Blog
2024
The politics of embedding a new economic consensus
Tony Payne - 15 April 2024Rachel Reeve's Mais Lecture charts a new economic course for Labour - but what will it take to embed a new economic consensus?
Why Sinoscepticism will remake British politics
Liam Stanley - 25 March 2024‘Sinoscepticism’, which we can define as a political position defined by opposition to the increasing power of China and its ruling Communist Party, prompts questions: why has this position become so prominent and what effects will it have? This piece is based on newly published research by the author.
Why the NHS is in crisis: an answer at three levels
Benjamin Stokes - 18 March 2024If we can only face looking back so far as the Covid pandemic and the political dynamics set in motion from 2010 - highly significant as they are - we’ll be missing the full story.
Materialising the immaterial, via the Belfast peace walls
Michael Livesey - 05 February 2024During the ‘Troubles’, the British Army and Government built ‘peace walls’ in Northern Irish cities to separate predominantly Catholic/nationalist from predominantly Protestant/unionist neighbourhoods. These walls imprinted ‘immaterial’ ideas about the relationship between social class and violence within ‘material’ structures of city space.