellence in local democracy. |
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Nov/Dec 2002 |
Train strains
Railway politics in Britain have never been more interesting
than today, says Paul Salveson. |
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Sept/Oct 2002 |
New Model Health Service
Behind the Chancellor's £6.1 billion Rosamund Stock
finds the idea of patient choice a destructive plan
for the NHS. |
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Sept/Oct 2002 |
Prime ministerial power
Pete Smith on the collapse of constitutional reform |
|
Mar/April 2002 |
Orwell's eccentric socialism
Ben Pimlott looks back at the political life and times of Orwell |
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July/Aug 2001 |
Handing over the keys
Dave Wetzel wants transport kept under control |
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May/June 2001 |
Not frightening the horses
Trevor Fisher interviews Will Hutton on key issues to target |
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Jan/Feb 2000 |
The death of politics
Ben Pimlott laments the demise of political debate |
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Sept/Oct 2000 |
Politics in a network age
Rosamund Stock on a structure for democratic participation |
|
Sept/Oct 2000 |
Blair's Anarcho-Socialism
Frank Lee on the icon of the left, the other Blair, George Orwell |
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July/Aug 2000 |
Jekyll and Hyde Parliament
Gerry Hassan wonders which way Scotland will travel |
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July/Aug 2000 |
Decision making for the intelligent society
Rosamund Stock on involving people in the democratic proces |
|
1999 |
Behind closed doors
Maurice Frankel on Labour's climb-down on open government |
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Nov/Dec 2000 |
Rediscovering our libertarian roots
Peter Hain on a libertarian socialist framework for the Third
Way |
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July/Aug 2000 |
A new era of Scottish politics
Gerry Hassan charts the stormy Scottish parliamentary seas |
|
1999 |
The Third Way - Back to the future?
Pete Smith says the left should not spurn liberal radicalism
|
|
1999 |
The contribution of radical Christians
to ethical socialism
Chris Bryant |
|
1999 |
Count the protest votes
Ken Coates MEP |
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1999 |
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